I had been home for two weeks now, and still, Johnny-san had me at his studio practicing for my debut. The first week was spent recording and singing until I had to stop for fear of losing my voice. This week was dancing from sun-up to sun-down. I was already used to dancing for 8-9 hours a day, so Johnny-san had me going 10-12 hours a day. No one had work for the next month, so most of the guys were staying around the company watching me dance for five hours straight at one time.
"Man, I'm tired from all this dancing that I'm having to do" I said, drinking an entire bottle of watcher without stopping.
Arashi started laughing as I tripped over a loose cord from the stereo. I braced myself to hit the floor, but it never came. I opened my eyes and saw Ryo-chan looking up at me and me lying on his chest.
"You have to be more careful around loose cords here. I'm not going to always be there to catch you" said Ryo-chan, lifting us both up off the ground.
He got up and helped me off the ground, and caught me when I fell forward because of the pain in my ankle.
"Who, what's up with your ankle? Let's go get it checked out before you start using it again" said Ryo-chan, picking me up in a bridal-style carry and took me down the hallway as Aiba-nii-chan went to get the car ready.
"Ryo-chan, I just need to wrap it up and I'll be fine" I said, burying my face in Ryo-chan's chest to hide the blush coming on my cheeks.
"Ria-chan, you hurt your ankle, and you need to have it checked out" said Ryosuke, putting me in the car.
"Fine, but I'm telling you that I just need to wrap it" I said as Ryo-chan got into the car.
"We'll see when the doctor checks you out" said Sho-nii, getting in along with Jun-nii.
"What are you two doing? Where are Ohno-nii and Nino?" I asked as the car was going to the hospital.
"We're going with you, and the other two stayed back to tell Johnny-san what happened" said Jun, looking out the tinted window of the car.
"So, I wonder how ya'll are going to get in without being seen?" I asked as I looked at Jun-nii putting on his sunglasses.
"I'm okay, I have a hood" said Ryosuke, pulling up the jacket's hood.
"Don't worry, we'll be fine" said Aiba-nii-chan, pulling into the emergency room parking lot.
As Sho-nii-chan and Aiba-nii-chan went to grab a wheelchair, Ryo-chan and Jun-kun came out of the car and opened my door so I could get some fresh air.
"Why did I have to hurt my ankle? I was just getting the dance for the debut too."
"It's okay, Johnny-san probably would just let you sing and forget the dance for now" said Jun-nii.
"Or he would let you debut at a later date; I don't think Johnny-san let's people perform or do work with an injury" said Ryosuke.
"I hope I get to debut still, or else, all those lessons in America were for nothing. I can't let Johnny down like that."
"Okay Tori-chan, come on; they said that they could do everything right away" said Aiba-nii-chan.
"You didn't keep on your glasses, did you?" asked Ryo-chan.
"Actually, the TV's in there were showing a performance of "Crazy Moon," and the lady at the desk noticed it was us" said Sho-nii.
I thought they would be showing dramas and things like that, not TV shows that have music performances. Aiba-nii put me in the wheelchair and walked beside me as Ryo-chan was pushing the chair with Sho-nii and Jun-nii following behind them.
"Please, you will have to wait here in the room while we take her to get X-rays" said a different nurse, after having been in the room all of three minutes.
"Okay, wait right here until I get back here."
I was wheeled off into a room to get my X-rays done. It took all of ten minutes to have them done and back into the room with Aiba-nii and Ryo-chan.
"Where are Jun and Sho?" I asked as I saw Jun-nii and Sho-nii weren't in the room.
"They went out to the front" said Aiba-nii, "Why?"
"Just wondering. Aiba-nii-chan, can you and Ryo-chan go get me something to drink? I'm still really thirsty from dancing before" I said, putting on the puppy-dog eyes.
"Hai, we'll be back in a minute" said Ryo-chan, dragging Aiba-nii out of the room.
A minute later, the door to the room opened. I thought it was Jun-nii or one of the others coming back, but it turned out to be a doctor holding something in his hand.
"Um, are you my doctor?" I asked, as I saw the man coming closer.
"Yes, so sit back and relax, like a good girl, and take this medicine" said the man, holding the needle up to show me.
"What is that?" I asked, getting the creeps from this man.
"It is just something to put you at ease, so lean back and just go to sleep" said the doctor, putting a different needle in my arm.
"Itai" was all I could say before I slipped into the dark.
"Tori-chan, Tori-chan. Wake up, it's time to go."
"Hmm. Jun-nii-chan, carry me please" I said, recognizing the voice talking to me.
A few chuckles were heard and then I felt my body be lifted into a pair of arms.
"Let's get you home, before you fall asleep again" said Sho-nii.
"Okay, I want to see her back here in a two weeks to check-up on the ankle" said the doctor, but the voice was feminine, not like the doctor from before.
"Okay, we'll bring her back then. Thank you so much Sensei" said Ryo-chan.
