A/N: so this chapter is inspired by another yandere fanfic called gateway to senpai. you can find it on quotev. its pretty good, even if it's a little lighthearted. i liked the concept with the whole camping thing and i decided to use it.
It was 7:43, Saturday morning.
Yan-chan was stuffing a backpack full of supplies she would need for the camping trip. Everyone who was going had to pack certain things the entire group would need, Jayson was in charge of bringing the cooking equipment, senpai and osana were supposed to bring a tent big enough for all four of them, and yan-chan was supposed to bring the canned food that they'd be eating. She also brought some things for herself, a sleeping bag, spare clothes, first aid kit, sharp knife. The usual.
Once her pack was stuffed and her phone fully charged, she walked downstairs to her living room.
She sighed in annoyance when she saw jayson was already in her living room, with her mother.
He was wearing a black tee-shirt, black denim jeans, and an unzipped, dark red, long sleeved hoodie.
His apparel made sense, it was the middle of fall.
He and yan-chan's mother were laughing and making polite conversation with each other. He had been doing this for the past few days, treating her house as his own little home away from home, socializing with her mother and father, getting to know them, he even tried sneaking into yan-chan's room once.
"you, young man, are an absolute joy to have around." her mother said.
"why thank you, miss Satsujin-koibito." (literally Japanese for "murderous lover") jayson said back.
"oh, please. No need to be so formal in this house, dear boy. Call me Seiko"
yan-chan made throat clearing noises to announce her presence. Her mother and jayson both looked at her.
"oh. Good morning sweetie, I thought you were still sleeping." her mother said.
"morning, beautiful" jayson said.
"mother, may I speak with you in the kitchen… privately" yan-chan asked.
"oh, I have to tend to my daughter, children can be so demanding"
"don't I know it, sister" jayson said.
Her mother and her both walked in the kitchen.
"how many times have I told you not to let him in the house, mother?" yan-chan whined.
"oh come now, what's the harm. He's willing to help you with your relationship, he at least deserves to be welcomed into our home. Besides… he is rather hansom, isn't he? Not as hansom as your father though. Maybe you could stop chasing after your senpai and go after this one instead?." her mother said. She couldn't believe her own mother actually said that, she out of all people knew how much yan-chan wanted her senpai, why would she even suggest going after… him.
They soon walked out of the kitchen, yan-chan and jayson said their goodbyes, picked up their backpacks and began leaving.
"keep my daughter safe, young man." her mother said to jayson.
"you don't have to worry, ma'am, i'll protect her like she's the most valuable jewel in the world." he replied.
They began walking down the path that lead to the campground.
"would you please stop" yan-chan said in an annoyed tone.
"stop what?" he asked.
"stop getting so involved with my parents"
"why?, I like your parents, your mother is just the most elegant, sweetest lady I have ever had the pleasure of speaking with, and I think me and your father really connect, did you know he's into 80's American rock'n roll?"
"no…" She never knew that about her father. She was perplexed as to how jayson had been so accepted by both her mother and father in as little as three days. Especially since her mother was not an easy person to get along with. well… maybe it was because her father liked him, and whatever dad liked, mom liked.
"here, let me carry that for you" jayson interrupted her train of thought, took her backpack and began carrying it for her, she was silently thankful for that. That thing was heavy!.
They soon came to the campground, it was deep in a small forest that wasn't too far from civilization, since they walked all the way there. The spot which they would be using was actually rather deep in the forest however.
They soon found it, a large even patch of land that was surrounded by trees. It was almost like nature itself wanted this to be a spot where people set up camps.
Senpai and osana hadn't shown up yet. Jayson put their backpacks against a tree and they began looking around.
She could hear birds chirping from above, she could also see a small glimmer of water towards the north, a stream perhaps?. Senpai had said that he and osana used to come to this spot all the time, she could see why, this place was rather tranquil.
Her concentration was interrupted when she heard the sound of two small pieces of metal being clanked together. She turned around and found jayson to be the source of the intrusive noise… go figure.
She looked at his hands and found that he was playing with something metallic.
"what are you doing?" she asked with a deadpan expression.
"just playing with my balisong" he said.
"and what is that?" she asked.
"a balisong, a folding pocket knife with two handles counter-rotating around the tang. when closed, the blade is concealed within grooves in the handles. Some people call them butterfly knives, but I think balisong sounds cooler." he said, he then began flipping the knife in many different directions and preformed many different tricks.
