a/n: I know if has almost been a year since I uploaded a new chapter, but I want to thank anyone that is still reading this after so long. It seems that this story is trying to develop into a science fiction fic, but hopefully I won't have to many more chapters for this.

As Yuki sat beside Shuichi waiting to see if he was going to move again, he looked over at the plant that was giving off a really weird smell. He didn't know who had left it here, but there seemed to be something weird about the plant. Yuki got up to go get rid of the plant and he felt the room move. He blinked his eyes trying to get rid of the dizzy feeling, but it seemed like the more he closed his eyes the faster the room spun around him. He felt himself falling forward but when he reached out to catch himself his hand slipped off of the bed and he hit the floor. The next thing he knew Shuichi's parents were shaking his shoulder asking him if he was alright.

Yuki groaned as he struggled to sit up, "What's going on?" he asked as Shuichi's mom put her hand on his shoulder holding him down.

"That's what we were wanting to know," she said as she glanced over at her son.

Yuki thought for a minute before he realized that the strange smell was gone. He looked around the room and saw that he was still laying on the floor and from what he could see of the night stand the plant was gone.

"The last thing I can remember is getting up to get rid of a strange smelling plant that was left by Shuichi's bedside," Yuki replied as he shook off the hand on his shoulder and sat up.

Shuichi's father gave him a confused look, "There was no strange plant when we got here, just you lying passed out on the floor," he said as he offered his hand to help Yuki up off the floor.

"Well, it was there and had a pretty nasty smell to it," Yuki told them as he moved to check on Shuichi. He was still lying in the same position that he had been before Yuki had passed out. After looking at him for a minute and not seeing any further movement he came to a stunning conclusion.

Yuki looked at Shuichi's parents with a thoughtful look on his face, "I think that plant was the cause of Shuichi's movements."

"What makes you say that?" Shuichi's father asked as he moved back to his customary place by the window.

Yuki thought for a minute, trying to get his thoughts is order so that he could explain it to them without confusing them or himself. He was no botanist, but after weeks of being at Shuichi's beside and not seeing any movement from him, it wasn't until the plant was left that he had shown any sign of still being alive.

"Well, the reason I brought it up is because after all this time no one has seen any change in him at all, but when this plant was brought into the room I saw and felt his hand moving. As you can see right now he's not moving," Yuki explained as he waved his hand over Shuichi encompassing the lack of movement from him.

Shuichi's mother nodded her head in agreement, "Yes, I see what you are talking about, but who left that thing in my son's room and who removed it?" she asked as she straightened Shuichi's covers and took his hand in hers. Yuki saw the same helplessness and hope on her face that he had felt himself. They both wanted him to come back to them, but despaired his ever waking up from the coma. His doctors had told them that most of his injuries had heal and there was no sign of brain damage, but for some reason a plant that someone had left in the room seemed to bring him out of his coma for just a little while, and Yuki wanted to know who the person was and what that plant had been.

Dr. Olson watered the plant that he had managed to grab from Shuichi Shindo's room. He had found the plant in a remote part of a jungle in South America when he had been down there doing some medical research. He liked going to different countries and finding new and interesting plants and cures. This particular plant had been said to have the power to wake a person from a coma no matter what the cause of the coma had been. They told him that the person need only to be in the vicinity of the plant and they would wake up in about two to twenty four hours. They couldn't tell him what it was that woke the patient up, but were able to tell him that it was probably the smell that did it. The plant stood about three feet high when fully grown and had small purple and yellow flowers on it and deep green waxy looking leaves. There didn't seem to be any special kind of food needed to keep it alive, so Dr. Olson didn't have to worry about any special equipment catching anyone's eye. No one knew what kind of research he was doing, and he wanted to keep it that way. He knew that if he was every caught doing experiments on people without their permission he would lose his license.

He had been warned though that the plant had a nasty way of killing the person that it had woken up, so he had brought the plant back with him to Tokyo to see if he could grow it for himself, so that he might be able to find out what it was in the plant that killed people. Not everyone that had been exposed to the plant had died though, there seemed to be some sort of allergic reaction to the plant that only a few people seemed to have.

