Onodera's P.O.V

I had woken up in Takano-san's arms that morning, it had become the norm as of late. I had recently told him how I felt after so long of me trying so hard to deny it. I couldn't hide it anymore, my feelings for my first love had become to strong and I finally swallowed my pride and told him the truth.

It had been several months since then and we were now a proper couple, however not much had changed; Takano-san still teased me and gave me a hard time at work, I still tried to get out of being all lovey-dovey with him and tired my best not to go home with him. Of course he always ended up dragging me into his apartment with him, by now it was like it was my home, he was even trying to convince me to more in with him but I felt like I wasn't quite ready for that.

Still everyday Takano-san insisted that I sleep in his apartment and then he'd make me breakfast before he would force me into his car and drive me to work. I was just happy that no one seemed to notice anything yet.

That day Takano-san and I were first into work. Tonight would probably be the first all-nighter of the cycle for most editors depending on if their mangaka got there manuscripts in or not and how much paper work there was to do, so getting in early may make having to stay up all night less likely but I doubted I would be that lucky.

We walked into the office side by side and just when we reached my seat Takano-san grabbed my arm causing me to turn to look at him and then he kissed me, my mouth was open already and he pushed his tongue in, kissing me deeply. Shocked, I pushed him away from me and glared at him. "Not in the office, you idiot! What if someone saw?!" I snapped at him.

He grinned at me and winked. "Don't worry, Onodera, no one's here yet."

"That's not the point! And besides how do you know someone won't walk in suddenly!"

"Really? Don't worry, it was just a little kiss, I doubt anyone will come in, it's pretty unlikely."

I glared at him and was about to shout and explain that it was entirely possible for someone to come in when Kisa came round the corner, proving my point before I even said anything.

"Good morning," Kisa greeted us. Even though it wasn't quite the bad part of the cycle Kisa looked exhausted. He walked slowly and I couldn't help but notice he had a slight limp. He practically fell into his chair.

Takano-san looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "You ok there, Kisa?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine, just had a long night," he said, sleepily. I was a little confused as to why, surly he wasn't doing work last night; it was unlikely his mangaka got their manuscripts done. He seemed to notice my confusion and added quickly with a slight blush on his face; "A friend kept me up last night."

Takano-san didn't look to impressed by that and walked to his own seat telling Kisa that "You shouldn't be up late when the end of the cycle is near, you should know that!"

"Yeah, I know," Kisa muttered, he had already turned on his laptop and was looking though his papers as he waited for it to load. I took his lead and began my work as well.

As we expected it was going to be an all-nighter and everyone was already half-asleep. Takano-san was beginning to get moodier, Hatori was getting stressed mainly because of 'Yoshikawa Chiharu,' Kisa looked about ready to collapse and Mino was smiling like always. I was buried in papers and the piles were getting bigger and the words on them were beginning to blur, I needed a break soon or I would pass out on the desk...

It was then that Kisa suddenly and loudly announced "I'm going to the coffee shop across the street for some much needed coffee, anyone else want?"

At this everyone quickly replied with a loud; "Yes!"

And Mino added "and some cakes or something!"

Kisa sighed, clearly not expecting such a large group to say yes to his suggestion, feeling bad for him and in desperate need of a break, I spoke up. "Kisa-san if you'd like I can go with you to help carry the coffee and cakes back?"

Kisa smiled at me "sure, thank you, Ricchan!"

We stood up, grabbed our coats and began to leave, Takano-san called out to us just before we left, "don't take too long! We have a lot of work to do!"

We nodded and left, walking as fast as we could so we could get back to work quickly.

Once we were away and nearing the elevator to leave the building Kisa spoke to me in his normal teasing tone. "So Ricchan, you seem happier than normal these past few months, things going well with you're girlfriend?"

I looked at him and sighed "I told you; I don't have a girlfriend!"

"Well what is it that's making you so happy if it's not a girlfriend?" A big smile appeared on his face and he said in an even more teasing, sing-song voice; "Or is it a boyfriend?"

I felt a blush come up on my cheeks "n-no of course not!" I tired to deny, hoping that it sounded convincing. Unfortunately Kisa didn't seem to buy it.

"Really, Ricchan? I've noticed that you've been limping a little recently! Do you seriously not have a boyfriend?" he giggled and then added "is it Takano-san? I've noticed that you two seem close, and you were awfully close to each other this morning!"

"What!?" I couldn't stop my reaction or the massive blush that appeared on my face "how'd you get that idea!?"

He shrugged "not like I care," he grinned at me "just curious about my kohai's love life that's all."

