Nanjirou seeing his niece fall to the floor, red liquid pouring from between her fingers, erupted from his seat and rushed to her side, Hatori close behind him.
Ryoma and the rest of the team were frozen due to shock but once it faded, Ryoma took off with his teammates all yelling Kagome's name. Hyotei and Rikkai rushed onto the courts and towards the injured girl, Yukimura's eyes showed worry for the girl and rage towards the person standing opposite of the net. Clenching his fist Yukimura wanted nothing more than to wipe that smirk off his face.
"Kagome" whispered Ryoma as he ran his hands through her hair, gaining soft whimpers and moans of pain. "It'll be alright." looking up he stared at his father, "How does it look, oyaji?"
Nanjirou shook his head as he ripped the sleeves of his monk robes to apply pressure to the cut on Kagome's temple. "Bad. She needs to get to the hospital."
Ryoma clenched his hands into fist, golden eyes narrowed as he turned his head to glare at the guy across the net. He would pay, that whole team will pay for this. How dare they hurt his cousin!
Tezuka seeing the smaller boy's reaction placed a hand on Ryoma's head to prevent him from leaping over the net and doing some unsavory things to the opponent. He was angry as well, the attack brought back painful memories from when he was in junior high and had been attacked by a racket.
but he knew one thing. the only way to defeat people like them were by beating them...in a fair match. "Take your revenge on the courts, Ryoma" he whispered "Show them why you are called the prince of tennis."
Ryoma relaxed slightly under his captain's soft touch and gentle words. Turning his head he stared at his cousin whose teeth was clenched in obvious pain. Raising his hand he soothed her by running his fingers through her hair, careful not to cause her discomfort, and told her that everything would be fine.
Oishi ran over with the first aid kit in hand and got to his knees while opening the box he quickly grabbed a pad and motioned for their new coach to remove the blood soaked cloth and as he did so Oishi was quick to take over applying the needed pressure and apologized softly when the young girl whimpered at the contact.
Fuji was shaking in rage; blue eyes looked up and glared at the culprit responsible for such an act. "You'll pay for that." he hissed angrily, a black aura seemed to leek out of Fuji's person. And if Eiji hadn't latched onto him he was sure he would have gone and done something he wouldn't regret.
"Can someone call an ambulance? She has to get to the hospital. The blood won't stop." yelled Oishi, worry clearly heard in his voice as green eyes turned towards the captain of the team who was knelling beside Ryoma.
Nodding Yukimura whipped out his phone and quickly dialed the needed number and after speaking hurriedly into the phone to the dispatcher.
Looking at his best friend, Tezuka knew there was something else that the motherly male wanted to say but wasn't to sure if it was okay to say it. "What is it Oishi?"
Oishi nibbled on his lower lip, tossed the used gauge pad into the box and grabbed another one, and applying pressure to the wound. "The amount of blood that she is losing is worrisome, Tezuka. If the wound won't stop bleeding and help doesn't arrive soon..." Oishi trailed off tossing away another used, bloodied pad and grabbed another one.
Everyone who heard what Oishi said looked at each other worried.
Tezuka tightened his grip on Ryoma when he felt the boy shiver at the news and glanced at the younger teen in concern. "Everything is going to be alright, Ryoma." the captain repeated "Kagome-chan is a strong girl."
"By the size of the cut, there is no doubt that she would need stitches." commented Nanjirou when he saw the wound when Oishi tossed away another pad before replacing it with another one.
Hearing a click, everyone turned and watched as Yukimura hung up his phone and nodded towards Tezuka and Ryoma before looking at everyone worried expressions, "They will be here in ten minutes. The dispatcher said to just keep applying pressure to the wound and to talk to Kagome, make sure she stays conscious and talking, in case she has a concussion it wouldn't be safe for her if she fell asleep. "
Ryoma nodded and squeezed the hand he was holding loosely within his own. "Kagome, can you hear me?"
Kagome opened her eyes, head pounding achingly, causing a small whimper to emerge from her throat. It felt like her head wanted to be split open. Closing her eyes tightly, she reopened them and tried to focus on the blurred image of her cousin,
"My head is pounding, Ryo-chan. It feels like....someone took a hammer and started pounding away." her words were slurred and pain-filled which stabbed at the hearts of those nearby and heard her voice.
Ryoma gripped Kagome's hand tightly. "Help will be here momentarily. Just keep talking to me alright, Kagome and don't close your eyes." he whispered raising his hand he placed it lightly against her forehead and nearly flinched. His beloved cousin was burning up.
