A/N: Alright, two days in a row for updating. That isn't quite a record for me, but oh wells. So here is chapter 1, this is still slow, but I think I've got it going quicker then when I wrote it by hand. The second half of the chapter was actually part of Chapter 2.
Diclaimer: I do not own Kurobasu, or the characters. I just genderswapped them and put them in my own story.
Warning: This has genderswapped characters, I forgot to mention this being an AU, this has tragedy, and a bunch of other stuff listened in the prologue.
Chapter One
It was Saturday evening as a red haired male made his way down an empty street. There was trashed houses, dead trees, and litter on the dirt road that led to the old school. He found himself wandering how everything could get so old in just six years. It was as if the people around the school just wanted to leave as quickly as they could.
He reached the gated entrance. The gate had rusted over and one side was touching the ground as loose screws were sticking up. The iron gate had the school emblem marked out of the center where the two gates originally met, but he couldn't pick out what they actually were. As his crimson gaze looked further back he could see a Victorian style house that connected to the large school building in the back. In between the house and the gate was a good length of dead grass that made up the court yard.
Kagami was rather impressed at the size of the school and area. He found himself walking in, even though his club mates requested that everyone wait outside for the group to get here. He just happened to be the first person to make it.
When he started getting closer he noticed someone, not from his group. A sliver of moon light had fell upon the figure illuminating it in a ghostly fashion. As he got closer he could tell that it was a female with teal colored hair that flowed down her back. Her skin had a porcelain sheen to it, and she wore a schools uniform. He didn't know what school since he just recently came to Japan for college.
The figure seemed to notice an intruding presence as she turned to face the red head. Her sky like eyes piercing him deeply at how beautiful she seemed in the lighting. He found himself forgetting why he was there or where he actually was. Time seemed to stop for a moment, until she spoke.
"Are you lost?" she asked, her expression never changing and her voice, soft but monotonous. It quickly snapped him out of his thoughts.
"Ah, no. I'm here with my club, but there not here yet," he said sheepishly. He didn't know why he became so shy all of a sudden, " what about you?"
She shook her head returning her gaze to the buildings. He almost felt disappointed at being able to see her soft colored eyes.
"Is there a reason you are here?" he asked finding the quiet too eerie for his liking.
"No, I do not," she simply stated and he started to feel irritated. She wasn't going to make any conversation, and her monotonous voice somehow put him on edge. He didn't like the edgy feeling was getting.
"Then why come to such a secluded place, isn't there rumors about this place?" he asked and she returned her gaze on him.
"There are, but I could ask you the same thing. Why come out here for some club?" she asked, her tone never changing, but Kagami could depict some undertone that he wasn't sure of.
"Yeah, well at least I'm here with other people," he stated and somehow the two ended up fighting. Kagami took back the initial thoughts he had.
The two kept their gazes locked until rustling and other sounds broke their concentrations. Kagami noticed it was his club as they made their way to his position. His eyes only glanced at the clubs leaders, and only enough to notice the devil's eyes burning with irritation. Kagami gulped and embraced the pain that was to come.
"Bakagami, I thought I told everyone to stay out of the school until everyone was together," Aida stated her fists flexing and relaxing.
"Oi! This is just the courtyard," Kagami griped.
"It's still a part of the school," she stated. The group all sighed as another fight was bound to happen between the two. These two haven't gotten along all that well since he joined the club. It's not that they dislike each other, it seems Kagami has issues with listening to others. Aida doesn't like her authority being compromised by anyone, especially someone younger.
"Ah, calm down. We're wasting time just arguing," the clubs president jumped in. He is the only one who can calm down Riko, mostly because they are childhood friends, and have been in the same schools from grade one.
"Right, just stay with the group bakagami," she ordered before the group started towards the school. Kagami sighed as he returned his gaze where the girl was, but she wasn't their anymore. He quickly looked around but there was no sign of where she would be or where she had gone. Kagami decided not to get bothered by it and followed his club.
Without anyone's notice, the teal haired girl looked out from behind a tree. Her eyes watching the fading backs. She didn't make a move to follow them, but she looked on with concern.
