Disclaimer: Don't own SlamDunk and nrv will...

Want to thank all those who had reviewed for the last chapter, Yun Fei, Ice-dwine, Santeira and Digital Lavender. Well, it will be only a few more chapters and I am done with this fic . It will be quite a surprised at the end ;p so I won't say anything yet of course.

Hope u enjoy this chapter...

Chapter 12

The next morning was like any ordinary day in school. Friends greet each at the school front gate and rushes for class when the bell rang. However, one extraordinary occurrence was Rukawa looking wide awake in his class, when their teacher was teaching, doing some serious thinking. Strange thing for the ice prince to do but he couldn't stop thinking about last night.

The incident the night before was still vivid in Rukawa's mind. The blood on Yuiiko's body was unforgettable. How did that girl endure such a terrible trauma without freaking out? Rukawa had been to fights before. In fact he was sure that he had been into fights more than Yuiiko ever had but never in his life saw that much blood on someone before. The person that Yuiiko had beaten the hell out must be terribly hurt or there were more than one person though he will never know because she never gave him any details.

Her life was in danger and no one came to her aid again. Even he was going to hate talking to that do'aho; he had a feeling that he had to tell Sakuragi about this. He was wondering if it was time he talks to Sakuragi but….

Rukawa's flashbacks of the evening before….

"Promise me you won't say a thing about what happened to Hanamichi…." Yuiiko said avoiding eye contact with him. She had gotten out from a long shower cleaning all the blood from her hair and body. "It is better that he doesn't know about what happened."

"What exactly happened?" Rukawa asked. She hadn't exactly told him the whole story except for saving her own life. "What do you mean, you were protecting yourself?"

"You know, I'm starting to doubt my classmates saying you hardly talk Rukawa-kun, because you talk awfully a lot when you see me …." Yuiiko turned to him finally with a small painful smile on her face. "It is better that you don't know about it too …."

"Yu…."

"It's for your own good…." Yuiiko mumbled under her breath though Rukawa caught her words.

Before he could continue pressing on the subject Yuiiko was walking away from him, a towel still hung around her shoulders her hair still damp from the shower.

End of Rukawa's flashback.

"What do you mean for my own good…?" Rukawa whispered softly to himself frowning.

After school Yuiiko left the building before Rukawa or Sakuragi could even set eyes on her. She walked slowly by the busy side walk ignoring the people that walked by her. As she walked on, she passed on shops and stopped right in front of an electronic store where there were displays of televisions at the front of the glass window. One of the televisions showed her news about those boys she had beaten up yesterday evening. She frowned slightly when she realized that there were only two who was brought to the hospital.

"So the third ran away?" Yuiiko sighed before she could even turn away another news caught her attention. She turned back to the announcer with wide eyes.

"Last night, the manager of Sweet had reported the disappearance of Symphony. The famous singer with hidden identity that sung every night for the pass month…."

"What?" Yuiiko exclaimed. "I hadn't gone to work for only two days!"

"The police had filed the disappearance and will be looking for this girl after they can disclose her true identity…."

"What the hell?" Yuiiko fumed slightly. "Disclose me? Over my dead body! But it is not exactly the manager's fault to be worried. I better give him a call."

Again she sighed and turned away from the television to look for a public phone. It will take a certain amount of explaining. When a phone booth came to view she went inside. She cracked her brains and thought of a thousand of possibility why she couldn't make it for work. Finally when she got an idea she picked up the receiver pushed in some coins and dialed the number of the restaurant.

"Yes this is Symphony…." Yuiiko croaked into the receiver pretending to be sick. "I am so sorry I didn't come for work. I had been so sick with throat infection I was even able to talk…."

"Did you know how worried I was?" The manager screamed back into the receiver. "Never do this to me again. I actually went to file a report thinking you were kidnapped."

"I am so sorry…." Yuiiko almost laughed at her manager exaggeration.

After managed to convince the manager she will be back to work in another two more days she hang up and walked on until she came across a small flower shop and stopped in front of it looking at the flowers displayed outside the shop thoughtfully.

"Can I help you miss?" A cheerful lady attendant asked coming out from the shop.

