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rwfanficrw · 6 months ago

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POTS - After Move In/Kento Eating Cye's Food

This was an idea my friend came up with. Kento unintentionally makes Cye's POTS worse when they move back in together. He thinks Cye's not hungy and eats his food. This was part of an RP we did and this continues it.

Basically Cye was too polite to say no and the food that Sage and Mia specifically made for him and his dietary needs was eaten by Kento.

This is also the story that I swear I almost wrote Sage x Kento.

Ryo looks between Sage and Kento and then to Cye and Rowen. He sighs and tugs Kento by his arm, “Come on, lets go heat some water up.”

“We’re going to help him upstairs.” Sage calls back as they walk out. “I can carry him and-“

“Let’s go Kento.” With force Ryo pulled the other out leaving the other three behind him. The light is flicked off above their heads like Cye had requested when all of this started.

“I-I don’t want to go upstairs.. I don’t want to hide.” Cye’s voice shook as he tried to speak and fight the synscope that had come on while everyone was arguing. “…I-I just want the couch, my heating blanket…a-and…” He blushes looking down, “Rowen.”

Rowen looks over his head to Sage. They both knew a fainting spell was coming and it wouldn’t do any good to have it on the stairs.

“…tired of everyone f-fighting…”

Rowen reaches out catching him as Cye sags into him. Sage steadied the two of them as best he could before they both lowered the unconscious warrior to the floor.

He sat down gently moving Cye’s head to his lap holding it there. He hears Sage sit down as well and gently move the smaller body to where it wasn’t restricting blood flow.

“You ok?”

Sage wasn’t really asking, he knew it was a rhetorical question. Sage KNEW how he felt about people thinking Cye was weak.

He just shrugs unable to look the blonde in the eye, “…dunno. I don’t like them treating him like he’s weak just because he faints. And don’t say anythin’ Sage.”

“All I was going to say was they are still getting used to this. We know what Cye can do if given the chance and patience. They don’t.”

“Yeah? Well they need to learn real quick because it’s getting’ old. You can just see his face drop every time Kento questions if he should be doin’ somethin’.”

Sage sighs nodding. Rowen’s accent was coming out more than usual, it meant he was angry. “I know.”

“Then how do we fix it?”

“We talk to Kento outside away from him. Snapping at Kento in front of Cye is just going to cause all of this to happen more. You know how much Cye hates fighting between the five of us.”

“I know. It’s why he gave in and just gave Kento his food. I could have strangled Kento when he accepted it twice.” Rowen’s eyes were dark, he wasn’t happy.

“What? He can’t keep doing that. Cye has to eat. The results came back from the doctor, I thought it was strange but I guess its not abnormal.. since we’ve moved here he’s lost 6lb.”

“W-What?”

The bearer of Halo nods, “The paperwork is up in Mia’s office.. he has to eat properly and Kento needs to learn to back off.”

“Oh. He will. Once Cye wakes back up, we’re going to help him to the couch then I’m going to find Kento myself.”

“Rowen don’t start anything.”

“I’m going to finish it.”

A groggy moan interrupted the conversation. Rowen hunched over smiling down at the youngest warrior as a pair of unfocused green eyes stared back up at him, “Take it easy, buddy. I’m here. So is Sage.”

Sage sits back relieved that he had woken up a lot quicker than expected. “I’m here, Cye. Don’t force yourself to wake up. Just take your time.”

He looks around the dark room and sees the empty fireplace and gets an idea. He gets to his feet and leaves the room without another word.

Rowen tilts his head confused but drops his gaze back down to Cye at feeling a cold hand reach up and attempt to find where he was. He felt a slight cold touch from Cye’s hand making a very brief contact. He catches the hand and places it against the side of his face. “I’m right here. You’re on the floor in the living room.”

“…everyone was fighting..” The voice was barely audible and came out in heavily accented English.

He sighs and answers back in English, “I know. I’m sorry buddy. Kento just needs to stop taking your food and needs to chill out. We all do.” He finds himself placing a light kiss in the palm of the cold hand he was holding. “We’ll work harder on not fighting. We’re all just worried about you.”

