The Accident

Hi everyone. This is a new story! This story happens after my other story, The Kiss of Life and Love. The beginning of the story happens in episode 13 of the Japanese version. Anyway, I don't own Yuma, Kotori, and the other Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal characters. I also don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. I hope I did okay. Enjoy. P.S. Italics are thought bubbles.

It was a dreary day. The sky was gray and stormy. Yuma and Kotori were walking in the city. "How disappointing!" Yuma moaned. "If I only had gone all out with my attacks." he said, sighing. "Right, Kotori?" Yuma asked, facing her. "In the end, it was a total defeat, right?" Kotori joked. "Hey!" Yuma yelled out, frowning. Kotori giggled at Yuma's reaction. "What's important about kattobingu is the challenge and to not give up." Yuma explained. "I wonder when you're going to win." Kotori teased. "Next time I'll win." he assured her.

While they were talking, Yuma's key started to glow. Astral then materialized from the key. "Yuma." Astral called out. Yuma stopped walking and turned toward him. "Huh?" Yuma murmured. "You should be cautious." Astral advised. "I have a bad feeling." he explained, worried. Kotori noticed that Yuma had stopped walking so she stopped too. "What do you mean?" Yuma asked the spirit, annoyed.

"What's wrong?" Kotori asked, confused. Yuma quickly turned towards her. "N-Nothing! Nothing." Yuma stammered. Suddenly, a raindrop fell down. Soon, it began to rain harder. "It's raining." Kotori murmured, holding out her hand. "Awful, it started to rain." Yuma realized. "Let's go, Kotori!" he shouted, running away. "Yuma!" Kotori shouted back, running after him. Astral just stood there and stared at the two.

Yuma ran ahead to the crosswalk. "Whoa!" he said, slipping on the now wet sidewalk. He quickly ran across the road. He stopped running and waited for Kotori to hurry. "You're too slow, Kotori!" he yelled out to her. "Wait!" Kotori told him. Suddenly, a bright light appeared in front of her. She stopped and looked at the light and spotted a truck coming right at her! She was too shocked to move so she just held out her arms and waited for the impact.

"Kotori!" a voice screamed out. Kotori looked towards her left just in time to see Yuma dash to her and push her out of the way. She fell down onto the other side of the crosswalk from the force. Then, Kotori heard a sickening sound. It was the sound of metal hitting something. She opened her eyes just in time to see Yuma fly in the air and crash onto the hard ground. "Yuma!" she cried out, her eyes widening. After the truck hit Yuma, it turned to the left hard and crashed into a car.

Kotori hurried towards Yuma's body. When she reached him, she gasped and covered her mouth with her hands. She noticed some bleeding scrapes and cuts on his arms. But the one thing that she noticed the most was the small red stain near his head. Kotori could feel tears forming in her eyes. She just blinked them away and quickly called 119 on her D-Gazer. She didn't know how to stop the bleeding and started to panic. Luckily, a doctor was in the crowd at that moment and helped her.

Soon, two ambulances drove by and picked Yuma up with a stretcher. The other ambulance was for the unconscious truck driver that had slammed into Yuma. Kotori asked one of the paramedics if she could ride along. The paramedic agreed and soon, Kotori was riding in the back with Yuma. As they were driving to the hospital, Kotori used her D-Gazer to dial Yuma's older sister, Akari. Soon, the face of Akari popped up onto the screen.

"Hi, what's up?" Akari asked, smiling. "Oh Akari, it's terrible!" Kotori cried out. Akari's face turned from cheerful to concern when she heard the tone of her voice. "What happened?" Akari asked, worried. "Yuma got hit by a truck!" Kotori explained, her eyes glistening with tears. "Don't worry. I'll meet you at the hospital. Yuma's going to be okay." Akari assured her before hanging up. "I hope you're right, Akari." Kotori hoped. The ambulance stopped and the back doors opened. The paramedics carefully carried Yuma into the hospital and into one of the rooms. The paramedic that let Kotori ride in the back led her to the waiting room. He gave her an assuring smile and left.

Soon after Kotori settled into the waiting room, Akari raced inside. She spotted Kotori and walked up to her. "Kotori, I need to know what happened." Akari explained seriously. "Well, we were running across the crosswalk and this truck was racing towards me. Yuma quickly dashed over and pushed me out of the way. He got hit instead of me." Kotori told her. "And… I'm sorry." Kotori apologized. "Huh? Why are you apologizing?" Akari asked, confused. "It's my fault that Yuma got hurt." Kotori whispered. "It's not your fault. Don't blame yourself." Akari told her.

An hour soon passed. A doctor came out of the door and walked up to Akari and Kotori. "Are you relatives of Yuma Tsukumo?" the doctor asked. "Well, I'm his older sister and this is his best friend." Akari explained, gesturing to herself and Kotori. "Well then. You see, we checked him and found out that he has a slight concussion." the doctor told them. "A concussion?" Kotori asked, worried. "Yes. It seems that he is in a small coma right now and will wake up in a few days or so. We're just going to have to wait for him to wake up before testing him." the doctor replied.

"Well, thanks for the information. May we go see Yuma now?" Akari asked, impatient. "Yes, you may see him. He's in the 3rd door to the right." the doctor said, pointing towards the door. Akari nodded and walked into the door with Kotori behind her. When they entered the room, they spotted Yuma's unconscious body in the hospital bed. Kotori could see that the doctors had wrapped Yuma's head with bandages.

Akari moved towards her little brother and sighed. She then looked at her watch and frowned. "Kotori, it is really late out. Won't your mother be worried?" Akari asked, curious. Kotori gasped when she realized that. "Oh no! You're right!" she cried out. "Well then, hurry home. I'll be here watching Yuma. You can come by after school too." Akari told her. Kotori just nodded and hurried outside. Her heart felt like it was going to burst with tears. Soon, she reached her house. She dug through her bag and took out a house key. When she unlocked the door and walked inside, she found Mom sitting at the dinner table.

Kotori's mom had a really stern look on her face. "Where have you been?" her Mom asked while frowning. "I…I was…." Kotori stammered. Finally, she couldn't hold back her tears and the pain in her heart. A tear slipped out of her eye and fell down onto the ground. Her Mom's stern face soon softened as she walked to Kotori. "What happened honey?" she asked softly. Kotori started to sob and hugged her Mom. She explained what happened and why she was really late. Her Mom nodded and comforted her.

"It's okay. Why don't you go to bed? You can visit Yuma at the hospital tomorrow after school." Kotori's Mom whispered. Kotori slowly nodded and walked up the stairs to the bathroom. After washing up, she slipped under her covers. She couldn't help but let a few more of her tears out. "Yuma…" she murmured, as she fell asleep.

I hope you liked this chapter. I worked hard on it. Stay tuned for the next chapter! Please review and bye!