Years ago, Su had become a woman when 'she' experienced the compulsory monthly discharge of blood. That fateful morning, he had woken up quite early to train on one of the first skills he had been taught together with Lu Kang by Master Yeong. He had woken up early because he was quite anxious to learn new things as a kid. He had felt something warm and a tad sticky rush out of his body. He quickly checked himself to see if he was alright. Then he had seen blood flowing out of his lower region. He became panicky because he had never experienced such bizzare incident. Then came the cramps and stomach ache!!. He was a very smart kid. As soon as he understood what was going on, he hurriedly arranged and cleaned himself up. He had gone ahead of the others to have a bath too; which wasn't at all suspicious as he didn't bath with them anyways...
That morning, his tummy had grumbled so much that he couldn't keep up with the daily drills and trainings. He immediately excused himself to go indoors when he realized how uncomfortable he was. He had also been sweating profusely.
Lu Kang had come to stay with him; concern spewed all over his face. Although he wondered what the problem really was with his 'brother' as Su became easily irritated and even craved for some sweet snacks that he normally wouldn't have asked for. Many of the food he wanted weren't on the food menu for that day too.
Nevertheless, he had wanted to make sure Su was alright and comfortable that he turned around the next moment Su made gestures of throwing up to call the Academy Physician.
"is anyone there!?, get the Physician!" Lu Kang had shouted accross
"no ... no Kang, I'll be fine. It's just a measly fever..." Su stopped him when he realized Kang could seriously go to get the old doctor.
"I don't think this is just a fever. We need to be sure you're alright..."
"I'll be fine in some minutes, I promise you. We don't want to stress the old physician because of a mere fever, do we?"
"that's his job...! but if you insist, fine. Su, right now you look like those pregnant women I see going through morning sicknesses"
"hahaha..."
Lu Kang had then placed his little hand on his forehead and felt his hot but soft skin.
"you're really burning up and your skin is so soft..."
He then got up, fetched a bowl with cool water from the fountain at the center of the Academy compound, sprinkled some common medicinal herbs to soothe fever into it, came back to Su and massaged his body with it.