Not as Clueless as Believed *Final Chapter*
Title: Not as Clueless as Believed (Sequel to “He Needs to Know” and “Why their Dinner Burned”)
Chapters: 11
Pairings: Inoobu, Takayama, Arijima, Hikato, and Chiitaro
Rating: Pg-13 for the moment... I may fluctuate
Summary: Even though BEST tried their hardest to keep 7 from finding out Yabu’s secret, they didn’t do a very good job. Either by unconsciously checking or downright, full on looking. BEST kept 7 wondering about their new behaviours and it’s all because of Yabu?
For real this time.
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Chapter 11: Awoken Truth
Hikaru, Takaki, and Yuto stayed in their hugging position for a long time. None of them were going to get any sleep, but they weren’t going to talk about the situation at hand either. The silence was both comfortable and deafening at the same time. After another restless night for the four members of Hey! Say! JUMP, they begrudgingly got into their clean clothes and filed out of the room. They were ready to encounter what ever situation came their way, hopefully. They prayed for the best, but they knew that would be way too easy.
Daiki did not say a word after that phone call last night. The three of them tried to pry it out of him but he wouldn’t budge. His silence killed them and they now knew that he knew something that he was not sharing. But, because he wasn’t saying anything, they couldn’t be certain.
Takaki was sure that he would have blown up at the doctor as well for telling Inoo the condition of his lover, not that Takaki knew the condition but he had a pretty close guess.
Hikaru was unsure of everything at the moment. He was on the verge of shattering once again, not having fully recovered from the day before, but he also knew that this time, he could not. He knew that he needed to do something other than break and have someone else pick up his pieces. He was no Humpty Dumpty. Hikaru sensed that Daiki was ready to break, having known the boy for such a long time, Hikaru was able to at least tell when something was not right with the youngest BEST member. He would not show it, but he was worried for Dai-chan.
Yuto, being the youngest there, wanted to show the older boys that he too could stand the pressure and not break under the stress that they were now facing. He wanted his friends and leaders to be as good as new but he knew that just wishing for it to happen doesn’t mean that it will. Yuto was worried for Daiki as well. Last night was the first time that Yuto had ever seen Daiki so furious. Yuto was a little bit frightened of him, but he made a mental note to himself to never piss off Daiki. Yuto did not want to see those eyes ever again.
The four of them were the first visitors at the hospital that morning and they again would stay there until they were kicked out at the end of visiting hours. The nurses there watched as the four boys filled the hall with their horizontal line while walking, it was like something from a movie.
“Ohayou boys.” the doctor said casually.
“Ohayou Gozaimasu.” Hikaru, Takaki and Yuto said together politely. Daiki, on the other hand, just shot death glares at the doctor. This was not good. Daiki was not happy and it was clearly shown on his face.
“Arioka-kun, Ohayou,” the doctor offered politely.
“Ohayou,” Daiki said shortly. He was not in the mood to talk to that man. Unless that man had good news for them, it was not going to be a good day.
“Please excuse him sir,” Yuto tried, “It’s been a long night.” The doctor just nodded and walked away to tend to his duties.
It was silent for another hour, they had no noise and no interruptions, and they knew they could not do anything until one of their friends woke up so they had to wait until that happened. Another hour ticked by signalled by the beeping on Yuto’s watch and then out of nowhere the familiar “Your Seed” ringtone started playing in the deserted hallway. It was Hikaru.
“Shut. That. Damn. Thing. Off. Will you. We’re in a hospital!” Daiki said shortly and angrily.
“Sorry, it’s Yama-chan.” Hikaru said standing up, walking around the corner and answering his phone. “Moshi-moshi, Yama-chan?”
“Hikaru-kun, how is everything? We tried the other’s cells but we got nothing, what is going on there? Don’t leave us in the dark anymore, and if you are we are prepared to down there.”
“Last night Inoo woke up,” Hikaru said softly.
“Yes we know that already, we are well informed of that fact, how about Yabu-kun?”
“No, he isn’t awake yet and neither is Inoo-kun.”
“You just said that he was awake.” Ryutaro’s voice could be heard through the phone, obviously he was on speaker.
“He was awake. Last night, he went into shock and well is now down for the count.” Hikaru said trying to dumb it down. He failed.
“What the hell?” Keito’s voice could now be heard, they were definitely all there.
“I’m sorry but it’s true, Inoo should be up today though. He is perfectly fine, he’s just unconscious.”
“That does not make us feel better Hikaru,” Yamada said through the phone.
“I better hang up now, we’re back in the hospital, and I’m getting death glares from Dai-chan.”
“Dai-chan doesn’t give death glares,” Chinen’s voice could now be heard.
“He does now.” Hikaru said softly. “I will message you four if something new happens. Until then stay casual and try to act normal.”
“Fine, we will ja ne.” Keito said casually.
“Ja ne.” Hikaru closed his phone, but opened it once more and snapped a picture of Daiki’s death glare. He quickly forwarded it to the four of them and then turned his cell phone to silent. They now had proof; Dai-chan does give death glares.
Takaki looked up from the magazine, about himself, that he was reading; he had picked it up from the shelf that they had failed to notice yesterday or the day before that. Yuto looked up from Yamada’s DS and Daiki continued to stare at Hikaru like he was the devil. Hikaru said nothing as he turned the corner, but sat down beside Takaki and folded his arms. Silence overcame the four members once again.
That day, nothing happened. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. This was not good.
They were just about to get up and leave, since visiting hours where over, when something happened. It wasn’t news that they wanted, but the entire hospital was once again filled with commotion, nearby, a large accident occurred and it was up to the doctors and nurses to tend to the patients. There were ambulances everywhere and there were no doctor’s available to help their friend’s even if they did wake up. Daiki looked nervous; he had enough of hospitals. Takaki looked curious; he wanted to see everybody’s injuries. Yuto and Hikaru were weary; they constantly stared at their friend’s door. It was no longer closed. There were nurses going in and out since they transferred two more people into that room, two, severely wounded, accident patients. From where Yuto and Hikaru were sitting, they could clearly see the bed of Yabu; they could see the unmoving legs covered with a blanket but nothing else. Sitting outside the room was one thing, but actually seeing their friend like that was killer. Being outside the closed room they could have a least some belief that things are going fine and that their friends could wake up any second, but seeing that the door was in fact open and they could clearly see bodies was a wake up call of sorts.
“I’m sorry boys, but you are going to have to leave for the night,” the head nurse said, “Visiting hours are over, he (referring to the assigned doctor) will call you the moment one of them wakes up, but until then, you must leave, as you can see we have our hands full, but your friends are still on the patient list so they will be watched.”
