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Warning: This is a precaution in cause any sexual content may occur. Probably not, but people have different opinions. So it's best to be safe!

Chapter Four

Later that same night, Fuji was alone in his hotel room next door to Akasaka and his family. He had his notepad laid out on a desk with a lamp on so he could examine the manuscripts he'd written himself. The phone on the desk rang and interrupted his work.

"Hello? This is Fuji Inoue-san." he said as he picked up the phone.

"Ah, Inoue, I'm glad I caught you!"

"Who are you? I've never heard your voice before…"

"I'm new to the force, excuse me. I was ordered by the boss to ask how your investigation is going."

"You should have asked Mamoru. It is his investigation after all."

"Well, I already have you on the phone. So could I just ask about your lead?"

"I suppose."

"Thank you Inoue. Well, what do you have so far?"

"It's been disclosed that the suspect Kisho was the lead to incident that happened in Ishimiro. Of course, you know there was an outbreak of classified, 'Hinamizawa Syndrome'. How, is the question… our lead suspect on the outbreak is directed towards Fuiku Eijima-san. He had a way to block every question during the investigation, he seemed to know more than what he told us. One thing that strikes me is Mamoru's notes about black feathers being found in the school, and of course Shizuki Ryuna-san's suicide."

"I'd disregard those notes about feathers. Must be Mamoru's imagination running. Well anyway, thank you Inoue. I'll give this information to the boss."

"So it begins…" Kyo's voice pronounced from on the windowsill.

Fuji turned his head to where the voice came from, but no one was there. He shook his head a bit and hung up the phone. "I must be working too hard," he said. He loosened his tie a little and set it on the desk as he lay down on his hotel bed and fell asleep within minutes.

The students entered the classroom the next morning at Hinamizawa Branch School. They stood around talking, or doing anything to keep themselves occupied until their teacher's arrival. The three transfer students arrived in together. The club members looked over and glanced at them. Mion approached them.

"Hita," she said.

"Yes itoko?" she replied meekly as she looked towards the floor.

Mion put her hands on the sides of Hita's arms. "Hita, look at me!"

Hita slowly moved her head up to face Mion.

"I want you and your two friends to come with us after school. Alright?"

"Okay." Hita replied without an argument.

Mion took her hands away and stepped back over with her own friends. She took in a deep breath and let out a relieved sigh.

"Onee, you know what you're doing, don't you?" Shion asked.

"Mii-chan knows. Rena thinks that Mii-chan has everything planned out just fine!" Rena said in reply for Mion.

"I hope you're right Rena…" Mion said as she turned away from the rest of them.

Fuiku entered the room carrying a package. He nodded to a man out in the hallway who had just given him the package.

"Thank you sir!" he said as he entered the classroom and walked over to his seat. He set the package down and minded his own business, humming to himself and making sure the package didn't get damaged.

"What's with him?" Keiichi snarled as he glared at Fuiku.

Satoshi shook his head. "It'd be best to leave him alone Keiichi, we don't want to cause trouble."

"Let's no worry about anything and just have a good day! Nipaah!" Rika chimed in to brighten the mood.

"Yeah, you're right…" Keiichi replied.

"Rika…" Hanyu whispered a bit. "Haven't you noticed that Kyo isn't here?"

"Yes, I have. Why do you think?"

"I'm not sure. Maybe we shouldn't worry about it."

"Well, we shouldn't be too careful."

"Hello students!" Rumiko chimed. She had somehow slipped into the room without the students noticing. "Let's begin class today, shall we?"

"A baseball field, huh?" Hita asked as she and her friends followed the club members. "What are we doing here itoko?"

"You'll see." Mion replied as she stopped and dropped the bag of equipment that was being carried on her shoulder. She looked up into the sky and shielded her eyes from the sun. "This is perfect."

It was already the afternoon, the sun was passed its high midpoint and was getting ready to prepare itself to brighten the western hemisphere. A few clouds rolled by but not many, the day seemed just right.

"What's perfect? What's all this about?" Shinji asked as he took a step backwards.

Keiichi seemed to appear out of the air as he rose from behind Shinji, the haunting feeling of a phantom being near crawled up Shinji's spine.

Keiichi snickered a bit. "It's your initiation…" He laughed maniacally. Keiichi has something planned.

