Meet the Shinigami
*****
Yukimura was trying to find the new student, when he heard someone calling him.
"Yukimura, Tezuka, Did you find out something about the new kid?" Fuji asked.
"His name is Echizen Ryoma, and he's from America. Before I could ask anything else, he ran off."
Yukimura sighed.
"Saa. It's ok, Sei-chan! We can just catch him on his way home."
"I guess you're right, Syu-chan."
The other boys shuddered. They didn't like it when the two sadists went into their evil mode.
"Let's go eat, and then we can try to find Echizen," Tezuka offered, though they knew it was really an order. Fuji and Yukimura still wanted to go look for him, but they were hungry.
They headed for the school roof since there was a ninety-nine percent chance that no one would be there. They had barely started down the hallway, when four of them froze and paled. They felt a strange tingling feeling that ended almost as soon as it started. They found themselves alone in the empty corridor. All of the other students had disappeared, and the school itself looked as if it had been abandoned for many years. Looking through the window they saw a wasteland. The sky was red, and the moon was in the color of blood. They couldn't see anything that looked alive. The silence was suffocating.
Just as one of them started to ask something, a growl behind them made them turn and freeze in fear. There were three wolf-like creatures behind them. Their fangs covered in slime and blood. They did the only thing they could do. They ran away, screaming.
After few minutes of running and dodging, the monsters had them cornered. As the middle one was about to jump at them, someone cut it in two and it vanished. The same happened to the other two. It happened so fast they couldn't keep up with it. The person stood up. He had a black coat and a sword in each hand. Then he looked at them. The green-tinted hair framed his face nicely and his eyes looked at them with irritation. In front of them stood the new transfer student— Echizen Ryoma.
"Welcome to Shaia, the hell itself."
*****
Ryoma was irritated. Really, really irritated. The whole situation was wrong. Why the hell were Tezuka Kunimitsu, Fuji Syuusuke, Atobe Keigo, and Yukimura Seiichi sitting against the dirty, half destroyed wall and looking at him as if he was a ghost?
"Which God do I have to kill for this?" Ryoma thought to himself bitterly.
"Echizen-kun, where did you say we are?" Yukimura asked.
Ryoma was a bit surprised that one of them spoke to him, but he answered, "Shaia."
"Ore-sama wishes to know how to get out of here!"
"You can't." Atobe's expression was priceless. His eyes were wide, and his mouth hung open.
"Explain," Tezuka ordered.
Ryoma sighed. "You are in Shaia, another dimension. You can't get out of here willingly. Your world will bring you back. Sooner or later. The monsters that attacked you are called 'nai.' There are different types of them, wolves, birds, fish, and so on. You can try to kill them, but it probably will be the other way around..." He stopped. He hadn't talked this much in a while.
"Why are we here?" Fuji asked
"I don't know. Normal people can't usually enter this world, so I guess there was some kind of mishap when Wizard was chanting the spell."
"Wizard?"
"The one who created this world."
Atobe finally came back to reality. "Who is it?"
Ryoma was suddenly getting a headache. "No one knows. That's why they sent me to find and kill him."
"Why did they, whoever they are, send you?"
"Because I'm a shinigami."
"Shinigami? You are?" Tezuka sounded a bit amused. "Prove it to Ore-sama."
Ryoma blinked twice and said, "No."
Just as Fuji got ready to start playing the let's-see-who-can-piss-off-Echizen-the-fastest-and-get-him-to-show-proof-of-being-a-shinigami game the world around them started to warp. His body was tingling, and again it ended almost instantly. They were back.
*****
Echizen was gone. The school's hallway was full of kids, and in front of them stood Sanada and Inui, talking. It was as if nothing had ever happened.
"What's wrong? You four look pale," Inui observed. "I can give you my latest juice, Super deluxe health drink," if you want." He pulled a cup out of nowhere that contained a mud-like substance in all the colors of the rainbow. They declined.
Tezuka gave them the don't-say-anything look. The other three just nodded, and they followed Sanada and Inui to the roof. The feeling of being trapped and pursued was still with them. They each thought that at any second a monster would come and attack them from the shadows or around the corner. They really needed to find Echizen and talk to him again.
*****
"Stupid boss. 'Just put up with them,' he says." Ryoma was not in a good mood. He had just contacted his bosses to tell them about the mishap. Now he was supposed to baby-sit the four boys. He decided to teleport home and go to bed before his day got even more fucked up. He had had enough for one day.
Ryoma knew that they would come to find him for more information later.
"Oh well. Maybe, if I'm lucky, they'll think that it was a hallucination or something."
*****
