Chapter 23: Touch me not

Madoka also arrived in the front of the door of Kyoya's patient room and stopped next to Hikaru. Both stared at the entire scenery of doctors spinning madly around him.

"What's going on?" Madoka asked Hikaru. She puffed because she had no idea what's going on with them... She had no idea what's VT, what twisted U lines mean, etc.

"I dunno. What's VT?" Hikaru questioned.

Madoka thought, frowning and blinking rapidly. "Well, verb transitive?" she gave a try, but she wasn't sure.

Hikaru shook her head because she was sure it couldn't mean 'verb transitive'. "It isn't 'verb transitive', I'm sure. It couldn't be."

Madoka frowned in confusion while some heavy footsteps could be heard approaching to them. There was a police officer walking towards them.

"Miss... We have to bring you to the police for a testimony. Since you're minor, your parents have to come, too. Where are them?" the officer asked Hikaru on that well-known serious police tone.

"I don't have parents." Hikaru muttered on an indifferent voice and turned around to him. "And someone please tell me what the f*ck VT means!" she shouted.

Two residents followed by nine interns got out from the room and walked away, ignoring the girls and the police officer. "This was the longest night in my career." a resident complained to the other while squaring his shoulders. "Let's go for a coffee." he suggested, then turned to the interns. "You! F*ck off! Here's just for residents, not for some nothings like you! Now move!"

Five of the interns quickly ran away in the opposite direction. The other resident also turned to his own interns and told them: "Ah, this hospital will take fire because of these interns. They are too much and all silly. They don't know how to apply carotid massage or even intubate someone. He was talking with you, too. Move!" The others interns also ran away in the opposite direction, scared because of their attending.

Kyoya's aunt walked towards the two residents. She was followed by Kyoya's cousin and another two interns. "What's with him?" she asked.

"Oh, he isn't in VT anymore and... he's fine. We made the suture again and gave him blood." one resident explained.

"You found blood for him?" she asked in surprise.

"Yeah. Finally."

"Oh... That's good. I'm going to check him."

She smiled instead of saying 'goodbye' or 'have a nice day' and walked to the patient room, followed by the interns. She entered with the interns, ignoring the girls, but Kyoya's cousin didn't enter. He talked to the girls at seeing their worried faces.

"He's gonna be fine. He... revived from deaths. Or something like this. Oh, and my name's Daisuke." He smiled and joined the others inside the room.

Both smiled in relief while the officer tapped his right foot to the floor. "Miss..." he demanded,

"Not now! What's with you, people? He was about to die and you are freaking out around with your testimony? You're unbelievable!" Hikaru sassed.

[Me: Okay, let's skip the... You know... Blah-blahing. Um... that's four hours later.]

Madoka and Hikaru and Kyoya's cousin were waiting in Kyoya's patient room for him to wake up. They put a couch next to the left wall [okay... so the door was on the eastern wall, Kyoya's bed was on the northern wall, the couch was on the western wall], where Daisuke was lying. He had been at the Emergency room that night and didn't have time to sleep. Madoka was sitting on a chair in the right part of Kyoya's bed while Hikaru was sitting on the left arm of the couch.

The atmosphere was boring and heavy. None of them had time to sleep that night, so everyone was a half asleep, ready to close their eyes in any moment. Madoka was closing her eyes for a second, then quickly widening them, but then she was closing them again and widening them again and this was keeping repeating.

"Hey, Madoka... What VT means? I really wanna know... Please, tell me..." Hikaru muttered.

"I dunno... Ask Daisuke."

"Daisuke... What VT means?"

Too late for Hikaru. Daisuke was asleep. Hikaru sighed in despairing.

"I hate you so much, Kyoya. So much!" She chuckled at how pitiful she was. "I'm sorry, but I can't promise you that I'll never let you alone. Circumstances change easily... So now... I'll leave you alone. Just a minute. Hey, Madoka... Take care of Kyoya... and please, don't fall asleep until he wakes up... Okay?"

Hikaru let her eyelids lock together and slowly leant against the wall, crossing her arms.

