F*ck! F*CK! Sorry, sorry... I had an argument with my Maths teacher... I asked another Maths teacher to explain me some lessons and exercises at Maths and she got mad at me. She said that in her catalogue is written my name, not that teacher's name. Now I'll probably get a C at my thesis... She's just waiting a chance to make my life a hell. She knows that Maths is my weakness. F*ck! But I don't think you care about this... Anyway... I guess this chapter isn't recommended to pregnant women and old people... but I think I'm just hyper. Title inspired from Nicolae Labis's poem 'The death of the deer'.

Chapter 26: Drip-drop, sizzling on stone

"Let down the knife!" Hikaru yelled to the assassin, who immediately obeyed. "Take my jacket!" she ordered while threatening the man with her pistol, with the other hand trying to stop her bleeding. The assassin had nothing to do but obey. He walked to her, even if he was also hurt, and took off her jacket. "Now tear it into pieces..."

It took a time for the man to answer to Hikaru's orders, until she repeated: "Do what I said or I shoot you!"

After he finished tearing it into three big pieces, Hikaru told him: "Now... Just... bind my wound. Firmly. And if you try anything, then I'll immediately shoot you."

Meanwhile, at the hospital

Madoka desperately tried to call Hikaru, but she still got 'No answer'. She was worried about her. Where could she be? And more than that, Kyoya wasn't alright. He told the doctors that his heart is aching. And he seemed to have fever, so... Madoka wanted to tell Hikaru to come there quickly. [Me: I know... Telepathy sucks.]

"Fast!" Hikaru yelled to the man, who opened the door of the beautiful pale blue, but very dirty Hyundai Avante MD and sat down on the chair, at the steering wheel. Hikaru sneered and entered the car, too, sitting down on the chair next to the man. She put her gun at his temple, ready to shoot him. "Now drive." she whispered. The man took the car keys, and, huffing, he introduced them in the hole for keys.

Soon, the car started its way through the town. It slowly reached 20 km/h.

"Drive faster!" she yelled. "This is the last day of my life! I don't wanna waste my precious time with you!"

"My arm is hurt. I can't drive!" he reproved angrily, making her growl to him.

"Kiss my ass! Like I care! Don't forget, I have the power here! Shut up and obey!"

But then, a thought pierced her brain. She remembered the call with Madoka and, just then, she started to weep, making such an annoying noise. She cannot let her Kyoyo being stolen by Madoka after she dies.

"Oh, in the name of God, shut up!" the man protested, still looking where he was driving. Hikaru couldn't stop weeping, but glared to him and yelled, bringing the pistol closer to his temple:

"Continue driving, mother f*cker!"

The man swallowed his anger and his curses and continued driving.

How I was saying, she cannot let the pretty girl with deer eyes steal her Kyoyo. But then... she thought again.

Hikaru let out a desperate scream and yelled: "Go away! Go away!" She pulled the man away so she could get the control of the car. The car lost its control, slipping on the highway.

"It's not enough to just see him!" she yearned, crying even more. "I changed my mind! I wanna live!"

She took the steering wheel and rotated it how she could, making the car jump and flip and back flip and slip again and again. The man was in a so big shock that he didn't even realize that Hikaru lost her pistol somewhere in the car. "You stupid bitch! What are you doing?"

Hikaru pushed the man to the opposite door of the car so much that he had to open the door and get out even if the car was still in function. Hikaru closed the door and then she pressed the accelerator pedal until speedometer reached 50 km/h, 70 km/h, 80 km/h, 90 km/h, 120 km/h, and 150 km/h until it reached the speed of 200 km/h. Hikaru tried her best to drive the car. It was kinda okay, until she saw the road curving to left. The car jumped and bounced on the ground a little when she drove there.

Afterwards, she saw a crossroad and a zebra crossing, the semaphore with the color red. She didn't care. She went through the zebra. Luckily, she didn't crash into any car and didn't hit any person.

