Your Sins Into Me | By : Tcharlatan Category: > Kyo/Kaoru Views: 1394 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Several voices murmured quietly to one side, strained but forcibly quiet. A long, boney hand was gripping his own firmly, trembling ever-so-slightly. Unfamiliar blankets, thin and smooth, covered him, and the air smelled of chemical clean. His entire body – his head in particular – ached, but it was a dull and distant pain, fascinatingly far away. Tired as he was, these were concerning, foreign circumstances. He would have to wake up now.
Kyo’s face pulled into a tired frown as he forced his eyes to open and focus on the strange room around him. The wall in front of him was a very pale grey blue with a generic, boring painting of flowers hanging in a plain white frame. When he looked up, the lights were painfully bright, causing him to grunt in irritation and roll his head to one side, eyes squinting.
“Kyo! Shhh, you guys, he’s awake!” Shinya’s gentle voice called out.
“Shinya?” He peeked one eye open again, cautiously.
Kyo was confused. His friend was sitting beside the tall bed he was tucked into, holding his hand, but he sounded far away. And he looked so worried… The only time he’d ever seen Shinya so distraught was a year ago when his dog had gotten sick and had to stay at the vet overnight. What was upsetting him so much now?
“Mr. Nishimura, how do you feel?” a strange man in a white coat asked, moving forward to shine a pen light into Kyo’s flinching eyes.
“Ugn! Who the hell are you? Where am I?” the blonde slurred, raising one hand to block the obnoxious light. He blinked dumbly when he saw the tube connected to a thin needle taped into his wrist. “What the…”
“You’re in the hospital, Kyo. You called Shin and just started screaming! When we found you, you were unconscious and your ear was bleeding all over the place.” Die was standing at Shinya’s shoulder, looking terrified. “You wouldn’t wake up, we thought you were dead!”
“My… ear?”
The hand went up to the left side of his head and brushed over a thick gauze pad and tape. Memory came trickling back to him and he swallowed heavily, wondering how much his friends had figured out about what had happened. If they knew the truth of what happened between him and Hakuei… they would never understand. They would call the police, or worse yet, they would call his mother! No, they couldn’t know that Hakuei had done this. They would never understand that it was Kyo’s own fault.
“It looks as though the damage was caused by your fall down the stairs. It was a trauma injury,” the doctor supplied. “Your hearing in that ear will be significantly reduced, but other than that, nothing appears to be broken, so you should be fine. You’re lucky; you could have broken your neck falling like that.”
“I… I see.”
“You’ll need to stay here for the night, but we can send you home tomorrow afternoon if you’re still doing well by then. Your friends already filled out your paperwork. Somebody will have to pick you up; you’re going to be on fairly powerful pain killers for a couple days and we can’t release you without a caretaker. Don’t sign any documents or make any important decisions for the next twenty-four hours, until the anesthetic completely wears off. If you have any questions or if anything changes, the button to your right will call the nurse. Please don’t hesitate to use it.” The man scribbled some notes onto the chart clipped to Kyo’s bed, and nodded to the other men in the room before leaving.
Die rushed to take his place at the side of the bed. “Kyo, what the hell happened? I tried to tell Hakuei you were hurt and he slammed the door in my face!”
Kyo looked away. He couldn’t stand the fear, relief, and confusion in his friend’s kind eyes. “We… we had an argument. He kicked me out and I… was upset, I guess I… I guess I fell down the stairs.” More lies. He disgusted himself.
Shinya was shocked. “He kicked you out? Why?!”
“I lost my job a while ago and didn’t tell him. He found out while I was… out today.” Kyo’s eyes narrowed painfully.
If only he hadn’t been late to the tea shop. If only he’d just told Hakuei the truth. If only he’d been able to find a new job in time. If only he hadn’t gone out with Kaoru.
‘If only I’d never fallen for such a jealous man.’
He pushed that thought aside firmly. It didn’t lead anywhere good, he knew.
“Oh Kyo…”
Kyo couldn’t stand the sympathy – the pity – in Shinya‘s voice. “He was just upset that I was hiding it from him, he just… he just needs some time to cool off.”
“I might be able to help.”
Kyo jumped a bit, startled. He hadn’t noticed the third figure lurking so silently in the corner of the room. “Kaoru…?”
“He was still at the bar when you called. We were going to get drinks,” Die muttered, one large hand dragging over his face anxiously. The sight of his small friend, bandaged, hooked to an IV, and wrapped in hospital blankets, was putting an unbearable strain on his heart.
“If you need somewhere to stay, my place has an extra room. Just until you get back on your feet, of course.” The older man moved forward as he spoke, coming to stand at the foot of the bed. Kyo saw something in his eyes that made him look away. Kaoru looked entirely too knowing in that moment, and it made Kyo’s chest constrict in humiliation.
‘He knows, or suspects… damn it, Kaoru, don’t look at me like that! Die and Shinya already pity me, not you too!’
“I don’t want to impose…” the blonde mumbled.
“I wouldn’t offer if I thought you would.”
“I… I don’t…”
Kyo couldn’t think of a valid argument. Die’s place was too small for another person, and Shinya valued his privacy too much for the blonde to want to intrude on him. He couldn’t go home to Hakuei, and his only family lived in Kyoto. He couldn’t afford to go back there, even if he was willing to let his mother and grandmother to see him like this.
Kaoru’s voice was gentle, but left no room for debate. “You should sleep. I’ll be back to pick you up tomorrow, alright?”
“But I don’t…” Kyo’s protestations faltered as exhaustion washed over him. He sighed and deflated listlessly. “…Thanks, Kaoru.”
“The nurse looked the other way, letting us come in here so late, but we can’t stay. We just wanted to see you when you woke up… Call me when you get a chance, alright?” Shinya asked, tucking the blankets more securely around Kyo with a nervous, fretting sort of quickness.
“If you need anything, you can call any time,” Die added, putting an arm around Shinya’s shoulders to guide him out of the room. “Come on, Shin. You’re fussing…”
Kaoru followed at their heels and when the door shut behind him, Kyo sank into the thin mattress. His life was falling apart, but he was too drugged and too tired to care. His ear ached, but it was a distant, faded sort of feeling. His entire body felt heavy and before he even realized his eyes had shut, he was deep asleep.
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