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After Nemesis's defeat, could Ginga finally get some rest? Not really as there's much more to why Ginga's always a hero even if it's out of HIS control...
Chapter 1: Fatigue
It had nearly been two weeks after Nemesis and the repairs to places around the world had just began in earnest and were slated to be complete in two to ten years depending on the needed repairs.
Most people were celebrating that Ginga had saved them a third time but this time it had taken an especially hard toll on the fourteen-year old.
He had to be admitted to hospital within an hour of Nemesis's defeat after collapsing twice within the hour. Which those around him just thought it was fatigue.
It wasn't just fatigue though...
The only person who really knew that though was Ryo and it wasn't the first time Ginga had this issue.
In fact it was the only reason he worked for the WBBA in truth, both to keep an eye on Ginga and the fact that the medicine that mostly prevented it was very expensive and almost when Ginga was very young had gone into severe debt due to it but was rescued from financial problems by his older brothers. Ryo knew that his brothers couldn't always help him as they gave up the inheritance from their father to help their nephew and were in no state to help like that again.
The last thing Ryo wanted was for the information about Ginga's recurring health issue to get into the news as Ginga didn't want to be a celebrity and that Ryo didn't want it to be what in the future a label placed on his son and the only way to do this is work for the WBBA which was at the time likely to leak the information as what happened to a few former champions had told him one of which he knew very well as a Japanese to English translator for conferences and as a record sorter.
It was far from glamorous indeed but nothing Ryo wasn't used to as living in Koma wasn't easy.
As soon as Ginga had recovered enough to be let out of the hospital the pair headed back to Koma.
For Ginga it was just visiting his cousins and uncles but for Ryo it was getting Ginga to fresh air outside of the city.
It was early morning and Ginga had just woken up. He felt like he was being sat on but wasn't and sat up, it took twenty minutes but it settled before going to have breakfast.
Before he could eat he had to have the medicine he had to have every morning otherwise he'll be having many episodes of the same episode he had when he woke up.
The medicine which tasted like a terribly strong mixture of mint, licorice and flour which was a taste Ginga hated and why he disliked medicine.
Ginga never questioned why he had the medicine and ate the tinned rice pudding which was all that Ryo could do before cleaning out the kitchen in the basement.
Ryo had been reading the letters he received from the residents when they arrived back as he asked them to explain what happened in Koma as the small village lacked a decent phone line and a barely working internet.
Ginga heard a noise from the basement kitchen but ignored it as he had a mild reaction everyday with the medicine which screwed his hearing for half an hour and kept eating.
Ryo then said as he was reading one of his brothers letters "Looks like you have another cousin."
Ginga looked up to listen as Ryo continued "Yeah Ayumu has got another son now, his name is Taiki and according to the letter he's about a month old now also a photo of him."
Ginga took the photo that his father held out and looked at his baby cousin.
"How many cousins do I have now?" He asked as he passed the photo back.
Ryo laughed. "Well it's over twenty Ginga. I don't keep track of the number of nieces and nephews Ginga, I'll rather remember their names than how many."
That pointed out that despite Ryo's personality quirks and using an acting personality, he was the most down to earth when compared to his brothers he only had two kids, Seth who was studying but stayed in Koma and Ginga who needed no explanation although some swore a third compared to his brothers with only Astra being closer than his brothers and he had five kids!
But considering how Koma's culture was like it was odd for Ryo to only have two sons because usually in Koma it was believed that they'll be better bladers than their parents so more the merrier.
Ryo had his reasons, including Ginga's health issues and the severe financial problems that the medicine that Ginga needed being a must for Ginga to be able function normally. Ryo took heed of experience after seeing his father who had struggled to care for Ryo and his five older brothers and didn't want to be put in the same situation.
Ryo looked up and noticed Ginga's left hand had been twitching which his son either ignored or didn't notice and asked.
"Ginga pass me your left hand please?"
Ginga nods and does as asked. "Why father?"
With Ginga's left hand in his own left Ryo placed his right hand on top of it confirming the shaking wasn't just his imagination.
"Ginga do you know your left hand is shaking?"
Ginga shook his head. "No, it feels normal."
Ryo sighed "Ok, it must be that it's struggling to suppress it today, your medicine that is."
Ginga having never questioned why he had the medicine asked "What is it suppressing?"
Ryo was suprised as Ginga hadn't asked that before but said, "Well it suppresses an immune problem you have. It is affecting your left arm it seems without it you wouldn't be able to be able to... Eh.."
Ryo was trying to explain it but wasn't easy because there was no formal medical explanation.
"What father?" Ginga asked making Ryo realise that he had stopped talking.
"The best explanation I was ever given when you were younger is that your immune system is attacking your nerves and lungs or something near it and they are getting damaged. The damage isn't permanent but every time you had them it took you over a week to walk again..."
"So that's why you didn't let me out much before all of this happened?"
Ryo nodded "Yes especially since almost every time you have an attack your breathing got affected." Ryo then asked as he noticed Ginga's left hand seemingly loosen it's grip. "How are you feeling now?"
Ginga went to reply but couldn't get any speech out.
"Ginga are you ok?" Ryo asked as Ginga looked around surprised.
"What happened?" Ginga tried to move but something prevented him from doing so.
"Well I explaining what you had but your left arm completely go before you passed out."
Ginga then noticed the oxygen mask on his face and panicked causing Ryo to stop Ginga from moving before Ginga injured himself.
"Ginga relax. You'll injure yourself like... Like your nose."
"My nose? What happened to my nose?" Ginga asked still quite scared of the oxygen mask and was trying to pull away from it but unable to move his arms couldn't.
