Disclaimer: I do not own Saya No Uta nor exclusive rights for the use of Eldritch Abominations in fictional media...

But I do own one comfortable kickass bathtub.

--Fuminori Sakisaka -

Despite clearly being locked inside a pitch black dream in my head, I can hear distant human voices happily chatting amongst themselves like friends.

"Hey Fuminori, you idiot. Wake up man!"

A sharp yet kind voice immediately forces my tightly closed eyes to spring wide open, I do not see Saya's familiar face in front of me... But only Kouji, Yoh and Oumi.

They're all sitting together in the university's lunch room, eating together whilst laughing jovially in high spirits and I am sat with them too. To my surprise, the world around me is the mundane plain normal one that I was accustom to, prior to the traffic accident. It would appear that my brain still recalls what the real world used to look like so my unconcious dreams barely escape the grasp of my perverse condition.

"Whew... For a moment there, Fuminori. I thought we almost lost you."

Kouji exclaimed with his trademark smirk, looking in Yoh's direction for her reaction.

As per usual, Yoh's reaction is shy and considerate. Kouji continues with his speech nonetheless.

"Say Fuminori, are you still coming to the ski trip with us? We'd love to have you."

Yoh and Oumi were completely silent, but from their movements beneath the table and the direction of their eyes. I could clearly see that they were speaking in silence together on each other's cellphone. I had given up on trying to figure out exactly why they did that ages ago.

"I'll think about it, Kouji."

I respond. Perhaps, if I wasn't already aware of the circumstances that bought forth this twisted reunion then I would have accepted Kouji's offer.

"That's... A real shame, Fuminori..."

Kouji's head lowers down in bitter rejection. I immediately experience an slight throb of pain in my chest that feels so very real.

"Kouji, listen... I'm really sorry about--"

My futile attempt to earnestly apologize is immediately and swiftly shot down by Kouji's next ominous set of words.

I wish I had accepted now.

"No, it's fine Fuminori... Perhaps I should expected this from a twisted monster like you."

The realistic sensation of pain in my chest eventually becomes akin to an assassin's dagger that strikes without fail from the shadows as Kouji's truthful words are disturbingly accompanied by the plain white walls, clean spotless surfaces and then everything else in the University's Cantina including the memories of my deceased friends being drenched in thick scarlet liquid that requires no explanation of what it is as the fluid continiously seeps like a broken valve from every single orifice on they're bodies that closely resemble bloodied corpses now.

They all pathetically shamble and reach out towards me like zombies from a bad horror fic, desperately moaning my name in pain with pitiful cries that sound as if they're voice boxes have been violently torn out with a pair of rusty scissors. They must be already choking on the blood that's steadily escaping from they're mouths.

I quickly dash with stopping towards the end of the blood splattered room as the looming walls around me begin gradually closing in, preventing any possible and viable chance of escape from the nightmare that continues to keep me forcefully hostage.

Where has Saya gone?

Has she abandoned me, but why?

...I need Saya, right now!

Don't leave me, Saya...!

Saya!

"Fuminori..."

...Fuminori...!"

"FUMINORI!"

The groans grow increasingly louder and exceedingly more threatening with each passing moment... Then.

As by mere chance, I wake up back to reality with terrified upright jolt accompanied by an scream that fills the entire Sakisaka Household's empty rooms with sound. My chest is still raw with the sensation of the agony from the realistic nightmare. There's a trail of wet running tears spawned from fright clearly present in my shaking fearful eyes, but I can't blame myself at all for crying. I previously foolishly thought that I had completely exhausted every single tear that I had inside me back at the hospital but I was wrong... So very wrong.

I guess, I'm still apart of the human race afterall.

"Fuminori, my darling...! It was just a dream, please calm down. I'm here for you."

There's a angelic comforting voice that puts me at ease is calling my name from my side, but it isn't Kouji...

It's my whole world.

My beginning and my end.

My Saya.

"Sa... Saya!"

I waste no time at all in my fragile frightened state, grappling unto Saya's small delicate body like a merciless hungry predator before coiling my arms tightly around her without a second thought, so quickly that even she is taken by surprise.

I bury my head deeply into Saya's tiny shoulder.

"...Don't leave me, Saya. You're all that I have in this world... Please."

My scared voice sounds so damn pathetic, as do my fearful actions themself but I hardly care as it is. I can't lose Saya...

I won't accept that.

Saya, however, only smiles happily at me then soothingly hums to me and strokes my untidy hair repeatedly with a gentle motherly hand.

"You've been tossing and turning for ages, Fuminori. It's been five minutes... I was worried. Come on, let's jump into the bath before it becomes freezing cold...!"

My perpetually frowning grimace quickly becomes as carefree as my counterpart's own, I simply nod in agreement as Saya takes my shaky hand in hers. The sensation of touch puts my mind at peace. I am reminded once more that without Saya, I have no real future ahead of me.

My goddess leads me carefully through long corridors of our home then upstairs and finally into the messily painted but overall relaxing bathroom that's filled with hot humid air from the warm bath water currently sitting in the bathtub.

Taking a bath with my darling Saya is exactly what I need, it's all I need.

"Let's quickly get you out of those clothes, Fuminori. Lift up your arms, alright?"

I obediently obey Saya without any hesitation as my weary arms reach for the ceiling and within' seconds I am thankfully freed from the restraints of my upper attire completely. I breathe in relief as Saya takes several long moments to appreciate the view of my exposed bare chest, she's awfully cute when she does that but I can't help but feel slightly guilty... Especially since I read Ogai's report.

"Have you been working out for me, Fuminori~?"

