Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ New Life ❯ When You Can't Save Yourself ( Chapter 7 )

Warnings: No more yet. At least I don't think. I'll probably add stuff when I finish typing this chapter, which is gonna be hard because my cat is lying on my lap and keeping my right arm from moving too much. But he's so adorable! He sucks his thumb! I'm just glad I know keyboard shortcuts! If anyone wants a pic of my cat sucking his thumb, I'll gladly send it. And now that the chapter is typed, there's a confusion warning, but that's kinda the whole point of the story for a while.

New Life

Chapter 7: When You Can't Save Yourself

Yamato's eyes fluttered open and he heard a soft snoring near his ear. He sat up quickly, but regretted it when he felt pain surge through his stomach. He fell back onto the pillow and turned his head instead of trying to get up again. Instantly his eyes met with a pair of tired, brown eyes.

"Hey sleepyhead. I've been sitting here for hours waiting for you to wake up. I guess you lost a lot of blood."

"How long have I been out for?"

"Oh, just a little more than a day now. I woke up probably eight or nine hours ago and came over here when the doctors left."

"Aw, thanks. But I've been out for more than a day?"

"Yeah. I heard the doctors talking and they said TK didn't exactly get here in time. I thought you were dead!"

"What do you mean? I'm alive right now!"

"Well, then they said they brought you back and instantly gave you a blood transfusion. You're really lucky. At least that's what they said. If they knew I wasn't in bed right now . . . they'd probably kill me!"

"Of course they'd kill you! You're worse off than I am, and you're the one out of bed! They said he hit your heart! I couldn't live with myself if you died because I let Shizuma get you!"

"I'm fine now-just calm down, okay? You're the one that lost so much blood. You almost died too."

"Okay, just shut up before we get into a huge argument about nothing. How are you doing?"

"I'm fine. I can't even feel where I got stabbed."

"Lucky. Oh, where's TK?"

"I don't know. Probably at school. It's only ten o'clock. Thursday. This all happened on Tuesday, in case you don't remember, and since you've been sleeping for a little more than a day-"

"Okay! Shut up! God, you drive me nuts when you do that!"

"Do what?"

"Go into `math mode'. It bugs the living hell out of me. You only do it because I had to help you with math last year."

"Well I gotta do something to say thanks."

"By driving me nuts? I don't think so. That's not gratitude, that just typical you. So do you know when we get out of here?"

"Yeah."

"So?"

"Why would I say? You insulted me."

"I did not! I said you drive me nuts!"

"That's an insult if I ever heard one."

"Taichi!" Taichi couldn't help but snicker at the whininess of his friend's voice.

"Oh, alright. I heard the doctors say we could probably get out this afternoon if we woke up, and we were really nice to them."

"Cool. You got twenty bucks?" (a/n: I don't feel like using yen in this fic, but it'd be about 2000. About.)

"Plan on bribing them?"

"Duh! I don't wanna be stuck in this hell-hole any longer than you do!"

"What if I said I like hospitals?"

"I'd say you're a shitty liar."

"You know me too well. Do you know where there might be some string in this place?"

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It was Monday morning yet again. Taichi, being his usual self, told the police who had stabbed Yamato and himself. The blonde had gotten quite mad at him for doing that, but calmed down again when he saw Takeru the next day.

At lunch Yamato didn't feel much like eating, since he still had immense pain in his stomach. Instead he walked down to the bathroom, but was startled by what he heard. In the handicap stall he could hear a struggle between two people. It was barely audible, but he could hear the aggressor telling the other to be quiet. He recognized the voice, very well in fact, and it was Shizuma.

Although he knew he would regret doing it, Yamato kicked the door of the stall open and screamed when he saw Shizuma holding a knife to a blonde's throat-the blonde being his brother, Takeru.

"Let him go Shizuma! How did you get him here anyway?"

"I'm not gonna let go of him. I'm gonna kill him, letting you watch as he dies painfully." Yamato could see the fear in his brother's sparkling blue eyes. "As for how I got him here: I kidnapped him when he was walking to school this morning and we've been waiting here for you to come in and try to save the day."

"Bastard!" Yamato thought for a moment and was about to make a deal with Shizuma when Taichi came running in. He had obviously heard Yamato scream and he knew his best friend's scream really well. The brunette gasped at what he saw. "Tai, get out of here." When the brunette didn't move at all, he started to get angry and pushed Taichi towards the exit. "Now!"

"No! You're gonna need help whether you want it or not!"

"Just leave already! He'll kill Takeru if you don't!" Yamato turned his attention back to Shizuma and Takeru. "I'll make you a deal Shizuma. If you let TK go then I'll let you put that knife to my throat and kill me if you want."

"Okay, but you've gotta come over here, `cause I'm not letting him go until you're within reach."

"Fine." Yamato slowly walked forward, afraid of what was going to happen, although he's never admit it, but he was amazed that Tai wasn't trying to stop him.

Suddenly Tai dropped to the floor, grabbing his head and screaming in pain. In the few second that Yamato turned to look at his friend, Shizuma slit Takeru's throat and shoved the blonde onto his brother, causing them both to fall to the floor. He quickly ran out the door of the bathroom, leaving Yamato with two people in pain.

Blood began to stain Yamato's light green shirt as Takeru lay on top of him. After a few minutes of screaming from Tai, the brunette passed out from the throbbing pain in his skull.

Tears slid down the blonde's pale face and he cried out in frustration. He had two people to save right then and there, but how was he supposed to save them when he couldn't even take care of himself anymore?

TBC

Okay you can review now! And reviews inspire me! I'll put up the next chapter even if I don't get any reviews, but they make me get ideas. And I can't wait until I stop being sick! It'll be really nice. I might get the next chapter up this weekend, but I highly doubt it. And sorry I didn't get the chapter up earlier this weekend! I was busy reading fic, and because I was I didn't do my homework, and so I did that before I wrote this chapter. I've still got other stuff to do, so don't kill me if I don't get up another chapter this weekend. Once it gets to be Christmas break I'll have more time to write!