“Arigatou gozaimasu,” they said politely and got up to leave.
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It was another three hours into the evening until the hospital finally calmed down, patients were being fixed up and discharged. People were greeting their family members and taken home. Things were getting all better, except for one patient. He stayed asleep. In the same room, in another bed laid another patient this one was awake and was watching the loud people in the hallway, he was confused as to why his boyfriend was in the bed beside him and why there were people across from him that weren’t his friends. He noticed that one of the patients was awake so he spoke to them, in a very hoarse voice, “Where is everybody? And who are you?”
“There was a big accident on the highway this afternoon, were you part of it? No you couldn’t be you had people in the waiting room for you, they seemed very much traumatized. I was part of the accident, it was so cool, and I literally saw a car flip in the air!” the boy said excitedly. He obviously didn’t realize that he had casts on his left arm, and right leg, plus a bandage around his head and several different IV tubes attached to him. Realization dawned on his face as he took a good look, out of the one eye that wasn’t covered by the bandage, “I know you; you’re part of that group um, Hey! Say! JUMP!”
“Yes, I am, except I don’t know why I’m here,” he said.
“I was going to go to your concert a few days ago but it got cancelled, I was so sad, I was going to get out of a test at school but then it was cancelled so I had to take it,” The boy didn’t seem to hear him. “My best friend is in love with you guys so I was going to go with her to see you, she was so distraught.”
“Oh yeah? Well I’m sorry. Who is her favourite? Of the group I mean.”
“I don’t know, I think she said she just loved all of them, he’s part of the group too right?” the boy said pointing to the other boy unconscious on the bed. The boy obviously had a hard time staying on one topic, but then again it could be a side effect of the accident.
“Yes, he is, I don’t know why he is here either or why I’m strapped to an IV or why I feel like I haven’t eaten in a million years.”
“I don’t know. I’m sorry I’ve only been here for about three hours. Your friends outside, were they part of Hey! Say! JUMP as well?”
“I don’t know, maybe. But if the concert was cancelled like you said then they would have gone home.”
The boy nodded and grabbed his cell phone from the bedside table and typed away on it. “Sorry, I was asking my friend why the concert was cancelled. She can tell me.” They waited for a few minutes until they heard the beep of the cell phone go off. He flipped it open and read out loud, “The concert was cancelled because Yabu Kota-san came down with a severe flu and needed to be hospitalized.”
“A severe flu? I caught the flu?”
“Apparently.” The boy said. “I wonder why the doctor’s haven’t checked on you. I specifically heard them tell your friends that they would call them the moment one of you woke up.”
“How many were there and what did they look like? Can you remember?”
“Sure, there were four boys; I don’t know you guys by your names since I’m still new to your um, fandom. But three of them were sort of tall and one was really short probably about my height, anyways, the three boys were taller than the shorter one by about a head or so. Anyways, oh I remember one of them was in that drama, with that yakusa teacher woman oh and two of them, one of the tall ones and the short one were in, um…that drama with those teachers who suck, um…what was it called, something Teacher. But I didn’t recognize the other one, I’m sorry. Does that help?”
“Yes very much. Can I see your phone? Since mine is obviously not here.”
“Sure,” the boy said smiling and tossed it across the room. Yabu picked up the phone from where it landed-on the end of his bed-and typed Daiki’s cell number. The short one in that teacher drama had to be Daiki.
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“Hey guys, I got a strange number calling me. Should I answer it?” Daiki said to the others, while looking at his phone.
“Just do it, you never know, it could be the hospital.” Hikaru said casually. “They had that accident remember so maybe they used their personal cell phone to call you.”
Daiki nodded and accepted the call, “moshi-moshi.” Daiki paused for a moment to let the other talk. His eyes widened at the sound and it caused the others to look at him, “Yes we’re still in town; we’re in a hotel nearby. Are you alright? Why didn’t the hospital call us? They were supposed to call the moment~” Daiki paused again. “Yes we were there when the accident happened,” another pause. “Yes, Hikaru, Yuto, and Takaki are here with me, whose phone, are you using?” pause, “a patient’s got it. Listen we will be there first thing in the morning, don’t try to wake Inoo-chan alright,” at the sound of Inoo’s name the three of them brightened up literally. The heavens had opened up for them once again, Yabu-kun was awake.
Silence over took the hotel room as Daiki chatted on the phone with Yabu. They were happy. Their storm was almost over.
“We will explain everything when we get there. Read the note that was left on the side of your bed, it’s from Shoon, he visited you yesterday, just try to sleep for now so the hospital doesn’t notice anything,” another pause, “Yes I know you probably feel like you have been sleeping forever, but that is because you have, almost three whole days to be exact. But try alright, we will be there first thing,” pause, “Okay ja ne.” Daiki said and snapped his phone shut. The wide grin on his face said that the worst was over and the grins on the other’s faces meant that they too will be fine once they see Yabu.
“He’s awake?” Takaki asked. He just needed to hear someone say it once more.
“Yes, the worst is over, he’s awake!” Daiki said.
“What about Inoo-chan?” Yuto asked. That question dampened the mood a little bit.
“Inoo-chan has yet to wake, but he’s just in shock he’ll be fine. Trust me.” Hikaru said cheering up the taller yet younger boy.
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Yabu ended the call with a smile. He erased Daiki’s number from the boy’s phone memory, closed and tossed it back to the boy. The boy seemed disappointed that Yabu deleted the number from the memory but still he was happy, he now knew the idol’s name.
‘Yabu Kota, that’s his name,’ the boy thought, ‘when I get out I’ll have to tell everybody.’
Yabu did as Daiki told him to and lay back down, he attempted to sleep but he knew that that wasn’t going to happen anytime soon. When a doctor came in, about an hour later, to check on the four people in the room he took a double take at Yabu’s heart monitor, it had changed. Before it was slower as if he was in a deep sleep, but how it had quicken as if he was awake, but slowed down once more as if he fell asleep.
The doctor hastened out of the room to get the doctor in charge of this room. Together they came back not three minutes later and triple checked the boy’s charts. Once they left the room, the doctor in charge turned on the younger one “Get a team in there, we need to move the two accident patients out of here now! Why wasn’t I told they were put in there! Kitagawa-san demanded a private room for the two boys!”
On the older doctor’s orders, the small boy and his mother-who had yet to wake up-were moved to another room that already held three patients. Celebrities always get their own room; it’s just how it works. The older doctor was ready to scold someone but then he heard the beeping from inside the room once more. That was no “sleeping” beep; nope Yabu-kun had woken up.
