Distress due to Love

(3) Accident

'Shindou…' Akira notices Hikaru running out of the restaurant, but he wonders why, why is Shindou running out so…fiercely? It's obviously that Shindou is unhappy, but why? Can he deem that Shindou don't want to see him dating? Can he consider Shindou's response as jealousness? Akira dare not think further—Shindou is dating with his 'girlfriend'.
In order to stop himself from daydreaming, Akira tries to chat with the girl sitting opposite him, 'Nakami-san, I'm sorry but I really know nothing about today's date arrangement. However, I'm really graceful that you have saved my father's life…'
'You're welcome, Touya-san. I just did what a doctor should do at that time.' With a polite smile, Tomoko replies. Tomoko admires the decorous man opposite her, but she dislikes his too polite tone. Woman's sense tells her that the young man is focusing on other matters, for instance, the guy who just ran out of the restaurant.

'I think our meeting should end so far, Touya-san.' Tomoko asks understandly, 'What's about you?'
'I agree.' looking at Tomoko accidentally, Akira finds the girl called Nakami Tomoko has the ability to look through his mask. Such thought surprises Akira, since he is not used to be looked through, especially by a girl who meets him for the first time.

Akari chases Hikaru out of the restaurant and enters the lift, 'Hikaru, what's the matter?'
'Nothing,' lowering his head, Hikaru's hands clenches into fists. The lift is going down while Hikaru feels lather is coming up from the bottom of his heart. Something is gliding through the space between his hands, which Hikaru figures out.
'Hikaru…' Akari is wordless. She does not know what happened to her boyfriend, Hikaru was so happy when they entered the restaurant, how come he run out angrily after only 5 minutes? Has she done something wrong, or she shouldn't say Touya-san is gentler than Hikaru?

Akira goes down the building of restaurant with Tomoko.
'Nakami-san came here in your car?' finding Tomoko picks up a chain of keys, Akira asks politely.
'Yes, so Touya-san needn't send me back.' Tomoko replies with a wink, 'Touya-san must have something important to do; I don't want to waste your time.'
'I…' Akira feels a little nervous under Tomoko's researching eyes, he turns aside his head. Due to such turning, he sees the most horrible thing in the world to him—Shindou, who rushes across road without paying attentions around, is being pushed away from the ground by a car.
'No, Hikaru!' Akari's cry rushes into everyone's ears synchronously.

'Shindou, Shindou!' Akira does not know how he ran to clasp the blooding boy with his arm; the only thing he knows is he does not want to loose Shindou.
'Touya-san, Calm down! Please don't move the injured.' Tomoko, who has taken first-aid case from her car once she saw the accident, comes to the side of Hikaru through the crowd. Tomoko tries to stopped blood for Hikaru while she tells Akira and crying Akari, 'I've called the Nakami hospital since it's the nearest one. Fujisaki-san, don't forget you are a nurse, please help me with the first-aid!'
'Ye—yes!' wiping the eyes, Akari begins to read Hikaru's pulse.


Ambulance comes in time and sends Hikaru to the Nakami Hospital. Tomoko and Akari enter the operating room as workers, leaving Akira outside waiting for the final result.
Standing against the wall, Akira begins to hate himself due to his inutility. Both Nakami-san and Fujisaki-san are inside the operating room rescuing Shindou, but he is outside, waiting uselessly. Akira watching the digital clock on the wall opposite him changes second by second, until the door of operating room opens.
Tomoko comes out with frazzle on her face due to the three-hour operation. The first thing she sees is Akira's eye, which is asking her gingerly. She can feel his hope and fear. Nodding to Akira, Tomoko tells, 'Operation is successful, and he will wake up by tomorrow morning.'
Hearing such news, Akira looses his body and slides down against the wall slowly.
'Touya-san,' Tomoko rushes to Akira and holds his hands, 'are you OK?'
'I'm all right, thanks.' Taking out hands from Tomoko's hold, Akira stands up and walks towards the special ward.
Watching Akira leave, Tomoko take out her cell phone with a sign. As expected, dad has called her lots of times. Tomoko dials back her father, 'Dad, this is Tomoko. Is Touya-sensei with you? There was an accident…'

Touya Koyo and Mrs. Touya come to the hospital after getting message from Tomoko. Akari calls Hikaru's mother as well.
'Akira-san, let's go home OK? You seem very tired.' Mrs. Touya says to her son carefully.
'I won't leave until Shindou wakes up.' Shaking his head, Akira refuses mother's suggestion with a low but steady voice, nobody can change his decision.
'I won't force you to leave. But don't forget the Meijin tournament is the day after tomorrow.' With such words, Touya Koyo leaves the hospital.
After requesting Tomoko to take care of Akira, Mrs. Touya left as well.

Hikaru's parents arrive in the hospital as soon as they get message from Akari. As they enter the door, both Akira and Akari are waiting besides the sleeping Hikaru. They join the waiting as well.

The night of waiting is quiet and long, but it finally passes away. Hikaru's eyelids begin to move as sunrise.
'Shindou,' Akira notices Hikaru's movement.
'Hikaru,' Akari calls Hikaru's name with sob.
'Nakami-san, Hikaru is waking up!' Mrs. Shindou calls Tomoko.

Nakami—the girl who dated with Touya? He has left the restaurant where Touya is dating, right? Why can he still hear such name? Hikaru tries to recall the whole process, but all the efforts fail once he thinks of Nakami touching Touya's head—Touya didn't refuse.
What a fool you are, Shindou Hikaru! You though Touya would be always there for you once you want to play Go, you thought Touya would only put eyes on you since you are his internal rival. But you forgot he might belong to someone else, leaving under your eyelids one day, just like Sai, the Ghost who left without even a 'goodbye' seven years ago. He can bear such loss any more. He does not want to lose Touya.

Hikaru finds his both his hands are hold.
One of his hands is hold by two soft quivery hands. 'Hikaru,' the hands' owner smiles while crying, 'I'm so happy you wake up.'
The other one is hold by a cool hand, the slight quiver leaks out its owner's emotion, 'Shindou…' but the sentence can not continue due to the speaker's chock with sobs.
'Akari…Touya…' Hikaru figures their voice, finally opens his eyes.

To Hikaru's unpleasant, the first people comes into his eyes is actually the so-called Nakami girl, who is the last people he wants to see now.
'OK, eyes seem good. Nurse will take you to the further examination.' With those words, Tomoko turns to Akira, 'Touya-san, could you come with me? I have to talk to you.'


OK, Chapter3 is up. Sorry for the mistakes and Chinese habits of representing. In fact I'm considering change the story a little since I don't want to simply translate my work. There might be a totally different result from the Chinese Version.

By the way, I like Tomoko a lot, since she is created by me. ^_^|