Chapter 1

SAWAMURA'S STRANGE DREAM

The crowd outside the Seidou baseball field let out a collective sigh of relief as cheers of the final strikeout of the inning erupted through out the place. Seidou's ace, Sawamura Eijun struck out batter after batter in every innings and most often the young boy roared to victory. People were clapping their hands, yelling, cheering, screaming.

"Oi, Wolf-boy! Aren't you happy? We won!" Sawamura grinned.

"But it was just a practice game, Sawamura senpai." Okumura said in a serious tone.

Everyone were delighted and thrilled by how much Sawamura the new Ace of Seidou seemed to have improved but no matter how much he might have improved, Kuramochi was still kicking his ass for fun.

"You have improved much since the season have started. However, I have noticed a few things. I need to talk with you in my office right now." Coach Kataoka said.

"Yes, Boss!" Sawamura nodded.

"Good game guys, we will resume tomorrow. Go now and rest." Coach Kataoka added.

One by one, people who were watching the game began to leave the field, talking and laughing about the boys' performances. But there's a young man who choose to be left behind and stay for a few moment to watch the young boy. This man is fascinated by Seidou's second year ace pitcher, Sawamura Eijun.

He watched and observed the young boy every day on the field, and every time he saw that boy, it was like a thunder thrust into his heart. He knew the boy better than the others. He collected every Sawamura's pictures he had found in the newspaper and secretly snapped pictures of Sawamura over the months then hanging them in the wall.

He had been watching Sawamura up early every mornings, jogging alone, sometimes running with tyres. Then, Sawamura disappear every afternoon because of school and reappear later on the baseball field. And when night comes down, the young man went back to the field to see if he could catch another glimpse of the boy. More weeks have passed, he continued to secretly watch the ace player, loving every minute, but hated the fact that Sawamura was surrounded by the other young boys. He's really obsessed with Sawamura and he thought if he could friend the boy, Sawamura could trust him.

"You're my obsession, Eijun-kun. I didn't give up on you." the man said to himself.

The young man had sent Sawamura a gift and a note in his school locker which said 'I am your fan! Ganbatte, Eijun-kun!'

Sawamura thought someone was just making fun of him, so if he ignored them, they would soon get tired and stop sending him a gift. Since that day, he felt like someone watching his every movement. Part of it was his wariness, but the other part was curiosity. Most of the time Sawamura was just trying to convince himself that this thing wasn't a threat to him. He once talk about this matter with the other boys but they just teasing him non-stop especially Kuramochi and Miyuki.

"I'm telling the truth!" Sawamura annoyed.

"Are you a moron or just stupid?" Kuramochi rolled his eyes.

"That's the same thing!" Sawamura yelled.

"That's ridiculous! Who could give you a gift and a love letter? She probably put in the wrong locker." Miyuki smiled.

"That was supposed to be in Furuya's, right?" Maezono laughed.

"That's not a love letter and how come it should be for Furuya?! I saw my name written there!" Sawamura said.

"By the way where's the gift and the note, Sawamura senpai?" Yui asked.

As Yui asking this, everyone turned to stare at Sawamura.

"Well, actually, I threw it away." Sawamura said with sweat-drops from his face.

Sawamura stand up from the chair while everyone speechless. He actually felt a death-glare by Kuramochi. He was very scared when he saw how mad everyone was, well, except for those first years. They thought he was lying and making a story and Sawamura knew he was in for a good wrestling by his senpai Kuramochi, so he try to ran back to his dorm room as fast as his legs could carry him but Kuramochi was quicker with his legs. He kicked poor Sawamura in the ass till he yowl and howl in pain but no one came to rescue him.

"Ouch! It's hurt, Kuramochi-senpai!" Sawamura yelled in agony.

"Are you serious, Eijun-kun? I don't know what to think about that." Haruichi grinned.

"Idiot." Furuya nodded.

"Senpai, please stop it." Asada concerned.

"Served him right!" Kanemaru said.

"Now, I shan't be able to sit in the class for a week!" Sawamura wept.

"That ought to teach you a valuable lesson. Stop making your own nonsense story, Bakawamura!" Kuramochi said with his evil eyes.

"I'm not lying!" Sawamura cried.

