Chapter 28

When Tackey and Tsubasa finally returned from their business trip and honeymoon and read the reports left on their desk, they demanded to see their subordinates as soon as possible, but finding out that two of their best men were down, they were not able to do anything until both of them were up. They tried to keep their cool as much as they could while Ueda ran around, tending to both of his patients and Junno, Maru and Koki continued with their missions and some physiotherapy. Punishment however was definitely in line for KAT-TUN when they’d all feel better.

Jin was back in bed and wasn’t allowed to leave his room. Most of the time, Pi or Koki would be in his room, guarding him in case he wanted to leave his room to look for Kame. He cursed and mumbled about having no freedom. Ueda was harsh with him since he was stressed from tending to Kame. Knowing that Jin would surely misbehave, he carefully put small doses of sedatives into Jin’s system so that he would sleep as much as possible.

~*~

“Jin!….Jin!…Help me!…Help me!” Kame whimpered, twisting around in his bed. He was in too much pain from the chemicals that were hitting in his body; he felt pain everywhere but he knew it was the best way to get himself better so he continued to stay and bear the pain. Sometimes it was so painful he would scream so loudly that everyone in their headquarters can hear Kame scream, the juniors not really knowing what was happening thought it was just some training for Kame but it would be so painful for Kame that he would go unconscious, fainting from all the pain he was in. Ueda had reduced the dose of sedatives bit by bit and Kame felt more pain as his pain receptors were activated. It was awfully painful and he wasn’t able to do anything about it.

Ueda came in to get another blood sample. He frowned, seeing Kame in pain again, unconsciously crying out for Jin. These were the worst times for Ueda, when he came in before another dose of the small amount of sedatives and saw Kame in such a state.

‘How are you Kame?’ Ueda asked, sitting next to Kame on the bed,

‘Tat-chan…I’m in so much pain…help me…’ Kame opened his teary eyes as Ueda tried to smile and slowly wiped away the tears from Kame’s face,

‘Just a little bit more, Kame, you’re almost there, we’ve passed the 50% mark today. Isn’t it good news?’

Kame nodded, ‘Jin…I want to see him…but…’

‘I know you don’t want him to see you suffering…but Kame…there are times-‘

‘No! I can’t let him see me like this…it’s my punishment for taking those innocent lives!’ Kame started crying again, ‘I deserve it…’

Ueda sighed, not wanting to hear his younger brother-like friend say things like that, but wasn’t able to say any comforting words back. He wasn’t a psychologist and counselor like Masuda, but then again that guy was more of a brain psycholgist and not really into helping those needed counselling. Ueda himself wasn’t just the type to just comfort people.

‘Say…if you have enough energy, why don’t you write a short note to Jin?’ Ueda asked,

‘A note…?’ Kame asked,

‘Well, that gluttonous baka hasn’t been stuffing himself with too much food, but with my sedatives, so that he’d stay in bed without seeing you. I don’t have time to bother with those at the moment since me and Maru are still in surveillance at Kimura’s headquarters…under Tsuyoshi-sama’s orders…I even accidentally got Koki into this and I shouldn’t have…I’m equally in trouble with the bosses too…’

‘What did Kimura-sama do?’ Kame asked,

‘I’ll explain later, all you need to do now is to get better. Same with that baka…’Ueda smiled, ‘As I was saying, a note will make him sit still for awhile, I hope,’

‘I’ll get that done as soon as I can…’ Kame replied, closing his eyes, finally being too exhausted from the work of Ueda’s sedatives,

Ueda smiled as he brushed away some of Kame’s bangs from his face, leaving the room quietly to allow Kame to sleep,

After Ueda quietly closed the door, he turned around to see Junno sitting waiting in the hallway, in front of Kame’s room. He smiled innocently at Ueda,

Ueda turned away, ignoring the fact that Junno was there, 

“Ueda…Look, I’m sorry…” Junno said, looking down,

“…” Ueda continued to just stand there, not saying anything. He was still angry at Junno

“I got carried away. I never thought that I would master Gatoutsu when Jin and I started training, I can’t help-“ Junno explained,

“Jin is neither a reason nor an excuse for you to fight Wentz, even if we used this pair for this mission because of personal matters,” Ueda explained feeling guilty as well for what he has done, his back still facing Junno,

Junno wasn’t able to say anything else and he looked down frowning. He knew that he had lost again at trying to say sorry to Ueda. What he had done this time had been the worst.

