Want to try falling from the heavens with me?

Event: Medicinal Miracle

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“It did! It really, really did! I told you!”

Taking up Tenn’s hands and excitedly wagging their joined arms up and down, a wash of possibilities were already overcoming Riku’s imagination.

“I don’t even know if this is a permanent cure or what! But while I can, I have to make the most of this miracle, Tenn-nii!”

Concerts where he could finally go more all out, more intense physical activities, going to a pet cafe..! But more importantly, the redheaded idol thought back to one of his very first wishes, wondering if, possibly, it could still happen even in a place like this…

“Although…. it’s a shame things couldn’t be like this sooner. Y’know… so that we could have performed together, without a single worry. I mean, Mom and Dad would have loved that.”

It was hard not to get swept into Riku’s excitement. How many times had Ten wished for this as a child? How many times had he yearned to be able to do normal things with Riku without a care in the world? How many times had he seen Riku doubled over in pain, unable to even breathe? How many times had he wished he could take Riku’s pain onto himself so that Riku wouldn’t have to suffer anymore?

The feelings were compounded by the mention of their parents, whom Ten also had to turn his back on and pretend not to know, all so that Riku could live. It had been a necessary sacrifice that Ten didn’t regret, one that Riku likely didn’t understand the weight of, and one that Ten would always guilty for in spite of its necessity.

Yes... If this had happened sooner, Ten wouldn’t have had to leave his family. He wouldn’t have had to hear Riku crying his name, only to dissolve into a coughing fit.

“...Mm.”

But in the end, if Riku was cured...then he had to be happy for Riku. And he was, there was no doubt about that. It had always been one of his fondest wishes for Riku to be able to do things a normal child could do. He only hoped this turn of events could last...

Ten looked up at Riku, his expression grave.

“We still don’t know how long the cure will last, if it will at all, or if there are any side effects. So before we do anything like that, let’s keep monitoring your condition.”

Event: Medicinal Miracle

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“But I’m–!”

Tenn really wasn’t having it, and Riku couldn’t exactly blame him, either. For all of the excuses he had given him in the past, it would be hard to convince him otherwise… (Plus, he was probably super extra irritable from having been woken up so suddenly like this.)

“Hold on! I’ll prove it to you!”

Heading past his twin and procuring the now empty plastic bottle of medicine still sitting its box, Riku presented it to Tenn to personally inspect.

“See? This mysterious present was left right next to my pillow! And I know I shouldn’t have just drunken it without checking what it really was, but I’m serious! It even says ‘Your Cure.’ on it!”

And while Tenn was looking at the object in question more thoroughly, Riku was already performing jumping jacks and stretches to really bring the point home.

“I can move around and use my voice however much I want and I don’t feel that usual strain or itch in my throat! Go ahead and put your ear to my back! I bet the whistle won’t be there anymore either!”

Ten went from irritated to worried to aghast very fast. Riku had always been guileless, overly trusting, and something of an impulsive airhead with not the best ideas in mind, but to think that he would’ve done something like this...!

“You drank that without even questioning what it was?”

He had only been awake for ten minutes, but Ten was already exhausted enough to warrant a ten-year nap.

Still, the more Riku spoke, the more he moved, Ten was beginning to see that, perhaps there was some basis to what Riku was saying. How could he do all of those jumping jacks without wheezing? How could he be active without being short of breath?

“Is it really true...?”

He didn’t want to indulge Riku’s childish antics for more than five more seconds, but the proof was rather compelling. At Riku’s beckon, Ten pressed his ear to his back, and true enough, the characteristic whistling wasn’t there. Even after all the screaming, even after standing in the cold, even after all the activity.

It was as if all traces of Riku’s illness had simply disappeared.

“You’re not wheezing... So whatever was in that bottle really cured you?”

Event: Medicinal Miracle

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“AAAAH–W-WAugh!”

Suddenly tugged back aggressively and meeting eye-to-eye with a pair of furious cerise hues, Riku initially gulped. He was used to being sternly lectured by his twin in the past, and where he would have been subjected to a harsh scolding without much to refute, this time things were much different.

“T-Tenn-nii?! W-wait, you don’t understand!” Riku frantically implored, seizing Tenn by the shoulders to command his attention. “I’m cured!”

Even just proclaiming that filled Riku with a sense of energy of which he could barely contain himself with. He was so giddy he almost didn’t know how to properly articulate himself in a way his twin could understand.

“I have NO idea how it worked, but it did! I’m not sick anymore, Tenn-nii! It’s a Christmas miracle!”

“......Ha?”

Riku had given Ten the fright of his life, and now he was playing it off like nothing had happened, just because of some silly belief that he was somehow cured of his illness? Perhaps it was because his heart was still pounding, but Ten couldn’t quite curb the flare of irritation.

Why was Riku always like this...?

“Is this some kind of joke? Riku, I’m serious. What were you thinking? Just because you dreamed about something like that doesn’t mean you should go and jeopardize your health. Do you know how worried I was?”

Event: Medicinal Miracle

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Riku wakes when he shifts his position in bed, only to feel his nose bump into a solid surface. Blinking himself awake, he’s greeted to the sight of a wall of glossy red paper–no, not exactly a wall, but a box shaped gift wrapped nicely beside his pillow.

“Hmn…?

Of course, as anyone would, Riku sleepily sat up to inspect his mysterious parcel–looking for a non-existent recipient tag, shaking it to guess what was inside–but his curiosity eventually got the better of him as he simply combated with the wrappings and managed to rip open the underlying box inside.

“A… medicine bottle?”

He turned over the plastic vial to read the custom label on the back, simply reading, “Your cure.”

His cure? His cure for what? It couldn’t possibly be…?

Apart of him was conflicted–what if this was a prank? What if the contents were actually harmful to him? Maybe he should have someone else advise him on what to do–but those perfectly printed words–YOUR CURE.–almost begin to yell at him now, calling to him…

He impulsively downs the clear liquid inside with shaking lips, reeling at the bitterness that clings to the back of his esophagus. At first Riku concluded that he had fallen for a cruel attempt at poisoning him as he temporarily can’t breathe for a few seconds, but then…

Bliss.

It’s like his chest becomes a million times lighter, liquid light flowing though his lungs and throat, gasping out as he takes the first deep breath in years that doesn’t hurt or result in a coughing fit.

Over joyed at the prospects--is this what he thought it was?! Was he finally..?!–Riku leaps out of bed, running over to the balcony attached to his room and ripping open the glass door, grasping onto the rail handle outside of his deck and taking the biggest inhale before–

“AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH–!!”

He lets out the loudest scream he can, uninhibited…. and free.

The blissfully sleeping Ten was given a rude awakening as soon as the voice ripped through the quiet hours of the morning.

It was difficult enough for Ten to rise in the earlier hours (though he did so without complaint for work), but to be started awake by a scream was the last thing he needed after a long night at work.

The second rude awakening came when he realized just who the owner of the voice was. Ten’s first thoughts were lost in a flurry of panic. Had someone broken in? Was Riku yelling because of that? Ten leapt from the bed and burst out of the room, looking around for any trace of Riku, and found him standing on the balcony...

And yelling?

Panic faded into irritation which then faded into anger tinged with worry. Ten immediately stalked over to Riku, grabbing him by the arm and pulling him back away from the balcony.

“Riku, what do you think you’re doing yelling that loudly?! You should know better than that. Do you want to trigger another attack?”