The ghost

by Star Mirage


The standard disclaimer - Slam Dunk belongs to Takehiko Inoue and etc.
Warning: HanaRu story.

Part 2 - "Does somebody see me?"

"Don't worry. We'll be quiet", Akagi Haruko promised a nurse that attended to Hanamichi.

The nurse tried to object, but it was very difficult to resist to the really tall guys, who softly jostled her out of the room. Some men silently came into the room. There was almost whole basketball team of Shohoku High School, its manager Ayako, her assistant Haruko and Hanamichi's old friend - Youhei. The other people were waiting in a hall of the hospital. Everyone was looking at their unconscious friend. Ayako left down a corridor to ask the doctor about the condition of their red-haired teammate...

Hanamichi rose from the floor and  rushed rejoicingly to his friends.

"Oi, guys! What are you doing here? Oh, yeah, you came to visit a tensai!.."

No reaction.

"Oi, Gori!" Hanamichi approached the nearest man and waved his hand before the person's face. "Hey! Do you hear me? I'm speaking to you!.."

The captain of Shohoku basketball team paid no attention. Hanamichi  growled disgruntledly and turned to his old friend.

"You cannot see me either, Youhei?"

His friend has not answered either. He, as well as all people in the room, looked at the battered body on the bed. Hanamichi  sighed sadly. Nobody saw him. Gloomyly, he walked around the room, stopping near everyone and experimentally waving a hand before their faces.

"Can anybody see me?.. No?.."

Passing by Rukawa, Hanamichi stopped. That kitsune-eyes guy was dozing, leaning on the door-frame. Having folded his arms over a chest, Rukawa opened his eyes and looked sleepyly  at Hanamichi.

"What, kitsune? You've never seen a ghost?" sneered Hanamichi.

Rukawa looked him up and down... Then his eyes became wide; an expression of horror appeared on his face. And only then Hanamichi understood, that the boy saw not only that motionless body on the bed but also 'Hanamichi-ghost'.

Rukawa paled and did that that he never did before. He fainted...

End of part 2


Japan vocabulary: kitsune - fox.

Author's note: Special thanks to Bianka Lanon, who are my pre-reader and press-corrector.  Any comments are welcome!

© Star Mirage, 2000