After Kurogane brought Fai back to his room, he told him to rest, which he happily obliged to. Even though the magician wanted to kick himself for not being able to tell Kurogane how he really felt, he actually slept well after the pain subsided.
The next morning, around 8:15, he walked out of his room and was greeted by Sakura's warm smile and Syaoran's gentle eyes, his most favorite way of waking up.
"Good morning, Fai-san!" Sakura shouted cheerfully. Fai gladly gave a smile back. "Good morning yourself, Sakura-chan."
Syaoran quietly took a seat on the couch in the living room while Sakura took the job of cleaning the kitchen that was connected to the living room, the bedrooms were just down the hallway.
"Are you feeling any better?" Syaoran asked Fai. "Oh, you're sick?" Sakura asked, frowning.
"Oh, no, it's fine...I'm feeling a lot better." He lied through his teeth, giving a reassuring smile.
"Oh, that's good." Sakura replied. "I took a chance today and made breakfast! Would you like some?" She asked happily.
Fai sat down at the long counter where he usually used to serve meals. "Sure! I would love some." He folded his hands up and rested his elbows on the counter, laying his chin on his hands.
"Great!" She placed a plat in front of the mage. The contents of the plate looked a bit like yellow vomit. Fai figured it was eggs, but the green pepper in it...and was that onion his smelled?
Fai put a hand over his mouth and dashed towards the bathroom. Sakura made a depressed face. "Is it...Really that bad?"
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Fai waked out of the house to head to the hospital like Kurogane had ordered. Sakura and Syaoran had offered to go with him, but he just said that he could go alone.
He was about to shut the door when he felt it jam. He turned around to see the cause if it, and found a tall black haired man blocking the door. Fai smiled sillyly.
"Good morning, Kuro-cutie! You going out?"
"No, I'm just coming with you to the doctors.
Fai cocked an eyebrow. He wasn't sure why Kurogane would want to come with in, but he was happy to have some company.
"Alright, then let's go." He beamed a bright smile.
They walked down the street, glancing at the passing people, though Kurogane didn't pay much mind.
The hospital wasn't too far from the house, which was good. Fai looked down at his feet in thought. Kurogane noticed this and started at him.
"Hey, what's up with you, Blondie?" Fai suddenly looked up at him. "What do you mean by "Blondie"?" He switched from being happy, to spacy, to irritated. 'Shit...' Kurogane should have known better than to test him and say what he was going to say next.
"It's just you act all zoned out, like a blonde. You know what they say, blondes are dumb."
Fai snapped. "IT'S NOT LIKE I CHOSE TO BE BLONDE! And the color of someone's hair has nothing to do with their intelligence! I am very smart!"
"What is with you?!" Kurogane's eyes slightly widened. fai's face went from anger to sadness. Oh god, here it comes...
"I don't..." tears started to form around his eyes as he came to a stop and rubbed his eyes. Kurogane also stopped and help up his hands quickly with a scared face.
"Now, don't cry! I didn't mean it...Really!" fai sniffled. "I'm such a baby..." He thought to himself as he walked off. He seemed to go back to normal, but Kurogane could still tell there was some tension left in him.
They walked quietly to the hospital. It only took five minutes to reach their destination, but when they approached the building, they both looked up at the tall structure. It was big, and white...too white. fai looked around. The town actually was very depressing. The buildings had no color, and there weren't any flowers or anything to liven up the place. It was just a dull area.
When the pair stepped into the building, however, that's when the whiteness took over their eyes. Kurogane stood out like a gangster with a group of business men. Everything was a faded white, it was like heaven, but more depressing. The floors, walls, the chairs, everything, even the desk, which a young beautiful looking male sat, was white.
Across from the desk was a child-looking teen with black hair and light gray-blue eyes and a small frame.
The two men walked up the the reception desk. Kurogane decided to be the parent and take control, which was fine with Fai, since he was feeling light headed at that moment.
