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Fate~


Second ghost: The Spirit that won't Leave

"How are you feeling?" asked a voice when Fuji opened his eyes. His head felt heavy and he felt cold as if his bones were made of ice.

"Neesan…" he saw his older sister's face. He tilted his head to the side and recognized his own room. He remembered about telling Tezuka how he hated him, about getting on the bus and the train to Chiba and about walking into the graveyard and visiting Saeki's grave. "Was that a dream?" he mumbled to himself.

Yumiko sighed. She was very worried about her brother. "Syusuke, I know that you're feeling guilty about Saeki's death but doing irrational things won't bring him back." She lectured him a little.

"What are you talking about, neesan?"

"I'm talking about you going to Chiba alone in the middle of the night and visiting a graveyard. What were you thinking?"

Fuji sat up on his bed. He was silent. So it was true. He did go to Saeki's grave. "I..."

"It's a good thing that Saeki's parents went there in the morning. The night air was chilly and you could've got pneumonia." Yumiko continued while Fuji was still thinking about what he was going to say.

Fuji was lost. All his sister's words didn't make sense to him. "What happened, neesan? I'm not so sure about it myself."

Yumiko took a seat beside her brother on the bed. She knew that Fuji had been through a lot lately. "You didn't come home Friday night. You texted me saying that you were staying out. Yesterday morning we got a call from Saeki's parents saying they found you unconscious in front of their family grave. You had a fever and slept until just now." Yumiko explained meticulously. "So, are you going to tell me what were you doing there?" she asked her blue-eyed brother.

"I was just paying him a visit."

"At midnight?"

"It was still early when I got on the train. I guess it took a little longer than I thought to travel from Tokyo to Chiba."

"Why were you unconscious?

"Tired, maybe."

"Are you okay now?"

"Yes. I'm sorry for making you worry."

Yumiko got up and walked to the door. "I made you some food. You haven't eaten since yesterday."

"Arigatou, neesan."

Yumiko left the room. Fuji lied back on the bed and stared at the ceiling. He lied about being tired and passing out. He couldn't just tell his sister that he saw Saeki sitting on his grave when all that was left of that guy were his ashes.

"I didn't know your sister was strict." said a familiar voice. "Hisashiburi da ne!"

Fuji's eyes were wide open. There he was, sitting at the end of Fuji's bed, smiling so casually and dressed in his brick-red jersey. The brunette moved backwards instinctively. It was just impossible that his deceased friend could be sitting in front of him. Saeki was dead; Fuji was sure of that. He saw Saeki's lifeless body lying in the coffin at his funeral. He was so pale that even the fair-skinned Fuji seemed to have more color to his face.

"Fuji, you're not crazy. I am dead." Saeki admitted, confusing Fuji more.

"Then how…?"

"Since my body had been burned to ashes now, I'm just a spirit."

"Spirit as in a ghost?"

"More or less." Saeki accepted the idea Fuji had about what he was.

"But I can see you. Does that mean I am dead too?"

Saeki chuckled. Somehow Fuji sounded funny to him. "No, the reason why you can see me is because I'm haunting you."

His friend's statement didn't surprise him. "Oh." He managed to utter a word, unaware that Saeki was not serious. To Fuji, Saeki's death was his fault because his friend was mugged and killed on the way to meet him. Fuji believed that he deserved to be haunted.

Saeki sighed looking at how his friend was behaving. He was not the same Fuji he used to know. The usual Fuji would come up with something like 'you are the one who was haunted by me, that's why you are unable to rest in peace' or something between the lines. The Fuji in front of him right now had lost his sadistic remarks.

"What do you want me to do so that you can move on?" Fuji immediately asked. He read somewhere before that dead people turned into ghosts because they have unfinished business. "Unless you want to haunt me until the day I die," he added.

"I came back because of you." It was Saeki's turn to become serious. "I can't move on until you free yourself from your guilt. It's not your fault that I died; it was those guys who mugged me."

"But I was the one who called you here," the brunette protested. How could he not blame himself when he was the reason why Saeki got pulled into the alley by those thugs in the first place? "I should have gone to your place instead," he said regretfully.

An annoyed sigh escaped Saeki's mouth. "This is why I can't rest in peace." He sulked. "You know what, I won't leave you until you get rid of that guilt," he stated firmly.

"Saeki…"

"I won't leave. Even if you call an exorcist, I won't go away until I'm done with you."

"Aniki." There were a few knocks on the door and Yuuta entered the room. "Neesan said that you're awake. I'm just checking how you're doing." The youngest child of the Fuji family avoided any eye contact with his brother. It was still awkward for him to show his brother that he cared about him.

"I'm fine, Yuuta. It's so nice of you to come home because of me," Fuji teased a little, letting Yuuta know that he was alright.

"It's not like that!" Yuuta blushed slightly from the truth in Fuji's words. "It's the weekend, that's why I came home." He made up an excuse.

Saeki laughed at the brothers. Fuji realized something and looked at his younger sibling. "Yuuta, can't you see him?"

"See who?"

"Him." He spared a glance to the space beside him on the bed. Seeing Yuuta frowned and at lost of for words, Fuji let the thought pass. "Nothing, I was just kidding." He smiled.

"I guess you really are alright, aniki." The younger Fuji confirmed and left the room.

Fuji stared at Saeki in silence for a long time. Saeki just smiled. He could guess what Fuji had in mind; it definitely was about the fact that he could see him and Yuuta couldn't.

Now that he looked at his friend carefully, Saeki was translucent. Fuji reached his hand and touched the white haired boy's face. His hand went though and a sudden chill ran through his body. A gush of tears flowed down his cheeks.

"I'm staying, until you cry no more."


End of Second ghost

A/N: I was a little down by the fact that I couldn't include any ghost info in this chapter (this is a very short chappie anyway). I'm so sorry if anyone was frustrated .. Another thing which is very important, in previous and present chapters I italicized the Japanese words/phrases and also Saeki's speech which resulted in a little confusion. So in the upcoming chapters, I won't italicize the Japanese words anymore. I hope things wont get sloppy later ^^'.

There you go. Second chapter. How was it? Better? Messy? Confusing? Leave a review. Please ^_^.