“Yabu-san?” the doctor said softly, Yabu did his best acting to make it look like he had just woken up.
“Where am I?” Yabu said in a hoarse voice, he had yet to get it back.
“You’re at the hospital; you had a nasty infection in your arm. It caused you to faint and become unconscious. You’re friends have been worried sick about you, they are here from dawn until dusk sitting outside the room waiting, for one of you to wake.”
“Why’s Inoo-chan here?” his voice was starting to come back.
“Inoo-kun, made himself weak over worrying about you, he didn’t eat and he didn’t sleep until exhaustion took him over. He was unconscious for all of yesterday, he woke up though but unfortunately because of a side-effect he slipped back into his previous unconscious state. He is perfectly fine though, just sleeping. He should wake up today.”
“Sensei, how long was I asleep for? And what exactly happened?” Yabu’s voice was back, it was quiet though, quieter than normal.
The doctor took a deep breath, “You have been asleep for almost three days, your wrist got infected through one of the cuts, but I’m sure you noticed that.”
“Yes, I knew it was infected, and no, I didn’t tell anyone,” Yabu responded.
“This infection, because of where it was on your body caused you to lose your appetite as well as your energy, causing you to slip into a coma. You were in the hotel lobby when you were last awake, but you are now here. By the orders of your director, he allowed your friends to stay in town until you’ve recovered. Tomorrow evening you and your friends will return home, well they will go home, you will be transferred to the hospital near your house. At the moment your agency is holding the story that you caught a severe flu and needed to be hospitalized, we too are sticking with that story. Your parents were asked to stay at their house until you returned to town, as to not make the media go haywire and find out the real reason.”
“Alright, and Inoo-chan, how is he, he’s so pale, that does not look fine, and don’t lie to me.”
“Inoo-kun should be awake today, but like I told him about you, if he’s not then I don’t know if he will.”
“WHAT!?” Yabu screamed, the entire room echoed. This was not a usual shocked scream either, this was a high-pitched girly scream, one a girl would scream if they were about to be murdered. It was so high that the doctor, who was used to this sort of thing, had to plug his ears.
After a minute of trying to get his hearing back, the doctor finally stated, “I’m sure your friends can clarify everything for you in the morning, although only Arioka-kun knows the actual truth.”
“Why don’t the others?” Yabu said calmly
“They weren’t strong enough emotionally to be able to handle it.”
“Really? One would not expect Dai-chan to be the strong one.”
“Yes well he was. He has yet to break, or rather shatter like the others have.” The doctor said casually, “Arioka-kun was able to handle the stress of having Inoo-kun, Yaotome-kun and Nakajima-kun shatter in front of him, completely break down until Takaki-kun was able to help.”
“Why wasn’t Takaki there?”
“He took the rest of your group home and then flew back with clothes and orders for the others,” the doctor explained, “now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go make a phone call. Try to get some sleep I expect your friends will be here at first light as well they will most likely fill you in on everything so you will need your energy. I will call for some food to be brought to you.”
“Arigatou gozaimasu” Yabu said to the doctor and he stepped out. “Only Dai-chan, that is definitely weird, he’ll break soon.”
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Just as promised, at the first light of the day, Hikaru, Yuto, Daiki and Takaki were already at the doors of the hospital waiting for them to be allowed in and visit. The doctor never called them the night before, and they were curious as to why, but they were going to play it off as if they didn’t know. When they were let in, they were greeted happily by the doctor, “ohayou gozaimasu boys, I have terrific news.”
“Ohayou gozaimasu” they said together happiness was evident on their faces.
“Late last night and early this morning Yabu-kun woke up from his coma, isn’t that terrific news!”
“Yes that is good,” Daiki said calmly.
“May we see him?” Yuto asked just as calmly, but inside he was jumping for joy, and doing back flips like Chinen felt like the perfect thing to do right now.
“Of course, he’s awake and eating some breakfast in his room. I don’t think you need me to take you there,” the doctor said and made way for the four of them to dash off and see their friend and unofficial leader. Daiki was the last one to pass the doctor but he stopped Daiki by holding on. “Arioka-kun, let’s have a chat.”
“Alright,” Daiki said. He knew this was coming. They walked over to the doctor’s office, passing Yabu and Inoo’s room on the way, the door was closed so they wouldn’t notice that Daiki wasn’t there.
“How are you feeling?” the doctor asked, he was trying to break into it slowly.
“Alright I guess. I’m still worried for Inoo-kun though, I’m guessing it is the same for him as well?”
“Yes, I’m sorry, but it wasn’t just a flu he had caught, and it wasn’t just shock that affected him last night. Your friend did not just hold Yabu-kun’s hand, the bacteria was in his system, his blood stream. This is not good.”
“I know doctor, I saw how pale Inoo-kun was yesterday, and that bruise on his face shouldn’t have shown up that fast. Listen, there is something you’re not telling me, and I’m not telling the others.”
“We conquered a barrier today Arioka-kun, we just have one more hurdle to jump before you all can go home.”
“Yes I know that, Inoo-chan has to wake up.” Daiki said calmly.
“No, not just wake up, they need to stay awake. It’s not just “waking up” anymore Arioka-kun, staying awake is our hurdle now. Inoo-kun shouldn’t have gone into that much shock with that news which meant that there was something messing with his nervous system.”
“Alright is Yabu-kun being transferred today?”
“We will transfer both of them when we are certain that there will be no casualties.”
“Casualties, as in, there is still the possibility?”
“Yes, there is always the possibility Arioka-kun, never forget that,” the doctor said, this guy was so depressing. “Go back to your friends but be careful, this is a lot of information that you have to hold inside, don’t let anything slip.”
“I’ll be fine doctor, I can handle it,” Daiki said calmly while slipping out of his seat.
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Yabu sat in his bed waiting, dawn quickly came and flew by, he was given a simple breakfast that he was to eat slowly. He was in peace, listening to the simple beeping of the heart monitor of both his and Inoo-chan’s, until a soft knock at the door caught his attention. It slid open and revealed three of the four people that he wanted to see most.
“Ohayou,” Yabu said simply, shooting them his I’m-alright grin.
“Yabucchi!” Hikaru exclaimed loudly and rushed over to give his best friend the strongest hug he could muster. “We were so worried!”
“I know and I’m sorry,” Yabu said softly.
“Yabumama,” Yuto said next, “we forgive you, just come back soon alright.”
“Yes, I shall, the doctor said I should be transferring hospitals today so you guys can go back to life,” Yabu said.
“Kota~” Takaki started, “We won’t go back to normal until you and Inoo-chan are out of the hospital and back at practice with us.”
