They had taken the CEO's private jet just to go visit their friend in America, who was assigned to the nearest hospital. They arrived soon and were rushing to the hospital, anxious to hear the news about their friend's condition.

"We need to see her, now!" Eisuke demands, slamming his fists down onto the receptionist's desk.

"Boss, calm down..." Baba soothes the man, but the brunette only shook off the hand and glared at the nurse in the desk, who kept a stoic face.

"I apologize, Mr. Ichinomiya," she seemed to be able to pronounce his name properly. Perhaps she was Japanese? "But Ms. Sumiko isn't allowed any visitors. And she's in surgery right now, unable to see anyone."

"I demand to see her after the surgery then." Eisuke refused to give up, crossing his arms. "Umm... But are any of you perhaps... In a relationship with her? Or related?"

"No." Soryu replied simply. "I afraid I can't tell you her current condition. I apologize." she bowed and began walking off when Baba stopped her.

"Wait up, perhaps we can talk about this?"

"What for?" "You can tell one of us about it... please. She doesn't have a family anymore... That's why we came here because-"

"Family? She doesn't..." "No." the thief nodded. "They passed. So we've been taking care of her ever since."

"...Perhaps... I shall speak to her doctor and I'll see."

The nurse walked off and the bidders breath a sigh of relief as they wait.

~*****~

"Alright. I got a heads up... But, who will it be?" the nurse soon came back with a patient binder as she asked them.

"Soryu... You should go first." Ota and Baba urge. The mobster glances at Eisuke, who nods and gestures to the lady.

"I'll be going." "Follow me, then."

The nurse leads the raven haired mafia prince to an office like room and seats him as she places the binder in front of him, giving him a good view of current information about Sakura.

"So far, the surgery has been going on for 5 hours and we've been trying to find the window of opportunity to cut it off."

"Wait... cut off?" 

"Don't take it the wrong way. We're not taking any limbs but... It seems that a part of her brain had been damaged and it was bleeding internally. It became infected after being out for hours... So we needed to get rid of it before it damaged the rest of her brain."

"Oh shit..." the man muttered, but the nurse's words only kept getting worse.

"As it looks as well, she could fall into a coma of different sorts. Maybe a locked in syndrome that could make her blind... Or brain death that could kill her or make her forget everything the past 15 years of her life..."

~*****~

"..." Soryu walked back out with a sullen expression and the bidder stare at him expectantly for a report.

"Where do I start?"

An hour passed by as the mobster struggled to re-explain everything the nurse had told him. But by every second, the bidders could only dilate their eyes, shocked and scared.

After the explanation, they were quiet, even Baba and Ota. Everything was just chaos, but they all couldn't help but breath a sigh of relief when her surgeons approached them, telling them about the success.

"You may go visit her right now... Just please don't make noise or touch anything." the bidders hurriedly made their way off to her room.

"W-Who's there?" a shrill voice suddenly calls from the room as they tried to open the door. "It's us..." Aika nods and lets them in as she hear Baba's familiar voice.

"Mr. Ichinomiya... Mr. Oh..." The three all greet them with bows as they entered. The flight attendant, along with the two co-pilots, were in the room. The three were in different casts, small scars and cuts and bruises on their skin. They were hurt, but alive.

"What happened, Aika?" Ota asked as he looked upon the bodies of the three, which were almost in full casts.

"She- She- I- We...." the girl was still clearly traumatized about the events as she stuttered unintelligible words. "Calm down, Aika. We were supposed to be in the small room together and Sam was to stay behind when he offered... But she just shoved all three of us inside and locked us in... She tried running for the emergency phone in the back but she never made it I guess..."

Ed was the one to explain it calmly as he wrapped an arm around his girlfriend. "We tried convincing her but she just... seemed to give up on life when she told us to live happy."

The room fell quiet and all the men and Aika stare at the still, sleeping body in front of them. She showed no signs of waking up soon as they all watched her, waiting.

Waiting for something.

Anything that showed she would be coming back to them.

~*****~

The bidders all managed to convince the hospital that Sakura was currently admitted to, to transfer her to a hospital back in Japan.

Today they were all visiting her today for about the 24th time since she fell into the coma a month ago. Aika, Ed and Sam were all given a break from their jobs, given time to heal, physically and emotionally. 

"Sakura..." they all entered, expecting her to be awake, but of course, the part of them that said no, ended up being correct again.

"Hah... What did we expect...? It's been a month..." Ota sighs, sitting down in the corner of the room. 

"What are we going to do about this, Boss? If this goes on for too long, we need to let her go sometime..." Baba muttered, placing their gifts, a bouquet of flowers and balloons, near her night stand.

"Don't you say that... She's a strong girl... She'll pull through." Eisuke growled, looking towards his friend.

"We need to face reality here... She could-" "Shut up." Soryu cuts off Baba's muttering and glares menacingly at the man to shut up, as he had said.

The thief backs off and steps back, sitting beside Ota and Mamoru in the corner. The other two, Sakura's best friends, stood by her bed. And as usual, expectantly waiting for her to wake up.

But despite their high hopes, the two did have to face reality here before they get a huge slap in the face.

But the last time they saw her wasn't the best memory they had.

Was everything going to end like this...?