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The Reason I Love You

Chapter Five

The hospital hallway was quiet. The Sohmas held nothing but apprehensive expressions on their faces. Some even pacing back and forth the hallway, some sat quietly in their seats and some even bore red eyes. They were just outside the operating chamber, waiting. Half an hour...one hour...two hours... They waited and waited. It was nearly five o'clock in the morning. Some of the younger Sohmas had already gone home, but most of them are still waiting faithfully at the hospital. Another hour gone and the surgery still hadn't yet to finish.

"What took them so long?" asked Arisa. Her expression was in between anxiety and tiresome. She was leaning on Kureno's shoulder, who was dosing. Hanajima sat beside Kagura who look as if she had just puke all the way to the hospital. Yuki, Shigure and Hatori were pacing back and forth and back again.

"It's a complicated operation. Usually head surgeries took at least seven hours, and the percentage of it to be successful is very slim," Hatori said gloomily and quietly. He glanced at Tohru, whose eyes still shed tears and looked as if she had lost all her will to live; to Kazuma, whose eyes were closed, frowning, featuring all his hard years of training on his facial appearance. He currently looked so old in Hatori's opinion.

Yuki stopped pacing and stared at the doors which lead to the operating room. He's paling every time he thought of what's happening inside. They were told that Kyo suffered severe head injury and broken bones. It seems that he had been sent flying off his motorbike while he's riding that particular night and hit his head on something hard and piercing, judging by the cracked hole on his helmet. There were witnesses who saw everything, and they were the ones that took Kyo to the hospital nearby. Yuki still remembered the earlier conversations they had...

"It was a dark coloured car," said one of the guys. Yuki remembered his name was Yoshimura. "We couldn't see clearly the car's number, but it was dark, possibly blue or black, and it was a sedan." Yoshimura informed them earlier that night.

"Yeah," said Takahashi, another guy who brought Kyo. "I think it was a Mazda or something. But it was really fast, the car I mean. And it didn't even horn or anything, you know. It just...went all the way... and he hit that guy on the bike."

"Have you report this to the police yet?" Shigure asked the young boys.

"Yeah, we did. But they told us that they need to talk to the family of the victim..." Takahashi gazed at the Sohmas. "You. So we told them the guy who rode the bike was a Sohma."

"How did you know that?" Yuki stared at them.

Takahashi exchange glances with his friends. "We know you guys since high school, especially you and the guy on the bike, since you were our ex-president and that he's your cousin."

"Yup," chirped Yoshimura. "We were your juniors in high school."

"You were?" Yuki said perplexed. At these times he suddenly glad for being famous at school. He smiled gratefully. "Thank you so much for informing us. We're really grateful for your help."

"Nah, it's nothing," Yoshimura waved his hand. "But the cops told us that this is considered a hit-and-run case. They told us that they're going to investigate this and inform you guys later."

"Did they say anything else?" asked Hatori.

They nodded. "They said that they needed your number. The problem is we don't know your number until a few hours ago. We might as well tell them sometime this morning."

"I'm sure they already have our numbers, the hospital must have contacted the police somehow. Anyway, we'll come with you. We need to get some more information about this," Shigure said seriously.

"Yeah, sure," Takahashi said. He then quiet down. "Say, I heard that that guy's going to get married. Is that true?" Yuki and the rest nodded.

"Yes," said Yuki. "He was going to be married in three days..." he paused looking at his watch, "...two days in fact." He paused again, looking extremely devastated. "I guess it wouldn't happen though."

"That's really painful..." said Yoshimura. They nodded grim. "The doctor told us he might have severe concussion because...well, even we can tell that he hit his head hard enough for his helmet to crack like that."

Hatori nodded firmly. "Yes, if I guess right, which I hope not, he might have some brain damage, which can lead to paralysation or some organ dysfunction...or possibly memory loss," he said thoughtfully before turning his head towards Tohru's direction. He heaved a heavy sigh.

Yuki and the others stared at him for a while, lost in their own thoughts. When the boys left Yuki and his fellow cousins walked silently back towards the silent crowd.

***

It was almost eight thirty in the morning when the surgery finally ended. Kyo was then submitted into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) and everybody was forbidden to visit him during this time. But they did get a glimpse of him as the doctors and nurses brought him all the way to the ICU room. He was by far, horrible looking. Tohru cried harder as soon as she saw him almost wrapped up like a mummy. He had wires here and there and his head, right leg and hand and eye, torso and neck were all wrapped with bandages. He had large bumps, blue and black bruises on his face and red scratches all over his left hand and on the uncovered portion of his body.

His right eye, according to his doctor, Dr. Satoshi, has a large gash on, and the eyeball was irritated by the blood dripping in into the socket. Dr. Satoshi is currently speaking with Hatori and Kazuma, informing Kyo's current condition while the others waited and watch into the ICU room where Kyo's just submitted into through the glass wall.

Tohru cried silently as she watched her love life lying on the bed, motionless. Nobody dared say anything to her, not even comforting words. She just cried, letting her tears roll down her cheeks, lips trembling. All that was coming out quietly from her mouth was Kyo's name, over and over. She stared tearfully at him, until she couldn't see him anymore...

***

Kazuma, Hatori, Shigure and Yuki all went to the police station, along with the young boys who brought Kyo to the hospital. After several questions, and a few more information from the boys, the police ensured them that they'll further investigate about Kyo's case. After thanking the boys and the police, the Sohmas went back to the main house, where almost everyone currently assembled.

