Tasuku squinted at the figure. It was hard to see through the fog but he could. He saw a shoulder-length haired girl. Her hair tone was hard to make out with the extra layer of greyish white, but he gauged the colour to be somewhere near Zanya's hair colour.

"Hello?" he called out again, this time extremely fearful. He even let go but he was in the sea so no one noticed anyway.

The antisocial figure, as if it noticed Tasuku, fled away along the rocks. He felt a sudden rush of panic, like that figure wasn't supposed to be there, as if it wasn't alive. Not supposed to be, anyway. His curiousity wanted to swim in its direction but his sensible side directed his feet and hands to propel him back to his friends.

"I must be hallucinating," he concluded.

He made it back to his friends in mere seconds, swimming faster than he expected himself to. They were still splashing each other, but it seemed to be less aggressive now. Tasuku simply swam past all of them and got back on the beach and sat under a parasol.

'I think that's enough swimming for now,' he thought. Kuguru excused herself from the others and came up to Tasuku as Zanya came down the stone path to join them.

"Tasuku-senpai, are you alright?" He snapped out of his train of thought and turned to face her. She couldn't help but look away a little, she wasn't used to seeing that much of his skin exposed. Usually the clothes he wore covered him up completely.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine," he replied, resting his face on his palm. Tasuku got up and away from the girl, still feeling somewhat bothered by the image he saw as it replayed again and again in his head. He was about to head up to the house but Zanya stopped him.

"Senpai, where are you going?"

"I'm fine, I'm just heading back to the house," he said, shrugging Zanya off.

"No. Something's wrong. What happened?"

"I hallucinated," came the reply. He was about to walk past when Zanya grabbed his arm and harshly dragged him back onto the beach.

"What are you doing?!" came his reaction to Zanya's tight grip on him.

What Tasuku didn't know was that Zanya could read people better than he let on. He could sense some kind of anxiety and confusion in his eyes, they looked a little distracted. And Zanya wanted to crack open his thoughts by firstly, spending a little time with him.

"Oh hey Zanya. Come to join the fun?" Gao asked as he saw Zanya and Tasuku trot down the stone pathway.

"Yeah. I brought us a beach volleyball if you guys wanna play," Zanya said.

"Sure thing, but only if you can find us a net to use. Without it, everything's gonna be unfair," Jin stated.

"Since when did you care about fairness?" Megumi asked but Jin simply ignored her question.

"Good point, we don't have a net..." Zanya thought to himself.

"Then how about we change the game to Monkey in the Middle? We don't need a net for that," Kazane suggested.

"Great idea, but who will be the middle person?" Tetsuya asked. Everyone looked at Kiri unanimously and smiled at him.

"What? You guys want me to be the middle?" he asked.

"You are shorter, kid. That will make it more interesting and challenging for you to jump and grab the ball," Megumi explained.

"Hey, don't make fun of my height!"

"Don't get the wrong idea Kiri. We are not making fun of you, we are simply offering you the spot in the middle because you are the best candidate for it. Take this as a compliment that we are all stepping aside for you to take the spot," Baku said, smirking at him.

"Oh, I am very, VERY honoured!" Kiri replied sarcastically as he stood in his place with the others enclosing him in a circle.

"Baku, heads up!" Gao called as he tossed the ball gracefully over Kiri's head.

Baku caught it as Kiri ran over to him, looking out for an opportunity to come by. Too bad for the shorter one, Baku had a firm grip on the multi-coloured ball, and looked over his shoulder to find someone he could launch the ball at.

"Tetsuya, above you!" Kiri reacted really quickly though, as he leapt after the ball the moment it left Baku's hands. Unfortunately, he was only able to hit, not catch the ball as it rolled off course and right to Tasuku. But just before the Boy Wonder could get it, it rolled into the waves and was carried out into the water.

"I'll go get it," Tasuku decided as he waddled in after the ball, which was sitting on the surface of the water. Just as he laid his hands on the ball, he saw a face in the water beneath him.

The same face he saw before at the bottom of the cliff.

Just as he was about to run back, he felt a sharp pain in his left leg. A blood-covered, scrawny hand ran through and left a moderately deep cut with its long nails. He winced but wouldn't let out a sound. The blood was flowing into the sea and he knew it wasn't going to be pretty if he got infected.

So he limped back to the beach and carried himself on all fours as he reached shallow water. He constantly knocked the ball forward with his hands as his friends came over to help him. But he collapsed from shock and pain right when they got around him and were about to carry him back.

"Tasuku?!"

"What happened?!"

"Say something to us!"

But all these cries of worry were faint in the distance to Tasuku, who had passed out.

Well, guys, I'm quite sure I'm not doing the best job with the descriptions but I hope you can at least understand what I'm trying to say -.-" And I've decided I'm going to make Tasuku one of the main people getting targeted in the story. Sorry(notsorry) Tasuku. Please read, review and be patient with me! Thanks guys!