Hinata ran down the hall looking in each room for his friends. "Dammit." he thought to himself. "How far away is this room!?" He ran for a good ten minutes, said sorry a couple times for barging into the wrong rooms, and saw some things he wishes he could forget. Then, he finally got to her room. He saw Yuzuru and Kanade standing there staring at their friend, and Noda was sitting in a chair trying to communicate. Sadly, all Shiina would do was look up at the ceiling and stay quiet.
"Sensei! Sensei, it's me, Noda! C'mon, I know you, Sensei. I know you're stronger than this!" Noda sat in the chair, desperately trying to get through to his friend who was in, what seemed to be, a comatosed state, except her eyes were open. Hinata took a few steps into the room, "Hey, Noda, calm dow-" he was interrupted by Yuzuru, who had just put his hand on Hinata's shoulder and shook his head at him. Hinata understood and let Noda get everything out that he needed to get out. Noda then continued. "Sensei, what about all those times you knocked me down, huh? Didn't I get back up?! You always said no matter what life throws at you, you can get back up as long as you're the strongest person you can be. Well right now I don't see a strong person! So why don't you say something, huh?! Say something and prove me wrong, then get up and kick my ass for doubting you! C'mon! SAY SOMETHING DAMN YOU!" Noda slammed his fists on the bed and it made a loud thundering sound throughout the room. But after the last wave of sound had passed, all that was left was the beeping of the heart rate machine.
Noda looked down and got up out of his chair. He grabbed his bamboo sword and started stomping out towards the door. Yuzuru stood in his path, "Noda... where are you going?" All Noda muttered was "move" as he tried pushing Yuzuru out of the way while still looking at the ground. Yuzuru tried calming him down but Noda was getting more forceful with his pushing, Yuzuru being just as forceful in return until they eventually started trying to shove each other. Yuzuru continued to try to talk him down. "Look, Noda, if you just gave me a chance I could-" Noda then cut him off. "NO! YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE!" Noda looked up and had tears streaming down his face. Everyone just stood there, including Noda. Yuzuru and Hinata were speechless. In all the years they had been friends with Noda they had never seen him shed even a single tear. Not when he broke his arm. Not when his dog died. Never. "You were with her!... Weren't you?!" Noda pushed Yuzuru back. "Why didn't you save her, huh?! You're supposed to be some kind of doctor in training and yet there she lays, motionless and mute! Why didn't you stop her in time?! WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE HER?!"
Yuzuru just stood there with a horrified look on his face. Hinata went over to Noda and put his arm around his shoulder. "Alright buddy, c'mon, you're okay. Let's walk you home..." Hinata guided Noda through the hospital since Noda couldn't see straight through the tears in his eyes. He never expected crying to hurt so much. To be this painful. It's a feeling of helplessness and depression which he never wants to feel again. Images of Shiina smiling during their practices ran through his mind, knowing that he may never be able to see that ever again. As Hinata guided him out the automatic sliding glass doors Noda just whispered to himself, over and over again, "I'll get stronger... I'll get stronger... I'll get stronger."
Yuzuru was still standing there, speechless at what had just happened. But just as Kanade was about to go over and comfort him his cell phone rang. Yuzuru picked it up without even checking who it was, which he never does. He answered in a shocked and horrified monotone voice, as if his soul had departed from his body for the time being. "Hello..." He said. The voice on the other line was one he recognized. "Hello, son? It's me, your father. Me and your mothers plane got delayed. One of the workers needed to do an extra fuel check so we're not going to be departing until later this evening." Yuzuru replied still in the same tone. "Okay..." His father now became worried. "Son, are you feeling okay? Did something bad happen? Is Hatsune alright?" Yuzuru replied with a less than half-hearted, "Yeah. Everything's fine." His father had a bit of doubt in his voice now but gave his son the benefit of the doubt, as good parents should. "Well, alright, if you say so. We both think you're mature enough to handle anything that happens. But just in case you do need us we will be on flight 260 leaving for the U.S. Oh! It seems we're boarding earlier than expected. I love you son, be safe." Yuzuru replied, still in a daze, "Yeah... you too... bye..." Then both he and his father hung up the phone. Kanade walked over to him and, just as Hinata did with Noda, she put her arm around him. It was around the middle of his arms though, since she wasn't tall enough to put it around his shoulder. She then guided him through the halls, escorting him out the front doors to his house so that maybe Hatsune could make him feel better at home.
Hinata took Noda home, as promised, and guided him inside where he was met by no one. There was his father living with him but he knew all too well that he had to of stopped crying before he got inside, or else there would be hell to pay. His father, though, was luckily on the couch passed out with a beer bottle in his hand, watching the latest porno that had come out. Hinata knew he couldn't stay the night without getting mad at Noda's father for being so incompetent so he just walked Noda to his room then left. Hinata started walking home and it was now just around two o' clock. Poor guy… Hinata thought to himself. First he has to go through seeing his sensei's whole being shattered and then he has to come home to a drunken idiot who can't even take care of himself let alone a child… I would actually stay for a short visit if it wasn't for his father… Then he stopped and thought for a moment. Wasn't there something I was supposed to be doing? His head darted up as it finally came back to him. OH CRAP! I was supposed to go back and visit Yui! He did a 180 and bolted back the way he came to go back to the hospital.