A story inspired by the happenings of Episode 21 of After Story


"Heh, guess I'll go visit him. He needs someone to take care of himself" A black haired man, in his late 20s, wearing a long brown overcoat with a white scarf across his neck, said to himself as he walked towards the living room of the house.

"Oi Mei, I'll be going to Hikarizaka to see Ushio-chan and Okazaki" the same black haired man as he informed someone on where he was going

"Wait for me Onii-chan, I'll be going with you!" the black haired girl, identified as Mei said, as she got into the eyesight of her brother.

"Well go get ready, I'll wait for you here" the blackhead replied

"hai, Youhei-niichan" Mei answered.

After a few minutes, Mei, who's now wearing a pink overcoat and a pinkish scarf across her neck said.

"Well then let's get going" the black head, now identified as Youhei said as he put on his white running shoes.

"Hai!" Mei replied as she too put on her pink running shoes.

"You got everything you need?" Youhei asked his little sister

"yep"

"locked everything inside the house?"

"yep"

"well then lets go!" Youhei enthusiastically said as he locked the door of the house.

Well who wouldn't be excited, you get to see your bestfriend during highschool, and his cute little daughter to boot

"ne niichan, do you think trains are still functional?" Mei asked her big brother as the both of them walked towards the train station

"yes, why wouldn't they be?" Youhei answered

"well because the weather forecast said that it will snow all over Japan today"

"really? we better go to the train station pronto" Youhei said

And as fate would have it, a car stopped right before them then the windows were lowered

"Sunohara-senpai!" red head guy in the car called out to Youhei

"Uzumaki-san, what a pleasure seeing you here" Youhei greeted his junior in the company he is working

"well. Sunohara-senpai, there was a call for you at the office and the HR chairperson said that you were on a vacation leave, so I instead of heading towards the dormitory where you lived, I rushed here immediately" the Uzumaki said

"Who could've called me in the office and not reach me on my mobile phone" Youhei muttered

"Well who called?"

"It was a woman's voice, she identified herself as Furukawa" Uzumaki answered

"Sanae-san?"both Youhei and Mei said in unison

"What did she say?" Youhei asked, as he felt there was something wrong

"She said that Ushio-chan fell ill, the same sickness that Nagisa had, she thought that maybe Tomoya-san would push himself to the limit" Uzumaki relayed the message

"What!" Youhei shouted internally as the shocking news shook his very core

"Mei, would you still like to see Ushio-chan?" the blackhead asked his little sister

"All the more reason to do so niichan!" Mei said as she is seen visibly shaking, either from the cold or from the news, either way they need to go to Hikarizaka fast

"Umm, Uzumaki-san, can we hitch a ride towards the train station?" Mei voiced out

"Umm yeah sure, hop in" Uzumaki said as he invited the black haired siblings inside his car, to which the Sunohara siblings gladly obliged.

The trio, now headed towards nearest train station when a frustrating news from the car's radio was heard

"We interrupt your regular programming for this public advisory. Due to the approaching snow storm, all trains in Japan will not be operating for business. Those trains that are still traveling as this announcement is made, they will stop once they reach their next station"