"is it made to be played with?" she asked, she was genuinely interested in it.
"not really, depending on what kind of balisong it is. some are made purposely blunt, so people can practice tricks with them. others, like this one, are just as sharp and effective as an army knife. its made to be easily concealable, but many people, myself included, like to do little tricks with them. Wanna try?" he said, folding the blade back into its handle and handing it to her.
She looked at it for awhile, was he seriously going to give her a knife? She did really like it though. She took it from him and began messing around with it, she started out slow, simple little flips, didn't want to cut herself on accident. After she got familiar with it, jayson showed her a few more advanced maneuvers. She had to admit, she never thought a knife could be so entertaining and deadly at the same time.
"wow, you're a natural!." jayson said as she continued playing with it.
"it is kinda fun…". She said. Fun… that was a word she hasn't used in a long time, nothing was ever really enjoyable to her, let alone fun. But this, this was actually fun, she actually was enjoying something.
"you like it so much? Keep it. I've got a better one anyway" he said, showing her his other one. That one had black handles, where as hers matched the metal of the blade.
"thank you" Yan-chan said. He could hear the gratitude in her voice, she thanked him for giving her something she genuinely enjoyed. Something that brought a smile to her face. That tiny little knife made her happy. And he loved seeing her happy.
(A/N: I always thought Yandere-chan would be the kind of girl who would get a lot of enjoyment out of a balisong, I also picture her having a knife collection")
He looked at the small smile on her face as she continued to play with her new knife, "she's smiling, she's happy. If you don't say it now, you'll regret it" his mind said to him. He took a deep breath.
"yan-chan… there's something I need to tell you"
"yes, jayson?" she asked, she actually said his name.
"i wanted to tell you that I…"
"hey guys!" they turned around to see senpai and osana approaching the campground. yan-chan quickly folded the balisong and put it in the pocket of her jeans. Senpai would never love her if he saw her playing with something so dangerous.
Jayson glared hard at that ignorant minded fool, he had the perfect chance to tell her how he felt, and it was all ruined by him, her senpai… He always got in jayson's way, he was the only reason this was so hard. The worst part was that he had make this moron think that jayson actually liked being around him.
She glared hard at the tsundere girl that foolishly put herself with senpai… osana najimi. Yan-chan would make this pathetic whore bleed. She was a disease. How dare she poison senpai into thinking he actually cared about her!. But yan-chan knew this would be over soon… very soon. She had a new knife after all, now she just needed to test how easy it was to cut through skin with it.
"hi, I'm osana-chan, senpai told me a lot about you" she said, holding out her hand.
yan-chan took her hand and gave it a gentle shake. Osana felt yan-chan's grip tighten on her hand.
"wow, you are really strong!" osana said as she tried to escape her grip. "okay, you can let go now… you're starting to hurt me" yan-chan soon let go of osana's hand and she proceeded to slowly back away from yan-chan.
A few hours passed and everybody was soon given a task. Jayson went to go get firewood, senpai was pitching the tent while osana and yan-chan were making sure they had everything.
"ta da!" senpai said as he finished pitching the tent.
"oh you gotta be kidding me!" jayson shouted, returning with fresh wood for the fire. "do you honestly expect us all to fit in there?!" he referred to the incredibly small tent that was supposed to be big enough for all four of them, when In reality, it was only big enough for one person… barely.
"senpai, you mindless moron! You were supposed to get a tent big enough for all of us!" osana yelled at him.
"the picture of it on the box was huge, how was i supposed to know it would be that small?!" he whined.
"the pictures are always bigger!, that's a marketing technique! You dunce!" osana yelled again. "leave it to you to mess up, big time!. Its a good thing I brought my own tent"
"yeah, me too" jayson said, pulling out another tent from his pack.
"im sorry..." said senpai.
"i…umm, I'm sure it wasn't his fault" yan-chan defended weakly.
"don't waste your time defending him, Ayana-chan. He always messes up" osana said as she began pitching her tent, which was just as small, jayson's was also only big enough to hold only one person. But they both actually knew that, unlike senpai.
"where are you going to sleep, Ayana-chan?" osana questioned.
"maybe she and I could scrunch together in my tent?" senpai said.
"i would…"
"you can take my tent, yan-chan" jayson suddenly said.
