Alzhey Alzy Alzhie (1/2)
“I forgot my wallet again!”
Title: Alzhey Alzy Alzhie (1/2)
Pair: Kanjani∞/Yoko (especially Hina/Yoko)
Rate: PG-15
Genre: You choose
Summary: Yoko’s well-known with his forgetful behavior, his great plan and ideas; even sometimes it’s revealed that he sucks at writing. It’s normal, too normal to be true, but who knows it’s actually some symptoms lead to his ultimate fate...
p.s. It’s contain a lot of information about Alzheimer desease and brain attack. So, if you find some words those hard to understand, forgive me! I didn’t change any of the name of particular things, so, just find it in wiki?^^ Ah! Also! Italic words shows earlier timeline~
July 20th, 2011, dressing room
“Where’s my car key again??” Yoko asked, his hand’s busy searching under desk, the other left hand hold the phone which desperately calling to his band mate. Hina picked up his call, and answer him with screams, “YOU DON’T NEED TO CALL ME WHEN WE’RE IN THE SAME ROOM, OKAY?”
Yoko turned his head around, searching for the gorilla and found him right 3 meters behind him, the gorilla with -why-do-you-messed-up-our-place-just-for-searching-your-own-car-key- face walked towards his direction and slapped him on the head.
“Ouch!”
“Don’t need to be that angry, hige-gorilla!” Yoko whined, now his hand searched around in some of others Kanjani members’ bag, which resulted to be slapped again in his head and more “Ouch!” this day.
“We won’t steal your key so don’t need to search it in my bag, thanks!” Hina got his bag back from Yoko’s hand and zipped it back, Yoko just laughed with his high-pitched voice, “...see, when you’re like that, your teeth grow 3 cm longer!”
Hina ran over Yoko who quickly fled away towards the exit. And it became just another ordinary day in Kanjani8’s dressing room.
July 21st, 2011, dressing room
The next morning, before rehearsal. Everyone-except the Peter Pan-sitting around together, uselessly joked and played their instrument lazily. There’s 5 minutes left but there was no sign about Yoko’s appearance, which’s weird since the one who usually late just Hina, or Ryo. But everyone had their own thoughts, maybe he just caught in the traffic-light or he overslept. Which was, once again, just a normal reason to one’s late.
“Do minna thinks that Yoko became more and more forgetful these days?” Yasu asked while playing his guitar, “...well, I know he’s forgetful already from the first place, but somehow I think his forgetness increased,”
“Sounds true though,” Tacchon replied without even looking, why should him when his favorite drama still airing? Maru just nod, Ryo nod, Subaru the last. Hina laughed by clapped his hand, “...maybe our wonder boy is aging already!” and quickly the rest of eito members shared the laugh, stopped when Yoko suddenly come to their dressing room, and laughed again. “Sorry for being aged!” Yoko’s confused face made them laugh even louder.
“You all turned crazy,” Yoko commented
“We do, but it’s better than you who started aging,” Subaru spoke a bit too loud and finally their manager came to guide them to rehearsal. Yoko whined and it add another normal days in their life.
July 27th, 2011, KTV studio
Janiben filming had been started already. It’s a fun filming; they invited a comedian and made a fun episode with it. Minutes by minutes passed quickly, the atmosphere felt great. Yoko kept messed up his words, the guest would make a joke out of it and the whole studio burst into laughter immediately.
“So this’s your Yokoyama Yu? I thought when I watched some of his drama he gave off that kind of smart image, right? But yet he kept messing up his word!” the guest laughed, followed by the audience
“I know! I know! And he also does forgetting a lot too!” Hina echoed
“Don’t talk like that you people! I embrse-embarassed already!” Yoko replied, covering his red face. But the guest wouldn’t stop to tease Yoko just because of this
“And you know, he messed up again!!” ...more laugh-sound, “...forgetful, and keep messing his word! What’s this funny thing? Alzheimer symptoms?” the guest cracked up, and so are they. Yoko chuckled a bit, “...but it’s won’t be, naa?” Yoko plead, “...since this great me always looked healthy!”
And so the topic’s changed and changed. Now that their Janiben aired for 1-hour, they should bring more things to show so it could last. And as final stage, they asked the guest to cook her favorite dish, even it just some takoyaki. She looked so happy and so they prepared some simple equipment to make the dish, and no more quiz to eat in this episode since they lack of time.
