Reminiscent

Hazy

3rd POV (June 20)

Yesterday the Tokyo Manji Gang was formed, it would be a day where all its founding members would forever remember.

Mikey woke up with his mind being a little hazy, yesterday's event felt like it took place decades ago. He brought his little hands up to rub his eyes only to realise that there were tears coming out, at this point he was utterly confused, everything felt so surreal. He continued to wipe away the tears that were streaming down while staring at the ceiling, it took him a few minutes to come back to reality and everything that happened up to that point felt like a foggy dream.

'What was that all about?'he thought as he stood up holding his comfort blanket and dragging it all the way to the kitchen.

"Oh Manjiro you woke up all by yourself?"his grandfather asked looking up from his newspaper.

"Woah,"Emma looked at her brother in disbelief.

"How rare of you Manjiro,"Shinichiro said.

Upon seeing his family together he saw images he'd never seen before flash by, he felt a pang in his heart as his stomach churned. He gulped and backed away as his family looked at him, he took a 90 degree turn and went for the bathroom (in Japanese homes they usually share the bathroom and toilet). He slammed the door shut and slid down, holding his blanket close.

'??...what was that?'Mikey questioned as those images slowly faded away leaving nothing but confusion.

"Manjiro are you okay? Is there any problem? You know you can tell your brother?"

"W-what? Oh o-oh no, no there's nothing wrong, I ju-just wanted to shower?"Mikey answered, also unsure why he ran away.

"Sure...?"

"Yea,"

Shinichiro's POV

Something is up, there's definitely something wrong, a person can't change to that extent overnight. I mean how can the Manjiro wake up by himself and be so active?? This gotta be the mystery of the year that I have to solve.

"Well there's no school today so take your time,"

"Okay will do,"

Hm? What?? 'Okay will do'?? Not 'yeahhh!'?? This is getting serious, even his way of speaking has changed.

...

I did say to take your time but he's been in there for a bit over an hour, did he fall asleep again?

"Manjiro?"

"..."

"Manjiro??"

"Hm? What? Oh I'll be out in a second!"

His way of speaking is really giving me bad vibes.

"Oh okay?"

I went back up stairs to my room deep in thought, stubbing my toes on every few stairs. I reached for my phone and called Takeomi.

"You won't believe what happened, our little Manjiro is acting weird!"

<...Manjiro acting weird? I've never really seen him before but I've never heard about Manjiro being weird.>

"That's exactly my point! He's never been this way, it feels like there's a stranger in the house!"

<Well what do you suggest we do?>

"Stalk him."

<...what do you suggest we do?>

"Stalk him."