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F.Y.I. Just so you know, all this is from Shinogu's point of view.

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Chapter Fifteen: Shinogu's Dream

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Shinogu, still in his coma drifted off to a dream of his own.

His eyelids jolted upward, looking around with panic. Then he sat up, and he didn't feel a thing. Not the cuts, bruises or broken bones. Not the tubes that prickled his skin to machines. Nothing. He felt empty, void.

"Am I dead?" Shinogu asked himself. He didn't see anyone in the room, but he saw doctors and nurses walking by. Thinking he was alive, he yelled out, "Hey! Some one help me!" but no one heard.

"Nothing… does that mean I'm dead?" Shinogu pondered once more again. Then he stood up, turned around and saw his body on the bed. Then he looked at himself.

"I don't understand, how can this be?" Shinogu asked himself, appalled and confused. He touched himself, but his hand went through the body. So he was transparent, but did that make him dead or half alive? He looked at the heart monitor that was beeping. So he did have a pulse, but it was weakening. Now he was even more confused. Without a worry, he took a step forward and touched the wall. His hand went through it, so thinking that he was entirely translucent, he walked through it slowly. He appeared on the other side, seeing an information desk and so many doctors and nurses hurriedly walking by.

Like before with the calling out, no one seemed to notice a patient standing in the middle of a busy hallway. Shinogu walked slowly through the doctors and nurses, feeling nothing. He finally walked out of the hospital. He walked through streets, cars, stores buildings. He finally ended up at his old home, the apartment complex. The place where he had first fell in love with sweet Hatsumi.

"I should go check on her…" Shinogu suggested and he walked into the complex and somehow ended up in the kitchen of the Naritas. He looked around, trying to find someone, but it was empty. He didn't understand, so he gave up. He sighed and closed his eyes, and he heard a swishing sound and suddenly he was swept off his feet and back at the hospital. He looked around to identify where he was, and he found himself above his body in his room. Looking down he saw Hatsumi.

"Shinogu…" Hatsumi whimpered. She was shaking and sobbing quietly.

"Hatsumi… if you could only understand how I feel about you…" Shinogu thought to himself. He walked over to Hatsumi, and reached out to her, in the hopes that he would be able to at least touch her, if so, one last time.

Suddenly, without warning, Akane and Subaru barged in.

"Hatsumi! Here's your drink!" Akane announced, scaring her.

"Oh god! Akane, you scared me!" Hatsumi shuddered, taking the drink from Akane's hand into hers.

After a few minutes and when everyone was settled down, Shinogu decided to touch Hatsumi on her arm. Doing so, Hatsumi shuddered.

"Is it me, or is it suddenly cold in here?" Hatsumi asked Akane and Subaru.

"No, I'm warm, what about you Subaru?" Akane asked.

"Sweating, I'm taking my jacket off." Subaru replied, taking his jacket off.

"Maybe it's just me…" Hatsumi suggested.

'She does feel me! Well, just the coldness of me.' Shinogu thought to himself once more.

Watching Hatsumi, she never left his side, and how she never left the room for anything, not even the bathroom.

Finally, it ended up being midnight, and Hatsumi was very sleepy. She scooted the chair over to the wall and used the bed that he laid on as a pillow for her head. Still clutching Shinogu's hand, she fell asleep right there. Shinogu couldn't resist touching her one more time, even if she shuddered at the touch.

Leaning over her, still transparent and invincible, he let his hand graze her cheek. She smiled and cuddled more into the chair.

'She didn't... shiver?' Shinogu wondered. Now this was getting too weird. He had to stop it.

Closing his eyes and sighing once more, he felt he was being moved. Opening his eyes, he found himself in a different place, heck a different continent. There were houses on cliffs, shores of sparkling blue water, and white churches. Looking around he sees people singing, dancing, swimming, and doing all sorts of things.

Then it clicked in his brain. Greece. This was Greece. But why was he here?

'Why am I here? This has nothing to do with anything, or even Hatsumi! Wait, I do remember coming here… did I have a case here? No… I know it was a vacation early on… but what?' Shinogu pondered.

He looked around, and saw a small island off the shores of Greece.

'That's it! My island! It's still there! If I ever get better, I am coming here for a well deserved vacat-' Was all Shinogu was thinking off when he was swept off his feet once more and was met again with empty, hollow darkness.

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HollyWriter: Uh... I'm sorry to make you go through a lot of pain and suffering, but I am not that disturbingly evil... sorry! Lol you're really funny... and a little bit scary whimpers