~ Ryou ~

I couldn't feel a thing. Surely, this was death...I could feel nothing, hear, think nothing, but some and yet nothing made sense.

But...If I was truly dead, then how could I continue thinking?

"...Beep...Beep..."

I kept hearing a beeping noise, in my head.

Now I was really confused.

"...Beep...Beep..."

"Urgh..." I could feel myself groan. Would that beeping never cease?

"...Beep..."

"Thank Kami-sama, he's alive!" I heard someone shout.

No, I'm not dead.

Dammit.

I slowly opened my eyes, allowing the rays of light to shine right into them. "Urgh..." I felt myself groan and when I pulled up my left arm, to block the rays from coming in, but then I felt myself cringe, when I see something sticking out of my skin.

I give it a closer examination.

It's an IV.

"...Beep...Beep..."

It never stops...

The only way to get an IV in you, is to be in a hospital, so, how did I get in a hospital?

That's right...I had...

I cringed some more, before a doctor came in and explained to me, that I had probably been lost in my sorrow (somehow, they knew of mother and Amane's deaths...). They had expected this (I don't know how, are they psychic?) and that...

I couldn't hear them, anymore. My vision blurred, but before I completely blanked out, I could have sworn that I saw someone look at me, worryingly. Someone with icy cold, brown eyes, and with hair similar to my own.

I took one more glance at him.

Could it be...?

I felt myself lose conscience, once again.