Only a Nigthmare Chapter 3: Mirror
"This time your buchou saved you, but next time you are not going to be that lucky." With those words, Neji disappeared into the shadows, and the room became dark again.
Eiji was alone in the middle of a room with no one or nothing there, but in a moment, his friends appeared behind him, making him happy. Smiling, everyone began walking in the opposite direction of him, so he decided to follow them, but couldn't move. A figure suddenly appeared behind him. It was Neji, his dear brother, with an evil smile in his face and a knife in his hand.
"Eiji, now you don't have anyone to help you." Neji lifted the knife up. The acrobatic player looked at his friends and called to them. They turned around but were smiling as if nothing happened.
"Fuji, Oishi, Tezuka-buchou, look, Neji is here, and he want to kill me!" Eiji pointed to the guy behind him with a worried face. He was very scared and confused why his friends couldn't see Neji who was right behind him.
"Eiji, you are the only one there," Fuji said with his eyes closed, and everyone continued to smile. The hyperactive boy turned around to face his brother, but now Neji was wearing a Seigaku uniform, and had blue eyes and a bandage on his cheek, just like Eiji, who felt as if he were looking into a mirror. He turned back to his friends, who all seemed worried about him, as if he were crazy or something, then walked away. He looked back at his mirror image, and he saw the same figure, but now it had an evil smile.
"Eiji, Eiji , Eiji." Different voices were calling his name. He closed his eyes, then opened them again…
A blurry image of four people appeared in front of him.
"He is awake," one of the guys announced. "Oh Eiji, you scared us!" That voice sounded pretty familiar to the red-haired boy, so he close his eyes and opened them again to perfectly see the people around him. One of them was his best friend, Fuji Syusuke, who had some wet towels and his eyes completely open. He was looking at him with concern. The second figure was his doubles partner who was also worried, just like the mother-hen he was. He was next to the bed with a hand on his forehead. The third one was the stoic buchou, Tezuka Kunimitsu, with his usual poker face, and he was on the cell phone with Eiji`s family. The fourth person he saw was the nurse, who was checking his temperature and injuries.
"Guys, he is fine," the woman explained, walking to her desk. "He didn't have any deep injuries, and is a little bit weak, but nothing to worry about. He is going to be fine. He needs to rest a little, that's all" She then walked out of the room, leaving the four guys alone.
"What happened?" Eiji was really confused, and not sure about what had really happened before he fainted. He wanted to know now. The last thing I remember is that Tezuka-buchou was there and Neji hit me. Then everything in blank.
"Tezuka was on his way to the teachers' office when he saw the corridor completely dark," Fuji recounted, closing his eyes when he saw that his friend was able to talk to him. That was a sign that nothing serious really occurred. "He walked in and saw a guy hurting you. Then he found you weak and without a breath. He yelled at the boy who then left you, but you fainted, so he brought you here. He then called us, and we came as soon as possible. The nurse and we were checking and taking care of you until now."
"Who was that guy?" Oishi asked, worried and very nervous about his friend. He wanted to know who that guy was and why he wanted to kill Eiji. This was the first time someone tried to do something like that to him. He was a very sweet guy, which meant he had to have done something really horrible to someone to make him act like that.
"The guy…well I don't remember," Eiji lied, not wanting his friends worry about him or his family problems. Besides, he knew no one would believe him, and he didn't believe that he had a twin until he tried to kill him. I don't know if it is better to tell them or not. He thought, looking at his friends who were looking at him really sadly.
"Eiji, you are lying," the tensai contradicted, looking at the acrobat with his eyes completely open. "I'm your best friend so I know when you are lying. Tell us who that guy was. We'll believe you, don't worry." It was obvious that Eiji knew who that guy was and why he try to kill him, and he wanted to know and protect his best friend.
"That guy was….my……twin." Eiji finally gave up, knowing that it was useless to lie to Fuji. He was a tensai who knew him very well, so he looked at his friends and decided to tell them everything. Fuji's eyes were completely open, and he was scared and confused. Oishi was looking at him, baffled since he didn't believe what he just heard. It was impossible for Eiji to have a twin. He knew all of his doubles partner's family. Finally Tezuka stopped got off the phone when he heard those words. He was in shock: Kikumaru Eiji with a twin? It was impossible. Everyone look at the red-haired boy and decided to calm down, not wanting him to worry. Fuji closed his eyes, Tezuka called other guys, and Oishi smiled.
"Eiji, sleep for the next two hours, and we will come in at lunch to see and eat with you, okay?" the fukubuchou said. "Don't move, just relax and sleep. We have to go back to class. Fuji is going to take notes for you, and well, Tezuka and I will take care of you." He then headed out of the nurse's office behind Tezuka and Fuji who smiled and closed the door behind him. Eiji slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep….
Lunch time arrived and the three guys entered the room to find Eiji looking at the window, smiling. Together, they headed for the roof to eat. The rest of the day was normal. No one asked anything about that twin or why he want to kill Eiji, understanding that he didn't want to talk about it.
Eiji was late to tennis practice that afternoon, because the teacher gave him 15 more minutes to finish some work that he forgot to do. When he arrived at the clubhouse everyone was already on the courts. Tezuka told him to change before leaving to train with the others, so he nodded and ran to the clubroom. A few moments later all the regulars heard some strange noises from there, as if many things had fallen. Worried, everyone rushed towards the clubroom to see two figures in the Seigaku tennis uniform running out and fighting. Both of them looked exactly the same, with blue eyes, red hair, pale skin, and a bandage on the cheek. Everyone stared at the scene of two Eijis fighting against each other, and the first ones to react were Fuji and Oishi, who separated the two guys to calm them down.
"Fujiko, leave me," one of the Eijis ordered, trying to get free from the tensai's grip while the other Eiji sighed and looked at Oishi. "Leave me, Oishi, please." When both guys calmed down, Fuji and Oishi let them go, and all the other regulars saw that both of the guys in front of them were exactly alike: they looked and acted alike.
"Is this the twin you were talking about?" the tensai asked both of them, and they nodded at the same time and in the same way, their actions confusing the regulars even more.
"We need to find the real Kikumaru," Tezuka manged to say, recovering his composure. Everyone nodded and began asking the twins random questions, but both answered with the same expression and answer every time.
"This is the real Eiji." Fuji pointed to the twin at the right. Everyone looked with surprise at the tensai, wondering how he knew. The tensai was completely sure of his decision, and Eiji was very happy that his best friend recognized him. He smiled and hugged his friend, confirming to everyone that he was the real Eiji.
"How did you know I was the fake?" Neji asked, looking really confused at the brown haired guy.
"It was obvious since your eyes are lifeless, bored, and sad, the opposite of Eiji's, which are happy, hyperactive, and full of life and dreams," the tensai pointed out, looking at everyone who looked at each other, then at the twins. They realize that what Fuji said was true: Neji's and Eiji's eyes were different.
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