The knock on the door didn't seem to faze Nino who continued to stare out the window doing everything humanly possible to try and keep his mind straight.
“Hey.” Ryuu's voice was loud in Nino's ears, yet the dark haired man just continued to stare out the window. “Em…you’re up.”
“Yea.” Emiko's voice answered back. Still, Nino did nothing.
“You should get back to bed though you look exhausted.” Ryuu continued “I was going to go and sign out. But I did say I would explain.”
“Explain about what?” Emiko's voice asked. Nino's eyes was trailing down the outside of a what appeared to be a building not far off.
“Well I have a lot more that I have to explain to you then I have to explain to Nino.” I rubbed the back of my head “It’s complicated.” Ryuu said aloud. “I found out about what happened to Matsu I’m guessing just a few minutes after that bitch I have for a grandmother cut out Matsu’s eye. I mouthed off to her got smacked and then yelled at then she left so I put that bandana around his eye as an attempt to stop the bleeding then I was able to break the bond on the shackles. Ryoen showed up said that the cell we were in only had a 92 hour life and it had been about ninety hours already and said that I had to learn how to teleport to get us both out of there and then locked to door on us. That’s about it.” By that time blood was soaking the inside of Nino's mouth. He had bitten down on the flesh on the inside of his mouth so hard that it had all but ripped it to shreds.
Hah.. We knew.. We knew.... Doki mused a fraction once again waking up due to the caustic anger that was slowly waking in Nino once more. We knew it all..... However, the dark haired man refused to turn and acknowledge any of this.
“Wha…” Emiko's voice asked.
“Well I said I would explain it to you.” Ryuu answered back. “I’ll take her back to her room.” Ryuu finished disappearing along with Emiko. Nino made no motion to impede or even change his stance. Instead, he continued to stare out the window and say nothing.
It would be more than ten minutes before the dark haired man actually moved again aside from breathing. Stepping back and staring at Matsu who still slept in the bed, Nino let out a sigh. Matsu's one eye flickered open and stared at Nino.
"How long have you been awake?" Nino asked.
"Long enough," Matsu sighed back resisting a yawn that was starting to overpower him. Forcing himself upwards, Matsu leaned over his knees and let out a light sigh. Nino's eye moved over him again and found the white haired man nearly as pale as his hair. "I'm... kind of hungry..." Matsu began to try and force himself up off the bed and managed to succeed in swinging his legs off the side. Nino made no motion to stop the white haired man but simply watched for a minute.
Matsu forced himself up and stood fully before looking around.He was in all white and looked more like someone out of an embalming facility than the living at that point. "Where did my other clothes go?" Matsu asked looking around the room again. Nino sighed out and started towards a medical closet.
"They had to do some eye surgery and things to keep ya from bleedin' out," Nino sighed finally reaching in the closet and throwing a pair of jeans backwards not bothering to see if Matsu would catch them. The white haired man seized the pants from the air and sighed as he sat back down on the bed to change. "Do you want to go eat or something?"
"M... sounds good..." Matsu yawned a fraction.
~*~
Ohno walked into the hospital feeling even more tired than anyone else. Elle seemed to be getting back to walking normally and things, and halfway through the trek back to the hospital, Ame had gotten up on her own feet again and carried Aiba while Ohno continued to carry the other summoning girl. Now all three were carrying everyone inwards. The nurse that took in Aiba and the girl whom Ohno would later know as Sephira appeared unsure of what to say seeing Ohno once more in the hospital. Sighing, she simply took the words that Ohno had stated about an animal attacking while they were walking home. Taking both the dark haired boy and the passed out girl back into rooms to be examined, the nurse turned back.
"You guys really don't have any luck now do you?" she sighed outwards.
"It appears not," Ohno sighed back rubbing the back of his head methodically. Refusing medical treatment like the plague, Ame slumped down in a waiting room chair leering at anyone that came within a foot of her.
Elle, who was slowly getting back to regular liveliness and understanding that there wasn't much to be done, sat down a few seats away from Ame. After a minute, Ohno lowered himself into a chair and sighed a bit.
