Chapter Four

Yakumo forced Tenma to stay at home the next day, she promised to be on time so Tenma wouldn't have to worry about getting groceries.

She sat at home, bored and feeling stressed, "When is this going to end?" She complained. "All I wanna do is go back to school and see Karasuma." She let her head fall to the table. "What if I never see him again?" She sobbed.

"Hello?" An unfamiliar voice called.

"Huh? Who could that be?" Tenma asked, getting up from in front of the T.V and walking to the front door, but no one was there. "Hmm that's odd." She placed a finger to her chin and looked to the ceiling in thought.

"Grrrr" Her stomach rumbled and she sighed. "I guess it's time to get something to eat, I'm starving!" Tenma walked into the kitchen then shrieked and fell back onto the floor in shock.

A man was at the kitchen window, his head sticking through it.

"Hello, Miss, I didn't mean to scare you. It's just I had been calling for sometime but no one was answering."

He seemed to be a tall man; he had a long face, thick lips, a short straight nose, a large black afro and wore heart sunglasses.

"Wh-wh-who are you?!" Tenma exclaimed but then she realised a peculiar thing, whoever this was he wasn't shocked at witnessing her as a skeleton. She looked down and noticed that her necklace was elevating in thin air and was lightly tugging her towards the kitchen window.

"Hey wait a second!" She ran over to the stranger and gently clasped the necklace he was wearing; it was the same as hers. The two pendants tried to reach each other as though drawn magnetically.

"But.. Who are you?" Tenma repeated the question, a thoughtful frown on her brow.

"Oh sorry, I'm Brook! All Bon-" He suddenly collapsed to the ground outside the window, streams of depression hung over him. "It just... doesn't work anymore!"

"Huh?" Tenmas 'eyes' had become little confused black dots, "What doesn't work?"

Brook got up from the ground and brushed himself off, "Never mind that. What was your name Miss?"

"Oh, I-I'm Tenma?"

"Tenma-chan... May I ask you a question?"

"Y-yeah sure."

".. May I see your panties?"

Tenma froze into shock, "WHAT KINDA QUESTION IS THAT?!" She yelled, "NO!"

Brook Laughed, "It was worth a try" He drifted into thought, a small trail of blood seeping from his nose.

The look of astonishment didn't seize from Tenmas face.

"Oh, sorry" He turned back to Tenma who was hanging out of the kitchen window, "I have to go and get my nakama, I will be back soon. See ya Tenma. Yohohoho!"

Tenmas 'eyes' trailed after the stranger who had just casually accepted her being a skeleton and asked to see her panties...
She sighed and pulled her head back inside the house.

"That was weird."

Knock knock..

"Ahh! Who is it this time?"

Tenma walked to the front door and without thinking she opened it.

"Yeah what do you...want...?" She gasped in shock.

It was Karasuma.

There was no way of hiding the truth that she was truly a skeleton.

Tenma shrieked!