Lies for You 4
It’s been three days since NEWS and KAT-TUN visited Ryo for the first time. Ryo’s condition was getting better in the slower pace than they expected and that caused the doctor to make a conclusion that Ryo better stay in the hospital for four days or more. The Osakan was pissed off from hearing that so he tried to escape from there every time he could, but Pi and Jin were ready to prevent him from doing that. Ryo groaned as he thought that it’s totally impossible that he would pass his two best friends with his currently weak body. Well, everybody knew too the fact that Pi and Jin had a big bodies so they can easily bring Ryo back to his bed every time he executed an effort to escape.
They had never faced Ryo’s bad temper like this; after Ryo was told his condition by the doctor he found it so difficult to admit that. He was ranting to prove to them; the hell he was defeated by one thing, tiredness. He stubbornly did anything to show them he was alright and it’s useless to keep him staying in hospital. He seriously did his best to do get well but he was getting more furious at himself when his body reacted to the opposite of what he wanted to do. It always ended with him suddenly fainting or having a really bad headache or feeling so damn tired so he couldn’t help but be carried by them to the bed again. He couldn’t believe he embarrassed himself, showing how weak he was and what made him very angry was that he couldn’t do anything about it. No way would he show them he has accepted his condition but inside his heart, he knew he was greatly defeated by tiredness. Then, he didn’t knew what to do to hide it except letting his stubbornness do the job.
Pi and Jin almost used all of their time in the hospital in protecting Ryo. It caused NEWS and KAT-TUN activity to become irregular. Johnny allowed Pi and Jin to protect Ryo but they had to rearrange their schedules with their managers. Kame and Koyama volunteered themselves to do that for them. Pi and Jin thanked them because they were not sure they had the time or the energy for that seeing how their grumpy best friend made them lose their energy just by keeping him constantly in his bed and shutting up his mouth. Fortunately, Ryo didn’t have the strength to fight them back and give them bruises like the medicine accident before. They sighed in relief as, finally, Ryo got over from his dread over medicine because he surprisingly took his medicines without letting out any complaint. He just asked why the medicine’s tablet so big because sometimes it made it difficult to swallow and caused him to still taste its bitterness in his throat for a long time. Pi thought Ryo was mature already and has forgotten or has thrown away his silly notion about how bad the taste of medicine is. Well of course he didn’t want to act like a child who’s afraid of medicine because he believed his pride would be broken if everyone knew The Sexy Osaka Man had a childish personality. On the other hand, Jin was thinking of another reason behind Ryo’s sudden change of attitude toward medicines. Somehow, Jin still couldn’t forget how Ryo almost made him bald in the medicine accident so he couldn’t help but feel suspicious about it. But well, since Ryo didn’t make a disaster when he takes his medicine they didn’t take it as any problem. The problem was only Ryo’s bad mood and his stubbornness. Just remembering about that makes Pi and Jin shake their heads and sigh heavily again.
The doctor was always amazed every time he went in to Ryo’s room. He really seldom or might as well never encountered a patient who caused so much noise. Ryo was seriously weak but his voice was louder than his best friends’ that are quieter. He wondered where Ryo got his energy to speak like that. Pi and Jin smiled happily when the doctor came to check up because it gave them time to stretch their sore bodies and rest for a while before they settled their body to be ready to protect Ryo.
“Nishikido-kun, I insist you sleep more. If you keep talking, your energy is wasted in vain. It’s not good because your body needs rest so much. It’s not like I forbid you to talk but please take care of your body. Moreover, you refuse to eat vegetables and fruit so I guess you have to stay here for a really long time if you don’t want to try to heal yourself,” said the doctor and he didn’t let Ryo to cut him off by staring at him with the so called serious doctor eyes. Ryo tried to withdraw his retort and looked everywhere but at the doctor in front of him; he pouted and seemed to be uncomfortable with the doctor’s words. He didn’t like accepting torture from other people because he was an egoist who thought he was always right.
“Try keeping him silent and do whatever it takes to make him eat his food,” said the doctor.
Pi and Jin just nodded as they felt bored because the doctor said that every time he checked Ryo up. They could remember everything which came out of his mouth now. Then, after the doctor left, they sighed for the zillionth time today.
“I thought I get enough lecture from my manager, why do I have to get lectured here??” whined Jin, pouting as he looked at Ryo.
“What?” said Ryo, lifting up his chin which annoyed Jin the most, “It’s not my fault!”
Jin was about to jump at Ryo and start a new round of wrestling but Pi moved first and smacked Ryo’s head. “It’s clearly your fault, Ryo-chan.”
“What the fuck, Pi? I am the one sick here. Why do you dare smack me?!” said Ryo angrily and rubbed his head. Even though Pi smacked him softly it still made him get a little dizzy.
“It’s because you don’t care for your body. Don’t you notice we’re worried about you here?” Pi sat down in Ryo’s bedside as he continued to snap at him. “You always try to escape, you keep noisy, you don’t want to eat your healthy food and you do whatever you want. Are you aware these only stop you from getting well? You are the one making yourself prolong your stay here, Ryo-chan. Believe me if you keep being stubborn, you are going to stay here for the rest of your life! You don’t want it, don’t you?”
