Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ Shattered Glass ❯ Cry for help ( Chapter 4 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Hello everyone! This is my 4th chapter! I would like to say a huge thank you to LegolasLover and GubblebumPony and KakashisDolphin, for their support and advice! THANKYOU!! I had a huge grin on my face for the whole day `cause I got reviewed! Yes sad I know, but hey! Anyway, on with the story, hope I don't ruin it!

Chapter 4 - Cry for help.

Rei and the team had been at the hospital now for two hours, and still there was no news of Kai's condition, Rei was looking at the clock every five seconds, but to him each second was like an hour.

`God how much longer are they going to be?' Rei said in desperation.

`As long as they need to get Kai into a stable condition.' Kenny replied, `But what if he…' Rei stopped there, he didn't want to finish the sentence, The others could see the tears in their friend's eyes that were threatening to over-flow, and knew exactly what he was thinking.

`Don't think like that Rei, Kai's a fighter, he'll pull through.' Tyson said with tears of his own arising.

`BUT THAT'S JUST IT!' Rei yelled as the tears won the battle and fell down the young boy's round cheek, `HE DOESN'T WANT TO PULL THROUGH!' The team looked at Rei in shock yet understanding from his outburst. `If he had his way he'd be …'

All of a sudden Rei felt his world shut down.

He couldn't take this anymore, he'd tried to be strong, but his defenses had been worn too thin to keep it up, he backed against the wall and slid down it, he hid his head in his knees and let his emotion take over.

`Oh Kai! Why? Why have you done this to us? Why have you done this to yourself? I never got to say how much I…' he choked through sobs. The others looked at each other with uncertainty, they didn't know how to react, they all knew how Rei felt about their stoic captain, but only just realized exactly how much he meant to them as well.

They all felt their own tears escape their eyes.

Max went forward and crouched next to Rei and embraced him, he tried to calm his friend down by whispering soothing words into his ear, but Rei only cried harder. Max looked at Tyson and Kenny for assistance; they saw the blonde boy's eyes were now also red from tears and stood forward to try and comfort one another, before long, they all were in tears.

They heard the door open, and a young doctor walked through, he looked down at the group of distraught teens and knew who they had come to see, `Are you here for Kai Hiwatari?' he asked gently, they all looked up, and Rei almost jumped onto his feet `Yes is alright? Can we see him? I have to see him! Please let me see him.' He said almost too fast to understand.

The doctor put his hands on Rei's shoulders and shook him delicately `Calm down lad, take a deep breathe, in, out, in-` he was cut off by Rei, screaming at the top of his voice, `I DON'T NEED TO CALM DOWN I NEED TO SEE KAI!' the team jumped and stared with wide eyes at their friend's behavior, for a moment the doctor had a scared expression on his face, but soon put on his professional façade.

`Sir, if you would just calm down, you could come into my office and I can explain your friend's situation to you.' He gestured his hand towards a room behind them.

Rei felt ashamed for yelling, more tears welled up in his eyes, `I'm sorry…I just…' Tyson rubbed his arm soothingly `We know dude, we know…' Rei took a deep breath and nodded at the doctor, who opened the door to his office and gestured for them to come in.

They all sat down as the doctor sat at his desk and looked through what they guessed to be Kai's files, they heard the doctor finally speak.

`Well, the tests have shown that Kai overdosed on pain-killers, tests indicate he took at least 25 pills…' he nodded towards Rei, `it's a good thing you found him when you did, any later and he wouldn't have been so lucky.'

Rei looked up to see his team smiling at him proudly, he looked back to the doctor, `…so he's going to be alright?'

The doctor started again `well, we are pretty sure he will recover with little or no permanent damage, except for maybe some scarring.' The others looked up with confusion, `Scarring? From what?' Tyson asked, Rei shut his eyes; flashbacks of Kai's mutilated body came flooding back to him, the metallic smell of the crimson liquid that poured from his skin. `Well, another difficulty we had with stabilizing Kai was the amount of blood he lost, from what seems obvious to be from self-inflicted harm on his wrists and abdomen.' They all looked at the doctor in pure horror, Kai? Their Kai? Self harm?

Before they had a chance to say anything the doctor continued `well, as I was saying, there may be some short-term physical damage, but we are certain he will recover, however, we are concerned about his mental state, we don't believe that a case like this can just recover, infact in some cases similar to this, we've had people try again. What we need to do is find out what the reason is, but, we will have to do that when he wakes up.'

Rei finally got to ask what he'd been waiting to ask since they'd got to the hospital, `Can we see him?' the doctor nodded `yes, I'll take you too him.' They followed him out.

They heard the doctor counting too himself as they walked down the blinding white corridor `101…102…103…here we are room 104…I'll be back in about half an hour to check his status, but you can all stay till then.'

They nodded and Rei walked in first, and there he was…Kai…he looked dead.

So pale, so thin, he was no longer wearing his cold, emotionless mask, his facial expression looked pained, frail and tired, if the heart monitor hadn't beeped every few seconds, he would have been certain he was a corpse. He went closer and sat at the bedside.

As the top half of Kai's body was exposed, they could all see Kai's cry for help slashed all over his body, it pained them so much to see their friend like this.

The silence was broken by a sob, which came from Rei, the others shared his pain, Max enveloped him into an embrace, `he'll be fine…' he whispered again and again until Rei and himself believed it.

The doctor returned half an hour later as promised, `I'm sorry, you're going to have to leave now.' He said gently, Rei looked at him in protest, `I'm not leaving him like this…' the doctor looked at him with sympathy, `the best I can offer is that one of you can stay with him overnight.'

They all knew who would be staying, so Tyson, Max and Kenny got up to leave, `you going to be ok here dude?' Tyson asked, Rei nodded, and watched them all leave, just before the doctor left the room, Rei stopped him, `thank you so much doc, I owe you more than words can say…' the doctor smiled `Just doing my job kid, and for the record, you can call me Doctor Myres.'

He turned and left, closing the door behind him.

Rei felt alone again, until he looked down at Kai again, he felt a sudden rush of happiness flow through him, he smiled softly and stroked Kai's hair, `You're going to be alright…the doctor said so, and we're going to help you get through this Kai, because we're your friends, we love you…I love you…I was just to much of a coward to admit it and I nearly lost you without letting you know.'

He continued to watch Kai until he let sleep take over him.

That's it! Sorry it's long, I got kinda carried away! Didn't ruin it did I?

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