[Thanks for the reviews this is the continuation, the disclaimer is on the first chapter so I feel that I don't have to make it again. For those of you that want a more IC story read my other LH fic. I got enough for the other 2 chapters and to be written. I'm sure you have plenty of Q's but I'm only saying this. The first chapter was only a prelude not the story, if you read it differently, aw well don't continue if you don't like it. But you can't make a good meal without some sort base.]
Destroyed
Darkness, that's all Keitarou now felt around himself. He had flashes in his half-conscious state. Yelling, sounds of destruction, movement and then pain. Pain, indescribable pain coursing through his very body. That was it, three words echoed in his mind 'I hate you' He wasn't sure if it was another nightmare or real. He felt the floor beneath him move as people walked around. But there was no sound, was this another part of the dream? He had to wake up, only then will he know if it was a dream or if it was real.
Keitarou slowly opened his eyes. His vision was clouded over, a grey like the fog that the town had seemed to be in front of him. Drowning out his vision, but it wasn't fog, is came in spots, spot upon spots, he couldn't see, the steps quickened and he could tell that several people had kneeled down beside him. Could it be that it was all just one big nightmare, he hoped that it was. The people around him were all acting strangley, they had shifted their weight on the floor boards and seemed to be communicating. He couldn't hear them, but from the way they acted he could tell there was a mixed reaction, from each.
Worry, anger, depression, compassion and sadness. Each source felt the same thing but they felt it in different orders. He tried to speak to them. To communicate with who ever it was. His mouth opened and pain shot through him, He tried to form words but they wouldn't come. No matter how hard he tried it seemed that they would never leave his lips. The boards shifted again. This time he tried to move his arm, A thousand needles shot up through it and into his mind as he barely moved it. What was this? What happened? He felt his arm being gently lifted, as gentle as they were being he felt only pain. Another hand was placed against his intertwining fingers with his it lingered then it left. It felt like, Naru? He had to figure it out, somehow.
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The girls were each surrounding their managers' body.
"He's awake!" called Shinobu. They all came running on over to Keitarous side. His eyes were open and they looked around for a while. Each girl noticed this and looked at each other.
"What is he looking at?" said Kitsune adopting her thinking pose.
"It can't be us can it, I mean we're all on one side but he seems to be looking all around." Stated Naru looking back at him.
"AUUU. He must be looking for a way to get away from us." Shinobu this time.
"He looks confused." Su, still depressed over the whole incident.
"He's blind." This got the attention of all the other girls. Motoko continued. "His eyes, they show confusion and they are looking around as if they can't see anything. It's late afternoon and yet he can't see anything. Their color has also changed slightly." She said indicating his eyes which were a lighter color then they were before. "I've seen this before." They continued to stare at her. Naru on the verge of tears. Only Shinobu could voice the question most of them wanted to ask.
"How?" Su answered for them.
"The power from the reactor. It must have been too much and boiled the fluid in his eyes." She said rather dumbfounded. They all cringed at the thought of how much pain that alone would have been.
"That would also mean that there is also more damage than just his eyes. I wonder what all he lost." She looked back down at Keitarou who was trying to move his arm, pain etched on his face. Also noticing this, the other girls quickly moved to watch. Keitarou had stopped trying to move his arm.
"He must be paralyzed as well." Said Kitsune looking up at the others.
"Oh, Keitarou." Naru said, Pain evident in his voice. She gently reached down and lifted his arm bringing it upright. Placing her other hand on the palm of his hand she then entwined their fingers together and held his hand for a while.
"Naru-sempai, he is not paralyzed, but his muscles must have been burned, he can't move because it hurts him too much." Said Motoko, noticing the look on his face.
"Then he isn't completely gone to us." She sighed and put down his hand. "We still need to know just how badly he is hurt. So that we know where to begin apologizing." Naru was near tears now. She couldn't stay any longer they all knew that it was too much for her, they stayed silent as she left. They all stayed in the room for a little while longer then left as well.
