Chapter 3
Sakuno's POV
It was suddenly very dark. I was falling from a great height. Out of pure instinct, I reached out to grab at something, anything, to break my fall, but all attempt failed. There was nothing. I bit my lip hard and shut my eyes, wondering vaguely where I was.
I wasn't dead, was I?
All of a sudden, I felt dread knot in my stomach. I didn't know where I was, or why I was even falling for that matter. It... sort of scared me for some reason. Maybe I was just paranoid or something. I didn't know.
It was kind of like the time when I got lost in a shopping mall. I was crying for my mother while strangers stared at me, until finally, a nice security guard sent me to the information counter. Only, this was far worse. There were no strangers (or any people) to wonder why the heck I was there, nor were there any nice security guards to help me find my way home. Internally, I was crying for the only person I could think of.
Ryoma.
Ironic much? We were just quarreling about five minutes ago.
I landed hard on the cold ground and lay there for a while, waiting for the pain of the impact to surge through my body, but it never came. Puzzled, I sat up and hugged myself in the freezing darkness. I shivered slightly, until I heard a voice resound through what seemed like endless hallways.
And suddenly- I found myself following the strange voice.
In the hollow darkness of these confines, I was scared and utterly convinced that I was going to die. I drew in a quivering breath, and plunged deeper into the murky darkness that had surrounded me...
Normal POV
"She's gone unconscious again, doctor... "
"Get me some water, hurry."
"Her heart rate's gone down doctor... blood pressure's increasingly high-"
"Tell Stan to hurry with those stabilizers. I think she's falling into an Epilepsy."
"Damnit, where are those stabiliz- OUCH! Shit, get out of here, KID!"
Ryoma was shoved out of the opperating room in an instant. Landing rather ungracefully on his butt in front of a kid and his mother was not his idea of a perfect exit. And that other kid who had burst out laughing due to his (rather unfortunate) inbalance with gravity was not helping much either. He summoned up whatever dignity he had left and walked off to the receptionist, resisting all urges to rub his extremely sore bum.
"Excuse me, Miss-"
"It's Mrs."
"Huh?"
"Mrs. I am married."
"Oh." He scratched his neck. "Um, yeah. Do you know what time the doctors are going to be done with her?"
She stared blankly at him.
"The girl who just went in..." He went on, hands shoved into his pockets.
"Well, you're just gonna have to wait and see, won't you?"
She turned around in her chair and picked up a call then, and Ryoma had no choice but to go back to the chairs he had seen earlier and wait for Sakuno. He sat down on the dusty blue chairs, trying to ignore the kid who was still laughing at him.
Ryoma stared blankly at the wall opposite him. There was a notice board there, full of schedules and a list of patients' names.
He shivered and pulled his thin jacket around him tighter. He didn't like hospitals. The air was too cold, the food was horrible, and the doctors took far too long in the operation rooms.
He grunted in annoyance and stared at the wall opposite him. It was grey.
He suddenly wished he had a tennis racket and a ball. Hitting tennis balls against the wall was certainly a better way to pass time. But of course, it wasn't allowed. Not in that horrible hospital that he was currently in now.
And that stupid receptionist kept glaring at him. If he decided to stand up- she glared. If he went to the vending machine- she glared. If he went to take a look at those stupid paper booklets on cancer- she glared.
He really wished that he had a tennis racket and a ball. Maybe he could wipe that glare off her face with his Twist Serve.
Hn. That'll show her.
A sudden burst through the hospital doors made him jump.
"We need to get this girl some oxygen... She's stopped breathing again."
Ryoma looked up sharply from the chairs that aligned the hospital wall and caught a glimpse of nurses and doctors frantically rushing by, wheeling by a young woman lying limp in a hospital bed. Behind them, a little girl had been following closely. She had dropped to her knees when they'd disappeared around the corner, exhausted and panting heavily.
He stared at her curiously. She was about six, if not younger and seemed to be of Asian parents despite her deep blue eyes and reddish brown curls which reached the base of her neck. He studied her forlorn figure and half wondered where her parents were.
He got his answer shortly after.
"Echizen?"
He twitched at the familiar voice and looked up. Red curls, dark blue eyes... there was no doubt about it.
He had bumped into his former senpai- Eiji.
A/N: Whoo. Relax you guys... I'm not dead yet. Crappy chapter yeah? I know. And also about that random meeting of him and Eiji, it will all be explained in the next chapter (I hope). Yup. And OOCness is very present in this chapter... sorry about that. Just be glad I updated.
Thanks to my darlings (from both chapters): Chiharu-Chan, KaguyaEvenstar, voicelord, undying-melodies, papayalove, angelhaze, Pure Essence, Milady Goddess, zazabeans, grdiang3l, devilish angel 4eva, Kurama-san444 and silvya!
GoogleGirl- In reference to your first review, I used the "no i don't" "yes you do" over and over again because it had a different effect on the reader than if I just described the whole arguement. Yeah? Haha. Thanks for the suggestion!
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