"Baka Ryu….."

At that moment, the Angel smiled at the two girls and a bright light fills the room.

*beep* *beep* *beep*

Mio hears a repetitive 'beeping' noise, and the smell of antiseptics and rubber invades her senses.

She slowly opens her droopy eyes, only to expose them to a bright light shining above her.

"Mio-chan/sempai!"

Mio turns her head towards two familiar voices.

"Thank goodness you're awake, Mio-chan. We were really worried."

"Mugi…what…what happened? Where am I?" Mio asks in a quiet tone.

*sniff*

Mio shifts her gaze towards a sniffling Azusa.

"Azu…" Mio is interrupted by the kohai as she throws herself onto Mio's body, giving her an awkward hug ('cause she's laying down).

"*sniff* Mio-sempai…*sniff*…Thank g-good-goodness…"

Mio gives a gentle smile as she puts her hand on her kohai's head.

"Sorry for worrying you, Azusa…um…ah! Wait! What about Ryu?" Mio suddenly raises herself from the bed.

Mugi gives a smile and looks over her shoulder.

"He's right over there…"

Mio leans herself to the side to see Ryu lying on another hospital bed, with Yui-chan sleeping on the side of the bed and Ui sitting on a chair nearby.

"*phew* Good…he's okay…um. Why is Yui….*points to the sleeping Yui*"

"teehee. She insisted that Azuza-chan and I look after you, while she and Ui-chan looked after Ryu-kun."

"I-I see…But what happened to us?"

Azusa wipes her tears and stand up from the bed.

"well, you see…."

Flashback

"Mio! Wait!"

Ryu yells, chasing after Mio.

"Ryu-chan!"

Yui, Mugi, and Azusa come out from behind the tree.

"Yui?"

"Ryu-sempai! What happened?"

"I- um!" Ryu's face turns a shade of dark red.

"AH!"

"what is it Yui-chan?"

"Mio-chan is!"

All four look ahead to see Mio running pass a sign that said: "Thin ice! Please to not walk on the water!"

!

"Mio-chan!"

"Mio! Stop!"

Mio turns around, but she falls through the ice.

"Mio!" Ryu takes off his jacket and jumps in after her.

"Ryu-kun/chan/sempai!"

"Mugi-chan! What do we do now?" The frantic guitarist begins to flail her arms every which way.

"I'm calling for help!" Azusa says whipping out her cell phone.

"? Wait! What is that?" Mugi points to where Ryu and Mio had fallen in, and right in front of them was a boat with an old with a fishing pole.

"Huh? What it that old man doing? Is he fishing?"

The boat continues floating through the water, breaking the thing ice as it went. Followed by the old man casting his fishing line to where Ryu and Mio were.

"Hm? Oh! I-think-I've-caught-something!" The old man says loudly, in a very broken, and fake, tone. But the three girls were too worried to pay any attention.

The old man stands up in his boat, putting one leg on the boat's frame for support.

"HNGGG!" With one giant pull, the old man pulls both Ryu and Mio out of the water (Ryu is holding onto Mio).

"Hoh! What-a-catch! Hm! Oh my! They look to be unconscious! You girls!" The old man points towards the HTT members. "It'll be faster to have me drive these two to the hospital! So get a bunch of blankets and heating pads to warm these two up!"

"H-HAI!" The three yell in accord.

The old man rows to shore and has Mugi and Yui help him carry Ryu and Mio to his truck, while Azusa grabs some blankets and dispensable heating pads from a nearby house.

Once in the truck, Mugi and Azusa began to remove Mio and Ryu's wet clothes and replaced them with new ones. They were cold as ice and were shivering violently. But they did their best and were able to warm them up just enough for them to calm down and not shiver as much (Yay, for dispensable heating pads!)

End of flashback

"...And that's what happened."

*sweat drop* "…Seriously?"

"seriously." Azusa turns away while Mugi just put on a smile.

"So where is this old man?"

"Actually, once we got to the hospital, he just…disappeared. Even the nurses here said that they didn't even remember seeing him inside the building. It's like he…"

"was an Angel~" Mugi finishes.

"Angel…huh…" Mio looks down at her bed as her lips curl up into a grin. "It must've been-"

"Nnngh…That stupid old man…doesn't even know how to save people properly."

The three snaps their heads around to see Ryu sitting up on his bed, rubbing the back of his head.

"Ryu!"

"Morning, Mio, Mugi, Asuza, Ui…um…"Ryu looks down to see a still sleeping Yui.

"hahaha~ I guess she got tired of waiting." Ryu puts his hand on Yui's hea, causing her to wake up.

"nnng…huh? Ryu..chan?" Yui says rubbing her eyes.

"Morning, Yui~" *grins*

"Ryu-chan!" Yui tackles Ryu, knocking the wind out of him.

"*cough* *cough*"

"Ah! Sorry Ryu-chan! Are you okay?"

"Onee-chan! Are you okay, Ryu-san?" Ui rushes to Ryu and begins rubbing his back.

"ah~ S-sorry, Ryu-chan."

Mugi, Azusa, and Mio could only watch the spectacle, dumbfounded, but not too surprised at Yui's action.

"….Yui-sempai…is really upbeat isn't she…" Azusa murmurs under her breath. But Mugi hears her.

"Hmmm…I suppose she is~" turning her head to Azusa.

"She didn't even cry or mope as much as I thought she would after…Ritsu-sempai's funeral…it's like…It never happened. She still acted the same…"

"Mmm…Azusa-chan~ did you know that Yui-chan cried until she passed out after the funeral?"

"Sh-she did? How would you know that, Mugi-sempai?" Azusa faces Mugi with a shocked expression.

Mugi smiles and turns her head back to Yui and Ui comforting Ryu.

"Ui-chan told me…She said that once Yui woke up from passing out, she promised to become the club's president and cheer everyone up…because she didn't want everyone to be sad…But Ui said that she'd always hear her crying at night."

Both Mio and Azusa were stunned. To think that Yui would think, or even do something like that…It felt out of character for them.

"I-I can't believe that Yui-sempai would…" Azusa turns her attention back to where Yui was.

"I guess…we've all changed a little since then…but ever since Ryu-kun came, I think that things have changed for the better."

"yeah…I think that things will be just fine from now on…" The guitarist and keyboardist turns towards Mio, who was wearing a reassuring smile.

"Things will be just fine…"

Thanks for reading…um…yeah. Sorry if this chapter didn't meet your expectations. =.=;;; It's been kinda hard to write what was going to happen next, and I promised some people that I'd update this weekend. So yeah, my apologies. *bows* Please R&R if you will, and help me out if you can. =w=;;;;

Oh. Just note that it's the fourth day and Ryu has until 4:00pm (don't ask why) on the fifth day for Mio to say that she loves him too.

Please look forward to the next chapter…and please bear with me as I do my best to update during this hellish school year. =.=;;;;