Ueda sighed. He missed Junno to the point where he couldn’t take it anymore, with all the stress bearing on him. His eyes watered as tears started to fall from the beautiful boy’s eyes.

Still looking down, Junno saw drops of water hitting the floor near Ueda’s feet and, after looking up, he quickly walked towards Ueda and wrapped his arms around him from behind.

Kissing the other’s hair, he held him tighter, knowing that Ueda needed comfort. Ueda held onto Junno’s arms as he cried out quietly, allowing the tears to fall.

“I’m sorry…” Junno apoligised again, “But I’m still alive…I’m still here,”

Ueda turned around and started hitting Junno’s chest as he cried in his arms, “You bastard! You idiotic otaku! You…Baka!!!”

“Shhhh…it’s ok... everything will be fine soon. Kame’s back, right? Just that he’s a little tired, and Jin will be up stuffing himself with food soon…” Junno comforted the crying boy as he rocked themselves back and forth.

“Don’t…ever do something that stupid anymore…” Ueda ordered with watery eyes but also with an angry expression on his face,

Junno smiled and leaned in to kiss Ueda’s forehead, “It’s ok, you’re the doctor, you’ll fix me up…” Junno smiled, looking at Ueda,

“Next time, I’ll refuse to mend you up,” Ueda eyed him, “I can still choose whether I want to heal you or not, depending on your stupidty”

“You won’t be that mean, Tat-chan…” Junno whispered into Ueda’s ears, but pulled away to kiss Ueda’s cold lips.

The kiss was brief but enough to calm Ueda down, who blushed, looking down and sniffing from crying. In a way, it was a cute scene to see Ueda broken up a bit and unguarded.

“Better…?” Junno smiled,

“I better check up on Jin and see how Maru’s doing with that report.” Ueda said, trying to pull away,

“I’ll come by your room tonight then, Tat-chan,” Junno smiled as he saw Ueda turn around; he was finally able to sleep in Ueda’s room again.

“OK! Training time!~” Junno stretched as he headed towards the combat room to train his juniors.

~*~

In the tech room, Maru was typing up the report to the Domoto family about Kimura’s drug reaserch. He was pretty much behind with all his work as he was given more hacking missions by the Domoto family and some business computing work by his own bosses. After Tackey and Tsuabasa returned, he was the victim they were picking on, especially after they had been on a business trip, getting new clients and opening new accounts to spread their black market and illegal business. He was currently on his 4^th all-nighter.

Ueda entered the tech room and grabbed his own black amd silver laptop that he always kept in Marus’s room,

“Send me the report you’re working on and go ahead with Tackey-sama’s business stuff,” Ueda ordered,

A file was quickly sent to Ueda’s computer as Ueda opened it and started typing on the detailed report about Kimura’s drugs. He took out his medical papers and added more information about the drugs and simple cures for them.

“Done with the arugument?” Maru asked, sipping his coffee and typing on the accounts,

Ueda nodded and smiled, remembering that he and Junno had made up,

“Just next time, no more making out in the hallway, please,” Maru teased and smiled at the other

Ueda blushed, looking down, and continued typing as he ignored the remark, thinking that Maru had definitely learned the teasing thing from Koki.

“But then again…” Maru added, “when those two are up I don’t think you guys will be known as the love birds anymore,” Maru scratched his head,

Ueda sighed, knowing the fact that those two had been flirting around or running away from each other since they had met. But he felt that something had changed between those two; it felt like the bond between them was stronger and more intimate. Were those two already in a relationship? Had Kame told Jin already? It made Ueda worry about what to do and if the gang would accept the fact that Kame and Jin were together. Would the juniors accept those two or would they just brush it off like how the juniors and everyone else had done when he and Junno told the whole gang about their relationship?

