Four months later...
In a cold night. Kagami is lying on the bed, near Aomine. He is not sleeping; he did not sleep at all and morning is coming. He has been listening to Aomine's breathing sound the entire night.
He is tired, but he can't fall asleep, his eyes are heavy but it can't shut. His heartbeats are following Aomine's breathing; well, everything in him is following Aomine's breathing.
But, he suddenly doesn't hear it anymore. So, he moves his back in order to touch Aomine's back and make sure that the tanned man is still breathing. When his back touches Aomine, he lightly sighs of relief and listens properly to his breathing sound and his heartbeats again.
He thinks of nothing. His mind is empty. But, he can't still sleep normally like the one near him. He is looking at the wardrobe, not really focused on something in particular, but his eyes stare at it.
He easily notices that Aomine's breathing speeds up, and the tanned man starts moaning before covering himself with the covers. He tries to hide his moaning but it gets stronger and Kagami understands that he is in great pain.
He gets up and turns on the light. He sits near Aomine before removing gently the covers. He looks for the tanned man's face. "Dai… Daiki? What's wrong? Daiki?"
Aomine is unable to speak, he is still moaning and now, grimace of pain.
"Daiki, calm down…"
He caresses Aomine's cheeks, gently and slowly, pained, trying to control his own shudders. He tenderly kisses the tanned man's forehead. "Tell me… where does it hurts, Daiki? Te… tell me!"
Kagami's voice is shaking like his body. He touches Aomine everywhere, hoping he will find something somewhere, and relieve him from this pain.
"Taiga…" Aomine grunts. Kagami focuses on his face and calms down. "Ye… Yes?"
He is afraid of Aomine, afraid to hear him say that something happened again, while he was asleep. "You are the one who should calm down… !"
"Ah, ye… yes, sorry… but… but, please tell me where it hurts…!" Kagami is sorely worried and Aomine feels it. He really hates it when Kagami acts like that, but the red hair has recently been unable to keep control.
"My leg !" He simply says. Kagami quickly leaves the bed to look for his medicine and then takes Aomine's leg. "He… here?"
Aomine winces and nods. He ruffles his hair while moaning. Kagami slowly massages his leg, looking at him. Seeing Aomine in such state has become usual, but Kagami doesn't seem to get used to it.
Only three months, he has been in coma for only three months and he is so break. True enough, with four bullets in one's body, it is difficult to escape unhurt. But, never Kagami would have thought that one day he would see Aomine in such a state.
He caresses the tanned boy's skin, starting to shake again. He can easily remember everything that happened since this day and how he has been suffering on his own, unable to talk about it with Aomine because he doesn't want to act selfish anymore. The other man suffers so much more than him that he can't bring himself to complain.
He steals a glance at Aomine, wondering if it still hurt and he meets Aomine's eyes. It surprised him. It was rare for the tanned man to open them.
Like that he seems to be looking at Kagami; nothing has changed with these beautiful dark blue eyes. His gaze is still the same, causing Kagami to wonder all of sudden if Aomine sees him. He stupidly starts hoping, moving his mouth without sound. He wants to ask Aomine if he can see him.
But before he has the time to do it, Aomine averts his eyes and starts looking blankly at something else.
Kagami is still silent, shocked by his own stupidity. To actually believe that Aomine would, so suddenly, be able to see again, he must be really desperate.
Yeah, he is really desperate. His tears start coming out. His hands on Aomine's legs will not move to reach his cheeks and erase them. He has to fight without them because he doesn't want Aomine to notice that he is crying. But wanting to hide something from this man is meaningless and Kagami should know it now.
"Taiga !"
Kagami jumps and keeps his eyes on Aomine's legs. He doesn't want to look at him, even thought he knows Aomine can't see. "Taiga !" Aomine calls again since he didn't answer the first time. He tries to sound as normal as he can and answers with a very small voice. "Yes?" he doesn't want Aomine to feel his crying in his voice.
But even with all his efforts, it was way too obvious that he is crying. He closes his eyes and stop touching Aomine with his trembling hands. Waiting to be scolded.
"It doesn't hurt anymore… thank you." Aomine stands up, takes his walking stick and leaves.
Kagami stays motionless, silent and surprised by the fact that Aomine didn't complained. He waits some minutes before putting the medicines away. He lies down on the bed and sighs. His tears have now stopped and he wipes his face before its eyes closed themselves.
When he wakes up, the morning has come already. He yawns and rubs his eyes. Aomine has not returned and he is still alone in bed.
He quickly takes a shower and after that, he looks for Aomine but he finds no one.
"Daiki? Daiki, where are you?" he looks again and again but there is no one except him.
Aomine is outside and he doesn't like it. Since the day of the accident Kagami became overprotective, almost like a paranoid.
Thinking that something may happen again, his chest starts hurting and his breathing become difficult.
He suddenly hears his phone's ringing, hesitating but ends up picking it before the call cuts. "Hello? Kagami-kun?" Kagami frowns. "Momoi-san?" The girl laughs a bit. "I am sorry to bother you Kagami-kun, I call to tell you that Aomine is currently with me. Don't worry, ok?"
Kagami doesn't feel relieved at all. He knows that Momoi would take good care of him but he doesn't want Aomine to be out. He doesn't want to be far away from him and not being able to protect him with his own arms. And no one told him anything about it. Aomine didn't say that he was going out with Momoi.