Yabu could only smile at this. He looked around the three skinny boys expecting to see a fourth short boy behind them, but there was nothing. “Where’s Dai-chan?”
The three of them looked around. “He was just behind us,” Takaki said.
“Maybe he’s apologizing to the doctor, he practically blew the doctor’s head off the other night” Hikaru suggested.
“I’ve never seen such a scary Dai-chan” Yuto added.
“Here I have proof!” Hikaru said and turned on his phone. He showed Yabu the death glaring Daiki picture.
“Wow. That is scary.” Yabu said and the other’s noticed. Silence engulfed them once more. Until the door slowly slid open to reveal the person they were just talking about.
“Sorry, I was talking to the doctor,” Daiki said calmly. He was unable to look at Yabu-kun for some reason. When Yabu was unconscious Daiki was fine with looking at him, but now that he’s awake it is a different story; it was his turn. It was time.
“Daiki?” Yabu asked, he watched Daiki’s expression turn to one of confusion to happiness to sorrow to anger to contentment, this all happened within a couple of seconds so that the others didn’t notice. It was almost as if Daiki was going through a catalogue of facial expressions to display on his face. “Dai-chan?” Yabu tried again.
“Welcome back,” Daiki managed.
“Dai-chan, what’s going on?” Yuto turned. “Are you alright? You didn’t get infected too did you?”
“No, I’m fine, Yu-kun,” Daiki said calmly.
“Alright, if you say so,” Yuto turned back to Yabu, Yuto and the others may have been convinced but Yabu no way. He couldn’t be convinced that easily.
“The doctor told me what happened, one of my cuts got infected and I fainted because of loss of energy, and he told me that Inoo also fainted because of exhaustion but I don’t believe him. What happened?”
“Well the part about you is correct, you lost your appetite and without energy you couldn’t function, and considering you push yourself way to hard, it was bound to happen, infection or not, the infection just made it worse.” Takaki said calmly.
“And Inoo-chan?”
“We were allowed to spend the first night in this room on those three beds,” Yuto explained, “we were given strict orders to not touch you no matter what, since you had this bacterium on you that was going to remove the infection from your arm, the doctor said it was harmless as long as it wasn’t transferred to another person, it could only transfer through physical contact such as hand holding and whatnot.”
“Inoo and I took it the hardest, I nearly collapsed on that bed, I was unable to look at you,” Hikaru took his turn, “I was very much taken by the fact that I may never see you again, I really thought you were gone, and apparently Inoo did as well because he completely stopped everything. He was a blob, he was mush, and he couldn’t do anything other than stare at the floor. It was pathetic, but I shouldn’t say much since I was pretty much the same way.”
“Inoo hadn’t eaten in a good 14 hours before it happened. I had told Takaki to call us once they got home so we could be certain that they were safe and since they had to drive it took quite a long time, it was about 3:00 in the morning when he called the hospital, I was gone maybe 45mins and Hikaru and Yuto were both asleep, during that time Inoo must have woken up or something and touched you because he had the bacterium in his system causing him to have the flu.” Daiki said using the half truth. Yabu caught the lie and shot him a look, uncaught by the others.
“I came the next morning and brought them clothes so they could change and then Shoon saw us that same day, but in the afternoon.” Takaki said simply.
“He claimed that it was all his fault and but then he had to leave, he left you a note, did you read it? I really want to know what was in it,” Hikaru added.
Yabu picked it up from the bedside table and handed it over and Hikaru read it out loud:
Yabucchi
Why did you start again? You promised me! I don’t understand, I thought debuting would be good for you, maybe it wasn’t. I don’t want to take you away from your work but maybe you should take a break for awhile. This obviously wasn’t a good thing for you; it’s been so long, almost four years since you last did that. I should have done something then but what could I do, I thought you had promised me with all your heart. I don’t know what to think anymore.
When you read this, you better make each one of your group members a promise stating you’ll never do it again, I can’t believe you tried to get out of it that way. That is one of the most stupid things you could ever do. Why! I don’t understand. A few weeks ago, I tried to help you, I knew something bad was going to happen but then I was called away and I was no longer able to keep an eye on you, I had to leave it in Inoo-chan’s hands. You’re one of my best friends I can’t stand to see you do this to yourself anymore. When I come back I will visit you, until then rest a lot, use your friend’s strength and rely more on people. We are here for you. You just have to believe in us, we can handle what you won’t say.
I found out that you are now with Inoo-chan, I was wondering when that was going to happen, congratulations, I’m sure he’s probably a wreck right now, he cares about you way too much. He was always jealous of Ya-Ya-Yah’s relationship with you but since he couldn’t do anything about it, he didn’t. It was after you had promised me that he confronted me, I told him several times that we were just friends and nothing else but it took time for him to realize that. You don’t know how long he has been in love with you and you in love with him in return. You two love each other, just admit it and stick together.
Get Better Soon Baka
Shoon.
Hikaru stopped reading and looked up at the others. He felt like he just told everyone a huge secret. Although he was allowed to read it, he still felt wrong reading it. “You haven’t admitted you’re in love with Inoo-chan yet?” Takaki asked surprised by this information.
“I didn’t even know that we were together.”
“Of course you’re together!” Yuto exclaimed, “listen to yourself, everyone knows, everyone agrees, admit it already, to his face, you can admit it when he’s unconscious but not when he is, is just crazy talk!”
“Yuto’s right Yabu, you need to admit it.” Daiki said calmly.
“You have your own things to admit too don’t you Dai-chan,” Yabu said harshly turning it back on Daiki.
“What?” Daiki asked, ‘shit he found out’.
“Guys, can I speak to Dai-chan alone for a few moments, please” Yabu asked softly the others nodded and left the room wordlessly. “You have something your hiding, I can read it in your face, tell me. Share with the class.”
“I can’t,” Daiki said softly, “I promised the doctor.”
“You can Dai-chan,” Yabu encouraged him like a true leader. He was angry sure but he still needed to pry the truth out of Daiki, it was the only way Daiki will get closure. “Dai-chan, it’s alright, I won’t react like Inoo-chan did.”
“I know, but I just can’t. I promised him.”
“Dai-chan~” Yabu soothed. Even though he didn’t show it, Daiki was on the verge of him finally breaking down. He was bottling up too many things inside of him and if it kept on like this, he was going to run out of bottles. “It’s alright, you can tell me. Tell Yabumama the truth.”
“Fine,” Daiki gave in, he didn’t want to fight it anymore. Even though he had promised the doctor a number of times, he just couldn’t hold it in. “The truth is not pretty, and it may shock you, but if you think you can handle it, I will tell you.”
