Joker: Before I get on with this chapter, I first of all apologise for how late I am , I've been keeping up with work, procrastinating, and generally being your typical otaku!
I also want to say I've been puzzling this one over, so I'm basically tryna kick characters and dates to where I- *sees Panda with ladle* K k k k, politely asked them to wait, move, and lo- (ladle) FINE! I'LL GET ON WITH IT! Here! *gets sent back to Office by Mr-Big-And-Motherly/Fatherly-Complexed over- OW!*

Oh, and Protective Lin here, you can take it how you want...

John's POV:

I was woken to the yell of the Doctors, and I found someone lifting me up by the collar of my shirt.

"He still recovering! Let go of him!" Ayako roared, and I looked over to see four men holding her at bay as the Doctor had been hit on the head.

"Shut up!" someone yelled as I was made to look into the face of one of the men there.

I felt myself became disoriented as people bombarded me for being healed, and I felt myself get dragged out of the building.

Someone... Help... Please...

I squeezed my eyes shut as I felt someone else grab at me...

A moment later, I felt myself suddenly get dropped, and arms wrapped tightly around me, lifting me bridal-style, as I heard others yell.

I felt myself get carried high up, stopping about five metres off the ground, my hands gripping his shirt.

"[Stop!]" I recognised the voice, and my eyes snapped open.

Wait... Can I... Understand him?

Bruised and battered, the left-overs of some chains upon his limbs, Lin was glaring over me at the people below, having landed perfectly on top of the Doctor's roof.

"[You are a disgrace! John is still recovering from his injuries from last healing báichī like you! You are shoving your problems upon innocent people! Learn some respect!]" he roared.

Guards patrolling above due to the recent commotion swooped towards us, and Lin quickly took a step back as Fu landed in front of us.

"Hand him over, Lin." Fu ordered, and I instinctively clung on tighter when I looked back at the crowd below.

"Tell those monsters below to not attack John and hurt our friends first." Lin glared.

Other Half-Angel Guards appeared, and surrounded us.

I felt tremors run through me,

Why am I...

I felt Lin's hands tighten on me, as I felt my wings were about to emerge to shied myself again.

Why am I so...

I squeezed my eyes shut as I heard the people below's yells.

Afraid?...

...

...

A hand softly patted my head, before covering the ear not snuggled in Lin's chest.

I heard him say something, and a moment later, I felt a hand on my forehead, before Lin moved again, and I felt Ayako's familiar hand on my head.

Further movement, and I felt myself slowly fall back asleep...

Lin's POV:

I sat patiently, beside John's bed. After I had started removing all the negative energy that had built up around John and replaced it with the positive left-overs around me, he had fallen asleep.

Unfortunately he still had a tight hold of my shirt.

Ayako and Fu were busy sorting out the others and every now and then Ayako would enter the private room we had been given to check on John, seeing as - like most half-humans in this village, including myself - the unbalanced energy was causing him to have a fever.

I looked up as the door opened, Yi, Mai and Naru entering with Gene, Yasu and Monk.

"Masako's looking after the others." Gene smiled, and I nodded.

John stirred, and I felt his grip on me loosen.

"G-guys?" he asked, Monk striding over and pulling him into a hug. "...Hi..."

"How are you feeling?" Yi asked, as John was let go of and he sat back, leaning on me slightly.

"A little fuzzy, else I'm fine." he softly replied.

"Fu's dealing with the idiots who thought they'd try and take advantage of you." Naru stated, his arms crossed. "Though no comprehensible answer has been found so far - just people talking about how they heard about how John can heal others and dreams."

I mentally frowned, as Yasu corrected his glasses.

"Weren't all those people recently committed having weird dreams, too? Like Kaede told us..." he asked, and Yi nodded.

"It's sort of blended into the normality of things - parents, after some time, losing their sense of security and ending up being sent there. I'm still trying to find out why, though." she admitted.

The door opened, and Hibari slipped in.

"Dàgē, can half-humans hover?" he asked. "Without needing to flap their wings."

"Only if they can control the air around them." I shrugged.

"But Ryuuko is able to(?)."

"Only because he died and got thrown out of hell."

Hibari nodded, and spotted Yi.

"Hey, have you worked out a reason for it yet?" he asked.

"For what?" Yi replied.

"The ground breaking. It can't have been Naru - he'd never say we all deserved to die."

"Rotten Pumpkins are plausible, though." Gene and Naru replied in synch, Gene grinning at his brother's glare.

Monk pouted as Hibari tilted his head in question.

"Basically, people who don't meet Naru's standards are "pumpkins", so ones who also break other standards we know about are "rotten"." Gene grinned. "Mai's a non-pumpkin, though~!"

Naru sent a sharper glare, and Gene used this as an invitation to drape and arm around his twin's neck.

"It's a bit obvious, though!"

I mentally rolled my eyes and smirked as Hibari smiled.

"I'm going to tell the other four!" he stated, before leaving again, dropping the smile as he faced through the door.

What's Hibari up to?...

Joker: #Another chaaaapter, badipdadiida, I got more cuuuuuties, and mo~ore fluuuuffies!# XD

Panda: Stop singing.

Joker: Whyyyy~?

Panda: it's annoying.

Joker: Whyyy? *grins and bounces about, hyper only on Happiness*

Panda: *raises ladle* Reader-chan, I advise you to only Triple R if you feel this fool is worthy of it.Joker: OW! TASUKE- (CLANG!) Owwwww... *smiles through ribbons of blood running over face from ladle-marks* Triple R pleeeaaase? (Comments help stories come out faster! It's a FACT! XD)