"I don't wanna leave! I can't die now! Just wait a minute! I did my best, but I don't wanna die now!" she blubbered while repeatedly horning without any reason. Well, she was desperate, so if you consider this a reason, then yes. And her clothes and skin were painted with coagulated blood while she had a piece of her jacket around her neck that was bind that tightly that almost stopped the bleeding but also almost strangled her and could make the wound and blood get infected, resulting an ugly septicemia that could lead to sepsis and.. Yes, death, so... That sucks while you are driving with 200 km/h and you are soaking wet. And that sucks even more if you are sixteen. And I'm not talking about the fact that the bleeding really exhausted her. I mean, REALLY.

But... worry not, my friends... life is beautiful, isn't it?

...

NO!

Hikaru's heart was aching that bad that she wanted to snatch it from her chest by herself. She watched the raindrops falling on the windshield. The rain was violent... That drizzle turned into a rain with cats and dogs.

"I hate this! I wish my..." She paused. "...feelings could be shaken, but still... They don't!"

Then she just... got even angrier because of something. "And if this junk would be faster, then it'll be perfect!"

She gave it one more try when a crazy idea pierced her mind. She almost pressed the accelerator pedal again in order to reach the maximum speed written on the speedometer: 240 km/h, when...

Don't!, that voice whispered.

Hikaru frowned in confusion, but when she looked straight forwards, she saw the road curving to the right, so she rotated the steer wheel to the right how she could, the car slipping and bouncing on the road.

But... what saw next really surprised her; she didn't even think she could arrive at the hospital, which was about 30 yards away. She immediately pressed the brake pedal and kept her foot there until the car stopped. She quickly got out of the car and ran to the ER's large entrance.

When she entered and saw the large ER room, she squealed loudly, so everyone could hear her:

"I drove with 200km/h while my carotid was bleeding and I was soaking wet and a half unconscious! And the adrenaline is rushing through my veins that I don't even feel my legs and I have my jacket around my neck, filled with blood but I feel like I'm newborn! I don't need anything more from life! I don't even need that jerk Kyoya!"

The doctors at the ER ran towards her. "Miss, you're bleeding!",

But she fainted and had been caught by a doctor when she fell down. The doctor analyzed her. "She's hypovolemic, page OR 2 that we're coming. Tell them to have much blood. The bleeding stopped, but it can start again at any moment. I'll close up the wound until this'll happen. Now move!" he ordered.

"Kyoya, something bad happened to Hikaru!" Yuu cried while entering Kyoya's room. Kyoya made a puzzled face.

"W-What?" he mumbled confusedly with the power he still had. He wasn't feeling alright because of the fever. He suddenly felt a twinge in his heart, but didn't let that to be seen, so Yuu sputtered:

"She was bleeding at her neck and she fainted and now the doctors brought her to the OR! And they said something about burning her wound..."

Kyoya just raised an eyebrow at the poor Yuu who was panting heavily.

"It's called cauterization, in the name of God, Yuu..." another bored voice corrected. ...Madoka. She entered the room, but seemed like she didn't really hear or care what Yuu said.

"Wait, wait, wait..." Kyoya interrupted, "YOU MEAN MY HIKARU IS... SLICED AND EVEN BURNT BY SOME STUPID DOCTORS RIGHT NOW AND SHE'S..."

But his voice faded away when his pulse suddenly weakened and his heart rate increased, resulting, yes, VT again; this time, he was conscious while that. The EKG started to scream again.

"Go find a doctor!" Madoka ordered to Yuu, who immediately ran out of the room to search for a doctor. But something still pissed-off her even if she was worried for Kyoya. That he called Hikaru 'his' Hikaru.

"What's her blood type, people?" the senior resident asked, but he got no answer. "Really? No one of you know her blood type? Wake up, people! I have a child here, dying. She's a child and no one knows her blood type?"

Awkward silence between residents and interns. A young, about twenty-five years old boy entered the room running. "O negative!" he squealed.

"How do you know?" the resident asked skeptically.

"I asked her friends and they said that she had some blood tests last month and her type is O negative." he explained.

"Good. You can scrub in. What's your name?"

"Daisuke. Daisuke Tategami." he answered.

"Okay, people, I need some units of blood, and I need them now before she has a stroke and dies here!"

See you next time... But, luckily, I don't have Maths tomorrow and weekend is coming! Yayyy! Hey... Love and hugs. Everyone should have them.