Ryo slowly nodded. “Of course I don’t want to,” Ryo said. He covered his face with his hand. “I hate being here. I don’t like the atmosphere and the smell here. I don’t want to rest in a place like this. I want to go home. Please guys, help me get out of here,” said Ryo desperately.
“Okay,” answered Pi one second after Ryo finished his statements.
“Huh?” said Ryo together with Jin. They were both confused.
“The answer is easy Ryo-chan. Listen to what the doctor said and take a rest. I believe in a few days you can get out of here,” said Pi.
“Didn’t you listen to me?!!” said Ryo in a slightly higher voice. He glared at Pi murderously. “I said I can’t rest here you moron!!”
Jin panicked. “Calm down Ryo-chan. I think Pi is right.”
“Go away! I don’t want to see you two!” Ryo pushed Pi and Jin away in anger.
The two stepped back but kept in their places, they didn’t retreat a single step. They wouldn’t let him be alone. Ryo clenched his teeth seeing his best friends’ act. He wanted to yell at them to leave him alone but he couldn’t, even though he was so angry but he was very tired too. The lack of sleep made him more stressed and gave the worst effect to his temper that he couldn’t control anymore. He felt tired of this. He was tired at doing anything; he just wanted to be alone.
“Just go away, please,” Ryo begged. He stared at them with his tired eyes. His face started to get pale and he began to breathe heavily.
Jin’s eyes were teary looking at his best friend’s condition. Without thinking, he hugged Ryo and helped him to lie down again. Ryo didn’t protest this time. They didn’t talk for a while. Pi and Jin came back to Ryo’s side and stared at him with genuinely caring eyes. The atmosphere inside the room slowly became calm and quiet. It made Ryo feel more comfortable as he thought about his best friends. He knew they were worried for him. They didn’t care how tired they were to take care of him. They will always be beside him no matter what and he was so grateful for that, for having such good and caring best friends. He wanted to thank them for all that they did to him but what he did was the opposite and it made them feel like stupid best friends. He couldn’t help but hate himself because he couldn’t say to them how he truly loved them and how happy he were that they were his best friends. He really wanted to say it but somehow he didn’t know how to say it, to make them understand he loved them.
Ryo calmed himself as he surrendered and stopped thinking about it. He just believed one day he would say that and he thought maybe he didn’t need to say it out loud because he trusted that his best friends knew of his feelings towards them without even hearing it from his mouth. He just let chemistry sent his feeling to them.
Ryo slowly stared at them with his half opened eyes. “Pi … Jin …,” said Ryo, his voice was getting weaker and almost inaudible. Pi and Jin leaned closer to him to hear what he would say. “I am … tired. I think… I am … going to … sleep …,” said Ryo, in a dangerously small voice. He finally lost to his need for sleep.
Pi and Jin smiled, full of understanding of Ryo’s words. Pi rubbed Ryo’s shoulder and whispered, “Yes, Ryo-chan. Have a nice sleep then.”
Ryo nodded weakly and closed his eyes. Before he went to dreamland he managed to say, “Sorry.”
Pi and Jin’s eyes widened upon hearing that. They looked at each other then looked at Ryo who was sleeping peacefully.
Jin scratched the back of his neck. “It’s not ‘Sorry’, Ryo-chan, but ‘Thank you’”, said Jin but he couldn’t help smiling about how Ryo tried to say that to them before sleepiness brought him out of reality.
They covered Ryo with the warm blanket. Its good Ryo finally slept because he almost only slept for five hours or less a day. No wonder exhaustion forced him to close his eyes. Jin flopped himself on a chair beside Ryo’s bed. He rubbed his eyes and yawned sleepily. They stayed awake as long as Ryo was up, it meant that they lacked sleep too.
“Pi~~,” called Jin, looking straight into the younger one’s eyes.
“WhOOaaAt??” murmured Pi as he yawned in the same time.
“I am hungry~ ~,” whined Jin and he gave Pi his famous puppy eyes.
Pi rolled his eyes. “So?”
“So buy me food, please~~,” Jin clapped his hand for a pleading pose. He used his puppy eyes as cutely as he could, but he pouted seeing that Pi ignored him and walked to the couch near the door. “Pi, you don’t want me to lay in bed because of starvation, right? I think protecting me is harder than protecting Ryo-chan,” added Jin to change Pi’s mind.
Jin smiled in victory as Pi slowly walked to the door instead. Pi scratched his hair, making it totally messy and groaned in annoyance. “Why do I have two baka best friends like you two are????” said Pi
“Because you love us,” answered Jin, giggled and waved innocently at Pi who stuck his tongue out and rolled his eyes, making Jin giggle hard before the former closed the door then walked away to buy food. Pi groaned again as his stomach growled loudly, begging for food too.
Jin was about to follow Ryo to dreamland when he heard a knock on Ryo’s room door. Jin groaned and sat up from the couch which, moments before, was *almost* occupied by Pi then walked to the door. He looked at his watch and frowned; it’s just five minutes since Pi went to buy food so it’s impossible for the one knocking to be Pi but who knows. Pi might be fooling around with him, nee? Jin was grinning at that thought so he was ready to kick Pi as soon as he opened the door but he gaped instead when he saw at a person he least expected to be there.
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( chapter 4b )