Note: So here is chapter 7, I wonder if you guys will like it or not but I do really hope you guys enjoy it!^o^

Disclaimer: Nope, they are not mine. They belong to Sunrise...

CHAPTER 7

FLASHBACK AT THE RACE TRACK

'Let me see what you can do' Natsuki thought as she accelerate faster, leaving the dark green racer behind her. Natsuki glanced slightly at her side mirror and saw that the racer was almost out of her sight.

'That was easy!' Natsuki grinned under her helmet but suddenly she felt a presence behind her. She glanced again and it was the dark green racer.

'Not bad but I'll show you what real race means' Natsuki was about to showed her skill when suddenly a thunder strikes out of nowhere at the track just in front of Natsuki. Natsuki managed to avoid the thunder, much to her relieved but she forgot that the dark green racer was still behind her. The dark green racer couldn't brake in time when Natsuki make a sudden move to avoided the thunder, making them collided with each other. Natsuki lost her balance at the collision and she fell off her bike, she slided with her bike to the side corner and crashed her body. The dark green racer, however, was able to regained her balance from falling. She can continue with the race if she wanted but she didn't, instead she rushed to help Natsuki.

'What…happened? Why do I feel so heavy? ARGH!! My body and my head…it hurt like hell! Nao…what is she doing here? Why are people gathering around me? My eyes…blurry…so heavy…what the hell….' Natsuki lay on the ground motionless.

"Shizuru" Natsuki slowly closed her eyes.

END OF FLASHBACK

"NATSUKI!!!" Nao ran to where Natsuki crashed earlier. The paramedics were already there, tried their hardest to treat the fallen racer. Nao ran past through them and kneeled close to Natsuki.

"Natsuki, can you hear me?" Nao tried not to touch Natsuki, afraid it might affected the already injured girl. No answer came from Natsuki, just a grunt but it sure did make Nao relieved that Natsuki is still alive. After the helmet was removed, Nao saw Natsuki's face was completely covered by blood, a lot of blood. Nao's worries began to rise again and she kept on calling Natsuki but there was no answer came from the girl. Nao's eyes started to watered but she kept on holding it from falling. Nao noticed that Natsuki's eyes were slowly closing and the only word that came out of Natsuki's mouth was….

"Shizuru"

SHIZURU'S HOME

'Ara, it sure is raining heavily today but I don't really care about it. I just can't wait for my date with Natsuki this evening, I wonder what I should wear?' Shizuru thought as she happily tried on her clothes. Suddenly, there was a loud bang and thunders flashed constantly just outside Shizuru's window, making Shizuru startled a little.

'Ara, that was a little scary. I hope it will stop soon' Shizuru calmed herself from the sudden shock. As she continued her activity, her phone rang.

"Who might it be? Could it be Natsuki?" Shizuru walked happily to her living room where her phone located and picked up the phone.

"Hello, Fujino Shizuru speaking" Shizuru greeted at the caller.

"Hello Shizuru, it's me, Mai" came Mai's voice from the other line. She sounded not as cheery as always. Shizuru wondered what's wrong with her.

"Ara, what can I do for you, Mai?" Mai fell silent for a moment and Shizuru started felt uneasy with Mai's odd behavior.

"It's about Natsuki…" Mai replied short, her voice was so low as if she whispered. As Shizuru heard Mai mentioned Natsuki's name, she felt a sudden chill ran down to her spine.

"What about Natsuki, Mai?" Shizuru tried to calm herself down but it didn't work when Mai started crying silently.

"Mai, can you tell me what is it about Natsuki?" Shizuru started to loose her composure when Mai didn't answered her question.

"Natsuki…she…she was involved in an accident and she's badly injured…." Mai couldn't hold her tears anymore and she started sobbing. Hearing that, Shizuru trembled, her knees felt weak and she collapsed on the floor.

"Natsuki…" She barely whispered, her voice seemed to be stuck on her throat.

"Is this Shizuru?" came another voice from the other line. Shizuru didn't answered the caller, she still in a state of shock at the news she just heard. Her hard breathing was the only thing that can be heard through the phone.

"It's Yuuki Nao, I'm Natsuki's friend. If you want to see Natsuki, go to Fuuka Hospital, it might be the last time you see her" Nao frankly said to Shizuru, not waiting for Shizuru replied. Shizuru snapped out of her shocked state after she heard Nao's words.

'The last time?!' Shizuru repeated Nao's words in her head.

"You better hurry up before it's too late" with that said, Nao hung up the phone. Somehow, Shizuru gained her strength back. She immediately rushed to get her things and headed to Fuuka Hospital.

FUUKA HOSPITAL

As Shizuru entered the hospital, she went directly to the receptionist counter to get Natsuki's whereabouts. After given the information she needed, she rushed to the said place and she saw Mai and Mikoto with several other people she didn't recognized stood in a hallway. Shizuru walked toward crying Mai, she wanted to know about Natsuki's condition badly.

"Mai, how is Natsuki?" Shizuru asked, an obvious worry showed in her voice and she put her hand on Mai's shoulder to get Mai's attention.

"Shizuru…Natsuki…." Mai turned to face Shizuru and she hugged the brunette tightly, she tried to comfort herself.

"Mai…." Mikoto said with a sad face.

"Are you Shizuru?" came a voice from beside Shizuru. Shizuru turned her head and saw a redhead standing beside her. The redhead was calm but when Shizuru took a look closely at her face and eyes, it was slightly red, Shizuru assumed that she also cried earlier.

"Yes, my name is Shizuru and you are?" Shizuru stated calmly although her inner self struggled hard to know about Natsuki.

"I'm Yuuki Nao, the one who spoke with you earlier and to answer your question, I also didn't know about Natsuki's condition. She's been there for hours now" Nao said as she pointed her finger to a room in front of them, it was an operation room.

"How did this accident happen to Natsuki?" Shizuru demanded an answer, she looked straight into Nao's eyes.

'Gulp…she's hot but pretty scary, especially those eyes. The color is like a blood, like Natsuki's blood….' Nao's face turned sad as she recalled previous event but she quickly recovered as a certain brunette stared at her intently, making her slightly uncomfortable.

"We-well, Natsuki took part in a bike race. During the race, a thunder suddenly strikes in front of her, she managed to dodged it but unfortunately she collided with other racer, resulting the accident and now she's in there" Nao explain briefly and quickly to Shizuru, she didn't have enough courage to looked straight into Shizuru's crimson eyes.

"Where is the other racer? How and who is that person?" Shizuru examined every face that stood in the hallway.

"I also didn't know where he or she went, all I know that that person didn't get any scratch at all" Nao looked at the people around her to get some information but they also had no idea about the person. Suddenly, someone walked toward them and stood behind Shizuru.

"That would be me!" said the person.

Shizuru turned her head to look at the person and her eyes went wide at what she saw.