Love Game (Alice In Borderland×Reader Oneshots/Scenarios)

[Chishiya Shuntarou]Between the Stars and the Earth

10,000 words!!! Now, for reader, I just use she/her/woman bc I do not want to change the pronouns lol

anyways much love <3

Warnings/extras: Chishiya might be a bit OOC, takes place after the borderlands, one curse word, mentions of neglect, chishiya's dad is like 'ew foreigners' so careful

For weeks, Chishiya had been stuck in the hospital bed. He had never really minded being in the hospital, given the fact that it was his job, until now. Before, he had absolutely no care for people; As apathetic as ever. It was not that he hated being in the hospital, it was that he hated the people taking care of him. The nurses were annoying, but what did he expect from his father's hospital? How ironic that the man who had never cared for him was now indirectly saving his life.

"Today, more news from the meteor crash in Tokyo: more survivors have been pulled from the wreckage-"

He shut off the TV in annoyance. That was another thing he hated: The news coverage of the accident. For the past two weeks, that is all that has been on TV. Did they not have anything better to talk about? Why were they still looking for people? He would have given up already. What is the point of searching for people after so much time?

His thoughts were interrupted by violent coughing from the person in the bed next to him. While his father owned the hospital, there really was no space, so he had to share a room with another man. Niragi Suguru, as he had learned. There was a nagging feeling in his head that made him not like the man, but he ignored it. He had never met the person next to him in his life. Why pass judgment on someone he did not know because of a 'gut feeling' of sorts? Even if he normally didn't like people, he never judged them before he knew who they were. He only judged them after he met them.

"Care to keep it down?" Chishiya said sarcastically.

"Oh yeah, sorry, your majesty, I'll try to die quieter," the man said in a raspy voice.

His voice sounded like he had been smoking six packs of cigarettes every day for the past 10 years. The man next to him suffered from severe burns on his entire body. You could barely make out his face. Or at least that is what Chishiya assumed from what the nurses said. He didn't like looking over at his roommate. Of course, it wasn't his fault, but Chishiya was used to being on his own. He had never gone to the hospital as a kid, never got sick, never broke a bone, yet here he was.

A near-death experience. Why couldn't he have just died? It wasn't that he was suicidal by any means, but really, why did he survive over all the others? He heard of a little boy who died. Why not him? Chishiya had never felt any sort of compassion for his patients. He knew that most people would say it was preposterous that he did not have compassion as a doctor. But he didn't. He had become a doctor because it was what his father wanted. Or at least what he thought his father wanted. Maybe deep down, he just wanted his father's approval. He would never admit that out loud, but he had thought about it many times before.

His family life had never been the best; His family wasn't abusive, by any means, but his mother and father were a marriage of convenience. Then they had him to keep up their image of a happy family. His parents were always working as his mom was the head nurse, and his dad was the head doctor. They were always busy, and when he wanted their attention, just as any child would, they called him selfish. A selfish child.

"Can you not see I'm busy? You are a selfish, ungrateful child."

He shuddered at the thought and went to sit up. Pain shot through his body as he slowly lay back down. A stupid meteor ruined his day. They told him the building he was trapped under had shifted at the very end, and a piece of metal stabbed him through the area around his stomach. A broken bone, some minor burns, and fractures. He should have died.