Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ How we came to be ❯ This is for the best ( Chapter 11 )

Chapter 11

 

Instead of hitting the doctor, like Ray had feared, Kai grabbed a fistful of the older mans collar and pulled him within an inch of his face.

“How could you let this happen to her? How?”

Everyone could clearly see that the doctor was slightly unnerved by the Russians actions. But his voice remained professionally calm.

“Complications are what happened. If you would release me, than we can calmly talk about it.”

But Kai just tightened his grip, anger very obvious in his eyes.

“And give you the chance to run? I don't think so.”

“Very well” the doctor agreed. It's not like he had any other choice. He knew Kai long enough that he wasn't going to let go unless he was satisfied. “We had hooked her on some machines to check up on her. Apparently it was a good thing we did, because at 02.00 an alarm went off from her room. She had a cardiac arrest. Apparently a blood clog had formed in her head. If our night shift personnel had reacted a little later we would've lost her.”

 

Kai started to shake a little from shock.

“You said she was in good hands, you said she was strong, that she was going to be alright!”

“No one could have foreseen this happening; all we could do was take our precautions.”

This was too much for Kai. He let go of the doctor and slid to the floor in defeat. She had nearly died. Two people had that line running through their mind. Ray put his hands on Kai's shoulders. He knew to some extent how Kai must feel right now, but then again, he hadn't been that close with her. What Kai must be feeling now was probably a thousand times worse.

Kai's heart was simply shattered. Seeing the two in such a depressed state the doctor tried to cheer them up.

 

“The good news is that she stabilized fast, and if she remains stable by tomorrow, she can leave ICU.”

Kai and Ray looked up at the doctor. The latter seemed somewhat relieved, but the first still had a sadness etched on his face.

“What is the chance that she'll wake up?”

“Very high. Plus I have a good feeling about it.”

“Why should we still believe you? You have been wrong once.”

“Mister Kai, as I said before, complications happen unforeseen. Trust me when I say that she shall wake up.”

Kai seemed to regain some of his composure after that and went back to sit besides Faith. No matter what anyone would say to him after that, he just stopped listening. They were all liars, and all that mattered to him now was Faith and her well being.

 

While Ray went out for lunch Kai did nothing but sit there and watch the girl. Only when visiting hours were over he left his seat. But even home he seemed to be in a zombie condition to some extent. Ray informed the rest of the team of Faith's condition and thought back to the article.

“Do you want me to call the news instead?”

“Nah its ok, I'll do it.”

With that said Kai took the phone and dialled the number of the offending newspaper. It took a while before he finally got the editor on the phone.

“Well, hello there mister Hiwatari, I heard you wanted to give a comment on the article we posted? May I inform you that you need one of our reporters for that and not me?”

“No I'm here to file a complaint. Firstly you broke the laws of privacy, namely that no reporter is to come within 10 kilometres of our house without permission. Secondly your story has not one fact of truth and therefore it is complete bull. And thirdly, Faith and I are NOT in a relationship, NOT pregnant. She is however lying in the hospital with a severe illness. So I would prefer it if the reporter in question would keep his fairytales to himself. Therefore I demand that his whole story would be dismantled in the next copy of your newspaper or you got yourself a lawsuit on your hands.”

 

And with that he threw the telephone down and went to bed, leaving a lot of questioning stares behind him. He hardly slept during the night because of his nightmares and fears haunting him. The next morning he found Ray sitting at the breakfast table. It was obvious the Asian hadn't slept much either. There was a small pile of mail lying on the place Kai normally sat.

“What are those?”

“Fan mail, what does it look like?”

Kai started reading them because he knew there was no way around it anyhow. Half of them were from girls crying over the fact that he was taken and why he hadn't chosen them or guys calling him names because he had knocked up the girl that THEY were going to marry, and the other half were from people that were rooting for them to become an item and congratulate them blablabla…

“What a waste of perfectly good paper.” Kai couldn't help but commenting on the large part of what were completely idiotic messages. Ray snorted as though he was agreeing.

 

He saw that Ray had also gotten a smile pile today. He was curious, so he decided to leave the paper for what it was… at least for now.

“So, what do yours say?”

“nothing much, just that I shouldn't have given up Faith so easily…” He quickly flipped through the rest of the papers “… the rest are just fan girls/boys asking me to marry them. Ya know the usual.”

He gave Kai a weak grin. They were definitely not going to hear the end of this yet. Afterwards Kai turned his attention to the newspaper; it was way too early for them to go visit Faith anyway. He was pleased to see the headline on the front page

 

###Article###

 

Testimony from Kai Hiwatari! Faith Caels Terminal???

 

Apparently the reporter that wrote the previous article had given us wrong information. Kai Hiwatari phoned our editor yesterday with the truth. The reason that Kai was holding Faith was because she was weak and could not walk properly herself. Apparently the girl has gotten seriously ill and needed to be taken to the hospital for immediate care. This newspaper would like to sincerely apologise to the parties in question for the offending lies we printed yesterday. We hope that Faith will get well soon.

 

###Article###

 

“Well at least that's cleared up.”

As he was about to take his cup of coffee he noticed that his hands were shaking a little. But he dismissed it as a result from lack of sleep. A couple of cups of java would fix that easily. After about three he saw Ray picking up his car keys.

“Where are you going?”

“To the hospital, where else?”

“But visiting hours haven't begun yet.”

“I know, but while I was eating lunch I asked the doctor if we could come in earlier and he agreed after a while of prodding. So visiting hours have started, for us at least.”

Kai nodded and followed Ray to the car. To their relief Faith had stayed stable the entire night and she was moved back to a normal room, although she still had a machine checking her heart rate. The bad news was that she hadn't woken up yet, and the odds were lessening every day.

The minute they entered the room Kai returned to being in his zombie like state. And that's how it went for the rest of the week. Ray was getting really worried about Kai. He hardly ate, hardly slept and seemed to get more depressed every day. But the slate-haired never let anything out.

The only times he talked was when the doctor asked him questions concerning his rehabilitation. But even that seemed to be absent minded. The boy had also started to shake very obviously. One morning when he had woken up and was ready to take Kai and him back to the hospital he found a note on the table.

The writing was definitely Kai's so Ray picked up the note and read the message.

 

Ray

 

I know you will treat her right. Take good care of her for me.

This is for the best

 

Kai

 

Ray dropped the note and rushed towards Kai's room panicked.

 

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Attempt at cliffy…don't think it works though

 

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