Saint Seiya Fan Fiction ❯ Homeless ❯ Still ( Chapter 11 )

Uhg!!

What a mess I made uploading on mediaminer!! Got all the numbers wrong now it seems like a chapter 9 when its chapter 8. Well this will be chapter 10 for mediaminer and 9 for fanfiction net.

So on with the story.

CHAPTER 9

Still

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It was a long walk from the dinky hotel to the closest crossing. The new comers could only look across the 5 lane street mournfully. Both caught themselves feeling bad and a glance in each others face told of their longing. Two months ago they could have jumped clear across an 8 lane highway.

Shun just kept on walking.

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The room was well lit now. Morning sun came clean and crisp true the plastic drapes and gave everything a clear start.

At least it seemed that way to the boy on the bed. "I wont cry today" he whispered. The nurse told him during breakfast that his friends came to visit, and the shrink asked if he remember them coming to visit yesterday. He said no but it was a lie, it was all he could do to save some dignity.

Today they would return... he hoped... and he wont act crazy. Today he would do better.

"just step at a time"

He made it his litany a long time ago, and the shrink said the same thing.

When his friends arrived, Shun stepped in and almost laughed with joy when he saw the boy propped up on pillows, and sitting across a tray of empty plates.

"Seiya! You are up!"

He gifted them with a small smile and nodded, still afraid to speak. They all moved in then, a little more light hearted, and hovered around his bed. Shun leaned in and straightened his pillows while Shiryu sat on a chair close by.

"How are you feeling?" Hyoga moved forward. Seiya only nodded looking at his hands.

Toying with the edge of his blanket he contemplated lying to the lot of them and pretended noting happen. It was obvious from the look on their faces, shun have kept quiet about his ...accident.

-No!.. the attack!! -

His mind corrected fiercely, at least the part of it that tried to follow his therapist advice. It has a name don't make up little excuses.

He didn't raise his head he new they were staring. Shun opened the dialogue again

"I am so glad you ate something today Seiya!! You had me worried there for a while. Here let me take these of you.." the gentle boy moved the little roller tray of to the side. Seiya somehow felt unprotected when his only shield was drawn

"Seiya what happen?" Shiryu finally blurted unable to bear the oppression in his chest.

Before Shun could protest, the Chinese boy lifted his hand. " And I will like to hear it from you". Shun griped the bedside and ignored Shiryu "He was hurt!! Badly leave him be Shiryu!!" he blurted.

"I.. I'm.. I was..."

"You don't have to say anything Seiya"

-Its not about what happen it's facing life after...- the shrink's voice echoed somewhere.

Slowly Seiya shock his head and reached out to hold on to something... someone, he met Shun's hand, and realized he couldn't do it.

"I was attacked..." it was barely a whisper.

Shun clutched the slim fingers gently. " It's alright..."

To his credit, Hyoga reigned on his need to shake some sense into everybody in the room. "WE KNOW THAT!!"

It was the little jump and curling motion on the bed that made him pipe down.

"Who could have scared you like this Seiya!!" he pleaded, drawing closer. Said boy only drew his legs in and stared to Shun hand in his.

"You are not even looking us in the eye... Seiya.". Shiryu held Hyoga back and added as he took in the fearful stance.

"Shun."

"Yes Shiryu?"

-He too is afraid? Afraid of what?- "Please don't leave us out."

Shun paled. It was unlike the dragon to plea for anything. It was diametrically opposed to his character.

He could not muster an explanation yet. No way could he give answer to any question they came up with, non that could spare Seiya.

"I..."

"It happen at the hospital, they left me there and I was to weak to get away from... them, Saory died and ... they left the..."

He new he wasn't making any sense but Shiryu begged and it hurt to just let him think that his best friend was leaving him out. So he trudged on trying to get the facts out and not remember ...block out the images. They disserved some kind of answer.

"I couldn't .." he gasped, eyes going wide, he could just cling on harder to the sheets.

"They were angry about money and they said we didn't disserve... and Tatsumi left them to the police" He kept on reciting, eyes wide and staring forward now.

"I said NO!!"

Suddenly Shun yelled, he could not allow Seiya to go back there he could not let him drag them both back. The voice on the bed died down to a whisper of nonsense words.

"Shiryu we will talk later. Just let him be for now..." he ended in a whisper.

Shun stopped Seiya's babbling by sitting on the bedside, his back to the others. Long pale fingers combed true curly brown locks and went to rest on the ashen cheeks.

Seiya's cinnamon skin was now almost as pale as his and some of the bruises were still faintly visible. He was not healing well... too slow even for a normal boy.

"I will find who ever harmed you so..."

" It's no use they are gone now Shiryu"

The former Andromeda saint sighed eyes gone bleak. The boy on the bed curled into a little ball away from everyone. Shun stood up and headed out the room when the nurse came in to retrieve the food trays. It took a few minutes while Hyoga refused to follow Shun outside. He stood there with Shiryu wanting to know, but the eerie feeling in the chest was so much more now.

So far they new a lot but still came up missing keys. Up on the roof of the hospital, Shun recount of all this mess was shocking enough to keep the details as just that... simple details.

Saory took her life in order to follow Seiya into the abyss, that was all left of the Hades land. She did this alone, and no one new anything else about it, no exact date or place.

They needed to know about her. But it fell back in importance to Seiya's illness. Shun mentioned Tatsumi's suicide as a reason to not knowing where her body laid. He probably was the only one who new what happen to their goddess.

Somehow no one cried, they just sat there starring out into the darkening sky. It felt wrong not to cry but it was always there, the inevitability of her return and at Seiya's recovery they will bring her back.

They both had resolved to stand in the doorway looking at the ground while the woman changed the bedding and cleaned up a bit.

Suddenly Seiya stood up and went in the bathroom head still lowered.

She gave the closed bathroom door her commiserating-nursely look and went back to tucking the bed corners. "You boys should all look out for him now, the poor soul have been true so much.. He needs to know it wasn't his fault, they always feel like it was but bad things 'do' happen to good people, you know?"

She shook her head in disapproval and added, not breaking a beat "Recovery is very difficult, the bright side is he came out negative on STD's. He was lucky almost all the time they end up sick with something, the doctor recommends..."

Shiryu ran out of the room.

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