"Yo, Yuka." Haruya said with a hint of a sneer in his voice, "Trying to cover up you're friend's actions?" He suddenly noticed that the platinum blonde beauty wasn't listening to him at all.

"34…" Her cherry blossom pink lips parted slightly and whispered out a number.

"Huh?"

"It's been 34 days." She pointed at a small stone tomb that was seated by the riverside, the words Nagumo Haruko was carved into it with care. There was a banquet of flowers in front of it…

"Is that… Haruko's tomb?"

"Megumi-san did it all by herself." Yuka sighed, "She's been delivering new flowers everyday, which is 34 days in a row now…"

""Why would she do that if it was her who…?" Haruya was getting extremely confused now.

"… I can't answer you that right now." Yuka said, a sad look in her eyes, she looked back towards the tomb, "But… there is someone other than Megumi visiting…" True enough there was another banquet of flowers placed beside Megumi's… "Could it be Suzuno-san maybe?"

"No way… even I didn't know about her tomb until now…"

Yuka looked at him for a long time, "Is that so?" She stood up, (she was originally kneeling in front of the tomb). "Suzuno-san really hates Megumi-san now, huh…"

"Yeah, and they used to get along just fine, too."

"A lot of things change just as time flows, you can't stop it… but you can change it…" A small smile crept onto Yuka's face, "It's not too late to tell Suzuno-san that you love him, you know."

"What?"

"It's so~ obvious, I bet even Endou-san's noticed."

"I better get going." Haruya deliberately changed the topic, "Erm… see ya."

"Yeah…" Yuka raised a hand and did a small polite wave, "I hope we can play soccer happily together like before soon." Her expression was gentle. She turned back to the banquet from an unknown person… she spotted something that she shouldn't have… a string of red hair waved in the wind, one end of it was caught on to a thorn of a rose… Yuka furrowed her eyebrows, realization suddenly jumped to her eyes, "Wait, Nagumo-san!" She shouted.

Haruya turned around, "What?"

Yuka opened her mouth as if to say something, but gulped it back down her throat and could only manage to choke out, "Tell Suzuno-san that I'm… I'm sorry."

"Huh?"

"And… goodbye."

After a few minutes

"Here." Haruya handed Fuusuke his water bottle, "Drink."

"Thanks." Fuusuke grumbled. Haruya somehow made him irritated… maybe it was because of the fact that he and Haruko are quite alike.

"Hey, I met Gouenji just now…" Haruya told the whole story to his teammate, at last finishing the strange departing sentence of Yuka's… "You know what she meant?"

"Not at all." Fuusuke's voice was cold.

"I thought it was strange." It hurts to see the boy he loved like this…

"Wait, did you say… Gouenji Yuka?" Terumi (Aphrodi/Afuro) poked his head in.

"Yeah, so?"

"That's impossible…"

"Huh?"

"Gouenji Yuka… drowned in the river beside that hill this morning!"

"This morning…" Haruya murmured, "But that means… it happened right after I left!"

Just then, the door crashed open, "Nagumo!" Masako burst in, "How can you… what ever did Yuka do to deserve…"

"Hold it! I didn't…"

"It might be an accident." Shuuya, Yuka's twin, came in and grabbed Masako's shoulder, "Though it's true that Nagumo is a suspect now." Shuuya glared at Haruya, "The Yuka I know would never lose balance, besides that, she can swim!"

"So what? I told you it wasn't me!"

"Everybody calm down!" Junko took control, "The police are coming… so for the time being, Nagumo-kun may have to go to he police station for questioning and…"

"If he's going then I'm going, too!" Fuusuke said, standing up.

Junko looked at him, her face twisted into a leer, "Did I ask for your opinion?"

"Look, it's impossible that Nagumo's responsible for her death! I know that!"

"Well, apparently, my friend Megumi is much more calmer then you're dear boyfriend and I don't think she's the type to kill either."

"She admitted it." Fuusuke snarled in Junko's face.

"… let's just all wait quietly until the police comes." Megumi said, her voice hardly a whisper.

"What makes you…"

"Suzuno." Haruya pulled him down back on the bench, "Everything's gonna be fine, you'll see."

Megumi looked at them thoughtfully and left without another word. Junko ran outside to look for her, "Megumi! Thank goodness you're-"

"He's afraid…" Megumi whispered.

"Huh?"

"He's afraid to lose Nagumo-san right after losing Haruko-san…"

"Well, that's obvious…"

"This is… getting fun…" She bent down and peered into the surface of the river. A strand of white hair caught among the seaweed, "Yuka…"

Night time

A crash… "Huh?" Junko ran down to the river, "Why is this…" her eyes stretched wide with horror as she spotted that. It was a reflection… her reflection, and someone else's… red hair dancing in the night wind…

A shadow appeared behind her, a rock in hand… it struck…

Me: Know who the person behind all of this is? You'll get a prize if you win!

Junko: One night with your favorite character!

Me: How did you think of that?

Masako: Don't listen to her… that hentai…

Junko: Look who's talking, huh…