"Initiation? F-For what?" Rei asked meekly as she curled herself away and looked scared.

Mion turned to the three and smirked. "You don't know? This is our group of Hinamizawa club members. We want you three as part of it! Kei-chan, secure the boy!"

"Huh?!" Shinji whipped around and saw Keiichi attempt to gran him. Shinji turned around and ran before Keiichi could catch him.

"Rena, Satoko! You both get the shy girl!" Mion exclaimed.

Rena nodded.

"You can count on us Mion-san!" Satoko shouted.

"Shion… You know what we need to do." Mion said as she turned to Hita.

Hita took a step back and her eyes went wide. "Eh, what?!"

Mion snatched Hita by the wrist and pulled her over to the equipment bag. She let go of Hita's arm and knelt down opening the bag.

"Water guns?!" Hita shrieked. "What do you need water guns for?!"

Mion shushed her and slipped a small water pistol with a reddish-orange liquid loaded into it. "You, Shion, and I are getting ones loaded with Obatcha's hot sauce. I plan on using this for Kei-chan."

"Itoko, that's devious… You're so brilliant!" Hita laughed.

Mion stood up and shouted. "Alright, everyone come over here! We're going to begin the club activity shortly!"

Shinji ran passed in the background, still trying to escape the chase from Keiichi.

"Kei-chan, get over here!" Mion shouted.

Keiichi came over and once Shinji found it safe he did as well. The other club members followed them.

"Take your picks; get any water-squirter you can." Mion said.

Keiichi raised a brow for a moment. "What's the catch?"

"There's no catch Keiichi, I promise!" Mion smiled. "Now, the punishment game rules are the same as last time. Of course this time… You're all divided into teams, if you lose your three flags, your whole team loses and you all suffer the penalty! The teams are as followed! Team One: The Sonozaki girls, Shion, Hita, and me! Team Two: The boys, Keiichi, Satoshi, and the new boy Shinji! Team Three: Rena, Satoko, and Rei! Lastly, but not least! Team Four: Rika and Hanyu Furude! Go!"

The kids all dispersed after taking their flags and separated into their teams. Mion had already supplied her comrades with their weapons. Rika and Hanyu had seemed to vanish. The boys; Keiichi, Satoshi, and Shinji were all hiding in the dugout. Keiichi of course had picked the largest weapon of them all. Satoko, Rena, and Rei were hidden in the bushes outside of the baseball field's fence.

The air was quiet and nobody seemed to make a move. For a while it was like this.

"Alright, I've had enough!" Keiichi shouted. "Mion, I'm calling you out!"

"Oh, is that so Kei-chan?" Mion said as she stepped in front of him.

The sun set high in the sky as the both of them had their hands at the ready. The moment seemed to be pulled straight out of a western outlaw film.

Keiichi glared and his hand twitched for a moment. "Draw!" He snatched his gun and pulled the trigger. Nothing came out of his gun and he shrieked. "What the Hell?!"

"Hahaha!" Mion laughed. "I knew you'd go for the biggest Kei-chan, so I purposely got something that was broken so you'd be defenseless!" Mion whipped out her pistol and aimed it at him.

Keiichi immediately jerked around and jumped back into the dugout.

Mion put the gun away and pulled out a radio with her out hand. She hit the switch on it and smirked. "The war has begun, show no mercy!"

Satoshi was looking around in the dugout as he spotted something. "Hey look, Mion left us a communication device." He grabbed it and held up what was just two paper cups connected by a string.

Keiichi glared and wanted to shout Mion's name. "Come on let's move!"

The boys left the dugout and ran all in different directions.

"Get them before they escape!" Mion shouted. She was about to run but something landed in front of her foot and she glared at the spot on the ground. "Water balloons?" she thought to herself. "Damn, they have us!"

Satoko was in the bushes laughing her boastful laugh. "Ohohoho! Mion-san may be a skilled and intelligent person, but I had a few tricks of my own planned."

"Rena thinks it was a very good idea for Satoko-chan!" Rena smiled.

Satoko smirked again as one of her canines stuck out from the corner of her mouth. "Just think Rena, if we have Mion, Shion, and Hita-san lose, then they have to pay the penalty! Either them or the boys."

"Hauuu… K-Kawaii!!" Rena shouted as she snatched the water balloons and started pitching them out like a gantline gun.