I shook my head, even when he was half asleep Kisa liked to tease me, it was unlikely that he knew anything about my relationship with our boss but still... I decided that I should change the subject and ask Kisa similar questions. "What about you?" I asked "you were limping a bit this morning and you said that a friend kept you up, don't tell me that you have a boyfriend?"

I meant it purely as a joke but I noticed that a blush appeared on my senpai's face, "n-not at all!" he said, looking away from me. We were now outside and by the road, ready to cross. "I'm too old for that sort of thing anyway!"

I was beginning to get a little suspicious, he seemed to be protesting too much and I was about to call him out on it as we began to cross the road. Kisa had sped up and was a good bit in front of me, the road was clear... but not for long. Out of nowhere a car appeared, speeding and heading straight for Kisa. I thought and acted fast, adrenaline pumping though me. "KISA-SAN!" I shouted and quickly shoving him, sending him flying across the road where I saw him fall.

I then felt an intense pain in my stomach as the car hit me, sending me flying in the other direction. The headlights of the car were blinding and all I saw as I went down was the bright light. I hit the ground, the force causing my head to hit the road hard, very hard, the last thing I heard before I past out was Kisa yelling "RICCHAN!"

Kisa's P.O.V

"RICCHAN!" I yelled again as I ran over to my friend, who was lying on his side on the road. Ignoring my own wounds I knelt down next to him and carefully rolled him onto his back, his eyes were closed and I panicked when I saw blood running down the side of his face from a large cut on his head. I was panicking and in shock but my body moved on it's own, following my instincts I placed my fingers on his neck, checking for a pulse, I felt some relief when I felt it, I then looked at his chest and was even more relieved when I saw it rise and fall. Good he has a pulse and he's breathing...

I looked up at the car that hit him, it had stopped and the driver and the passenger where staring at Ricchan with a look of pure shock. They looked young, too young to possibly have driver's licenses, which make me think that they were most likely joy riding.

In my shocked state, I sat there for a minute, not knowing what to do and panicking but then my brain and body synced up again and I pulled out my phone and called emergency services.

"Hello!" I said as soon as someone picked up "I need an ambulance! My friend was hit by a car! He's unconscious and bleeding from his head!"

"Okay, sir, please calm down," the women on the other end said "can you tell me you're location?"

I told her the street name and the other information she had asked for; Ricchan's and my name, his age, if he had health problems, what exactly happened etc. I waited by Ricchan's side, trying to get him to respond until the ambulance came.

Along with the ambulance there was a police car, the cops got out and were speaking with the kids in the car while the paramedics came over to us. One of them moving me away and getting me into the ambulance and the others putting Ricchan onto a stretcher and getting him into ambulance with me.

The ride in the ambulance was a blur, I was still in shock as the paramedic who got me into the ambulance looked me over. I was fine other than a couple of scrapes and a little bruising from being pushed out of the way.

Once I we got to the hospital, Ricchan was taken to see a doctor and I was told to wait in the waiting room. It was there that I thought that I should call Takano-san he'd be worried and as we had a lot of work to do so he'd probably be mad and wondering where the hell we were. I was about to call when the cops showed, wanting to get a statement from me about what happened. After they asked my name, employment and age (which I had to prove) they asked me about what happened and they then told me that the kids had indeed been joy riding and that charges would be pressed.

Once they were gone, I pulled out my phone, I really needed to call Takano-san to let him know what had happened. I couldn't get though; his phone was engaged; he was probably yelling at one of his poor mangaka or the printers. Annoyed I hung up and tried again a few minutes later, only to get the same result.

Feeling a little desperate I decided to call Hatori instead. Lucky he picked up on the first ring. "Yoshino!" he shouted quickly. "You better have you're manuscript done because if this is another call about-"

"Hatori, it's me," I said cutting him off.

"Kisa!?" He said shocked "where are you? Takano's getting really mad wondering where you two went off to!"

I was quite of a bit before I said "we're at the hospital..."

"What!? Why!?" he sounded alarmed "are you ok?"

"I'm fine and Ricchan will probably be fine too, it's just he was hit by a car, he saved me in fact, shoved me out of the way, but he's out cold and has a head injury."

"Hatori!?" I heard Takano-san shout in the background "is that Kisa? Where the hell is he?"

"Hospital!" Hatori replied, "Onodera was hit by a car!"

"WHAT!?" Was the very loud reply, "give me that! Kisa, where's Ritsu? Is he ok? What happened?" He sounded very worried.