He looks down quietly waiting. He knew he wouldn’t get a verbal response from that, not because Cye didn’t have something to say but he would still be coming back. Conversations were very one sided while he recovered from fainting. Sometimes he wouldn’t remember what they had talked about in the haze and other times he would continue the conversation an hour later without any warning.

Both were slightly terrifying.

He watched as Cye’s eyes grew heavy then shut. He waited to see if it were another fainting spell but the other just relaxed. He smiles squeezing the hand he was holding. “That’s right. Just relax.”

He looked back up wondering where Sage ran off to.

*~*

“Kento, do you want to be useful?”

Kento and Ryo turned around to see Sage coming into the kitchen. The blonde was dressed in a heavy jacket and boots. He had jackets in his hand.

Kento tilted his head, “Where are you off to?”

“Answer the question. I’m in no mood for your nonsense right now.”

“What?”

Ryo groaned sensing yet another fight starting. “Ok Sage we get it. What do you need us for?”

“We’re going to light a fire in the fireplace. Now Kento, can you help me get wood then quietly put it in the fireplace without scaring Cye or do I need to do it myself.”

Kento looked partially upset, insulted, and confused before he nods catching his jacket. “U-Uh sure, dude… lead the way.”

“I’m guessing I’m the fire starter?” Ryo asks as he follows them to the door.

“if you’re up for it.”

Wildfire grins, “Always.”

*~*

Kento follows Sage outside into the dark cold landscape, it was still snowing outside. He shrugs his jacket on looking around, “Where are we going anyway?”

“To get wood. Didn’t you chop some up earlier?”

“Yeah, its by the back door.” He leads the blonde down the snow covered walkway to the back door. “Here.. is that enough for you?”

“It’ll do. Three logs should be enough?”

“Should be. Sage what’s with the attidude, dude?”

Sage sighs heavily before looking back to Kento, “You have to stop taking Cye’s food.”

“He wasn’t hungry and-“

“He’s never hungry, Kento. It’s a side affect of the POTS. What little he does eat can upset his stomach and leave him miserable.. but if he’s not forced to eat he will have several fainting spells and be too weak to get off the couch. If he does eat but its too much at once, he’ll be in the bathroom throwing up all night.”

“Ok so I won’t do that anymore.”

“That’s not enough, Kento.”

“I don’t know what else you want me to do and-“

“Listen to what’s going on. Watch what we’re doing and try to learn so you can help. You assume so much because of how “close” you and Cye were before all of this. Now instead of helping you’re making things worse. I’m sorry its not what you want to hear but we can’t have you messing things up.”

“What are you saying?”

“I’m saying, either back off and learn or I’ll keep you away myself. I’m barely holding Rowen back as it is. If I weren’t here, he’d have used Strata and blasted your ass back to Saturn already.”

“Ok, so it’s just food and-“

“Not “just food”. Since we’ve moved here Cye has lost six pounds.” Sage finally stated ignoring the cold snowy wind as it swirled around them. “It took us almost half a year to gain that back last time.”

Kento’s face dropped.

“Every meal I make him is specially “crafted” so he gets what nutrients he needs. Even if he doesn’t eat the full meal in one sitting, it can be warmed up for a second or third time. Just as long as he eats. If he doesn’t …well let’s just say there are some more extreme options the doctor is threatening us with. You taking his food is making all of this worse. He’s only offering it so you’ll stop bothering everyone. You know he hates us fighting with each other. Just stop making things so difficult.”

Kento had to look away and attempt to bite back tears. He was a tough guy, tough guys don’t cry…but it was hard. Especially when he’s messed up his best friend.

Sage watched him realizing what he’d done. “I’m sorry Kento…I just.. we can’t have him going backwards. You do understand that right?”

“I-I know…” The other turns back, obvious tears in his eyes that he was trying to hide. “J-Just have to be gentler with my best buddy. You guys always said I was too rough with him. I was always worried that I’d hurt him… now I did.”

“Look,” The blonde sighs realizing he’d made a mess. “Let’s get this wood inside and light the fire. He fainted on us before he could even leave the room and he was adamant about not going upstairs. Can we not argue anymore at least for tonight?”

