Teammates
Prompt: Fall
Characters: Kōsuke Izumi, Yūichirō Tajima, Fumiki Mizutani
Pairing: Mizutani/Izumi
RELATED TO #13: Twisted
Izumi felt it happen before it actually did.
He could feel the muscles in his leg twitch and his leg was shaking uncontrollably. He just didn't exactly know why it was happening, since he'd been cleared by his doctor to participate in the game.
When he finally hit the ground, tears welled in his eyes because damn it he was way to close to the base for this shit to happen right now. There was a shout of his name and Momoe calling a time out before he felt dirt being kicked up all around him.
"Move it!" Tajima barked as he reached him. From the corner of his eye he could see the second basemen backing up with his hands in the air as Tajima dropped to his knees beside Izumi, carefully grabbing his leg. The energetic boy sighed, Izumi hissed as his fingers brushed over the most painful spot, "This is why we told you to give it a day or two."
Izumi glared up at him through his bangs, "I can-"
"Don't you dare!" a sharp voice interrupted. Izumi froze as he turned his head, finding Mizutani standing near him. Mizutani had his hands bunched into shaking fists, "Don't you dare! I'm not going to let you hurt yourself even more!"
There was a moment before Izumi held a hand out, "Help me up. Someone tell Nishihiro he needs to play."
Mizutani's grasp on Izumi as he pulled him to his feet, letting the brunette lean heavily on him, was light and he whispered, "Thank you…"