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Chapter 3: Lost on Halloween!


Riko and Kuroko had been out trick or treating for half an hour now and things were going good...you know..despite the fact that at every house they stopped at, none of the people handing out candy noticed the young boy and would be "kindly" notified of his presence by his cousin (who knew a little girl could be so scary?!). None the less, the two very close family friends had both of their bags 1/4 full and the whole night ahead of them.

As they were walking, Riko saw two of her friends from school and went to greet them. "Hey Tetsuya? Can we stop for a bit? I want to say hi to my friends right quick." She asked the boy who nodded silently, content to observe his surroundings.

As the three girls walked up and conversed with each other, Kuroko looked around at the bright night when he saw something in the corner of his eye.

It was a small black and white puppy the size of football looking intently at a squirrel with its powder blue eyes. The puppy (who looked like a Alaskan Malamute ) was slowly stealthing its way to the oblivious mammal that was just enjoying it's night eating some nuts. Tetsuya looked on at the sight and unknowingly made his way to the two animals.

As the husky was about to have squirrel as a chew toy, the small ghost boy quickly picked him up alerting both animals of his presence.

"Hey thats not nice. You wouldn't want to be food for a puppy now would you?" Kuroko then turned to the squirrel and gave a small smile. "There you go squirrel-san."

The small brown animal gazed gratefully at the boy before he quickly crawled up onto of his head and said- "Thank you young one for saving my life from this ferocious beast. My name is Aron, leader of the acorn district and as thanks for your bravery, we shall look over you in your time in need. Take heed on your travels young one, I hope our protection is not needed this night or ever." Of course, this was all twitters and squeaks to the boy's ears so he just smiled and gently placed the animal on the ground.

As the squirrel ran to meet his clan at a big tree in the center of the park, the puppy in the bluenette's arms whined in disappointment and struggled out of his grasp. Apparently, the dogs attention span was very short for he saw a cat down the street and began to chase it, barking happily. Unfortunately, Tetsu's candy bag got caught around his head and was taking it with him on the cat chase.

"Ah! Doggy-san wait!" He called out, immediately chasing the animal down. He worked hard for that candy!

Kuroko chased the pup until it bounded for the cat into the woods. The boy hesitated at the sight, since he remembered his parents saying that he should never go in there by himself without someone being him...also it was really scary looking...

...On the other hand though, his father had always said that he needed to be brave and he wanted to give his mother some of the vanilla candy that he got...

Kuroko took a deep breath before taking a shaky step with a contrasting firm resolution. He ran into the woods shivering from the ominous aura that it emanated.

For what felt like hours Tetsuya ran and soon fell to his knees panting and gulping deeply for breath. He never was one of the most athletic boys at his school...

As he calmed down and regained his regular steady breathing, the young child slowly began to realize his situation. He blindly rushed into the woods only after the sounds of barking and rustles, but now the pups yelps were not to be heard. It was awfully dark and if it wasn't for the full moon's pale glow (which created creepy looking shadows from the trees) it probably would've been pitch black. Wind rustled what little leaves that were left on the trees and made Kuroko shiver as if an ice cube was slowly trailing down his back. His heart beat was began accelerating until it was beating so hard it hurt his chest. Numb fear slowly spread throughout his body until he couldn't take it anymore.

The loud snap of a branch nearby on the forest floor was all that he needed to start running.

Once again Tetsuya found himself running blindly, literally for unshed tears began to blur his vision. "Mother!? Father!? Aida neesan!?" He called out, desperate to feel the comforting warmth and words from his family to calm him down and to tell him that monsters weren't real and that he was just being silly...

...But there wasn't any comfort...just cold darkness...

It was then that the terrified boy tripped on something once more and he fell face first to the ground. Four or five tears managed to escape due to pain and he sniffled (That really hurt!)

He couldn't move any more. He was both physically and emotionally tired all he wanted to do was go home eat his mama's cooking and go to bed.

His vision began to fade as the thought of sleep was too tempting. Kuroko slowly closed his eyes and took a deep breath when suddenly, out of no where, a dull glow revealed itself, growing bigger and brighter every second. The teal head's eyes carefully peeled open only to quickly go wide, showing him a VERY peculiar scene.

In front of him, only a few feet away, was a big red star surrounded by a circle with intricate symbols and patterns glowing a blood red. large flames of fire surrounded the strange symbol radiating heat as the smell of smoke filled his nose.

To his surprise, confusion, and slight fear, six small black figures began to rise from the circle until finally the shape began to lose its fiery glow leaving behind a black, singed, smoking symbol.

Six pairs of glowing, rainbow-colored eyes stared towards dull, powder blue ones...


With Riko~

She was screwed. To put it horribly, painfully, and honestly...she was screwed. She lost him. She lost Kuroko Tetsuya-no...she had lost Kuroko Mito's son. Her child. Her baby boy. Riko had just committed one of great Japans taboo's. One does not just lose Mito's child, oh no...they also lost their life and their sanity. Mrs. Kuroko was a very protective mother which also meant that she was a very scary mother. Her cold fury could probably render the most toughest of men into a fright coma (Riko had seen it happen before, but that's a story for another time...).

Aida was currently hyperventilating under a tree, rocking back and forth by herself with her arms wound tightly across her knees. She didn't want to die! She was too young to cross the river stix!

Her conversation with her friends had ended a few minutes ago due to her calling out for her cousin expecting him to pop up again with his iconic disappearing act...but that didn't happen. She then ran around, calling out Kuroko's name over and over, but that also didn't work. She then began to scream in terror and run around like a chicken who had gotten it's head cut off as the horrifying realization that she had lost the boy slapped her in the face like a dead fish.

In her whimpering state, the logical part of her mind began to work over time for an idea.

'Think. Think! How am I going to find Tetsuya in all these brats by myself by the end of the night!? I'd need a search party or somethi-WAIT!'

Aida's brown eyes lit up in happiness as the perfect people to help her flashed through her strategic mind.

She whipped out her phone and began to punch in familiar numbers at the speed of light. Pressing the phone to her ear she waited through the rings.

One ring...

Two rings...

Three rin-

"Hello?" Answered a grouchy sounding voice which was absolute music to the brunnett's ears.

"Junpei!? It's me Riko!"

A confused grunt was the response to that. "Riko? What do you nee-"

"No time for questions! This is a Code Blue! I repeat, a Code Blue!" She cried frantically.

Hyuga dropped his phone in horror.

Dear dog...They were all doomed.


*Sing songy voice* I am done with chapter 3~! I hope you enjoyed~! Please review, favorite, or PM~! And have a wonderful day~~~!

Also I have decided to update around every Friday and Monday and just for the hell of it The last chapter will be on Halloween!

Bye bye~!