I took his hand and stood up.

"Nice to meet another survivor here," I said.

"Yeah. You seem nice enough, don't seem like a danger. Why don't you come along with Yuka and I? We can find a way out together!"

"Okay!"

Before departing, I took the scissors and concealed them in my skirt pocket once again.

"So, let me guess you performed the Sachiko Ever After charm too?" I asked.

"Yeah, our friend Ayumi, she wanted to do this charm so we could stay friends forever."

"Yeah."

"And we did, then there was this large earthquake, and the floor opened, and now we are here."

"I see."

"Why are you here?"

"Umm, initially I came looking for someone, but unfortunately I found he was lost to this school. My friend, Sayaka, the person I came here with, she's dead too..."

"Oh... That must be horrible!"

"Yeah, I've settled down now, it's been quite a while since."

"I don't know how I'd be if I lost a friends here."

Yeah...about that...

"Ah, nevermind about that! You are trying to find a way out of here, Naho?"

"Ah, yeah, but I'm not going to be able to get out without others help."

"Really? How do you know?"

"Uhhh, let's just say I know a little bit about group performed charms...?"

"Well, whatever you did back in the life must have been extreme..."

"Well, I was a journalist... I wrote about the supernatural, actually a few people actually follow me."

"Cool! A journalist in high school."

"Yeah... That was me."

"Onii-chan," the little girl called,"I have to use the bathroom!"

"Okay Yuka, I guess we could try the girls-"

"It's locked,"I interrupted,"The door won't open."

"Oh," Satoshi answered,"Yuka, can you hold it?"

"Mm."

"We'll try to find another one, alright?"

"Okay..."

We continued to wander the halls of Heavenly Host Elementary. The usually thin classroom dry wall, was impossible to break through, even though it's physical state appeared weakened as they were cracked all across. Not a sign of foreign life.

"Satoshi, has anyone ever umm...liked you back in reality?"

His cheeks flared red and his sister threw on this really cheeky and devious smile.

I had my notes out and open, so when he turned around it appeared as though I was reading, writing, and note taking.

"W-Why do you ask?"

"Juust looking for possible reasons why everyone is here..." I couldn't help but grin at his embarrassment.

"Uh, my personal things are none of your concern!" he was embarrassed!

"Awwh! Satoshi...c'mon don't be so boring!"

"Nononononono, no."

I shoved him slightly at the arm. "C'mon! Liven up the mood."

He was reder than red balloon. But it seemed that he wouldn't answer.

"Onii-chan hasn't had anyyone like him before, but he had liked someone."

"YUKA! I don't go spilling your secrets," he blurted out.

"Who was it? What was her name," I asked, pen ready.

"Nakashima Naomi! She's actually here with us!"

That girl... Seiko's friend. She was now officially in my way.

"Hahahahahahahaha, that girl! I think I've ran into her a bit ago!"

"You did?!" Satoshi was now giving me his utmost attention, like a dog obeying his master. "Where?!"

"Umm.."

I shouldn't have said that.

"It was, probably my imagination, I thought I saw her with a girl. But now that I remember...it was just a corpse.

"Oh... I see..."

Satoshi's head dropped, like his spirit had been crushed. It seemed like he wanted to help people.

I sniffled. It was getting really cold in here. Even with a blazer. In the presence of spirits, it is said that the temperature would either go really cold or really hot in a seemingly random fluctuation. I actually have found that in here, in Heavenly Host Elementary, since the grounds are based entirely off of spiritual energy, the temperature would stay normal when there was an abundant amount of spiritual energy around, but in dead zones, where there were very few spirits around in a particular spot, the temperature would drop. To normal people it's usually unnoticeable, but to a spirit medium, it would affect us big time. I could see my breath! These temperature differences would only affect a spirit medium, and when it did, it would physically affect us, but only we could feel the effects.

I sniffled, and coughed, even a slight whimper would escape. It was really, really, really, cold! My breath was actually visible, and my walking pace slowed.

"Naho-san, are you alright?"

"Yeah, it's just...really really cold here."

"Naho, it's room temperature, are you sick or something? Are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine, it's just... It would take a while to explain everything, I'm fine really."

"Let me see if I could help you out, since you are cold."

"No no, its fine," I said backing away from his advance," It's fine really, it's just-"

Before I could finish, Satoshi pulled me into a strong hug.

I wasn't really acquainted with physical contact much, the most I had experienced was when Sensei would pat me on the head, never had I really experienced a hug with a guy. Before anything else, I felt my face get really warm.

"Jeez, you are really cold! It's like you are a block of ice," Satoshi remarked.

My heart was racing, I'm sure I've read this was a sign of cardiac arrest, but I couldn't pull away, Satoshi was notably very warm. I put my arms around his back. Yeah, he was warm. A slight smile came across my face, ever so slightly, but it was there. I was actually warming up out of this cold.

"Onii-chan, this is the longest you've ever hugged a girl! You haven't even really hugged Nakashima-san longer than a couple of milliseconds." Oh that girl was really a mood-killer.

Satoshi, feeling m body heat return to a normal, sustainable temperature loosened his embrace and slowly withdrew. I, not wanting things to get awkward, did the same.

"Feel better?" His cheeks were a bit red.

I could only nod in response before saying,"Thank you."

I turned and saw my reflection in a nearby classroom window. My cheeks were glowing- No. Emanating a red aura, and I had a really childish, hungover-like smirk across my face. I quickly turned away and tried to regain my usual calm composure. Embarrassment, I hope he didn't notice. No, how could he? He was the same!

"Well, uh, Naho, let's...continue our search for the others. Faster we get out of this joint"

"Yeah..."

Satoshi, was a great guy. Kind spirited and optimistic. The same qualities I had interest in with Kibiki-Sensei...