Kokichi's POV

This whole thing is making me lose my mind...having all of these wounds and scars that make me unable to do the things I would usually be able to do. When Shuichi leaves the room I can't randomly walk behind him and give him a kiss on the back of his neck or a hug anymore...I can't even get out of bed...I just feel so weak like this.

I'm glad that Shuichi is here with me because he is the only one that understands how much I absolutely hate to be babied...or seen as weak. I don't think I would be able to continue on with all of this if Shuichi wasn't here with me every step of the way. This was all my fault anyway...he shouldn't have to stay here all day to be with me constantly. Wrapping my bandages after removing and cleaning the old ones, putting the ointment on my wounds and scars to get them to heal, having to have to see me in this much pain...I hate having to see him sad and even if we are in this situation I want him to be able to smile as much as he can, even if that just means I hug him or tell a dumb joke to make him laugh.

I woke up again just as all the days before to be met with Shuichi sitting next to me on the bed. "Oh, good morning Kokichi," He said with a smile before moving to plant a kiss on my forehead. I smiled a bit at the action before I looked over to the door to see Maki standing in the door frame. What is she doing here?

"His wounds have almost healed...so we need to get him started on some rehabilitation exercises and medication." Maki said, gesturing to Shuichi. He moved back and grabbed my hands and helped me stand for the first time in months. My legs were all shaky and I was only able to stand for a couple of seconds before I fell against Shuichi. He held my back and one of my hands while helping me stand up again.

"Thanks," I mumbled as Maki left. My whole body was aching at having to move out of the bed. Shuichi just held me and whispered sweet things into my ear as I felt tears coming to my eyes. Why does this have to hurt so much...?

"Maki told me we have to start doing exercises before bed to get your strength back...I will be here to help you if you need me to," He said again before I nodded and clung to him with all of my strength. He smiled and patted my back and slowly moved back a bit helping me stand upright again. I looked at him a little confused before he took a step back. I got what he was doing and took a step forward as well before falling into his chest again.

"I know this isn't ideal Kichi...but know I want you to be able to walk again...because I know it has been killing you to have to stay in bed all the time." He said quietly while rubbing the back of my hand before moving it to gently brush through my hair.

"Ok...thank you for helping me." I said with a small frown. This is going to be hell on Earth...not that the whole situation we are in isn't...

. . .

"You have to start doing some exercises to get your legs and arms back into shape...I'm here to help you do them, but please try your best," I looked up at him with a big frown. He sighed and grabbed my hand helping me stand.

He felt a lot stronger than he was before...but I'm pretty sure that is mostly because I have lost a lot of my strength from not moving around. I groaned while some tears came to the corners of my eyes. I couldn't help letting them come to my eyes...the exercises are painful...moving any of my limbs hurts like hell. Fire burning through all of my nerves at the slightest movement, burning sensations with the slightest touch.

Maki and Kirumi wanted to make sure I was doing squats, lunges, sit ups, and push ups. This was all to make sure that my muscles would be strong even though I was stuck in bed for about a month or so. This whole thing is making my head spin. The pain is too much and my head is starting to hurt...I don't want to have to do this, but I can't give up.

"Shuichi..." I groaned. I was biting my lip to try to conceal the pain I was feeling. I didn't want Shuichi feeling bad about any of this...so I'm keeping all the screams and cries that want to come out of my throat inside so he doesn't have to hear them. I'm happy that even though he hates seeing me suffer he isn't babying me like anyone else would...but I know it's killing him inside to have to watch me suffer while he just watches unable to help me..

"I'm sorry baby...but we are almost finished, just get your pushups done and then we have to do your sit ups," He whispered. My whole body was on fire while I was finishing them up. Every pushup burned, every sit up scorched my wounds, every squat ached throughout my whole body

"Ok..." I whispered standing up before shakily getting down on my knees. I was still wearing the loose shirt with the shorty shorts when I still had all those bandages all over me. They made me do this so my wounds could heal from exposure and because they wanted to be able to easily monitor the healing process.

I soon started doing my remaining exercises without another word. While I was doing my exercises I was breathing through my nose. I'm doing this so I wasn't taking in big breaths and breathing quickly and loudly through my mouth. This was also because it also concealed my pained groans and breathlessness. I wanted to scream and cry but I knew better than anyone that it would just make it take so much longer in the end.