"We need to see a doctor." He demanded sternly. The man behind the deck looked yo at him from behind his large classes.
"Why of course, is this an emergency?" He asked.
"Not really. But I'm getting sick of this guys bitching and sickness!" Kurogane pointed at Fai over his shoulder with his thumb. Fai gave him a "why would you say it like that?" glare.
"Right...Well, it's good for you that we're not busy today, I will get your doctor for you. Now, do you have a medical card with you? I've never seen you before, so are you new?"
Kurogane crossed his arms. "Well...Yeah, we are knew, so no, we don't have a medical card for this town."
The man nodded and got out some paper work, handing it to Kurogane. "What the hell is this?!" He shouted, seeing how bulky it was. He yelled so loud it made the only two patients, an elderly couple, and the other worker look over at him.
Kurogane just ignored them and looked through the packet. Fai leaned over Kurogane's shoulder to get a peek at it.
"Don't worry, the doctor will see you without that done, but you will have to get it turned back in if you wish to have a medical card. Also, this check-up may be a little expensive without it." He smiled a little.
"Whatever...Not like it matters...This is such a pain."The receptionist pressed a button on a little monitor looking thing with yellow lights on it.
The two stood quiet for a seconds, then an average sized man with a long white coat rushed down to where they were at. He had chin-length black hair and soft deep green eyes.
"Yes, something the matter?" The doctor asked with a light and careful voice.
"Gentlemen, this is Doctor Katsuki Minamota." The man at the desk introduced.
"But please, just call me Doctor Katsuki, I don't very much like my last name. Any way, I'm sure you called me for a reason?" He looked them over.
"You two must be new to this town, or else I would have recognized you. That's one of my specialties. Well, just come with me and I will get you two helped out."
They both nodded and followed the doctor down the hall and through the door off to the left. Katsuki picked up a pen and a clipboard as he sat down at his desk. "Alright, who are we checking out today?"
Kurogane pointed at Fai. "Ah, yes. The lovely blonde gentleman. Go on sit down." The doctor motioned for Fai to have a seat on the table looking bed by the wall.
Fai walked over and hopped up onto it. "Now, what seems to be the problem?" The doctor got his pen ready. Fai was about to open his mouth to speak, but Kurogane butted it.
"He's been getting sick every morning for the past three weeks, plus he's always dizzy, and has this strange appetite that isn't normal for him. And the fact that he's been moody, which is abnormal also." He finished his sentence with a grunt and folded his arms.
Fai, for the 100th time, glared at the ninja. He could have spoken for himself, he's not a child. "I see, is there anything else?" The mage looked back at Katsuki.
"Yes. I usually sleep on my stomach, but recently it's been getting uncomfortable." As they both spoke, the doctor wrote down what they were saying.
"Ok. Any weight gain or loss?"
"Well-" Fai started, but was once again interrupted by the rude swordsman.
"He's been eating like crazy! Of course he has!" Fai felt like Kurogane was calling him fat, which made him feel very self-conscious. He sighed deeply.
"Alright, and what is it like when you get dizzy?" Kurogane couldn't answer that, so he had to let Fai say it.
"My head starts to feel real light, then my stomach feels like something is ripping my insides out, then I feel weak. Most of the time I throw up, but sometimes I just feel extremely nauseous."
"Do you smoke or drink?" He asked.
"I don't smoke, but...I do drink once an awhile, not very much, and I wouldn't have been this sick for so long any way."
The doctor nodded. "Ok. Are you on any medication, or on a diet that has changed recently?"
"No."
"Do you know of any type of physical illness that you have?"
"I have been perfectly healthy all my life. I've just started feeling sick." Well, healthy for all his life...unless you would count that time when he was locked up and starved for nearly months.
"Hmm...That's strange, I would say it's the flu, but you shouldn't get moody or hungry from that. I will subscribe you some medication for your stomach pains, and we can run some tests." He started scribbling down some words on a small note then ripped it out.