"I think I will like to get some of those…." Yuiiko said.

Aio opened his slowly feeling a dull ache in his head. He wondered how long he had gone unconscious though he remembered before he passed out that girl they were chasing after jumped out from now where and knock him out of his senses.

He groaned slightly and tried to get up but fell back on the pillows unsuccessfully. Slowly, he looked around his surrounding and found himself in a public hospital room where they were other patients and to his right he saw Maku lay still and unconscious. He looked like he had his arm broken because it was in a cast.

"Ah you are awake!" A cheerful nurse voice exclaimed.

Aio turned to look at the friendly looking nurse who took his wrists and check his pulse.

"How did I get here?" Aio asked.

"All I heard was there was a strange girl who called the police up telling us that there were people hurt in the alley." They nurse said placing his hand back on the bed gently. "When you arrived you were badly hit on the head it was a lucky thing that someone had tied a torn piece of cloth on your head to stop the bleeding or you would not make it here."

"Torn piece of cloth?"

"Come to think about it…" The nurse looked thoughtful. "It looks like a sleeve of a girl's school uniform."

"Girl's?" Aio frowned slightly confused at what she was telling him.

"Sou, I think I recognize that uniform because I was from that school too." The nurse smiled at him.

A groaned from Maku bed made the nurse rushed to him quickly and worriedly.

"You shouldn't get up." The nurse said gently. "You were in a very bad shape when you reach here…."

"What happened?" Maku asked groggily.

"Well you wounded your head and broke your right arm…." The nurse explained. "Are you both friends?"

Maku turned over to Aio who was staring at him a thoughtful look on his face.

"Yeah I know him." Maku nodded.

"Well, the doctor was glad that your broken arm was held in place before you reach here." The nurse smiled. "You must be very lucky. Whoever that found you bound your broken arm keeping the bones intact."

Maku raised an eyebrow. Who would have safe him in that dark deserted alley way?

"We found this tied to your broken arm. You must be from high school?" The nurse continued on her conversation and passed him a Shohoku High sport shirt.

Maku looked at the shirt doubtfully. That cannot be true. He turned back to Aio with the same thoughtful look on his face. The girl who had almost killed them safe them in the end and why did she safe them when they were the one who had tried to hurt her?

"Well take your rest." The nurse said and walked out.

It was a few minutes later when the nurse gone out the room she entered again with two bouquets of purple lilies in her hands and headed towards their beds with a huge grin on her face.

"I told the girl to come in but I think she is shy." The nurse said. "She told me these are for you. I will put them in the vase for both of you."

"Girl?" Both Maku and Aio exclaimed together.

"Yes I met her by the door."

Maku and Aio turned towards the door swiftly, in time to catch, familiar whiff of long brown hair, flipping passed the door and out of sight. They recognized that hair…

Aio and Maku turned to look at one another. To think, being safe by a girl who had they had hurt before and also the innocent girl that they had regretted terribly now, almost killed five years ago. They knew that girl who stood before them were no longer the girl they met before. How they wished to turn back the time…

"What are you doing here?"

Yuiiko had turned around a building corner and immediately bump into Youhei leaning on the wall waiting for her, his hands crossed around his chest his head slightly bowed. Yuiiko raised an eyebrow.

"When did you become a stalker?" She asked in her usual robotic voice.

"Hanamichi had been very worried about you yesterday." Youhei explained getting off the wall and stood face to face with her. "It's time you should talk to your brother Yuiiko."

"I have somewhere else to go." Yuiiko replied uncaringly.

"Yuiiko!" Youhei frowned pulling her arm when she walked away from him. "Come with me, I have to bring you to see Hanamichi."

"Why don't you come with me?" Yuiiko turned back to him looking slightly daze. "Maybe you should see where I was sent before I came to Shohoku High…."

"Where you were sent?" Youhei's eyes widened letting her arm go. "What do you mean?"

"You will see when you get there…." Yuiiko turned away from him and walked on.

Youhei was very curious at what Yuiiko was trying to tell him, followed her without another word.

TBC

Ok something else in the past, beside her tragic past, Yuiiko could not forgot... and I think it will quite a surprise for everyone! I'll try updating soon.