"The car came out of nowhere!" I told him, not thinking about how Takano-san had called Ricchan by his first name. "He pushed me out of the way and was hit himself. His head was bleeding and he was unconscious."

"Where about are you?" he asked "I'm coming right now!"

Takano's P.O.V

I was panicking. I didn't know what to think. My lover was hit by a car, was bleeding from his head, was unconscious...

I assumed the worst. I didn't care about how Hatori and Mino tried to hold me back as I went running out of the office.

"Calm down!" Hatori called "I'm sure he'll be fine, we have work to do, you can't leave!"

"I don't care! I need to see him! I need to see Onodera!" I completely ignored their protests as I ran from the office and towards my car.

When I reached it, I was out of breath from running so fast and was leaning against it breathing hard, I coughed a little but recovered and got into my car. Onodera, Onodera, Onodera! Was all that went though my head.

... That and a strange sense of Déjà vu...

I got to the hospital and saw Kisa sitting on one of the chairs, he was shaking and still looked like he was in shock. I saw that he had his phone to his ear. I slowed and took a deep breath before I walked up to him.

He saw me and quickly said to whoever he was talking with; "I'm fine! Okay? You don't need to worry so much! I should've known you'd overreact and I shouldn't have called... Yes, me too... Okay... Look my boss is here, I've gotta go... Bye... Yes... yes, me too, bye!" He hung up on whoever he was talking to and looked up at me a slight blush on his face.

"Is Onodera...?" I asked, I was so scared right now, I couldn't get a full sentence out.

Kisa shrugged, "dunno, I thought they would've come out to talk to me already but they haven't. I was under the impression it wasn't too bad, he had a pulse and was breathing but it worries me that they've not come out yet..."

My fear skyrocketed at the thought of losing him; I love him and Onodera just confessed to me, our relationship had just stared; I couldn't lose him now. I'd be left with too many regrets, I wouldn't be able to cope with losing my beloved again and this time for good...

Feeling useless, knowing there was nothing I could do I sat down on the chair next to Kisa with my head in my hands, trying not to let Kisa see how worried I was.

After a moment of silence Kisa spoke. "Did you call Ricchan's parents? They should be told about what happened to their son."

"Shit!" I sat up fast. In my worry I'd forgotten that Ritsu's parents would need to know and as his boss calling his emergency contacts was the first thing I should've done upon learning he'd be hospitalised. Pulling out my phone I called Hatori and asked him to call Onodera's parents as I didn't know their number and it should be listed on the list of my employee's emergency contacts.

I felt like I was making my feelings for Ritsu too obvious but I was so worried and the familiar feeling I had was confusing me, something like this had never happened so why, then did it feel like this had happened before? It was the feeling that Ritsu was going to die and there was nothing I could do about it...

Not long after a nurse came over to us and addressed Kisa. "Kisa Shouta right?" She asked. "You came here with Onodera Ritsu?"

He nodded and gestured to me, "He's our boss: Takano Masamune."

The nurse bowed to us and smiled. "Well Onodera-san will be okay. He stopped breathing while he was being treated but we managed to get him breathing again, he'll be fine. His neck was jerked so he has a neck brace and he was hit in the stomach but there's no internal injuries, it's just bruised. Our guess is that he stopped breathing due to a delayed shock. His brain is undamaged, the doctor does think, however, he'll have some memory loss but we think it'll just be a day or two. He won't remember the accident but that's probably for the best. You need to let him rest for now but he should be okay for visitors later."

I had never felt so relieved in my while life; my lover will be okay, thank god! I sat down with my head back letting out a big sigh.

Kisa and I stayed in the waiting room and eventually Ritsu's parents showed up. They insisted on seeing their son, despite the fact he was still unconscious. Eventually the doctor let them go and they went to his room, when they came back they thanked us and because I felt awkward waiting to see if Onodera woke up with his parents (especially since they thought I was just his boss) I deiced to leave, feeling less guilty when I was told he probably won't wake up until tomorrow.

I decided to drive Kisa home as he was still in shock and didn't want something else to happen to him on his way home. There was no way he'd be able to work being as shaken up as he was. I even walked him to the door and when he opened it he was glomped up a very tall, young guy with light brown hair. I looked at them with raised brows but didn't think too much into it, I was too concerned about Ritsu so even if I wanted to know more about this guy who clearly wasn't related to Kisa and was much younger than than him, that was seemingly living in his apartment but my mind was elsewhere.

The two bowed to me and thanked me and I bowed back before leaving to go home. Knowing that there was no way I'd sleep tonight and it wasn't because of work. Maybe I could get some done at home if I couldn't sleep anyway...