NHK cup

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In the afternoon of yesterday she was arriving when I was leaving, I mock her at the reception when we crossed looks I could not help but blush a little.
Elisa ... hello-loose to stand in front of her that came with other girls
Now Elisa? - He laughs - can you just call me Eli, oh you're done? - Look at my suitcase
Am if today I have other things to do - under my head
Oh right, within 3 days the cup starts in Japan, right? - says one of the girls who were there, just nodding.
Oh well, let's go Eli-the girls go ahead while she stays in front of me, she just smiled at him
I hope that now if you win, because I know you will do it- comes closer and I only feel the contact of his hands on my shoulders, I get closer and she ends the quick hug - luck - whispers and leaves with the other girls.
I stay there for a few minutes, does that really just happen? Although it was very fleeting I left there to my house in the early morning I would fly to Japan with my mother.
I'm on the track for the first training, my jumps come to perfection while I train, the next day would be the first exhibition with the short program. While training one of my newest jumps the quad lutz I feel that I lose momentum and when the blade falls the slide slips after I feel a hard blow to the knee and a tug on the ankle, I can not believe it so I try to get up, but at I feel an intense pain move from my ankle to my knee.
This time no, aj- hit the ground and I get up, but when I try to place my foot on the ice I feel a twinge, I see my team calling me so I go towards them, I try to walk normal not to attract attention, but the pain It stops me.
When they examine me, they tell me what I feared, I just bend my head- I'm sorry- I hold my hands- I have to participate, I have to compete!
We'll see if you can tomorrow morning if the pain persists, you better not do it, for today put ice packs on your leg and rest. - says my doctor, as he gets up to talk to the others on the team.
At the hotel I start to put on cold packs and pray with my mother, I must participate. When I wake up in the morning under the bed, but that pain is still there, under the look.
My mother enters the room with the medical team, seeing me they already know, I hate being so transparent.
They examine me the inflammation of my knee is still noticeable and my ankle does not even try to move it, they make me the simplest test to walk, when I try to take a step I feel like a piquet crosses my entire leg, I feel my eyes begin to fill with tears.
I'm sorry yuzuru you will not be able to compete- my tears start to fall

I have to compete, if I rest and I do not go to the morning training, maybe I can skate in the afternoon - I say with hope, they accept.
I try to rest all morning, in the hotel room, I send messages with Misha since he was worried about not showing up at the training, I can not tell him anything, he sends me a video of the arena while my music plays and shows all the banners They are hanging with my name.
In the afternoon the doctors arrive with a couple of crutches, they examine me again, but I still do the same.
I really feel yoshio, you really can not compete- at that moment my mind passes the video that Misha sent me, the message I received after Evge and Eli's little embrace, my tears fall out of control. I only see how they start making calls, they give me the pair of crutches - you'll have to use them, we'll go to the hospital.
Can I thank and apologize? - I take the crutches, I see my mother and the team - I must do it. - I clean my tears.
The news is announced, I am in the hospital in Tokyo to receive the true diagnosis. I really hope it is not so serious.
The specialist arrives, just to see his face I know it's bad.
Mr. Hanyu, I'm sorry to inform you that with the fall he suffered an injury to the ligaments of the right ankle, and the injury to his knee is the least worrisome at the moment it's just a twist. But the ankle should do rehabilitation and rest. - My face becomes totally pale.
For how long? -It's the first thing that comes out of my mouth.
Well, from a month and a half to two months we hope it is enough, but you should take a break of 1 week - I hope to participate in the nationals of Japan, I leave there with something crestfallen to go to the hotel and then go home.
I get a call from Javier at dawn, I'm still awake playing video games, only in that I can occupy my time this week.
Hey guy! How are you? - I hear from the other side of the line a Javier a little off
Well bored, discouraged, empty, tris ...- Javier interrupts me
Okay okay, you'll make me depressed too- let out a small melancholy laugh- I know you'll get better soon.
I hope so, if this is over - I feel a little pressure in my chest - everything will be over
You'll come back I know, you always do it - I hear a sigh from the other side - hey, I have something to send you.
something? - My heart stops for a moment- is it?
If I know I said I would send it to you if you won, but ... you deserve it - he sent it to you when you got home - you hear a door open and he waved.
Is it in ... Javier- I only hear noises and walking
Yes, I have to train I have to go to the French Cup, but wait - I only hear the music, it's on the track I do not go to the dressing room. - I think ... - I keep hearing the music, this fool.
This will surely make you happy- I hear your voice with a more animated tone -hey Eli! - shouts at the track, and some things in Spanish- ready? - I froze for a moment and the only thing I do is hang up the call
Yuzuru, yuzuru - it's just silence from the other side, he sees the screen with the legend called finished, he lets out a sigh and sees how Elizabeth is in front of him.