"Finished," I said, sounding breathless. He rubbed his hand on my back with a sad smile. I felt so guilty for making him frown...I could have gone back with him back then, but Maki needed help and I was able to take the role of a helpful partner to her so we could take care of them before the situation got so much worse. I

"I'm so proud of you love...I know this is hard, but know that I love you and I am so proud of you for sticking to it," He said, placing a kiss on both of my cheeks. I smiled a bit before I slowly stood up. I quickly wrapped my arms around his neck.

"Kokichi?" He asked knowing we should be getting to the main room for dinner. But I just held him there for a moment while we just stood in silence.

"Can we just stay like this for a moment?" I asked, making him smile while he wrapped his arms around my upper back.

"Of course my love," He whispered into my ear before he pulled back to kiss my forehead.

"We should go and get something to eat though...then we can cuddle after because of how much progress you have made," He said, pulling away but still holding onto my hands. I intertwined our fingers and looked up at him with a smile.

"You want to cuddle anyway~ you can't hide that from me Shu~," I teased while he blushed.

"Y-Yeah," He stuttered as he helped me walk out to the main room. Everyone else was either just getting their food or finishing up, so me and Shuichi just came in and ate in silence.

I didn't eat everything on my plate, but I was trying my hardest to eat more for Shuichi. Eating still made my stomach hurt because of stress and because of my wounds. He held my hand while he slowly brought it up to his face. He kissed my knuckles and smiled as he pulled back.

"Shuichi?" I asked, giving him a skeptical look. What was with the random kiss? I mean we are together but it was so random. He soon laughed and smiled.

"I'm just so proud of you," He said again before we went to clean up from dinner.

When we made it back to the room we both got into the shower to clean off, we have been trying to shower more often to stay more clean. It isn't that different from taking showers before all of this because I always took cold showers anyway. I noticed Shuichi was just staring at my face, not that I mind him staring at me...but I could tell he zoned out.

"Hey," I said, snapping my fingers. He jumped a bit from how zoned out he was.

"Y-Yeah?"He asked. I slowly moved my hands to his hair to scrub more of the soap into his hair before I grabbed his hands and moved them into his own hair. He smiled and started to gently scrub the soap into my hair. I felt my shoulders relax as he was washing my hair.

"You feeling tired," He whispered as I was slowly bobbing my head. I slowly moved my head and nodded before responding. I was feeling the exhaustion come over me as it always does a little after my exercises.

"Always..." I whispered. I remembered all the times Shuichi would come home from work absolutely exhausted and I would make fun of him for being so tired...but now both of us, mostly me, being completely exhausted to the point of passing out was basically the norm at this point.

"Well then let's dry you off before we get to bed..." He whispered gently leading me out of the shower after turning off the water. I slumped against him as he dried me off. I am really getting even more tired than him...or maybe I always was and it's just more noticeable now...I would believe that, because I am always exhausted but I am always hiding my real emotions or feelings from everyone including myself so who knows...

He snapped me out of my thoughts by tucking me into bed before he dried his own hair and got into his pajamas. I looked over at him before I fell asleep.

. . .

After weeks of my healing and my rehabilitation I was finally able to walk around again without needing Shuichi's help. It was nice being able to walk around again without being in super intense pain...and I feel more free being able to move around and hug and Kiss Shuichi randomly to make him blush. I missed this~, I was walking into the main room where Shuichi was sitting while he smiled seeing me walk into the room and I loved every second of it.

"Fuyuhiko? Why are you calling?" Maki questioned into the phone looking surprised that he was able to contact us. And I can't blame her. We never get calls from people outside of the people in our group.

"You don't mean..." She whispered for a moment while she frowned even more. There is no way this can be good....

"I understand..." She put the communicator on the table before assembling the group together. What's going on? I looked at Shuichi confused as I walked over to sit next to him.

"They found Fuyuhiko...and he needs our help," She whispered. Fuyuhiko can usually handle himself...but if they are contacting us about this something must have happened.

I looked up at him with a frown and fear in my eyes. He gently patted my hand before taking it in my own. I don't want Shuichi to get hurt if the group is involved with this...if they capture him...I can't let that happen...

-I'm going to start a youtube channel where I will be reading my own stories! I have already set it up...but it will probably take me a week or so to get the first video out! Thank you all so much for reading!!-

-ShuichiOuma010-