teenager woke in a white room with an IV sticking out of his left arm, and of course to the beeping noise on the pulse reader. The teenager noticed his body was heavily bandaged: his ribs and head especially, also that his left leg was propped up by some mechanism on the ceiling.

He groaned with a slight move of his body. When the room wasn't blurry anymore, the teen saw a bunch of flowers and "Get Well" balloons.

He vaguely realized that he had been sleeping for a long time. But how long? He didn't know. His memory was a bit foggy as well, yet he knew there was something important he hadn't done.

His senses being slowed with the anesthetic and all, it took him a bit of time to become aware of the girl whose head was on the edge of the hospital bed; sleeping. The teen wondered why she was there…who she was. She looked familiar, but that's all the teen understood. The teen grew drowsy again and fell asleep. When he woke, the girl was gone.

"Where am I…?"

He heard a voice and looked towards the door. A nurse noticed his awakening and was calling for a doctor. This confused the boy. Why would you call a doctor if someone woke up? Don't you only call a doctor when a patient's pulse is slowing?

"Doctor! His pulse…!"

The boy then realized that the nurse hadn't seen him wake up, but had noticed his pulse weaken. Why was his pulse weakening? The boy wondered. Hadn't he woken up?

"Sensei…where…am I…?"

The boy desperately tried to ask. However…no sound came from his lips. He also discovered that he was watching this, not living it, but watching it.

It's said that this experience can happen to a patient in a coma, but it's very uncommon. The teen read his name on the clipboard attached to his hospital bed. Sena Kobayakawa, it read.

The heart monitor beeped in the normal pattern, indicating that his life had been saved.

"Sensei, this boy has been in the ICU since he was admitted here two weeks ago. And he only has these 'seizures' every three to five days...I think we can move him," A nurse said.

"No, we'll leave him there. His rate of going from stable to critical in a matter of hours is a problem, and what's worse is that it keeps occurring. He stays there, Christina."

"Yes, sir."

Sena couldn't believe it. He'd been unconscious for two weeks? Sena's "ghost" walked back to his body in the bed and wondered how to get out of this creepy experience. Falling asleep was the best he could come up with, so that's what he did. Sena willed himself to wake up: in his real body that is. He didn't like being so helpless. But, as fate would have it, Sena woke up as his "ghost" again.

Ghost Sena saw a tall, built man, wearing a white and blue uniform. The uniform read: Ojo White Knights. The man was rather good-looking and had dark hair. From what little Sena remembered this man was Seijuro Shin, ace linebacker for the Ojo Knights football team.

"Eyeshield 21. You look quite pitiful like this. I'd hoped we would meet again, but it seems due to an unforeseen accident, you missed the game and the Devil Bats forfeited. Not necessary, but, they did. The doctors say it's a miracle you're alive, and that it's doubtful you'll ever run again: such a shame, losing that much talent. I do hope you make a good recovery, however. Well…I guess…goodbye." And with that the man left.

Sena was confused. Who was Eyeshield 21? Wrong room, Ghost Sena supposed. Ghost Sena fell back asleep and hoped that next time, he really would wake up as himself; whole.

A/N: OMG I AM SOOOOOO SORRY! *grovels to all readers*

i know it has been 2 years-*winces*-and i KNOW it's short...but chapter 3 WILL be out quicker i PROMISE. i left a bunch of you guys hanging-don't kill meeee T.T-and i am SOOO sorry for that. so if you guys haven't given up on me-this is to all you readers for stickin to me even tho i went on hiatus for so long.

please enjoy! ^^