Title : Infinity
First Chance
Author : rei *me*
Rating : pg
Pairing : HikaBu [friendship]
Disclaimer : Everyone knows that HSJ belong to JE. .sadly. .T_T
Summary : there are infinity chances spread ahead of us, if we just would see..
Author's note : okay.. so here's the deal.. i'll try updating every sundays.. and if there's a time when i don't update anything at sunday, then i probably is at work.. pls bear with it.. i'll try to update regularly since now on.. TToTT
Author's note 2 : Another fic presented for you.. It was mostly about HikaBu.. well, this was their POV after all.. buut since i'm a Ryosuke-biased, his apperance was kinda important too here.. *whacked*
Infinity
First Chance
“Oi, Kota ! Where are you going ?”
Yabu briskly turn around at the sound of his bestfriend calling.
“I’ve got some emergency ! I’ll be back soon ! Ja ne~” He smiles, an without waiting for a reply, he takes off.
“That person. He just left like that.” Hikaru sigh.
“Ne, ne, Hikaru-kun~ When will we start ?” The joker can feel a tug on his sleeve and turn to see the squirrel pouting.
“Soon. Wait with the others Chii~” Hikaru said simply. “And we’re about to start the practice too. Just you see Yabu ! You surely will get it from me !”
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“Okay minna ! We’ll take a break now !” Hikaru shout at his bandmates who are all sighing in relief.
“Yokatta ne~” Yuto close his eyes as he drops himself on the couch, gaining a yelp from Daiki who sat there first.
“Anyway, where is Yama-chan ?” Keito ask aloud.
“Now that you mention it, Yabu wasn’t returning as well.” Inoo add up while taking his water bottle and draining it up in a flash.
“Well, those two surely will get it from me. Especially that Yabu !” Hikaru said menacingly. A dark aura surrounding him and somehow, the others shivered and make more distance between them and the angered boy.
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He sighs for the umpteenth time that day. He is surely at lost now. He doesn’t know how to tell them. It would be a very difficult task to do. But he knows that he has to do it.
He sighs again. He had been taking his time. He needs to show up sooner or later. He stands up reluctantly and walk toward Jimusho. His mind still wandering and he just let his feet lead him to the place he knew so well.
He can’t tell how far had he walked or how long had he walked like that. He didn’t even paying any attention toward things around him. Or more likely that he doesn’t care.
Only when he heard the voice he knew so well frantically calling his name that he comes out of his trance.
“YAMA-CHAN !!!”
But a second later, when he realized what’s going on, he knows that he’s too late already. All he knows is that a flashing of lights, a speeding car coming his way, and a painful crash around his body. And his world blacked out.
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Yabu is walking fast toward his destination. After a long time, his cousin is coming home. He had been in America for the past 3 years and Yabu missed him so much. They’re so close to each other and their separation is the hardest part of their lives.
He’s humming happily as he walks. He’s about to cross the street but then halt as the light turns green and the cars are starting to move. It’s not that crowded, but he can’t take a risk now, can he ?
He’s looking at nothing in particular. The laughing elementary kids beside him. A mother with her baby on her arms sleeping on his other side. An overly serious man at the other side of the road. A lost boy who hastily cross the street even though the cars are rushing…
Wait a minute. That boy looked familiar. Yabu squinted his eyes and once he realizes who the boy is, he starts yelling.
“YAMA-CHAN !!!”
Without even thinking about himself, he rushes toward the boy and push him aside.
“Hey ! Yama-chan !” He calls out to the seemingly dazed boy. But before he can get an answer, the boy fainted.
“Shoot ! Help ! Somebody call an ambulance please ! Help !” He shouts for help. His previous mission forgotten. Now all in his head is that the younger boy for being okay. “Help !”
“Relax boy ! I’ve called an ambulance and they’re on their way now. Anyway, by any chance, do you know this boy ?” The overly serious man he saw before is now kneeling beside him.
“Un. He’s my friend. And thank you for calling.” Yabu bow slightly, his hands still wrapping around the younger boy protectively.
“Don’t mind. Anyway, my name is Sugihara Takato. I’m a doctor myself. Let bring him to the side and I’ll help check him out.” The man lead Yabu inside a store where the owner had been kindly let them stay until the ambulance arrived.
“Arigatou.” Yabu can only thank him as he watches the man tending on Ryosuke.
“It’s my job.” Sugihara smile.
After a few min, the doctor finally finished as he turns to the window with a frown. “The ambulance took too long.”
“What happened Sugihara-san ?” Yabu ask him worriedly.
