Ronin Warriors Fan Fiction ❯ Nightmares and Sickness ❯ Hospital ( Chapter 9 )

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Nightmares and Sickness

Chapter Nine

Hospital

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"Man, he really scarred me when he started struggling so much. I was afraid I was going to drop him." A shocked Shuu said.

"That's for sure. I'm just glad he didn't hurt himself." Touma said relieved.

"What was all that about anyway?" Ryo queried.

"He must have thought Tomo had him still." Shin said while glaring at Tomo even though Tomo couldn't see it for he was still unconscious.

"That Yaro! Even after we rescue Seiji he still torments him!" Ryo said angrily.

"We need to continue. The sooner Seiji gets to the hospital the better."

No one could argue with that.

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About half an hour later they came to a clearing. Farther down you could see their big house. It was Natsuti's house but they had moved in soon after they had gotten rid of Arago.

There were trees all around with only one road leading to the main street. There were bushes and flowers all along the sides of the road. There were two cars in the garage. That's where they were going.

'Finally.' They all thought in relief and headed towards the door.

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They had all gotten into the house and were anxious to get in the car to get Seiji to the hospital. What they didn't realize was that Tomo was now conscious and deciding his next move.

"Where are the keys?!" Shin questioned desperately.

"I thought you had them last." Shuu stated.

"Why does this have to happen now?" Touma asked rhetorically.

Shuu laid Seiji down on the couch in the living room while he looked for the keys in there.

They all split up and searched.

Ryo had just left Tomo on the floor in the kitchen when they had entered the house, not noticing he was awake.

Tomo smirked. 'Now's my chance to finish Seiji off. They're all looking for the keys so won't notice.' He thought while looking for something himself.

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He first noticed the pain once again; then he noticed that he was no longer moving but laying on something soft. He suddenly felt as though something bad was about to happen; then he felt a presence by him. He quickly opened his eyes. He half expected it to be Touma but knew it wasn't going to be because the presence felt evil.

His eyes widened. He saw Tomo standing above him with a knife. Tomo brought the knife down but Seiji rolled off of the couch luckily avoiding the knife but when he fell an intense wave of pain came over him. The pain wasn't the only bad thing, when he rolled over the only way to go was towards Tomo so he fell against his legs. Seiji didn't notice this through the pain though. Thankfully when Seiji fell it caused Tomo to lose his balance and he fell.

Seiji was fighting against unconsciousness knowing if he lost he would surely die.

'Where's Touma?' Seiji thought desparingly. "Touma." He tried to scream but it was very weak and not loud. He started coughing again.

Tomo quickly got up and started towards Seiji again.

He laughed when Seiji let out a weak cry for Touma.

"You'll never get to see him again. How about a less fatal stab for more torture. I know how much you enjoyed it." He chuckled.

Tomo stabbed him on the top of his shoulder.

Seiji could no longer cry out so he just grimanced in pain and whimpered.

"Well, enough fun. I've let you live long enough. Now you will die." He brought the knife down aiming for Seiji's heart.

The blonde closed his eyes once more expecting the blow to come quick.

It never came. Instead he felt a heavy body on him.

He slowly opened his eyes; then widened them. It was Tomo on him with a golden arrow through his chest.

He looked up and saw Touma standing with his bow notched, ready to fire again, just in case. The archer was panting heavily and looked as though he were about to fall but he took off his armor and against the pain of his leg he ran to Seiji.

"I'm so sorry, Seiji! I should have known something like this was going to happen!" He said blaming himself. "You got hurt again too!"

Touma reached Seij and pulled Tomo off of him.

He quickly tried to stop the bleeding with pressure, after that he tore a part of his shirt again.

"I'm not going to have a shirt left after this." Touma said trying to lighten the mood.

It worked for the most part and he got a smile from Seiji, it was weak but still a smile.

Seiji started coughing again and he unconsciously brought his hand up to his head. 'Could this headache get any worse?' He thought.

"Genki desu ka." Touma asked concerned.

"Hai, genki desu." Seiji obviously lied but tried to hide his pain behind his long perfected mask.

It didn't work though because Touma knew how to see past his mask.

"Seiji, I'm so sorry all this happend to you." Touma said truly sorry.

"It's not your fault, Touma and don't convince yourself otherwise." He said sternly. He knew that Touma was thinking that it was his fault he got hurt.

"But--"

"Just don't." He didn't have the strength to urgue so said it in a tone that told Touma that was the end of their decussion.

