A Leap of Faith
"I will not jump on him. I will not jump on him. I will not…"
SMACK.
"Akaya!" Sanada Genichirou could barely resist the urge to smack his youngest team member. "I told you not to jump on Seiichi! Now, run 20 laps!"
"Now, now, Sanada…" Yukimura turned his deep, glowing eyes away from his clinging kouhai and smiled up at Sanada. We wouldn't want to ruin this day, would we?"
"Of course not," Sanada replied, looking directly at Kirihara Akaya, who was trying to hide from his fukubuchou glare by hiding behind his crush. Unfortunately, it didn't work too well, as Yukimura was still very thin from his long stay at the hospital. The surgery might have cured him, but it hadn't given him his body back.
"Now, what are we thinking about so hard?" Akaya, looking up in surprise, turned bright red as he realized just how close Yukimura's lips were to his. He stood frozen, green eyes locked on Yukimura's almost purple ones.
"Hmm." With his sound of mild approval, Yukimura pulled himself back up, and wrapped an arm around his kouhai. "Now, shall we be off?"
"H-hai." Sanada did his best to maintain his stoic composure, while mentally smacking himself for not noticing the obvious attraction between his crush and his kouhai sooner.
"Let's go!" The self proclaimed tensai of Rikkai, Marui, walked into what once was Yukimura's room. The plain, simple room had once been crowded with anxious parents, hyperactive tennis players (mainly Akaya), distraught friends, and nervous doctors. It was a reminder of how far Yukimura had come - and a symbol of what could possible become of him.
As the tennis players left the room that had once been at the center of their lives, the room seemed smaller, not as bright - washed out, almost. At the doorway, the last of their group, Yukimura turned suddenly, and gazed at the bed he had spent too much time in.
"It's funny isn't it?" At the sound of Yukimura's voice, the rest of the group turned and looked at their buchou. "Life just seems so fragile. At any second of the say, one can get hit by a car, get infected, catch a disease…lose a loved one. Or be lost. At any second, any given moment, one can die. Life really is just a leap of faith, isn't it? Hoping that in any moment, you can live; that you find and maintain happiness. What a beautiful, blinding thing."
With Yukimura's goodbye to his hospital room and his illness, a sense of completing settled over the air. Several minutes later, outside the hospital, where the group of Rikkai players had met up with the rest of their team, sunlight was busy creating patterns on the wall, casting a shadow on the previously occupied bed.
I know I haven't been writing in the while, but reality has been busy gnawing on my ass. Please review! Oh, and I posted the link to my bloggy blog online! Since people seem to want to know me better (and understand why I'm never able to write) I figure it should explain some things away. :]
-Ducky
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