I am so, so, so, SO sorry for the OMFG late updating. I've now concluded that one chapter for each of my (In-progress) stories will be updated every Saturday. That gives me enough time every week to work on future chapters.

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Chapter 2

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"I'm alright, Shishido…"

Shishido frowned. "I told you to call me Ryou from now on, Gakuto." He leaned forward and kissed Mukahi.

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Shishido gave a small peck on Mukahi's cheek then pulled back, smiling. Mukahi hid his eyes under his bangs so it was hard to see his expression. Choutarou looked like as if he was going to cry, and Oshitari was having great difficulty controlling his fists from injuring a patient and teammate. The others were rooted to their spots in the room.

The room went into a very awkward silence…

Luckily, the doctor chose this moment to walk into the room and nudged the Regulars to follow him outside. They all followed silently.

"I hope that I wasn't interrupting anything?" The doctor asked.

Atobe cleared his throat. "Anyway, what did you want to talk to us about?"

"Well, first off, did anyway of you mention anything to Shishido-san about the present time?"

Everybody replied, "No,"

"Good, if you guys did, his brain would suffer more damage."

"Why is that?" Mukahi croaked out.

"Right now, Shishido-san's brain cannot handle the sudden pressure of his previous memories. It will take time for the memory part of his brain to heal."

"Wait, does this mean Shishido is stuck thinking that it was last year for a while?"

"Yes -…" The doctor looked at his pager. "I need to visit a patient. I'll be back soon." The doctor left the Regulars to another silence.

"Yuushi…I think I might need to explain…" Mukahi whispered quietly but loud enough for everybody else to hear.

"Yes you do, Mukahi…" Oshitari replied coldly. "What is happening between you and Shishido?"

Mukahi winced at the tone of his voice. "Well, there was something. You heard the doctor, right? Shishido thinks its last year…which means he would remember those times…"

Oshitari blinked confusedly. "What times?"

Mukahi sighed. "Yuushi, I…I…was going to tell you this soon but I was afraid that -…"

"What are you talking about?" Oshitari said impatiently.

"Mukahi-senpai, what exactly are you talking about?" Choutarou joined the conversation.

"Shishido and I…were together…last year…" Mukahi whispered. Memories of last year, which he had forced himself to forget, began flashing through his eyes again. He inwardly whimpered at one of the memories.

The regulars, once again, fell into a deep and eerie silence.

Choutarou was shocked, which was a complete understatement compared to how bad his brain was malfunctioning. He felt slightly hurt by the fact that his boyfriend didn't even tell him that he used to date one of their teammates. He felt like as if Shishido didn't trust his reaction to the situation. It was not like he would act like Oshitari and tackle the other person to the ground, beating him into nothing.

Well, he would do that if we wasn't a religious and sane person who loved and cared for every single person on Earth, despite the fact that they're enemies.

Atobe cleared his throat, breaking the silence. The silence moments were getting too common for his tastes. "Anyway, that explains lots of things that happened last year."

Mukahi looked up with a quizzical expression. "This explains what?"

"Like, the two of you never separated from each other and there were times when you both disappeared suddenly after club activities"

"Oh, yeah…" Mukahi resumed staring at the ground while the memory of that time showed itself.

"Come on, Gakuto, we can still go while the others are in the shower." Shishido smirked.

"But I'm tired, Ryou! That Atobe made us do 50 laps and made ME do an extra 10…" Mukahi whined.

"Aww, please…"

"No matter what you do, I'm not going to follow you out…"

"So, if I do this…" Shishido whispered then flicked his tongue over Mukahi's lips. "…and this…" He kissed his slender neck. "…or do this…" He lightly caressed the skin underneath Mukahi's uniform. "…would you still be too tired to follow me?"

"Fine, but, I want to eat dinner at our secret place tonight…" Mukahi pouted.

"So, take out it is…" Shishido grabbed Mukahi's hand and walked away from everybody else.

