A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF YU GI OH 5Ds! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE CREATORS! THE ONLY THING I OWN ARE MY OCS!
Chapter 12: Another Injury
Crow was speeding down the highway, approaching a turn. 'I can do more!' he thought. He began to curve around the turn when a shadowy figure appeared in front of him. But just before he crashed into the figure, he did notice something.
The collision sent the bird named man and his duel runner flying into the air, out of control. Crow went flying down the highway. He was about to hit the concrete and slid to a stop and sat up. He looked at Yusei drove up.
"What're you doing here, Yusei?" he asked his friend.
"I was driving by when I noticed you begin to crash, Crow," he explained. "Are you hurt anywhere at all?"
"I don't think-" he merely cried out, though, as he moved his right arm. They both looked to see it moved out of place.
"It's dislocated by the looks of it," Yusei broke down. "Mind if I pop it back into place?"
"Will it hurt?" Crow asked.
"No less than when the hospital will do it," Yusei replied.
Crow groaned in defeat. "Fine," he gave in. "But make it quick." Yusei gently touched the shoulder before with great speed, popped the joint back into place. Crow cried out a bit from it, but it quickly died out. "Ow…" he muttered under his breath.
"It's back in place, but we'll need a doctor to look it over to make sure there aren't any other problems," Yusei told him. "And to see how long it'll be before you can use the arm again."
"What do you mean before I can use the arm again?! I can use it quickly after, right?!" Crow retorted.
"Of course not, Crow. Dislocating a bone is as bad as breaking it, if not a bit worse," Yusei replied sternly. "We just have to hope it's not too bad or has any other damage. Until we get it looked at, though, don't move the arm. I'll call a mechanic for your runner and alert the others about what happened. Do you understand?"
"How do you know all this stuff, Yusei?" Crow asked as the Jedi stood up.
"When I was younger, I dislocated a bone. It was bad, too. Couldn't use the arm for a month," Yusei explained.
"I… didn't know," Crow responded, not realizing how much Yusei would know on dislocating a bone.
"I wouldn't expect you to. I never told you about it and it was before we met," Yusei told him. He then turned and called who he needed to before taking Crow to the hospital to get his arm checked out.
At the doctor's, Akiza and the twins came to meet the guys. "We heard Crow got into an accident," Akiza stated.
"What happened?" Luna asked.
"Crow crashed into something and dislocated his shoulder. I put it back in place and we're just waiting to hear how long it'll probably be before he can use the arm again," Yusei explained.
The doctor and Crow walked out. "I see someone relocated Crow's shoulder, am I correct?" the doctor asked.
"I did," Yusei answered.
"You helped us a great deal with that. He just shouldn't use that arm until it's fully healed," the doctor informed.
"How long will that be?" Luna asked.
"It should be fully healed within a month," the doctor answered.
"But the prelims are in three days!" Akiza exclaimed.
Crow began to beg the doctor to let him participate in the tournament, but the doctor refuses. The angered Crow and he moved to take his cast off, only to cry out from the pain.
"Crow!" Yusei called followed by Jack.
"Crow, stop," Luna told him worriedly. "You'll just make it worse."
"Why? Why now? What am I going to tell the nerds?" Crow muttered as tears began to fall down his cheeks.
. . .
Jack and Yusei were discussing what they were going to do now that Crow was out of action.
Bruno came downstairs, "You'll lose life points if you continue with only two players," he stated.
"We can't afford that," Yusei responded.
"Then I'll participate," Akiza chimed in and they looked at her. "I'm a part of Team 5D's too. And I have my own duel runner." Crow began to walk out and Akiza called, "Crow, wait-"
"Shut up!" Crow yelled. "You don't know how I am feeling right now!" He then walked out with that.
"Akiza, don't take anything he just said to heart. Remember, Crow loves dueling with everything he has. He had been looking forward to participating in this tournament for a while," Yusei told her. "He just needs time right now."
"Right," she agreed.
. . .
The next day, Jack, Bruno, and Yusei were on their duel runners searching for Crow and Akiza.
"Where are they?" Yusei wondered aloud
He then began to hear something as he neared the practice tracks. It sounded like Akiza's runner. So he turned to it, wincing a bit as he moved his chest. 'This pain is only getting worse…' he thought.
He then turned back to the situation at hand as he arrived and was quick to notice Crow in the distance with Akiza. He let Bruno and Jack know what he found and they were quick to arrive together and they came in to see Crow drilling Akiza, just as Akiza and Yusei were after the duel against Andre.
As Akiza passed by, she flashed Crow a thumbs up. They all turned to each other as the approaching group stopped in front of the two.
"You can really worry a person, Crow," Bruno stated with a small smile. Crow nodded with a slight smirk.