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It was early morning, two days after the event that had changed the Hinata sou and it's residents when the doctor came to look at Keitarou. They had fed him the night before. Gently placing a spoon against his mouth full of liquid soup that he slowly drank. The doctor had kicked them out of the room while she examined Keitarou. It seemed like hours when the doctor came out again bringing the bad news.
"Well, he's blind alright. It may not be permanent but I can't say when or if he's ever going to see again. His muscles are burned also, just like you thought. It'll be awhile before he can move again. His ear drums burst so he can't hear anything but it doesn't matter cause his vocal cords are also shot. That's all I can tell you, I can't tell you what mental damage he has, or what his memories are still doing to him. I patched him up, change his bandages every few hours and in a few days he should be up and around again." She kindly refused the payment from the girls, knowing the back story to the whole incident, and left. 'I can't say I didn't see this coming sooner or later. I hope that they understand that going through the rest of their lives knowing what happened to him will be painful, and I can't accept the payment from people that have to live with that.' She continued down the steps and vanished in the crowd of people.
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Keitarou could tell it had been two three days since whatever happened His eyes ears and several parts of his body were covered in bandages. Every so often someone, he couldn't tell who it was. Would come and change his bandages and the bed pan or whatever it was that they had put under him. The first few days or whatever, he assumed that it was days. He spent trying to move. It hurt a lot but finally the pain had subsides and he could move some of his body around. It was just small movements like lifting his arm onto his chest or bends a knee on occasion. It still hurt but it was better than it was before.
Some one was currently feeding him. It was the same stuff they had fed him since he woke up like this. This time it had some small chunks of food in it to chew up instead of the liquid they kept on feeding him. Again he wished that he knew who it was. It was colder now, he assumed it was night time. The person got up and took the tray of food with them. Their soft steps on the floor being felt until they were out of the room. Shortly after another pair of feet hit the ground, they hit harder and around where his table was. She had been coming into his room every night as far as he could tell. HE still remembered her words to him. 'I hate you, IDIOT' they still stung, just like Motokos. He couldn't read her emotions but if what he heard was true she was standing there, angry with him for something or other. He turned his head down and away from her slightly, his heart ached and he shed a few tears into his wrappings. The feet on the floor turned around and left.
Blind, deaf, mute, he was now all of these things. The doctor had shown him that he was by patting his destroyed senses and making gestures on his chest with her other hand to emphasize the point. He wasn't tired, he had slept off and on these past few days. He still couldn't shake the deep fear of the girls. The person that changed his bandages and fed him had to be Mutsumi or Shinobu. He felt that the others, with how they treated him and what they said, that they meant it. It hurt him deeply, but there was no other explanation that he could come up with. He began to work his arms and legs again so that he can move around again, and quit being the burden that he felt he was to the others.
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Naru could barely sleep. They had all pulled together and fixed the damage done to the inn, but she couldn't help but feel helpless. The last thing he heard from her was the three worst words she could ever have said to him. They could never be taken back, she could never tell him that she was sorry and he would understand. The abuse that he went through flashed through her mind, why? Why did they find it so amusing to watch him get hurt, to cower, to beg for his life under situations that had been orchestrated so that they could see him do so. A tear ran down her cheek, it hurt badly, as if her heart had suddenly collapsed and had been sucked into a vacuum cleaner with sharp blades along the tube that it was now traveling. She took the pillow in her hands and held it to her face crying deeply into it.
"Keitarou, I'm sorry I'll make it up to you somehow. I promise." She whispered into the moonlight that filtered in through her window. She reached out and picked up her liddo-kun doll that had been sitting near her bed and held it tightly, crying herself to sleep. Just like all the other girls in the dorm.
{K then I'm going to answer three questions that ppl are most likely going to wonder about. 1) I'm doing this fic in LH cause the idea was made using the LH characters in the first place. 2)The LH/TM cross over will run in both the TM area and the LH area because the two points of view that will be involved in it. 3) This is not going to be a cross over and the story is fully made, it just needs to be typed up and put online. I welcome opinions of all kinds but if you going to blame me for OOC's then please look at other authors as well }