Jyushimatsu began to panic as he saw Ichimatsu lying lifelessly on the cold sandy beach.

Falling to his knees, Jyushimatsu began to sob harder and harder, not knowing what to even do.

"Stand back, Jyushimatsu!" Choromatsu said as he began to perform CPR on Ichimatsu.

Todomatsu flipped out his phone and dialed the hospital.

"Hello? Yes! This is Ichimatsu's youngest brother, Todomatsu!" he said, nearly yelling into the phone. "I- no. No he's not doing okay! Please send an ambulance! Ichimatsu isn't breathing! I think he was trying to drown himself!"

The five birds hopped around the five brothers on the ground.

For once, Karamatsu didn't bother to say anything painful. He just watched in complete shock as his brothers tried to revive Ichimatsu.

"His heart hasn't stopped beating!" Choromatsu exclaimed in relief, "But how do we know he's even going to make it...?"

"Don't say that!" Jyushimatsu cried. "I don't want to lose him! I already lost one best friend! I can't lose the last one I have!"

"Don't cry, Jyushimatsu," Todomatsu comforted. "It'll be okay..." He gently rubbed Jyushimatsu on the back.

"No, it's not okay!" Choromatsu said angrily, "It's all my fault! I should have stopped him from leaving home today! Especially after hearing all he said...I should have kept him at home!"

"It's not anybody's fault," Osomatsu said, leaning over Ichimatsu's body. "We just weren't careful enough."

Choromatsu glared at Osomatsu.

"You really don't understand, do you? How much it hurts to watch a loved one suffer for so long, not being able to do anything about it?!"

"Like we haven't all been doing that?!" Osomatsu snapped. "Jyushimatsu was literally depressed the entire freaking time Ichimatsu was gone! How come we can't keep each other happy?!"

"That's what I've been asking myself as well," Karamatsu said. "But all we can do is love each other, my brothers."

Everyone ignored Karamatsu and turned their attention back to Ichimatsu.

"Wake up, nii-san!" Jyushimatsu whimpered. "Don't you want to play baseball again? Do you remember how you would tie yourself to my baseball bat to let me get stronger? Nii-san...?"

The ambulance could be heard from a little ways up the beach.

Choromatsu broke into a dash, running towards it.

"Hurry! Get down there!" he gasped at the paramedics. "Ichimatsu is hardly breathing and he won't wake up!"

The paramedics urgently pulled a stretcher out from the back of the ambulance and ran professionally down the beach towards Ichimatsu.

Those same five birds still didn't fly away. They stayed the entire time as the paramedics gently moved Ichimatsu onto the stretcher and took him away on the ambulance to the ER.

"Choromatsu nii-san...?" Jyushimatsu asked, clinging to him. His entire face was red and puffy from tears. "Does love exist...?"

"Yes, Jyushimatsu. Love exists," Choromatsu replied.

"Then why doesn't Ichimatsu ever have any?" Jyushimatsu asked in a soft whimper.