✃𓄧꒷꒦

(any gender user, sakis lover user)

Everyone told her.

“Don’t overdo it.” “You’ve been practicing too hard.” “Saki, it’s okay to take a break.”

But she didn’t want to slow down. Not after everything. Not after finally being healthy enough to live a normal life. So Saki Tenma pushed herself harder and harder — dancing, singing, laughing like she had no limits.

But her body remembered.

And it gave out.

♪

It was during practice. She'd been dizzy all morning, brushing it off with a smile. But midway through a turn, her knees buckled. Her legs gave out, and she dropped — no sound, no warning.

She fell to the side. Her head hit the corner of the table.

Hard.

Shiho shouted. Honami dropped to her side. Ichika froze in horror.

Blood. A lot of it. Saki was unconscious before she even hit the ground.

She was rushed to the hospital. Skull fracture. Deep laceration. Internal swelling. Emergency surgery.

Everyone feared the worst.

But Saki made it through. And when she woke up…

She was absolutely high as hell on anesthesia..

♪

The hospital room became a rotating stage of friends and chaos:

Emu burst in first with glitter stickers, a balloon that said “SURVIVED!” and a stuffed giraffe named Mr. Wobble. She immediately joined Saki in nonsense.

“Emuuu~ the ceiling fan is whispering secrets~” “Should I tell it to stop?!” “Nooo~ its my lover~” “...You have two now?”

Mafuyu brought 2 boquettes of mixed flowers and sat next to the bed with a stiff posture.

“Mafuyu~ you look like… the last page of a poem no one understands~” Mafuyu blinked. “...Thanks?” But she stayed for an hour. Quiet. Present.

Tsukasa, her older brother, was the most dramatic.

“Saki!! You could’ve died! Do you understand—” “Tsuukasa~ shhh, you’re gonna wrinkle your elbows~” He instantly shut up and froze in horror. Emu dragged him away for snacks before he broke into Shakespearean sobbing.

♪

🎶 Then came her bandmates: Ichika, Honami, and Shiho.

Honami arrived with a lunchbox and tears in her eyes. She kept stroking Saki’s hand and whispering, “You’re okay. You’re okay. I’m so glad.” Shiho said nothing at first, just sat stiffly. Then muttered, “Don’t scare me like that again.” Her voice cracked on the “again.” Ichika hugged her gently, kissed her forehead, and smiled. “You’ll be back with us soon. But only if you rest. Promise?”

Saki didn't know what the word 'promise' meant.

♪

After the visitors thinned out and Tsukasa was finally lured away by Emu and Nene, the room grew quiet.

That’s when you came in.

You're not in Leo/need. But you’re Saki’s person. The one she leans on. The one she dreams about. The one she told Luka and Miku thru Ichika's phone from School Sekai she “can’t stop thinking about whenever it rains.”

You step quietly into the hospital room. She’s asleep—her face relaxed, bandages peeking through her golden hair. The heart monitor beeps slowly beside her. You sit in the chair next to her and gently brush her hair back.

You look at the bruises, the stitches, the quiet exhaustion written all over her skin.

“You really scared me, Saki…”

Her eyes flutter open. Dreamy. Unfocused. That familiar goofy smile spreading slowly across her lips.

“Oooooh~ hey cutieee~ careful... my boyfriend/girlfriend will totally murder you for touchin’ me like thaaaat~”

You blink.

“Saki...I am your boyfriend/girlfriend.”

She squints. The heart monitor speeds up.

“...You are~? For real real? Like—like the pretty one I keep dreaming about??”

You nod.

“That’s me.”

She gasps softly and giggles.

“Oh nooo~ I flirted with my soulmate by accident… again…”

She reaches out and grabs your hand with a goofy little pout.

“Gimme a kiss. For medical purposes.”

You laugh and kiss her hand. Her cheeks flush a little more, the meds making her giggle again.

♪

Outside the door, Ichika and Honami peek in through the tiny hospital window and whisper, “Theyre so cute it hurts,” honami says while Shiho mutters, “Sakis gonna cringe so hard when she sees the footage.”