On to Part 2.
Chapters: 11
Pairings: Inoobu, Takayama, Arijima, Hikato, and Chiitaro
Rating: Pg-13 for the moment... I may fluctuate
Summary: Even though BEST tried their hardest to keep 7 from finding out Yabu’s secret, they didn’t do a very good job. Either by unconsciously checking or downright, full on looking. BEST kept 7 wondering about their new behaviours and it’s all because of Yabu?
For real this time.
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Chapter 11: Awoken Truth
Hikaru, Takaki, and Yuto stayed in their hugging position for a long time. None of them were going to get any sleep, but they weren’t going to talk about the situation at hand either. The silence was both comfortable and deafening at the same time. After another restless night for the four members of Hey! Say! JUMP, they begrudgingly got into their clean clothes and filed out of the room. They were ready to encounter what ever situation came their way, hopefully. They prayed for the best, but they knew that would be way too easy.
Daiki did not say a word after that phone call last night. The three of them tried to pry it out of him but he wouldn’t budge. His silence killed them and they now knew that he knew something that he was not sharing. But, because he wasn’t saying anything, they couldn’t be certain.
Takaki was sure that he would have blown up at the doctor as well for telling Inoo the condition of his lover, not that Takaki knew the condition but he had a pretty close guess.
Hikaru was unsure of everything at the moment. He was on the verge of shattering once again, not having fully recovered from the day before, but he also knew that this time, he could not. He knew that he needed to do something other than break and have someone else pick up his pieces. He was no Humpty Dumpty. Hikaru sensed that Daiki was ready to break, having known the boy for such a long time, Hikaru was able to at least tell when something was not right with the youngest BEST member. He would not show it, but he was worried for Dai-chan.
Yuto, being the youngest there, wanted to show the older boys that he too could stand the pressure and not break under the stress that they were now facing. He wanted his friends and leaders to be as good as new but he knew that just wishing for it to happen doesn’t mean that it will. Yuto was worried for Daiki as well. Last night was the first time that Yuto had ever seen Daiki so furious. Yuto was a little bit frightened of him, but he made a mental note to himself to never piss off Daiki. Yuto did not want to see those eyes ever again.
The four of them were the first visitors at the hospital that morning and they again would stay there until they were kicked out at the end of visiting hours. The nurses there watched as the four boys filled the hall with their horizontal line while walking, it was like something from a movie.
“Ohayou boys.” the doctor said casually.
“Ohayou Gozaimasu.” Hikaru, Takaki and Yuto said together politely. Daiki, on the other hand, just shot death glares at the doctor. This was not good. Daiki was not happy and it was clearly shown on his face.
“Arioka-kun, Ohayou,” the doctor offered politely.
“Ohayou,” Daiki said shortly. He was not in the mood to talk to that man. Unless that man had good news for them, it was not going to be a good day.
“Please excuse him sir,” Yuto tried, “It’s been a long night.” The doctor just nodded and walked away to tend to his duties.
It was silent for another hour, they had no noise and no interruptions, and they knew they could not do anything until one of their friends woke up so they had to wait until that happened. Another hour ticked by signalled by the beeping on Yuto’s watch and then out of nowhere the familiar “Your Seed” ringtone started playing in the deserted hallway. It was Hikaru.
“Shut. That. Damn. Thing. Off. Will you. We’re in a hospital!” Daiki said shortly and angrily.
“Sorry, it’s Yama-chan.” Hikaru said standing up, walking around the corner and answering his phone. “Moshi-moshi, Yama-chan?”
“Hikaru-kun, how is everything? We tried the other’s cells but we got nothing, what is going on there? Don’t leave us in the dark anymore, and if you are we are prepared to down there.”
“Last night Inoo woke up,” Hikaru said softly.
“Yes we know that already, we are well informed of that fact, how about Yabu-kun?”
“No, he isn’t awake yet and neither is Inoo-kun.”
“You just said that he was awake.” Ryutaro’s voice could be heard through the phone, obviously he was on speaker.
“He was awake. Last night, he went into shock and well is now down for the count.” Hikaru said trying to dumb it down. He failed.
“What the hell?” Keito’s voice could now be heard, they were definitely all there.
“I’m sorry but it’s true, Inoo should be up today though. He is perfectly fine, he’s just unconscious.”
“That does not make us feel better Hikaru,” Yamada said through the phone.
“I better hang up now, we’re back in the hospital, and I’m getting death glares from Dai-chan.”
“Dai-chan doesn’t give death glares,” Chinen’s voice could now be heard.
“He does now.” Hikaru said softly. “I will message you four if something new happens. Until then stay casual and try to act normal.”
“Fine, we will ja ne.” Keito said casually.
“Ja ne.” Hikaru closed his phone, but opened it once more and snapped a picture of Daiki’s death glare. He quickly forwarded it to the four of them and then turned his cell phone to silent. They now had proof; Dai-chan does give death glares.
Takaki looked up from the magazine, about himself, that he was reading; he had picked it up from the shelf that they had failed to notice yesterday or the day before that. Yuto looked up from Yamada’s DS and Daiki continued to stare at Hikaru like he was the devil. Hikaru said nothing as he turned the corner, but sat down beside Takaki and folded his arms. Silence overcame the four members once again.
That day, nothing happened. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. This was not good.
They were just about to get up and leave, since visiting hours where over, when something happened. It wasn’t news that they wanted, but the entire hospital was once again filled with commotion, nearby, a large accident occurred and it was up to the doctors and nurses to tend to the patients. There were ambulances everywhere and there were no doctor’s available to help their friend’s even if they did wake up. Daiki looked nervous; he had enough of hospitals. Takaki looked curious; he wanted to see everybody’s injuries. Yuto and Hikaru were weary; they constantly stared at their friend’s door. It was no longer closed. There were nurses going in and out since they transferred two more people into that room, two, severely wounded, accident patients. From where Yuto and Hikaru were sitting, they could clearly see the bed of Yabu; they could see the unmoving legs covered with a blanket but nothing else. Sitting outside the room was one thing, but actually seeing their friend like that was killer. Being outside the closed room they could have a least some belief that things are going fine and that their friends could wake up any second, but seeing that the door was in fact open and they could clearly see bodies was a wake up call of sorts.
“I’m sorry boys, but you are going to have to leave for the night,” the head nurse said, “Visiting hours are over, he (referring to the assigned doctor) will call you the moment one of them wakes up, but until then, you must leave, as you can see we have our hands full, but your friends are still on the patient list so they will be watched.”