The group made their way up concrete steps. The whole Victorian style house was crawling with ivy and vine as windows were shaded with black; broken windows had pieces on the ground and the steps that they took notice of. When they reached the top, the door had a crack open and a small gust of wind forced the door wider.
"Looks like a lot of people have come and gone," Hyuuga sighed. The group found themselves nodding in agreement.
"A lot of people come here for joking around, and the use of dares. Even our school's frats come here for initiation," Koganei said in her overly active voice.
"It's really become the new thing," Izuki sighed, a thought passing her mind that she quickly threw away.
"Let's get going," Riko ordered as she started heading in.
"Uh, what about Tsuchida-Sempai?" the freshmen trio asked making her stop. She turned to face them and gave a sigh.
"Tsuchida-kun decided not to come," she stated getting the four freshmen to complain, "it's not what you think. I allowed him to avoid this activity because he was a member of this school before it was shut down. He was a student, but being lucky enough to have missed that day of school has allowed him to keep his sanity. I am not a crude woman as to make him come here since this place holds all his memories of his friends."
The freshmen looked at each other and understood. They wouldn't have been able to avoid this activity, but being forced to come to a place filled with memories would be hard. They also remembered that he'd taken off sometime during the story Koganei had told.
"If that is it, let's get going," she ordered again this time making it all the way into the building. The group reluctantly went in.
Inside was a dark, open area with a desk set in the center. Looking further in were two empty rooms with old, broken pieces of furniture that had been there. The group split into the two different rooms to look around.
"A living area?" Kagami asked as he walked to the fire place. The fire place had an empty picture frame face down.
"This used to be the boarding house before the school grew. It still housed some students, but they extended the building further back," Hyuuga explained.
"Right," Kagami didn't really understand it, but he pretended to follow.
The group continued to survey the rooms, making Riko irritated.
"Are we just going to laze around here or are we going to the main building," she had an imaginable aura of fire built around her. The group knew not to question her and quickly fled to the stairs.
The second floor had two wings that connected to the main school building. Each side had only one wall of doors.
"These used to be students dorms, right?" Furihata asked as she looked at the closed doors.
"Yes, I don't think very many used them after the newer dorms were built. It was the main attraction that brought students from all over," Koganei exclaimed. Furihata nodded and looked at a single door that was open a crack. Out of her own curiosity she opened it and looked in.
The room was mostly dark with a sliver of light coming in. The light was hitting and empty bed as the light was being reflected on a picture frame. She went to pick up the picture. It was cold, and heavy for a normal picture frame.
She turned the picture frame over and saw two students in it. The male student was sitting with a book in his hands. He had dark green hair and dark rimmed glasses with a bandaged hand pushing them up. The female was hanging onto him, her arms encircling the male. She was smiling happily, her long, raven colored hair was blowing in the wind, and the atmosphere around the two was filled with happiness. The two cared for each other greatly, despite the expression given off by the male.
"Furihata-chan," Riko called at the door. In the moment of surprise, Furihata dropped the picture. The gold frame slowly made its way to the ground and the glass shattered.
"Ah, sorry," Furihata was flustered by the sudden event.
"You alright?" Riko asked coming into the room now. She looked down at the broken picture frame.
"I'm fine, sorry that I left the group," Furihata gave a slight bow to show her respect.
"Hmm, yes. Did you get hurt?" Riko asked looking at the younger girl's hands and noting that they were fine.
"Yes, shouldn't we get back to the group?" Furihata asked. Riko didn't argue as the two left the room. Behind they left the shattered frame as the moonlight moved enough to recover the picture. The picture now having a slight tear with two, small drops of blood on the fragments.
Final Notes:
I want to thank anyone I hadn't thanked yet. That means those who read but didn't do anything for me to be able to thank, and the people who put this in their alerts as well as those who favortied. I also want to thank those who reviewed again, it really made my day when I read your reviews (and you know who you are), so thank you again.
Also, kudos to anyone who can guess the couple in the picture. Their story in this is really a sad one, but that is for later.
Anything else? Right, this is a Seirin centered fanfic, but the GoM have their special part in this to. This is just not their story, yet. But I don't want to give anything away, you'll just have to continue reading, and it will be updated quickly next week (that's my spring break). So until then...
