Chapter Two:

The fivesome sat in silence, still reeling slightly from the video they had just watched. Nagisa was the first to break it and with a rather unpopular opinion. "That was actually kind of funny."

Makoto scoffed softly, his cheeks tomato red. Haru sank even deeper in his chair, his entire lower body pretty much hanging in air at this point. Rin tossed his hair out of his eyes and Rei just sighed, shaking his head at Nagisa.

"You can only say that because you haven't been in this yet."

"Yet? What do you mean yet?"

"It was just a prediction. There are obviously more videos to this DVD and so far it seems to be working from the past to the future."

Makoto straightened up suddenly. "How are they getting this footage anyway? This is from years ago and we never were taped during those times. I would remember that."

"As would I," Haru mumbled. Rei pushed his glasses higher on his nose.

"That is absolutely true, it is quite strange that the person who created these seems to have been privy to pieces of your personal lives which they couldn't possibly have been."

Rin growled. Rei's statement seemed to have muted the room again and a prickling feeling of suspicion began to creep up the necks of everyone present.

"I don't like this," Rin finally stated, "But we have no other choice than to keep watching and hope the videos will give us clues to how someone was spying on us. Watch very carefully and we might be able to find evidence of hidden cameras or at least something that may help us get out of here."

The others nodded. Nagisa hopped out of his chair sprite-like and after a brief moment of eye contact with all of his companions, he pressed the play button.

The same words and title were seen as at the ending of the previous video then a view of the city appeared and Makoto's voiceover began to speak.

"If he makes me late again, I am going to give him such a tongue-lashing!" A more grown version of Makoto ran across the screen. "There's got to be a better phrase for that."

"So now they're spying on our current lives?" Makoto asked, trying to ignore the obvious innuendo his voiceover had just made.

"Maybe," Rin responded. "It's more realistic than them spying on our past. Man, someone has a weird fetish though."

"Morning Ms. Tamura."

"Good morning, Makoto. Here, you can take this to your boyfriend."

"Hehe, he's not my boyfriend."

"You're not fooling anyone, dear."

Everyone laughed at that and Makoto sat back hard in his seat, mortified. Haru, on the other hand, fell halfway onto the floor.

"You two do seem awfully close…"

"Not helping, Rei."

Makoto ran up a set of steps then appeared to be ringing the doorbell of a house. Upon not receiving an immediate response, he slammed the doorbell multiple times, sending an obnoxious ringing vibrating through the house that everyone recognized as Haru's.

"Haru? You home? It's me, Makoto. Ok I'm gonna break in."

Rin snickered and poked Haru in the arm. "You need Makoto's help to just wake up in the mornings?"

Haru groaned and shot Rin a glare. Rei set his finger aside his chin.

"Also, Tachibana-sempai apparently knows how to break into a house."

"I do not. And even IF I did, I wouldn't use it to break into Haru's house. His door is always unlocked!" Makoto pleaded. Nagisa took pity on Makoto and leaned dangerously out of his chair to pat Makoto on the head.

There were several sounds of the door being jimmied then a crash as Makoto forced it open.

"Don't be naked. Are you in here?"

"Don't come in."

"Ok I'm coming in. Also, you're gonna need a new back door."

"Why are you in the bath, Haruka-sempai?" Rei asked. "If the video is to be believed and the two of you are going to school it seems awfully early to be having a bath." Haru scooted up in his chair slightly.

"I enjoy morning baths." He didn't bother to explain exactly why and no one asked. It was just added the the growing list of Haru's quirks.

Haru emerged from the water and shook the droplets out of his hair. Makoto leaned over and offered him a hand.

"I broke in again."

"There was a spare key under the mat."

"There was just a swimsuit."

"I don't see your point."

"Just get out of the tub."

Rin barked out a laugh and clapped a hand on Haru's shoulder. "I expected that."

The song Dreamweaver suddenly began playing and a slow motion camera tracked the motion of Haru's ripped body interspersed with Makoto's wondrous expression.

Nagisa cackled and fell out of his chair. Makoto was beyond words so he just covered his eyes. Rin laughed lightly but felt sorrier for his friend's embarrassment than Nagisa so he patted Haru silently, hoping to show his solidarity. It was only bad luck that he patted Haru's bicep and Haru shrunk away, suddenly defensive of his muscles.

