Patience

By: Anna Hibiki

Rating: R, it will soon go up.

Disclaimers: Weiss is not,mine! Koyasu-sama and other people with much more money than me owns it

Warnings: Shounen-ai/Yaoi, OCC for Youji, angst, illness, disturbing content, some scenes are not very nice to read since the illness and the state of the sick character is gonna be described.

Pairings: Youji/Ken, Aya/Ken (one-sided), Omi/Nagi, ¿hints? of Schu/Ken. There'll be some changes and new pairings.

Notes: Anything written in Italic are thoughts. Things /written this way/ are mental talk.

This fic can be read in my page, mediaminer.org and ff.net.

Ne, today's thanks go toooo… Toudou Higiri (Arigato for reviewing!! *glomps* How are you doin' with Don't Cry's corrections?), Hikari (arigato! *glomps* hope ya're back to happy Hikari mode and continue writing! ^^), Whisper Reilman (arigato for reviewing and for the great work you do correcting my mistakes!! *glomps* You'll have to wait a little to know about the SchuKen history… *grins knowing what's gonna happen*), oruchuban ebichu (aurelie-chan!! *glomps* what can I say to you? Glad to see ya again! BUT how can you be so mean to Yotan!! The poor thing's all ill… *evil laugh* anyway, guess than in a few chappies you'll get something ya want… arigato for reviewing!! *hugs*) and Denisse (arigato for reviewing!! *glomps* espero que te guste este capi!!).

Chapter 5: Happy Birthday KenKen

"Aya! Be careful or he's gonna end up on the floor!"

The said redhead ignored Ken, what earned him a deserved glare.

"Look, if you don't want to help me, it's okay, but please, don't make it harder!!" the brunete scolded him.

Since they had to wait at least a week to receive the weelchair (the hospital helped Kritiker, but they didn't make exceptions with normal people, as was Youji's case), they had to move Youji in a normal chair that two of them carried.

And right then they were trying to enter the house, but Omi couldn't help and Aya WASN'T. He was holding the back of the chair like he was going to drop it in any momment, and that had Youji panicking and Ken about to kick him.

"You know, I'm starting to think you don't want Youji to be here." He murmured. "Oi, shhh... it's okay, don't worry Yo-tan, you'll be safe in a minute... I hope." He told himself.

It wasn't easy, but they finally made it to Youji's bedroom and slowly placed him on the bed. As soon as the blonde's body touched the mattress, Aya left Ken and Omi alone with him. "Eto... Omi, I have to chang-... well, you know." He said pointing to his lover and making obvious that he didn't want Omi to see how he changed his diapers.

Omi understood and left the room too, closing the door to give them some privacy.

During their stance at the hospital Omi had prepared the room for when they came back, so everything was ready to use and Ken didn't have to waste time in preparing anything.

He opened the packet of diapers and took one out. The baby powder, a trash can to put the dirty diapers before he brought them down and the humid towel for babies were near of the bed, a cruel sight that reminded him that the grown man lying on that bed had become a baby. A baby he had to feed, clean, move... He had to be his hands and his legs... Cruel, that was the only thing he could come up with. Life was cruel.

Even with those thoughs, the brunette had enough strength to smile at Youji. "Ne, Yo-tan! Guess it's time to change. I hope I can do it!"

To tell you the truth, Youji looked about to have a panick attack. It was no surprise though, after all, the few times Ken had tried to do it at the hospital, even if there was a nurse trying to help him, he was so clumsy he didn't do anything right. He did things with the best intention, but he was too clumsy for his own good.

Ken lifted Youji's hips from the bed and slid the pants to his feet.

"'suka..." he said softly.

"It's Ken.. What's it Yo-tan?" he asked carefully taking the pants out and placing them neatly (as neatly as he could anyway) next to the ill blonde. Since he looked uncomfortable the brunette reached with a hand to caress his face and neck slowly.

"Itch'z.."

"Where does it itch?" Ken inquired as he tried to find what was bothering his lover.

