Chapter Two: Budo and Kuro

"Why is it that I know when to get up, but you try to sleep in?!" Takeshi shouted as he and Ayano ran to school, almost a half hour late. "What?! Do you like making us run almost everyday?!" Ayano just glared at him as the gates of the school got closer just as the gym teacher watched them run past. It turns out that Takeshi was in the wrong class due to a bug in the school system so he is now in Ayano's class. They made it just in time with five minutes to spare and quickly straightened their clothing and hair before sitting down.

"Now class, open your psychology textbooks to page 50." The teacher said as the bell rang to start every class. They started with psychology then went on to language and finally ended with biology just as the bell rang again for lunch. "Where's my bento...?" Ayano muttered as she looked through her bag while Takeshi went ahead to the Info Club. She was so busy looking through her bag she never noticed someone in front of her as she walked right into them. "Oof..." She said as she started falling before two arms circled her and the person shifted them so that they took the fall.

"Are you okay?" The person asked as they got up and stood next to each other after they picked up everything that fell out of her bag. "Yeah, I'm fine," She said as she double-checked her bag before looking at him. "Thanks for helping me, I'm Ayano Aishi." "Budo Masuta, at your service." The boy with spiky black hair and gray eyes wearing the school uniform, a white headband, and a red armband said as he shook her hand. "Have I seen you somewhere before?" She asked with a curious look on her face, which was rare for anyone that weren't Takeshi and Gema.

"You do look vaguely familiar, but I'm not sure if we ever met." He replied before her phone went off, startling him because of the ringtone 'ZERO' from 'The Devil is a Part-Timer' blasting from it. "What now?" She asked as she pulled out her black iPhone and answered it. "Hello? Gema? Wait... Gema... slow down. Takeshi? I thought he was going to your club? Warning? Where? Oh no... I'll be right there! Make sure Takeshi doesn't look at it okay?!" She hung up and put the iPhone in her bag before running to a door that led outside with Budo at her heels. "Hey! What's going on?!" He shouted as they ran to where the delinquents were usually standing but now there was only the leader, who was trying to help Gema calm down Takeshi.

Gema looked up and noticed the two ravens before pointing at the wall. There, written in a red substance that looked similar to blood, was a terrifying message.

YoU tHoUgHt ThAt YoU cOuLd EsCaPe Us? DoN't Be GuLlIbLe, ThAt WaSn'T tHe LaSt TiMe YoU sAw Us. BlOoD wIlL sPiLl As ThE oNe YoU lOvE wIlL bE bRoKeN fOrEvEr. ThIs TiMe We WiLl ReTuRn AnD iF yOu EvEn ThInK aBoUt EsCaPiNg Us AgAiN, yOuR 'sIsTeRs' WiLl NeVeR sEe YoU aGaIn."

"Oh my..." Ayano whispered as the delinquent leader helped Gema bring Takeshi to the nurse's office while Budo stared at one part of the message in confusion. "Who is this to? And who are these 'sisters' the writer is talking about?" She just glared at him and pointed to Takeshi, who had a terrified look on his face before he suddenly threw up which caused Gema to freak out. "Me and Gema promised our 'brother' that we wouldn't tell anyone what happened ten years ago and I'm not going to break that promise." Ayano said with a glare on her face before she went inside to find and tell a teacher.


"Is he going to be okay?" Kuro, the delinquent leader, asked the nurse as she treated the now unconscious Takeshi. "He just needs a couple of days to get over the shock and then he'll be as good as new," The nurse, Misuto Hana, said before noticing Kuro's look. "Don't worry, Reina Nana already called the police after the Aishi girl showed her the message. Justice will be served." After she said that, the bell rang causing Kuro to groan and start her way to the Headmaster's office in order for her to get her schedule.

As she walked to the office, she noticed Ayano stalking an upperclassman with a love-struck look on her face. What a weird little kid. Kuro thought before a teacher came and told them to get into the nearest classroom until the police are done with their investigation. "Great," Kuro said as the three of them were sent to classroom 1-1 and decided to get comfortable as the investigation began.

"They'll cut school short because of this," Taro said awkwardly because the other two girls didn't speak for the past ten minutes causing an awkward silence to surround them until he tried to break it with a fact. "I hope they don't suspect any of us." "As if," Ayano said as she scoffed and stared out the window. "That message was a warning for Takeshi, and anyone that hurts my 'brother' will answer to me." That made him shudder in slight fear but Kuro just stared at her with a blank look, not even hearing what she said before.

Flashback starts...

"Kuro-nee! Kuro-nee!" A five year old girl with black hair and lively gray eyes shouted as she ran to another girl, this one a year older with brown hair and red-violet eyes, although her running was a bit slow for whatever she had in her arms. "Kuro-nee! Look! Look at this cute kitty!" The black haired girl said as she held out a tortoiseshell kitten that looked only a week old.

"Aya, where did you find it?" Kuro asked as she gently took the kitten out of her sister's grasp. "I found it by the ditch!" 'Aya' said as she looked at the kitten in sadness. "It kept meowing until I picked it up, it probably thinks that I'm its' Mommy." The sisters then went inside their house to ask their parents if they could keep the kitten, their parents said yes but only if they took care of it.

The kitten lived for ten years and had a litter of four kits, each given away to good homes, and the cat died peacefully in her sleep. Around the time the cat died, Kuro and her mother got into a fight because of a personal issue.

"I will not follow in your footsteps 'Mother'!" A now sixteen year old Kuro shouted at her mother because her mother was angry that she didn't have a 'Senpai' and would never want one in her life. "It's in your blood!" That was the only answer Kuro got and it annoyed her to no end. "I don't care! I'm not becoming a yandere like you! I actually feel emotions unlike you!"

"Kuro?"

"Huh?" Kuro asked as she snapped out of her flashback to see Ayano and Taro staring at her. "They said that we can leave now," Taro said as he opened the door. "The police said that no one on school grounds could've wrote that message so they just canceled their investigation." Kuro just nodded and left the room just as Takeshi walked past with a terrified look on his face, one that was vaguely familiar to her.

Could it be that he's-?

Flashes of blazing light and cooling wind echoed through her mind as she stared at him in shock.

The Tsuku-no-Taiyo?


I had to redo the message because it didn't seem all that scary to me.