"Ginga you need the oxygen mask right now, you almost stopped breathing." Ryo sighed
"About your nose you were about a year old and you had just figured out how to walk for more than 3 steps. You were playing outside near the step, I was watching you and you were holding onto my leg. I knew you had some problems because of other things but didn't think they were serious. I had been talking to Astra and you were using my leg for balance and you fainted because I had been talking to your uncle you hit your nose on the step and managed to break it. Thankfully we still had Doctor Sails as our neighbour, he was retired but still helped out and because you were struggling to move. He said you should have a blood test to see if you had a infection and they found in fact you had a very severe immune response but you had no infection as antibiotics and general rest didn't help. "
"So I broke my nose?" Ginga asked.
"Yeah you needed your nose reconstructed. Doctor Sails said he would forward the results to a former college who was an immunologist and they said there wasn't any match so they had to do a few more tests while you were recovering and your mother was really worried especially since the other things you had gone through earlier in your life. She was very upset that I hadn't stopped you from breaking your nose but she left it after I explained what happened as she was more worried about why you fainted."
Ginga knew what happened to his mother, she had vanished when he was three-years old without a trace.
"What do you mean by 'other things'?"
Ryo knew that Ginga would probably ask that because being unable to move would probably make anyone want to listen to people to talk to them.
"You had already before that nearly died."
Ginga was surprised "Why father?"
"You came three months early and unexpectedly. Again Doctor Sails was able to help you and even he was shocked that you were early because despite your mother's ill health you were pretty healthy. You needed help breathing because you where gasping and weren't crying and nearly were suffocating. After they got you on oxygen support and after a month of having to stay in hospital you were alright, you were tiny though and we were told not to let anyone who had a cold, flu or anything infectious near you for three months although did get a mild eat infection. "
"Oh.."
"You have been very lucky, Ginga." Ryo laughed "It's like something is wanting to help you!"
That comment was from the fact that Koma didn't have any real typical beliefs because the isolationist nature of the village but did agree with the 'everything has a purpose' idea.
Ginga chuckled too. "I guess so... Can it sit up please?"
"Of course. Give me a sec." Ryo said as he lifted Ginga up so he could lean in the corner of the wall.
"Thanks."
Ryo nodded and said "Well I am going to finish cleaning the kitchen Ginga, call me if you need me."
Ginga nodded back and Ryo went to clean the kitchen.
While Ryo was cleaning the kitchen, Seth arrived back from his uncle Shun's having finished his lessons for the day and did his usual things, he knew that his little brother and father where back but didn't know what had happened earlier but was informed by Ryo quite quickly so Seth decided while their father was cleaning the very dusty kitchen he would talk to his little brother.
"Hey, Ginga you awake?" Seth asked as he knocked on the door.
"Yes. I'm awake."
Seth then entered "I heard you had another of your moments, father said so. How are you now?" Seth limped to the bed and sat down.
Seth had his own issues mainly a bad leg which was very fragile to blunt trauma which his why he had never left Koma because of the risks for severe fractures to that leg.
"I'm ok... I guess it I'll be stuck here for a while..."
"Ok. Yeah you will be. It's been like eight years since the last time you had this but it took about a week to recover but you were ok afterwards."
Ginga nods. "Do you still battle Seth? Father said you are focusing on you studies."
Seth smiled "Of course! But you are far better than me, you'll gain nothing from battling me! And yes I am focusing on my studies and..."
"WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT THING!"
Both brothers jumped it turned out that Ryo found something he didn't expect and said thing tried to bite him... And succeeded.
Five minutes later Ryo came into the room with the thing which looked like a fluff ball and was looking around and said
"What's the odds that the dust in the kitchen made this thing?"
Seth rolled his eyes "That's impossible father, it looks like a kitten..."
Ryo looked at the creature and said "It would be rather hard for a kitten to get into the kitchen... Besides we don't have cats in the house Seth."
"I know, I know. I NEVER said it was."
"But you didn't say it wasn't."
Ginga sighed, his brother and father often liked to go and argue about pointless things and watched as the thing jumped out of his father somehow Ryo was unaware of that and on to the bed.
The creature was no bigger than Ginga's hand but looked at him with it's pale blue eyes and then climbed up onto Ginga's shoulder and Ginga watched it as Ryo and Seth continued arguing on what the creature was. Then Ginga noticed something that would stop the pair arguing.
"You know it has wings?" Ginga pointed it out as the creature was stretching it tiny wings out.
Both Seth and Ryo stopped their pointless argument to look.
"And so it does." Ryo comments as the creature moves to Ginga's other shoulder away from Ryo, for all it knew Ryo was a big bad animal that could eat the small creature but it found Ginga quite comfortable. They squeaked at Ryo before deciding to hide behind Ginga's neck.
Seth then asked "So, what is that creature?"
Ryo shrugged "I don't know. But apart from when it tried to bite me, when I picked up the saucepan it was sitting in it's mostly harmless cause I think I scared it."
The creature then jumped back on to Ginga's shoulder, squeaked and then fell asleep on the fourteen-year old's shoulder.
"I don't mind it sleeping on my shoulder it's quite comfortable in fact with it's fluff and all." Ginga said in regard to the creature's fur that was touching his cheek before falling asleep on his own accord.
"I guess I'll have to find out what that thing is later on Seth." Ryo commented not wanting to get bitten again.
"Yes, I wonder why it's comfortable around brother."
Ryo nodded in agreement.
End Chapter 1
AND I AM BACK! Well it's been awhile but this is a rewriting of the NMG Series that I think will be a much improved version than the original. This was a much quicker write as well compared to the original too.
