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Chapter 2… 2nd Day…
"Hyuuga, Hyuuga, wake up you idiot!"
Aida Riko's voice could be heard from the front zipper of the tent. She is shouting inside the gymnasium making her loud voice sounded even louder. After a few minutes, the team members had started to gather at the centre of the hall right before their coach. Kuroko and Kagami had distinctly hard night based on Kagami's beady eyes and Kuroko's bed hair.
"Couldn't sleep last night Kagami"
Koganei looked at him pitifully; Mitobe on the other hand as silent as ever although his expression clearly showed that he is worried.
"This is your entire fault Kuroko, couldn't you control your sleeping posture for a bit"
Kagami complained, pouting at Kuroko whom busy playing with Nigou#. Seems like he didn't pay any attention at all in his words. Well that is all Kagami's fault in the first place. Last night he had been urging Kuroko to go out for a game that Kuroko is so irritated with his behavior.
"Guys, assemble"
The coach instructed them to gather around. Aida Riko looked at them intensely.
"Today, we're going to have an icy practice"
She smiled evilly at them. Well it is certainly not a good omen for them.
"Wait!"
Suddenly Koganei shouted to the peak of his voice chord. He seems troubled by something; the rest of the team looked at him anxiously.
"Where's Hyuuga"
That is when they realized that the captain is not with them, the team went into panic mode at once. Half of them are shouting for his name, while the other half run all over the gymnasium, too panic to be calm.
"Could all of you shut up!?"
The voice of Hyuuga suddenly could be heard from the gymnasium. Slowly the zipper of the tent is opened, Hyuuga emerged from the thing. He is wearing a sweatshirt with hood that covered most of his face.
"Hyuuga, you're late!"
The coach shouted at him, angered at his tardiness.
"Sorry, overslept"
Unlike always, Hyuuga only spoke a few words regarding this matter. It is not like it would make any profit by arguing with someone whom you couldn't won to.
The morning practice had begun in a rarely unexpected way, barefoot iced – run. All the members hard a hard time, since it is awfully cold, their feet feels like it will be froze to their thighs. Koganei and the rest of the first years except for Kagami and Kuroko are having a snowball fight despite receiving a deathly glared from their coach.
Suddenly, Izuki looked paled, his face turned white. Right in front his eyes Hyuuga's body is falling on its own.
"Hyuuga"
The rest of the team was so shocked; Hyuuga's already landed on the snowy pavement, looking lifeless. Kiyoshi whom standing at the end of the sideways quickly make a run for it. The others also make their way to the captain.
Aida Riko is stunned by the incident; quickly she put the back of her hand on Hyuuga's forehead.
"He had a high fever, Kiyoshi, carry him inside at once and Kagami-kun and Kuroko-kun I need both of you to run to the convenient shop and picked up some meds and minerals, Izuki run to the health room and pick up the first aid kit, the rest of you trained based on your menus for today, we're gonna do a half-day today"
After giving very long instructions and explanations, the team dispersed and Riko makes her way to the back room of the gymnasium, obviously Kiyoshi had carried Hyuuga there because that is the only room with a bed that had been designed for sick students whom can't stand a long time assembly.
"Kiyoshi, I'm coming in"
Riko opened the door seeing Kiyoshi busy looking for a spare blanket. Not long after that, Izuki arrived with the first aid kit.
"39.7°c, it's pretty high"
Riko put the thermometer down. She looked worried, why; because this is the first time he had seen Hyuuga's sick and collapsed like that. Izuki whom joined them before had gone to practice with the rest of the team.
"Kiyoshi, are you worried"
Riko asked him as she seen him looked unquestionably restless. Kiyoshi frowned at the question.
"You like him don't you"
A pink tinge appeared on his cheeks.
"So, Kiyoshi-senpai is in for Hyuuga-senpai"
Aida Riko screamed at the top of her voice. A teal-haired boy appeared so suddenly from behind, a rather fixated look appears after the arrival of the ghostly kid. Kuroko Tetsuya and Kagami Taiga had arrived at the door. Kuroko looked as usual but Kagami, he looked like an atomic bomb had landed right on him.
"Here's the meds and all the things you asked for coach"
Calmly Kuroko put the things on the table. After doing so he exited the room taking Kagami with him whom still couldn't recover from the shock.
"Ah, I need to monitored the practice, Kiyoshi could you keep an eye on Hyuuga"
She winked at him and leaves the room silently. Kiyoshi looked at his friend; his figure seems so fragile and weak, quite different from neither Hyuuga that he knows nor Hyuuga when he's in the clutch mode.
"Umph…"
Hyuuga opened his eyes, blinded by the light of the fluorescent lamp Kiyoshi figure looked somehow wavy.
"Ki… …"
He tried to sit up but unable to support himself and fall right into Kiyoshi's embrace.
"S...Sorry"
His voice seems a bit hoarsed.
"It's okay, after all you wake up just at the right time, it's time for your tonsil meds, but before that you need to eat something first"
Kiyoshi rummaging the plastic bags on the table. He took out some unsweetened pudding, a bottle of minerals water and the tonsil meds. He took out a plastic spoon and started to feed Hyuuga. At first Hyuuga refuses to be feed by him but after a while it seems that Hyuuga is tired from all the small argument and agreed to be feed. Slowly Hyuuga eats the pudding, he coughed a few times, maybe because his throat still torturing him. After a few minutes Hyuuga stopped and told him that he couldn't continue eating anymore. Kiyoshi took the pills and had Hyuuga swallowed it and gave him some water to help the meds go through.
"You're like a mother you know"
Hyuuga commentated on Kiyoshi after he tucks him into the bed.
"Just rest, Hyuuga"
After a while the meds finally shown it effects as Hyuuga fall into deep sleep. Kiyoshi put his hands, cupped on Hyuuga's cheeks and gave him a light kiss.
"How I wish you know how much I had fallen for you, Jun"
He mumbled to himself, not knowing there's another person hearing his very thought right now….