“Arigatou gozaimasu,” they said politely and got up to leave.
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It was another three hours into the evening until the hospital finally calmed down, patients were being fixed up and discharged. People were greeting their family members and taken home. Things were getting all better, except for one patient. He stayed asleep. In the same room, in another bed laid another patient this one was awake and was watching the loud people in the hallway, he was confused as to why his boyfriend was in the bed beside him and why there were people across from him that weren’t his friends. He noticed that one of the patients was awake so he spoke to them, in a very hoarse voice, “Where is everybody? And who are you?”
“There was a big accident on the highway this afternoon, were you part of it? No you couldn’t be you had people in the waiting room for you, they seemed very much traumatized. I was part of the accident, it was so cool, and I literally saw a car flip in the air!” the boy said excitedly. He obviously didn’t realize that he had casts on his left arm, and right leg, plus a bandage around his head and several different IV tubes attached to him. Realization dawned on his face as he took a good look, out of the one eye that wasn’t covered by the bandage, “I know you; you’re part of that group um, Hey! Say! JUMP!”
“Yes, I am, except I don’t know why I’m here,” he said.
“I was going to go to your concert a few days ago but it got cancelled, I was so sad, I was going to get out of a test at school but then it was cancelled so I had to take it,” The boy didn’t seem to hear him. “My best friend is in love with you guys so I was going to go with her to see you, she was so distraught.”
“Oh yeah? Well I’m sorry. Who is her favourite? Of the group I mean.”
“I don’t know, I think she said she just loved all of them, he’s part of the group too right?” the boy said pointing to the other boy unconscious on the bed. The boy obviously had a hard time staying on one topic, but then again it could be a side effect of the accident.
“Yes, he is, I don’t know why he is here either or why I’m strapped to an IV or why I feel like I haven’t eaten in a million years.”
“I don’t know. I’m sorry I’ve only been here for about three hours. Your friends outside, were they part of Hey! Say! JUMP as well?”
“I don’t know, maybe. But if the concert was cancelled like you said then they would have gone home.”
The boy nodded and grabbed his cell phone from the bedside table and typed away on it. “Sorry, I was asking my friend why the concert was cancelled. She can tell me.” They waited for a few minutes until they heard the beep of the cell phone go off. He flipped it open and read out loud, “The concert was cancelled because Yabu Kota-san came down with a severe flu and needed to be hospitalized.”
“A severe flu? I caught the flu?”
“Apparently.” The boy said. “I wonder why the doctor’s haven’t checked on you. I specifically heard them tell your friends that they would call them the moment one of you woke up.”
“How many were there and what did they look like? Can you remember?”
“Sure, there were four boys; I don’t know you guys by your names since I’m still new to your um, fandom. But three of them were sort of tall and one was really short probably about my height, anyways, the three boys were taller than the shorter one by about a head or so. Anyways, oh I remember one of them was in that drama, with that yakusa teacher woman oh and two of them, one of the tall ones and the short one were in, um…that drama with those teachers who suck, um…what was it called, something Teacher. But I didn’t recognize the other one, I’m sorry. Does that help?”
“Yes very much. Can I see your phone? Since mine is obviously not here.”
“Sure,” the boy said smiling and tossed it across the room. Yabu picked up the phone from where it landed-on the end of his bed-and typed Daiki’s cell number. The short one in that teacher drama had to be Daiki.
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“Hey guys, I got a strange number calling me. Should I answer it?” Daiki said to the others, while looking at his phone.
“Just do it, you never know, it could be the hospital.” Hikaru said casually. “They had that accident remember so maybe they used their personal cell phone to call you.”
Daiki nodded and accepted the call, “moshi-moshi.” Daiki paused for a moment to let the other talk. His eyes widened at the sound and it caused the others to look at him, “Yes we’re still in town; we’re in a hotel nearby. Are you alright? Why didn’t the hospital call us? They were supposed to call the moment~” Daiki paused again. “Yes we were there when the accident happened,” another pause. “Yes, Hikaru, Yuto, and Takaki are here with me, whose phone, are you using?” pause, “a patient’s got it. Listen we will be there first thing in the morning, don’t try to wake Inoo-chan alright,” at the sound of Inoo’s name the three of them brightened up literally. The heavens had opened up for them once again, Yabu-kun was awake.
Silence over took the hotel room as Daiki chatted on the phone with Yabu. They were happy. Their storm was almost over.
“We will explain everything when we get there. Read the note that was left on the side of your bed, it’s from Shoon, he visited you yesterday, just try to sleep for now so the hospital doesn’t notice anything,” another pause, “Yes I know you probably feel like you have been sleeping forever, but that is because you have, almost three whole days to be exact. But try alright, we will be there first thing,” pause, “Okay ja ne.” Daiki said and snapped his phone shut. The wide grin on his face said that the worst was over and the grins on the other’s faces meant that they too will be fine once they see Yabu.
“He’s awake?” Takaki asked. He just needed to hear someone say it once more.
“Yes, the worst is over, he’s awake!” Daiki said.
“What about Inoo-chan?” Yuto asked. That question dampened the mood a little bit.
“Inoo-chan has yet to wake, but he’s just in shock he’ll be fine. Trust me.” Hikaru said cheering up the taller yet younger boy.
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Yabu ended the call with a smile. He erased Daiki’s number from the boy’s phone memory, closed and tossed it back to the boy. The boy seemed disappointed that Yabu deleted the number from the memory but still he was happy, he now knew the idol’s name.
‘Yabu Kota, that’s his name,’ the boy thought, ‘when I get out I’ll have to tell everybody.’
Yabu did as Daiki told him to and lay back down, he attempted to sleep but he knew that that wasn’t going to happen anytime soon. When a doctor came in, about an hour later, to check on the four people in the room he took a double take at Yabu’s heart monitor, it had changed. Before it was slower as if he was in a deep sleep, but how it had quicken as if he was awake, but slowed down once more as if he fell asleep.
The doctor hastened out of the room to get the doctor in charge of this room. Together they came back not three minutes later and triple checked the boy’s charts. Once they left the room, the doctor in charge turned on the younger one “Get a team in there, we need to move the two accident patients out of here now! Why wasn’t I told they were put in there! Kitagawa-san demanded a private room for the two boys!”
On the older doctor’s orders, the small boy and his mother-who had yet to wake up-were moved to another room that already held three patients. Celebrities always get their own room; it’s just how it works. The older doctor was ready to scold someone but then he heard the beeping from inside the room once more. That was no “sleeping” beep; nope Yabu-kun had woken up.
“Yabu-san?” the doctor said softly, Yabu did his best acting to make it look like he had just woken up.