“So this’s it! Ready to eat~” The guest smiled happily while showing them her hand-made cook.
“Its taste like taiko-yaki (taiko=traditional instrument drum-like, yaki=grill. Taikoyaki=grilled taiko (?)) though!” Yoko sticked out his tongue and made a dorky-high pitched laugh. The whole studio burst into laughter again, but the guest no. So she ran after Yoko and tried to catch him. Yoko, being a nice sportsman himself, ran quickly so that she couldn’t catch him.
“You can’t!”
Yoko ran while laughing, but suddenly his head felt heavy. ‘What’s this?’ he tried to hold his consciousness but he couldn’t. And so everything turned out white...
he collapsed.
“YOKOCCHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
July 28th, 2011, Tokyo Hospital
“Where’s me?”
“Hospital.” Hina smiled warm to Yoko in front of him. His hand never left the eldest’s, hoping all night long that Yoko would wake up quickly. Yoko gulped seeing his band mates lying all over the floor and couch, waited for him to awake. Somehow, he felt a nice feeling appeared in his heart, and a lot amount of thankful feeling too to have such a nice group like this. Yoko replied Hina’s smile, whispering ‘Arigato’ and tried to stand up but Hina prevent it. He placed Yoko back to the bad.
“Doctor said you need a bit rest, Yoko,”Hina opened the window to give Yoko some fresh sunlight to enlighten him and continued his speech, “...all of us’re really worried you know, that you suddenly collapsed like this in filming. Baka”
“Don’t blame me, I didn’t know gorilla can worry!” Yoko shouted, but this time Hina tried his best not to slap Yoko in this condition.
“You may speak as you please but please try to rest nicely, okay. I’ll call the doctor to-“
“...so what’s the doctor diagnosis about me? What happened actually? About me?” Yoko’s face suddenly turned serious, hand shaking. He bet his pessimistic sides showed right now. “...is it bad?”
Hina laughed, and answered directly, “...don’t worry, okay? Just a mere stress accumulative, so that’s why he told you to take a rest”
“Glad it’s not as bad as I think...” Yoko sighed for now, before he knew that it wasn’t that simple.
August 12nd, 2011, dancing room
“You! Yea, YOU! The one in behind! No, no, not the tallest! The one behind him! Yeah! It’s you! Geez, why you’re so late to follow this dance movement? See? 1, 2, 3, turn, 5, 6, 7, turn. Not like that! Turn! Turn your hips around! Like this!!!”
The instructor scolded Yoko again. It has been 2 weeks since he left hospital, diagnosed as lack of rest and too much stress. Yoko thought, maybe it was because his new ‘Angry Bird’ game which was so fun to be played, maybe. He spaced out. And the instructor shouted on him, asked him to concentrate.
“Come on Yokoyama-kun! Everyone’ve memorized the whole dance part already but you haven’t even make it a quarter! M-ste performance is tomorrow so please memorize it already!” the instructor grabbed Yoko’s hand and forced him to dance. Yoko moved his hand and legs following the music beat, but he suddenly stop.
“How is it again? The first movement?” he asked dumbly
“Murakami-kun! You take over today dance lesson. I’ll go back home now!” the instructor replied angrily and made his way towards the exit doors in no time. Maru, Subaru, Yasu, Ohkura and Ryo turned their head to Yoko. “So, why did you keep messing up?”
“NO I didn’t!
“You DO!” Ryo shouted, “...I’m tired already. I should go to NEWS dorm after this, Yokoyama-kun. So can’t you please do it already? We’ve trained for around 5 hours without res-“
“Ryo stop it!” Maru went to Ryo, “...we should help him and not to scold him again like this, okay. You can go to NEWS dorm now and leave Yoko to us. Please don’t break Kanjani8 just because of this...”
“Okay I’ll go,” Ryo took his bag and went over to the dorm. Ohkura followed him.
“Where do you go, Tacchon?” Yasuda asked him
“I’ve filming since 30 minutes ago. Come to think of it, isn’t you all have your own filming for movie or radio or stage play too?”
“We won’t leave Yoko behind...” Yasu replied, eyes to Yoko. “We’ll stay,”
“Ah, it’s up to you” Ohkura replied, hurrily go to his drama location, left the remaining five in their dancing room.