"Ka… Kagami-kun?... I am so sorry, don't be mad at me. Aomine is such a stubborn, I did tell him not to go out but he didn't listen to me, I am sorry Kagami-kun. He only knows how to act on his own. Please don't be mad, ok ?"
Kagami is silent, listening to Satsuki's apologies. He can't be mad at her since everything, like always, is Aomine's fault.
"It… is alright Momoi-san, please take good care of you…" he says very calmly but his tone of voice bothers Satsuki who try to say something again. "Ano, Kagami-ku…" but he hangs up and walks to sit on the sofa. Putting his feet on the couch and his head on his knees, tears not far.
He is wondering why things ended this way, why Aomine had this accident and why things between them got so worse.
"May… May be he is tired of me, already…" he mumbles, all alone on the sofa, wiping his tears again and again. It was such an insecurity that made them argue the day he was shot. Such fear of being tossed away, being hated or being cheated on by the one he loves more than anything in world.
He knew that Aomine was reliable in everything. What he doubts is Aomine's love for him. Even thought the tanned man proved it mostly every day, that he loves him, he didn't get convinced. And now he is missing these moments, because Aomine doesn't say anything anymore.
He is even missing theses days he would come home, nearly drunk and full of female's scent. He missed them, because at these moments, Aomine was really sweet, looking for Kagami's warm and body as if he was going to die without it.
Now, Kagami knows that it was really the good times, that it was happiness. He would have never though that there was something as painful as seeing Aomine dying on a hospital bed.
Ding dong
Kagami jumps, suddenly falling from his thinking. He gets up and wipes his cheeks, wondering if he really heard the bell ringing.
He reaches the door, making his clothes more presentable. He looks in the small hole but he doesn't see anything. "Did I dream it ?" he wonders again, ready to return to his sofa, when the bell rings again and he hears it clearly.
"… who is it ?" he asks, while looking again in the hole but nothing appears and no one answers. He still decides to open it, thinking it might be Kuroko wanting to make a prank or him, just too tall to be seen and too talkative to be heard.
He opens the door with a smile as he thinks of this tall and talkative Kuroko and his eyes stop on a female's body. The two look at each other silently.
She is really small, even smaller than Kuroko could have been in his teenage. Her brown hairs are very long, with a cute bang. Her red eyes stare at Kagami and then, all of a sudden, these eyes start crying.
He opens his mouth, not knowing what is happening and almost fearing that this woman says something weird concerning him. "What… what are yo… ? Waaaaaaa"
Kagami doesn't have the time to ask her something that she jumps on him while crying. "I am sorry, so sorry… please pardon me… I am really sorry…"
He is surprised, wondering all pissed off why everyone have to apologize to him. "Please, calm down…"
He is embarrassed and curious to know who she is. He closes the door with his foot and drags her to the living room.
"Ah, miss…?" he doesn't know how to call her nor how to act. He doesn't want to be rough but in his mind her behaviour begins to really piss him off.
When he finally feels that she is about to calm down, he smiles. "Hey, it is alright o… Oh, gosh, no don't start agai…"
As soon she sees his smiling face, she makes a face as if she is about to cry again and closes his eyes.
Kagami sits right in front of her and stares silently. Questions in his head are numerous but nothing gets said. He looks at her, and at her big belly, hoping he will not hear that Aomine really cheated on him.
"Ka… gami-san?" The red hair jumps. He is surprised to see that she knows his name. "Ye… yes?" she looks at him, shaking her head while wiping his face with a hanky. "I thought that I would be able to handle this… to make it correctly but I messed everything. I am sorry, Kagami-san." Kagami is really embarrassed to accept apologizes he doesn't know what they are for. He scratches his head and sighs lightly.
"Could I know exactly why you are apologizing, miss ?" she frowns, shocked at first. But then she opens wide her mouth and plays with his fingers. "I am… Sa… Satori Hayako."
"So, Hayako-san… why are you apologizing ?"
She looks at him with disbelief. "Kagami-san, doesn't know me?" Kagami shakes his head gently while smiling, uncomfortable with the situation.
She stands up, putting her hands on her chest and crying again. "I thought that, may be you pardoned me...that, may be you forgot about me and then it was only because you doesn't know anything about me…" Kagami's heart starts beating loudly and he doesn't even know why.
"Kagami-san… I am Satori Hayako, the woman Aomine-san saved some months ago !"
Kagami remains calm, looking at her with all his attention while she is shocked not to receive insult or be thrown out of the apartment. He becomes pale and his eyes lower slowly.
Looking at him and seeing such an expression from him, her tone change and becomes hesitant. "I am so sorry, everything is my fault… because of me, Kagami-san… you…I was afraid to come… I am sorry… I should have been here to support you, to apologize and help you… but I was so afraid, even though I… even though I…"
"Hayako-san…" Kagami has his eyes closed and his head down. "You…" she falls on her knee, waiting to receive his anger.
"You are pregnant, Hayako-san…how is the baby inside ?" she has her eyes wide open, troubled. "Kagami-san?"
"I… don't have the right to hate you… it is not your fault."
Kagami talks with a sad tone and a pained expression but he is really sincere. He kneels in front of her and hugs her. He is the one who need to cry yet he is comforting her, cuddling her back. "Hayako-san, you will hurt yourself. Please, stop it now, everything is alright."
Hello, so I exceptionally decide to continue this story since every one want a sequel. It was supposed to be a oneshot but I love you all so much that your will are my pleasure. Actually I wrote it a long time ago and I was really happy to see that some reader wanted a sequel. Thanks you very much for everything :) But I have to do without any beta-reader.