Madoka slowly opened her eyes at the sound of Kyoya's moaning. She squinted while scratching the back of her head, curving her lips a little. Afterwards she noticed that Kyoya was waking up. She stood up from the chair and put both of her hands on his cheeks. "Yeah, baby, you woke up? Say something!" she whispered bubbly.

He didn't open his eyes, just opened his mouth to say something. "T-Tell Hikaru that... I f*ck her! It hurts at hell!" he moaned. Madoka smiled in relief and breathed freely.

In that time, Daisuke also woke up. He rubbed his eyes and got up. "Oh, Kyoya." He walked towards his bed and checked his EKG. "Say a word, bro, so we can be sure your brain isn't damaged."

"He said something." Madoka replied.

"What did he say?"

"He said that he f*cks Hikaru because it hurts him at hell." Madoka explained. Daisuke made an 'o...kay...' face.

"Give me some morphine!" Kyoya moaned again, half opening his eyes.

"Okay, okay..." Daisuke assured him, but his pager suddenly beeped. He checked it and sighed. "I gotta go. They need me at the ER." He took the plastic cup of coffee from the table, and, drinking, he ran out of the room.

"I think interns have a hard life... I mean... did you see how fast he left?" Madoka remarked while taking back her seat on the chair.

Hikaru also woke up, but Madoka didn't notice.

All Hikaru dared to do was to stare at Kyoya; seemed like he also noticed her, 'cause he was also staring at her, but they didn't say a word. Hikaru lay on the couch where Daisuke was lying moment ago and continued staring at Kyoya, both indifferent.

Madoka finally noticed that Hikaru woke up. She didn't say anything at seeing those two staring at each other; what she didn't understand was why they were so indifferent, especially Hikaru.

Their staring-down session ended when Kyoya's aunt entered the room. "Kyoya needs to rest now." she demanded; This time she was wearing some glasses, their shape was oval.

Just Madoka left the room. Hikaru stayed there because she wasn't disturbing with anything.

"So... how are you?" Kyoya's aunt asked with a petty cheerfully smile, but still worried expression.

"I'm fine." he simply muttered.

She chuckled briefly. "You say it just to do not look like a wimp?" she teased him.

"I'm fine, aunt." he insisted.

"Okay, okay, I understood." she teased him even more. "I'll give you morphine for pain and... you'll feel better." Then she focused her attention on Hikaru, who was indifferently staring now at Kyoya, then at his aunt, then at Kyoya again, then at his aunt again... "Who's this beautiful miss?" he asked Kyoya, but analyzing Hikaru. "Oh, she's one of your friends, right?" she presumed after a moment. Kyoya admitted it.

Hikaru analyzed her back. "I'm Hikaru." she muttered coldly before she got up and fought a smile. Kyoya's aunt also fought a smile.

"Oh... Nice to meet you." Then she changed her gaze to Kyoya. "I gotta go, sweetie. I have a surgery in ten minutes." She smiled again to him, stroked his cheek a moment, gave him an air-kiss, then also walked out of the room, letting Hikaru and Kyoya alone.

She lay again on the couch and crossed her arms, continuing staring at him. He also continued staring at her.

"Yayyy! Kyoyo is fine!" Yuu's cheerful voice could be heard from outside [by us, but not by Kyoya or by Hikaru]. With him were Kenta and Gingka.

"Hey, wait, wait... Why are they... quiet? I mean, he saved her life... they should hug or something or at least talk... And she had been very worried about him. What's going on? Where's the sweetness, the drama, the romance... Where's the action, people? " Yuu asked curiously but also confusedly.

"Hey, Yuu's right! And where's Benkei, hugging Kyoya and crying of happiness because he didn't die?" Gingka also protested.

Kenta sneered in disgust. "You don't know anything!" he scolded. "Look! He saw a nurse coming and he..."

Yeah, it was right, Kyoya saw a nurse on the hall.

"Hey, miss, come here a minute!" he called at her. The nurse made a confused face but entered at Kyoya. She checked his chart.

"So, what happened?"

Kyoya pointed at Hikaru, whose hand was dirty of blood, still bleeding a little. "Take care of her wound."

"See?" Kenta remarked to the others. They nodded their heads in approval, realizing how smart Kenta was.

Eh, eh, eh... That was for this chapter :) Thanks for reading :3