Ichimatsu opened up his eyes, laughing loudly as he sat around the living room table with his brothers. Karamatsu slapped him on the back, laughing so hard he was crying.

"That's a very good joke, my dear brother, Osomatsu!" he laughed, throwing some potato chips into his mouth.

"Osomatsu..?" Ichimatsu thought, looking around the room. Todomatsu was sitting on the sofa, texting as usual. Karamatsu was right beside Jyushimatsu as they cracked jokes together. Choromatsu was reading a magazine as he ate some of the potato chips in the bowl. And there sat Ichimatsu in the corner of the room, cuddling Harvey in his arms.

And at that moment, Ichimatsu felt strange urges and things he had never felt before. It seemed so wrong to be in his brother's body, literally controlling his soul, yet at the same time, he wasn't Ichimatsu. He was seeing the world through his brother's eyes.

"Say," Osomatsu began, rubbing under his nose. "why don't we go pay Chibita a visit? I really want some oden right now!"

"Great idea, nii-san!" Jyushimatsu exclaimed, jumping to his feet, walking around the room back and fourth excitedly.

"My brother, your feelings for Chibita are like my feelings for," Karamatsu began, but was quickly cut off my Choromatsu.

"I think I'll stay home with Ichimatsu. He doesn't look like he wants to go anywhere tonight," he said.

"Tch..." Ichimatsu spat, pulling Harvey closer to his chest. "Who ever said that I didn't want to go out?"

"I need to lead my brothers in the right way..." Osomatsu thought, his heart beginning to beat at an unsafe pace. "I need to protect them..I want to help Ichimatsu. He just never seems any better! Ever since he got his memories back, everything has just gone downhill...and there's nothing I could possibly do to cheer him up! I need to say something to him at least. But whenever I try to be nice, he just mocks or gives me that, 'oh,' face.."

"Well," Todomatsu said, his voice just as cute as ever as he put down his precious phone. "do you want to go out for dinner?"

"I.." Ichimatsu mumbled, yet he couldn't help but let a smile spread across his face as Harvey purred loudly at him. "I don't know..."

"Well then it's settled," Osomatsu said, standing up, approaching his brother. "We'll all stay home since you don't want to really go."

"Why would you all stay home?" Ichimatsu spat, slightly hurting Osomatsu's feelings. "It's not like I'm some child that has to be watched because they...can't be trusted all alone."

"Actually..." Choromatsu said, then shut his mouth, taking back whatever he was about to say. "Never mind."

"My brother," Karamatsu began, but Choromatsu whacked him on the head with his magazine.

"Let's not fight," Osomatsu laughed a little, rubbing under his nose again, only a bit nervously this time. "I'll just stay home, you guys can all go!"

"Who the heck said I wanted to..." Ichimatsu muttered then stopped talking, growing very silent.

"Ichimatsu please tell us what's wrong..." Osomatsu thought desperately. "I would kill to just see you smile for an hour. I know you miss that Cat Cafe lady, but this really isn't helping...just being around you makes me want to fall over crying in frustration. I don't know what I can even do to help you! And I want to help you so badly..."

"Osomatsu stop staring..." Ichimatsu mumbled, his voice trembling a bit as he shakily stood to his feet, shuffling them out of the room. "I'm going to the roof..."

At that moment, the entire world around Osomatsu went black, and he found himself, Ichimatsu, back in his real body, choking desperately for air on the sidewalk in the park.