He put a slide under the microscope that had a sample of Shuichi's blood on it to see if he could spot any irregularities in the blood, but as before everything looked normal. He had tried the plant on about a dozen other patients and every time the plant had done exactly as the local people had warned him it would. They told him that at first the patient would wake up and act like everything was fine, but it seemed that the plant led to false hope and eventually the patient would succumb to some unknown virus.

As he looked through the notes he had made for each patient he tried to make some sort of connection between each of them, but many of the patients had nothing in common. The reasons for the comas varied and the way that each person went about their lives also differed. Dr. Olson put Shuichi's information in a folder and marked it as unknown for the time of death. Shuichi had only just regained consciousness, so he would have to wait and see if the virus had caught hold of him too. Just as Dr. Olson was about to shut off the lights to his lab, he remembered that Shuichi's lover had also gotten a good sniff of the plant and had passed out from it. He walked back to his desk and pulled out his notes about the people that were still conscious when they were exposed to the plant. As he read over what he had written down he saw that Shuichi's lover would show some signs of the virus, but it would not have the same affect on him that it would have on Shuichi. The symptoms would probably include dizziness, vomiting, and possibly more episodes of fainting, but it seemed to after a couple of days even those symptoms would disappear.

Dr. Olson realized that if he could get a hold of a sample of Shuichi's lover's blood he might be able to find out why the plant killed coma patients and not people that were conscious. He had thought that maybe the drugs that were in the patient's systems were the reason the plant killed them because it reacted negatively with the drugs that were used to keep the people alive. He had used the plant on other patients though that were also in the hospital and on medicine, but none of them had died from the virus so he had ruled out the possibility of the plant reacting negatively to the drugs in their systems. He was trying to stay away from the possibility that the plant killed them was because of the fact that there was some other force at work besides just the sense of smell. He knew that some people were just more susceptible to certain things and that their minds were weaker against attacks, but what he couldn't figure out was what it was that killed them.

As he sat there trying to come up with away to get Yuki's blood he glanced over at the plant and saw something moving, but when he got up to see what it was he didn't see any thing there. For as long as he had been sitting beside to plant he had never noticed anything out of the ordinary about it, but now for some reason he was getting an uneasy feeling. Dr. Olson shook himself to try and get rid of the nagging feeling that had just washed over him. He chalked it up to him pushing himself to hard and put away the files. He figured that it would probably be best if he just waited until tomorrow to see if he could get any more research done. As he shut the lights off he didn't see the little green bug that had crawled out of the plant pot and land on the table. He also didn't see the bug flying across the room to land on his head, but he did feel something crawling across his face and he just brushed it off and continued on his way.

As Shuichi's mother sat holding her son's hand more of his friends started showing up. After Yuki had called Shuichi's parents, he called Tohma to let him know the news and Tohma had apparently taken it onto himself to call everyone else because Hiro was the first one to arrive followed by Suguru and K. The last ones to show up were Tohma and Mika.

"Tohma told us that Shuichi has finally started showing signs of waking up," Hiro said as he walked over to where Yuki and Shuichi's parents where standing by Shuichi's bed.

"He woke up but only after some kind of weird plant was left in his room, I haven't had a chance to find out who the person was that left the plant in here but it seems to be the cause of Shuichi regaining consciousness," Yuki replied as he looked back toward Shuichi to see if he was moving anymore. Yuki thought he saw Shuichi's eyes moving, at first he didn't see any movement, but then Shuichi blinked and look right at him before closing his eyes again.

Yuki gasped as he reached around Shuichi's mother to put his hand on Shuichi's arm, "Shuichi, are you awake?" Yuki asked.

Shuichi's mother had been looking at Hiro when she heard Yuki asked his question, but when she looked back toward her son she saw the same thing that Yuki had. Just as she noticed his eyes moving she felt a squeeze on her hand and Shuichi started making groaning noises. When he blinked and looked around his mom gave a cry of joy and tried to throw herself onto him, but her husband held her back.

"Aya, just a minute you don't know if he even knows who we are," Mr. Shindo cautioned as he took in the confused look on Shuichi's face. Tohma had the presence of mind to call for the doctor to come in and take a look at Shuichi. They were all hoping that she could tell them something about the condition that Shuichi might be in. Before the doctor arrived though Shuichi started to gasp for air and a nurse rushed in to see what the problem was. When she saw that Shuichi was having trouble breathing, she grabbed the oxygen mask that was hanging by the bed, turned it on, and put it over his mouth and nose.

