Haruka's Point Of View

I stand there motionless as Mei and Rin are taken out on a stretcher. Yamazaki is also standing there speechless. He didn't realize what he had done until he came to his senses. This tragic turn of events, could change Mei and Rin's life. For the worst... The way I landed on Mei... I heard bones crack... there is a few spots of her blood on the back of my shirt... I can't do anything now. I feel useless.

I turn to face Yamazaki. He is still being held like a wild animal. His facial expression shows him cry. His face is red and tears are streaming down his face. Good for him... At least he knows what he done. Sadly, I can't accompany them at the hospital until later. So I walk up to Yamazaki. He glares at me. "This is your fault! If you hadn't come, Mei wouldn't be hurt!" I growl.

"Actually, look at you. I came to warn Rin. Mei got the text as well and she wanted to come with me. I agreed. I would have expected you to look where you are going before you barge through someone's doorway! It's your fault Yamazaki. Now, Mei has to recover all over again, and you hurt Rin too. Who knows how long he will take to recover...." I stop talking as Nitori cries. Mikoshiba is looking down as well as the others who are there. Yamazaki doesn't say a word after that. I scoff and exit the room. But before I do, I call out to Nitori. "Nitori, come with me..."

He looks up with his teary blue eyes and nods. I needed to get him away from that guy. He was probably the most scared witness of this event. Seeing the person he looked up to the most, get beaten to a pulp. I also have to tell Makoto...

As we walk towards Makoto's place, he suddenly stops. I stop as well. "What's wrong?" He looks down. "I noticed something off about Matsuoka-sempai... He wouldn't fight back against Yamazaki-kun. Normally, sempai wouldn't just sit there and let someone do that... I've witnessed it before when he fought with another dorm member before." I tilt my head. Now that I think about it, Rin wouldn't allow anyone to do that... "What else Nitori? Has he acted normally lately?"

He shakes his head. "He had a few colds... and I never saw him pick up a scrap of food in more than 5 days... He must have lost some body weight due to it... I noticed his back as he but on his shirt once. I think I saw a faint outline of his spine, poking out from his skin. He also looked pale..." I widen my eyes. He must be suffering from... depression?! But how? What does he have to be depressed about? But I just shake my head.

"Alright... I have no idea how to respond about that but... don't worry about Rin. He is strong. He won't give up." Nitori cries again but walks beside me. "Is... Mei-chan going to be alright... Nanase-kun?" I think. She was hurt again. I honestly have no idea, but... "I'm sure she will be fine as well. You worry too much Nitori." He doesn't respond the rest of the way. I can't blame him. All of his is traumatic for him.

Finally, after 10 minutes of silence, we finally arrive at Makoto's front door. I had texted him telling him I would be there. I knock and the two people who I didn't want to answer the door, answer anyway. The twins. They open the door and cheer, "Haru-nii!!" They hug me tightly. I have no choice but to hug them back. They look up at me with shining eyes. "Where is your brother?", I quickly ask. Ran yells, "Onii-chan!!!"

I hear slow footsteps walking this way. When Makoto spots me and Nitori, he immediately brings us to his room. The twins are told to keep away because I briefly explain what happened to his parents. So, when I sit on the floor as well as Nitori, Makoto asks, "What happened?"

I sigh and start explaining. "Well... the reason why we left, is because we got a text from Yamazaki telling us that he will beat the life out of Rin. We went to warn him... but sadly, when we arrived, Yamazaki barged through us. He had no idea that Mei was with me... she broke my fall..."

"What?! Is Mei okay?!" I shake my head. "I have no idea honestly... all I know is she is hurt. I heard something crack and blood streamed out of her mouth... But, Rin, he wasn't prepared for the attack. He was hit countless times all over his body. The last thing he did before he blacked out, was throw up continuously..." Makoto's eyes remain widened and look sad. "Wait... you said he wasn't prepared?" I look at Nitori as Makoto asks that question.

"Matsuoka-sempai was suffering from depression... He wouldn't eat... nothing... for days..." Makoto gasps. "But..." Makoto's eyes soften. "Rin and Mei, won't recover for a while will they?" I shake my head again. "I don't know. We will have to visit the hospital in a few hours.". Nothing else is said. We just wait...  for who knows how long...

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After about 2 hours, finally, we decide to visit the hospital. Mei and Rin should be checked on... Makoto, Nitori and I, finally get into the hospital. As soon as we arrive, I see that man, Takashi, looking for us. When he spots us, he quickly runs to us. "Have you heard?!" We nod. "I witnessed it as well as Nitori here. We never expected this to happen..." Takashi sighs. "I see... Well, the man, Rin... his injury's are... well... they're many of them. How about you see him for yourself? Don't worry, Mei is in the same room as well." We nod and follow him into the same room that Mei was in last time.

When we enter, there is a curtain covering the other side of the room. Mei lies in the single bed once again... On a ventilator... "She has sustained minimal injury's. Several fractured ribs makes it extremely difficult to breathe due to her past injury's. But other than that, she should be recovering slowly once again. Her ribs should take at least 6 weeks to heal." He stops and walks to the curtain. "Now... this man... has sustained many injury's plus, a partial sign of depression was seen. Before you see him, I would like to ask, was this man going through depression?"

Nitori nods and starts to cry before the man even opens the curtain. But when he does, I to feel like I should cry. Even though you can't see much, Rin's face does look very pale. His arms that are exposed next to him, are heavily bandaged and a IV is also connected. But, his muscle in his arms, look.. like they deteriorated away. But then thing that surprised me the most, is the bandages wrapped around Rin's left eye covering it. Takashi sighs.

"I think you are all wondering about his eye huh? Well, sadly his has taken a powerful punch to the left eye. Without getting to into detail, because he was hit so hard in his left eye, Hus optic nerve in his eye was damaged, causing it... to lose its sight... So fairly soon, we will have to replace it with a glass eye. If he chooses to do so."

I fall to my knees... everything I had just saw, ruined Rin's life like how he ruined Mei's... So he went blind in one eye... he lost his body muscle... he hasn't ate in days... how did it end like this?!