“So, Yoko, please try to memorize it again... We’ll dance it slowly once more time for you,”
Feeling sad for being a burden, Yoko nod and danced.
August 19th, 2011. TV Asahi Studio
“KANJANI no SHIWAKE EITO!!!”
Another filming when Kanjani8’s should guess one’s name or getting slapped. This filming’s so irritating actually for them, but since the viewer take this show as funny show, no help they should do this. First is Nishikido Ryo, but he failed and getting slapped. Then, Subaru, failed and getting slapped again. And for their last chance, Yoko went to try his luck.
When he faced the guest, the guest smile to him and pat his head. “Glad you’re here, you must know my name already right, since we went to the same location shoot thrice!”
The rest of eito members clapped their hand, finally they were able to guess right this time.
But the one they relied upon just looked to his band-member with weak smile, and bowed right in front of the guest, apologized, “I’m sorry but I didn’t even remember if we ever met before! I’m sorry! But if I may try, are you Masuyoshi Kyoko? Kyoko-chan?”
No wonder he slapped.
September 2nd, 2011. Dressing room
Yoko played his new Wii in the couch, waiting for rehearsal. He’s so into it and didn’t even realized that his band mate came to the room and sat around him. Maru poked his back and took his Wii, didn’t care that Yoko whined about his own new record in the last stage of MonHun, he just had more important thing in his head.
“What do you-my record!!” Yoko screamt, no one commented
“So, Yoko, we need to talk.” Maru started off the conversation
“What?”
“Did you notice that you change a lot lately?” Subaru told him what’s being in his mind
“No. Why??”
“You became forgetful,” Ohkura spoke his opinion
“I am already!”
“...kept messing up your words...” Ryo felt he should at least said it
“Oh guys how long’ve you known me??”
“...slow to memorizing our dance step...” and this’s Yasu
“It’s my weakness I told you!”
“...and-“
“STOP ALREADYYYY...!!! I’m tired! So what do you want to tell me about??”
They looked at each other. Maru who usually cheerfull and played around, now quiet. Yoko find this atmosphere as a bit creepy... so he shutted his mouth.
Maru grabbed Yoko’s hand and his brownish eyes gazed to the eldest. “Hina won’t say anything to us. But he told me that he want to see you alone after rehearsal... So, go and meet him after this, okay?”
Didn’t know what to do, Yoko gave an okay sign and left them.
July 27th, 2011, Hospital
“Excuse me.” The doctor knocked the door, asking permission to got in. Ryo who stood up the closest to the door, opened it and politely let the doctor to go to Yoko who totally fell unconcious. Everyone stared to the doctor with curious look.
“So everyone,” the doctor told his nurse to get out, “...I need someone of you to talk with me. Is there any of you who willingly take the responbility of him? The patient?”
“He’s our bandmate, all of us DO, doctor” Subaru declared from the couch
“Then one with the toughest mind please”
“Me,” Hina said, he came closer to the doctor, eyes showed his strong heart. “Tell me what happened to Yoko”
“Alzheimer?” Hina asked for the third time
“Yes.”
“So tell me what’s this Alzheimer thing”
“I also find it hard to tell you what Alzheimer is... but easily Alzheimer’s the most common form of dementia. Unfortunately Alzheimer attack one’s brain and is incurable, since it’s not caused by viruses or bacteria. I realized this since I remembered that he once came to me years ago, maybe in 2004, to this hospital just to ask me to decrease his forgetfulness.The whole hospital may find it funny, but he, and me-as his doctor-no. I thought it’s strange since he still in his twenties back then, but I just asked him to eat more vegetables and fruit. But that he came again after 6 years, I thought I should do something.
So,” the doctor suddenly stopped, he gave Hina some look-like x-Ray paper, “I decided to immediately took brain scans of him, both MRI and DRI. You can see this...”
“His brain... dissolve?” Hina asked, hand shaking with his paper. It’s so scary to see your own group member’s brain scan, just to found out that their brain not as what it’s before
“...maybe. The earliest observable symptoms are often mistakenly thought to be ‘age-related’ concern or accumulated stress. As the disease increase, symptoms like confusion, irritability, agression, mood-swings, languange breakdown’ll usually appear followed by memory loss. Certain movement coordination’ll be harder too.”
