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"Dad," Kousei croaked out. "Where am I?"

His father immediately went closer to him and sat on his bed. "You're in New York Cancer Center. This was where I got a second opinion. Sadly, they confirmed the diagnosis in Manhattan Medical Center."

He stared at his father weakly after he knew that he really did have cancer that made him really sad. "Will I have radiation therapy again?" he asked his father as he broke in tears.

"No. Not yet. They'll be getting more brain scans tomorrow. What they want from you now is for you to get more sleep and rest," Takahiko informed him.

Kousei cried harder on his bed again. "I've been like this for weeks now. Can't I really go home? I want to go to school again, dad."

Takahiko cried, too. "You know that you can't go home, yet."

Kousei sat and hugged him tightly. He just kept on crying so hard due to fear and most of all, Takahiko observed that Kousei's depressed that made him worry for his son more. 

...

The next day, Dr. Brown, Dr. Gareth, and Dr. Lee finally introduced themselves to Kousei. He's in his wheelchair and he's being brought to the room where he'll be having his scans again. Even without Takahiko's report that Kousei seemed depressed, they could see it through his eyes. He had only been diagnosed that he had cancer for a week and he already looked very sad. Slowly, the nurse brought him and laid him down on the CT Scan's table. They talked to him for a while and after that, they slowly entered him in.

While they are scanning his brain again, Takahiko felt his nerves calm down when he saw Seto Hiroko and her husband again at the waiting room at the ground floor of the New York Cancer Center. Her husband, Seto Hirohito is an average man and he had become a Japanese Language Teacher in the USA after they migrated.

"How's your son?" he asked him. 

"I'm fine," he looked down. "My son seemed luckier than my wife."

That sure made Seto Hiroko ask him, "How can you say he's luckier?"

"My wife hadn't been checked by expert doctors. She died on the operating table. We're divorced but I took upon myself to take care of him. I'm lucky enough that he's not angry with me. I'm glad we went here in the United States. Looking at his doctors and the facility, I could say that by a margin, he does have a chance to survive," he told them. 

Both of them smiled and were relieved.

"Where is he now?" Hirohito asked him. 

"He's having CT Scans today," he told them. 

....

"Dad!" called Kousei as he rolls down his wheelchair as he approaches them after he was done with the scans."Aunt? Uncle? Why are you here?"

"Seems like you're getting better," Hirohito told him after Kousei had already joined them.

"They still said that I still have a lot of chemotherapy pills to take," he informed them. "Even so, they told me that I might survive my cancer. The tumor that was left on me is very small already. Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy can be the ones to help it disappear completely in my head."

Seto Hiroko grinned. "I'm glad to hear you say them. You look great today."

He seemed happy, too. "I hope I can be better soon. They said that it should be the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation that I should look out for and not actually my brain tumor as it is already removed."

Dr. Brown approached them and looked at Kousei. He patted Kousei on the shoulder. "Manhattan Medical Center seemed to have progressed through the years. Dr. Fuji is truly one hell of a neurosurgeon. If you have questions, just ask me."

"His tumor, it won't return right?" Seto Hiroko asked him.

He smiled. "We are all doing our best to prevent it from going back and affecting other parts of his brain."

He began moving to Kousei's wheelchair after he noticed that his patient seemed nauseous and fatigued. He took note of that on his mind. All of them followed him and after a while, the two Setos were shocked to learn that he's in a VIP ward of the Neurology Department.

"I took his background and learned that he's the pianist I'm hearing about," he informed them. "Due to it, I knew I have to convince our administration to put him there. Most of all, I know that you're not just a simple businessman."

...

A few seconds later, they finally entered Kousei's room. He carried him and laid him on his bed. For now, he doesn't need a nasal cannula since he can still breathe easily. What he only does have for now are IV fluids. "For now, the CT Scan is enough to see how he is. Doctor Gareth and Dr. Lee are checking now if his cancer cells spread out in other parts of his body. There's a huge chance he will survive after he's treated if there will be no other complication."

"Thank you, doctor," Takahiko told him. 

"As I said, I did a background check. I was shocked by what I learned. Before I leave, I want to ask you not as a doctor but as a friend, you should tell your father about what's wrong with your son," he told him. "I got to go. I hope t see your father, soon."

Seto Hiroko looked at Takahiko. "What are you not telling us, Takahiko?"

Takahiko sat down on the couch after Dr. Brown left. "I wonder if they were friends."

"What do you mean?" Hirohito asked him.

"Saki. I met her at the hospital. She's already sick when we met. Guess who's her doctor?" he asked them. "You'd definitely be surprised."

Seto was truly surprised. "Your father is a doctor?"

"Turns out I decided to stay as a businessman but still in line with medicine. I'm a licensed pharmacist," he told them.

"Do you still practice pharmacy?" Hirohito asked.

"I do in Japan. I've been in rounds in many places that I can't even meet my family. Saki divorced me since she thought I was neglecting my duty as a father. After our divorce, I heard she became cruel to Kousei until she passed away," he told them. "At that time, my father wasn't her doctor already."

