Try Your Hardest | Ushijima Wakatoshi

Year 2: Part 6

What started out as a terrible accident, turned out to be one of the most endearing moments for Ushijima and Uta.

But that really didn't take away from the fact that it was a really bad accident.

It was spring break, right before their third and final year would begin. Since school was closed the two would go on runs at night during the weekends. Ushijima was initially very surprised that Uta could keep up with him, but it makes sense that someone who swims everyday and is small can be so nimble.

She was really really fast though and she had the stamina to run for a long time as well.

"You excited for all your captain duties?" Uta asked through staggered breathing. She even talked a lot while they ran.

"I wouldn't say it's exciting, but it's not like I'm dreading it either," he answered. They stopped for a light to turn green.

"That's good, I think Eri is going to have a loooot of fun scaring all the girls on our team!" Uta let out a laugh with her hand on her hips.

Ushijima pictured Eri as some kind of demon lord in his head punishing her subjects for messing up. She is very scary.

"I see."

They continued running and they were passing through a downhill road Uta would complain had not been fixed in years. For how much she complained about it, you might figure she would be a little more careful about running through there. But there's no blaming her for getting distracted when someone called out to her.

"Uta-senpaaaai!" two first years called out across the street.

"Huh?" Uta snapped her head in their direction, losing focus of the treacherous path before her. And this small distraction was her biggest mistake.

The next moment, the momentum of their running had carried her flying through the air. It seemed to happen very slowly to Uta, she saw Wakatoshi reach out to her with a strained face she had never seen before, but he only managed to graze her arm. Then, very quickly her body slammed against the floor and she rolled downhill for what seemed like an eternity.

Things went dark for a moment once she stopped rolling, and the next there was pain everywhere and she was looking into the eyes of a very concerned Ushijima Wakatoshi.

"Uta!" he was talking a little louder than normal. "Don't you know better than to yell at someone when they're running?! Downhill!" Ushijima scolded the two girls who were quite terrified of his yelling.

'He has such nice eyes', she was in daze from hitting her head a little too many times.

"Thank you, are you fine?"

'Did I say that out loud?' she wondered, her thoughts were muddled, she felt like there was no controlling the way her head was swaying around.

He noticed her strange movements, so he grabbed her face to keep her still, "keep still you might have a concussion."

'Concussion? Is that why my head hurts?' everything was fuzzy and blurring into a mirage of big colored spots.

"Oh man, Hamura-senpai is going to kill us. Our swimming careers are over she's going to reach down my throat and rip my intestines out!" one of the girls worried as they eyed Uta who was bleeding in all sorts of places.

"Not only did we injure one of the best swimmers but Uta-senpai is her best friend we are dead!" the other girl placed her hands to her face and shook her head.

To Uta, it kind of just sounded like someone talking through a phone with bad signal.

"I'll call an ambulance-" Ushijima took out his phone, but Uta interjected once she could think. Maybe not properly.