Sugihara stay quiet for a while, as if contemplating whether he should tell the boy or not. “What’s your name ?”
”Yabu, Kota desu.” Answered Yabu rather nervously.
“Sou ka. You are that Yabu Kota from Hey! Say! JUMP ne ?”
Yabu nod.
“So I presumed that he is that Yamada Ryosuke ?”
Yabu nod again.
“Hmm. The only thing I can tell you right now, Yabu-san, that I’m not sure myself. We’ll just wait for the ambulance to come and know for sure.” Explained the doctor. “You may come.”
“H-hai !”
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Yabu is currently sitting next to the bed where Ryosuke is lying right now. The words that Sugihara told him kept on repeating on his head.
*FLASHBACK*
“So how is he Sugihara-san ?” Yabu asked him as soon as the man came out from the ER he just entered with Ryosuke about 30 min ago.
“Have you called his parents ?” Sugihara asked him back instead.
Yabu shook his head. “I tried, but, no one’s picking up.”
“Of course. They’re on a trip. No one will be home to answer the phone.” Sugihara sighed as he rubbed his temple.
“How did you- ?” Yabu frown.
“Please, follow me Yabu-san.” Sugihara motioned Yabu to followed him which he obliged. “Please, have a seat.”
Yabu just nodded as he took a seat across the man who is leaning his back to his chair. He seemed to be thinking for the right words to say, and Yabu could only wait in silence.
“Ryosuke-kun is, our regular patient here.” Sugihara started.
Yabu frowned. “You mean like, for general checkup or such ?”
“Something like that, but more specific than that. He is my patient.”
Yabu frowned deeper. “What do you mean ?”
“Do you have any idea of what kind of doctor is me ?” Sugihara smiled.
“Well...” Yabu trailed off.
“You can see in front of you, Yabu-san.” Sugihara pointed at the nameplate standing at the front of his desk.
‘Dr. Sugihara Takato, Cancer Specialist’
Yabu frowned. Something was wrong here. He re-read the plate once again. ‘Dr. Sugihara Takato, Cancer Specia-‘
“EH ?” He widened his eyes at the realization. “You are a cancer specialist ?”
“I am.”
“But then, if Yama-chan is your patient, and then he- ?”
“Unfortunately, yes.” Sugihara said sourly. “Ryosuke-kun is currently fighting with his disease. A blood cancer called B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukimia or also known as CLL.”
“What ?” Yabu could only stare at the man in front of him in disbelief.
“I shall give you a little explanation. This CLL disease is a kind of blood cancer where the DNA of the B-cell from the bone marrow is damaged so that it can’t produce antibodies. This is not so dangerous at it’s early stage so we don’t consider any treatment. Only when it reaches the point where it might affect the patient’s quality of life, we consider some treatments such as chemotherapy, or even a bone marrow transplant in advance treatment.
“I believe that you know most of the symptoms of cancer, and it’s almost the same with CLL. The main symptoms that are easily found is tiredness or weakness caused by the anemia resulted from this disease. As for the treatments, of course, there will be some side affects as well. Things like tendency to bleed easily, or nausea and vomiting issue, or fatigue caused by the cancer itself and by the chemotherapy as well, and such is possible. And not to forget, the possibility of losing hair. It is occasionally of course, but it will happen eventually.
“CLL actually rarely occurred on children and teenagers, as it commonly found in 50 years old and above men. But it’s not impossible. Ryosuke-kun here is an example. There are 2 types of CLL with difference in the patient’s lifespan. CLL that is positive for the marker ZAP-70 has an average survival of 5 years. And CLL that is negative for ZAP-70 has an average survival of more than 25 years. And tthere are even some patients with slowly-progressing disease which is reassured that need not any treatments at all.” Explained the doctor calmly.
Yabu gulped, feeling that he’s about to hear something not good at all. “So, what kind of CLL that Yama-chan has ?”
“Unfortunately, his ZAP-70 marker is currently positive.” Sugihara looking at his hands gloomily. “Which is, counting from now on, he only have 5 more years to live.”
*END OF FLASHBACK*
~~~~~tbc
okay, so what do you think ??
i hope it was fine.. the idea was just popped out somehow..
and sumhow, i already looking for the sources.. i mean, i'm not a doctor, so it was such a hard work to understood the whole meaning of ryo-chan's disease.. but it was fun as well~ XDD
sorry that my other fic wasn't updated yet.. it's just, that i'm kinda out of idea.. i mean, i planned out the ending already, but not the middle part~ *whacked*
anyway, review minna !!