Karamatsu sat up, feeling a pounding in his head. He quickly brought his hands to his head and looked around.

"Where did everyone go?" He asked. He was sitting in the dining room the brothers all shared. There wasn't a soul in sight.

"I guess they all left without me again. Heh, I'll just have to catch up." He said rising to his feet. It looked dark outside which led him to believe they had all gone out to the public bath house. He dashed upstairs to get his things before coming back down and sliding on his shoes to head out the door.

Arriving at the bath house not long after, the second brother was shocked to find that the entire building was completely empty.

Karamatsu raised an eyebrow, "Where the hell is everyone?"

After spending time to wash his hair and clean up he left without another word and returned home. He returned his things to their proper place and searched the house, still not finding a single soul inside. Karamatsu was starting to get worried, it was one thing for his parents to be out this late, but to have all of his brothers missing as well was unsettling.

"What happened to everyone? What's going on?" He asked to nobody as he searched the house for the fifth time. Everything looked pretty normal. Nothing was out of place, so where were his brothers? Karamatsu thought a bit longer before rolling out the futon and heading to sleep. If his brothers were anywhere near here, they would be back before morning.


"Karamatsu Matsuno?" A doctor called out into the ER waiting room. The remaining five brothers quickly stood up from their seats and walked over. Since Osomatsu had ridden with Karamatsu in the ambulance, the others had come over as soon as possible and were there within the hour.

"Well? How is he?" Osomatsu had been deemed the one in charge of talking to the doctors until they were able to get a hold of their parents. Which was just fine since the others hadn't been taking the incident well at all and weren't exactly talkative.

"Mr. Matsuno is in a coma. He sustained several injuries including a severe blow to the head which appears to be the cause of his coma. Other than that he has received several bruises across his body which will heal in time and a fractured arm which is also expected to heal in time."

As soon as the word 'coma' had been mentioned, all of their heads had snapped up. They couldn't believe it. "Karamatsu is in a coma?!" They all had the same thought. It was a minute before Osomatsu cleared his throat to speak again.

"Can we see him now?" His voice cracked as the words slipped out.

The doctor nodded, "Of course. This way." The man pointed and led them off in a sperate direction.


The walk to the second brothers room seemed to take hours for each of the brothers. Jyushimatsu was clining to Ichimatsu the entire time and Todomatsu kept a firm grip on the eldest brothers hand. When they finally arrived in his room they were all shocked at how bad he really looked. With all the wires and nozzles and machines everywhere keeping him alive, it was hard to establish. Each of them walked over to his bed individually starting with Osomatsu.

They were all surounding his bed at this point. Ichimatsu and Choromatsu each took a hold of Karamatsu's hand.

"Karamatsu-nii-san looks so weak." Jyushimatsu was the first to break the awkward silence hanging in the air. Todomatsu nodded along with Choromatsu. Karamatsu didn't look like himself at all. No flashy clothing, no self-confident attitude, no anything. It was as if his entire personality had just vanished and no longer existed. It was scary to think about.

"What are we supposed to do now?" Choromatsu asked.

"What can we do? He's in a coma, it's not like there's a special treatment for comas out there." Ichimatsu replied.

"I don't want him to be alone on his first night here though." Osomatsu stated. "One or two of us should stay here with him until tomorrow."

The others agreed and after a bit of debate, Osomatsu had still earned the right to stay as the oldest brother. Once visiting hours came to a close, Osomatsu put Choromatsu in charge as the temporary "oldest brother" and sent them on their way. Although angry that they could not be the ones to stay they all said goodbye and wished them both a good night despite not knowing if Karamatsu could actually hear them or not and left.

Ososmatsu watched them leave before pulling up a chair beside his brothers bed and taking the youngers hand in his own. The older brother carefully watched Karamatu's chest rise and fall so he knew he was breathing.

"Hey Kara. I don't know if you can actually hear me or not. I've heard coma patients can hear everything that's being said to them but I never could tell for myself you know? I didn't know what to think when Jyushimatsu brought you home. Everyone started panicking and screaming for an ambulance. We were all really scared you weren't going to make it. Hell we still aren't sure. I mean, you're in a coma, you may never wake up for all we know. Oh God. You can't stay like this Kara. You have to wake up. I mean, how can we be the amazing sextuplets everyone knows with just five of us? Heh, you need to come back. For our sake." Osomatsu wasn't sure when he had started crying, and he wasn't sure when exactly he fell asleep either, but he never let go of Karamatsu's hand.