I Was Reborn in Slamdunk as the Main Protagonist! But Why Am I Short!

Chapter 7

"Hana chan~~ can you help me buy these things please. I need it to cook for our dinner.."

"Okay tou san, give me the list..", Sakuragi then took the list from his father and bolted out of the door..

His father as if seeing his antics is stunned and just shakes his head. He just smiled happily while preparing the ingredients of what he's about to cook while sometimes looking at a certain picture of his wife in the cabinet. His eyes though unclear but are very warm while looking at the picture.

He hums happily while thinking of something. Though as if he received an electrifying shock, he started coughing heavily.  He covered his mouth as he held onto the counter really hard in order not to fall.

*Cough* *cough* *cough*

"Acckk!!!"

His eyes widened as he looked at the blood in his right hand. His expression is unreadable as he smiled bitterly at his situation.

He started coughing furiously without stopping.

*Cough* huff *cough* huff

"My *cough medicine *cough*. I need my huff* medicine. I don't want *cough* my son to see me *huff* like this *cough*."

With great difficulty hanamichi's father walks step by step out of the counter and near the cabinet where his medicine is.

"Acckk!!", he groaned as he bumped something. He looked up with unclear eyes and opened the cabinet.

Despite the dizzyness he took the white bottle and tried to open it.

*Cough* *cough* *cough*

He was attacked again by his cough which result to his medication falling down the floor. He closed his eyes emphatically as the pain started to hit his heart deeply.

Without knowing what to do he just grip the chair beside him hard to not fall down. He knows that his body is very weak because of his illness but he didn't know it will result him this dizziness and great pain in his body.

He did experience some heavily coughing and such but not to this extent.

He also started to breath heavily and he knows that anytime soon he might experience black out.

He just hope that his son may not be too shocked because of this.

' I'm sorry, my son..'

"Tou sann!!!"

Alas the only thing he heard before darkness enveloped him was the voice of his son.

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Why..?

Why is this happening?

Why is it now?

He is the only family that I have, why is this happening?

Why my father?!

Why him?!

Why?!

"Hana kun..", Sakuragi look blankly at the woman who called his name. It was his kind neighbor, arata san, who called the ambulance and together with her husband to rushed his father at the hospital when he saw him fall down a couple of hours ago.

It was supposed to be a happy sunday for both of him and his father. He was supposed to bring him back the ingredients necessary for cooking their dinner. He was supposed to be welcomed by a warm smile of his father and respond to him with a boister laugh.

Not this..?!

Sakuragi remembered the bloodied figure of his dad.

He remembered how his father held onto for a little bit before he fell down.

He remembered running to him not minding the scattered ingredient he bought a while ago.

He also remembered the tears falling down covering his vision and the sound of continuous ringing inside his head.

He also remembered how he shouted onto his father to wake up while trying to remove the blood that is continuously running down from his mouth, but it looks like it's not doing anything.

Instead he stares blankly at the blood in his hands and he remembered the scene where he once died.

The continuous flow of warm blood out of his body as he tried to keep himself awake with a similar ringing sound on his head.

With that, he feel himself losing subconsciousness and woke himself in a hospital. There he knows that his kind neighbor, Arata san, upon hearing his shout earlier try to see what's going on and upon seeing their situation, she immediately called her husband and rushed them to the hospital.

Now both of them are patienly waiting for the doctor to tell them the situation of his father. Meanwhile Arata san husband went home a while ago because he also need to look out for their children who was left alone.

After a couple of hours waiting. The doctor walk to them with a file on hand.

They both suddenly stand up while waiting anxiously at the result of his fathers situation.

"How about we go to my office, this might take a couple of minutes to tell you the situation of Mr. Sakuragi.." the doctor started..

Arata san and Hanamichi look at each other and they both nodded at the doctor before following him to his office..

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"To tell you honestly Mr Sakuragi's situation is not good. His body is starting to detoriate and he might start feeling the numbness of his body soon. The tumor in his brain is growing compared to the last check up which according to his record. He needs to have surgery in order to remove it so as not to affect him on a daily basis. Unfortunately our equipment is not advanced enough to help your father remove the tumor."

"Will my father be fine after the tumor is removed. I know some people that although they have surgery, their body still detoriate.", hanamichi blankly said.

The doctor looked at the young boy who ask the question.

'he seems to be a 12 or 13 years old but he knows what is happening..'

The doctor sigh sadly at the young boy. He also knows that this young red haired boy is the only family of his patient and with the situation of his father he might be left alone.

"Can Suzuke survive after the surgery?" Arata repeatedly ask. The doctor smiled bitterly.

"To tell you honesly, the patient has a stage 3: Brain cancer..", with that answer of the doctor, the two widen their eyes.

Sakuragi has a grave expression on his face while arata san look at the young boy sadly.

"As you heard Mr sakuragi has a stage 3 deadly cancer on his brain and without surgery he might not make it for a month. His body is already very weak as you notice of him coughing up blood. We need to have a surgery for him to lessen the spreading of tumor in the nearby cells. If the surgery is successful, Mr Sakuragi might live longer than a month.."

After what the doctor had said, although his father might live longer than a month after the surgery is successful it still did not make the two happy, especially Hanamichi.

'Does that mean that the tumor is still there?'

'My father's life will still be in danger?'

'He will still be experiencing those attacks?'

Hanamichi remembers how his father coughed up blood a moment ago.