What happens? - she asks, already a little exhausted from the training.
Well, yuzuru sends you greetings from Japan- Javier smiles a little nervous but his eyes give him away.
He must be very busy and happy to be with his family, I'm happy for him- she says innocently
Yes it is, but it will stay a while longer, since it has another competition in December- Javier sweetly touches his shoulder, he knows that it is possible that even that competition does not apply, - well go and keep practicing.
Half a month has passed I do not feel that the rehabilitation really works, I no longer use the crutches, but it still hurts when I put on the skates, the day of my birthday I receive another one of the many calls of all my friends I answer all, until Javi marks me another Every time he talks to me, he tries to get Eli to talk to me, he stopped doing it when I told him.
Memory....
Hey, sir, how's your rehabilitation going? - His voice sounds really cheerful.
Aj I do not complain, I do not feel that I serve- I answer something depressed
Are you still using those crutches? - I hear the cars on the other side, it's heading somewhere.
No, I left them three days ago - I leave my game aside.
So if it works, what do you want for your birthday? - All excited question while I hear doors and greetings, again on the track.
That my injury heals, can you do that? - laughs melancholy on the other side of the line.
I'm not sorry, but do not get depressed I'll find a gift almost as great - I start to hear music, it's really on the track.
Javier- I say in a serious tone, he just responds with a groan- please do not call Elizabeth! - My voice totally sounds different.
Yuzuru, are you upset? - He also changes the tone of his voice
It's just that I'm tired, I do not want to talk to her, you do not understand! - I almost shouted in the middle of my room - really Javier, I do not want to ... - my tears are beginning to fall
I understand, I'm sorry for bothering you, take care of yourself - that was his voice angry, and then only hear a total silence
I drop my cell phone, while I take my hands to my face and cry, after that I did not receive any more calls from Javier for a while.
Until today that only speaks to me to ask me how I am and that only have been twice after that day.
I have not even opened the video file he sent me, the first time he spoke to me.
The phone keeps ringing
Hello- I respond timidly

Hey happy birthday champion, I just hope I did not wake you up or bothered or interrupted, but I hope you're better. Everyone here we miss you, everyone! - because it highlights the word all, and it sounds sad - I will send you the next part of your gift, the first part I'll give it to you.
Javier- I say something low-thanks.
Hey do not hang me yet, I will not pass Eli but ...- I listen as he takes a few steps - hey what would you say to Yuzuru you know that today his birthday does not ...? - I hear from the other side of the line, this is a ...- I hope he recovers and comes back soon and happy birthday is already older - I listen before pressing the hang button that stops me.
Oh, just that? - You hear from Javier- "You should tell him something else" - that's Spanish aj that cheat.
Well I know you'll tell him when he comes back, but I'll tell him what you said - I only hear laughter - it's fine, thank you, but do not go on saying more - what do you mean by more? laugh while I hear skates away - are you still there ?, oh thanks for listening good happy birthday Yuzuru recover soon my best wishes, see you friend. - the call is terminated.
I keep thinking for a long time until my mother comes in with some gifts and to take me to rehabilitation, while I am in rehabilitation I can not remove a smile from my face.
When I arrive at my house I see my cell phone and I find a message from Javier with another file, when I am about to open them my mother comes and asks me to go with her.
I celebrate my birthday with my family during the afternoon until at night when I am in my bed after the bath I read to read all the letters that my mother brought me and the gifts.
But there is one that I still need to open, I take my cell phone and open the first file that Javier had sent me is the routine that Elizabeth presented in that event, my heart accelerates to see her skate, to see her move on that track with a routine simple but beautiful.
My tears fall while you hear "nandemonaiya" on the piano in the background, I should have been there I say inside of me while I dry my tears at the end of the video, I open the next file, my heart turns over when I see the screen, it is with Javier and a birthday cake, she has a pooh by her side, while they smile for the camera.


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