"'ere." He pointed to his legs with the good hand.

"Gomen! I forgot to ask the nurse to put the pomad and now you have- gomen ne!" he babbled as he stripped Youji of the diaper and prepared a clean one.

"Yo-tan, your good leg.." He felt like crying as he cleaned his lover as best as he could, carefully refreshed his skin with an humid towell and strewed the baby powder. "That's okay! You should start praying for me to put this thing correctly!"

"O-ohh.."

Ken put his hands on his hips. "Nani?? What does that mean? Don't you trust my abilities?"

Youji didn't even have to answer. It was obvious that no, he didn't trust his boyfriend's abilities.

"Oiii Yo-taaaaan!!" He whined. "If you don't want me to do it maybe you prefer that Aya puts the diaper on you?"

That did it. Youji shook his head and reached to catch his arm. "'ska! A'o no!"

The brunette chuckled unwillingly. Since he woke up, Youji had started calling Aya 'the aho' (that is, the stupid/idiot, dunno, I don't have the english word for it, let's just say that's more insulting that baka), which earned him a few glares of death per day. "Well, then be a good Yo-tan and let me finish."

Six minutes, two diapers and a few bruises later, Ken admired his work. "I'm getting better at it, don't you think?"

The playboy sweatdroaped, but Ken didn't seem to notice as he dried the sweat off his forehead. "Now I just have to put you into the clothes again and we'll be done.."

But believe me, taking the clothes off is relatively easy, but put them back on someone who won't cooperate? Ken learned that it wasn't as easy as he thought it would be.

When Youji was properly dressed, Ken sat on the bed and let his body fall backwards, the back of his head resting on his lover's torso.

Just for a momment… I need to- The blonde's laugh surprised him. "What's so funny?" he asked, turning his face to the side to look at him.

Youji touched his forehead with the good hand, his fingers sweeping away the sweaty locks of chestnut hair. Once he was satisfied with it, he started caressing his boyfriend's face. Ken blushed at the touch. "A'shka suitty.." he drawled as he stopped laughing, but his eyes had a light… He was so open now, so vulnerable…

.::.::.::.::.

"Nagi, I've been calling you for a while!"

"G-gomen nasai Brad, I was b-"

"Busy talking with your online 'friends' ? You know that when I call you, I want you to be here at the momment."

"I'm sorry, that won't happen again."

"You better not do that again." He pointed to his feet and Nagi obediently sat on the floor in front of him. "You know what you have to do."

The boy nodded, never looking into the American's eyes, and proceed to unfasten the older man's pants.

"That's gross!" came Schuldig's voice from the doorway.

The momment he heard the German's voice, Nagi put his hands away from Crawford and folded them on his lap, .

"What are you doing up this early?" Brad asked him dryly.

"Bah, nothing important. Just preparing the kitty's birthday gift." He replied nonchalantly.

"Well, then get out of here and continue with your kitty's gift and leave us alone."

"Nn? Don't get so worked up Brad-chan, if you're so grumpy then your little friend" he said the word "little" louder and slower than the others. "won't get happy enough.." he chuvkled at that.

"Out. Now." The amber eyed man hissed, and since Schuldig valued his life (and the water on the kitchen was about to start to evaporate), he left the room, leaving a very angry Brad and a poor ashamed Nagi there.

/What would your Bombay friend say if he knew that you're Brad's sex toy?/ He asked the kid telepathically.

Shut up!

/Whateeeever…/ he sang into his mind.

Baka gaijin…

/I heard that!/ He felt the boy's shields go up. Well, he didn't care about what the others did as long as they didn't bother him.

.::.::.::.::.

"Yo-taaaan! Won't you ever get tired of that Lupin III marathon? I wanna watch the sports channel!

Youji shook his head. Ken accepted that he wasn't going to watch the soccer game and placed Omi's gift onto his lap.

