He felt like crying, he felt like attempting suicide. For all of these times he had longed for someone to love, he finally found her. But now, he's stuck in a nightmare, a horrid nightmare which he can't wake up from. Rukawa felt like he was lost, he didn't know where to go. His feet were moving fast, passing and bumping onto few people who were walking their way against his. The sky had truned grey, and it seems that it's gonna rain again any moments from now.

Rukawa kept running and running until the narrow path ends at a humble park that lays ahead of the road. He then slowed his pace and stopped, eyes still huge and round, yet blank and empty. His head were feeling dizzy, there were too many questions running in his mind, yet they were stumbled with his own thoughts.

Rukawa : I can't love her… nor touch her…

Suddenly he felt drops of water landing on his silky and straight hair that hungs down to his eyes. It dripped down to his chin, and soon enough his entire masculine body were soaked wet by the heavy rain. He didn't care enough about his wet clothes because his mind were still pointed sharp at his own thoughts. Those words, those sentences repeats again and again in his mind like a broken record.

He couldn't pull his tears back no more, and then he break down and cry, kneeling on the wet floor of the park in the midst of the heavy rain and fog. Nobody was there with him, he was all by himself wrapped by the blankets of darkness.

'Who are you?'

The little high-pitched tone of a girl broke his silence. Still sobbing with tears streaming down his face, he tilted his chin up a little to see who was standing there before him. His eyes noted a girl wearing a pink dress and carrying a lavender umbrella. In front of him knelt a man with ragged suit with a white hat.

Man : Little Misae-chan,it's me…

Girl : Who are you? I don't remember knowing anybody like you…

Man : It's me… Have you forgotten? I'm your uncle, Misae-chan…

Girl : Uso da!!!!! *jumps a few steps back* You look different, you don't look like him!

Man : *sighs* Misae-chan… It really is me… It's just… things change… Now I don't look like the way I used to do, like the way Misae-chan remembered me as, but inside I'm still your uncle, Misae-chan… Please believe me…

Girl : *frowns* Usotsuki! You're such a liar! You're not a stranger… You're just a stranger, a poor begger! Now get lost!*starts to run away*

Man : *stretches out his hands* Wait, Misae-chan!!!!! Wait… *he realized that her little girl, Misae's not coming back, so he dropped his head and looked down and started to cry*

Poor man, now his little girl called him a liar. Rukawa's eyes soften and his brows arched upwards in sympathy. He then started to think. Who is he really anyway? He can't be said as Sendoh Akira, for he's just stuck in his body, and now he's only playing the role as Kawaii Mayu, a disguise name for him to study in Shohoku. What will he be after all this lurid dream ended?

Rukawa : Am I just… a character in a script? *lowers his head*

Perhaps all of this is just a play that a person wrote in a book, and he's just playing a role. He's just reading and acting out the actions written. After this he'll get back to his original place, as the old Rukawa Kaede, and Nanao and the others wouldn't know him anymore. They won't call him and look at him as abrother anymore, he'll be a complete stranger.

As the rain poured heavier onto the outline of his body, he started to feel a little bit hot just on the area of his forehead and he felt his sight become blurry. His feet began to shake, he was standing unbalancedly. Then after a few minutes passed he collapsed to the floor, laying there motionless. Before he completely passed out, the last thing he know is that someone was calling out for him, but he couldn't tell who it was.

***

Keisuke : Look! At last awake!!

Machi : I told you he's strong… Oni-chan will recover from anything just in a few while!!!!!

Nanao : Yup, that's my Oni-chan!!

Koshino : *nerves began to crack on his head* A few while?! What are you little brats thinking about?! He was SLEEPING for at least 9 hours, I guessed! (shouting and hollering at the kids)

Rukawa : *sits up* Koshino? *stares at him in disbelief* What are you doing?

Koshino : (still in a risen-temper voice) What do you mean about that?! I'm the one who's supposed to ask you that sappy question!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! I mean…. Mmm… What were you doing…

Rukawa : *sweatdrop*

Nanao : Look, at first he yelled at us telling us about not knowing what we had said, and now he himself didn't know what he was saying either… *puts on cold eyes*

Machi : Koshino ni-san don't know much about good grammar, does he? *glares*

Keisuke : *nods nods* Yup… He got a both bad temper and bad english…

Koshino : *pissed* Will you guys shut up!?!??!!

Rukawa : Oi… Don't yell at them so much… *kinda annoyed with Koshino's carelessness*

Koshino : *clears his throat and turns to Rukawa* Sendoh!!!!!! How could you… how could you!?! You abandoned your responsibility as being a captain!!!!! And just then, what are you doing running blindly like that? And what makes you stupid enough to stand while it was raining?!

Rukawa : How did you know?

Koshino : Well at frst you were running towards me and hit me, I was late to school… I didn't know it was you caused you didn't have your anti- gravity hair… Then I followed you…

Rukawa : *looks uninterested* Oh did I?

Koshino : Yeah… The next thing I know is that I found you laying there cold on the floor with your clothes all wet. So then I carried you to your house and this girl opened up the door and let me in…

Rukawa : Chizu… Where is she now??

Koshino : Well she said she was going to her friend's place or something, I didn't really listen…

Rukawa : Chizu… *looks down*

Koshino : Anyways, why did you take so many absences lately?! You haven't attend any practices since Monday! We were all so worried about you… Anyways, You're a captain and you musn't do that! You're abandoning your responsibility as a captain, the team's leader….!!!

Rukawa : *rested his chin onto his hand* What's the matter? You can't handle them by yourself?

Koshino : *a vein popped out on his forehead* BAKA!! Not that!!! It's just that we got a practice game coming up next week!!!

Rukawa : *eyes turned wide* E…to… Practice game?

Koshino : *sighs* SENDOH! Didn't you heard what Taoka-sensei had said last Friday?! He mentioned about that game with Shohoku high!!

Rukawa : *looks aside in no interests* hm… Shohoku… *something pokes his mind* SHOHOKU HIGH?!

Koshino : *slaps his forehad with his palms* Fool… Didn't you listen?

Rukawa : Uhh… I wasn't paying any attention…

Koshino : *cries in disappointment* STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! Here's the deal… No matter what, you must come at tomorrow's practice!!! Or else I'll search for you all over Japan and decapitate you!!!!! GOT THAT?!

Rukawa : *sweatdrop* Huh?

Koshino : I think I made myself loud and clear… *clears his throat*

Nanao : Decapitate? *looks in the dictionary* You mean cut off his head? *eyes turned sharp and mean* Evil!! Koshino Ni-san is eeevil!!!!!!!!

Keisuke : Murderer!

Machi : Criminal!

Nanao : Sinful man!

Keisuke : Outlaw!

Machi : Devil!

Nanao : Bandit!

Koshino : CUT THAT CRAP OUT! *slams his hand on the floor* And you… *turns to Rukawa* I will be waiting for you at tomorrow's practice… Note that in your mind! *Points Rukawa's nose*

Kids : Leaaaaave leavee!!! Leaveeeee leavee!!!

Koshino : Oh my god… Those thoughts, they must come from you… Sendoh, as a brother, you have taught them bad bad thoughts…

Kids: (harder) Leaveeeee leaveeeeee!!!!!

Koshino : FINE! FINE I'm leaving!!! Happy with that?!

Kids : (more harder) LEAVEE LEAVEEEEEEE

Rukawa : *sweatdrop*

Koshino : *covers his ears* I'm leavingggggg.!!!!!!!! *runs out the door, angered*

a.n : This chapter is freaky… -__-; hehehe… Neways… Continue!!!