"Karamatsu-nii-san looks so weak."
"What are we supposed to do now?"
"I don't want him to be alone."
"You can't stay like this Kara. You have to wake up."
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up...
Karamatsu awoke the next morning in the same position he had fallen asleep in last night, eyes shooting open as he did, but to his surprise, none of his brothers laid on the futon with him. This fact made him sit upright, fast. He looked around the room quickly but his brothers clearly weren't there. Had they already gotten up? Had they even come to bed at all? Karamatsu wasn't sure. Even so, he crawled out of the futon and got dressed in his hoodie from before and then set himself to the task of folding up the futon before heading downstairs to find something to eat.
Once the futon was folded and put away, Karamatsu headed downstairs to the dining room. Instead of all of his brothers sitting there, no one sat. Karamatsu quickly searched the house in the same manner he had last night. No one else was there but himself.
It could be highly possible that they've all already gone out, but Jyushimatsu can't leave the house without informing a four block radius. Karamatsu thought. So where was everybody? Deciding it would be better to eat something for breakfast first before going out on a search he walked to the kitchen and set himself to work. Karamatsu had never been much of a cook, at least not in his brother's eyes. Then again, his brothers didn't usually seem to think much of anything about him so it's not like it mattered in this sense.
After cooking and eating his breakfast, Karamatsu set the bowl to the side, as a reminder to clean up after himself later and set out to find any of his brothers. He checked all of Ichimatsu's favorite alleyways, the local baseball park, even all of the local coffee shops and idol stages with no sign of his brothers. It was starting to near noon by the time he had finished his search and he still had no sign of his brothers or his parents. He needed some space, needed to clear his head. So he went to the local park. There was a bridge there where he liked to just relax and listen to the people pass. But to his ultimate surprise, the bridge was completely empty, save for one person.
The only one he could call an older brother.
Karamatsu froze at the end of the bridge when he realized that it was Osomatsu that was the lone occupant of the structure. After taking a minute to convince himself that he wasn't hallucinating, he dashed across the bridge only to stop in front of his older brother.
"Where the heck have you guys been!? And where is everyone else? I've been looking everywhere for you guys!" Karamatsu shouted. There was no one else in the park so he doubted he'd be really bothering anybody.
Osomatsu stared at him with a blank face for a minute before his trademark smile and scratching his nose.
"Karamatsu we've been here all this time, the question is where have you been?" Osomatsu asked, confused at his brother's behavior.
"I've been at the house. You guys weren't there when I went to bed last night and you weren't there all morning either. I was starting to think you guys skipped town or something." Karamatsu replied, regaining his composure.
"We couldn't leave one of our amazing brothers behind are you crazy! Besides, we clearly haven't skipped town. Or I haven't at least! You have nothing to worry about." Osomatsu reassured, throwing his arm around his younger brothers shoulders.
"You're kidding right?" Karamatsu looked at his brother with a dumbfounded look. "You guys hate me you'd skip town and leave me behind without a second thought why are you acting as though you wouldn't?"
Now it was Osomatsu's turn to look dumbfounded. "What are talking about Karamatsu? We could never do something like that! Sure we can get on each other's nerves a lot but we couldn't just leave like that and never come back and leave one of us behind. That's just harsh!" he laughed. Karamatsu simply looked at his brother, that wasn't right, was it?
"Come on! Let's go play some pachinko since you're here!"
"Osomatsu? Osomatsu-nii-san? Wake up you moron!" Choromatsu shouted at his older brother, watching the older brothers head snap up with half-lidded eyes.
Osomatsu rubbed his eyes with his free hand and looked up to the green-clad brother, his other hand still clutching Karamatsu's . "Hey Fappymatsu, what are you doing here? What time is it?"
"It's eight in the morning. You've been here with Karamatsu-nii-san all night. Get up we need to get you some breakfast and the doctors want to run a few tests." Choromatsu answered, an unamused look at his rather rude nickname being used in a public place as Jyushimatsu helped to lift his older brother from his chair and out of the room.
After getting some breakfast together at a nearby restaurant, the five brothers returned to the hospital and spent the day there talking about random events and what the other five had done upon leaving yesterday, trying to keep their older brothers up to date. The six of them spent the remainder of the day together in Karamatsu's hospital room. Despite the lack of any type of response or movement from the second brother, the remaining five found that they were having fun despite spending the day in a cold hospital room. Todomatsu took a lot of pictures, his goal was to make a giant scrapbook so that if Karamatsu ever did wake up, he wouldn't have missed a thing.
Choromatsu had brought a bag with him that day as it had been decided that he would be the next one to spend the night with the second oldest at the hospital while the rest went home once visiting hours were over. Despite Osomatsu's protests about him being the oldest brother and him making the calls, it was already decided by the rest of them. This was they would all get to spend at least one night with him and it would be fair so they were going in order from oldest to youngest. Osomatsu couldn't argue with that.
They still weren't sure if Karamatsu could even hear them, but if he could, they wanted to hear them cheering him on to wake up and if they could accomplish that, that was all that mattered.
