This is the last chapter of Acute The Gender Bend! I'm going to try and make this chapter a little longer, key word is try too make it longer. Can I say how many eargasms' I'm getting from Gakupo from listening to this song, [yandere!Kamui Gakupo] 標本少女 specimen girl- (English sub), by him? God! It gives me chills, like holy shit I love his voice! But anyways enough about Gakupo, on to the story!
"Mikuo! You okay? You're mom told me you couldn't come over today." Luki's voice cut through to him as he laid in the bed, his face flashed a deep crimson from the burning fever that threatened to burn him from head to foot. He felt like he couldn't get enough air and he sucked in a soft breath through his mouth only to make a soft hissing noise as he did so. Luki walked in to his room, looking at Mikuo's flushed face and frowned softly. "Yu alright?"
"No. I'm sick, dimwit." Mikuo coughed as he scowled but couldn't muster the energy to really snap out and Luki walked over and sat on the bed pressing his cool hand to Mikuo's hot forehead and he moaned gently at the good coldness.
"Damn. Hang on I'll be right back!" Luki's hand disappeared nearly making Mikuo cry out for him to come back and he felt like crying but he didn't as he listened to the thuds of Luki's feet.
"Mikuo! Jesus Christ do something!" Luki? Mikuo recognized the sound of his scream, his voice, but he couldn't respond at all but the loud beeps around him suggested he was still alive, still trying to be brought back to life by the hospital.
"Luki, please! They need space! Let them do their jobs and come with me, or they'll have to give you something to calm down!" That was his mom...right? Or was it his mom?
"No! Jesus he's losing blood! Why aren't they stopping it?!" Luki screamed again, he heard the hopelessness in his voice as he heard shuffling footsteps and air was forced down his throat, which throbbed and seared with pain.
"Nurse, give him a mild sedative to calm him down." A mumble reached Mikuo's ears but it sounded like it was underwater.
"No! I don't want that! Mikuo! Mikuo please! Don't die on me, you son of a bitch! Don't die!" Luki's voice was fainter but the screams were able to make it through the foggy water filling his body and head and his eyes opened a bit to bright, searing light and muffled voices, he shut his eyes again sinking into the water that seemed to fill his mind.
"Here it is! Hang on dude, you'll feel much better." Luki came running back quickly, his feet loud as he rushed back into the room and he pressed a cool rag onto Mikuo's forehead and he sighed in relief.
"Thank you." Mikuo croaked as he coughed again but the relief of the cool rag was too intense and too good. He shut his eyes softly again as he heard the bed creak gently and his eyes snapped open and he looked at Luki laying out next to him, crawling under the blankets. "What are you doing?"
"I'm laying with you. It's not wrong for to friends to lay together, right? It's fine!" Luki smiled at Mikuo as he rested his head next too Mikuo's, smiling pleasantly.
"But you'll get sick!" Mikuo croaked, his voice cracking a bit from the raw use of it and he frowned softly.
"I don't care. We're best friends, if you're sick then I get sick. It doesn't matter." Luki said with a smile as he reached for Mikuo's hot, clammy hand and held it tight. "We'll always be friends, no matter what happens. Trust me on that, okay?" Luki flashed a grin that was unlike him and Mikuo felt a tugging of his own lips as he looked at his friend.
"Okay. I'll trust you." Mikuo softly said smiling then shut his eyes softly fading into sleep rather quickly.
When Mikuo woke up for the second time, the solid time, the lights weren't off but they were set to the softest setting possible which were easy on his eyes. He blinked softly, wanting to swallow but he couldn't for there was a tube in his throat, damaged as it was and he furrowed his brow softly. He heard soft, very soft sobbing like it was trying to be hid and he frowned a bit blinking gently twitching his fingers making a soft gurgling noise that was supposed to be words and he heard a gasp. Then the light was blocked as he looked up into Luki's face, which was frighteningly open with tears dripping from his dark blue looking eyes, his face morphing into shock then happiness.
"Mikuo! You're...You're okay! Hang-Hang on, I'll get them to remove the tube!" Luki gasped out before running, shouting for a nurse to come and in five seconds flat almost a nurse was at his side, giving him a reassuring smile.
"This is going to feel strange, but breath out and I'll get the tube out as fast as possible alright?" The nurse smiled sweetly at him pulling the tape that held the tube in place and he felt a pin of apprehension. "Okay, on the count of three. One, two, three!" He breathed out long and sharply gagging lightly as the tube was pulled out and when it was finally out he sucked in a breathful of air, the feeling raw and sent throbbing pain around his neck and blinked softly. "You'll be able to talk, you're very lucky that you missed your vocal cords, by some unknown miracle. But take it easy, I'll be back with the doctor." That left him and Luki alone, he didn't want to talk but Luki let out a shaky breath.
"Jesus, do you know what you did Mikuo? You scared the shit out of me, you and Kaiko just laying there bleeding out..." Luki shook his head, the tears now finally gone from his blue eyes and he let out another breath before moving his hand through his pink hair. "Mikuo, I'm sorry. Sorry I broke our promise, that I started seeing Kaiko behind your back."
"It's...It's fine.' Mikuo whispered, not wanting to even raise his voice but he felt such a throbbing pain in his chest and he looked up then at Luki, who looked surprisingly angry.
"No it's not fine! I'm sorry Mikuo, I'm SO sorry, I caused you to go down this road, I caused you to hurt yourself and Kaiko. I'm SORRY." Luki said like he was trying to carve the words into Mikuo but the aqua haired teen looked up then shut his eyes softly letting out a gentle.