The doctor stopped again to catch some breathe, and Hina gulped. Isn’t this too much for Yoko?
“...do you love him?” the doctor asked out of the blue
“What? Me? No. It just... we’re... bandmate” Hina denied quickly, the doctor laughed a bit
“Don’t give me such a serious expression. I know it’ll be hard. In the earlier stage, his earlier memory usually less afected, just that he will be hard to accept new information...” the doctor’s expression changed, “...but that he now enters this stage, his memory loss’ll difinitly decrease.
There’re four stage of Alzheimer, Pre-dementia, Early, Moderate, and Advanced.He’s now in Moderate stage if my diagnosis true. Th-“
“What’ll happen to him? To YOKO?”
“Well, in this stage, it’ll be his physical movement’ll be less coordinated, behavioural changes like wandering, irritability, labile affect which lead to sudden crying, outburst or agression and ressistance to caregiving. And the worst condition,
his memory loss’ll result him to forgetting you”
“How’s it, Hina?” Subaru ran imediately towards Hina who entered the room. Everyone looked worried too, eventhough Maru’s nowhere to be found. Hina laughed hard and guide them to sit. “The doctor said that it just because he’s aged! LOL and he also said it worsen since he often feel stress. Well, guess it won’t be helped, right? He’s our Yoko after all!”
All their expression suddenly changed into relief...”PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!”
“Maru! Don’t shock us like that!” Ohkura shouted, he looked irritated by Maru’s sudden screams
“I’m sorry~ I came in but no one noticed~ But glad naa that Yoko’s condition’is nice~”
“Well you got the point”
“So, maybe we all just had to sleep here until he awake? The doctor said that tomorrow we may bring him back, and it’s 02.13 AM already” Hina decided, “...I’ll sleep near Yoko so that I can do something once he’s awake,”
“No sex here okay?” Subaru teased
“I’m not a lovesick couple like you and Yasu!” Hina replied, “...so now, sleep!”
“I’m sorry!”
September 2nd, 2011. Dressing room
After rehearsal. Yoko walked fast to Hina who now packing his stuff. “What’s it? The thing you want to tell me?”
“It is...”
To be Continued
Title: Alzhey Alzy Alzhie (1/2)
Pair: Kanjani∞/Yoko (especially Hina/Yoko)
Rate: PG-15
Genre: You choose
Summary: Yoko’s well-known with his forgetful behavior, his great plan and ideas; even sometimes it’s revealed that he sucks at writing. It’s normal, too normal to be true, but who knows it’s actually some symptoms lead to his ultimate fate...
p.s. It’s contain a lot of information about Alzheimer desease and brain attack. So, if you find some words those hard to understand, forgive me! I didn’t change any of the name of particular things, so, just find it in wiki?^^ Ah! Also! Italic words shows earlier timeline~
July 20th, 2011, dressing room
“Where’s my car key again??” Yoko asked, his hand’s busy searching under desk, the other left hand hold the phone which desperately calling to his band mate. Hina picked up his call, and answer him with screams, “YOU DON’T NEED TO CALL ME WHEN WE’RE IN THE SAME ROOM, OKAY?”
Yoko turned his head around, searching for the gorilla and found him right 3 meters behind him, the gorilla with -why-do-you-messed-up-our-place-just-for-searching-your-own-car-key- face walked towards his direction and slapped him on the head.
“Ouch!”
“Don’t need to be that angry, hige-gorilla!” Yoko whined, now his hand searched around in some of others Kanjani members’ bag, which resulted to be slapped again in his head and more “Ouch!” this day.
“We won’t steal your key so don’t need to search it in my bag, thanks!” Hina got his bag back from Yoko’s hand and zipped it back, Yoko just laughed with his high-pitched voice, “...see, when you’re like that, your teeth grow 3 cm longer!”
Hina ran over Yoko who quickly fled away towards the exit. And it became just another ordinary day in Kanjani8’s dressing room.
July 21st, 2011, dressing room
The next morning, before rehearsal. Everyone-except the Peter Pan-sitting around together, uselessly joked and played their instrument lazily. There’s 5 minutes left but there was no sign about Yoko’s appearance, which’s weird since the one who usually late just Hina, or Ryo. But everyone had their own thoughts, maybe he just caught in the traffic-light or he overslept. Which was, once again, just a normal reason to one’s late.