“I-I don’t know man, I don’t want to be too loud. I’ll carry it inside but then you can put it in the fireplace. My buddy needs peace and quiet and lets’ face it, ol hard head isn’t quiet. I’m loud and clumbsy.”

Sage nods not sure what to say and follows him in. He’d wanted Kento to understand this for years but never knew he actually did. Now he had a weird pit in his stomach growing… was it regret? He actually felt bad for how he’d said it. Rowen had been warning him that words have meaning and to watch how he said things but he never really understood it until now. “Hey Kento..”

Kento stopped at the door carrying six logs in his arms like it was nothing, “Yeah?”

“I need you to carry the wood into the living room.”

“But you..”

Sage rolled his shoulder smiling as best as he can, “Threw my shoulder out trying to pick one up. Guess it’s up to you.”

The other tilted his head before smiling happily.

“Just do it quietly. As quietly as you can. I’m sure he’ll be glad to see you.” Sage followed him in relieved to see the other look normal again, not that he’d ever admit it. “QUIETLY Kento.”

“Says the one yelling “quiet”.” Kento responded in a whisper as he kicked his boots off. “You just rest you’re pretty rich boy shoulder… let the men take care of the man work.”

The blonde glared daggers, “What the-“

“Just take it easy. I’ll help ya to the couch later.”

He watched Kento go into the room and grumbles, “Like hell he will.”

“We don’t have to do this.” Rowen states as he helps Cye out of the car.

Annnd random Christmas Drabble apparently. Rowen’s a smart ass in this one:

“I do. She may dislike me, but she’s still my mother and it’s Christmas, Rowen.” Cye got out looking down the worn stone path walkway. He looks up and doesn’t see a lot of black smoke coming out, “She’s not using the kiln that I can see. I may go check that afterwards and make sure she hasn’t unintentionally caused problems with it.”

Rowen looks back to Sage as he got out as well. “Kilns. Did you hear that? He wants to go down there.”

“We’ll go as far as his body will let him.” The blonde shrugged giving the other a look that said leave it be. He had already planned for a flare up afterwards and was prepared at either Mia’s house or Cye’s apartment… and if that didn’t work, Osaka wasn’t as far away and his family offered to let them stay.

Cye took a deep breath before he started down towards the main door. He prayed she was in a good mood otherwise they were going to be kicked out. His main concern was

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rwfanficrw · 6 months ago

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Beginning Cont. 2

So after digging more into POTS and getting on POTS tiktok, I learned that sadly it's so hard to get diagnosed that people can go YEARS without help.

So I rewrote some of the beginning and had them going through the same thing.

Beginning 3

(cont after they say they’ll take hhim to the doctor)

“What do you mean it’s nothin’?” Rowen exclaimed angrily. “He’s fainted on you three times in the last two hours!”

“His blood work is coming back perfectly fine minus a sodium deficiency. That can be fixed with a proper diet.” The doctor explains calmly nodding to Cye. “You could also be stressed or tired. I’m recommending you a weeks of bed rest.”

“A-A week? And that will fix it?” The water bearer asks hopefully.

“It should.”

“He can’t keep food down, what does he eat while “resting”?” Sage asks having to forcibly hold Rowen back from jumping the doctor.

“Soft bland foods. Treat this like you’ve got a really bad cold or the flu.”

Cye looks to the other two unsure how to respond. He was half relieved that maybe all it was, was a really bad cold or the flu.. but deep down, like the other two, he didn’t believe it.

“I am putting an appointment for a week from now. We will regroup and see how you are feeling. Complete bed rest, Mr. Mouri. No getting up unless its absolutely necessary.”

*~*

“That lady is crazy!” Rowen grumbled as he wrapped an arm around Cye’s shoulder walking him out of the hospital.

“Maybe a week in bed would help the symptoms? What if it is just a really bad cold?” The younger one offered nervously.

“Do ya really believe that? Have you ever had a cold or the flu make you faint without warning?”

“I-I don’t know, Rowen. I have to try.” He sighs frustrated. “I am upset that nothing else came out of it… no medicine or diet change, just rest. But I’ve got nothing else to do to fix it.” He then forces a smile as Sage pulls his car up.

