Find his violin of course, he can finally play it again!
He couldn't believe it.
Kyousuke sat in bed, dumbfounded, doing nothing but staring at his hands... his whole, non-fractured hands... well, actually, Sayaka's hands... which was really awkward and made him wonder where
was Sayaka if not in her own body-
Wait, wait, wait, don't think that.
Kyousuke found himself staring down at his... her... whatever.
Hands.
With this, he could play- blue eyes widened.
The next minutes happened in a blur of motion, Kyousuke not paying much attention to his surroundings, dressing
very quickly, running outside, dashing to catch a bus and his thoughts blurred out until he somehow found himself panting opening the door to
his own room.
Damn, Sayaka kept in good shape. He felt he would've passed out right now were he in his own body-
He quickly shook his- her head,
whatever.
Clearing his mind of useless thoughts, Kyousuke
finally reached for his prize.
The case opened to show his
violin.
Oh, precious, at least he could hold her once more, even if with the hands of another...
Kyousuke sat down on his bed, hands carefully attuning his instrument, a sense of peace and wonder filling his very being like a beautiful song he could swear he could hear...
Actually, he realized,
he was playing.
He was playing the violin once more.
The bow slid over the strings, drawing out those sweat melodies, long, drawn out swings sending out delightful vibrations to his ears-
"Sayaka-chan?"
"Eep!"
Kyousuke's first feeling was of sadness as he reflexively stopped playing, the room falling into a
lacking silence. His first thought after that was that he didn't just say '
eep'.
"I didn't know you could play... so well!" Kyousuke's mom smiled dubiously as she entered the bedroom, "did Kyousuke teach you?"
Kyousuke blinked at his mom, hands still frozen mid-note.
"My poor boy," she shook her head sadly, sitting beside his son, unknowingly, "between you and me," she stared at Sayaya's blue eyes, "the doctors said a long time ago he wouldn't be able to play anymore, but we didn't have the heart to tell him." She sighs. "We still tried every treatment we could, but..."
Kyousuke's gut twisted into a knot and his eyes slowly widened further and further until he felt they were gonna pop out of his skull...
He opened his mouth, maybe to yell at his mother that it was
him, she was talking to
him right now and... he couldn't. He just sat there, gaping, while his mom sighed again and turned to asked him something.
"Wha... what was that?" he prided himself on avoiding adding 'mom' at the end of the sentence. Also, Sayaka's voice sounded
weird coming out of his mouth. Or her mouth. However that worked.
"I said," she smiled kindly, "since you
apparently had quite a few practice sessions with
my son, perhaps you would like to show off your skills, and play for out whole family? I'm sure Kyousuke would feel proud..."
Her eyes
bore into him with such intensity he immediately found himself nodding. "Yes, sure."
He couldn't say no.
His mom smiled happier than he had seen in a long time. "Good girl," she reached out to pat her, his head with familiar fondness. Kyousuke stayed completely still as his mom stood up and, with one last grateful smile, exited his bedroom and closed the door.
Suddenly a tune rang out of somewhere, startling him, before he realized the tune belonged to Sayaka's phone.
Taking it from a skirt pocket, all the while reassuring himself that he wasn't doing anything wrong, he was caught in
exceptional circumstances, he opened an incoming message and read out loud:
"Kyousuke-kun, this is Sayaka. Don't panic, this thing will only last twenty four hours."
He spent a minute staring at the cell phone's screen, thinking.
For a moment, he felt relief. He sighed, leaned back and let himself fall on his bed, feeling completely relaxed.
Then next moment, Sayaka's fingers flew across the phone's touch screen as he quickly typed out an answer.
"I fucked up."
Without thinking, Kyousuke pressed 'Send', threw the phone over his shoulder, sat back up, decided to ignore anything and everything else, and resumed playing the violin.
He only had less than twenty four hours to play, after all.