Ultra Violet Black

Old Fiat

Chapter 6- Running Ahead

Shusuke did not think the leek would happen so soon.

Kunimitsu had to face it at school from every single girl that read a movie star magazine. Ryoma got the news second hand from Nanako and Kaido got it second hand from his mother. He kept being told the same thing:

"If you need someone to keep you company when you're lonely, there's always me…"

At least that's what he got from the girls. The guys just tried to avoid him. The tennis team was worse. It was like having someone consistently whispering about you behind your back. They'd all gotten it second hand too, except some guys… (Weirdoes.)

Kunimitsu wondered if Echizen had experienced this too. It was very creepy. He also had to experience the constant sympathy. That was more annoying than the whispers because he couldn't get mad at those who offered him sympathy.

Kaido arrived at evening practice two hours late and handed a note to Tezuka.

"I offer my sympathy," he bowed and held out a small package as well. "I hope you will accept this as a sign of my condolences."

Kunimitsu's eyes widened slightly behind his glasses as he read the note. "I understand. Get warming-up."

Coach Ryuzaki took the note. Her eyes went very wide. "Oh my… Kaido, I'm very sorry."

"Please don't," said Kaido, holding up one hand as if to say, 'stop.'

"All right, go on."

Eiji skipped over to Tezuka. "Finished my laps! Whaddya want me to do now?"

"Five more laps for… bad grammar and spelling," Kunimitsu felt upside down.

Everyone knew. Every single person at his school knew and it was… strange. It had never happened to him before. Usually people couldn't see what was going on inside his head and he liked it that way. But suddenly everyone knew what had happened…

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Kaoru looked at the smallish scar right below his rib cage. He couldn't believe this had happened to him. Wasn't this kind of thing supposed to only happen in the kinds of soap operas his mom watched? It still hurt a bit. Oh what the hell, it hurt a lot. It felt like tiny little needles were suck into his ribs and poking his lungs every time he inhaled. He had only found out that weekend after practice…

Flash back:

"See you bochou," Kaido Kaoru was walking home from school, minding his own business when—

"Hey kid," there was a man standing in front of him. He reminded Kaoru a lot of a mixture between a sun flower and an ape, tall but strong. "You look quite well off. How about handing over your wallet for… heh… charity."

"Actually, I'm not as well off as you might thi—UGH!" He landed a punch on Kaido's stomach, making him double up. He then wrenched him up by the collar.

"I said, hand it over."

"Please let- go-egh," he got another punch, this time in the ribs. There was a cracking noise.

The guy fished his wallet out of Kaido's backpack. "Thanks kid." He ran off.

Kaoru felt like something was pouring into his throat and lungs. He closed his eyes. Can't breathe… wet… lungs… hurt…

He was eventually found by Inui after he was done doing some extra practice with Tezuka and he took him to the hospital.

He then found out when they x-rayed his lungs. It was so scary, lying in a hospital bed and listening to a doctor explain it to his mother. Yes, he was awake and in supreme pain. He felt his stomach clench (painfully) when the doctor explained to his mother.

"He's broken one of his ribs and it has punctured his left lung. But here's the thing that confuses us…

"We looked at the x-ray and see right here? You know what that is? It's from a previous puncture; it's probably from five-to-ten years ago. We think- he's had blood caught in his lungs for that long. We have to get it all out as fast as we can."

"Do all you can do," said Kaoru's mother. Her voice seemed tight. "Please save my baby."

He had woken up this evening and crawled out the window and ran off to practice, quickly forging a note from his mother which claimed it happened two months ago.

End Flash back:

Kaido nervously looked at the scar. Would it be there forever? Maybe he shouldn't have taken the bandages off his ribs. They like crazy now.

"Kaido," said Oishi coming over to him. "You shouldn't have gone to practice. You're injured and I think it would be best if you stayed in the hospital a bit longer."

"Really?" said Kaido. "Thank you for letting me off Oishi-sempai. I have to get back now." He headed out of the club house.

"Don't strain yourself!" Oishi called.