He watches as the blonde gets out before opening the back passenger seat, “Here. I’ll drive us home.”

“Well at least you two won’t have to worry any more with any of this. I can take care of myself and you two can go about your normal lives.”

Sage and Rowen glanced at each other before shaking their heads. “No way, buddy. I’m not leavin’ ya. I don’t trust what that doc is sayin’.”

“I agree. We’ll try this bed rest out but with supervision. The last thing you need is to hit your head when you faint by yourself.” Sage nods as he helps Cye into the backseat. “Besides, you need someone to cook and clean for you if you’re on bed rest.”

“I-I couldn’t ask that of you and-“

“You didn’t ask. We’re volunteering. Sit back and buckle yourself in.” The bearer of halo instructs before closing the passenger door. “Now just close your eyes and relax. We’ll be home within an hour or so.”

Rowen gets into the front passenger seat looking into the rearview mirror as the youngest warrior attempts to do what he’s told. “Sage, hang on.” He unbuckles himself and gets out moving to the backseat. He moves to the middle and buckles himself in before he pulls Cye to his side, “Go on, Cye. Just rest. You don’t have to go through this alone.”

*~*

Sage lifted his eyes to the rearview mirror after hearing a moan of discomfort from one of the people in the back, “Cye? Are you ok?”

“…I’m alright. Just a bit sick to my stomach.” He admits quietly shifting uncomfortably in his seat leaning against Rowen some more.

“Is it flu sick or-?”

“Not really… it feels like motion sickness, but I’ve never gotten that before and we’re only on the city streets…” Cye sat up hunching over. “…S-Sage please pull over.”

“Right here?”

“Don’t have much of a choice-“ Rowen unbuckled his friend and opened the door on the side of road. He pushes him out onto the grass just in time for the water bearer to get sick. He keeps a hand on his back turning back to Sage worried.

The blonde took a deep breath before he unbuckles and gets out carefully before hurrying over to them. As he suspected not much came back up thankfully but his friend looked in agony. He watches as Cye leans himself back against the side of his car. “You ok?”

“…I don’t understand. I’m so dizzy all of a sudden.” Cye tries to force a smile so as not worry either one of them, “…I-I’m sorry…I think I’m going t-to pass-“

Rowen turns around just in time to catch the younger warrior as he sags to the side. “….its just the flu.” He states looking to Sage. “He just needs bed rest.”

The other doesn’t respond only sitting back on the grassy dirt side of the road. It obviously wasn’t the flu or a cold. He knew bed rest wouldn’t fix it, it probably wouldn’t even put a “dent” into the symptoms.

He should have said something. Should have stood up for Cye in front of the doctor. He should have joined Rowen when he got upset.

He lifts his head hearing the usual weak gasp then grown of life as the younger warrior starts to move again. He swallows his nerves and smiles as best he can getting up on his knees to help Rowen sit Cye up. “W-Welcome back. You weren’t out but a few minutes. T-Take your time.” His voice broke at seeing his friends usually bright green eyes were glazed over and unfocused.

*~*

Cye lifts his head off Rowen’s shoulder as he feels the car stop. It was a different stop that told him they had actually made it versus a stop light. His stomach was churning and he didn’t want to open his eyes but knew he had too.

He forced them open only to have the inside of the car start to turn in circles. He drops his head back to Rowen’s shoulder clenching his eyes shut. “You ok?” Rowen’s voice sounded far away, his heart beat was so loud it was over taking it.

He thought he had answered but he must not have. He felt movement then heard “Cye? Can you hear me?” Closer to his ears. He startled slightly but nodded.

He didn’t want to pass out again. His hands weakly clenched at the edge of Rowen’s jacket as the other started to move get out of the car. He vaguely heard “stay there” but his mind didn’t comprehend it.

Out of no where it got silent and he opened his eyes again but they weren’t focused. He couldn’t even see blobs. Just faded colors turning to black.

“CYE!?”

This time Rowen’s voice was loud and it hurt. He felt hands grip his arms as he’s pulled out of the car and sat down on what felt like the side walk. “Cye?! Buddy, can ya hear me?”

