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Shun was still having a little trouble deciding what to do in this fairly awkward situation so he was kind of glad when Mitsu moved his hand away so she could help him back to his feet. Grunting, he was up, but he was still a bit unsteady.

He was trying to not lose his balance and cause them both to fall again. For one he was still sore, and for the other he was sure that she was as well. Even though he couldn't see what injuries she had, he knew of a few of them from before his sight went out.

Carefully, he took a step forward, feeling his leg bump against the edge of his bed. While still holding onto her hand, he managed to crawl onto it before heaving a sigh.

"Thanks.."

Laying down again, Shun noticed Mitsu getting down against the bed. She didn't have to stay on the floor. He was aware that she was probably incredibly weary and the ground probably wasn't helping her rest.

"Mitsu.. you can use the bed.." he said quietly. By that point she had already fallen asleep, so he didn't feel any sort of reaction from her, "Mitsu?"

Again, there was no response. It was starting to worry him really. Was something wrong with her outside of exhaustion? Staring down towards where she was, he remained awake for awhile before drifting off some time later.

Throughout the night, Shun was drifting in and out of sleep. When he managed to slip off, horrid dreams often ended up stirring him back awake. Though he tried to fight it, his mind seemed relatively intent on re-enacting the incident with Cael at some point. A few things differed here and there each time, so it wasn't a completely reoccurring dream, but it was close.

Later on, he did manage to remain asleep for a longer period of time. Opening his eyes, he found that he was able to see bits of color now rather than just shapes and shadows. Perhaps he was getting better after all.

There was also a distant noise that he couldn't quite put his finger on. Though he couldn't identify it, it was a nice change to the silence he had been experiencing the past day. It gave a sort of reassurance that he hadn't lost his hearing completely.

Sitting up, he leaned against the back of the bed, looking around. It didn't look like Mitsu was around.

He couldn't blame her really.

Showering had been a slow and mostly painful process. Mitsu had wanted to clean out the wounds rather thoroughly and had only managed to tear more than a few open again. Grimacing Mitsu stepped out of the shower drying off only slightly before rummaging around for a first aid kit. It took her a moment to find it her clumsy fingers having a hard time handling anything as it crashed to the ground.

Sighing she knelt down and opened it up to look inside finding that Shun was well stocked in bandages, sutures, and of course pain killers. Grimacing Mitsu picked up one of the bottles of pain killers looking it over carefully. She had never really taken stuff like this before. Deciding against it Mitsu placed the bottle down and reached inside the kit again pulling out the needle and thread. Mitsu knew first aid and she also knew how to sew.....but this was sewing up herself. A few of the cuts were rather bad, even more so now that she had reopened them.

It took a bit of mental pep talking, mostly talking herself into the idea of doing this rather that seeing nurse Cricket. It couldn't be that bad right? First stitch in and Mitsu was well aware that wasn't so. She was trying to stitch up a cut on her side and found that forcing the needle through her already tender flesh was excruciating. Having already started though Mitsu didn't wanted to stop and by sheer force of will managed to finish stitching up one wound before she heard the knock on the door.

Eyes growing wide Mitsu nearly panicked trying to gather the first aid kit stuff back together and put it away before throwing on Shun's shirt and pants to cover herself. She wasn't sure who was at the door. Would it be strange that she was here? Slowly she exited the bathroom her eyes focused on the door as she made her way toward it. There she hesitated for a moment before taking the handle and opening the door just a crack to peek out her eyes spotting a familiar face.

Immediately Mitsu's opened the door wider seeing Xiu there and stepped closer to the ghoul to wrap her arms around her. She was still somewhat damp from the shower but she really didn't care as she hugged the baku close.

"Mitsu!"

Xiu immediately wrapped her right arm around the ghoul in a hug, her left arm pressed stiffly to her side. Though it wasn't visible with the coat on, her left arm--from wrist up--was covered in bandages. She took care to be gentle, just in case the lycan ghoul was injured, and then drew away. She stared at Mitsu for a moment before smiling, her voice hushed. "Thank goodness you're okay! I was so worried about you! Is aniki also--"

She cut herself off as she realized that the reaper was heading their way. Without a word, she hurried forward to hug him as well, her right arm wrapping around him briefly before she stepped back. Brows knit together, she glanced between her two friends, ears drooping with concern.

"You two...are you alright? No...no serious injuries, I hope?" Her gaze slid up to Shun's eyes--was he able to see and hear more clearly now, she wondered? Surely the professors had managed to help him at the tent!

The words spoken came to Shun like a hushed whisper. A very hushed whisper. It didn't sound quite as muffled, but he still had difficulty hearing what was being said. He was able to pick up more on the voice, but it was hard to identify.

Being hugged rather suddenly, the Reaper tensed up as he generally did with these sort of things. Though, now that the newcomer was closer, he stared hard at the girl. Her ears seemed.. roundish.

"Xiu..?" he asked with a furrowed brow.

It kinda seemed like her. The only other girl that might hug him was Lizzy and she didn't have ears like this. Plus her hair was pink.

Luckily for Mitsu, his vision wasn't good enough to pick up on things like facial expressions. Also, looking towards her, he noticed a few spots of red blurred along with the rest of her form. Or did he? She had moved and now he couldn't see them.

"Mitsu..."

Brows furrowing Mitsu looked to Shun sheepishly before turning to Xiu. She had started to nod to Xiu's first question but the baku was already approaching, her hand grabbing the lycan's wrist. Mitsu tensed but the action made pain crease her features before she tried to relax, reluctantly allowing Xiu to pulled her arm away from her blood stained shirt.

To Xiu's second question Mitsu slowly shook her head before looking to the floor. She had been focused on getting Shun and Mot where they needed to be so they could be taken care of. They had been her priority and Nurse Cricket had given her some medicine. At the time she figured that had been enough. After the fact she had been too laden with sleep to really think about much else. Taking care of Shun was more important.