Chapter 113 - Mischief

Homura Ryuu took Ara to St. Luke's, the hospital where she stayed at when she had her accident so there wouldn't be any problem with hospital records. If they went somewhere new, they would have to wait a while, while the hospital requested for her files to be transferred. Also, the Koutaishidenka was satisfied with the way this hospital took good care of Ara, and so he wanted her to come here.

Some of the nurses recognized Ara when they arrived and smiled at her immediately. Ara wondered how they could still remember her when they must have tons of different patients daily. She was oblivious to the fact that with her beauty, and very rare case of rapid recuperation and sudden eye color change, she was famous among the workers at that hospital.

"Good afternoon Miss Suzuki," they greeted her with beaming smiles.

"Hi!" Ara shyly greeted them back as Ryuu escorted her to the reception area.

"We'd like to have someone do a thorough check-up on her please," Homura Ryuu requested seriously, and Ara could only smile weakly at them.

"R-right away," the nurse answered as she scurried to find Ara an available physician.

Ara elbowed him in the rib. "Darling, you are scaring the people away. Learn how to smile."

"Darling, if I smile, they will totally forget why they exist," Ryuu countered smugly, so Ara had no choice but to sigh in defeat. There's no sense making sense with this stubborn husky anyway.

Well, he kind of had a point anyway…

Ara looked towards the nurse's station where nurses kept bumping into each other or hitting the tables and making things fall because they were busy giving Ryuu demure glances.

"See? They get distracted like that with me not smiling – what more if I do?"Ryuu told her with amusement in his voice. Then again, mischief danced in his blue gaze and he finally sent one bright smile the nurses' way.

CRASH!

BANG!

Ara watched as chaos ensued in the station and she quickly pulled the naughty husky to the side and gave him a glare.

"What? Who told me to smile?" he asked her innocently.

"I did okay? It's my fault," Ara told him as she dragged him away.

In thirty minutes, the bedlam at the nurse's station was finally sorted out, and Ara and Ryuu were ushered into a private room. Ara was happy to see that the doctor who would do her checkup was her previous doctor. There was no need to review her medical history because of that.

"Miss Suzuki, what brought you here today? We're you unwell?" the kind elderly doctor asked, but he transferred a questioning look at Ryuu, his eyes asking if it's okay to discuss what's wrong with her in his presence.

"It's alright Dr. Fujima, he's my fiancé," she told the doctor who brightened up upon hearing her words.

"Fiancé! Congratulations then Miss Suzuki," the doctor said as he shook hands with Ara turned to Ryuu, with his extended hand. "Congratulations Mr.?"

"Homura. Homura Ryuu," Kou answered, and as expected the doctor blinked several times as if absorbing his words.

Ara internally groaned. Just how many times had the same thing happened today? People getting shocked after finding out who he was, was getting old. On the other hand, the mischievous husky looked like he was totally having fun.

If she knew this would happen, she would just have chosen the option to stay in her room at the Cedar Palace. If she were there, she would have found a way to sneak out and find her adorable husky – the small version.

It took a while before the doctor remembered what he was supposed to do. He gave Ara several tests and some laboratory exams to really, really, check if there's really nothing wrong with her. Because of this, they had to do a lot of waiting.

Normally some of Ara's tests would take a day or two, but the hospital put them in priority, and so they would only need to wait hours. The hospital was kind enough to lend them one VIP room to stay in while they waited for the results to come out.

The doctor asked Ara to take a rest and lie on the bed. She was going to decline, but Ryuu pestered her until she gave in. She found out why he was adamant she lie down after the doctor left them alone, however. The big pup took the opportunity to stretch out right next to her.

"Kou, don't you think the bed is too small for us?"Ara asked, wanting Kou to get off, but got the opposite result.

Instead of getting off the small hospital bed, Ryuu squinted at her before pulling her into his arms so she could use his shoulder as her pillow and then wrapped his limbs around her in a cuddle to keep her in place.

"Now we have enough space," he stated happily after like a little kid, and Ara finally felt really exhausted, she closed her eyes.

"It's going to take a while so go to sleep," Ryuu whispered and Ara felt his soft lips brushed on her forehead, and she felt so secure, she fell asleep in an instant.

When she woke up, three hours had passed, and she was alone in bed. Her silver-grey eyes wandered around the room until she spotted Kou reading on the sofa. As if sensing her awake, he looked up from the business magazine he had been reading.

"You feel well-rested?"

Ara stretched. True enough, she felt so light and cozy. "Yeah," she answered as she yawned.

"Good. You looked so tired earlier, like you hadn't slept," Ryuu told her, and she paused.

Well, she did really stay up late last night with the girls, having their girly chitchat. She never really had that kind of activity before so it was really interesting and she learned a lot from them. The girls, however, spent too much time admiring this guy's photo on her phone. "I bragged too much."