Oishi looked at Ryoma; he had noticed how the boy's hand nearly twitched. Furrowing his brows, Oishi moved his free hands and placed it against the small girls' forehead and frowned. Looking over at Tezuka he told the captain that Kagome was really hot.
Tezuka moved, placing a hand against Kagome's forehead and nearly recoiled at how hot she was. Reaching over towards the white medical kit, the captain of Seigaku grabbed a cold compress and glanced around to see what he could use to wrap the frozen ice packet in when a shirt was held out, dangling in front of his face.
Looking over he saw that the person holding the shirt was Yukimura, "My practice shirt. You can use it to wrap the compress in." which earned a moan of discomfort from the pain ridden female.
"Arigato" whispered Tezuka as he did so and placed the compress onto Kagome's head
"Kagome-chan, can you hear me?" he questioned softly
Silence met the question causing the group to become anxious.
"Answer me if you can hear me, Kagome-chan." whispered Fuji knelling on the other side of Ryoma, wrapping an arm around the boy who looked like he would break down.
Sniffles and soft sobs could be heard from Eiji, Gakuto, Marui, Kirihara, and Ohtori's directions while everyone else from Seigaku, Hyotei and Rikkai looked solemn. Around the outside of the courts whispers could be heard, worried.
While curses had erupted from the Fudomine section, the scene must have brought back bad memories for them.
Finally after what seemed like hours, a soft voice answered the question asked. "So tired." murmured Kagome.
Before the group could say anything else the sound of sirens were heard and Tezuka told Momoshiro and Kaidoh to go tell the medics where they were.
The rivals nodded and took off, and for the first time not bothering to insult the other.
Getting Kagome help was more important.
"Help has arrived Kagome, your going to be just fine now" whispered Nanjirou.
He hoped so anyways, for her friend's sake, for her family, and most importantly for Ryoma's sake. He didn't know what Ryoma would do should anything happen to his most precious person. But he knew one thing, whatever he was to do; it was not going to be good.
Two men rushed over pushing a stretcher between them, while the crowd watched as one of the men carefully picked Kagome up and placed her upon it. Turning, one of the males asked if someone was going to ride with them to accompany kagome.
tezuka turned and looked at Oishi who looked like he wanted to go. Meeting his best friends eyes, the captain nodded his head, indicating that he could go.
Having Nanjirou leave was not possible seeing as he was the coach, if he were to leave, they would have to have forfeited. Ryoma had yet to play, so he was still needed here, besides the captain knew if anything the small boy would get revenge by defeating the team. And as the captain it wouldn't be right if he left his team by themselves. He was the team captain, so he had to lead them.
Glancing towards the side, Tezuka contemplated asking him to go as well. in the end he relented. "kikumaru."
Eiji sniffed and glanced towards the captain, "Hai"
"Ride with Oishi and Kagome to the hospital."
The red looked surprise by the statement, before he gave a small smile and wiped his eyes and nodded his head. "Hai"
Oishi smiled and wrapped an arm around the younger boy and tugged at his arm. "We will call you once we know how she is doing."
Tezuka nodded his head.
Hatori who had remained quiet and blank faced, turned and stared at the boy on the other side of the net. "You are disqualified for intentionally hurting someone. Your whole team should be kicked out because of your attitude but I was asked to keep this game going until the last person as played. You should feel lucky, but the next time something like this happens your entire team will be facing suspention. I will not tolerant you hurting other students within this building."
The other team remained tight lip, though you could tell none of them felt any sort of guilt or regret for what had just happened which further agitated the regulars from Seigaku, Hyotei and Rikkai.
Kirihara was forcefully pulled back, wrapped within Yanagi's arms as the data master tried to calm the devil boy down.
'singles 2 will commence. Fukugawa Kenta vs Fuji syusuke. Players to the court." announced Hatori but you could hear how upset he sounded.
Fuji and Fukugawa entered the courts.
Blue diamonds cut through sky blue as the two players stared each other down. "Your team will lose for pulling such a stunt. By the end of this match, you will wish you had never met us. I have been waiting years for a chance like this. Get ready Fukugawa, for i am about to show you what playing real tennis is all about."
Fuji's words cut through the silent audience, none of them had ever seen the gentle looking boy looking so....not angelic-like. The only ones not surprise was those from the old junior high tennis circuit. they all looked like they had expected something like this to happen.
"Fuji to serve."
Well here's the new chapter.
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xKagi-chanx