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Summary: Summary: Hiei loves to drag race, and Kurama is like a volleyball god. What happens when their lives collide? Literally. (HxK -attempted- yaoi)

Chapter 3: Worry

The doctor exited the room, allowing the others in. Kurama was sitting up in his
bed, playing around with his thumbs, deep in thought. Akira went over to his side
and shook him lightly. "Oi, you alright?" he asked. Kurama nodded.

"What did the doctor want?" Hiei asked.

Kurama didn't want them to worry about him, so he quickly threw together a lie.
"He wanted to tell me that he called my mother. He told her I was in the hospital.
And he asked me how I got hurt," Kurama explained.

"What'd you tell him?"

"Car accident. He said I was lucky to be alive."

"Well, that's true. The car was going pretty fast," Hiei claimed.

Kurama looked at him.

"What?" Hie asked.

"How do you know this?"

Hiei struggled to find words. Finally, he bent down, low, "I'm sorry Kurama. Because
of my reckless driving, I hurt you." [omg, ooc'ness! xD]

Hiei didn't feel like doing this. 'I shouldn't be bowing down to anyone!' he told
himself. But he wanted to get the guilt of his shoulders, before it got to him.

"Please forgive me," Hiei added, feeling stupid. Hikaku stared at him, this must've
been very unusual to him.

Kurama nodded.

"You are forgiven. I think it was partly my fault. I wasn't paying attention to where I
was going. I just didn't want to get kicked off the team," Kurama said, laughing
lightly with Akira.

They talked for a while until there was knocking on the door.

The door opened to reveal a middle-aged woman with dark hair and eyes.

"Kurama?" she called.

"Mother..." Kurama sighed.

The door opened wider and Shiori came in and embraced her son, careful not to
hurt him more than he already was.

"How are you feeling? I was so worried when the hospital called and said you were
here. What happened? Did you get hurt at volleyball practice? Or did--" She was cut
off by Kurama, who lightly placed his finger on his mothers lips.

"Mother, I'm fine. And I was careless about my surroundings and got hit my a
moving car. But, I'm fine. Just a few fractures. The doctor said and could be out and
about by tomorrow afternoon," Kurama said in a gentle alto.

Shiori nodded, tears brimming her eyes.

"A car! Kurama, how?"

"There was a drag race and I didn't know. I got hit by the leading one. The driver of
the last one came to help me, then they both brought me here," he explained in
more detail, then winked at Hiei and Hikaku when his mom wasn't aware.

Hiei blushed a bit and smiled and Hikaku just smiled at the redhead. [3/18/08]

~*~

Everyone left soon after and Shiori stayed the night with her son. The nurses came
in and brought a portable fold-out bed for her to sleep on, that was placed right
next to Kurama's bed. There she slept peacefully, listening to the gentle breaths the
redhead took.

~*~

Hiei couldn't sleep that night. He kept tossing and turning, trying to get Kurama out
of his head. But every time his thoughts wandered to, well, anything, the redhead's
face kept creeping back into his dreams.

'Why do I feel this way?'

~*~

The sun crept over the horizon, lighting the room and warming Shiori's face. She
opened her eyes, blinking them a few times to get used to the sudden light. Her
eyes glanced around the room, and then landed on Kurama. His face was mixed
with the emotions of pain and somehow, fear.

She quickly got up and checked him. His breathing was abnormal. Like he was
struggling to breath. Shiori shook him awake. His eye slowly opened, only to leave
them half-lidded.

"Are you alright?" she asked, worry taking over her voice.

Kurama just lay there, shallow breaths coming and going, but he eventually
nodded.

Shiori was worried, she knew he was lying.

"Stay here," she said, not like he had a choice.

She left the room and went to the nurses desk down the hall.

"Excuse me? Is the doctor in?" she asked.

"Patient?" the nurse asked.

"Kurama Minamino."

The nurse looked through the files on the computer.

"Dr. Yuca Shinomaki, yes he's in. Would you like to speak with him?" Shiori nodded.
"Follow me," the nurse grabbed some papers and walked from behind the desk and
to another door, Shiori followed.
'Knock, knock'

"Come in."

The nurse opened the door to reveal a man with short forest green hair and for his
eyes was a lighter shade of green.

"Hello Shiori," he greeted, "How's Kurama?"

"Fine, but his breathing..."

"What's wrong?"

"It-it's abnormal. Like he is having trouble with the shortest of breaths," she

explained. Dr. Shinomaki got out of his chair. "I'm going to check up on him," he
said and left to Kurama's room.

He slowly opened the door, but then swung it open. What he saw was not a weak
redhead in bed, it was nothing. Just an empty bed with messy sheets. "Where is
he?" he asked himself. "What's wrong Dr. Shino-- Oh, my!" Shiori exclaimed at the
sight. [3/19/08]

Sorry about the dates thrown in there. Nothing special. They're just the dates when I finished parts of the story. -.-;;