Chapter Three:

At The Hospital

Eiji had gone back home with everyone else.

"Eiji? You shouldn't let it bother you." Oishi said looking at him.

"She had asked me to do two favors for her. The second favor is for me to ask Kikumaru-kun to forget about her."

"I was thinking about how she acted when we parted." Eiji said with a tone of sadness in his voice.

"'How she acted'?" Inui asked.

"With how she was talking and how she kissed me. It felt like she was saying goodbye to me. Not the same 'goodbye' as in 'I'll see you tomorrow.'" Eiji paused then said as he looked at everyone else. "It felt like she was really saying 'goodbye' as if she would never see me again."

"Did you notice anyone watching her?" Oishi asked.

"No," Eiji said as he shook his head. "She was glancing towards an allyway when she started acting this way though."

"An allyway?" Inui asked.

"Yeah. It was that one over there." Eiji said pointing towards a narrow ally.

"Let's go and check it out." Fuji said looking towards the area.

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"Oh God." Eiji said as he saw the blood splattered on the ground.

"Horrible," Kaidoh said as he saw the small puddles of it on the ground.

"I think I see a foot print over there." Inui said.

He went over and knelt down as he took his note pad out. He started writing in the note pad what information he could find off of the foot print.

"I shall work on this tonight." Inui said as he stood up closing his note pad.

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"Kara-chan?" A nurse asked as she came into Kara's room. "Daijoubu?"

"Hai. Daijoubu." Kara said as she wiped her eyes dry.

"What's bothering you?" She asked sitting in the chair next to Kara's bed.

Kara remained silent.

"Are you thinking about the young man, Kikumaru-kun?" She asked then said as she saw Kara's eyes flinch. "I see you are thinking about him. How about I go and bring him to see you?"

"I can't see him." Kara said shaking her head as tears fell from her eyes.

"Why?" The nurse asked looking at Kara with sadness in her eyes.

"Because, I don't want the person who did this to me find out about Eiji-kun." Kara said as she placed her head down on her arms.

"Why? Are you afraid of this person? You are safe here. Noone will harm you here." The nurse said as she placed her hands over Kara's hands.

"Even if I wanted to see him. He probably won't want to see me. I know I had hurt him with the words I had told Kiritama-sensei to tell him."

"Why don't you lay down Kara-chan. You need to rest still. I'll come and check on you later." The nurse said smiling at Kara.

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"Eiji what's wrong?" Oishi said as he saw Eiji's expression.

"I'm going back to the hospital. I'm going to see if I can see her." Eiji said leaving.

"He's definately in love with Kara-chan." Fuji said smiling at everyone else.

"Yeah," Tezuka said as he still held a serious expression on his face.

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Eiji walked into the hospital just as a nurse was coming out of Kara's room.

"Ah, Kikumaru-kun." The nurse said bowing towards him.

"I came to ask once again. If I could visit Kara-chan." Eiji said bowing towards the nurse.

"I was just about to call your school to get your phone number." The nurse said smiling at him. "I was going to call and have you come to visit Kara-chan. She feels really bad about what she had told Kiritama-sensei to tell you earlier. She had knew she hurt you. And she feels really bad about hurting you. She told me she had thought even if she wanted to see you. You wouldn't see her because of her hurting you. Plus she's afraid if the person who hurt her will come after you."

"That's not true." Eiji paused then said looking at the nurse. "I love Kara-chan."

"I can see you do, Kikumaru-kun." The nurse paused then said as she started walking towards Kara's room. "Come on. I'll show you to her room."

Eiji looked towards the nurse as she smiled at him and led the way to Kara's room.

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"Kara-chan? You have a visitor." The nurse said as she walked into her room.

Kara looked towards the doorway and felt tears fall out of her eyes as she saw Eiji.

"Eiji-kun. Gomenasai," Kara said as she bowed to him.

"Kara-chan," Eiji said walking over to her bed and wrapped his arms around her as he hugged her. "Daijobu." He said smiling at her.

"Gomenasia," Kara said as tears were falling out of her eyes.

"Please don't cry." Eiji asked wiping Kara's tears away.

"I can't stop." Kara said back.

The nurse smiled as she stepped outside of the room closing the door.

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"Hello?" Dr. Kiritama said as he picked up his phone.

"Gomen for calling you so late. But I want to call you and tell you what I did." The nurse said over the phone.

"Michiru-san? What do you mean what you did?" Kiritama asked.

"I had allowed Kara-chan a certain visitor just now. Because I felt it was right for her to see him."

"Are you saying you had let Kikumaru-kun see her?"

"Hai," Michiru paused then said over the phone. "I felt like she needed to see him. She was crying over him in her room when I had checked on her earlier. So I had let Kikumaru-kun see her. May I ask if it's alright for him to stay the night over?"

"It's okay with me Michiru-san." Kiritama said. "I myself didn't feel right about saying those words to Kikumaru-kun. I shall see you tomorrow."

"Hai. Sayanara." Michiru said hanging up the phone.

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"Kara-chan? Who did this to you?" Eiji asked as he looked into her eyes.

Kara shook her head. "I can't tell you."

"Why?"

"Don't ask me to tell you Eiji-kun." Kara said as tears fell from her eyes.

"Who has scared you? When we first met. You seemed to be the type of person who didn't scare easily. Tell me who did this to you. Please?" Eiji asked looking into her eyes.

"No," Kara said once again shaking her head. "All I can say is he is a very violent person. Even if my wrist wasn't injured from before. He still would have broken it easliy." Kara looked at Eiji as she said, "he broke my wrist as if he was snapping a twig."

"Then tell me if you know what school he went to?" Eiji asked.

"My old school before I transfered to Seigaku." Kara paused saying, "Fumoshime Middle School."

"I'll be right back. I'm going to call Inui." Eiji said getting up to leave.

"Eiji-kun. You could probably use this phone." Kara said motioning to the phone next to her.

"Let's see." Eiji said picking up the receiver. He heard a dial tone indicating the phone could also be used for making outside phone calls. He had dialed Inui's cell phone number.

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Fuji and everyone else was taking a break at Kawamura's resturant.

"Hello?" Inui said as he picked up his cell phone. "Kara-chan gave you the school's name that the attacker went to. Fumoshime Middle School. It's Kara-chan's old school before she came to our school?"

"Yeah," Eiji said over the phone.

"This information should help us out alot. Tell Kara-chan arigatou and get well soon from all of us." Inui said before hanging up the phone.

"What did Eiji say?" Oishi asked Inui.

"Kara-chan still wouldn't give him the name of her attacker. But she told him the school's name that he went to."

"Which is?" Tezuka asked.

"Fumoshime Middle School. It was the school she had gone to before coming to our school."

"I see. So she knew the person who attacked her and threatened us." Fuji said with a serious expression on his face.

"So it would seem." Inui said.

"I can't wait to meet the bastard." Kaidoh paused saying as he made a tight fist. "Then we can show him the pain he had caused Kara-chan a thousand fold."

"For once I agree with you Viper," Momoshiro said grinning at him.

Ryoma had gotten up and started walking out of the sushi shop.

"Echizen? Where are you going?" Tezuka asked.

"To go and practice." Ryoma paused then said looking back at everyone. "I need to let some of my anger out."

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