Chapter 5 Riot!

Damn that Rukawa! Now I have to do a stupid bio project because of him! Urgh!!!

I kicked rocks outside our school campus. I had to go back to school to check out some biology books at the library. Good thing I have no softball practice today.

As I was walking inside, I saw some people running towards the school gym. What could be going on in there? Might as well take a peek.

I walked to the gym. Sure enough, I saw some people knocking on the gym door. I went to them.

"What gimmick is this? What's going on?" I asked.

"This is no gimmick! A group of gangsters raided this basketball practice and some people said most of the members were hurt!" one teacher told me.

"What?!?" I cried, alarmed.

Just then, I saw Ayako and the dumb boy Rukawa come out of the gym.

I tried to inch closer to them but I got shocked at what I saw.

Rukawa was unconscious and bleeding hard.

"Ayako, what happened to him?" I asked in shock, kneeling down.

"He was hit with something on the head two times. He was hit with a mop, I think," Ayako said, trying to be calm.

"Who did this?" I asked, distressed. I held his hands, which were ice-cold.

"A group of senior gangsters." She answered.

"Rukawa, are you alright?" I tried to ask in a soft voice.

No answer.

My hands started to become cold too. Is he. dead?

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