Another P.O.T Fic for the fans!
Pairing: Sanada/Ryoma
Summary: Ryoma is acting differently then when Sanada had last seen him. Meeting Ryoma in a certain part of town, he begins to notice the odd things Ryoma is doing other then play tennis.
Warning: Violence.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Prince of Tennis!
Ryoma Echizen wasn't your average middle schooler. He was an ace for Seigaku's tennis team and a master in his English classes. Sometimes after school and practices, he would practice his skills with his father, Nanjiroh. Practicing on a new skill, Ryoma was hit with one of the balls during his practice with his father. Nanjiroh thought he was just bluffing when he saw his son just lying there and not moving an inch.
Nanjiroh panicked and called for his wife and neice to help him into the car so they could go to the hospital and have him checked out. During the drive towards the hospital, Ryoma was wriggling in his knocked out sleep. His father was swerving this way and that trying to get out of the way of oncoming traffic.
"Watch where you're driving, you'll kill us all!" Ryoma's mother, Rinko exclaimed as she held onto her son's hands with care.
"Shut up! We're almost there!" Nanjiroh shouted as he drove the car into the driveway of the closest hospital he could find.
Leaving the car behind, the family followed Nanjiroh into the hospital, looking for a doctor. Nurses nearby realized the boy in Nanjiroh's arms wasn't moving and they quickly went to Ryoma's aide. Setting Ryoma onto one of the beds in the hospital, one nurse went to fetch a doctor while the other nurse stayed behind for the family.
"I'll need to take a note of what happened." The nurse explained as she got her clip board and pen ready.
"We were both playing tennis and I...accidentally knocked him out with the ball when I was returning it to him." Nanjiroh told the nurse.
"To be easily knocked out with a tennis ball. Must have been some force on it to cause your son to be knocked out like that." Normal people had no idea what sort of acts you could do in sports unless they tried it out for themselves.
"Y-yeah..." Rinko looked sternly at her husband while holding onto Ryoma's hand.
"I suggest to you that this should not happen again!" The nurse told him as the other nurse came back with a doctor next to her.
"Please take a look at him, doctor! My husband was an idiot for not paying attention!" Rinko pleaded as the doctor got out his stethscope and began searching for signs of the heart beating.
"Nothing too serious but this is a head problem so we'll need to keep your son here for a few days until he awakens. LIke I said, might not be serious but you'll want to know for sure, right?" Rinko and her niece looked down with sad expressions.
"Who's going to look after Karupin then?" Nanjiroh asked as the doctor left the room.
"That should be obvious, dear. YOU!" Rinko surprised her husband with her strength as she tossed him out of the room, with the door slamming shut.
"Cruel woman." Nanjiroh rubbed his head and got up quickly and began his trip home.
A few days passed and the Seigaku tennis team members were worried about Ryoma not turning up for two days straight. Tezuka wasn't the least bit worried, or so his face looked. Coach Ryuzaki was informed of this by Ryoma's father and she passed on the news later that day to everyone else. Oishi and Momo were the most worried, leading to the least worried, Kaidoh and Tezuka. But all of them agreed to visit Ryoma while he was still in the hospital.
Eiji brought the get well card while Momoshiro brought snacks and a few souvenirs from the gift shop. The niece had gone back home to her uncle's place while the mother stayed behind.
"So what caused Echizen to get knocked out?" Momoshiro asked as Rinko's hands gripped each other.
"My idiot of a husband was playing tennis with him. He said Ryoma was practicing a new skill until he went to return it, my husband knocked the ball on his head by accident. Now the doctors say he's in a coma and it may take a while for him to be awake."
"Oishi, our poor baby is..." Eiji trailed off and began to cry into Oishi's chest.
"E-Eiji, I know he'll wake up soon." Oishi reassured him.
Hearing noises, Ryoma's eyes began to open slowly. His mind felt blank and his body felt real heavy, as though he were running with a lot of iron bars around his arms and ankles.
"So...noisy..." Ryoma tried to get up but had to put a hand to his head to stop the throbbing.
"E-Echizen-kun!" Rinko immediately hugged her son with full force, crying into his choulder.
"M-mom! Huh, what is everyone doing here?" Ryoma asked as he looked around and he finally realized he was not at home.
"Visiting you, what else. So you got knocked out with a tennis ball, Echizen?" Momo asked him while he tried hard not to laugh.
"I...got knocked out...?" Ryoma felt around on his head and felt a bit of a bump at the very back.
"Ryoma, my baby Ryoma. The doctors told us you were in a coma. Your father is going to get it when we get home!"
"A dream..." Everyone stopped celebrating as they took Ryoma seriously.
"I had a dream with Sanada-san in it. Hurts to remember though." Ryoma rubbed his eyes.
"Just try getting some rest, Ryoma." Rinko laid Ryoma back down and covered him up with the blankets.
The team saw that Ryoma still needed his sleep and left the mother with her son so that Ryoma could get his rest without disruptions, leaving the stuff they brought, behind.
"Still...to dream of Sanada-san of Rikkai Dai. Hope it wasn't a nightmare." They agreed with Oishi and went on their way to their homes.
A/n: How's that? Ryoma-kun actually dreamt of Sanada-san. Weird, no? Well see ya next time! Update is real soon!