"I know. But I also know that I won't be getting out of here when my throat is healed, will I? Am I going into the psychiatric wing?" Mikuo asked softly keeping his eyes shut but he knew it was where he was bound to head anyways and now that he was in the hospital it was just inevitable.
"Yes, you have too. They said you had a psychotic break, a disconnect with reality and that you are showing signs of psychotic tendencies, that you're prone to hurting yourself or others. It'll only be for a while, then you'll come home and head into our last year of high school." Luki said reaching out his hand to touch Mikuo's in a way they hadn't done since they were young but it was strange for teenage boys to hold hands, wasn't it?
It wad silent, Mikuo keeping his eyes shut and his face seemed to relaxed that Luki thought for a moment that his friend, after seven hours of being unresponsive, was slipping away or asleep, which caused a little flash of panic through him. He opened his mouth to shout for help when Mikuo reached a hand, one with an IV sticking through his skin, carefully moving it and covered Luki's hand with his on squeezing it softly.
"I forgive you. I give you and Kaiko consent, to go out with one another, so don't worry about me. You two belong with each other, I guess, I just didn't want to see it." Mikuo softly said, his voice barely registering and forming, his eyes opened softly to look at Luki, who looked surprised then somber as he looked at Mikuo.
"I love Kaiko, you do too, it's natural. I just wish it'd all been dealt with rather than you snapping like this and hurting yourself and Kaiko." Luki murmured pulling his hand away from Mikuo's but strangely, he didn't want to reach out and beg that all three of them remain best friends, he didn't want too. He was tired and he didn't want to waste his breath or emotions. He shut his eyes again when Luki let out a soft little breath catching Mikuo's attention faintly. "Kaiko is okay you know, she was asking for you but I didn't think..."
"You're right. I don't want to see her right now, as a matter of fact, I'd rather be alone okay?" Mikuo said keeping his eyes shut, feeling a press of tears and Luki's hesitation before his friend got up and lingered a bit before walking out to go to her.
Mikuo opened his eyes to stare up at the ceiling then he listened to the footsteps rushing about outside and he pursed his lips lightly when the doctor finally came in and it wasn't anything noteworthy. They just asked if he was feeling any pain, which yes he was, where he would be transferred too, but that he was able to walk around, stretch his legs once they took the needles out of his arms and veins, which pleased him more than anything.
With that, after a brief watered down version of what he was to expect during therapy and whatnot, they slid the needles out which pinched just a tiny bit, barely there but winced seeing them come out and cotton balls and tape were placed where the needles had been and he sighed softly. They left him after telling him that he could ask for morphine or pain killers when he felt he could then they were gone and he was laying there, his throat throbbing softly but he got up, out of bed walking to his open door, he thankfully didn't wear those god awful ugly hospital gowns, but wore a pale blue shirt and baggy pants as he walked to the door of his room.
He hesitated before opening it and walked out, his feet were covered in these thin slippers, strange feeling but comfortable at the least as he walked down the hall going past the nursing station with a little wave from the nurses and he went straight when he started hearing Luki's low voice. He paused before walking over, like he was planning on walking by and looked into the doorway seeing Kaiko laid out in the bed, her side taped tight with cause and an ace bandage, an IV dripped into her arm.
Their eyes met, a collide of aqua and royal blue, before he looked away walking away just as Kaiko opened her mouth to call for him and he kept his head down as he took a long way back to his room. He wasn't looking where he was going, per usual, but when he bumped into someone his arms reached out instinctively and wrapped around a slender frame, his eyes colliding with light blue eyes that were wide with surprise then full lips pulled into a sheepish smile.
"Sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going." The girl said, her blonde hair pulled back into a long pony tail and her bangs flicked into her eyes gently.
"It's...fine. I wasn't looking where I was going either." Mikuo said sounding hoarse and choked making the girl frown then finally, her light blue eyes landed on the bandages around his throat.
"Oh no! I'm really sorry, you're a patient and here I am ramming into you!" The girl gasped as her slender fingers came up to-what? Touch his throat? His cheek? Move his hair out of his face? There was anything she could've done but the sound of footsteps filled both of their ears.
"Lenka, Mom said it's time to go." Mikuo let go of the girl- er, well Lenka, to look at a tall boy with two sets of bobby pins holding his bangs back on both sides of his face but his own blonde hair reached his shoulders barely but his matching light blue eyes narrowed both possessively and angrily and they both took a step back and Lenka rolled her eyes then looked at Mikuo.
"I'm sorry for my brother, he's an impatient one. We're twins, Rinto and Lenka Kagamine." Lenka Kagamine said smiling sweetly when Rinto reached out pulling her away and she looked annoyed before waving at Mikuo smiling at him, before he waved his hand in a half wave.
He then walked to his room, his body screaming for him to lay down as he felt a wave of pain come over him. Or was it fatigue? Whatever it was it had him asking, nearly begging, for morphine which he received and he was ushered to his room where he curled up on in his side on his bed, his body relaxing when the morphine was administered and began pumping through his system and he sighed. He couldn't have Kaiko, he couldn't be friends with Luki right now, all three of them couldn't be friends right then, but Mikuo was surprisingly okay with it. He shut his eyes softly, his lashes lightly tickling the skin of his cheeks just barely as his bangs hung in his face and he managed to slip away into sleep.