Title: Hotaru's Love

Chapter: 7

Author: Ice1taru

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon.

AN: Sooo.. it's been awhile.. but I'm back. I always come back.

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Hotaru's Love by Ice1taru

His head was starting to feel heavy, everything was spinning and all of a sudden... he fell. A wave of relief washed over him as he slipped into unconsciousness and his body became numb. Everything went black.

"..so if you match this shirt with these pants, you would look like...................... the biggest whore.. BUT.. at least Shino will notice you," Lina said as she picked up a red lace spaghetti strap shirt and a pair of tight black leather pants. It was a cool Saturday night. The girls had spent the whole day shopping and were planning on going again the next day.

Hotaru picked up the shirt and held it up in front of her in front of the mirror.

"So, like.. what do you say?!" Lina exclaimed as she dumped another shopping bag of clothes onto Hotaru's bed.

"I say I like it," Hotaru said and grinned.

"At a girl, I knew I would influence you some day in some way, just didn't know it was gonna come this soon. By the time I'm done with you, you'll be an all-time slut! I mean.. you'll be an all-time person with.. STYLE!! Hahaha!" Lina giggled.

Hotaru rolled her eyes.

"Oh, shit! Oh, shit! oh shit oh shit oh shit!!! SOMEBODY CALL 911!!" Satoshi shouted over his friends, who were all huddled around Shino. He wasn't moving at all and he didn't look like he was breathing either. Blood was covering his stomach, Satoshi guessed that he had broken a few ribs. Hopefully, everything else was intact.

"I'm bored," Lina mumbled, her head resting lazily on one of Hotaru's pillows.

"I'm bored, too," Hotaru said as she looked around for the tv remote, "damn, I know it's here somewhere."

"I wish something would happen," Lina looked up at Hotaru, "do something," she commanded.

"I am doing something, I'm looking-- IIIII fooooouuuuund iiiiiiittttttt," Hotaru replied in a sing-song voice and turned on the tv.

"Woop dee doo, hooray for you."

"Shut up."

"Don't tell me to shut up!"

"Shut up!"

Lina threw a pillow at Hotaru and closed her eyes, hoping to sleep, "So bored, let's so something."

Hotaru raised an eyebrow and glanced at the clock on the wall behind Lina, "It's eleven. PM."

"So? Hey, let's go shopping again," Lina asked, frustrated that they had nothing to do.

"OH. MY. GOD," Hotaru stopped channel surfing and turned up the volume.

"What?" Lina picked her head up off the bed long enough to see what looked like Shino's brother on tv and an ambulance behind him. The anchor was asking Shino and his friends questions, "You don't think…"

"Oh. My god," Hotaru said again, "we have to get over there!"

"It's ELEVEN O CLOCK," Lina protested.

But Hotaru didn't hear her as she grabbed her jacket and ran downstairs. Sighing irritably, Lina followed suit.

Satoshi couldn't stop sweating. Just wait till his folks heard about this. They would so force Shino to go and live with them. And as for Satoshi, boy, was he is trouble. He followed the ambulance in a friend's car and as soon the ambulance stopped and paramedics quickly rolled Shino away, Satoshi jumped out of the car and ran inside.

"Sorry, sir, you can't go in, we're taking him to ICU," A paramedic stopped Satoshi, "you'll have to wait in the waiting room and we'll notify you with further information."

Satoshi sighed and went to the waiting room.

"Damn, are you doing 100?! Oh, shit! Is that a cop?! Lina shouted at Hotaru frantically, who seemed to be in a daze, "you best slow down coz we can't see Shino if we're getting a ticket." This seemed to get through to Hotaru because she slowed down considerably. They were doing an even 60 by the time they reached the hospital parking lot. Hotaru jumped out of the car in the same manner that Satoshi had done earlier and ran inside the hospital. Again, Lina followed suit.

"Sorry, miss, you can't go in," A nurse stopped Hotaru just as she was about to enter ICU, "you'll have to wait in the waiting room and we'll notify you with further information. Who are you here to see?"

"Shino… umm.." Hotaru began, then remembered that she didn't know his last name.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," the nurse said and started walked away, shaking her head.

"Wait, do you know anything?" Lina caught the nurse's arm.

The nurse sighed, "He has 3 broken ribs, and minor bruises. And he suffered a concussion."

Lina and Hotaru both let out a simultaneous breath of relief, but the nurse continued, "He hasn't woken up since we brought him here. We're giving him oxygen and everything. He just.. His heart is beating so slowly... umm.. I'm sorry.. We don't know if he'll make it."

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AN: I don't know where I'm going with this story.. I might kill Shino, make Lina go crazy, or have Hotaru commit suicide. I don't know. Sometimes, life is just really weird and the most unexpected things can happen at any given moment.

*~ice1taru~*