"How did... you know we were in trouble?" Elle sighed outwards rubbing her temples.
"Ame-chan..." Ohno made a gesture to the teal haired woman who leered back causing a nervous laughter to escape Ohno for a minute. "Sensed Vaporaii and was instantly off ninja-ing her way to find her... that's how we ended up there..."
A quick dagger to the head made Ohno fall forwards again. Ame sighed and cracked her knuckles a bit. "I have an affiliation for Vaporaii because I'm the vessel for her," Ame sighed outwards.
"More of that word... 'vessel'..." Elle said to herself as if mouthing the word made her understand it better.
"Mhm... a lot of us are..vessels." Ame yawned a bit to herself. "Oh what the hell..." Heads turned as Ame stared out a window. Rain was falling as though someone had just turned on a faucet. Shaking her head a minute, Ame sighed outwards a fraction. Despite the fact that she was Vaporaii's vessel, Ame despised water much like a cat would. It was something that could seep into her clothes and hair and make her feel numb inside. Shaking her head a minute, the teal haired woman stared back at Elle.
Ohno laughed a bit to himself before shaking his head. "It seems we made it inside just before the night rain..." he shrugged his shoulders a fraction. "I doubt the hospital would mind us staying over...."
"This is a hospital, ya know...." Elle said after a minute raising her eyebrow.
"Ya...." Ohno nodded a bit. "But it should be fine..." he grinned a bit. "Besides I think...." Just then the rain came down even harder and was even heard on all levels echoing outwards. Ohno laughed a bit to himself rubbing the back of his head.
"Well I'll say...." a nurse said walking up and looking out the window. "I didn't see any word on rain from the weather-man...." she commented aloud before shaking her head and returning back to work. Ohno waited till she was out of sight before talking again.
"Well look what the Grim Reaper dragged in. Hello Nina, hello Mattie, you seem a bit better," Ohno mused. Ame turned her head and found the faces of Matsu and Nino walking up. Matsu's face was still heavily bandaged, and he was all but dragging a medical poll filled with some kind of serum, but he was dressed in different clothing. Ame felt her breath catch again as it had before.
"Hah... Ohno-kun..." Matsu smiled a bit to himself. "It has been a while..." It was strange, to see with only one eye, yet Matsu could feel something different.... as though he were not just not seeing... as though instead of seeing.... he could feel it.... Shaking his head a minute, he continued to smile. "How are you?"
"Better than you are," Ohno laughed a fraction putting his hands behind his head and sitting back in the chair. "You look like a mummy straight out of Egypt." Suddenly a kunai slammed itself across t he head of Ohno as Ame let a breath out.
"Matsu-sama," Ame smiled brightly as her eyes moved over his face. "It's.... really good to see you..."
"Same to you, Ame," Matsu smiled back. "And hello Elle.. I didn't expect to see you in the hospital as well... are you feeling alright?" Matsu continued.
"Uh.... ya..I'm fine...." Elle answered back as if not sure what else to say. "Thanks...."
"That's good... I'm glad everyone is in better health than I am hahahah," Matsu smiled a bit more.
Ame's eyes narrowed a fraction in irritation at being suddenly ignored, yet there was nothing she could do. Finally looking at Nino, the teal haired woman crossed her arms and sighed. "So are you better now, Emo?" she stared a bit. Nino's sudden dark eye caused Ame to stop for a moment and then look away. Ugh... even when he's not all hyped up he's annoying... Ame found herself thinking aloud.
"Where is Aiba?" Nino asked after another moment. Everyone blinked as if unsure what to say. "Did he go home?"
Ohno sighed a bit and rubbed the back of his head. Matsu, feeling the emotions running off of Ohno, found himself doing the same. Ame crossed her arms in front of herself and stare right at Nino.
"He got his butt ridden by Ryoen while trying to protect some girl or something," the teal haired woman answered back. Nino stared a minute. "No he isn't dead... just a bit of battle scars and what not."
Nino's face suddenly contorted to a strange stressed yet not stressed face. "The hospital bills are going to be annoying as hell...." the dark haired man suddenly said aloud. Matsu laughed nervously causing both Ohno and Elle to do the same. Ame just looked a bit perturbed that Nino was focused on money instead of Aiba.
