Disclaimer: If I owned Fruits Basket there would be a lot of YuKyo love.

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Chapter 3: "Did you hear that?"

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Every light in the school was shut off. Seeing as how it would be obvious and expected, Uo and Hana made sure to have brought a flashlight for everyone except Hare because he was an unexpected member.

"It's fine," said Haru. "I'll just stick close to someone with light."

Momiji turned his camcorder on.

"What'd ya bring that for?" Kyo asked him.

"To record this memorable memory of course!" Momiji exclaimed.

"So how are we going to do this?" Yuki asked Uo.

Uo thought for a moment before saying anything. "Hm.. It might be too much trouble to go everywhere all together."

"We should split into teams," suggested Hana.

They all agreed to this. In the end, the three girls were one team, Yuki and Momiji would be a team, and Kyo and Haru would go on their own.

"So how are we going to do this?" asked Haru.

"Let's just wander around for a bit," said Uo. "See what happens."

"It too bad we don't have a way to communicate with each other," said Tohru.

"Yeah, walkie talkies would have been cool," said Uo. "Alright, us girls will take the top floor, the Prince and the Kid can take the middle floor, and Orange Top and the other one can have the ground floor."

Why don't I get a nickname? thought Haru.

"Whatever," said Kyo. "Let's just get this over with."

Kyo and Haru headed in the opposite direction down one of the corridors while the other two groups headed up the stairwell to their own ghost hunting destination.

"Do you think we'll find anything?" asked Haru.

"No."

"Then why are you here?"

"To get the satisfaction of beating that damn Yanki."

They were quiet.

"Do you think we'll find anything?" asked Kyo.

"I don't think we'll not find anything."

Kyo sighed. "What an answer."

They continued to walk in silence. They opened the doors to random classes and flashed their light in, making sure nothing was there. When they were satisfied that there was nothing to be found, they exited and continued on their way. It wasn't until they had appeared before a girl's bathroom that anything was spoken.

"Should we look in there?" asked Haru.

"What? Why?"

"Well she was killed in a bathroom."

"I'm not going into a girl's bathroom."

"Why not? It's not any different from the boys. Just because there's no urinals... or is there?"

"I don't want to think about why there would be urinals in a girl's bathroom."

"What if it was a unisex bathroom?"

"A what?"

"A unisex bathroom. A bathroom for both boys and girls. Then there would have to be urnials."

"Where would those exist?"

"In France."

"What?"

"I think. I'm not sure about it. I saw it in a movie."

"Whatever, I'm not going into a girl's bathroom."

"Well I am."

Before Kyo could stop him, Haru had already pushed his way through the swinging door. Aggravated at his cousin, Kyo went in after him.

"Haru, what the hell are you doing?"

"Looking for ghosts. Look, no urinals."

"That's great, Haru. Now can we just get the hell out of here?"

Kyo grabbed his cousin's arm and tried to drag him out of the bathroom. Before they were able to get out though, the center faucet turned on. They spun around.

"The hell?" Kyo asked softly.

"It turned on."

"No shit."

Kyo walked over to it and turned it off. The stall behind the sink's door creaked open.

"What was that?" asked Haru.

"What was what?"

Haru walked over to his cousin and pointed the flashlight at the stall. It had swung fully open.

"You think they died in here?"

"I doubt anyone died anywhere in this school. Let's get out of here."

They turned to leave, this time, making it completely out of the room. As the door behind them swung to a close, a loud crash sounded.

"Did you hear that?" Haru asked.

"Yeah, I heard it."

"What do you think it was?"

"Probably rats or something."

"Wouldn't they be following Yuki then?"

Kyo thought about it. It sounded logical enough. Haru sounding logical? Things were weird around here.

"I don't know what it was then. Let's look down here."

He took the flashlight away from his cousin and started walking down one of the corridors. The only sound was the sound of their footsteps echoing back into their ears.

"We should hold one of those seance circles," Haru said.

"What?"

"You know, to communicate with the dead. We should have gone into the bathrooma dn try to communicate with one of the ghosts. It would have been a lot more helpful."

"Well too late for that idea, we're already split up."

"I know that. What's through this door?"

Kyo shone the light on the door Haru pointed out.

"It's like a basement or something. A boiler room."

"Should we look down there?"

"Is it locked?"

Haru tried it. It would budge. He tried again, and it still didn't move. Finally, he forced it open, breaking the lock, but at least the door was open.

"Dammit, how many times do I have to tell you to not break things?!"

"Hm? What?"

"Whatever. May as well check it out since it opened and all."

Just as they were about to descend into the room below, a piercing scream made it's way from floors above.

"That sounded like-"

"Tohru!"

Not waiting for his cousin, Kyo sprinted towards the stairs, wanting to make sure that the girl was alright. Haru immediately followed after him.

They had left the door to the boiler room below the school open. Metal pipes striking each other sounded from below. Then, a deep yell came through, unheard and undetected to those that were in the school at the moment.

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Authoress's Note: I think from now on, I'm going to post these down here. I don't know, to me it's just more ... agreeable. Anyway, sorry for the wait. Halloween prep took a lot of my time. Combine that with all the honors classes I'm taking, and it's like there was no time for myself! -phew- Maybe I should take 'Laith's advice and drop some. Then end up like her! I kid, I love my onee-chan. So, thank you my two reviewers! You have made me very happy! Thank you thank you thank you!