Title: Finding the reason to live
Summary: In an unexpected accident Fuji loses his sight. He says that he doesn't even have a reason to live the regulars soon prove him wrong. Will he find love? And if yes with whom? Please Review
Disclaimer: I don't know enough about tennis to own PoT
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Chapter 2
No one's POV
Seven months later
The regulars were devastated, it had been seven months since the accident and Fuji had yet to awake from his coma. Eiji started to become less active and the golden were not as good as they once were, who could blame him, he was Fuji's best friend.
Not only that, Ryoma's concentration had deterred, because he blamed himself for causing Fuji's accident, even though no one else blamed him for what happened and everyone knew that Fuji would not blame him either. But he just couldn't get rid of the guilty feeling inside him. Screaming that it was all his fault.
He would sometimes cry himself to sleep just wishing that it was just a dream and that he would wake up soon and things would be back to normal. But this reality and he knew it just didn't want to believe it.
Everyone knew that it wasn't his fault, it was the truck driver's fault. I turned out that the driver was heavily drunk and had taken some drugs.
What was the most surprising was that only Fuji's siblings visited him, they weren't that worried about him either, neither of his parents visited him, not even once. The regulars decided that it was better not to ask, thinking it was problems within the family.
Tezuka's POV
Tezuka felt like ordering a 1000 laps to everyone so that this tragedy would just end but this was not one of your daily problems.(even most daily problems wouldn't be solved by ordering laps anyway) The second best player on the team was in a coma and had a 90% chance of losing his sight.
He was not blind, he knew that the Seigaku Team was falling apart, especially Echizen. He just hated himself for not being able to do anything.
I have to try and get Fuji out of the coma with the others before the doctors decide to pull the plug, I bet his parents wouldn't care seeing as they never even once visited him unlike Echizen's parents who visited him every day.
"Regulars stay back, the rest of you can go home!" Tezuka called he decided to let practice end early as he had something planned for the regulars.
"Nanda Tezuka, I didn't know we had anything to do today?" Oishi asked curious to know what they were doing.
"We're all going to pay a visit to Fuji today, any objections?" Tezuka inquired.
"Really?" Eiji confirmed
"ah" was Tezuka's short reply
He was doing this for both Echizen and Fuji, after all, they were his regulars
At the Hospital
Ryoma's POV
Why was he here it brought back the heavy, guilty feeling he had been trying to get rid of, failing miserably. But despite that he also wanted free his senpai from his coma, which was why he agreed, not that Tezuka-buchou would have given him a choice in the matter.
" Fuji-senpai please wake up." Ryoma pleaded too softly for anyone to hear.
He did not want to show his other senpai his weak side.
After another unsuccessful visit to the hospital one by one the regulars slowly go home feeling depressed, until only one regular is left behind.
Since no one else is there to see him breakdown, Ryoma decides to hold his senpai' s hand as he cries beside his bed.
"Fuji-senpai please wake-up, it was all my fault I'm the one who should have gotten hit by the truck, I'm so, so sorry, please forgive me, please wake-up, it's not the same without you" Ryoma pleaded.
Suddenly, He felt Fuji's hands twitch.
"E-Echizen? Is that you?" Fuji asked slowly, he wasn't sure because he had a lot of bandages wrapped around his eyes.
"F-Fuji s-senpai? You're awake!" Ryoma fought the urge to hug his senpai.
"Wh-where am I?"
"You're at the hospital"
"Wh-What am I doing here? Why can't I see?"
"You got into an accident because of me and was in a coma, you can't see because they wrapped bandages around your eyes" Ryoma replied still surprised that his senpai had woken up.
"Really? H-how long have I been in a coma?" Fuji asked unsure of whether he wanted to know or not.
"Seven months" Ryoma replied.
Why did have to be the one to tell Fuji-senpai all this and, alone too
"Um, err, I'd better call Tezuka-buchou, the others and your family to inform them that you're awake." Ryoma added nervous to how Fuji was going to react to the facts.
"No!"Ryoma flinched at Fuji sudden shout.
"Umm, there's no need why don't they find out for themselves tomorrow?" Fuji suggested after noticing Ryoma flinch from him
"Err, okay senpai" Ryoma agreed.
After about an hour of talking with Fuji
"Ah! I'm late for dinner, see you tomorrow Fuji-senpai"
He didn't really want to leave but he felt really tired and just wanted to go home.
"Ok, See ya…" Fuji replied quietly. He didn't like being left alone in the stinky hospital in the dark at all. It scared him.
At the Echizen Residence
"Yo! Gakki! Why so late? having fun with your girlfriend? Who is it? Come on you can tell your Oyaji"
Ryoma stared irritated at his father before replying, "I don't even have a girlfriend, baka Oyaji, how do you know I'm even straight?"
Damn, that shut him up.
"Just kidding!" Ryoma added as he reached the top of the staircase.
"Damn you! Gakki! You almost gave me a heart attack!" Ryoma's dad yelled.
Ryoma decided to ignore that as he locked himself in his room. He was mentally exhausted from having to tell Fuji-senpai all those things
He decided to take a shower to relieve himself of the stress.
I wonder how the others will react tomorrow when they find out that Fuji-senpai has woken up, I bet they'll look really shocked, maybe that will be enough for Tezuka-buchou to let down his guard and show something other than his stoic poker face.
(Yeah right, fat hope!)
After his bath Ryoma decided to go to sleep, but gory scenes of Fuji kept flooding his that he shot up shouting, luckily not loud enough to wake-up his mom and dad.
I'll just have to wait till tomorrow to see what happens…