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"The blood in his lungs was what caused him to make that hissing noise. It was a wetter exhaling because of all of the fluids in there."

The doctor was talking to Kaido's mom as he crawled in though the window. He quickly put back on his PJs and lay down on the hospital bed. He was in pain from running with a broken rib. He hoped it would heal quickly.

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Fuji watched everyone very carefully at practice.

Momo was totally off in his game. He was pale and looked like he hadn't slept the previous night.

Oishi was tenser than ever. It was obvious why. He was probably worrying about everyone on the team.

Ryoma just seemed strange too. Shusuke knew it was really hard on him. His mother was pregnant as well as being in mourning.

Taka seemed concerned with Eiji who seemed very angry and tired. He looked like he hadn't been sleeping and his red hair wasn't flipping in its normal way.

Pretty everyone seemed to have something on their minds.

It was one depressed practice.

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------One week later------

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Eiji stared out his window. He glanced at the clock on his nightstand.

2:34 AM

In four hours the alarm on his clock would go off, he would turn it off, put on his school uniform and leave the house. Ignoring all around him. He had given up the thought of sleeping ages ago. That was cruel of Momo, so damn cruel he hadn't been sleeping for weeks because of it. He hadn't been acting the same to everyone he hadn't… been the same.

He had found out when his sister came home and announced that she had a new job. Everyone was happy because she had been working very hard to try and get into the best university she could get into even if it meant staying with her parents a bit longer. They didn't know then, and he doubt it would've mattered if they had.

She had been walking home from her new job when they came.

It was a gang. This gang had been attacking and mugging a lot of different people— it had only six members. Nobody could arrest them because— despite the fact that you might be able to recognize one of them at least— they hid evidence so fast if the police went to catch one of them there would be nothing to prove it. They had planned it almost impossibly-perfectly.

They attacked her, stole her wallet and her necklace and ran, but she recognized one of them. Eiji had stiffened as she described him.

"He had spiky black hair that was kind of curly too, violet eyes and really muscular."

Only one person could come to mind with this description.

Momoshiro Takeshi.

Eiji had to keep resisting the temptation to kill Momo at practice for doing that to his sister. It hurt. He had helped Momo on so many occasions, like the time Momo couldn't get a date for the St. Whites Day Dance and he was going to loose his bet with Kaido and Eiji got his cousin in seventh grade to go out with him. This was really mean of him. So damn mean…

(Another OFnFR note: Ahhh! Eiji's a murderer and kaido's going to die! Don't kill him… only I can kill him… bwhahahhaaahhahahahaha!... oh yeh, don't kill kaido… just make momo mug him or something…. Yeh. Pain!)

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Momo was upset, but for not the same reasons as Eiji. He knew he'd stolen from people for no reason (except maybe to relieve stress), he didn't care. He didn't know it was Eiji's sister. He just couldn't believe his father…

Momo's dad had had four wives in his life time. Momo's mother (his first wife) he had loved deeply but she had run off to America when he was little.

Momo's little brother, Ryusuke's mother had been a Chinese model who he had ditched three years after.

Ami's (his little sister) mom only stayed with them a year, then he had devoiced her.

Then there had been that Ukrainian pop singer. She had only lasted six months.

So, in short, Momo's dad had the traditional movie star life. He had a big house, about a billion wives and a few kids for the press to say, 'awww' at. Of course, he would be off shooting a movie somewhere, too busy to talk to his brand new wife and Hollywood baby.

But now he was with some one new.

He couldn't remember her name but just the thought… it hurt. Why couldn't his dad stay with one woman? He just wanted all this to stop. The world was moving too fast and running ahead of him. It was like watching life move on fast forward.

It made it seem… lonely.

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Hello! Um, okay, that was chapter six and I need your help!

First off!

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-1- I need to figure out how to make some of the other people in the story… more of characters with out something bad happening to them

-2- I need help with Eiji. I don't know how he is going to talk to Momo about this and I totally need HELP!

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By the way, the reason for the Simple Plan reference. That song fits so well with Ryoma and I was listening to it at the time so…

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-Old Fiat s. Italy