"Kousei."

Kousei stirred.

"Kousei..."

Kousei didn't move.

"Oh my- Kousei!"

Kousei winced at how loud Kaori's voice was but grunted and rubbed his eyes before letting out a groggy sigh and lazily cracking open his eyes.

"Hmm?" He searched for the petite blonde violinist but couldn't see since everything was so blurry to him so he sat up and searched the bed he was in and couldn't find it but he felt someone tap his shoulder so he turned his head to where the tap came from and saw the silhouette of Kaori.

"Hey, Kaori, have you seen my glasses?" He rubbed his eyes to get the drowsiness out of him and yawned while thanking Kaori when she handed him his glasses.

"You're welcome. But first, get off the bed." Kaori pulled herself up more so she was leaning against the wall and nudged Kousei as he pushed on his glasses.

"What, why?"

"It's almost time for you to leave and if a nurse sees you on my bed with me it'd be too weird. Considering they're doctors, they'd start thinking wrong." Kaori nudged him again.

Kousei was a little disappointed at the reminder of having to leave but nodded and tossed his legs over the edge of the bed and reached for his shoes and slid them on while Kaori watched his hands move.

"Hey...Kousei?"

Kousei looked over his shoulder and put his feet down. "Yeah?"

Kaori was still staring at his hands. "Are you still gonna be playing piano?"

Kousei's breath hitched and he held it but he let it out and looked down at his hands, shrugging. "I don't know...I guess I am... I mean, all that trouble is all gone and I don't really feel as stressed as before."

Kaori smiled and nodded in satisfaction. "Good. Because I really do want to play with you again. It's been a long time since the first time we've played together. You still remember that promise right?"

Kousei gave her a small smile and nodded, leaning on his hands to give himself more leverage on the bed. "Yup. And I promise that I'll try and pick a good song we could both do together."

"Y'know...I was thinking that we could play the song that we weren't able to do together for the gala concert; Love's Sorrow?" Kaori was scared of what his reaction might be considering he was reluctant the first time she had asked. She knows that she heard he gave it his all that time she was in the hospital but who knows, he could still be stubborn. His response slightly surprised her.

Kousei widened his smile and nodded. "Yeah."

Kaori felt immense relief and her shoulders sagged while she let out a breath. "Thank goodness, I thought you'd refuse." She straightened herself and added, "Alright then. Here." Kaori held her hand out and Kousei just stared at with a furrowed brow.

"What?"

"Give me your glasses."

Kousei was even more confused. "Wha- why?"

Kaori laughed quietly to herself and said, "Well, you know I wear glasses now - well, you should - so I wanna try yours on. Let me see how bad your eyesight is."

Kousei was about to say that he didn't know she had glasses but then he remembered about the letter and vanished that question from his head. "O-oh...okay." The pianist reached up with his slender fingers to grab his glasses and hand it over but Kaori unexpectedly grabbed them herself.

"Slowpoke," she teased, a smile gracing her features.

Kousei wanted to make a retort but noticed how angelic she looked when happy/playful so he disintegrated that comment from his head like his question. So instead he just watched as she slid his glasses over her lively eyes and once she turned to him and he got a better look all he could think was: Oh my god, she's so adorable.

"Wow, your eyesight isn't that great, Mr. Arima." Kaori squinted her eyes at him through his glasses and said in a deep, playful voice, "You may need to get them checked or you may become blind one day. I suggest the eye doctor that's a couple blocks away, I'm sure Kaori Miyazono would appreciate it." Kaori laughed a muffled-giggle sort of way and Kousei immediately fell for that laugh, it was just too adorable.

"Nah, I'm just kidding," Kaori's voice was back to her own, "but I'm pretty sure you could've known I was playing."

Kousei felt a corner of his lips tug upwards into a half-grin and he gave a little laugh of his own. "I actually almost fell for it, to be honest. But I don't think my eyesight is that bad. I can sort of see you almost clearly."

Kaori smiled and took off his glasses and handed them to him before saying, "Well, they're not that bad actually. But I'm wearing my contacts so I couldn't really tell. Hey, speaking of which, can you help me remove them? I always go to sleep after you leave and it's always a hassle getting them out without a mirror so..."

Kousei felt his heartbeat quicken its pace but he payed no mind to it and slipped his shoes back off once again so that he can fully turn around and sit cross-legged on the bed to face Kaori. "Y-yeah..." Kousei was careful when holding open Kaori's eyelids with his pointer-finger and thumb on his right hand while his left tried to pinch out the contact in the left eye.

"Careful! Please don't poke my eye."

"I know! Why do you think I'm going slowly?"

Kousei was actually sweating by the time he got the contact out. Now all he needed was the right.

"Oh my God, Kousei. You're sweating and it took you, like, 5 minutes to take out this goddamn thing." Kaori watched as Kousei placed the lense on the drawer beside the bed.

"Well sorry for trying to not make your eye bleed." Kousei sighed and opened Kaori's other eyelids while using his right hand to pinch out the lense that was taking a little more time to get out.

"Kousei, just hurry before someone comes in and scares you and you kill me." Kaori was whispering due to their close proximity, so her and Kousei's breaths mixed when he spoke right after.