"Dude are you ok?"

"We're gonna be date-late!"

Makoto groaned. Rei looked over at him. "Are you crying, sempai?" "…No~"

"So anyway, I regain consciousness, there's cops everywhere, Nagisa's covered in blood, got an ice pick. Hehe. It was kind of a weird Tuesday."

Nagisa shot up straight. "Did I die?!"

"Wonder what Haru's thinking about."

"Oh, you like that don't you, you dirty ****ing ocean, oh you can't wait for me to get inside you, huh, huh? You ****ing sl-t you are so….wet!"

"Probably swimming."

Haru pulled the rest of his body up onto the chair cushion and formed his body into a tiny ball, covering his face. Rei glanced over at him.

"Are you crying sempai?"

"Yes," came the small whimper.

Rin was completely oblivious to this, simply dying in his chair along with Nagisa. Makoto looked, if possible, more traumatized than before.

"I'm gonna be late for anime school!"

Rin slammed his hand on the pause button. "Woah, back up. 'Anime school?'" Rei frowned, his elbows braced over the top of Nagisa's chair.

"I've seen anime schools and they look nothing like ours. Why would they mention that?"

"I don't know. This Ragingstillness person seems to have been watching our lives for quite some time now. Maybe she's making some sort of joke about how she perceives our lives," Makoto inserted helpfully. Rin steepled his fingers.

"Maybe, but how do we know she's the one who made the videos? She told us to 'watch the following videos' and even stranger, to 'discuss' them. It's like she's trying to teach us something or learn how we feel about what we see."

"Yeah, Rag-chan does seem like a teacher," Nagisa chimed in. "However-" the others all stared at the blonde, concerned at his usage of such a foreboding word, "-she wanted us to discuss and said she was excited. That implies that to some extent she can see us even now! It's like those things on YouTube…do you remember Rei-chan?"

Rei pursed his lips. "Reaction videos?"

"Yeah those! She wants to see how the videos make us feel."

"Well if she's watching us right now I'd be happy to tell her how I feel." Rin raised both of his hands and flipped off the television. Against his will Makoto snickered a little.

"Oh well, let's just keep going."

He leaned forward and pressed the play button. In all the discussion about their mysterious stalker, no one noticed that the point about the anime reference was lost.

"Miss Nanase Haruka?" There was a laugh track and several lewd whoops. Video Haru just closed his eyes, resigning to being mistaken for a girl. It was maybe the first time he had accurately portrayed his real life counterpart.

"Ma'am, Haru's a guy."

"Yeah you wouldn't have a crush on him otherwise."

"Shut up."

Makoto threw up his hands in frustration. "You know what? Fine. Fine, fine, fine. If this video wants me to crush on Haru then so be it." Haru looked a little concerned. "I still refuse to give it any validity in real life!"

"Well, since you were absent yesterday Haru, I'm Amakata Miho, your new homeroom teacher. But that doesn't really matter because I'm basically pointless in this show."

"Show? What show?" Rin asked.

"Well if we're going off the YouTube theory, this is probably some form of web series," Makoto explained.

"Oh, ok."

"Let's go eat lunch," said a much too chipper Makoto. The scene switched to the stairs and Haru talking to Makoto.

"I'm just saying, is it illegal if I'm in my own pool?"

"I don't know, it sounds illegal."

"I don't think I want to know."

"What's up sl-ts? Guess who just got out of prision?"

"Holy-" Nagisa jumped out of his seat. Rei's mouth dropped open and his elbow slipped off the back of Nagisa's chair and would have nailed the blonde in the head had he not stood up. Haru looked up from his cocoon of embarrassment long enough to give the TV a very confused look.

"What the-" Makoto breathed. Nagisa jumped up and down in agitation.

"That isn't how I speak at all! Mean Rag-chan! I thought you were on my side!"

Even his shouts of anguish were drowned out by Rin howling with laughter and practically rolling out of his chair.

"Sl-ts?"

"Prison?"

"Nagisa?"

"Yeah…"

Nagisa fell to his knees and the beginnings of hopeless tears began to form in his eyes.