“Is he ok?”

“I-I don’t know. I think he’s going to faint again?” He heard Rowen explaining to someone else. He knew someone else was there, he could see their face… he just couldn’t think of their name. He couldn’t be rude and forget it.

“Cye? I want you to take a few deep breaths, if you can.”

The person’s voice entered his mind and he tried to obey and listen. If it helped him not pass out, he needed to do it.

“That’s it. Again.”

Slowly but surely the spinning started to slow down to what was his new normal. He didn’t feel as sick to his stomach either. He forced his eyes open expecting to see nothing but this time saw blobs and colors that finally focused. “…Ro…?”

Rowen appeared smiling relieved, “Hey buddy. You didn’t faint this time. Sage helped ya through it!”

*~*

“I’m going to go sit with him while he rests. I don’t think he wants to be alone and I don’t feel comfortable leaving him by himself right now either.” Rowen explains as he digs through one of the overnight bags by the couch. He pulls out a book and a sweatshirt for himself. “You’re welcome to join.”

“Thanks. I’m good. I’m going to start trying to come up with something he can keep down and call Mia and update her.” The blonde sighs as he pulls out a small notebook flipping through the pages.

“Whats that?”

“Notes on what he’s able to eat and what his body rejects.”

Rowen changes shirts before walking over to where his friend was reading the notebook. “You took all of these notes?”

“Do you have a better idea? I don’t like forcing him to eat something, if he’ll just get sick later.” He heaves a sigh resting his head against one of his hands. “I’m sorry Rowen. I should have stood up to the doctor with you. This makes no sense. None of his symptoms line up with a cold or the flu.”

“Don’t be sorry. Someone has to be level headed.”

“Usually that’s you.”

Rowen blinks before he shrugs grinning nervously, “Sounds like I lose my level headed-ness around Cye, especially when he’s hurt. That’s why we’ve got you.”

“Level headed or not… it makes no sense. I want to take note of how many times he faints, what he was doing, and what he’s able to eat and drink.”

“That’s a good idea.”

“I mean it. Any time he passes out, we need to write the time he passed out, what he was doing, and how long he was out. In fact..” Sage trails off and flips to the back of the notebook writing out a chart before filling in the last three. “I want to go back to this doctor with as much evidence as we can that this isn’t normal.”

“…right. I’m going to go check on him.” Rowen heads down the hallway not know what to expect. The other warrior could be just “fine” and moving about or he could be- “CYE? Ok ok, take it easy.” He runs over kneeling down beside the smaller one on the ground. He looks around seeing a water bottle on the ground beside them, a puddle under it.

He saw one sock was on and a leg was in the pants. He sighs sitting back placing a hand over the other’s back rubbing it gently as he hears a moan, “hey buddy.. you’re on the floor. I think you just tried to get dressed.”

Slowly Cye opened his eyes not moving from where he was laying. He clenched his eyes shut his shoulders shaking as he tried not to break down.

This was his 3rd time since leaving the doctor’s office. Today was not turning out to be a good one.

“You don’t have to hide it, Cye. I-Its…it’s okay. I’m here. I know it’s got to be terrifying.” He leans back against the wall closing his eyes as he listens to the bearer of Torrent break down as softly as he could. His hand moved up from the other’s back to his head, he kept his hand there hoping to give some sort of comfort. “I’ll help you figure this out.. Sage and I will. It won’t be like this forever.”

*~*

“Hey. I was wondering when I was going to hear from you. How did it go?”

Mia’s voice was the biggest comfort right now as Sage dug through the kitchen taking note of what food they had as well as medicines and drinks. “Not that great.”

“What kind of news did he get?” She asks worried.

“He got nothing. No news, no anything. Just told it was probably the flu or a really bad cold and to have 1 week of complete bed rest.” He sighed standing at the counter as he fills out the lists of things he needed to buy.

“How did Cye take that?”

“Not well. None of us took it well. He agreed to it, because what else do you say when a doctor gives you an idea? Rowen snapped at the doctor as soon as he heard her plan, I had to step in and stop him before she was sent to the Dynasty with a one way ticket. Cye didn’t say much until we got out.”

