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Chapter 29 – Kids III

"You're going to go on a date with my brother?!" Rhyme asked with a huge smile on her youthful face. She was dressed in the elementary school uniform, considering she was in fourth grade. Sora and Beat had picked her up after school and went into the town. She and Sora were sitting in front of the ice cream shop waiting for Beat to come out with their ice creams.

"Yeah!" Sora smiled.

"He talks about you all the time," She informed him. "I can see why! Maybe Beat isn't that good in school but he sure can pick em'!"

Sora began to giggle. "She's so cute."

"Rhyme," Beat blushed, holding their ice creams in his hands. "Don't embarrass me, yo!"

"Sorry," Rhyme laughed, retrieving her ice cream cone from her brother. "I can't help it!"

"It's okay Beat," Sora said as he was handed his ice cream. "It's cute!" He commented, making Beat's turn about the color of a tomato by now. He quickly turned the other way, trying to hide it.

"I'm going to go to the pet store," Rhyme stood up from her plastic chair, beginning to head off across the street. "You two have fun!" She giggled, unaware that she was cross the street while the signal was still on 'do not walk'.

"Rhyme!" Sora yelled, Beat's voice echoing his in shock. The brunette stepped forward about to run and get her, but he was held back by Beat's extended arm. He quickly went after her instead, lunging at her to get away from the skidding car.

"No!" Sora shut his eyes before he heard the impact and the screams from the bystanders. He opened his eyes, blinking away the fuzziness. His pupils dilated when the image came clear.

"Rhyme…," He saw her limp body lying beneath the car, men and the driver of the car trying to get her harmlessly out of the accident. He heard screams for 'help!' and 'call the ambulance!'. "Where's…?" He looked father to his right. "Beat!"

"Beat!" He ran over to him, moving through some of the men and women who were crowding him. It seemed the car had a greater impact on him, considering he had rolled about six feet away from it. His body was limp as well. "Beat…" Sora's eyes began to fill with tears as he put his hand on the others cheek.

"Could he be…?" He jumped in surprise when he felt Beat grab him by his wrist, hearing a gasp from the crowd.

"Help…her." He said with what was left of the voice he had.

"There are men trying to get her," He heard the ambulance alarms begin to come into the scenery. "I'm too small, I'd get in the way." Beat began to cough, blood coming up from his mouth.

"I'm glad…I didn't let you run out for her." He tried to smile. Beat began to blink his eyes in and out of focus.

"Don't close your eyes." The tears began to fall heavy from Sora's cheeks now, falling onto Beat's bloody school uniform.

"Move out of the way!" He heard the paramedics yell, parting their way through the crowd and to the other side of Beat. There was a stretcher for him, which they put him on after checking his pulse and pupils with a flash light.

Sora looked back and saw the Rhyme had gotten removed from under the vehicle and was also placed on a stretcher in a different ambulance. He reached out and touched one of the paramedic's shoulders, his eyes staring wildly into the others. "Let me come with you," said Sora. "I know him and his sister."

"Okay!" The man nodded, letting Sora enter the back of the vehicle. He watched as they began to hook Beat up to a machine and place an oxygen mask over his nose and mouth. Inside the ambulance they began to ask the brunette questions such as Beat's name, "D-Daisukenojo Bito", his age, "thirteen", date of birth and so on.

"Any information on the girl?"

"Yeah," Sora looked down at his hands. "Raimu Bito, she's nine." The man didn't say anything afterwards and just began attending to Beat.

"His heart's still beating," Sora tried to relax as he eyed the heart rate monitor. His fists closed tightly. "I hope Rhyme is doing okay."

He felt the ambulance stop at the back entrance of the emergency room in the hospital, the door being pushed open by the men inside. They quickly got out, other men who were waiting outside for them getting Beat's stretcher down as fast as they could. He saw the second ambulance pull up almost half a minute later, and watched Rhyme get pulled out on her stretcher.

"Is she okay?" She asked one of the medics.

"We can't say for sure," She answered. "Hey, get this kid out of out here!"

Sora felt someone grab his arm. He turned to see a male medic. "Sorry kid, but you're going to have to stay in the waiting room."

Sora was lead to the waiting area of the hospital, seeing many people who were waiting to be given a room and be checked by the doctors. "We'll come and get you when the times all right." The medic left him to sit.

Beat opened his eyes, slowly trying to focus on what was happening. "My chest…it's in so much pain."

"Her heart," He heard a man yell and feet beginning to rush around. "It's stopped! Get the defibrillator, now!" He urged.

"Rhyme." Beat said in a low raspy tone, painfully stretching out his arm towards her. He heard the shocks as they pulsed into her chest. The medics were yelling frantically, repeating the same process over and over. "Rhyme."

"It's no use." He heard one of the doctors give up.

"Rhyme!" He began to cry, unsure if the pain in his chest was from the impact or losing his sister. "Rhyme…please!"

"Get him into a different room!" The doctor ordered to the nurses. They quickly put up the bars on his stretcher and began to wheel him out of the room.

"No," Beat cried with the voice he had left. "I can't lose her! I can't -"

"It's too late." The nurse told him, her tone unsympathetic.

Sora sat in the lobby for what seemed like hours. He had watched the available television and even napped, seeing new people come in and old ones leave. The brunette closed his eyes, about to try and sleep again.

"Excuse me," Someone tapped it shoulder. It was the same man as before that brought him there. "Daisukenojo is ready to see you."

Sora wiped his dreary eyes.

"He's on floor three, room 319 C," He was told. "The elevators are down that way."

Sora nodded. "Thank you." He said as he came to a standing and made his way over to elevator which brought him up to the third floor.

"Beat." Sora stood outside the room, eventually opening the door to see Beat laying back on the incline of the bed. His left arm was in a cast and being held by a sling, the right arm simply in a cast. He could see some road burn marks peeking out through the gauze and bandages on Beats face.

Sora smiled, tears beginning to run down his cheeks when Beat looked over to him. "You're okay!" He said happily, rushing over to his bed side. Beat put his right hand in Sora's, holding tightly and then loosening.

"She's dead," He informed the brunette. "They couldn't save her. I couldn't save her."

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