They all arrived at the Sohma main house after twenty minutes of driving. None of them uttered a word about Kyo's accident. They all felt sorry for Kazuma, who stared into space outside the car. And they were worried about Tohru and felt just as bad for her as well. Just as they got back from their journey, they went straight into the main hall where everybody was waiting for them.

Once they were all seated, Yuki glanced around the room. Everybody was busy asking questions about the current situation and the police and stuff. While the other three tried to answer every oncoming question, Yuki was busying himself searching Tohru's presence which was currently absent. Noticing Yuki's behaviour, Hanajima told him that Tohru had decided to stay back at Kazuma's house and had locked herself in her room all day. She told him that Tohru had been crying ever since they got back from hospital and refused to talk to anyone. Apparently Arisa, Kisa, Hiro and Momiji are staying with her at Kazuma's place.

"She's heartbroken," Saki told Yuki. "Her emotions are all jumbled up, it's best if we leave her alone for the time being."

"But, will she be okay?" Yuki stared at her almost hopeful. Saki merely stared back at him before answering.

"I do not know. Probably she will... Probably she won't..." she whispered. Now she had every eye on her. "It's up to her will. If she's strong then she'll survive, if not... let's just hope for the best for her."

"But she's going to be okay, I mean, Kyo—"

"Tohru loves him too much that she couldn't live without him...we all know that," Saki looked at Yuki as she spoke. "While Kyo still lay unconscious Tohru will have a particularly hard time over. The only person who can help her now is the one who needed her help to survive death. Our help is acutely needed. This time, it's all up to them both."

Kazuma's eyes drooped as he bowed his head before standing up and excuses himself to head back home, with Hanajima followed quietly behind him. The others sat quiet. A long pause was then broke by Kagura's loud sniff. Shigure, who was right beside her, patted her on her back. His eyes were shining with tears threatened to fall. Akito sat silence at his other side, tears rolling down her cheeks.

"How...How about the w-wedding?" asked Kagura sobbing. "Poor Tohru-kun...p-poor K-Kyo-kun..."

"Wedding? Of course there'll be no wedding, not after all this!" Rin suddenly snapped. Her eyes shed tears. "How can this happen when they both was about to reach their happy ending together. This isn't fair!"

"Come now Rin, calm down," Shigure exclaimed. "We can never tell what was going to happen in the future it was all fate. It's not the time to whine. We all have a job to do from now on and that is to help those two get back onto their feet, however minor our help is needed."

"Fate? Humph... I think I have to argue that," Haru said suddenly.

"Haru...Why is that?" Yuki turned to him.

"I somehow have the strangest feeling that this was all set up." Every gaze turned to face him. "Like this was all planned...desperately planned."

"How do you know that?" Akito almost glared at him.

"Well, I dunno." He simply said. "Maybe because from what I heard they told us just now, I think this does worth investigating."

"You mean..." Yuki stared at him. Haru smirked. "Remember what you guys told us, about what those boys told you and the cops, about how the car hit Kyo and all that?" Yuki and the rest nodded, "Well I think there's some scheme going on here."

"You mean the car really meant to hit Kyo?" asked Kureno, speaking for the first time that day.

"I meant the driver wanted to hit Kyo...but almost missed him," Haru looked around him casually. "Think, that boy told you that he and his friends saw the accident happened right? And they told you that the car hit Kyo and ran off somewhere unknown. That is the first main point, a hit and run case."

"Yes, that's what the cops did say." Yuki stared at him. Haru nodded his head.

"But then it's only normal, normal to irresponsible people that is, that when a person who hit someone ought to make a ran for it for fear of getting caught, or fear of maybe...you now blood or something. Sometimes it happens," Ritsu said looking all around him fearful looking, "I know I'd be scared to death just at the sight of it."

"And then you'd busy yourself apologizing," nodded Shigure. Just as Ritsu started to blabbed his apologizing words Shigure poked his finger on one side of Ritsu's waist.

"Yup, that's half true. But then if one normal person who had never hit anyone in his life ever hit a guy and sent him flying, it's obvious that he'll be, as you so rightly say Ritsu, scared to death. I doubt he ever move out of fright, which clearly shows that he will not leave his spot once he hit the guy on the bike aka Kyo," explained Haru. "Psychologically, that usually happens for someone whose mind is yet to be tainted by painful incidents."

"Psychologically..." Hatori repeated under his breath, nodding his head. "Psychologically too, that if a person who was scared to death might ran off in an instant."

"Not as instant as immediate," Yuki stared at Haru. Haru smirked again and Yuki turned to Hatori, "remember what that Takahashi kid told us? The car that hit Kyo just ran to him and went off just as soon as it hit him. And he told us that that car didn't even horn. I mean any normal person who was driving would have horn if they saw a bike blocking their way when they're in a hurry, right? So that the latter would move away from them and they can go wherever they want? What if, like Haru said, this was all planned? It was all a set up?"

"What?" said Shigure and Akito. "You mean the driver really meant to hit Kyo?"

"That's what I just said didn't I?" Haru said leisurely. "Yes, I believe this was the reason that concerns the police into investigating. This wasn't just a set up. This was a murder attempt."

ps: sorry if it wasn't that good...i'm still learning...anyway, about that psychological thing, i have a cousin who had hit an old senile guy with her car (accidentally! the guy suddenly jump onto the road infront of her car...) the old man died on the spot! and she had stopped driving ever since... i guess i wrote this by her experience... well, anyway, thank you for reading and plsssssssss review! thank you! -roger and out!-