Ruki was awoken from the sun shining through the blinds. He quickly got up and closed them before it could wake up Reita, then he headed out.
"Miss," He caught a nurse's attention "if he wakes up, could you tell him that I'll be back later."
"Sure"
"Thanks." He walked out and caught a cab and headed to the hotel. When he arrived he asked the front desk where the rooms are and then headed up. He banged on Aoi's door until he answered it
"You're back." The guitarist yawned.
"Wake Kai up." Ruki said as walked over and started banging on Uruha's door. Aoi did the same and when the drummer came out, they went into the other guitarist's room.
"Did Sakai cancel the concert yet?" Ruki asked.
"Not yet. When he wakes up he said he was going to call in." Kai said.
"Good. Reita still wants to do it."
"What? How can he? He's just been assaulted and hospitalized." The honey blonde gasped.
"He said he didn't want it to be cancelled because he didn't want to give that man the pleasure of scaring him." The singer said with his head down.
"There's no way he can." Their leader whimpered. He scratched his head and looked at the others.
"He's taking pain medicine." Ruki said.
"What about where he got punched in the face?" Aoi asked
"It's just a small scratch. Listen he begged me not to let it be cancelled."
"Is he absolutely sure about this?"Sakai asked. Their manager had been in the doorway listening the whole time.
"Yes."
"Then I won't cancel, but the first sign of him having any trouble, you're stopping." He said leaving the room.
"I have to go let Reita know." Ruki grabbed the car keys.
"We'll come to. They didn't get to see him last night." Aoi said as looked at the other two.
The four of them headed out the door and to the hospital. When they arrived they found their friend still asleep.
"Reita. Reita wake up" Ruki said shaking him gently.
"Ru? Mmm," The blonde stretched a little bit. "What's up?"
"The concert is still on. The manager said if you have any problems, we'll stop. Are you sure you're ok to do this?"
"Yeah, I want to." He said sitting up.
"We brought you some fresh clothes" Uruha said placing a shirt, pants and a nose band on his bed.
"Thanks."
"We'll leave the room while you change just tell us when you're done." Kai said. Everyone left the room so he could change clothes. When he was done, they walked to the desk to check Reita out and asked for a prescription.
"Wait here. I'll have to call the doctor that treated you." Said the nurse, but when she picked up the phone, she noticed the man walking up to them.
"Reita!" They turned when they heard his name.
"Doc." The bassist sounded surprised.
"I'm sorry I couldn't see you that much last night." Doc said
"You were my doctor?"
"It doesn't surprise me that you don't remember. You kept on passing out last night. Are you sure you want to check out so early?"
"Yeah, I'm sure." Reita said.
"Ok I'll write you new prescription." Doc took out a pamphlet.
They ran by the pharmacy, then headed to the stadium. When they arrived they did sound check first and then they had to get ready. They picked out that night's outfits and got their hair done. Uruha wore his black and red outfit with laced gloves. His hair was flattened and stuck up in the back and side. Aoi wore his black jacket, with ruffles down the chest, over a black and white shirt, his jacket went past his thighs and ruffled, and had on black shiny pants. His hair was put back in a pony tail with strands in his face. Reita wore his black and white outfit with the straps around his thighs. His hair was spiked up everywhere with a few flat pieces in his face. Ruki wore his black shirt, black and gold jacket and pants with a grey tie. His hair was spiked out around his head. Kai wore his black shirt with his white jacket and white pants, and his black and white scarf. His hair was waved out on the right side of his face. Then they started their rehearsal. There hadn't been any problems all day and they were glad at how good it was going.
It was finally time for the concert and the stadium quickly filled up with their fans. The concert was going really well. They were getting through every song so far, but a few songs from finishing, the bassist's medicine started wearing off and he was doing his best to ignore it.
'Three more songs, just three more.' He thought to himself, trying to breath more calmly. The next song came up, as they were playing Reita remembered he had a solo in this one. When it came up he got to the front and stood on the stand, bouncing to the beat. The others watched him carefully , but the fans cheered unable to see him in pain. As he was stepping off, he slipped and fell on his back. A loud screeching sound filled the air and all the fans gasped as it silenced.
"Reita!" Aoi yelled as he and the others ran to him, too.
The fans wouldn't shut up 'Are you ok?' 'Get up!'