“Do you think it will help?”

The blonde lifts his head and looks around the half clean kitchen and clothes on the floor heading out to the hall. “…do I wish that a weeks bed rest would miraculously, fix it? Of course. It would be ideal.”

“..but.”

“Mia, there is no way this is a cold. He got motion sick in the car today, I had to pull over in mid drive for him to get sick. He fainted on the side of the road twice then once when we got back here. According to Cye, he’s never had motion sickness – ever.”

He hears Mia sigh and move in her chair. “Let me do some research and I can try and find some different doctors, would that help?”

“If you come up with someone different that would be great. I do want to force him to rest, I think it will help a little. I just can’t see it preventing or taking care of a fainting spell.”

“As my Grandfather would say “take lots of notes”.”

He grins, “Ironically, that is what I’m doing. I told Rowen, we’re taking notes of every single time he passes out. What he was doing when it happened and how long he was out.”

“Good. That will come in handy for the next doctor. Where is Cye now?”

“Hopefully resting. Rowen went back to check on him.” He flicks through his lists before holding the phone closer to his hear, “Mia, you said you were raised in France?”

“Born and raised, why?”

“Do you know of any bland soups or food that he could maybe keep down?”

“Is he still getting sick after each meal?” She asks worried.

“Yeah, he is. Do you know of anything?”

“I’ll dig through my cookbooks and look. I’m sure Cye won’t say it, but I know he’s grateful that you’re there.”

Sage smiles weakly, “That’s nice to hear. He tried to run us off after he was told bed rest. There is no way we’re just going to leave him when-“

He goes quiet at hearing Rowen call for him. “I’ve got to go. I think Cye fainted again.”

“Go. We’ll touch base later.”

Sage hangs the phone up before hurrying down the hallway towards the bedroom, “Rowen? Is everything ok?” He stops at the end of the hallway as he comes up on Rowen holding Cye up against him.

The younger warrior didn’t look coherent. He had that same glassy look as earlier when he fainted on the side of the road. He kneels down reaching out to feel for a pulse, “…his heart is beating so fast.”

“I-I know. He came back here I think to get dressed and fainted. I caught him on the floor and he broke down on me and when he tried to sit up he fainted again. I caught him mid fall this time. I’m not sure how hard he hit the first.” Rowen explained as best he can while trying not to panic. “S-Sage we can’t …we have to be here. He’ll injure himself really badly if someone isn’t here.”

“One of us needs to be by his side at all times.” Sage states sighing as he checks the water bearer over for any injuries. He gently moves the limp arms back and forth looking them over. “The fainting explains all of these bruises. I noticed them the other day and was confused on how he got them… it makes sense.”

“Do we move him to the bed or wait for him to wake up?”

Sage waves a hand in front of Cye’s face for a few seconds expecting some kind of response. He didn’t get one. “I don’t know how long it could take for him to come back. This one seems different than the others.”

“I know, that’s why I called you. It had already been 8 minutes since he fainted.” Rowen sighs as he gently pulls one of the limp arms over his shoulder, “Ok buddy. We’re going to help you to bed.”

Sage nods taking the other arm and together they lift him to his feet. They stagger as Cye passes out on them again going fully limp in their arms. “W-What the..”

“Did he just faint again?” Rowen struggled to look over to see. “He wasn’t even fully conscious this time.”

“Don’t panic.”

“How can I not?!”

“Rowen, take a deep breath. Let’s just carry him over to his bed. It could just be exhaustion.” The blonde tried to reassure him as they walked into the bedroom carrying the youngest in between the two of them. “Okay easy, easy..”

Together they eased the smaller warrior onto the bed and lay him back. Rowen moves down and bends his friend’s legs pushing him a bit more onto the bed. To their surprise they get a moan.

Sage glances down taking note of what just happened. “Cye? You’re on your bed.”

“Ya fainted on me again. Twice.” Rowen explained as he finally lets go of Cye’s legs stretching them out before covering his lower half up.

