Moonlight Desire

Chapter 9

Akito put the ship on cruise and set it to go back home on its own. He walked away from the controller room and decided to find Kazuki. He was starting to get worried about him and went looking in all the rooms. It took him a while until he came to this one examination room that looked a lot like a Doctor's office. He saw Kazuki passed out on the floor with his sword dropped beside him. This filled Akito's being with fear and he quickly rushed over to him and shook him.

"Komatsuzaki! Get a hold of yourself!"

Akito pulled back his hands and noticed that they were now blood stained. Akito was overcome with shock and fear. He clenched his hands into a fist and put them on the side of his head.

"This is bad! What should I do? What should I do?"

Kazuki let out a grunt and then opened his eyes. Akito let out a sigh of relief and helped him sit up.

"Thank goodness! You've snapped out of it."

Kazuki nodded in agreement and slid himself to the wall where he could rest his body against it. He held his bleeding abdomen and took in some deep breaths to hold onto his life which only made the pain sharper. He leaned his head against the wall and let out a few grunts. Akito rushed to him to try to do what he can to help him.

"I'm going to take a look at it and then I will stop the bleeding."

"Ah," Kazuki forced between his heavy breathing with a very raspy voice. "Please do."

Akito then removed the blood stained keikogi shirt from Kazuki. The material brushed against the wound, causing more pain to shoot through Kazuki's entire being. Kazuki clenched his teeth together to avoid screaming out in pain. Akito had the shirt removed and couldn't see the wound clearly so he rushed to the sink and ran some cold water under a hand towel. He cleaned the wound and it revealed just how deep it was. If the cut had been any wider, Akito would have been able to see Kazuki's internal organs.

He rushed back to the medicine cabinet and brought out some gauze to bandage up the wound. He wrapped it around Kazuki as carefully as he could but, even the gauze wasn't enough. It provided the pressure needed to help stop the bleeding but the cut was so deep that it just bled through quickly.

Akito rushed back to the medicine cabinet to try to find something that would stop the bleeding. He came across this green potion with a hospital symbol on the bottle. He grabbed it and went back over to Kazuki.

"What is this stuff," Akito asked. "Would this help at all?"

When Kazuki saw it, he breathed a sigh of relief and took it from Akito.

"That is District 2 Master's healing potion. We're all required to carry one on us. I actually thought that I forgot to bring one."

He took off the lid and began drinking the potion, not leaving a single drop in it. He then grabbed his sword, proceeded to get up and he almost fell but was caught by Akito.

"Sir! You really shouldn't try to move!"

"Akito. I need you to help me out of here. I need to rest for a little while."

"Yes, sir!"

Akito had Kazuki put his arm around his neck, supporting all of Kazuki's body weight which really made it hard for Akito. He helped him to the next room over and helped him into the bed.

"Are you going to be alright," Akito asked.

"I just need to rest a little while. I have to check on Lia when I get my strength back."

"She'll wake up soon! You did defeat that Shinigami!"

"Yeah. I now have to heal her body from that cancer." Kazuki closed his eyes. "I will save her."