Haruichi was super nervous about visiting the hospital, he just didn't know how he was going to face his friend. He shuddered remembering his dream where he witnessed his friend dying, there was no way he was going to let that happen. He looked around him, Kuramochi, Miyuki, Furuya were with him but the most reassuring thing for him was that his brother was there as well.
As he was walking down the corridor, he felt bad for leaving his friend all alone yesterday. He had wanted time to himself to think about Sawamura's condition and he knew he was hurting his friend but he didn't know how to face him.
Today was different though, after Ryosuke had showed them the reports, they had spent the night scouring through papers that would help them solve the mystery. He just hoped that Eijun wasn't mad at them and would listen.
Kuramochi was also anxious, yesterday's search had helped to resolve some of the mystery but he still had no idea what part he played in all of this. There had to be a reason other than the fact that he was roommates with the pitcher.
Furuya walked silently by Haruichi's side, his head still swimming with all the information they had learnt last night, slowly trying to piece it all together. Half wondering when his life got so crazy.
Ryousuke turned around and noticed that his brother wasn't looking confident and walked to his side "What's up, Haruichi?"
Haruichi looked at him and shook his head, whatever he was feeling was irrelevant. Eijun was suffering more than him so he had no right to complain.
Since last night after he went back to his room, Miyuki had once again dreamt about his past but this time there was more detail, if was as if the information he found out was feeling in the gaps in his vague memory. Looking at Ryousuke, he was sure that he would asked about it later along with Mei. He wouldn't put it pass him to do something like that.
…..
"Raichi, what's going on?" Sanada didn't know what had gotten into his hyper kouhai. As soon as they entered the room, Raichi started shouting Sawamura's name which wasn't exactly surprising but it looked like Raichi was actually having a conversation with thin air.
Mei stood at the corner watching the scene. Yesterday, when Ryousuke had glared at him and made them promise to meet them in the hospital, he was sure that the pink head would make him talk. But before that, he was going to scold Kazuya for abandoning his pitcher.
Masa also stood by Mei's side wondering what he did to deserve being dragged into such a mess. He had a lot of things to work out such as preparing for the pros so why was he here babysitting his ex-battery partner.
"Sawamura." Sawamura recognized the voice immediately but did not respond. It was just going to same no matter how many times he tried, all he could do was pass through them and make them shudder. It would be a lot easier if he could fly out of the room or talk to them.
So it came as a surprise, when Raichi was actually standing in front of him, waving his hand in front of his face. "Oi, Sawamura can you hear me?" It was almost as if Raichi could see him.
"You can see me?" He asked.
"Kahaha, what are you saying. Pitch to me."
Now that wasn't what he was expecting at all, he was thankful but it would have been a lot more helpful if someone like Harucchi were the one who could see and talk to him. Raichi was as much an idiot as he was. But why was it that Raichi could see him now?
The door to the hospital room opened again to reveal the Seido members. Ryosuke looked around "I see we're all here, good."
"What's he doing?" Miyuki asked, pointing at Raichi.
"I'm not sure, he just started talking to thin air." Sanada replied.
Sawamura turned to see his friends standing there and quickly went as far away from them as possible. He wasn't going to be nice and forgive them for yesterday.
"Sawamura, where are you going?" Raichi shouted and chased after.
"Oi Sawamura, stop running away." Kuramochi was heard shouting and following after Raichi.
Ryosuke watched in amusement at the wild chase going on in the room and the look of confusion on everybody else's faces. "Well this is certainly fun."
"Aniki, can you see him?" Haruichi asked and his brother nodded.
Furuya was watching with his eyes, wondering if he was half asleep.
"What's going on?" Miyuki had walked up to Mei's side and Mei just shrugged his shoulders.
Sanada found himself next to Masa. "I give up; I can't handle him."
"Try being a battery." Masa added, still wondering what he was doing there.
Sanada laughed "Aa, that would be worse."
They soon fell into a companionable silence as they watched the chaos unfold.
"Sawamura, I suggest that you stop running and listen to what we have to say." The amusement in Ryousuke's voice was not lost. Sawamura gasped and stopped running, he didn't want to anger Ryosuke.
"Wait a minute, why can I now see that idiot." Kuramochi had been furious when he saw his roommate run away that it only came to him how weird that was.
"Did you hit your head on the wall. There's nothing there." Miyuki asked.
"Huh, Sawamura's right there." Kuramochi pointed to where Sawamura was standing.
Ryousuke placed a hand on Kuramochi's shoulder "Ma, calm down. I think the only ones that can't see him are those four."
"Eh?"
"Onni-chan?" Sawamura wailed.
"Calm down, Sawamura." Ryosuke said "The answers pretty simple. We all can see the supernatural." His smile widened at the disbelieve on their faces.
"Awesome." Raichi shouted.
"But Aniki?"
"Haruichi, see I always told you we were special."
"That doesn't make sense, if you could do that, then why didn't you see him earlier?" Sanada asked. Now that was a good question.
They turned to look at his body and saw that his bodies condition was improving. So when they first came in, Sawamura's condition was so bad that they could only feel him and now that he has improved they could see him. That was the only explanation.
"Then why can't Kazuya and I see him. We felt him too." Mei demanded.
Ryousuke looked at him "Maybe cause your hiding something."
At that Mei went to hide behind Masa again.
"Hmmmm, doesn't matter anymore, not like you guys care."
"Huh, what did you say Bakamura?"
"Why didn't you come yesterday?"
At that Kuramochi, Furuya and Haruichi looked down in shame and apologized.
Ryousuke clapped his hands "Now that that is done with, we can get down to business."
The people who weren't there last night wondered what Ryousuke was on about.
