Chapter 8:

"3!"

tadashi reached into hiro's leg and pulled the bullet. a shrill blood curdling scream echoed throughout the room. blood poured out of hiro's leg for a second before slowing down again. hiro writhed in pain under tadashi's grip. tadashi tied hiro's open wound with a piece of shirt and helped him get his pants back up. he continued to yell and sob in agony.

"HIRO! HIRO PLEASE! YOU HAVE TO CALM DOWN!" hiro tried to calm down, but the pain was excruciating. he lay there sobbing and yelling in agony.

"hiro, listen to me. can you hear me?" hiro nodded, still crying, "hiro you have to stay calm because if you freak out your heart rate goes up and you bleed faster and you could hurt yourself if you freak out so i need you to try to stay calm. ok?" hiro nodded and tried to calm down, but it hurt so bad. the pain was unbearable. he couldn't help but sob.

"it hurts..."

tadashi's heart broke at those two words. he never wanted to see his baby brother in pain.

"i know, buddy, i know. but everything's gonna be okay now. you're gonna be just fine. you hear me? you'll be just fine." hiro choked an sobbed. tadashi ran his bloody hand through hiro's tangled hair.

"just fine..."

"HEY, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN HERE?!" kenji yelled as he burst through the door.

tadashi turned to face him. his face went from care and concern to vengeance and fury in less than a second. tadashi an towards him and threw him against the wall an pinned him down.

"HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU POISON MY BROTHER! WHO THE HELL DOYOU THINK YOU ARE?!" tadashi screamed.

"WHERE'S THE ANTIDOTE?! WERE. IS. IT!" tadashi demanded between punches to the face.

"THERE IS NONE!"

"LIAR! YOU FUCKING LIAR! WHERE IS IT!" tadashi continued to scream at the man and punch him in the face.

"TADASHI!" hiro screamed from behind him. tadashi turned to see hiro stumbling his way over.

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!"

"HIRO, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"

"'WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ME?!' WHAT THE HEL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! YOU CAN'T TRY TO KILL SOEON JUST BECAUSE THEY TRIED TOKILL YOUR BROTHER!"

"HIRO, YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!"

"I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!"

silence fell between the two brothers as tadashi looked into hiro's eyes.

"hiro?" he asked, "what did you do?"

hiro's face contorted from rage and fear to guilt an sadness.

hiro was about to break down and start crying, when kenji shot tadashi in the stomach from behind.

"TADASHI!"