AN: Hey! I know that this probably isn't good, but can you guys tell me if this is good or not? Thanks!
Hospital?
Shiki groaned as the sunlight glared at her. She blinked slowly and rubbed her eyes to get the blurriness out. She pushed her blankets away and got up. She walked across her room and opened her door to go downstairs to the kitchen. When she arrived, Niou was already there.
"What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to go there together."
Shiki blinked and nodded. "Oh. There. Wait, I just have to shower and change."
"'Kay." said Niou. He was staring at her, worried. He knew that today would be stressful to her.
~x~
The two were standing in front of the Kanagawa Hospital. Niou looked at Shiki and asked, "You ready?"
Shiki was silent for a few seconds before sighing, "As ready as I'll ever be."
Shiki and Niou entered the hospital and walked up to the small desk in front, a lady sitting behind it.
"I have an appointment with Dr. Kan?"
The lady looked up and smiled gently. "What is your name?"
"Kobayashi Shiki."
The lady typed away on her computer, and it looked like she found something because she smiled triumphantly and said, "He is ready for you. Please go to room 3B."
As told, the couple walked to the room and waited inside for a few minutes before the doctor came in. Dr. Kan was a handsome man with soft brown eyes and messy black hair.
"Shiki-san. Ready for your check-up?"
"Hai."
Dr. Kan hit a stick on her left knee and she flinched. He noticed at made note of it before tapping it again. He continued on with the tests before thirty minutes passed and she was free to go. Before Niou and she left though, Dr. Kan told them, "Well, the good news is that it didn't get any worse."
"What's the bad news?"
"..It hasn't gotten better either."
Shiki silently nodded before she bowed to Dr. Kan, thanking him. After that, she grabbed Niou's hand and dragged him outside. Niou glanced at her, worriedly before asking, "You alright?"
"Yeah, it's the same as last year. And the year before that. And the year before that. And the-"
"I got it! I was there. I know."
The two walked silently, holding hands. It was like that for a few minutes before Shiki spoke up.
"Do you think I'll ever walk the same way I used to? Run the same way I used to?"
Niou sighed before replying, "I don't know. But don't give up. Kobayashi's don't give up."
"Yeah."
Shiki was silent as she remembered what happened.
Shiki was laughing in the cafe as she talked to Niou. School had ended so they had went to hang out before going home. They were laughing at a joke when suddenly they heard a screeching sound.
Someone yelled, "Look out!"
But it was too late. Shiki had managed to push Niou out of the way, but she was hit head on. Niou ran to the car and tried to push it because it was on her, but it was no use. He heard ambulances coming and he prayed that she would be okay.
~x~
Shiki groaned as she woke up to a beeping noise. She looked around and saw white. She knew she was in the hospital. She felt a movement, and she looked down to see Niou sleeping sitting, with his head on her bed. She smiled before reaching down to gently shake him awake. He jumped before looking at her, surprised.
"Your awake! Nurse! Doctor! She's awake!"
Niou called the staff, and they all came running inside with her mother. They did the normal check-ups, x-rays, etc.
The doctor came in with a grim smile on his face. Shiki and her mother both saw it and became nervous. Her mother spoke first, "Tell us the good news first."
He swallowed and replied, "Okay. Well, the good news is that the leg will heal and she will walk and run soon."
Shiki hesitantly asked, "And the bad news?"
He smiled sadly before replying, "The bad news is that even if the leg will heal, it won't heal fully. You will walk and run again, but it won't be the same. Also, if you put too much pressure, like dance, it will permanently be ruined. No way to heal it. I'm sorry."
Shiki barely heard anything he said. All she heard was that her leg wouldn't heal fully. "You mean I won't be able to dance again! Dancing is my life!"
The doctor said that he was sorry, and if there was anything he could do, he would. Her mom thanked him and he left quietly.
"Mom! I need to dance. It's my life!"
Her mom looked at her softly. "I know. I know."
"It's the only thing that I actually like. And the only thing that I'm better at."
Her mom smiled sadly. "I know. I'm sorry. Go to sleep, I think you've had enough stress for a day."
Shiki was about to argue, but she saw that her mother was sad so she just kept quiet and let her mom tuck her in. When she left though, Shiki just stared at the ceiling thinking, 'I won't be able to dance again. What am I supposed to do? Tennis? Yeah right. I'd never do tennis. Not in a million years.'
But a few years later, that thought was proved wrong as Shiki had become a regular on the Rikkaidai girl's tennis team. That was where she also met Mina. Also the only she told about her leg. She knew that if she couldn't have dance, then she would at least defeat Saori in the one of the many things Saori was great at. Tennis. So she trained like crazy, and soon she became the vice-captain of the team-turning down the captainship.
Shiki snapped out of her thoughts when she saw that she had arrived at her house. "Thanks, Haru. For coming with me."
Niou smiled before kissing her on her cheek. "No worries. Bye."
"Bye."
Shiki went up to her room and lied down on her bed, thinking. She knew that no matter what happened, she would beat Saori. She also knew that no matter what happened, she would dance one more time. It didn't matter if it would be that one time that would ruin her leg, but she just needed to dance one more time. One more time and she would be okay with her leg being unusable.
AN: Sorry for the long delay. Please review!~