Chapter11– Mino and Minou
The next morning
The door to the hospital room was slammed open.
Panting, a guy with dark brown hair that slightly covered eyes of the same shade, stood at the doorway. Beads of sweat ran across his face. He motioned towards the patient that lay on the bed in measured steps.
"Minou…are you alright?"
The guy called Minou faced him and nodded, smiling cheekily "yes, I am now, Minoko-san"
Minoko then leaned over and kissed him lightly (a/n: so sorry. It's YAOI! ) on the forehead. "That's good. I was so worried. The moment I heard, I immediately rushed here to see you"
Minou reached for his friend's hand and said, "who informed you? How'd you know"
"well…it seems to be that you were found by my enemy and his team. He was the one who called me up. Strange, I don't have a clue on how he knew…"
"…my car…it has a sticker, remember?"
Minoko slapped his forehead "oh! Yeah, right! I gave you one already"
Moments of silence passed by, then
"Mino-san, do you know where my car is?" Minou asked
"oh…uh…" he replied unsurely. He grabbed a seat and sat beside his friend that he treated more like a brother. "it's in the shop"
"how much damage did I take?"
"oh…uh…" he scratched his head hesitantly. He didn't want to say how the car was now.
The patient sat up and placed the hand of Minoko in between his own, caressing it softly and gently. "Please tell me. I just want to know."
"How could you think of your car when you were almost killed?!?" Minoko exploded at Minou. The man with spiky black hair was taken aback by the answer of his friend.
"I'm sorry, Minou-san for yelling at you…it's just that…I'm so worried at you" Minoko said sorrowfully as he looked down. Suddenly, a hand gripped his chin and held it up. A pair of charming dark blue eyes looked at him lovingly.
"it's okay. I just want to know. C'mon, whether it's really bad, I can take it"
Sighing, Minoko said, "okay. Uh…the driver's side had its paint scraped off. All the windows including the windshield and the back are broken, probably because of the impact. The headlights were broken and the front hood folded a little…"
"damn…" was Minou's reaction. He held a hand to his forehead, trying to imagine his car at the very moment.
"can it still be repaired?" Minou said, keeping all his hopes up.
A shake of Minoko's head shattered them all. He couldn't believe that his most beloved car is gone and with no chance of getting it back.
Minoko took pity for his friend. He sat beside him on his bed and wrapped an arm around his shoulders. He had this sudden feeling he needed to do it. He then whispered a few words to calm his friend's nerves.
When he had calmed down, he then asked, "what happened last night, that resulted to you sitting in this room?"
Pushing away from his friend, Minou then started remembering the unfortunate incident. "I was driving in the slopes of Myogi last night. I got to this pretty long straight so I decided to try it. It was really nice, but then, I didn't see that there was a pretty sharp turn to the left. Good thing I almost used up all of it "
"…so there wasn't much of an impact?"
"yes"
"well…I thank all the gods for keeping you from any other possible accidents. Good thing it didn't explode and you didn't burned"
"yeah…I know"
Minoko stood up and faced the window, looking out at it.
"Mino-san. I just remembered…"
"what is it?"
"Yuki. You remember her, right? I don't know if I was hallucinating but I saw he—"
"you weren't hallucinating, Minou. Kazama Yuki, also known as The blue ice from Tokyo, and she happens to be part of the opposing team…" Minoko stated, facing his friend once more.
"oh…so I wasn't seeing things…"
"…that guy who called me up. I think you saw him also 'cause he told me that he pulled you out and gave you first aid. Him, he's Takahashi Ryousuke and at present, he's courting Yuki…"
Minou's eyes widened "he is?" he said in utter disbelief
"yeah. He is"
"and you're running after her again?"
"yup"
"what's the point in all this?"
"to tell you the truth, I placed a bet. It was the only way Ryousuke would race us"
"YOU challenged them to a race?!?!?"
"uh…yeah…" Minoko said slowly
"why did you do that? Do you have ANY idea on their reputation?"
"what's there to know? C'mon! WE can beat them! It'll be a piece of cake!" Minoko said reassuringly
"geez Mino…I didn't think that you wouldn't know"
"know what? About the Kengai Racing team?"
"look, let me explain to you. The Kengai Racing Team is considered THE fastest racing team here in the Gunma Prefecture. Their team is composed of racers from hometowns around here, for example Akina, Akagi and Myogi. They have various cars, like the Mazda RX-7 FC and FD, R32, Sil-eighty…"
"but aren't those cars outdated already?"
"yes. If you think those are outdated, they even have a hatchi-roku. An 86… it's one of the lowest and cheapest ones you can get here in Japan… I think they have around two…"
"to sum it all up, they all have outdated cars. If so, we can definitely beat them!" Minoko said
"it doesn't stop there, Mino-san. You see, the potential of the team don't lie in the cars they drive, rather, in their skills. They're very different drivers from us. They drive on mountain passes, not on streets. If we have drag races on the street, they have normal car races on mountain passes"
"well…we just have to beat them to a bloody pulp with the power and money we've spent customizing our cars…"
"yeah…"
"anyway…I gotta go now…so sorry I couldn't stay really long…" Minoko said, glancing at his watch.
"oh…it's alright. Thanks for visiting me."
"of course I'd visit you…" Minoko replied, walking towards Minou once more. "you, get well soon, will ya? We need to train so we'll do that once you get out, okay?"
"yeah…sure. Can't wait to get on the road once more"
"so you get well…" he leaned closer to Minou and kissed him lightly on the lips. (a/n: SO YAOI! )
"see you…" Minoko whispered as he offered one last swift smile, turned around and left.