Beneath The Stars-BokutoXKuroo Fanfiction

Chapter 8

Bokuto kept waiting anxiously for Kuroo to arrive. One minute turned into two and two minutes turned into three and so on. He started to sweat and at this point he felt really warm and had a bad feeling. He checked his phone in case Kuroo messaged him, but nothing came.

After a few minutes, there was a message. "Help". At that exact moment when Bokuto's eyes read that one word, his stomach felt heavy and the air grew heavy as well. Just one word could cause all that emotional damage. He got a little teary-eyed too. "Help"? Obviously Kuroo was in trouble, but what kind of trouble? Before he could think and brainstorm what happened, a policeman walked through the door.

"Excuse me, Bokuto?" He asked. Bokuto looked up with a frown. "I'm so sorry to tell you this but..." "Don't be dead, please don't be dead, Kuroo" Bokuto thought. "Your boyfriend Kuroo has gotten into a car crash, and is in critical condition, currently he is in a coma." Again, Bokuto's stomach became heavier and everything turned dark around him. This was what it was like without his light in the world; so dark.

Day after day, Bokuto visited Kuroo. Although, Kuroo wasn't going to come out of his coma for a few days. It would hurt Bokuto to go there and see Kuroo like that, but what else could he do? It'd be worse to not see him. Still, seeing him with so many cuts, bruises, scars, and seeing a respirator over his face, wondering if he would wake up, ever again, to wake up alive; even for one second.

Bokuto would read to him, talk to him about childhood memories, and beg Kuroo to wake up, until one day he did.

Kuroo woke up and instantly rose his torso and took a big breath gasping for air, remembering the second before the car crash and hearing the honk of the big, red truck, and the collision sound of the two cars. He turned his head left, and saw a window, it was snowing, but he didn't remember it being cold the night he crashed. Then, he turned his whole body right, and saw Bokuto, who was crying tears of joy, but tears of sorrow were hiding there too.

"Do you know how worried I was? I came here every day to talk to you! I even went to church and prayed to God that you would wake up and find your way back to me," Bokuto said, while shedding multiple tears. He ran to hug Kuroo, who was still a little confused as to what was going on.

"Wha-what happened?" He asked.

"You got in a car crash don't you remember?" Bokuto sniffled and looked up at Kuroo with his head on his chest.

"I mean, why is it snowing outside? It's still summer." Bokuto looked sad again. Kuroo's question was a reminder of all the time the crash took away from Kuroo.

"You were in a coma for se-seve..." Bokuto hesitated to say it. "I-you were in a coma for seven years." Kuroo placed his body back down onto the bed. He lifted his hand up in front of his face and gazed at it, as it was blocking the fluorescent lights from the wall.

"Seven years, gone...just like that," he said with a break in his voice. "I can't imagine how that felt for you, it was over in an instant for me, but for you Bokuto, seven years of not hanging out with me? How did you survive?" Bokuto laughed and tightened his grip on Kuroo.

"It was hell, utter hell. I'll never let you go again," Bokuto answered.

"Oh, I see. Now that I look at myself I do look aged a bit!" Kuroo exclaimed, looking into a mirror, "did you uh-... did you find someone else?"

Bokuto shaked his head instantly. "I could never." Kuroo grinned.

"If I die, someday I want you to fi-" Kuroo stopped.

"I'll never find someone else, Kuroo, you're the only one. I can't see myself loving someone else, or making beautiful memories with them." Kuroo's grin went away but he didn't frown. He just looked out to the window.

"Seven years, huh? I guess we'll have to start making new memories as soon as we can, right Bokuto?" Kuroo asked. Bokuto nodded. Things were peaceful and serenity had been delivered, but just how long would that last? Kuroo was still injured and the doctors had yet to examine him.