“Do minna thinks that Yoko became more and more forgetful these days?” Yasu asked while playing his guitar, “...well, I know he’s forgetful already from the first place, but somehow I think his forgetness increased,”
“Sounds true though,” Tacchon replied without even looking, why should him when his favorite drama still airing? Maru just nod, Ryo nod, Subaru the last. Hina laughed by clapped his hand, “...maybe our wonder boy is aging already!” and quickly the rest of eito members shared the laugh, stopped when Yoko suddenly come to their dressing room, and laughed again. “Sorry for being aged!” Yoko’s confused face made them laugh even louder.
“You all turned crazy,” Yoko commented
“We do, but it’s better than you who started aging,” Subaru spoke a bit too loud and finally their manager came to guide them to rehearsal. Yoko whined and it add another normal days in their life.
July 27th, 2011, KTV studio
Janiben filming had been started already. It’s a fun filming; they invited a comedian and made a fun episode with it. Minutes by minutes passed quickly, the atmosphere felt great. Yoko kept messed up his words, the guest would make a joke out of it and the whole studio burst into laughter immediately.
“So this’s your Yokoyama Yu? I thought when I watched some of his drama he gave off that kind of smart image, right? But yet he kept messing up his word!” the guest laughed, followed by the audience
“I know! I know! And he also does forgetting a lot too!” Hina echoed
“Don’t talk like that you people! I embrse-embarassed already!” Yoko replied, covering his red face. But the guest wouldn’t stop to tease Yoko just because of this
“And you know, he messed up again!!” ...more laugh-sound, “...forgetful, and keep messing his word! What’s this funny thing? Alzheimer symptoms?” the guest cracked up, and so are they. Yoko chuckled a bit, “...but it’s won’t be, naa?” Yoko plead, “...since this great me always looked healthy!”
And so the topic’s changed and changed. Now that their Janiben aired for 1-hour, they should bring more things to show so it could last. And as final stage, they asked the guest to cook her favorite dish, even it just some takoyaki. She looked so happy and so they prepared some simple equipment to make the dish, and no more quiz to eat in this episode since they lack of time.
“So this’s it! Ready to eat~” The guest smiled happily while showing them her hand-made cook.
“Its taste like taiko-yaki (taiko=traditional instrument drum-like, yaki=grill. Taikoyaki=grilled taiko (?)) though!” Yoko sticked out his tongue and made a dorky-high pitched laugh. The whole studio burst into laughter again, but the guest no. So she ran after Yoko and tried to catch him. Yoko, being a nice sportsman himself, ran quickly so that she couldn’t catch him.
“You can’t!”
Yoko ran while laughing, but suddenly his head felt heavy. ‘What’s this?’ he tried to hold his consciousness but he couldn’t. And so everything turned out white...
he collapsed.
“YOKOCCHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
July 28th, 2011, Tokyo Hospital
“Where’s me?”
“Hospital.” Hina smiled warm to Yoko in front of him. His hand never left the eldest’s, hoping all night long that Yoko would wake up quickly. Yoko gulped seeing his band mates lying all over the floor and couch, waited for him to awake. Somehow, he felt a nice feeling appeared in his heart, and a lot amount of thankful feeling too to have such a nice group like this. Yoko replied Hina’s smile, whispering ‘Arigato’ and tried to stand up but Hina prevent it. He placed Yoko back to the bad.
“Doctor said you need a bit rest, Yoko,”Hina opened the window to give Yoko some fresh sunlight to enlighten him and continued his speech, “...all of us’re really worried you know, that you suddenly collapsed like this in filming. Baka”
“Don’t blame me, I didn’t know gorilla can worry!” Yoko shouted, but this time Hina tried his best not to slap Yoko in this condition.
“You may speak as you please but please try to rest nicely, okay. I’ll call the doctor to-“
“...so what’s the doctor diagnosis about me? What happened actually? About me?” Yoko’s face suddenly turned serious, hand shaking. He bet his pessimistic sides showed right now. “...is it bad?”
Hina laughed, and answered directly, “...don’t worry, okay? Just a mere stress accumulative, so that’s why he told you to take a rest”
“Glad it’s not as bad as I think...” Yoko sighed for now, before he knew that it wasn’t that simple.