The swordsman closed his eyes and put his head back down on the floor.

"Hey Seiji." Touma said quietly to get his attention making sure not to hurt him again.

Seiji opened his eyes and looked at Touma questioningly.

"Do you know where the keys are? We can't find them."

Seiji thought for a while then replied, "They're in my coat pocket."

"Of course they are. The one place we probably wouldn't've looked." He said mentally slapping himself. He remembered Seiji driving the car just before the snow storm started. "I'll be right back."

Seiji just closed his eyes. He could no longer keep them open.

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The others had heard the noise coming from the living room, where Seiji was, but just thought it was one of the others looking for the keys. None of them were being quiet about it in their haste to get Seiji to the hospital.

They were each very tired of looking for the keys when....

"Oi, you guys I have the keys!" Touma shouted from the living room. Shuu had left long ago thinking they weren't there. "Come on! We need to get Seiji to the hospital!"

'Oh no.' The blue-haired archer thought. He looked at Tomo. 'The antidote... how do we get it now?'

"Shit!" He muttered under his breath. Touma looked at Seiji, he had his eyes closed and it looked as though he was asleep.

Touma leaned down and forward to see if Seiji's temperature had gone down any. It hadn't. In fact it had gone up more.

The blonde slightly opened his eyes; he closed them again when he saw nothing was happening.

Touma saw the exausted and pained look on Seiji's face.

"Hayaku!" He shouted. He regretted he had shouted it when he saw Seiji wince.

"Gomen, Seiji." He said softly.

Finally he saw the others enter the room.

'Where were they? This house isn't that big.' He thought impatiently.

When they entered they all starred wide-eyed. They saw Tomo on the floor with an arrow through his chest and a knife near him. They looked over and saw Seiji also laying on the floor by the couch with his arms over his face; Touma slightly leaning over him.

"What happened?" Ryo finally asked for everyone.

"First, Shuu pick Seiji up and bring him to the car. I will explain as we walk. Seiji's fever has risen and we need to hurry." He thought for a minute and then continued. "Oh, someone needs to take the other car and go to Tomo's house and find the antidote. Find anything that looks like it might be it." He said this while taking the other care key off the ring and handing it to Ryo.

Ryo was confused but trusted Touma so took the key and followed him to the cars.

An also confused Shuu did as Touma told him and picked Seiji up; then also followed.

"So, what happened?" Shin asked.

"Well, we kind of forgot about Tomo since we were so worried about Seiji and Tomo was unconscious but he had obviously regained consciousness and was going to kill Seiji." He replied while walking. "I heard some noise from the living room, when I knew that Seiji was in there by himself and couldn't make that much noise for he was sleeping. I went in there and Tomo stab Seiji, he went for the fatal hit but I put my armor on before he could hit Seiji and I shot him." He stopped for a second, sighed; then continued. "I thought he had to be killed because he would just keep coming after Seiji no matter what."

They had gotten to the cars so Touma unlocked one, Ryo unlocked the other, and they got into them. Touma got into the driver's seat and opened the garage by hitting the button. He started the car and backed out. Ryo came after him.

All the while everyone just starred.

"That's the end of it." He finished when he noticed they weren't saying anything.

"All that happened when we looked for the keys?" Shuu asked shocked.

"Yeah." He said simple while driving.

"You guys could have been killed! We should have been more careful!" Shin shouted.

Seiji whimpered and wrapped his arms over his head again, trying to block out the loud noise.

"Gomen, Seiji." Shin said sadly. He hadn't meant to cause Seiji pain.

Shin looked at Touma and noticed that he also had a pained expression. 'Oh yeah.' He mentally slapped himself. 'His leg.... we forgot about it and he's been walking on it. How could we forget?'

"Touma, maybe I should drive."

Shuu looked over at Shin. 'Why would he say that? Why does it matter who drives?' He looked at Touma this time. 'Oh, his leg. We all forgot.'

"Iie, we need to hurry and by switching we'd be wasting time and I can drive, I'm fine." Touma glanced at Shin and looked back at the road.

Even though it was quick, Shin knew that look and it left no room for argument.

Seiji started thrashing around and screaming. "No. Stop." He screamed very weakily.

Shuu was having difficulty holding him still.

"Shin, help!" Shuu said worriedly, he didn't want to hurt Seiji.

Shin was sitting right next to Shuu so he started shaking Seiji, hoping to wake him.