"I'm not gonna kill you, just calm down..." Kousei decided to leave it at that but he had to nerve to say something more "logical". "I mean, even if I did poke your eye and if it were to come out you shouldn't exactly be blaming me since you're trusting me to do this."

"Kousei! Just focus! I can feel your nail scratching my eye."

"Alright, sorry." Kousei shut his mouth and pursed his lips in concentration as he squinted his eyes in worry and focus as he kept trying to pinch the piece of plastic between his fingers.

"Okay... I think I almost got it."

After two more minutes after those words, Kousei finally got the last contact out.

"Ugh!" Kousei let out a huge breath and leaned away from Kaori before placing the lense on the drawer beside the other contact. "That was so...complicated. I've never worn contacts before so I'm sorry if that took forever."

Kaori gave him a blank stare, right after she finished rubbing her eye. "You took forever Kousei."

Kousei shrugged his shoulders in an innocent way and said, "Well I don't know, you asked for help."

Kaori sighed and bore her eyes into his. "Which was honestly not a great idea, my back hurts." To emphasize her words a little more, Kaori straightened her back and it cracked from being hunched over as she rolled her shoulders.

Kousei—feeling a little guilty—stretched his own back before sighing and placing a hand on Kaori's shoulder. "Then...what if I massage your back?" To Kousei, that sounded a little weird; to Kaori, it sounded a little nice.

"Yeah, sure, just don't break my back alright?" Kaori turned around using her hands and limply crossed her legs as Kousei stared at her back and wondering how in the world he should start.

"Um..." Kousei slowly raised his hands and wiped his sweat away with his sleeve before adjusting his glasses and placing both his warm hands on Kaori's shoulders, starting to cautiously rub them with his thumb rubbing soothing circles on her shoulder blades.

"A-am I doing alright?" Kousei bit his lower lip in unease and moved his thumbs to the back of her neck.

Kaori sighed in a bliss and nodded, her being visibly relaxing. "Yeah... Your hands feel really good."

Kousei relaxed himself and let out a breath. "Phew. Thank God, I was scared you were going to say I was hurting you."

"Alright. Can you move a little lower, like," Kaori reached around to point at her mid-back, "there?"

Kousei nodded and let out another breath before moving his hands down to the spot she pointed to, his palms digging into the spot. "There?"

Kaori hummed a 'yes' and leaned back so that Kousei was practically holding her up.

Before Kousei could continue with his massaging there was a knock on the slider and Kousei and Kaori turned to it and saw the nurse that regularly checks on them and Kousei awkwardly removed his hands from Kaori's back, making her tip back with a little squeal and fall onto Kousei; Kousei groaned at the newly-found weight that gave a punch to his abdomen with Kaori's head.

"Ow..." Kousei saved himself from falling off the bed with his hands and sheepishly looked toward the nurse again. "Is it time to go?" he groaned out.

The nurse was about to burst out laughing but she kept her composure and nodded instead of talking before sliding the door closed again and leaving the two kids alone.

After the nurse left, Kaori whimpered and sat up halfway, rubbing the back of her head. "Ow! Do you work out or something?"

"No." Kousei coughed a little and unwinded his legs to turn around and heave them off the bed, his stomach feeling a little better with each rub he made.

Kaori uncrossed her own legs with a little effort and moved under the covers of the bed so that she could lay down, her head relaxing on the pillow.

"So," Kousei said once he was done slipping his shoes on, "does your back feel at least a little better?"

Kaori nodded.

"Did I poke your eye out?"

Kaori shook her head.

"See? I'm not that bad." He gave her a grin once again and pushed himself off the bed. "Okay. I guess I'll see you tomorrow then. Right?"

Kaori nodded. But she also added, "Hey, don't forget to bring Watari and Tsubaki; if they're not busy that is...and if you're not too embarrassed about the thing that happened earlier they came."

Kousei almost forgot about that moment until she brought it up. He felt his face grow hot as he recalled Watari's exact words but he ignored it and nodded. "Okay. I'll be sure to ask them."

Kaori smiled and nodded again. "Okay."

Kousei bit his tongue and made his way to the door. "Alright. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Okay- wait Kousei!"

Kousei opened the door but kept a foot out the room. "Yes?"

"Can you bring me canelés tomorrow? I haven't ate any in awhile so I'm craving them."

Kousei smiled politely and nodded, saying, "Sure. From your bakery right?"

Kaori nodded and held two fingers in a peace sign and said. "Uh-huh. Bye-bye now!" She turned around so that her back was facing Kousei and the black-haired boy just smiled to himself before leaving the room and closing the door behind him to let the chipper girl go to sleep.

Oh my god, hello :D I was planning to make this a little longer with Kaori's release in a time-skip but I just felt the need to randomly add those little fluffy moments and take up my writing limit (well, the limit I feel like going to) so that part is going next chapter.

I wasn't sure if Kaori still wore her contacts but this is my fanfic so I'm keeping it that way. And I'm thankful for all the feedback I get from you guys :D It makes me immensely happy and motivates me to keep writing this. Thank you all :D

I hope this chapter was all right.

Sayonara :D (By the way, that song in the media is something I felt like putting in, sorry)