Mukahi mentally berated himself for remembering that memory. He was supposed to forget it…everything that included him and Shishido. It was, anyway, something that he was asked to do.

"Let's forget…Let's forget…Let's forget…Let's forget…"

"-kahi! Mukahi!"

Mukahi immediately snapped out of his thoughts and looked up to see Atobe looking him down.

"We had to call you 5 times to snap you out of your daydreaming…" Atobe scoffed.

"O-Oh, sorry…"

The doctor came trailing back, looking flustered. "Sorry for taking so long, anyway, to the topic we were discussing about. As I was saying, Shishido-san can't immediately remember the new memories, so, you guys, as his friends, must play along."

"Wait, play along?" Choutarou asked.

"Um, another way of saying it is…pretend that you were the people from last year. So, if he was best friends with that person last year, he has to pretend that he still is his best friend. And the people that he didn't know last year but has recently befriended him, I suggest that you act as new students or friends of friends…"

Choutarou flinched, Mukahi choked on air, Hiyoshi looked down, Atobe sighed, and Jirou looked sympathetically at the 2nd years, Oshitari patted Mukahi's back and Kabaji just remained still.

Mukahi recovered from choking then looked up at Oshitari with tears threatening to fall. "Yuushi…this means…"

"I understand, Gakuto. This is for the sake of our teammate, alright?" Oshitari murmured.

"For how long do we have to play along, doctor-san?" Atobe questioned.

"About 3 and half months should be enough time for Shishido-san's brain to heal and it should be around the time when memories would come flooding back, piece by piece." The doctor smiled. "Visiting Hours are going to end soon, so you should quickly say goodbye to Shishido-san and head off back home."

"Come on; let's tell Shishido that we're leaving…" Atobe said and walked back into the room. Everybody followed.

"Shishido-kun, we're going back now, see you tomorrow…" Jirou smiled.

"Ah, wait, I wanted to ask…who they were." Shishido moved his head to Choutarou and Hiyoshi's direction.

Choutarou had braced himself for this moment since he heard about the possibly of memory loss but he couldn't help but to feel his world shatter.

Oshitari spoke up, "They're the new students in our class and when they heard that you were in an accident, they decided to drop by, being the caring and kind people they were."

Choutarou smiled softly while Hiyoshi inwardly gagged at the comment of him being 'caring and kind'.

Shishido glared at Oshitari. "I didn't ask you…Anyway, why is he here?"

The Tensai seemed unfazed by the glare but was confused of why Shishido hated him so much. Did he do something to him last year?

"Don't worry, Shi-Ryou, he's alright…" Mukahi spoke up.

"Gakuto, how can you be alright with him after what he did to you?!"

Everybody looked curiously at the conversation between Shishido and Mukahi. All of them were wondering along the same lines, what did Oshitari do?

Mukahi sighed. "Ryou, please…"

"Fine," Shishido grumbled.

"Anyway, we're going home now. Goodbye, Shishido." Atobe said and left, along with everybody else behind him.

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"Gakuto, why exactly did Shishido hate me?" Oshitari questioned. He and Mukahi were alone in one of his limos, on their way back to Mukahi's place.

"It was nothing. Shishido just didn't like your guts last year…" Mukahi smiled.

"Okay…" Oshitari inwardly frowned at the answer. He wasn't deaf and he was certain that Shishido said that he (Oshitari) had done something to Mukahi, but he just couldn't remember what.

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And for the second time, I'M SO OMFG SORRY!

I know that it's kind of boring but this gets interesting during the next few chapters.

You people must be wondering how Choutarou is going to handle the fact that his own boyfriend doesn't know him. Don't worry, with his sanity, Choutarou is going to be just fine…for now.

Ooh, what did Oshitari do to Mukahi in the past? o.0

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SPOILER FOR CHAPTER 3

"Ryou, wait, please…"

"I love you…"

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