"Reita!" Ruki was trying to yell over the fans. The blonde was wincing in pain holding himself and he saw Ruki talking but he couldn't hear him. The manager ran out to see what was going on. They wanted to help, but Reita pushed them away so they wouldn't pull his hands away from his ears.
"Shut up!"Ruki yelled into the mic, making the whole stadium go quiet.
"Reita where does it hurt?" Sakai asked. Ruki walked back and kneeled down.
"I-It's ok. I'm fine."
"We're done tonight." Ruki said as he started lifting his friend up.
"No. I can last for three morhh..." Reita suddenly went limp as he passed out.
"Akira!" The brunette yelped, shaking him.
"We have to get him off the stage." Sakai said. Aoi helped the singer pick him up from the shoulders and the manager picked up his lower half and started walking off stage with the others behind them.
"Ahh! Reita' s head is bleeding." A fan girl had screamed when she got a glance at Reita and then the other fans started freaking out. Ruki looked at his friend and saw blood coming from the cut from where he fell in the bathroom. They put him down on the couch backstage and covered his cut. The manger went back out on stage to inform the fans that the rest of the concert was cancelled.
"Reita can you hear me?" The vocalist asked moving his hair away from the cut. It took several minutes to get a response.
"Mmm." The blonde opened his eyes. "Wha-what happened?" He sat up not thinking about his rib and grabbed it in pain.
"You slipped off the stand and your cut opened up. You also passed out as you were trying to get back up." Kai explained. Reita put his hand on his head and took it off to find blood on it.
"It's not bad. You don't have to go to the hospital, the scab just got scrapped off." Kana the medic said. She pressed a rag to the cut and patted it a few times."You passed out because you didn't eat enough. You should also take more of your pain medicine, but eat first."
"I'm going to get everyone a burger." Uruha said as he left the room.
"Wait I'll come with you." Aoi followed.
"I cancelled the rest of the concert." Sakai said coming back in. " You gave us all a pretty big scare. You are all going to take a long break from this tour. A resting period, as some call it."
"But—" Reita started.
"No buts, we are going to rest," The drummer interrupted. "You need it and we could all use a breather. We'll just postpone the next concert."
"At least until your healed enough to play and when we get this stalker problem fixed." The manager said harshly.
"Sorry."
"Why are you apologizing?" Kai asked.
"If I didn't have this stalker we wouldn't be in this mess." Reita put his hands on his face.
"It's not your fault. So don't blame yourself." Ruki said standing up. "Hey Kana, do you anything for nausea or puking."
"No I don't, but you can buy some from a store. I think the best kind to get is Naus-away."
"Ok, thanks." He said as he grabbed his phone. "Hey Uruha go to a store and look for something called Naus-away."
"Why?" The guitarist asked.
"I'll explain later. Just get it."
"Ok. We just got the burgers so we'll do that now. We'll be back in a little bit. Bye." Said Uruha.
"Bye." The brunette said closing his phone. "Ok Reita they'll be here in a little bit."
"Ru." Kai whispered. Ruki turned around to find the blonde sound asleep.
"We'll wake him when they get back." He whispered sitting on the couch across from Reita's and the other brunette joined him.
"Well I'm going to help clean up the stage." The manager said heading out.
"I wonder why Ruki needs this stuff." Uruha said picking up the Naus-away.
"What is it?" Aoi asked.
"Relieves nausea, puking and stomach pains."
"Is Ruki sick?"
"I think it's for Reita."
"What?"
"Well, I'm mean Ruki didn't sound like it was for him on the phone." The honey blonde said. They paid for it and headed back to the stadium. When they walked through the door they saw Reita still sleeping.
"Your back." Kai whispered, standing up.
"Where's Ruki," Uruha asked looking around. "and our manager?"
"Sakai went to help out on stage and Ruki just left to see if they needed any more." Their leader said walking to them. "I'll go tell him your back. Would you wake up Reita?"
"Ok." Aoi said.
Kai walked on the stage to find Holland and Reto talking to Ruki and the manager.
"Hey what's going on? Why are they here?"
"We have a problem." The vocalist said.
"When I was out here helping, I went to move the stand Reita was on. I noticed that it was broken on the side Reita fell off of. To be safe I called Holland and when they inspected it, they found that it had been cut, not broken. " The manager said.
"But Ruki, Uruha and Aoi were on it before him, wouldn't they have fallen off too?" Kai asked.