Cye’s hands started to weakly grip the bed and he moaned again before his eyes opened. Rowen sighed with relief that they looked mostly focused, “Hey buddy.. can you see me?”

“Ro…?”

“Yeah, that’s right.” The archer sighed with relief as he curls up around him. “Just lay there and get your barings back. I’ll help you dress later.”

“…I-I can’t v-very well relax in jeans a-and a shirt, Rowen.”

“You don’t have much of a choice.” Sage interjects. “From the looks of the last two fainting spells. I think one of them hit because you were getting dressed.”

“Just take a nap for a few min. I’ll wake ya up and we can get you dressed. Okay?”

They heard a groggy frustrated groan, “…fine.” And then wait for a few long minutes before they hear his breathing level out.

“Don’t worry, I’ll sit here with him.” Rowen stacks a few pillows up behind his head as he gets comfortable. He keeps close as he moves around.

“Good. I have some things to do. Mainly picking up ingredients. Before I head out, I’ll give you that notebook. Start filling it out.”

*~*

Rowen lifts his head off the page he was reading and looks down. The younger warrior was starting to move again. He could feel a hand weakly grasping at his pants leg. He smiles, “Good mornin’ sleepin beauty.”

He gently pulls the blankets down and lets them puddle at Cye’s waist. “Take it easy, you’ve been asleep for almost three hours.”

“…t-three hours…” Cye repeated groggily as he tried to sit up. He wavered unsteadily the world spinning. He reached out in half a panic not expecting to feel all of this right away.

“Cye!? What part of take it easy, didn’t ya get?”

“I s-slept too long. I need to …to help Sage…” His voice kept dropping off as he tried to speak and ignore the dizziness. He fell back and was caught by Rowen who held him against his chest.

“You’re not helping anyone and you didn’t sleep too long. You’re on bed rest, remember?” The blue haired warrior cradled the other in his arms helping him get comfortable again. He only lowers his arms once he feels the other relax. “However, we do need to change your shirt at the very least.”

“…I-I changed earlier…”

“You didn’t complete the task, buddy. You fainted.”

Cye opens his eyes and looks down at himself. Rowen was right. He was still in his button down from earlier. He sits up slower this time before he attempts to unbutton his shirt. His hands were trembling too much to do it himself.

He feels hands sit on his own and looks up, “Let me help.”

“I-I can undress myself, Rowen. I’m not an invalid.”

“I never said ya were. You’ve fainted so many times, you’re hands are shaking. Let me help.” Rowen sighs as he hovers over Cye. “I won’t tell anyone, I promise. This will stay between you, Sage and I.”

Cye finds himself blushing a bit but nods quietly, “Oh alright..”

*~*

Sage comes down the hallway holding a tray in his hands. A bowl of soup, utensils, a cup of tea, a water bottle and electrolyte drink were on top. “Cye? Are we still conscious back here?”

“W-Who is this we? Are you fainting now?”

He laughs happy to hear the sarcasm in the other’s voice, “Ok, you. I’m guessing by your response that you are still conscious.”

He enters the room happily surprised to see Cye sitting up wearing his killer whale pajamas and …”are those dolphin slippers on your feet?”

This time the water bearer flushed a bit before a smile takes over, “Yes, of course! Kento found them for me when he went to China last year to see his family.” He slowly moves his feet, hitting them against each other. “They are nice and comfy.”

Rowen grins shaking his head, “Somehow, buddy, I’m not surprised by any of this. Oh, hey, Sage brought some food.”

While Cye sounded back to normal, he didn’t look like he felt well. His hands were shaking as he tried to stay up right and present in the conversation. Sage had gotten used to the dark circles under his friends eyes, or so he thought… he internally shivered at seeing the glazed green eyes look over at him.

Cye had been pale when they all met him. Kento always joked it made no sense that Cye didn’t tan like a normal person.. that he spent all of this time out in the water and never tanned for it. This was a different pale, he didn’t look well.

He startles at hearing Cye call his name, “Ah yes, I brought soup. If you can stomach it, it’s potato soup. Mia called me with the receipe, it’s from France.”

The other’s eyes light up as it’s set in his lap.

#track one #fanfic #ronin warriors #pots universe

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