"I've taken care of the money issues," Sho's voice sighed outwards causing heads to turn and find the brown haired bear man walking up towards the group. Matsu smiled a bit more.
"Sho-kun... thank you," Matsu smiled a bit. Sho Sakurai simply sighed outwards as though saying something along the lines of 'you should really worry about heath not price' before looking back up at the group.
"Ame, I have prepared a room in a hotel for the night. It is across the street from the hospital. Take Ohno and head there. Nino... take Matsu back to his room. He needs more rest. Miss Elle, I will not ask you to do anything, but please keep yourself safe. That is all." With that, the brown haired man seemed to turn and all but vanish from the lobby.
Ame was silent for a minute as she rubbed her forehead and forced herself up. "Alright fine then," she sighed outwards seizing Ohno by the collar of his shirt. "We'll be back tomorrow." The teal haired woman began walking off with her captive... or rather... Ohno. "Bye... Matsu-sama... bye Emo... bye Elle... glad to meet you. Let's go shopping soon." Ame suddenly smiled a bit and waved a fraction.
Nino sighed outwards. Matsu let out a light laugh, and all Elle could do was blink before slowly nodding. With that, the teal haired woman walked out and into the rain to make a run for it to the hotel.
Nino looked at Matsu who looked at Elle who looked at Nino. All three let out a sigh. "I'm still hungry..." Matsu blinked. "But... I guess we really should go check on Aiba first..."
"No," Nino sighed rubbing his temple. "Elle, take Matsu to dinner. I'm going to check on Aiba."
Elle blinked at being ordered to do anything but finally sighed a bit seeming to get frustrated before cooling down again. "Fine," she sighed. "Not like this day hasn't gotten any weirder..." Forcing herself to stand up, Elle stood by Matsu, and both watched as Nino walked to the nurse station, asked for Aiba's room number, and then headed up the floors.
Matsu looked at Elle and forced another light smile. "Sorry for putting you in a weird position, Elle," he mused a bit.
"It's fine..." Elle sighed back. "Come on let's go to dinner... again..."
" 'Again'?" Matsu asked.
"Ya... I had dinner already... the cafeteria food here isn't all that good but oh well..." Suddenly Elle appeared to look Matsu in the eye and find a strange eye staring back.
"I hate bad food...." Matsu's face was suddenly contorted a bit in an irritated format. After a half second, Matsu's smile returned, and he was rubbing the back of his head. "Well... maybe we can see if some foods are better than others then...." he tried.
"Ya... true," Elle answered. With that, both started towards the cafeteria.
~*~
Nino stepped out of the elevator Just as he walked out of the elevator, the dark haired man saw what appeared to be a flying Aisling pushing a wheelchair with Mari and Kaki in in. "What the hell?" he said watching them pass. Aisling suddenly stopped and turned back. The dark haired man stared a minute as if completely dumbfounded.
"Uh...." Aisling started.
"Hey it's Emo!" Puck said suddenly grinning. The dark haired man's eyes grew, and in one swift motion, he seized Puck in one hand from the air. "Ow hey ow let go ow...." Puck squirmed but found himself caught in the dark haired man's hand.
"Do I even want to know why?" Nino asked as his voice all but heightened in irritation.
Aisling turned red, and as the sound of feet running down the hallway caught her attention, the red haired girl seemed to fold her wings causing them to disappear. Nino's dark eyes stared for a minute before he turned his head and viewed the stream of nurses that were running through the area. All of them seemed confused and worried. Nino sighed and stared darkly at them all. Putting Puck behind his back, and stepping to all but conceal the cart as well as Aisling, the dark haired man shook his head and made a directional point. The nurses looked confused for a minute yet finally decided to take the dark haired man's point and started running down the hall again. Nino sighed outwards and stepped back again.
"Let... go.. *cough*..." Puck said as he continued to squirm in Nino's fist.
"Um.. I.. uh we...." Aisling started. Mari had buried her face in Kaki's back as if to stifle a giggle.
