This is a monologue I wrote for English class. My take on part of the reason why Yukimura worked as hard as he did to be able to play with his team at Nationals.

Me no own... although I wish I did own the bishounen that is Yukimura Seiichi.

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Through months of hard work and intense therapy sessions I was able to walk again. I was finally being released from the hospital this afternoon. With the usual gentle smile on my face and a gentle voice I spoke as kindly to the doctors as I always had, thanking them for all they had done. They called it a miracle. I knew otherwise.

To my team and my family, who were waiting in the lobby for me, I could only think of one thing to say, "Sorry to have caused you so much trouble."

Because in that hospital I had been ready to give up, and through my smiles and gentle words I was dying from the inside out. They didn't say anything but they noticed. I smiled less and spoke even softer. They'd had to put up with me after I'd learned I would never be able to play tennis again; that had been the worst week of the entire stay. As the captain of the school team I felt as if I had let my friends down. But no matter how many times I asked them to stop, they just kept coming back, driven by a sense of loyalty that I couldn't see at the time. They always came with stories and magazines for me, I would thank them gently and they would smile and say, "No problem, Captain."

It was for them.

For my friends and teammates, that I worked as hard as I did, pushing myself far beyond the physical limitations of my body with the overwhelming drive to get back onto the courts and play by their side once more.

As we walked to the train station, where this whole ordeal had started, for that was where I had collapsed last winter, I felt as if we had come full circle and were closer because of it. My gentle smile widened. My younger sister looked up at me and took my hand, "I'll walk you to school tomorrow, like I used to," I promised. She only smiled wider and clutched my arm closer.

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And there you have it.

Let me know what you think. :D