Kiiro: Chapter 2: Tsuki Hospital

Itsuki's POV

Fear; it gripped my body as I followed my friends Hideki and Kyoko. Hideki had spoken of some haunted hospital and said he wanted to go there to see if it was true.

"Hideki. Don't be stupid. Hauntings aren't real. I'll go there, just to show you how stupid it is." Kyoko believed in logical thinking, which I usually didn't mind, but today it was different. I think she's crazy for thinking that simple logic disproves the "theory" of ghosts and spirits and things of that nature. I said I would go to the hospital to show her that logics can't prove everything.

We decided to go the next day after school. A whole day was spent sitting there in suspense, and in my case, fear. Hideki told some other friends about the hospital, he didn't tell them we were going though, and they believed it was just a stupid story of Hideki's. Were Hideki and I the only ones with sense? People don't just make up these stories! Well, some do, but this one was real. After school, I went home and grabbed my baseball bat. I figured I'd need it for the hospital adventure Hideki got us into. Hideki and Kyoko had been my friends ever since we were pretty much babies, but sometimes I question their choices in life. We had agreed to meet at a small run-down café about a block away from the hospital. I gripped my bat tightly as I walked and continued despite the weird glances and stares I was getting. I gulped as I turned a corner and saw the café. I walked in and found Hideki and Kyoko at a table in the corner. I walked over to them and sat down. Hideki smirked. "You ready for an adventure?" I muttered something even I didn't understand and prepared myself for the worst.

Kyoko's POV

Hideki, the poor child. Always being so intrigued by such horror stories, and believing them a lot. You'd think by having a friend like me who tells him repeatedly such things are false he'd know better…Oh well. That's our Hideki. Then there's Itsuki. He's even worse than Hideki. He believes every single one he reads or hears; once he thought he saw a ghost in the woods and refused to go back in for a month. I love my friends, but they just seem so gullible. It hurts my brain at times.

After a bit of pointless chit-chat we move on. Once we finally are in front of the structure, I'm ready to prove them both wrong and hopefully they'll see how ridiculous they are being.

"The count of one…." Hideki says.

"T-two…" Itsuki says nervously.

"Three!" I say, more than ready to prove them both wrong.

We stepped inside in unison. Hideki walked ahead, shining his flashlight around. Itsuki stood behind me like a frightened child using his mother as a shield. I sighed and followed Hideki in the hospital farther. "The website said spirits were always most active on the ground floor…" I shook my head wishing he didn't believe this and we could be hanging out together in a normal place. Itsuki, still behind me, was trying to use his flashlight as a strobe light. "Itsuki cut it out." It was getting on my nerves and I was already irritated by being dragged into this. "S-sorry." He mumbled. "Can we go now? There's nothing here but an old abandoned building that should have been torn down long ago…" I was more than ready to leave. "No, not yet... I get a strange feeling about this place Kyoko…" Hideki said while still maneuvering around rubble and exploring. "So do I…" I sighed, it looked like I would be stuck for a while.