Alone No More

An Eyeshield 21 Story

By: Daniel of Lorien

They were all at the hospital, even Hiruma had come. The steady beep coming from the machine sounded at regular intervals giving the men there a feeling of relief, but also the terrible uncertainty of dread that would accompany the recovery of Mamori. Her body was beaten up to the point that she had almost died. Twenty five fractures in total along with minor internal bleeding. She had numerous cuts and scratches all over her body as well, but that would heal and her body would be fine. The thing that worried everyone was if her mind would ever heal from the psychological damage caused by being brutally raped.

Sena watched the steady breathing of his once protector with a blurred vision. His fist clenched to the point of bleeding. 'Mamori-neechan, why, why did it have to happen to you?' repeated in the boy's head over and over as tears flowed down his face.

A small nurse came in and notified the football players that visitation time was over for the day and they would have to come back tomorrow if they wished to see Mamori again. Slowly every one started to filter out of the room, everyone except Sena.

"Sena-kun, are you alright? You can't blame yourself Sena-kun" Kurita murmured.

"I should have been faster! I should have figured out something was wrong when she didn't show up!"

"BAKA take your anger out on the field" Hiruma yelled while roping Sena and dragging him out of the room.

Kurita turned to face Mamori and bowed, "Good night, Mamori-san."

And with that he turned and closed the door behind him. The darkness that enveloped the girl was but a shadow of the darkness that enveloped her mind.

Shin was walking past a small convenient store with Sakuraba when he noticed the cover of the newspaper. Sakuraba looked at Shin with raised eyebrow, wondering what had caused his best friend to stop with wide eyes.

Sakuraba followed his line of vision to the newspaper stand and he gasped at the headline.

"Daimon High school's Disciplinary Officer and Manager for the school's American Football team, The Devil Bats, was beaten and raped last night. She is currently in Daimon Hospital in critical, but stable condition."

"What," Sakuraba yelled as he finished reading the article. "They haven't a clue as to who did this!"

Shin frowned and turned around. Sakuraba reached out for him but Shin just murmured, "I'm going to visit someone, you go ahead and tell the coach I'll be late."

"Sure," Sakuraba replied as he watched his friend run down the street with unusual urgency. "I wonder who he is in such a hurry to see, the hospital is the opposite direction."

His brow furrowed in thought as he looked at the road that Shin had turned on. "Is he going to Diamon High School?"

Sena was on his back in the middle of the football field having ran back and forth between goals at top speed until his body could no long handle the stress he was putting on it. "If Mamori-neechan was here she would scold me for this and demand that Hiruma stop making me do these things. Even though I do this willingly and even though she never knew that I was…"

"Eyeshield 21, why are you laying on the ground?"

Sena looked up and his eyes widened in surprise. "Huh, what are you doing here?"

Well that's the end of this chapter… I'm going to continue working on it after I post this so please give me some suggestions also I've only read to 53 so I don't know if I'm up to date L Well I need a beta so please contact me. My username on FFN is the same on yahoo and you can find my hotmail address on my profile. I am almost always logged into my MSN Messenger so that's the best way to contact me!