"Give this to the receptionist, he will get you a bottle of pills. Then go fill out some work at the desk. We will have you do a blood test first." He handed the paper to Kurogane then walked over to Fai.
"Can you lay down for me, please?" He asked with a smile. Fai slowly laid down. The doctor grabbed a pair of gloves out of the drawer and slipped them on. Kurogane watched with wonder as Katsuki lifted Fai's shirt up to view his stomach. He poked around his waist and midsection.
After some few minutes of checking him later, they were done and head to take the blood test. Fai sat in the waiting room while Kurogane did all the paper work and got the medicine.
Fai looked around and saw that same elderly couple holding hands, sitting side by side in the bench like chairs. The woman looked frail and weak. The man was holding her closely and burying his face into her white curls.
The mage watched them, a sudden wanting filled into his heart. "Hey, I got it, are you ready to go to the testing room?" Kurogane walked in, scaring Fai out of his thoughts.
"Oh yeah...I am." Fai got up and they followed the man at the desk direction and went down the hall. There was a woman waiting there. Her name tag read "Suitaka Monamota." Katuki's wife maybe?
"Hello, how are you?" She asked with a bit of a depressed look. "You must have met my idiotic brother, Katsuki. He's your doctor, right?" She grabbed Fai's arm and made him stand by a door. His sister? She doesn't seem like him at all. But they do look alike.
"Yes, we did." Fai smiled. "How nice...Now, if you don't mind, I need a urine sample." Fai cringed. How nasty. He had to take Syaoran and Sakura to the doctors before in a different world, so he knew what was coming.
The nurse handed him a small cup and opened the door behind him, which he figured out was the bathroom. Kurogane walked in and stood by the chair in the room that had the arm rest-like thing on it,
Fai came back about two minutes later. "God, what the hell took you so long?" Kurogane asked as Suitake grabbed Fai once again and made him sit down in the chair."
"Oh hush..." Fai gave a slight nervous but teasing smile. He new what was coming next, and he honestly did not like it.
Fai sat with his arm spread out facing up. Suitake tied a large white stretchy band around his upper arm. It was really tight, and was practically crushing his bone.
She turned around and grabbed a tray that had a shot, a needle, and some plastic tubes on it and grabbed the shot, placing the needle inside it. Fai instantly paled. 'ok..It's ok...It's not going to be that bad...it's just a little needle, I've been through worse than this...' Fai smile and told himself, trying to calm down.
"Ok, you're going to feel a pinch." She told him as she pushed the slim metal into his arm and straight into his delicate vein. "Ah!" Fai found himself clinging to Kurogane's hand for support.
"Sorry." The nurse said and kindly shoved it in deeper, making Fai wince in pain.
"Mage, you're a grown man, act like it!" Kurogane shouted, but surprisingly didn't pull away from him, instead he let him hold onto his hand.
She wiggled the needle around his arm. "Can't seem to find it...I had it. Hold on." Fai felt the needle poking around in places it shouldn't be, and he tried so hard not to whine.
"I'm going to have to do the other arm." She told him in a monotone voice.
Great! Here we go again. She did the process again, but this time she actually got to the vein, much to Fai's relief.
"Just a little pressure." She warned as she clicked the beaker into the shot and started filling it up with blood. Fai gripped onto Kurogane's hand harder.
'Oh god...The needle is in my arm...extracting blood...from my vein!' He was calm through the second part, but this thought made him squirm a little and he quickly closed his eyes.
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It took about three minutes to get his blood, since they were trying to calm Fai down. Though it felt more like an hour, at least to the mage.
After they were done, the two travelers left the hospital. On the way they talked about what it could be. Lots of things came up. A serious case of the flu, tape worm, cancer(Kurogane brought that up and made Fai almost faint)
They were both puzzled by this strange illness, but they both hoped they would find out what was soon.