August 12nd, 2011, dancing room
“You! Yea, YOU! The one in behind! No, no, not the tallest! The one behind him! Yeah! It’s you! Geez, why you’re so late to follow this dance movement? See? 1, 2, 3, turn, 5, 6, 7, turn. Not like that! Turn! Turn your hips around! Like this!!!”
The instructor scolded Yoko again. It has been 2 weeks since he left hospital, diagnosed as lack of rest and too much stress. Yoko thought, maybe it was because his new ‘Angry Bird’ game which was so fun to be played, maybe. He spaced out. And the instructor shouted on him, asked him to concentrate.
“Come on Yokoyama-kun! Everyone’ve memorized the whole dance part already but you haven’t even make it a quarter! M-ste performance is tomorrow so please memorize it already!” the instructor grabbed Yoko’s hand and forced him to dance. Yoko moved his hand and legs following the music beat, but he suddenly stop.
“How is it again? The first movement?” he asked dumbly
“Murakami-kun! You take over today dance lesson. I’ll go back home now!” the instructor replied angrily and made his way towards the exit doors in no time. Maru, Subaru, Yasu, Ohkura and Ryo turned their head to Yoko. “So, why did you keep messing up?”
“NO I didn’t!
“You DO!” Ryo shouted, “...I’m tired already. I should go to NEWS dorm after this, Yokoyama-kun. So can’t you please do it already? We’ve trained for around 5 hours without res-“
“Ryo stop it!” Maru went to Ryo, “...we should help him and not to scold him again like this, okay. You can go to NEWS dorm now and leave Yoko to us. Please don’t break Kanjani8 just because of this...”
“Okay I’ll go,” Ryo took his bag and went over to the dorm. Ohkura followed him.
“Where do you go, Tacchon?” Yasuda asked him
“I’ve filming since 30 minutes ago. Come to think of it, isn’t you all have your own filming for movie or radio or stage play too?”
“We won’t leave Yoko behind...” Yasu replied, eyes to Yoko. “We’ll stay,”
“Ah, it’s up to you” Ohkura replied, hurrily go to his drama location, left the remaining five in their dancing room.
“So, Yoko, please try to memorize it again... We’ll dance it slowly once more time for you,”
Feeling sad for being a burden, Yoko nod and danced.
August 19th, 2011. TV Asahi Studio
“KANJANI no SHIWAKE EITO!!!”
Another filming when Kanjani8’s should guess one’s name or getting slapped. This filming’s so irritating actually for them, but since the viewer take this show as funny show, no help they should do this. First is Nishikido Ryo, but he failed and getting slapped. Then, Subaru, failed and getting slapped again. And for their last chance, Yoko went to try his luck.
When he faced the guest, the guest smile to him and pat his head. “Glad you’re here, you must know my name already right, since we went to the same location shoot thrice!”
The rest of eito members clapped their hand, finally they were able to guess right this time.
But the one they relied upon just looked to his band-member with weak smile, and bowed right in front of the guest, apologized, “I’m sorry but I didn’t even remember if we ever met before! I’m sorry! But if I may try, are you Masuyoshi Kyoko? Kyoko-chan?”
No wonder he slapped.
September 2nd, 2011. Dressing room
Yoko played his new Wii in the couch, waiting for rehearsal. He’s so into it and didn’t even realized that his band mate came to the room and sat around him. Maru poked his back and took his Wii, didn’t care that Yoko whined about his own new record in the last stage of MonHun, he just had more important thing in his head.
“What do you-my record!!” Yoko screamt, no one commented
“So, Yoko, we need to talk.” Maru started off the conversation
“What?”
“Did you notice that you change a lot lately?” Subaru told him what’s being in his mind
“No. Why??”
“You became forgetful,” Ohkura spoke his opinion
“I am already!”
“...kept messing up your words...” Ryo felt he should at least said it
“Oh guys how long’ve you known me??”
“...slow to memorizing our dance step...” and this’s Yasu
“It’s my weakness I told you!”
“...and-“
“STOP ALREADYYYY...!!! I’m tired! So what do you want to tell me about??”
They looked at each other. Maru who usually cheerfull and played around, now quiet. Yoko find this atmosphere as a bit creepy... so he shutted his mouth.