“Where am I?” Yabu said in a hoarse voice, he had yet to get it back.
“You’re at the hospital; you had a nasty infection in your arm. It caused you to faint and become unconscious. You’re friends have been worried sick about you, they are here from dawn until dusk sitting outside the room waiting, for one of you to wake.”
“Why’s Inoo-chan here?” his voice was starting to come back.
“Inoo-kun, made himself weak over worrying about you, he didn’t eat and he didn’t sleep until exhaustion took him over. He was unconscious for all of yesterday, he woke up though but unfortunately because of a side-effect he slipped back into his previous unconscious state. He is perfectly fine though, just sleeping. He should wake up today.”
“Sensei, how long was I asleep for? And what exactly happened?” Yabu’s voice was back, it was quiet though, quieter than normal.
The doctor took a deep breath, “You have been asleep for almost three days, your wrist got infected through one of the cuts, but I’m sure you noticed that.”
“Yes, I knew it was infected, and no, I didn’t tell anyone,” Yabu responded.
“This infection, because of where it was on your body caused you to lose your appetite as well as your energy, causing you to slip into a coma. You were in the hotel lobby when you were last awake, but you are now here. By the orders of your director, he allowed your friends to stay in town until you’ve recovered. Tomorrow evening you and your friends will return home, well they will go home, you will be transferred to the hospital near your house. At the moment your agency is holding the story that you caught a severe flu and needed to be hospitalized, we too are sticking with that story. Your parents were asked to stay at their house until you returned to town, as to not make the media go haywire and find out the real reason.”
“Alright, and Inoo-chan, how is he, he’s so pale, that does not look fine, and don’t lie to me.”
“Inoo-kun should be awake today, but like I told him about you, if he’s not then I don’t know if he will.”
“WHAT!?” Yabu screamed, the entire room echoed. This was not a usual shocked scream either, this was a high-pitched girly scream, one a girl would scream if they were about to be murdered. It was so high that the doctor, who was used to this sort of thing, had to plug his ears.
After a minute of trying to get his hearing back, the doctor finally stated, “I’m sure your friends can clarify everything for you in the morning, although only Arioka-kun knows the actual truth.”
“Why don’t the others?” Yabu said calmly
“They weren’t strong enough emotionally to be able to handle it.”
“Really? One would not expect Dai-chan to be the strong one.”
“Yes well he was. He has yet to break, or rather shatter like the others have.” The doctor said casually, “Arioka-kun was able to handle the stress of having Inoo-kun, Yaotome-kun and Nakajima-kun shatter in front of him, completely break down until Takaki-kun was able to help.”
“Why wasn’t Takaki there?”
“He took the rest of your group home and then flew back with clothes and orders for the others,” the doctor explained, “now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go make a phone call. Try to get some sleep I expect your friends will be here at first light as well they will most likely fill you in on everything so you will need your energy. I will call for some food to be brought to you.”
“Arigatou gozaimasu” Yabu said to the doctor and he stepped out. “Only Dai-chan, that is definitely weird, he’ll break soon.”
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Just as promised, at the first light of the day, Hikaru, Yuto, Daiki and Takaki were already at the doors of the hospital waiting for them to be allowed in and visit. The doctor never called them the night before, and they were curious as to why, but they were going to play it off as if they didn’t know. When they were let in, they were greeted happily by the doctor, “ohayou gozaimasu boys, I have terrific news.”
“Ohayou gozaimasu” they said together happiness was evident on their faces.
“Late last night and early this morning Yabu-kun woke up from his coma, isn’t that terrific news!”
“Yes that is good,” Daiki said calmly.
“May we see him?” Yuto asked just as calmly, but inside he was jumping for joy, and doing back flips like Chinen felt like the perfect thing to do right now.
“Of course, he’s awake and eating some breakfast in his room. I don’t think you need me to take you there,” the doctor said and made way for the four of them to dash off and see their friend and unofficial leader. Daiki was the last one to pass the doctor but he stopped Daiki by holding on. “Arioka-kun, let’s have a chat.”
“Alright,” Daiki said. He knew this was coming. They walked over to the doctor’s office, passing Yabu and Inoo’s room on the way, the door was closed so they wouldn’t notice that Daiki wasn’t there.
“How are you feeling?” the doctor asked, he was trying to break into it slowly.
“Alright I guess. I’m still worried for Inoo-kun though, I’m guessing it is the same for him as well?”
“Yes, I’m sorry, but it wasn’t just a flu he had caught, and it wasn’t just shock that affected him last night. Your friend did not just hold Yabu-kun’s hand, the bacteria was in his system, his blood stream. This is not good.”
“I know doctor, I saw how pale Inoo-kun was yesterday, and that bruise on his face shouldn’t have shown up that fast. Listen, there is something you’re not telling me, and I’m not telling the others.”
“We conquered a barrier today Arioka-kun, we just have one more hurdle to jump before you all can go home.”
“Yes I know that, Inoo-chan has to wake up.” Daiki said calmly.
“No, not just wake up, they need to stay awake. It’s not just “waking up” anymore Arioka-kun, staying awake is our hurdle now. Inoo-kun shouldn’t have gone into that much shock with that news which meant that there was something messing with his nervous system.”
“Alright is Yabu-kun being transferred today?”
“We will transfer both of them when we are certain that there will be no casualties.”
“Casualties, as in, there is still the possibility?”
“Yes, there is always the possibility Arioka-kun, never forget that,” the doctor said, this guy was so depressing. “Go back to your friends but be careful, this is a lot of information that you have to hold inside, don’t let anything slip.”
“I’ll be fine doctor, I can handle it,” Daiki said calmly while slipping out of his seat.
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Yabu sat in his bed waiting, dawn quickly came and flew by, he was given a simple breakfast that he was to eat slowly. He was in peace, listening to the simple beeping of the heart monitor of both his and Inoo-chan’s, until a soft knock at the door caught his attention. It slid open and revealed three of the four people that he wanted to see most.
“Ohayou,” Yabu said simply, shooting them his I’m-alright grin.
“Yabucchi!” Hikaru exclaimed loudly and rushed over to give his best friend the strongest hug he could muster. “We were so worried!”
“I know and I’m sorry,” Yabu said softly.
“Yabumama,” Yuto said next, “we forgive you, just come back soon alright.”
“Yes, I shall, the doctor said I should be transferring hospitals today so you guys can go back to life,” Yabu said.
“Kota~” Takaki started, “We won’t go back to normal until you and Inoo-chan are out of the hospital and back at practice with us.”
