It had taken a whole three days before Takara woke up, Aidou was sure that his heart had physically stopped when she finally opened her eyes at last. He had been tell himself that everything would get better as soon as she woke up, that everything would go back to normal and he would have his love back; unfortunately he was wrong.

Takara refused to eat anything and no would be able to change her mind. Her last thought when she had passed out in the alleyway was that she was finally going to be free. She wouldn't have to worry about being hunted or hurt ever again. Waking up in a warm comfortable bed had been almost devastating. She didn't want to have to deal with anymore drama, and she defiantly didn't want to have to deal with Aidou's verbal abuse again, so she decided that no matter what anyone said or did she wouldn't eat. She knew that her body was weak and it was only a matter of time before it gave out. She refused to do anything, even talk to her friends when they visited. She knew that if she started talking to them that they would eventually be able to convince her to eat, she hoped that they would eventually be discouraged by her silence and leave her to die.

Unfortunately for her, her friends weren't willing to give up on her so easily. Every day three times a day they would visit her room in the infirmary toting a tray of food with them. They would sit and talk to her while she sat in the bed and stared the crisp bed sheets. Usually it was Zero or Aidou keeping her company but on occasion Ichijo or Kaname or even the Chairman would take the time to stop by. She had somewhat counted on Zero and Aidou's past animosity to keep them from visiting her too often in an attempt to avoid each other.

However her "illness" seemed to have brought them closer together, after the first few days of Takara refusing to acknowledge the world around her Aidou had had a slight mental breakdown. He had been convinced that everything would go right back to normal that he didn't know how to handle the current situation. Surprisingly it had been Zero who had pulled him out of his slump, granted he wasn't exactly gentle with his methods. He had found Aidou wallowing in his grief by the pond where his and Takara's relationship had first come to be. Deciding that grieving would do nothing to help Takara he pulled out his gun and shot the air right above Aidou's head. He then proceeded to give Aidou a speech that was as insulting as it was inspiring.

"Look here you stupid blood sucker I may not like you but for whatever reason Takara seems to love you, and you're sitting around pouting isn't going to help her get any better! I might not understand what she sees in you but for whatever reason she decided that you were the one and I'm not gonna let you sit around when you could be figuring out some way to get her back to normal."

It may have seemed cruel but it was exactly what Aidou needed to hear. From that day on Zero and Aidou worked together to get the old Takara back. They weren't friends, far from it; they still hated each other's guts. They had just decided that it would be better to put their feud on hold until Takara was better. In all reality if she died their main reason to hate each other would be gone. Not to mention they would both loose someone whom they cared deeply for.

A week went by and Takara was starting to fade, she was back to fading in and out of consciousness and the IVs that were feeding essential vitamins and nutrients into her body could only do so much. They were getting desperate, Zero had asked Yuki to talk to her in hopes that having someone who wasn't emotionally tied to her tell her to eat would affect Takara in some way but Yuki had refused, she had told him that if Takara wanted to waste away then that was her choice and she wasn't going to stop her. In reality it wasn't about Takara having a choice at all, Yuki was jealous that Zero cared so much about another girl and she figured as soon as Takara was dead Zero would come crawling right back to her.

The nurse finally told Aidou that Takara had about a day left before she would be past the point of revival. In sheer desperation he spent the entire day sitting in her room pleading with her to forgive him. He promised that if she just allowed them to make her better that he would let her leave and that she would never have to see him again. He promised that as soon as she was able he would take her down to the gym and she could beat him up for as long as she liked. He prayed to whatever God existed that she would get better, even if it was just so that she could go on hating him. Finally he got up from the chair he had been sitting in and laid down next to her, careful not to bump any of the IV cords connected to her fragile body.

"If you die Takara, I'm going with you. I wouldn't be able to live knowing you were dead and that it was my fault. I love you too much to let you go." He was crying and he hadn't even realized it. She meant so much to him and she was about to disappear from his life forever. He used to dream about them getting married and spending the rest of their lives together. He could picture her in a beautiful wedding dress with Zero walking her down the aisle, Kaname would be his best man and Rima would be her maid of honor. It was so perfect and now, because he had acted on pure assumption that vision would probably never come to be.

He had been so focused on what could be that he almost missed Takara's response.

"Fine, but you better not die you idiot." She had heard what he had to say and realized that he did in fact mean it when he said he loved her. That didn't mean that they were fine, it would take a lot more than one teary confession to regain her trust; however, it was more than enough to convince her to give him a second chance.

My writers block is officially gone, for now… It's the final week of school and I only have one final exam left before I'm free! Hopefully I will be able to post more often now that I will have more free time. Also I'll be getting a lap to so I won't have to wait until I can get to a computer to write

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