"then where are you going to sleep?" senpai questioned.
Jayson then went to inspect a large and thick tree, after seeing that there were no wasp or bee nests, he climbed the massive tree and sat on a large branch while leaning against the trunk. He seemed rather comfortable up there.
"ohh, well I guess that makes sense." senpai said, turning around to organize his backpack.
"now that's a man with a plan, unlike you" osana said to senpai.
"i said I was sorry!"
Yan-chan shot a glare at jayson, he returned it with a grin that practically said "what? You mad because I ruined potential cuddle time, beautiful?"
they soon got the camp fire started and began cooking some of the canned food with a pot that was suspended above the fire with three large poles. Once the food got done, everyone had a bowl of… whatever they were cooking. Jayson said it tasted like chilli.
"so now what do we do?" Osana said.
"how about we tell campfire stories?" senpai asked.
"campfire stories?, what are we? 11?" said jayson and osana at the same time.
"come on guys, it'll be fun!" senpai said.
"fine, but it better be entertaining" jayson said, relaxing on his tree branch.
"oh, how about you go first, Ayana-chan!" senpai said.
"wha… me?" she said while blushing.
"yeah, I bet you've got tons of stories" he said.
"what makes you think that?" osana said.
"well, she's interesting, and you always say interesting people have interesting stories" senpai said.
"you… you think im interesting, senpai?"
"i got a story for ya" jayson said, Hoping down from his tree.
"okay, fine. Tell your story" senpai said.
"actually, never mind. You guys already know the legend anyway"
"what legend?" senpai questioned.
"you mean you never heard? She was all over the news!"
"oh, you mean that old legend?" osana played along.
"what legend!?" senpai yelled.
"the legend of… the aka-demi phantom" jayson said.
"the aka-demi phantom?"
"if you really don't know, I could tell that old story" jayson said.
"tell me the story, jayson!" senpai said.
"it all started twenty years ago… in the very same high school we go to now. There were these two school girls who were like inseparable sisters, until one day, when they both met an upperclassman, their senpai… they were both driven mad by their desire for him and they went from the best of friends to the bitterest of rivals… one day, one of the girls decided to do the unthinkable… she stabbed her former friend in the back! And then proceeded to hide her corpse in the girls bathroom! When school was over, the murderer returned to the body and buried the girl under the cherry tree behind the School! The worst part? The murderer confessed her love for her senpai under that exact tree next morning." jayson told.
Yan-chan could see senpai getting nervous.
"and now her spirit haunts the school, constantly searching for the murderer's child, so she may exact her revenge. Rumor has it, if you take a photo in the girls bathroom on the third floor, you can see the phantom girl staring back at you. One day, she will walk the halls once again and exact her revenge."
"how will we know when she will get her revenge?" senpai said, practically shaking.
"there will be three signs to tell the revenge of the phantom girl. First, the lights in all of the school will flicker violently. Next, all doors will lock and no key will be able to open them, because her will demands all students stay in the building until judgment has been passed. And the final sign of the phantom girls return will be when all the water in the toilets, sinks, urinals, and even the school pool is replaced with blood… HER BLOOD!. Then she will exit the bathroom where she was murdered and begin her search for the descendant of her once dear friend"
"no..." senpai said. He looked like he was going to soil himself. Yan-chan held close to him.
"she opens the door to the class room" jayson said as he made the sound of an old door slowly opening. "she slowly hovers toward the teachers desk, and you know what she does next?"
"what?"
"do you really want to know?"
"what?!"
"are you sure you want to know?"
"WHAT JAYSON? WHAT DOES SHE DO?!"
"SHE GETS YA!" osana yelled behind him while poking him in the back. Senpai screamed like a girl as osana and jayson began laughing their faces off. Yan-chan didn't think that was funny, how could they laugh at making senpai scream in anything other than happiness?
"we got you good!" jayson said as senpai began running into his tent. Osana then retreated to her tent after that.
Yan-chan glared at jayson.
"what?" he asked. "oh come on, that was funny and you know it"
she continued to glare at him.
"you need to lighten up, beautiful. Good night" he said as he climbed back into his tree.
"i hope you fall off that tree and break something" she said.
"sweet dreams to you too, beautiful"
jayson was glad he made that little sissy scream, it was what he deserved for intruding on his moment with his yan-chan.