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~ age 10 ~
All it took was one second. Everything was great. The sun was shining perfectly on his skin keeping him pleasantly warm, the birds were chirping in the tree branches above his head as he laid under the tree with his eyes closed. His mother is next to him as she takes out the sandwiches she made for the family picnic they planned for this weekend.
"Hajime, Dear? Can you please go get the red cooler in the back of the van? I forgot to grab it and it has the drinks in it." His mother asked with a small smile on her face, as the sun hit it at the most perfect angle to make the green in her eyes pop, that his own eyes mimic.
"Yes mother." Hajime groaned out tiredly.
Once he stood up everything changed. His lungs felt like they were filled with water, he couldn't breathe, and the pain in his chest was unbearable. He put a hand in front of his mouth and tried to cough out the water but when he looked at his hand it was red.
"M-mom… Mom s-something is… Is wrong." Hajime Coughed out. He started to see black dots float around. His mother looks up with a horrified expression on her face. She stumbles as she tries to stand up and run to Hajime at the same time.
"H-Hajime?! Baby?" She screamed as she got to her feet and ran to Hajime.
But before she got to him, Hajime's version went black and he could feel his back hit the ground hard.
Pain. Pain is all he felt before everything stopped.
~President day~
"Hajime, dear! We're going to be late, please hurry!" His mother yelled from the bottom of the stairs.
"Can I just sleep for a few minutes! After school practice was brutal today!" He yells back tiredly, as he curls up in his dark blue bed covers. Hajime really just wanted to sleep, not go to the hospital.
After the accident happened when he was 10, his father called an ambulance and Hajime spent a week and a half in the hospital. Doctors flushed out the blood from his lungs, but the doctors still didn't know what was wrong the first few days. Then one of the Doctors sent him into a CAT-scan and they finally found it.
It turns out it’s a very rare lung disease, it causes blood to flood his lungs… There is no cure to this disease. So every month Hajime has to spend a weekend getting his lungs flushed. Hajime really doesn't like it but he knows it's the only way to keep himself alive… Well alive a little longer. As long as he keeps going to the hospital once a month they say that Hajime has till the age of 28.
Only people who need to know about his condition know, that includes teachers and the coach… But that doesn't include Oikawa Tooru, Hajime's life long best friend, and more recently (a year and a half) boyfriend.
"Hajime! C'mon we are going to be late. If you would like you can sleep in the car on our way there. But, please hurry up! I'll be waiting in the car." His mother yelled once again. Hajime groaned as he threw off his covers and changed into something a little more comfortable and some stuff to keep him entertained for the weekend.
Hajime is still groaning as he stomps down the stairs, out the front door (as well as locking it), and into the passenger side of the car. He stopped the groans when his mother gave him an odd look. He just smiled at her and closed his eyes, resting his head on the headrest, and reclined his seat.
"I really don't like doing this… It hurts and I can never practice on Monday, so I have to make up an excuse for my team as to why I can't practice and I hate it." Hajime mumbles out in a tired haze as his mom drives down one of the many roads it takes to get to the hospital.
"I know sweetie, I know. Just go to sleep for right now, ok? I'll wake you when we get there." His mother answered with a soft, caring tone, as her eyes drifted to her son next to her.
Hajime just nodded and closed his eyes.