"Do things always turn out like this?" Rei asked as she stared at Rena.

Satoko shrugged a bit. "Usually."

Shion screamed a bit; nearly averting a water balloon. "Onee, we need to get to cover!"

"Haha! Cover? I don't need cover!" Mion shouted. Her hair had already been matted down with a few attacks.

Shinji popped out from around the corner of the dugout and saw Hanyu. "Got you!" he exclaimed as he pointed his water gun at her.

"Haauuu!!" Hanyu dropped her gun and threw her hands in front of her face. "P-Please don't shoot me! I'm too young, haauu!"

"…Eh." Shinji's hand shook and he slowly lowered his gun. "…I don't, think I can do it." His eyes widened a bit as he got squirted in the back. "Hey!" He whipped around to see Rika standing there.

"I got you sir! Nipaa!" She beamed as she held up her small gun to him. She extended out her other hand. "I believe you should hand me your flag."

"I believe you should hand me yours before I get you." he replied to her.

Hanyu picked her gun up again and held it to Shinji's back. "Please hand her the flag, haauu… I don't want to shoot you!"

Shinji turned back to Hanyu and glared. "And what makes you think-!" Shinji tried to finish his sentence but he fell over on his back from getting blasted in the face.

Rika bent down and snatched his flag as both she and Hanyu ran off.

Keiichi ran over and snatched Shinji's gun. "Don't worry, I'll avenge you." he said as he took off to find Mion.

Once Keiichi stepped back onto the field, water sprang up from the ground. Someone had turned on the sprinklers.

"Mion!!!" Keiichi shouted.

Mion's voice seemed to emit from nowhere. "It'll only stop once you surrender your flag Kei-chan!"

"Never!" Keiichi shouted.

Mion popped around a corner and blasted Keiichi in the face, then receded back into hiding.

Keiichi screamed a bit and fell to his knees. "It burns! Damn you Mion!" Keiichi grabbed his gun and took off back towards the dugout. He saw Satoshi sitting on the bench, soaked with water.

"They got me…" Satoshi said before Keiichi had a chance to speak.

Keiichi shook his head. "It looks like I'm alone on this one." He turned back and stepped onto the field. "Come on Mion, I know you're waiting!"

"Oh, you've actually come to confront me again?" Mion smirked as she stepped out. "Surrender Kei-chan, or you're finished."

"I'm taking that flag from you Mion." Keiichi snarled.

Mion let out a sigh as she shook her head. "It's your funeral Kei-chan." She snatched her radio and shouted. "Fire the secret weapon!"

"Secret weapon; what secret weapon?!" Keiichi shrieked.

Hita jumped out from around the corner with a hose in her hand. She smirked at the lone boy.

"Now Shion!" Mion yelled.

Shion jerked the knobs that controlled the water and moved it up to full power. Keiichi was hit and finished.

Keiichi lay on the ground in a pool of mud. He groaned a bit and didn't even try to get up. Mion stepped over and picked up the flag once the hose had been put away.

"Looks like I win Kei-chan." Mion smirked. "The game is over, a team has lost!" Mion shouted.

The other club members all gathered around. Keiichi and his comrades had fallen.

"You know what this means Kei-chan…" Mion laughed her sinister malicious laugh.

The club members gathered their things and left home as the day started to fall into night.

"That was fun itoko." Hita said, following behind Mion. "…I'm glad you accepted us enough to join you all."

"Huh?" Mion perked up her head and laughed a bit nervously. "Oh, it was nothing. You all really seemed like you needed some friends around here anyway."

"Thank you itoko.." Hita replied.

Shinji was following behind them all. He looked annoyed from getting tricked and squirted in the face. He slowly lagged behind as he followed the others.

A hand grabbed Shinji by the shoulder and turned him around. Shinji shrieked for a moment but then calmed down.

"Jeez Kyo, don't do that!" he shouted. "It's not a good time to be doing these kinds of jokes."

"Actually, I wanted to talk to you."

"Talk; about what?"

Kyo pulled his hand away and lit himself up a cigarette. "I did some 'investigating' of my own today."

"You were spying again, weren't you?" Shinji snapped.

"It's better than I had. Just trust me, but keep an eye on that brown haired detective. Something bad might happen."

"Alright… if you say so." Shinji replied as he and Kyo headed home.