KG: Konnichi/komban wa! (whatever your situation is) I know some of you might be a little surprised by what happened last chapter. I'm surprised no one has really gotten mad at me for ending it like that.... Just to say, I don't own Digimon Frontier or any other anime.
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--Takuya in the Middle—Hospitalized
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"Beep, Beep....."
What...?
Where am I....?
My head was throbbing with pain as I opened my eyes and looked around. I'm in a bed... why? And why am I wearing this weird outfit?
Wait a minute... curtains around the bed? I'm in a hospital... I held my face in my hands and realized that my left cheek hurt and I had a bandage on it. My head wouldn't stop hurting. What had happened to me? I closed my eyes and tried to think.
I recalled sirens... police sirens. Next came a feeling of worry then a memory of immense pain as I landed on the ground. Two voices called out my name.....
"Kouji, Kouichi.... they're ok..." I remembered now... I got hit by a green car. I opened my eyes. But my friends were safe and that was all that mattered to me now.
I sighed and lay back to rest my head on the pillow... I felt so tired now...
"Oh! You've finally come around Mr. Kanbara," Exclaimed a nurse who had just walked in.
'Mr. Kanbara'? I couldn't stand that...
"Just call me Takuya, please."
The nurse smiled, "okay then, Takuya. You have some friends have been terribly worried about you. It's 9:00 a.m. now, so they're at school, but they said that they would come visit you afterwards. Your Family was also here, they'll probably come later today. I'll go bring you some breakfast, and then you should get some rest. That was a really noble thing you did for your friends, they're very lucky to have you."
"Okay then," then the nurse turned and left me alone. I put my hand to my head as I let the information sink in. 9:00 a.m.? That meant that I had been here for about 17 hours...
The nurse returned with a tray held in her hands. She placed a small sort of table on the bed then placed the tray on top of it. "If you need anything, just let me know. I'll be just down the hall." She then left again.
I looked at the food set on the tray. There was a bowl of cereal, a bagel and a cup of milk. Heh, and I always thought that hospital food would taste worse than the school lunch. I began to eat the cereal then the bagel with the milk. After I was done, I placed the table and tray on the table next to my bed and tried to go to sleep.
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"Takuya! You're okay!!"
They're here already here? But I'm still sleepy...Huh? wait a minute. That wasn't Kouji or Kouichi's voice, that was...
"Izumi!?"
"Yeah, of course it's me, all of us are here! Kouichi and Kouji told us what happened..." she motioned towards the twins beside her. "You really had us worried."
"We came to see you yesterday, but you were out! Your mom and Shinya stopped by too." piped up Tomoki.
"Yeah, the nurse told me this morning. Thanks guys."
"So, have you had any hospital food yet?" questioned Junpei.
"Yeah."
"Was it horrible?" Junpei asked, all while making a face.
"Yeah, it tasted like medicine... it even looked bad!" I joked while making faces, causing laughter from everyone. They all stayed for a while and talked a bit. At about 4 o'clock, Izumi, Junpei and Tomoki left, leaving me alone to talk to Kouji and Kouichi. Kouji looked a bit sad now as he sat in the chair next to me.
"Takuya, I-I'm sorry..." he hung his head and looked at the floor now.
"Sorry for what?"
"I should've moved quicker to push you out of the way... Kouichi was easy to push since he was in front of me but I was going to ge-..."
"Baka."
"What?" now he looked at me in the eyes, confusion written on his face.
"I knew that you were gonna push Kouichi first. I also knew, you being the way you are, you were gonna push me next. That's why I got you out of the way. I just took too much time in getting myself out of the way, that's why I got hit."
"But T-Takuya..."
"No buts, Kouji. I pushed you, so you couldn't have done anything. It's not your fault so stop blaming yourself for it."
Kouichi walked over to Kouji and put a hand on his shoulder. "He's right, Kouji. I wanted to help as much as you did, but I couldn't either... He's all right and that's all that matters now."
"You guys are right, but I still wish I could've helped..."
"Stop worrying about it, I'll be out of here by tomorrow," both brothers stared at me.
"What!? All I got were some cuts and bruises, nothing really serious..."
"But you still got knocked out for 17 hours, Takuya! What if you had a concussion or something?" Kouichi exclaimed.
"Well, they can check me tomorrow and then let me go home."
But maybe I can still take some extra time off from school I though with a grin.
"They are going to check, Takuya. I asked the doctors about it and they said that as soon as they are sure you have no serious injuries, you can go home." a smile began to form on Kouji's lips, "They also said that given that you have no other injuries, you can go to school as soon as you can go home."
"AAAAW!" He always knew what I was thinking... so much for that...
"Sorry Takuya, looks like you won't be missing school after all," put in Kouichi.
Great, even Kouichi knew what I thought...
"So if all turns out okay, we'll see you in school by Thursday!" he added, smiling.
I couldn't help but notice just at that moment how my mind was drifting back to the conversation Kouji and I had had yesterday....
'I just don't want to lose you to anyone; even if it's Kouichi, but I don't want to hurt him either... he's already had more than enough hardships of his own. But really, he's so happy when he's with you...'
Kouichi had been through a lot of pain, and the last thing he needed was some more. As I looked at Kouichi right now, and felt happy that he was happy...
"Takuya? Takuya!!"
"Whaa!! That hurts, Kouji!!"
"Well, you were zoned out right now.... you weren't listening to me. What else could I have done?"
Well, I don't know, but you sure didn't have to yell in my ear!" He looked at me for a few seconds, and then he lowered his head. How come I can never tell what he's thinking?
"Takuya, I'll go home now, but I'll stop by your place tomorrow to see how you're doing. Ja ne." Then he walked out and left me with Kouichi. Why did this seem familiar? Wait, reacted in a similar way to when he saw me with Kouichi were at the concert. But what had I done now?
"Kouichi, when I was zoned out, did I do anything?"
"Well, you were smiling and seemed to be staring at that picture on the wall," he pointed to a picture behind him, which displayed a brilliant sunset.
I immediately mentally smacked myself. That was it; I was subconsciously staring at Kouichi! Kouji being as observant as he was noticed of course... way to go goggle head. I was just lucky Kouichi didn't know about it though...
"Kouichi, you should get home now too. Besides. I'm sure that English teacher of yours left some other long essay to do, ne?"
"You're right! I need to get started on it now, see you tomorrow then, Takuya!" Then he ran out the door, a smile still on his face.
As soon as he was out, I laid back into the bed and placed my fist on my forehead.
Why did this have to happen now?
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KG:I guess it might seem a little more definite of which way this is going to go now. Anyways, until the next chapter, sayonara.