Summary: Oishi is hit by a bus. The doctor demands 50 million dollars. The Seigaku regulars decide to take drastic measures (e.g. rob a bank) to obtain the money. No pairings, I hope.
Disclaimer: I do not own POT. My Japanese sucks.
Oishi Syuichiroh was fourteen years old, male and very happy. At this moment he loved the world. He was going to meet his friends from his school tennis club to celebrate their recent victory in an important game. He admired the way the evening sky seemed to be composed of many interesting colors, he enjoyed the cool wind on his face as he walked, and he smiled at the children who were riding their tricycles and wielding their toy light sabers by the street.
This has been a happy beginning. Due to the fact that I am a sadistic freak who cannot bring myself to write whole pages of happy things, the existence of a happy beginning can only mean that something terrible will happen to compensate.
Therefore, Oishi Syuichiroh, fourteen, male and happy, was hit by a bus.
The bus driver was a certain Mr. Yamada, who was too obsessed with his own thoughts to notice that he had hit someone and went on driving, dragging Oishi along, totally oblivious to the screams of passers-by. Mr. Yamada had recently lost his suicidal wife and was very unhappy. The late Mrs. Yamada had tried several methods of suicide and finally succeeded in her last attempt. She was my favorite OC, but we can all see that she couldn't be a Mary Sue because she was a) married and b) dead. But I shouldn't say too much about the Yamadas because they don't really matter at all in this story.
Oishi would have been dragged along under the bus tires all the way to wherever Mr. Yamada was going if our superhero Spiderman had not appeared on the spot and landed on Mr. Yamada's windshield. Mr. Yamada was so shocked by the sudden presence of a red-and-blue person that he came back to his senses and stopped the car. Some old ladies who happened to be passing by phoned for an ambulance.
"Thanks! You are my hero!" Oishi breathlessly thanked Spiderman.
"Aw, you're welcome! Got to go. I've got a new movie coming soon! Come see me at the theaters!" Spiderman said and took his leave.
The above of course did not happen. First, Spiderman did not live in Japan. And second, do you actually believe that Oishi would be able to talk at all after being hit by a bus and dragged along for some 40 meters?
And that was the reason why the remaining Seigaku tennis club regulars spent a whole hour waiting for Oishi to appear but of no avail.
"I'm HUNGRY!!" complained Momo, who was always hungry.
"When have you ever been NOT hungry?" Kaidoh murmured. Of course, Momo heard him.
"What did you say? Wanna fight?" Momo yelled because he is always in fighting mood when he is hungry. Which means that he is always in fighting mood. Kaidoh muttered something in reply, but no one heard him because at that moment an ambulance sped by, its siren blaring.
"I wonder why when the ambulance passes you the pitch of the siren changes?" Kikumaru said curiously.
"Hey, I've been wondering too. I thought I was the only one that noticed this strange phenomenon!" Momo exclaimed excitedly and they exchanged high-fives because they were so smart and observant.
"But Oishi is really very late. He's never been late for such a long time before." Kawamura said thoughtfully, "In fact, I'm pretty sure that he's never been late AT ALL."
"I'll call him!" Kikumaru offered. He dialed Oishi's cell phone number and screamed into the receiver.
"HEYYYY Oishi! Oh wait, who are you?" Because it wasn't Oishi who picked up. In fact, it was a girl's voice that answered. "And why are you answering Oishi's phone?"
"Well actually he is beside me right now…" the girl began.
"Oh wow! A date!"Kikumaru concluded happily. "It's good that he's got a date! But he should have told us beforehand so we wouldn't have to wait here like idiots. Can I speak to him?"
And he was all ready to give Oishi a piece of his mind because even though he had a date it doesn't mean that he could ditch his friends, when the girl said, "But he can't come to the phone. He's in bed."
Oishi! In bed!!
This shocked Kikumaru so much that he threw his cell phone into the sky. Well, yeah, in some fanfics Oishi is supposed to be good in bed, but still…no, Kikumaru just couldn't tolerate the idea of Oishi in bed.
"What happened?" Momo demanded, because it was just too unnatural to throw your cell phone into the sky. Cell phones are expensive. Luckily Kikumaru had good reflexes so he caught his cell phone before it hit the floor and ended the call.
"Oishi is in bed! With a girl!" Kikumaru announced in reply to Momo's question.
"In bed!" Momo said admiringly. "Wow! I would never have guessed!"
"Are you sure?" said Ryoma, who was pretty practical.
"Of course I'm sure! The girl told me herself."
"But he never told us that he had a girlfriend or anything…" Kawamura said in confusion.
Kikumaru nodded vigorously, "Yeah! He ought to tell me…WAAAAAAHHHH!" the first part of the sentence was because he considered Oishi a good friend and the second part was because his cell phone rang again.
"I'm so not picking this up!"Kikumaru wailed, "Buchou, you take it!" and tossed his still ringing cell phone to Tezuka, who sighed and picked it up.
"Hello?"
And the change of expression on his face was so dramatic that everyone stopped whatever they were doing to stare. The fact that Tezuka rarely changed his expression at all made this even more dramatic.
"What? Oh, I see. Yes. Yes. Okay. We'll be there as soon as we can. Thank you for calling." And with that Tezuka hung up.
"Must be some frightfully shocking news for Buchou to turn so pale in seconds. Maybe the girl is pregnant. Or maybe Oishi-senpai is pregnant. I prefer the latter." Momo remarked to himself. He dared not say it out loud because he valued his life.
Tezuka turned to his club members, who were all looking at him expectantly. He paused for a moment and finally explained with a grave look, "That girl was a hospital nurse. Oishi was hit by a bus. They don't expect him to live."
"WHATTT? YOU MUST BE KIDDING!" Momo shouted, grabbing Tezuka by the shoulders and shaking him violently. In his frustration he forgot that shaking Tezuka violently is dangerous, but this was one of the rare occasions on which that Tezuka did not seem to mind.
"I'm not kidding." Tezuka said softly. "come on, let's go to the hospital."
And they all headed towards the subway.
I am Chinese, not a native speaker and totally new here, so I'm still a bit confused. A friend told me about this site and I sort of got hooked and decided to try translating some of my fanfics from Chinese into English. Please excuse grammar errors if they are not too outrageous. I will be very happy if you reviewed! Thank you!!: )