"It could mean that Dr. Brown knows your father," Seto Hiroko told him.

"That's absurd. My father doesn't know English," he told them. "How would they even know each other, anyway?"

"What if he can, now?" Hirohito asked him.

After that, he finally decided to open his phone and inform his father. Just like what Hirohito told him, his father already knows the English Language even for a bit. Most of all, he told him that his son does have cancer which alerted his father. That time too, Seto Hiroko called his friends from Juilliard about his condition and most of all, to Tsubaki and Watari. His friends, Catherine and Nathaniel quickly went to the hospital to visit Kousei. Catherine is a beautiful woman who has straight, black hair, blue eyes, and red lips while Nathaniel is a British boy who does have very blonde hair that almost looks yellow, and he has green eyes. He's 5'11''. Both of them were wearing their standard Julliard school uniform when they came to where he is.

Kousei is luckily not feeling so horrible upon the time they visited and most of all, he has regrown a bit of his hair. The doctors haven't yet given him any pills for chemotherapy but he's had two radiation therapy every week after they deemed him ready. Every day, he spends most of the time sleeping on his bed. He had also begun vomiting for the past few weeks but that day, he just feels fatigued. Seto Hiroko quickly approached Kousei who's sleeping sideways on his bed. 

"You have visitors," she told him.

Kousei just whimpered and didn't even move. "Hiroko-san."

"Um, ma'am, if he's not feeling okay, it's fine. We just want to know how he is already," Catherine told her. "He'd been absent for three weeks already and our teachers were really worried about him. They gave us today so we can check our friend's condition."

"I'm really sorry about this. You can sit with me," she leads them on the couch. 

After they sat on the couch, the three of them noticed that Kousei heard them talking. He opened his eyes and laid on his bed facing them.

Seto went closer to him and helped him sit on his bed. "Are you alright?"

Kousei nodded. "How did they know?"

"Your father wanted them to know," she informed him. "He's helping your friends from Japan to get here, too."

"I'm far from dying, yet," he told them.

"Ohhh. So you're confident that you'll be fine, soon?" she said to him with a smile. "Good for you."

"I want to sit on the couch," he told her. "Can I?"

At that moment, Seto held him and his IV stand. His two friends from Julliard also went closer to him. Just like what his old neurosurgeon said to him, he had already felt some effects of the tumor removal as his leg seemed to give him trouble walking. He can still walk but he became slower than before. He was able to sit down and smile at his friends.

"Thank you for the visit," he said to them.

After that, Seto gave him water as she noticed that walking made him quickly exhausted. 

"How are you now, Kousei?" Catherine asked him. 

"It's surprising that you'll get cancer. Your mentor, Maestro Alessandro Giussepe broke in tears when our other teachers already told him why you weren't showing up for days for your tutorial session," Nathaniel informed him. "He might visit today, too. He's just worried he might stress you out."

Kousei looked down and nodded. "I was admitted to a different hospital before I got here. The tumor I had was taken off in Manhattan Medical Center. They weren't able to take it all off though, in fear that it might damage me more."

"Kousei, I hope you get better," Catherine told him. 

"Thanks," cried Kousei. 

...

They chatted for a bit longer and most of all, told him things that he missed while he's still in his hospital room. After a while, both of them became aware that Kousei seemed so tired. Nathaniel carried him back and guided him to walk back to his bed. Kousei tried walking by himself but due to fatigue, he was forced to depend on his friends. Catherine held his IV stand for him. When they had already carried him back on his bed and he's sound asleep again, Nathaniel noticed something strange to him. He took his right hand over Kousei's forehead. He felt heat over it and so, while Seto Hiroko and his father were away, both of them knew that they're the ones who're in charge of taking care of him.

Kousei began to gasp for air and held his bed railing. His body hurts so much that time and he can't seem to breathe as he wanted.

"Catherine, go call a nurse or a doctor! Quick! Something is wrong with him!" shouted Nathaniel. "He needs urgent help!"

Catherine ran and shouted, "Anyone? Anyone? I need a doctor in here!"

Luckily, Dr. Gareth was just about to get inside his room. When he got inside his room, he already saw that his patient is having it hard to breathe and so, he called for the other doctors and nurses to run inside his room. When all of the important people are already inside, a nurse asked them to go outside his room in which they followed. They closed the blinds and they did all their best to help Kousei breathe again without feeling so much pain on his chest. A few minutes later, Kousei finally went well after he was given treatment. Dr. Gareth went outside and he was quickly met by Kousei's two friends from Juilliard. 

"What happened to him, sir?" Nathaniel asked

He looked at their clothes. "I assume you're his friends from Juilliard?"

"Yes, sir. What happened to him?" Nathaniel asked.

"Tell his ward and his father that he had seizures again. I can't tell you more than that," he told them. "His father should be the first to know about the things I'll say. Do you know  where they are?"

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