With a grunt Hayato pushes himself up into a sitting position. Thanks to the treatment with the sun flames he was recovering faster then a person normally should... however his everything still hurt like a bitch, which was probably evident in how he's suddenly broken out in a sweat and breathing faster. It's just pain though... seriously... HE HAS HAD WORSE.

Once sat up, he reaches his hand to Ryuutaro's cheek, and smiles.

"You were real brave back there. If you hadn't distracted Gamma long enough for Hibari to get to us..."

Well... he didn't need to go into details on that. Ryuutaro knew what would have happened... he must have been scared. Hayato leans to gently kiss Ryuutaro for a moment(couldn't do much else with that split lip unfortunately)

"Thanks."