~*~

Koki knocked and entered into Jin’s room to bring him the food for that night,

“I said I’m not eating until I get to see Kame,” Jin said from the bed,

Koki smiled, knowing that he had something to finally pursuade Jin to go on with his healing process,

“Well then I’ll just throw these out and probably this too,” Koki said, showing Jin a note,

‘Note…what the…’ Jin looked up to see the small piece of paper with his name on it. He could definitely recognise the handwriting; it was Kame’s…

“Gimmeeeeeeeee!!!!!” Jin whined out like a boy having his toys taken away,

“Ah…but you said to dump all these things out…” Kok waved it around as Jin tried to grab it from him,

“Koooookiiiiiiiiiiiii” Jin whined and pouted like a child.

“Ok, ok…man I can’t resist when you do all that, it’s so annoying…” Koki placed the food tray on Jin’s lap, “Food first and then you can have your love letter,”

Jin quickly ate up, although he found it hard to swallow since he hadn’t taken in much food recently, but wanting to see what Kame had written, he stuffed himself and finished as soon as possible. He then looked up at Koki like a child waiting for his treat.

Koki gave him the note but Jin didn’t move to read it; instead he kept silent and stared at Koki,

Getting the message, Koki got up, “Fine, fine, I’ll get out…enjoy your love letter, Bakanishi, you lovesick idiot…” and left.

Jin opened the small note from the folded paper. He saw Kame’s beautiful writing on it but he could tell that it had taken Kame a lot of energy to write that. Even if it consisted of only a few words he know Kame was trying as much as he could.

Dear Jin,

I know it’s painful for both of us not to see each other, but I am worried about you. Please understand that you need to tend to your wounds without hurting yourself and with me as your burden, I don’t want you to get hurt more than you’ve already had. I have been feeling guilty enough so please don’t make me feel even more guiltier by allowing myself to stay with you. I miss you a lot and if I had the energy, I would have come to see you and touch your face but I can’t.

I am fine though and will try my best to get better, then I will come back to you. Please take care of yourself, at least get better for me.

Kame

After reading the letter Jin leaned back onto his pillow, closing his eyes. He knew that he needed to get better. If by all means it was his only way to see Kame.

~*~

Another few weeks had passed. Jin was back onto his feet for training. Takcey and Tsubasa however were more determined to get them to explain, but with Kame still in bed, AT-TUN tried to push the meeting further away and to prevent any more pressure given to them. They knew that the punishment wouldn’t be like the easy ones they had gone through as Juniors. They would need as much energy as possible for them. He was happy that he was able to get back on his feet to train his juniors. Even with his injury, Jin was able to do some face to face combat but was down a few times because of his unjury.

The juniors were taking advantage of seeing their senior pretty much out of shape and didn’t hesitate to hit Jin with full force as payback for the hard training and beatings they had received from Jin. But Jin brushed it off, telling himself that this was also a way for him to get stronger. It doesn’t matter if his whole group of juniors got together and knocked him out. Training and getting stronger was his main goal.

After a whole day of training, Jin was finally able to go back to his room. Entering his room, although dark, he could still see a figure standing on his bed.

The figure turned around and smiled at him; it was Kame who seemed to be back on his feet… Kame who was approaching him, taking a towel to wipe off the sweat from Jin’s face.

“Ueda allowed me to get out. My blood is now 80% detoxifed, so he allowed me to get myself back on my feet,” Kame smiled,

Jin felt as if he was a dream, seeing Kame next to him. He grabbed the other, pulled him into his embrace and held him tightly. This time, he would never let go of Kame.

“Tadaima…” Kame whispered next to Jin’s ear and kissed it,

Jin’s embrace got tighter and tighter. Closing his eyes, he let his skin absorb the other’s warmth, “Okaeri….Okaeri…” With those words, he closed his lips onto the other one’s in a kiss full of all the love and longing gathered till now. His lover was back.