He was gone when Ken went downstairs, but he had left a box with the whole Rurouni Kenshin's manga on the kitchen. Aya was there when he unwrapped the box. He didn't say a thing, just glared at him in a "you're safe today, but I'll kill you tomorrow" way and left to open the flower shop.

But now he was alone with Youji at the 'tv room', as Omi used to call it. The blonde was sitting on a comfortable couch, and Ken sat on an armchair, feeling alone.

"Happy birthday KenKen, happy birthday KenKen, happy birthd-"

He was halfway into the song and reading that chapter in which Aoshi gave Megumi the chance of killing herself and rest or continue with a life of pain when he heard the doorbell.

Since it was obvious that Youji wasn't going to open the door, he got up and went to open it. His jaw dropped when his eyes saw three of his friends there. "W-wh.."

"Happy birthday Ken!!" they all sang.

"Did you thought we would forget?" Katsu said hugging him. "We all bought you a gift, here you have it!" he handed him a bag and a box.

"Well, thank you, come inside.."

"No, we have to go soon. How is Youji doing?"

"He's a little better today. Where are the others?"

"Tonami's at work, Isamu has a fever and Schu says he can't come, but sent his present with us" he pointed to the box.

"Really, thank you guys.." he said softly.

"Bah, don't worry Ken-chan, it's nothing" they waved at him as they prepared to leave. "You have to come with us one of this days, it's been forever since all of us got together!"

"Well yeah…"

"Ja ne!!" they said and left quickly, knowing that they were late for whatever they had to do.

Ken closed the door and went inside again. Youji glanced at him curiously for a momment but turned to continue watching tv a momment later.

He placed the box on the table and opened the bag. A wide smile appeared on his face when he unwrapped the Japanese soccer team's uniform. He took his tee shirt off and put on the blue one he had just opened. "Ne, Yo-tan, how do I look? Would you think I'm on the national team?"

Youji looked at him, and after a short examination, he smiled that weird smile he had developed with the illness and nodded.

The brunette took the tee shirt off and put on the one he was wearing before. He took a good look at the box with the telepath's gift. What would be inside?

He unwrapped the box and opened it. He was surprised to find three cups with lemon jelly and a note. Ken sweatdroaped, only Schuldig would make such a gift.

He took the little piece of paper and read it.

For a simple and delicious kitty, a simpler (and I'd say that even more delicious) gift. You always said you liked my lemon jelly, so here you have some!

Happy birthday Ken!!

Schuldig.

He sweatdroaped again, but went to the kitchen looking for a coffee spoon and went back to the tv room with it. "Want some?" he offered some jelly to his lover.

Youji nodded. Ken took an spoonful of jelly and ate it. "Oishii!!" he said like a little kid who's eating chocolate for the first time. "Open your mouth Yo-tan." He said preparing another spoonful for the blonde. He swallowed the jelly quickly and his face lit up with a smile after he did so.

"'ere." He motioned Ken to move closer to him.

"Nani?"

The ex-assasin ordered him to come closer. When the soccer player was close enough he reached to caress his face with his fingers, cupping his cheek gently, and leaned forward to kiss his cheek softly. "'ppy bee'dy Ken'en.." he whispered, still stroking his face.

Ken blinked stupidly, it took him a few seconds to react, but at the end he curled his fingers over the ones touching his face.

Tsu zu ku…

Finally, I rewrote this chappie! This should have been up a long time ago, but my computer died and killed all my files. So I had to write this again.

I'm sorry this chappie sucks, I personally liked the version I had ready to upload better, but I wanna know your opinion on this anyway!

Since it's five on the morning (when I'm writing this, not when this is uploaded) and I'm rather VERY tired and can't even see what I write anymore, there won't be a long note today.

Where are Aya's evil plans? Does Nagi love Omi, or he prefers Brad? What is Schu doing cooking lemon jelly for KenKen?

Be prepared for next chapter, cuz problems will start there!

Please! Leave this poor bitch a comment with your opinions, ideas, threats, etc!!

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