Touma looked back. 'Not again.' He groaned. He would have helped but Shuu was sitting behind him so he couldn't do anything. Besides he was driving.

"Seiji! Seiji!" Shin and Shuu both said. Shin shaking him while Shuu was trying not to drop him.

"Come on Seiji! You have to wake up!"

Seiji just kept screaming and trying to escape both Shuu and Shin's grasp.

Touma was really worried now. The other times that Seiji had struggled he had woken up by now.

"Seiji!" Touma tried himself.

Shin shook Seiji's shoulders again. "Wake up!"

The blonde stopped moving. It wasn't because he was awake though it was because his exausted body could no longer put up with his movements. He still screamed hoarsly and winced whenever he did move, no matter how small the movement was.

Touma stopped the car.

Shin and Shuu both looked up. They were at the hospital, finally.

The archer got out and limped to Shuu's door and opened it for him. Shin had gotten out as well and went over to Touma. Touma leaned against Shin once again, grateful for his support. Shin wrapped his arm around Touma's waist and put Touma's arm over his shoulders; then followed Shuu, who had started towards the hospital doors.

Seiji was still screaming not as much as he had been. He was also shivering violently and coughing between screams.

All the commotion had brought a few nurses over.

"What happened?" A male nurse asked. He had black hair and had glasses. He was the tallest out of the nurses and was also taller than the troopers.

"We think he was poisoned. He was also badly injured." Touma replied, sparing the details.

"And what about you?" Another nurse asked, this time female. She had blonde hair and green eyes. She was the shortest out of them.

"He was shot in the leg by a gun." Shin replied, knowing Touma would have probably just dismissed the question and said he was fine.

They had been talking while Shuu set Seiji on a stretcher.

The last nurse, another female with black hair and black eyes pushed Seiji. The other nurses looked at Seiji's injuries.

They reached the E. R.

"Gomen, but you can't go in. We'll let you know how he's doing later."

The male nurse grabbed Touma's arm. "Come with me and I'll treat your leg."

"I'm fine. I just want Seiji to be. Go with him, I don't need any help." Touma said. The truth was that he was in a lot of pain but wanted Seiji to get all the help he could.

"Don't worry about your friend. There's already a lot of great doctors and nurses helping him." He grabbed Touma's arm again.

"Touma, go. We'll come find you when we get new on Seiji's condition."

Reluctantly Touma followed the male nurse.

"May I ask what your name is?"

"Hashiba Touma."

"Nice to meet you Hashiba-san. My name is Aoki Yoshi." He smiled.

"Nice to meet you too, Aoki-san." Touma said less nicely, he just wanted to be by Seiji's side.

"Do you know if the bullet went all the way through?"

"Iie." 'We were kind of too busy to notice.' A thought hit Touma. 'What are we going to do with Tomo's body.'

"Hashiba-san?" Aoki was puzzled about why Touma had stopped.

Touma hadn't realized that he had stopped. He snapped out of his thoughts when Yoshi called his name and said, "Gomen." Then just continued walking.

Aoki shrugged it off and opened a door for Touma. "There." He pointed to a bed. He got his gloves on and after Touma sat down he examined Touma's leg.

"You were fortunate, it looks like the bullet went all the way through." He said after a while. "I'll just clean it and wrap it."

Touma was barely aware of what the nurse was saying as he was worried about Seiji. 'Please be alright.'

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Ryo had driven for a while to Tomo's house. He had found a path to it. It was very narrow and barely fit the car but it worked.

It took him half an hour to get to Tomo's house. He hurried out of the car and rushed to the door. He didn't bother with a window this time and just knocked down the door. His friend's life depended on how fast he was.

'Now where is it?' He thought. The swordsman decided to start in the living room.

"Dammit!" He swore aloud after looking all throughout the living room. He wished someone else would have came with to help him look but Shin needed to support Touma when he walked and Shuu had to carry Seiji so it wasn't possible.

"Seiji." He whispered. "I hope you'll be alright."

'Hopefully I'll be able to tell it's the antidote if I do find it.' He had no idea what it even looked like and hoped that it was obvious.

"I better hurry!"

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Since it had taken so long to get the other chapt out I decided to post this one sooner. It's also longer than the rest. I hope it's interesting.

Well, plz R&R!! I really like it when I get feedback from you guys, especially when it's nice. ^_^ If some of it sounds bad though I wouldn't mind some advice.

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