"Sawamura have you heard about the previous case?" Ryosuke began.
Case. Sawamura didn't know what he was talking about until he remembered what the nurses had talked about last night and nodded. "But not in detail."
"Well, Narumiya and Miyuki can enlighten us on that then."
Miyuki sighed "Sawamura, you can hear me right? Then listen carefully because I'm not going to say it again."
Sanada and Masa who trying to stay away grew curious and joined them. Even Raichi, had stopped shouting.
"Our friend Hikaru got into a similar accident and also ended up like you." Miyuki began. "We think that this might have happened because he saw something that he shouldn't have."
"What does that have to do with me?" Sawamura shouted.
"Eijun-kun." Haruichi tried to stop his friend but was too late and watched his friend phase thought his senpai. He had to say it was strange.
"You really don't listen to me do you, Sawamura."
"Hmmh, be like Chris-senpai."
"Sawamura. Let Miyuki finish." Ryousuke turned to Miyuki "You can continue now." Miyuki wondered what Sawamura looked like now.
"After the accident, he lost his memory and we think that is the reason why he was after you."
"Wait, that doesn't make sense. It could have been anyone?"
Mei took out a photo and showed it to them.
"Sawamura."
"Eijun-kun."
"Me."
Both Mei and Miyuki shook their heads. "That's Hikaru."
They all blinked and stared at the photo again. They knew the saying that there are 3 people in the world who look like you but this was too much.
"Oi, why didn't you tell us this before." Kuramochi marched up to Miyuki.
"I just remembered that's why."
"You and your lousy memory."
Furuya blinked and blinked again, he couldn't believe that picture wasn't his rival. "This really isn't that idiot?" He asked.
"This means that Komatsu Ren thought that Eijun-kun was Hikaru and wanted to get rid of him."
"That's the only explanation for why Sawamura was involved."
"But how did he know that he was going to the sky tree?" Furuya spoke up after being quite for so long. His question however was left unanswered.
"Haruichi, did you tell anyone you were visiting the sky tree?" Ryousuke saw his brother shake his head. "Hmm, looks like we have a traitor in our hands."
…
Sawamura was excited to leave the hospital room, he had been cooped up in that room for far too long. Ryousuke had suggested that he tried leaving the room and surprisingly he had manged to get out. It must have also been because his condition was better. Before he left though, he saw his parents come to visit him and smiled. He chatted with everyone who could see him as he followed them back to the dorm.
The four who couldn't see him didn't say a word. Masa didn't want to get more involved it was already too crazy. Sanada on the other hand found it interesting, he always knew that Raichi said he saw things but never thought that there were others like him and not only that it was someone he knew.
Miyuki and Mei's thoughts were however more complicated. They were both wondering if Sawamura would forgive them. They still had not told anyone about it but they were still hiding something.
…..
"I received a message from Ryousuke." All the third years who had visited the southpaw pitcher gathered around Yuki.
Sawamura's improving and the mystery seems to be solved but now we need to find this traitor and when we do he is so dead.
No one understood what the Ryousuke meant, all they could tell from it was that Ryosuke was angry. Since their visit yesterday, Ryosuke had asked them for their help in investigating Komatsu Ren and they had been searching for hours but still came out empty.
"This is." Everyone crowded around Chris and were surprised by their discovery. They could not believe it, there in one of the Seido yearbooks they saw the man that had run over their southpaw pitcher and what's more was that he was also in the baseball club.
Jun quickly walked away from the book and teared up the pieces of paper nearby. There was just no way he was going to accept his senior did something so terrible. They had already heard from Ryousuke beforehand that what happened to Sawamura was not an accident.
…..
Kuramochi couldn't concentrate on his game at all, it was already distracting enough with Sawamura being back in the room and all but he was also conscious that Sawamura was something like a ghost. It also didn't help that Furuya's question was still in his mind. Sure, they might have solved one problem but there was always another one.
"Aaaaaaah, where's all my hair." He heard.
"You really are an idiot." Kuramochi had to resist the urge to wrestle his roommate. He was sure it would not do anything.
"What there was no mirror in the hospital room." Sawamura defended.
"Aa whatever." Kuramochi had to wonder how he could have missed his idiot roommate.
Miyuki entered the room "What do you want?" Kuramochi asked but did not turn away from his game. "And for the record I'm not helping you talk to him."
"Sawamura did something dumb didn't he?"
"He just discovered his bald."
Miyuki started laughing "Hahaha, such an idiot."
"Miyuki Kazuya, I will show you I'll be a better ace than Tanba-senpai."
"Oi, Kuramochi what kind of idiotic thing did he say just now?" "
"Miyuki, get out now."
"Fine, I'll leave you two alone. Have fun." Miyuki left the room before Kuramochi could retort. He was glad that he could act normal. He wasn't going to show that he was actually feeling really guilty.
Kuramochi and Sawamura watched Miyuki leave. "Sawamura, having a bald head does not equal being Tanba-senpai. Besides you still need your body back baka."
At that Sawamura shouted at his senpai while Kuramochi tried to ignore him. He wasn't sure but he felt like Miyuki was hiding something.
….
Haruichi was happy that he could talk to Eijun again, he had been really worried that he would never be able to do that again but his friend still wasn't back to normal. He wanted to be able to play baseball with him again.
"Aniki, do you think that if we figure all this out Eijun-kun will return."
Ryosuke replied "That's the plan." But his attention was mostly focused on the piles of paper on the floor. He had turned Haruichi's room into his investigative office.
Noticing his brother's attention was somewhere else, he continued helping his brother search for more clues.
Furuya had fallen asleep along the way.
