Hey, I'm not aspiring to be a writer but it is a huge part of my life and my favorite hobby, so please give me some feedback so I know how to improve or what you think I'm already doing right. As the description said this story is based on the manga and almost everyone mentioned in the manga is mentioned somewhere in here although not all will have a huge part, some don't even speak at all but they are there. Keep on the look out for characters you know and like.

Chapter 1: Taiki's disturbing discovery

Taiki woke up in a cold sweat, gasping for breath. He put his hand over his heart; it felt as if his heart was about to bound out of his chest. Then he gripped his temples and felt bitter tears fall from his eyes. He didn't know whether what he had just witnessed was reality or just a horrible nightmare. He shuddered as flashbacks filled his eyes.

He had found himself surrounded by darkness as a knot formed in his stomach. He had a bad feeling but couldn't place his finger on it. He began walking though he couldn't see he did not want to stay there. Suddenly he saw a flashlight being carried by a man that seemed to be the same age as him. He followed the man, wondering "why am I here; what's the point of this place" He heard a scream and the man with the flashlight picked up his pace to a sprint. Taiki followed closely. They approached a door and the man pushed through it so hard that the door hit the wall and came closed in a matter of seconds. Taiki stopped at the door and tried to open it but his hand went through the door "what the…" he paused and went through the door. It was like he was the ghost this time. As he entered he heard the man yelling "I thought I told you to keep your mouth shut." Taiki directed his attention to the subject of the shouting. He saw a young girl, about his age, with brown hair that covered her face as she lay slouched on the floor in what seemed to be a raggedy old school uniform covered in dried blood. She was taking deep breaths as if she was prepping to scream again. Taiki had a feeling he had met her somewhere before but he couldn't place when or where. The man grabbed her by her hair, forcing her to stand. As he did so, she began to struggle, she was pushed him away and fell back to the floor and when the man got closer she began kicking, screaming, biting, and punching at the mysterious man. The man walked away seeming to have given up but he simply walked over to a suitcase, took a needle, filled it will some liquid, Taiki couldn't distinguish at the moment. He carried it back to the girl smiling evilly. The girl readied herself for a second attack but before she got a chance for her retaliation he grabbed her head again, but instead of making her stand, forced her head back into the wall behind her as hard as he could, disorienting her long enough for him to stick the long needle in her arm. "Like that" he said mockingly "that outta calm you down" his grin widened "after all, it is Roofenol."

Taiki had seen enough; he rushed to help the girl but once again as he tried to make contact with something physical he just went right through. As he was focused on the man, whose face he had finally been able to see, he heard the girl's voice mumbling about something. "What is it he thought" Just then the girl looked up toward him and the hair fell out of her face. Now he knew where he had met her before. She was the only female student to go to Osaka Gakuen, Mizuki Ashiya. Seeing her face as she began to cry, "Taiki… help me" she screamed and the shock brought him back into reality. He woke up.

"Please tell me that that was just a dream' he thought to himself. He looked at his alarm clock. It read 3:28. "Damn," he thought as he laid back down hoping to get at least an hour more sleep but he dreaded the thought of that nightmare and the possibility of having it again. Plus he can't tell Nakatsu about it because now that they are seniors they have their own rooms. He lay down and with much difficulty managed to fall asleep.

It happened again. He found himself surrounded by darkness, but this time he didn't wait for a flashlight or a scream. He ran straight to the room where he had been before. What happened was startling him. At least if it was the same dream it could mean if wasn't reality, but it was different this time meaning these could be actual events but Taiki didn't understand why he was seeing them. The mysterious man from before was sitting right next to Mizuki, who was still out of it due to the Roofenol. "So where's your crush now" he said with a smirk. "Where's Sano? If he loved you he'd be here. He doesn't care about you. He's probably already found someone new. Why would he care for someone as pathetic as you?" Taiki had heard enough. "Don't listen to him" Taiki shouted, "don't listen to him" he shouted again, straining to be heard. "Don't listen to him" but Taiki's shouts fell on deaf ears. Mizuki was crying but even though she didn't hear Taiki she still agreed with him. "You're lying" She said with a scratchy voice. "You're lying" her voice rose to a shout and once again everything went dark as Taiki awoke in his dark room. The clock read 5:40.

"Taiki?" he heard a voice say in the darkness of his own room. It was Nakatsu. "How'd you get in here" Taiki asked. "I broke in because I heard you screaming" he said, pointing to the door. "What happened?" but Taiki didn't answer his question, "go wake up Sano" he ordered, already starting to get dressed. "What? It's not even six" Nakatsu questioned until he saw the serious look on Taiki's face as he glared at him, "just go" he said and Nakatsu went to go wake up Sano. Nakatsu and Taiki were still neighbors even though they weren't roommates anymore but Sano was several doors down. Taiki finished getting dressed and went to go wash his face but as he looked in the mirror he didn't see just one reflection. He saw two. "Mizuki?" he shouted in alarm. He had mixed emotions but the emotion that stood out the most was sorrow. Even though he could see Mizuki, something was different. Before, when he saw a ghost, they at least looked solid in some way but, Mizuki was faded, as if he was looking at her shadow and she wasn't really there at all. "Mizuki" he said again, this time directed towards her. She looked him in the eye as her vision became blurred by tears. "Help me please. Pleases, please help me!" she began to beg as she fell down to her knees. Taiki walked over to her. He said "I will" and just like that she vanished and Nakatsu walked in with Sano following behind. "What happened" Sano said with a worried tone. He knew that if Taiki woke him up this early it couldn't be good. Once again Taiki dodged the question, "I think we need more people, come with me" he said walking out the door. "What are you doing" Sano asked, annoyed that his question went unanswered "on second thought, you two go get dressed; I am going to wake up Sekime, Noe, and Nakao. Meet me at the computer lab" He walked off and Sano along with Nakatsu went to get dressed.

Sano and Nakatsu made it to the computer lab in ten minutes flat. When, they got there Noe and Sekime were just as confused as they were while Nakao was busy complaining about missing out on his beauty sleep. Taiki was at one of the computers typing stuff in a search engine. "What are you looking up" Nakatsu asked. Taiki seemed solemn. "It's about Mizuki, I have a bad feeling" suddenly everyone understood and was on high alert. Sano peaked over his shoulder to see what he was typing. First he searched "Mizuki Ashiya" but way too many links came up so he tried "Mizuki Ashiya America" and found several links that mentioned the right Mizuki but not what might have happened. So he tried "America Mizuki Ashiya kidnapped" and that did it. He got several links to newspapers and news channels. He checked every one of those links hoping for more information. The first headline read "Mizuki missing" and Sano nearly fell over when he saw those words. It was already eight o' clock and everyone was ready to go. They wanted to get to America as soon as possible.