Chapter Nineteen, Hospital pt 2.

By the time Yato had woken up, hours had passed. He blinked open his eyes slowly, gazing around the room in confusion before he remembered where he was. The hospital.

"You're finally awake, huh?" Yukine said.

Yato glanced at his Shinki and smiled. "Guess so," he said as he looked at the nurses filtering in and out of the room. "Any nurses come by during my beauty nap?"

Yukine shook his head. "They might have forgotten about us, actually."

Yato gasped in mock horror, hand flying to his chest. "How dare they forget about, I, Yatogami?!" He stood up quickly, and dramatically marched with heavy steps over to the front desk. Once he got there, he cleared his throat as loud as he could. A few seconds passed. "Excuse me?" He said when he realized that the nurse at the front hadn't caught his attention. "Hellooooooo?"

The nurse looked side to side in confusion before spotting Yato right in front of her. She began apologising profusely for not noticing him there and how she had been having a busy day and-

"Just tell me which room I might find Iki Hiyori. You see, I've been friends with her a long time and I just heard that she had been in some sort of accident," he explained, "I just wanna know if she's alright." Yato finished, putting on his best puppy dog eyes as he spoke.

The nurse mumbled something under her breath about not being paid enough as she clicked a few times on her computer. "Lets see...Iki Hiyori," She mumbled quietly, "Aha! She's in room 2214."

Once he had the necessary information, he thanked the nurse and made his way back to where Yukine and a newly-awakened Hiyori were. "I got the room number, lets go."

They found the room easily enough, but the door was closed when they arrived. Hiyori stared at the handle of the door as she twiddled her thumbs nervously. Yato and Yukine both shared a look of worry. Yukine flicked his eyes at Hiyori to signal for Yato to do something. Yato let out a silent puff of air and wrapped his arm around her shoulder.

"I'm sure it will be alright." He said reassuringly. When she didn't respond, he placed his sweaty palm atop her hands.

She startled out of her nervous trance, and stared into his piercing blue eyes, searching his gaze.

"Everything will be okay." He repeated, squeezing her hands within hers.

Hiyori paused for a moment, before turning her body and wrapping her arms around his middle, which surprised both Yato and herself. "Thank you." She whispered into the crook of his neck. She felt completely at ease in his embrace. She inhaled his scent deeply one last time, and released him. "Let's go in."

Yukine was the first to walk in the room, followed by Yato and then Hiyori.

At the sight of her body, Hiyori gasped and hid her face in Yato's jacket. There were all sorts of machines and wires connected to her. There was an IV in her arm that was connected to a bag of saline hanging from a hook on the wall, a mask over her mouth that helped her breathe, a monitor showing her stats, as well as at least two other machines.

They all stood in silence for what seemed like an eternity. Hiyori gathered her courage and glanced at her body once more."You know, I think I'm fine," Hiyori said after inspecting the machines for a few minutes, "they may have an oxygen mask on me, but that seems to be the only thing drastic used. All of the other things are just things that monitor my status and stuff." She explained.

Yukine visibly relaxed. "Phew, that makes me glad."

Yato, on the other hand, didn't seem convinced. "We should get you back into your body as soon as possible."

"Right," Hiyori faced her body, arms out. She stood like that for a few seconds before glancing at Yato and Yukine again, a worried expression on her face. "Uh," she mumbled, "Its not working."

Yato's eyebrows knitted together as his lips pulled into a tight line. Hiyori and Yukine shared a look.

"Geez, I thought you had the hang of it," Yukine laughed after a few minutes, trying to ease the thick atmosphere. "I mean, how many times have you done it unwillingly?"

Hiyori forced out a laugh, "heh, yeah..."

Yato remained silent as he stared at Hiyori's body, deep in thought.

"Anyway..." Hiyori started, "we should go see if there is anything medically wrong with me."

"Yeah! Maybe there's something they know that could be blocking you or something."

"Coming, Yato?" Hiyori asked as the began walking out of the room.

'Hm?" Yato glance up, the dark expression disappearing the second he locked eyes with Hiyori. "Oh yeah."

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As easy as finding out which room they had put Hiyori in, finding out what was wrong with Hiyori was a different story. Every one of the nurses on the floor refused to release any information on Hiyori since she was the chiefs daughter, (which apparently the nurse on the first floor was unaware of.)

They spent hours slinking around the hospital, attempting to find out what was wrong Hiyori's body. They had almost given up hope when Yama and Ami came barging into the hospital, panting like they'd just ran a marathon.

"There's Yama and Ami!" Hiyori exclaimed, "I'm sure my father will tell them everything. Let's follow em!"

Sure enough, the girls ran straight to Dr. Iki.

Ami was the first one to regain the ability to speak after their 'fun' time trying to locate the doctor. "Is she gonna be alright?" She asked, still panting slightly.

Dr. Iki's smiled as he looked at the two girls. "Well, her CT was clean and they didn't find anything abnormal on any of her physical exams," He said, "it seems like she's just having one of her sleeping spells."

The girls (as well as Yato, Yukine, and Hiyori) sighed in relief.

"I'm so glad." Yama said, relief clear in her tone.

"Me too." Ami agreed.

"I'm sure you two need to get going home. It's getting late and I'm sure your parents must be getting worried." Dr. Iki said.

Yama pulled out her cell phone from her pocket and clicked it on.

7:37 PM

"You're right. C'mon, Ami, we should go say hi and then head out." Yama grabbed ahold of her friends arm and yanked her toward Hiyori's room.

As soon as the girls left, Dr. Iki's smile cracked and faded away. He rubbed the bridge of his nose with his index finger and thumb, and sighed deeply. He turned and spoke to the nurse beside him. "There's nothing to explain her state as of now, but I know this is not like her usual sleeping spell. I want you to run more tests on her. I don't care how long it takes, but we will find out what's causing it."

"Right away, Dr. Iki."

Hiyori glanced at Yato, whose face has morphed into a what looked like a mixture of anger and sadness. "Don't worry, I'm sure I'll be able get into my body soon," she said reassuringly. She wasn't sure who she was trying to reassure, herself or Yato and Yukine.

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I AM SO FREAKING SORRY FOR THE EXTREMELY LONG WAIT!!!!!!!!

A lot of stuff has been going down in School and I haven't had much time to write. The play I signed up for has started practices after school THREE TIMES A WEEK for two hours every time. Plus there's been a bunch of essays in English and a ton of stuff in art to do. The only reason I finished this chapter was because I've been on March break. I got down to business's few days ago and wrote all of this chapter plus some of the next one before I had to travel (visiting family). I hope to have next chapter ready ASAP! Be sure to look out every Thursday because that's when I update if I have chapters! Don't forget to vote and comment your thoughts! I love hearing from you guys and it really rEALLY helps me write knowing I have an audience. Until next time!