Yabu could only smile at this. He looked around the three skinny boys expecting to see a fourth short boy behind them, but there was nothing. “Where’s Dai-chan?”
The three of them looked around. “He was just behind us,” Takaki said.
“Maybe he’s apologizing to the doctor, he practically blew the doctor’s head off the other night” Hikaru suggested.
“I’ve never seen such a scary Dai-chan” Yuto added.
“Here I have proof!” Hikaru said and turned on his phone. He showed Yabu the death glaring Daiki picture.
“Wow. That is scary.” Yabu said and the other’s noticed. Silence engulfed them once more. Until the door slowly slid open to reveal the person they were just talking about.
“Sorry, I was talking to the doctor,” Daiki said calmly. He was unable to look at Yabu-kun for some reason. When Yabu was unconscious Daiki was fine with looking at him, but now that he’s awake it is a different story; it was his turn. It was time.
“Daiki?” Yabu asked, he watched Daiki’s expression turn to one of confusion to happiness to sorrow to anger to contentment, this all happened within a couple of seconds so that the others didn’t notice. It was almost as if Daiki was going through a catalogue of facial expressions to display on his face. “Dai-chan?” Yabu tried again.
“Welcome back,” Daiki managed.
“Dai-chan, what’s going on?” Yuto turned. “Are you alright? You didn’t get infected too did you?”
“No, I’m fine, Yu-kun,” Daiki said calmly.
“Alright, if you say so,” Yuto turned back to Yabu, Yuto and the others may have been convinced but Yabu no way. He couldn’t be convinced that easily.
“The doctor told me what happened, one of my cuts got infected and I fainted because of loss of energy, and he told me that Inoo also fainted because of exhaustion but I don’t believe him. What happened?”
“Well the part about you is correct, you lost your appetite and without energy you couldn’t function, and considering you push yourself way to hard, it was bound to happen, infection or not, the infection just made it worse.” Takaki said calmly.
“And Inoo-chan?”
“We were allowed to spend the first night in this room on those three beds,” Yuto explained, “we were given strict orders to not touch you no matter what, since you had this bacterium on you that was going to remove the infection from your arm, the doctor said it was harmless as long as it wasn’t transferred to another person, it could only transfer through physical contact such as hand holding and whatnot.”
“Inoo and I took it the hardest, I nearly collapsed on that bed, I was unable to look at you,” Hikaru took his turn, “I was very much taken by the fact that I may never see you again, I really thought you were gone, and apparently Inoo did as well because he completely stopped everything. He was a blob, he was mush, and he couldn’t do anything other than stare at the floor. It was pathetic, but I shouldn’t say much since I was pretty much the same way.”
“Inoo hadn’t eaten in a good 14 hours before it happened. I had told Takaki to call us once they got home so we could be certain that they were safe and since they had to drive it took quite a long time, it was about 3:00 in the morning when he called the hospital, I was gone maybe 45mins and Hikaru and Yuto were both asleep, during that time Inoo must have woken up or something and touched you because he had the bacterium in his system causing him to have the flu.” Daiki said using the half truth. Yabu caught the lie and shot him a look, uncaught by the others.
“I came the next morning and brought them clothes so they could change and then Shoon saw us that same day, but in the afternoon.” Takaki said simply.
“He claimed that it was all his fault and but then he had to leave, he left you a note, did you read it? I really want to know what was in it,” Hikaru added.
Yabu picked it up from the bedside table and handed it over and Hikaru read it out loud:
Yabucchi
Why did you start again? You promised me! I don’t understand, I thought debuting would be good for you, maybe it wasn’t. I don’t want to take you away from your work but maybe you should take a break for awhile. This obviously wasn’t a good thing for you; it’s been so long, almost four years since you last did that. I should have done something then but what could I do, I thought you had promised me with all your heart. I don’t know what to think anymore.
When you read this, you better make each one of your group members a promise stating you’ll never do it again, I can’t believe you tried to get out of it that way. That is one of the most stupid things you could ever do. Why! I don’t understand. A few weeks ago, I tried to help you, I knew something bad was going to happen but then I was called away and I was no longer able to keep an eye on you, I had to leave it in Inoo-chan’s hands. You’re one of my best friends I can’t stand to see you do this to yourself anymore. When I come back I will visit you, until then rest a lot, use your friend’s strength and rely more on people. We are here for you. You just have to believe in us, we can handle what you won’t say.
I found out that you are now with Inoo-chan, I was wondering when that was going to happen, congratulations, I’m sure he’s probably a wreck right now, he cares about you way too much. He was always jealous of Ya-Ya-Yah’s relationship with you but since he couldn’t do anything about it, he didn’t. It was after you had promised me that he confronted me, I told him several times that we were just friends and nothing else but it took time for him to realize that. You don’t know how long he has been in love with you and you in love with him in return. You two love each other, just admit it and stick together.
Get Better Soon Baka
Shoon.
Hikaru stopped reading and looked up at the others. He felt like he just told everyone a huge secret. Although he was allowed to read it, he still felt wrong reading it. “You haven’t admitted you’re in love with Inoo-chan yet?” Takaki asked surprised by this information.
“I didn’t even know that we were together.”
“Of course you’re together!” Yuto exclaimed, “listen to yourself, everyone knows, everyone agrees, admit it already, to his face, you can admit it when he’s unconscious but not when he is, is just crazy talk!”
“Yuto’s right Yabu, you need to admit it.” Daiki said calmly.
“You have your own things to admit too don’t you Dai-chan,” Yabu said harshly turning it back on Daiki.
“What?” Daiki asked, ‘shit he found out’.
“Guys, can I speak to Dai-chan alone for a few moments, please” Yabu asked softly the others nodded and left the room wordlessly. “You have something your hiding, I can read it in your face, tell me. Share with the class.”
“I can’t,” Daiki said softly, “I promised the doctor.”
“You can Dai-chan,” Yabu encouraged him like a true leader. He was angry sure but he still needed to pry the truth out of Daiki, it was the only way Daiki will get closure. “Dai-chan, it’s alright, I won’t react like Inoo-chan did.”
“I know, but I just can’t. I promised him.”
“Dai-chan~” Yabu soothed. Even though he didn’t show it, Daiki was on the verge of him finally breaking down. He was bottling up too many things inside of him and if it kept on like this, he was going to run out of bottles. “It’s alright, you can tell me. Tell Yabumama the truth.”
“Fine,” Daiki gave in, he didn’t want to fight it anymore. Even though he had promised the doctor a number of times, he just couldn’t hold it in. “The truth is not pretty, and it may shock you, but if you think you can handle it, I will tell you.”
On to Part 2.