"Shuichi, can you hear me?" she asked as she started taking his vitals and recording them onto his chart. Shuichi gave a weak nod of as he looked around at the people standing in his room.

"You have been in a coma for about three weeks now," she explained as she adjusted the oxygen. "You're still healing from some of your wounds, so it would be best not to move around much for awhile."

Shuichi nodded in understanding as he opened his mouth to ask a question. The nurse put her hand on his shoulder to stop him. "No, don't speak right now. We need to keep the oxygen mask on for a while until we are sure that you can breath on your own." As the nurse was cautioning Shuichi against talking the doctor walked through the door and everyone shifted around trying to make more room for her.

She looked around at all the people in the room before she motioned for them to leave. "I need all of you to go outside for a minute while we look Shuichi over and see how he's doing. When I say he can visitors I think it would be best for only two people at a time come it to see him," she told them as she picked up Shuichi's chart to see what the nurse had written down. As Hiro and the rest of the band left, Shuichi's parents and Yuki stalled for a moment while they watched the doctor work on Shuichi, but when the doctor gave them a questioning look they turned around and left the room. When they got outside they found that everyone else had gone to the waiting room, that was at the end of the hallway. As they walked down to join the rest of the group Shuichi's mother gave Yuki a concerned look.

"Are you alright?" she asked him as she put her hand on his arm to stop him.

Yuki looked down into her concerned brown eyes and felt the weeks catching up to him, but all he said was that he was alright before he continued on to the waiting room. He would find time later on to let all the emotions go that he had been keeping bottled up for the past three weeks, but for now he would just act like there was nothing wrong. He was trying to think of a way of letting Shuichi know how much he cared for him, but he had a feeling that it would not go the way that he wanted it to go. When he got to the waiting room there was no more time for thinking. Everyone seemed to be talking at once, each trying to figure out why Shuichi had woken up after being in a coma for so long. When Yuki and Shuichi's parents walked into the room they all shut up and turned toward the door waiting for a explanation about Shuichi's condition.

Tohma was the first one to speak as he walked over to stand next to Yuki, "Did the doctor tell you any thing before you left the room?" he asked,

Yuki shook his head as he moved away from Tohma to sit down. He had been up for close to two days waiting to see if Shuichi would show anymore signs of improvement.

"The only thing that the doctor said to us, was that after he was through with Shuichi that only two of us at a time would be allowed to go in to see him," Shuichi's father spoke up as he walked farther into the room. He looked around at all of the people that had come to see Shuichi and he again was hit with how lucky his son was to have as many friends as he did. He remembered some of the people that he had gone to school with that had come out to everyone and had been shunned because of it. He knew that if Shuichi had been born in another time and had chosen another career then he might have ended up in the hospital long before now.

As he led his wife over to a vacant chair he looked around trying to see if he could identify some of the people that were there. He saw Shuichi's two band mates and his manager standing next to the door and to the right of them he saw a blond haired man that looked like an American, but for the life of him he could not place his name. Next he looked to the left of the door and identified the man standing there as the owner of the music business that Shuichi went through and a woman that looked a little bit like Yuki.

After he got his wife settled into a chair he turned back to look at the other people in the room. "I want to tell you all how grateful I am that you dropped everything you were doing to come here and see Shuichi in this stressful time."

At first everyone looked at him like he had spoken a different language, but Hiro walked over to Mr. Shindo and put his hands in front of his body with his fingers placed in the middle of his chest. He bowed first to Shuichi's dad and then his mother in greeting.

"Sir, do you know anything about that plant that Yuki mentioned?" Hiro asked as he straightened back up.

Mr. Shindo shook his head, "I didn't see any plant. Yuki was the only one in the room when it was there, so he could tell you more about it."

Hiro nodded in understanding as he turned to Yuki, "Well, what can you tell us about it?" Hiro asked as he walked over to stand next to Yuki.

Yuki thought for a moment as he tired to remember what the plant looked like and the sensations that it had caused.