Hello I'm Sacha. I hope you enjoy my story. I'm 16 and from Holland so sorry beforehand if I make stupid mistakes. :p
Summary: Eijun has nightmares and has trouble sleeping because of it. He and his world become dull and lifeless. He has nightmare phobia without anyone noticing. He feels alone and the sickness destroys him from the inside out. Can they save him before it's too late?!
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It was just a normal day in a normal school year. Nothing special going on. Nothing happened, no really nothing at all. It was getting boring actually. Baseball training, that's all they did. But even though it wasn't anything special, it was fine with Sawumura Eijun.
They were on a break at the moment. Well sort of. They just didn't have school for about three weeks. No tournaments either. Just practise, practise, practise. And well, that was fine with him really. He had a lot of work to do anyway.
But all that normal kind of stuff ended on one night. Not that anyone noticed.
Eijun woke up at 4 am in the morning from a horrible nightmare. It wasn't fun, he never had a nightmare this bad before. It was all dark and gloomy and.. well.. just creepy.
He looked around carefully and sighed with relief when he saw that the other two hadn't woken up. No way in hell that he would admit he had a nightmare. That would just be embarrassing. So instead of turning around and trying to go back to sleep, he went out of bed and put some sport clothes on. No way he could just fall asleep again after such a scary nightmare. And again, no one should ever know this. Miyuki would definitely laugh at him. And well, he didn't feel like being laughed at. Although it would probably be worse if they didn't laugh and just stared at him. That would be even more embarrassing. And that would be just Miyuki. I mean what about Furuya and all his other senpai.
Anyway, so that's how he ended up running all morning until it was time for breakfast and time for a bath like they do every morning. He'd decided to just eat and take a bath with the rest so they wouldn't get suspicious of him. His two roommates would already find it strange that he was up earlier than them and would definitely make fun of him. So eventually everyone would know that he was up early this morning. But that's ok cause it was only for one time anyway, right..?
How wrong he was. It was in the middle of the night again and Eijun had once again awoken from a nightmare. The scary and annoying thing was that he had been waking up because of the same scary nightmare every night on 4 am. This was the fourth night already and Eijun was growing tired of it. Why did he have those nightmares every night anyway. Those things probably weren't even nightmares. At least they didn't feel like it. It was just way to scary.
So that's why Eijun decided that night that he wouldn't sleep again. Even though he kind of knew that that wasn't really possible nor was it a good idea. But what else could he do?! He wasn't going to tell the others. And even if he did, they wouldn't be able to help him anyway. What was there to do about nightmares anyway.
It was night number five. The first night that he wouldn't go to sleep. He just went to bed like he always did and pretended to be asleep until he was sure Kuramochi and Masuko had fallen asleep. Than he would put some sport clothes on and went outside to run. Sometimes he would just sit against a tree for a few hours without closing his eyes so that he would at least have enough energy for the day. There were no classes to rest in nor could he go to sleep. So that left only this option. He couldn't afford to just fall asleep in the middle of training. That would just be bad. They would get mad at him and find out about his nightmares and lack of sleep. Not good.
That morning something weird happened. Again no one noticed. Things were black and white. There was no color. Nowhere was color. The trees weren't green, they were gray. It was the same with all the other things. Everything was in black and white. There was no color left in the world. It was depressing really. The world felt even more lifeless now. He probably should've told someone. He deep down knew something was wrong, something wasn't right. He knew he needed help. But.. he didn't ask.. No idea why, but he just didn't ask. He knew he really needed help but he just couldn't ask. Like someone was telling him not to. Not that he heard voices in his head. No everything just turned.. weird..
It got worse from that moment on. The next day something changed again. This time it were the sounds that changed. He could still hear everything clearly, it just.. sounded.. like he was underwater or something. It sounded weird. Dull maybe. Like there were no emotions, like he wasn't there. It didn't even feel like he was from this world anymore. Everything was in black and white and the sounds were dull. And then not to forget about his lack of sleep.
It just got worse from that moment on. He was getting so tired and well, nothing really mattered anymore. So that's why after 10 days since the nightmares started something happened again. His nightmare became reality. Well almost. It wasn't the same as in his dream. It was just as scary though. There wasn't really anything added. It was just that it felt like he could break at any moment now. It didn't feel like he could take it anymore. He somehow also noticed that he didn't go to practise today. Nor did he run this night. He just hid somewhere. No idea where though, not that he cared anyway. He just went somewhere and sat there not really doing anything. He was glad he hid himself well though. He didn't really feel like being found at the moment. He was so so tired, but he just couldn't go to sleep. He wasn't allowed to. No sleeping, no sleeping. It was as if someone was telling him that. Although it wasn't like he heard a voice, he just knew that he wasn't allowed to go to sleep. "No sleeping, no sleeping, no sleeping, no-"
"You idiot! There you are! You are coming with me! We are going to fix this problem right now!" Said someone. He didn't recognise the person nor did he recognise the voice. Although it felt like he should now this person. Come to think of it. He hadn't recognised anyone today. He could see everyone clearly from his hiding spot. He wondered if they could see him to. Strange thing indeed. No one looked familiar. This strange building didn't look familiar either by the way. Wait, since when had this person been dragging him by his arm?! And wait, why were they in a room so suddenly. He could've sworn he was sitting under a tree talking to a strange person just a second ago. He didn't get it. Why was he sitting in a chair? They just started asking him these weird questions. He wondered why he could answer them correctly every time. He answered everything even though he was sure he didn't know the answer. He didn't get it, he really didn't get it.