"No. You see when Uruha was on it he stepped off on the left side, and when Ruki was on it he stepped off from the center, Aoi did the same. Reita was the only one to step off from the right. This was well thought of and quickly executed. We think the stalker did this, so he might be a staff member, he snuck in last night, or he did it today when everyone one was too busy to notice him." Holland explained.
"He can't be a staff member because I would remember any one with that description." Sakai sighed.
"But he had to of seen us today to know were each of would be on stage." Kai said.
"We shouldn't tell Reita right now." Ruki said.
"We need to question him. Remember he was keeping the letters from us." Holland said walking towards backstage.
"Wait. Reita thinks he slipped off."
"How do you know?" Holland asked.
"Because I know him better than you. We don't need to risk freaking him out."
"Fine. Reto let's go." He waved his hand as they headed out.
"Kai. Sakai. I don't think we should tell Reita yet." The brunette said, they shook their heads agreeing.
"Oh yeah. Aoi and Uruha are back." Kai remembered.
"Okay. Let's go and eat." Ruki said leading his friend off stage. The vocalist opened the door to see them waiting.
"It's about time." Uruha said. Aoi started passing out the burgers and handed the Naus-away to Ruki.
"Reita," The vocalist said throwing it to him. "Take it, it'll help."
"Thanks." Reita said taking the pills.
"So what, are you sick now too?" Uruha asked.
"He hasn't been able to keep his food down and Kana said that this would help." Ruki said grabbing his burger.
"Yeah, what he said." The blonde mumbled, taking a bite and they all ate in silence.
"Hey, you guys ready to leave?" The manager walked in as they were finishing.
"Yeah." Ruki said getting up.
"Ok. Let's get you guys back to the hotel."
They headed out to the car when Reita spotted Holland and Reto. The two officers were talking to man putting bags in the back of an SUV.
"What are they doing here?" He asked getting into the car.
"They're just trying to find some leads." Sakai answered.
"Oh." Reita said. They made it back to the hotel and headed to their rooms and went to sleep.
"Mmm." Reita awoken to the sun in his eyes. He turned over and looked at the clock. "One!" Reita got out of bed, changed, and went out to find the others. He first went the vocalist's room but, nobody answered when he knocked. He went to the next room over, which was Kai's and knocked. This time the door opened up for him.
"You're finally up." He said with a smile. Reita walked in to see Aoi and Uruha watching tv.
"Where's Ruki?"
"He went to buy some lunch for everyone. Oh! I better call and tell him you're up." Kai grabbed his phone to call him.
"The manager said we should hang here unless we are getting food, and only one person can go and get it." Uruha said.
"Why?" The blonde asked.
"To be on the safe side" Their drummer said trying imitate the manager's voice. "Ruki is coming up now, he went ahead and bought you something."
"Ok."
It wasn't too much longer before someone was knocking. The brunette opened the door for Ruki and he walked to the table to put the food down.
"Finally. I'm starving." Said Uruha searching for his sandwich.
"Are you ok? Did you take your medicine?" Ruki asked as Reita and Aoi headed towards the table.
"I'm ok and yes I took it." The blonde said smiling.
"That's good here take this." The singer handed him the Naus-away.
"K." Reita said quietly.
"Did..." Aoi started as he looked at his friend.
"What?"
"Did you have any nightmares last night." The room got quiet as they looked at Reita.
"Yeah." He said softly, unwrapping his sandwich. They all looked down, but the bassist smiled. "Hey it's ok you guys. I'll get through it. Hey lets watch some tv." He walked over to the couch and turned on the tv. They looked at each other, grabbed their sandwiches, went and sat with him. They were eating peace as they watched a show where contestants were running this hard obstacle course. They were watching in silence up until someone knocked on the door.
"Hey open up" It was the manager, so Uruha went and opened the door for him.
"I'm sorry, but we need some help down at the stadium could three of you come and help?"
"Why can't we all go?" Ruki asked.
"I don't want Reita to strain himself and I also don't want him here alone." Sakai said
"Reita are you ok with that?"
"That's fine." He knew he wouldn't win.
"I'll go." Said Aoi
"Me too, I'm good at this stuff." Uruha stated the obvious.
"Kai you wanna stay here or…" Ruki asked.
"Yeah that's fine."
"Thanks guys. Call if you need us." The manager said as they left.
"Ok. I guess we'll just keep watching tv." The drummer said.
"Yeah."Reita smiled.