Saya giggles teasingly whilst I blush visibly. I distract my gaze as much as possible from her already nude body.

"Well, Saya... Uhh, I don't think so..."

I stammer awkwardly like a idiot as Saya begins pulling on sides of my trousers after swiftly unzipping them without my notice, wiggling my legs slightly so that she can remove them easier. As expected, Saya begins tracing across my sole remaining briefs with her left hand's index finger whilst seductively licking those enticing small lips of hers. I am helplessly trapped again by Saya's large web with little chance to free myself...

However before Saya decides to feast on me, she decides to climb into the warm bathtub after removing my underwear as I slowly do the same.

Laying back against the bathtub's edge as I spread my arms out with Saya currently nuzzling against my soaking dripping wet chest as she usually does. We both delightfully sigh completely in sync as the tranquil water surroundings our respective bodies fills us both with a perpetual sense of lingering bliss and sweet pleasure.

"Fuminori, could you wash my hair for me? I can't reach it from here. Please?"

Saya glances towards me, looking abit unsure of herself.

"You needn't ask, Saya. Just relax and let Fuminori help you."

I immediately begin with my desired task, slowly but surely sliding my fingers through my goddess's long beauitful black hair as she slides herself further against me comfortably as I work. I have done this same action countless of times in the many months that Saya and me have spent and lived together. You'd be more than welcome to think that I would least grown tiresome of repeatedly tending to Saya's needs but you'd be wrong in every single sense of the word.

This isn't a chore, but my reward and I love every moment of it.

"There... Should be all nice and clean, Saya."

She beams happily towards me before carefully spinning around like a flower caught in the gentle breeze, so that she's directly facing me. I can see every single wonderful inch of Saya from this angle...

I want to covet everything that Saya is and make it mine.

...How incredibly selfish of me.

I deeply relish this moment in time that I wished would last forever and a day as Saya's slender fingers begin spreading themselves continiously without stop nor pause through my soaked dripping wet hair before we begin passionately exchanging sensual kiss after sensual kiss with each other. The raw ecstacy from my lips contact with Saya's own sweet set of lips drives my carnal senses into complete and utter overdrive, which isn't helped by what she moans out next...

"...Fuminori please..."

At first, Saya's quiet voice sounds like she's enjoying herself but then when she repeats the words for a second time, I realise that it's more akin to experiencing horrible pain... As that awful revelation hits me, I exclaim with panic and alarm.

"What is it, Saya?!"

"Please...!"

"Tell me, what you need me to do!"

My eyes desperately search for hers, when they meet... She reveals exactly what she wants.

"...Make love to me, Fuminori... I want you inside me... I can't take it anymore, it's been days since I last felt you so close..."

"I need you..."

A metaphorical wave of guilt strikes me, I gulp in response and glance sideways before Saya aggressively clings unto my shoulders so hard that my skin bleeds slightly from her firm terrified grim as she pleads to me with scared and lonely eyes. Desperately trying to keep my attention on her and only her.

"Don't you find me attractive anymore, Fuminori...?"

"...That's it, isn't it!"

"You don't think I'm worthy for you...?"

"Please, I can be better for you!"

As I sit in the bathtub, completely speechless and dumbstruck... What can I do? I can't tell Saya about the repor-- Then Saya begins sobbing into her hands. The one sight that I wished would never make a reappearance finally did. Unable to stand it anymore, I tell Saya what I know... The truth.

"You've got me all wrong... You honestly have. Saya, I'm completely crazy about you. But we can't have sex... I saw in Ougi's report that you'll die, if I impregnate you... That's the reason why I've avoided intimate contact with you is because I can't deal with the very thought of losing you... I know that it's really selfish of me and I understand... I understand, if you hate me, but you are my world... So even if we're isolated together in this scary world, I still have a place to belong... With you, Saya. I don't want to lose that and end up alone again in this hell."

Upon my words being heard by the sobbing Saya, she lunges into my chest with a soft impact as I cradle her shaking body as she did with mine about one hour prior.

"Fuminori... My Father-- No, Professor Ougi... He didn't understand everything about me, not like you do, I won't perish as he said that I would but I'll merely sleep for a while... Become dormant for a while until I regain my strength and you'll be immune to the change too, considering that you are the father of the new beauitful world that I will create for the two of us, Fuminori. A world that we can share together."

Whilst I, Fuminori Sakisaka, have the greatest of respect and admiration for the Professor... Afterall, I wouldn't have met Saya without him. So he's practically my father-in-law even if Saya and him aren't really related but deciding to believe Saya's beauitfully spoke heartfelt words or his own crazed lab notes?

It's really no contest... I was stupid for not trusting Saya completely from the start.

"Well, I guess I'll be busy for a while... I might need to call up the place that I took my interview incase I actually get the job. You know. Considering that we have alot to catch up on, Saya. I'm sorry for making you wait..."

The depressed visage that Saya had been afflicted with, vanished so quickly in response to my words that I could be led to believe that whatever I saw previously wasn't real at all. Just a fun prank of hers. Calling out my name, Saya leaps into my arms again as the mildly warm water splashes all across the room.

"Yay! I love you so much, Fuminori...!"

As long as Saya's content, then so am I.

"Heh, whoa! I love you so much too, Saya."

That's chapter four finally complete!

Pretty pleased with the result myself.

I intend on having the cast of the Visual Novel make more appearances in the future, even if they're only ghosts or nightmares. Always fun to credit back to the source material, right?

Hopefully that was as dramatic and emotional as I promised but then again I haven't always been great with that stuff.

Until next time, see you in chapter five!