Chapter 6: Hospitalized
"Ulrich! Oh my god, are you alright?" Yumi asked placing his head in her lap.
"Yeah, but I thought you wouldn't care?" He answered.
"Of course I care, you are my pride and joy," she replied letting tears fall.
"I just called the ambulance, they're on the way," Jason added in. Soon afterwards the ambulance pulled up and put Ulrich on the stretcher then they put him in the ambulance with Yumi beside him, everyone else just followed in the cars. After several hours Ulrich was in the hospital room sleeping peacefullly, Yumi was beside him holding his hand and talking to him. Ulrich opened his eyes and felt pain shoot through his shoulder as he tried to sit up, he looked at Yumi and noticed her slightly asleep herself. He took her hand and kissed it, when he did that she woke up with a start.
"I thought you weren't going to see me in the hosptial?" Ulrich asked tiredly.
"I lied, there was no way I was going to let you go through this alone, I love you too much to do that," Yumi answered crying.
"Don't cry it'll be alright, I promise," Ulrich answered calmly wiping away her tears. Soon all of their friends came into the room smiling, Ami hugged Ulrich and Yumi at the same time.
"Thank you so much Ulrich, thanks to you me and my daughter can be safe at last," Ami said picking Michi up.
"Are you alright Uncle Ulrich?" Michi asked sitting indian style on the bed.
"Yeah I'm fine, I just got an injury but I'll be out soon," Ulrich answered.
"Hey Yumi, could I talk to you outside?" Ami asked curiously.
"Sure, I'll be back," she told Ulrich. When the two were outside, Jason came out to see what they were talking about.
"What did you want to talk to Yumi about Ami?" Jason asked.
"I wanted to talk to her about this," she answered unrolliong a towel to reveal the knife Yumi was going to give to Ulrich.
"What about it?" Yumi asked.
"You have to give it to Ulrich, since I already gave mine to Odd it is only fair to give yours to Ulrich," Ami answered.
"She's right, Ulrich may have nerly lost his life to save us but he deserves to be happy. The reason why I say that is because he has been through alot and father would have loved to see you be oaired off with somebody who has a strong personalitly, and since the ceremony is over I will let you two be paired off," Jason explianed.
"Thank you Jason! I love you," Yumi said hugging him.
"I know, anyway we brought you a bag of clothes so you can stay here for the night," Jason said going back into the room. When they walked in they could see Michi sleeping in Aelita's lap, Ami picked her up and rocked her a little.
"I think we should be getting home, we'll see you when you get out alright Ulrich?" Aelita asked.
"Yeah see ya," Ulrich answered tiredly. Yumi came in and changed into her pajamas and unrolled some blankets which she put on the couch, "What are you doing Yumi?" Ulrich asked curiously.
"Making a place for me to sleep, why?" She answered.
"Well I was thinking you could sleep up here if you want," he answered calmly.
"Okay," she said climbing in the bed beside him. She snuggled next to him and laid her head on his chest, Ulrich could feel her heart beat through her chest and it felt soothing. After about an hour he fell right to sleep and dreamed good dreams.
(The Next Morning)
Ulrich woke up to feel coldness next to him, as he looked over he noticed Yumi was missing. He sat up and noticed her talking on her phone, then a doctor came in with two nurses.
"Well Mr. Stern, it appears that you're all set to go home so i'm giving you this medicine to help with the pain," the doctor replied.
"Thanks Doc," ULrich answered taking the bottle and putting it in his bag.
"We'll just let you get dressed, and when you're done come to the front desk for your possessions," the doctor said leaving.
"I just called Jason to come pick us up, but before we go I wanted to give you something," Yumi said reaching into her bag, she pulled out the wrapped up knife and showed it to him.
"What is this?" Ulrich asked taking the knife carefully.
"It has my family's crest on it, which means in my cuntry that you are now a part of my family and we are officially paired off. No matter what hardships we go through we'll always love each other in the end," Yumi explained.
"Cool, I have something for you too," he said reaching into his coat pocket, and he pulled out a black box and got down on one knee. "Yumi Ishiyama, would you do me the honor of making me the happiest man alive and become part of my family forever?" He asked calmly. Yumi couldn't beleive that he was proposing to her like this, she put her hands to her mouth and cried.
"Yes! Yes I will!" She exclaimed, it was so loudat least 5 nurses came in to cheeck on them, they clapped and cheered at the new couple's engagement. When they left out the hospital they could see Ami and Jason standing by the car, when Ami saw them she caught a glimpse of something shiny on Yumi's finger. She ran over and hugged her cousin nearly choking her, Ulrich just stood there laughing.
"I am so happy for you Yumi-chan! This calls for a celebration, Jason can come with us too," Ami said still squeezing Yumi.
"Okay but I want to be able to breath later," she replied. Ami let go and walked to the car, Ulrich and Yumi just stood there and watched as Ami yelled at Jason about something in Japanese.
"That's your family alright," Ulrich said laughing.
"Knowing how much Ami likes to party, I don't think we're going to get what we want to do tonight," she answered back.