Maru grabbed Yoko’s hand and his brownish eyes gazed to the eldest. “Hina won’t say anything to us. But he told me that he want to see you alone after rehearsal... So, go and meet him after this, okay?”
Didn’t know what to do, Yoko gave an okay sign and left them.
July 27th, 2011, Hospital
“Excuse me.” The doctor knocked the door, asking permission to got in. Ryo who stood up the closest to the door, opened it and politely let the doctor to go to Yoko who totally fell unconcious. Everyone stared to the doctor with curious look.
“So everyone,” the doctor told his nurse to get out, “...I need someone of you to talk with me. Is there any of you who willingly take the responbility of him? The patient?”
“He’s our bandmate, all of us DO, doctor” Subaru declared from the couch
“Then one with the toughest mind please”
“Me,” Hina said, he came closer to the doctor, eyes showed his strong heart. “Tell me what happened to Yoko”
“Alzheimer?” Hina asked for the third time
“Yes.”
“So tell me what’s this Alzheimer thing”
“I also find it hard to tell you what Alzheimer is... but easily Alzheimer’s the most common form of dementia. Unfortunately Alzheimer attack one’s brain and is incurable, since it’s not caused by viruses or bacteria. I realized this since I remembered that he once came to me years ago, maybe in 2004, to this hospital just to ask me to decrease his forgetfulness.The whole hospital may find it funny, but he, and me-as his doctor-no. I thought it’s strange since he still in his twenties back then, but I just asked him to eat more vegetables and fruit. But that he came again after 6 years, I thought I should do something.
So,” the doctor suddenly stopped, he gave Hina some look-like x-Ray paper, “I decided to immediately took brain scans of him, both MRI and DRI. You can see this...”
“His brain... dissolve?” Hina asked, hand shaking with his paper. It’s so scary to see your own group member’s brain scan, just to found out that their brain not as what it’s before
“...maybe. The earliest observable symptoms are often mistakenly thought to be ‘age-related’ concern or accumulated stress. As the disease increase, symptoms like confusion, irritability, agression, mood-swings, languange breakdown’ll usually appear followed by memory loss. Certain movement coordination’ll be harder too.”
The doctor stopped again to catch some breathe, and Hina gulped. Isn’t this too much for Yoko?
“...do you love him?” the doctor asked out of the blue
“What? Me? No. It just... we’re... bandmate” Hina denied quickly, the doctor laughed a bit
“Don’t give me such a serious expression. I know it’ll be hard. In the earlier stage, his earlier memory usually less afected, just that he will be hard to accept new information...” the doctor’s expression changed, “...but that he now enters this stage, his memory loss’ll difinitly decrease.
There’re four stage of Alzheimer, Pre-dementia, Early, Moderate, and Advanced.He’s now in Moderate stage if my diagnosis true. Th-“
“What’ll happen to him? To YOKO?”
“Well, in this stage, it’ll be his physical movement’ll be less coordinated, behavioural changes like wandering, irritability, labile affect which lead to sudden crying, outburst or agression and ressistance to caregiving. And the worst condition,
his memory loss’ll result him to forgetting you”
“How’s it, Hina?” Subaru ran imediately towards Hina who entered the room. Everyone looked worried too, eventhough Maru’s nowhere to be found. Hina laughed hard and guide them to sit. “The doctor said that it just because he’s aged! LOL and he also said it worsen since he often feel stress. Well, guess it won’t be helped, right? He’s our Yoko after all!”
All their expression suddenly changed into relief...”PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!”
“Maru! Don’t shock us like that!” Ohkura shouted, he looked irritated by Maru’s sudden screams
“I’m sorry~ I came in but no one noticed~ But glad naa that Yoko’s condition’is nice~”
“Well you got the point”
“So, maybe we all just had to sleep here until he awake? The doctor said that tomorrow we may bring him back, and it’s 02.13 AM already” Hina decided, “...I’ll sleep near Yoko so that I can do something once he’s awake,”
“No sex here okay?” Subaru teased
“I’m not a lovesick couple like you and Yasu!” Hina replied, “...so now, sleep!”
“I’m sorry!”
September 2nd, 2011. Dressing room
After rehearsal. Yoko walked fast to Hina who now packing his stuff. “What’s it? The thing you want to tell me?”
“It is...”
To be Continued