Healing ≠ Recovery
〈ϟ〉—; The passenger seat was taken by the seventeen year old student. He was receiving a ride to school by his elder brother because he had woken up late. The alarm had never been set on his clock. He went to bed late after studying for most of the night, thus forgetting to even set the device.
Here they were, rushing through traffic. The school was just on the opposite side of town. The only obstacle left were the train tracks.
Tracks that were old, but had yet to be
repaired. The bars no longer came
down to stop traffic from crossing when
the train was coming through. No bell
rang to alert drivers that the locomotive
was surging along it's path.
When Itachi had began to drive across the tracks, the sound of the whistle from the train came too late. The car was already in it's way. He had been in such a rush that he never stopped to look -- the radio loud enough to block all noise from the outside of the vehicle. The collision came only a milliseconds after the whistle. Steel crunched as brakes screeched, glass shattered in a rain of shards over the brothers.
Itachi's door crunched and caved in.The impact literally crushing the eldest Uchiha son by thousands of pounds of force. Sasuke's own body was slowly being torn apart. His left leg was nearly completely severed. The twisted car had pinned the teen's leg and began to slice into it as they were pushed further down the tracks. His left arm broken in the initial impact. His head had slammed against his window, knocking him unconscious.
When the train fully braked, the car was a mass of chaos. The american brand vehicle was hardly recognizable. Pedestrians that had been in the area rushed to the smoking car. As they approached, ambulance sirens could be heard echoing in the distance. Other motorists left their cars, some on cell phones, others craning their necks to get a glimpse of the wreckage.
What waited for the EMT's would be a sight that would haunt them for many nights to come. Two brothers; one crushed so severely that he was unrecognizable to those who did not know him, and the other cut to ribbons and barely hanging on.