"Shut-up!" Kuramochi yelled as he headlock Sawamura.

That night, Sawamura couldn't sleep because of the muscle pain, so he checked his phone and play Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyou Series to get some relief until he couldn't remain conscious long enough to think about the stranger who give him a gift. His eyelids fell shut and soon he drifted off into sleep from which he was unlikely to awaken him soon.

He dreamed someone was breaking into their dorm room to get him and there's a stranger covered his mouth. He tried to yell but found he couldn't make a sound. The stranger began to drag him toward the vehicle but he kicked at the man and was able to break free and the stranger drove off. Then, he found himself running in a dark unknown place that he didn't recognize. It looked like an underground cave, but somehow he could tell that he was deep underground as in so deep that he couldn't dig to the surface even if he wanted.

Afterwards, Sawamura was too tired to keep running, so he instead stopped for a while and took a deep breath. Then, he saw himself and Kuramochi walking together in front of him.

"Remember what I said, Bakamura. Make sure you're back at dorm before 7 pm." Kuramochi said.

"Yeah, yeah, I know! Can you please stop reminding me that, Kuramochi-senpai?" Sawamura groaned.

"And don't talk to strangers, Tokyo is very scary nowadays." Kuramochi said. "You have our numbers in case anything happens, right?"

"Geezz... Yeah! Yeah!" Sawamura pouted.

Sawamura just watched them walking until they disappeared from his sight. He eyed his surroundings and noticed the changes. Then, he eyed a small gray house which suddenly appeared with four digits number in the red door.

"1425?" Sawamura murmured.

He found the door ajar and slowly pushed it to open. The place was a little mess. There was pictures of the young boy scattered everywhere and broken glass. The tables and chairs were turned over. He saw the light switches behind the counter and decided to switched them all on. He opened another door to the side and walked inside. The room was empty except there was a body underneath the table, he moved the table and found a young boy's unconscious body. The boy was in bad shape with blood in his head.

"Sawamura!" someone called.

"Ehh?" Sawamura confused.

"Sawamura Eijun!" someone called again.

He heard footsteps like someone's walking towards the room. He stepped out of the room and slowly closed the door where he found the young boy. Suddenly, he saw another boy walking towards him, closer and closer.

"Sawamura Eijun, don't go out alone. " the young boy said.

Shortly after the very disturbing dream, Sawamura woke up and covered in sweat. He knew this dream could be a forewarning, but Sawamura did not know why. He told Asada and Kuramochi the meaning of his dream but he did not get a proper answer from them but he could not get the face of the young boy out of his mind. The boy in his dream look like the former captain of Seidou, Yuki Tetsuya but with blond hair and blue eyes and he's wearing a baseball uniform. Sawamura's dream kept coming back to his mind again and again even in the middle of modern Japanese subject. He could not shake it off. It bothered him so much and he could not concentrate on anything especially coach Kataoka was currently teaching in front of them.

"The Boss always watched his students as they went up and down... to make sure that we were paying attention to his subject..." Sawamura said to himself "If a student like me... happened to fall asleep in the middle of his class—"

Until his head fall to the table and drifted into sleep for a few minutes but coach Kataoka noticed him.

"Sawamura, wake up." Kataoka said as he walked closer to Sawamura who did not open his eyes.

Kanemaru rise from his chair and decided to gently nudge Sawamura's shoulder.

"Hey, It's time to wake up, Sawamura!" Kanemaru said while gradually raising his voice.

But Sawamura didn't twitch. Kataoka frowned and everyone became nervous. Kanemaru shook Sawamura a bit harder.

"Sawamura, wake up! Coach was getting mad!" Kanemaru annoyed.

He then touched Sawamura's forehead and it was burning hot. Kanemaru wondered how long Sawamura had been ill.

"He's burning up, sir!" Kanemaru said.

The entire class was in shock. Everyone went quiet and you could hear nothing but Sawamura's moaned from pain.

NOTE:
Hello guys! Since 'Our Future Ace' fanfic finished already, I decided to write another fanfic about (torturing again) Sawamura. For now, I'm still thinking if I should kill Sawamura in the story since I'd already killed him in my other fanfic. I'm so sadist right? Well, thank you for reading this story.