I walked alongside Yuka. Indeed the door to the connecting path between the buildings had disappeared, but I knew that there had to be some other way for me to get to that building.
I had to tell Satoshi the procedure to get out of this place. In this alternate parallel timeline, I haven't been killed and lost to the school, so Sachiko does not have my powers as a medium. So that means they can still get out with ease...theoretically.
I hope he was alright.
"Saenoki-san, what did you do for fun back home?"
"Huh, I uh..." What I considered fun, would be totally different from what she considers fun. "I write and read books about the supernatural and investigate supernatural occurrences. I also liked studying urban legends." Glancing at Yuka and her overall facial expression, I think I just lost her.
"Yuka, does not understand."
"I read and write to pass time, usually about spirits."
"You read or write to pass the time? That's boring though!"
"I am an accomplished writer. I have won quite a few awards for my work, so it does pay off...literally."
"Booooringggg!"
"Well, what did you do for fun?"
"I played with my friends and when I was alone, I'd watch TV or help Onii-chan out."
Yes, her ideas were far different from mine.
"Well, you are more fortunate than me. You see, I didn't really have many friends in school."
"Really? You seem pretty nice Saenoki-san."
"Well, at least here... In reality, I'm pretty quiet. A keep to myself person. And I can sometimes be a jerk to people, so I'm told, especially when I have to repeat myself, I can't stand that. Just because I speak quietly huh, well they should be listening intently!"
I think I just ranted out loud.
"What was that Saenoki-san? I couldn't here you over the quietnesss of your voice," Yuka laughed.
"Don't. Test. Me." I grumbled.
She laughed and laughed, her teasing worked. Even with the steam coming off my head, I couldn't help but smile at her enjoyment.
Up ahead was one of the doors between spaces. I wondered if I could bring Yuka through. I held the door open.
"Yuka, let's go through here."
"Okay!"
I passed through no problem. However, when Yuka tried to cross, it was as if a force barrier kept her from proceeding. Only I could pass through these doors.
"Saenoki-san! I-I can't pass through!"
"I know I know! Umm, hold on let me think of something."
"Hello, is somebody there? Saenoki-chan?"
Mochida-kun!
"Saenoki-san, I can't get through!"
"I know I know Yuka-chan, just, let me think."
"Yuka-chan! There you are!" A deep voice called out from Yuka's closed space.
"Ahh! Saenoki-san! Please help me!"
"Yuka-chan, just calm down and-"
"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" She took off running away from the door before I could finish.
A person looked through the door frame, no other than a deranged Kizami Yuuya.
"Ah Saenoki-san. Please excuse, my little sister, I don't know what's gotten into her she really shouldn't be playing hide and seek in this place right now, hahaha. If you'll excuse me, I have to go male sure she doesn't hurt herself... That's my job... Hahahahahahahaha!"
I tried to go back, but he shoved me back and pulled the door shut. I frantically got up and tried desperately to pull it open, but it wouldn't even rattle, like a fixation on the wall.
"NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! You stay away from her!"
I pounded on the door, yelled at the door, cursed at the door, and kicked at the door. No effect. Trying once again, it threw open finally, a certain deranged spirit allowed it to open, but it opened up only to a simple dark supple room, the connection was gone. On the floor was a hastily written note. "Haha, try again!" I crumpled up this note and tore it over and over. I slammed the door shut, and continuously opened and shut the door, slamming it over and over again, checking each time to see if the connection had been established. No effect, it was still an empty supply room.
"No!" I collapsed against the door. "Yuka..." I tear formed and rolled down my cheek.
"Saenoki-san?"
I looked at the direction of the voice. It was Satoshi.
"Have you seen anyone from my school, either of my friends, my teacher, or my little sister Yuka?"
More tears filled in.
"I failed you Mochida-kun!" I started sobbing like a total drama case. It couldn't be helped. "I promised Yuka I wouldn't let anything happen to her, then we got separated and now she's vulnerable!"
It wasn't that I was scared Yuka would be caught instantly, I knew that girl can run and hide, especially from that psycho, I've watched her do it when I was an uncaring spirit. It was the fact that she would get caught inevitably that frustrated me. She was trapped in that closed space and wasn't going anywhere.
"Saenoki-chan, just calm down, I've been separated from Yuka too, it's actually my fault she's out alone right now. I should have never went on without her directly by my side. This school's actions can't be helped, there wasn't anything you could have done."
"Mochida-kun, this is all my fault. All of it. Your friends... Oh god they-"
Satoshi pulled me into a really really tight hug. "Saenoki...there was nothing you could have done."
I was going to confess to taking the lives of three of his friends and his teacher, but his hug was so comforting, I couldn't bring myself around to say it. I wrapped my arms around him and buried my face in his shirt.
After I was certain the few tears I had were gone, I glanced up at Satoshi, neither one of us releasing the embrace. "I have to get back, I need to find Yuka, I promised I wouldn't let anything happen to her. We have to find your friends, you need to get out of here! It isn't safe for you to be here! The longer you are here, the more danger you are in!"
"We have to appease the spirits of those little kids murdered here and-"
"Nononononono, forget the spirits you need to leave, you can without appeasing them and without appeasing Sachiko!"
"But we were told-"
"Told by who?" I interrupted curiously, immthe one who was supposed to tell them this before. "Who told you?"
"We ran into the spirit of a Sensei Kibiki, apparently he knows you, thinks you are dead."
"No no no, don't listen to that bumbling idiot,he doesn't know what's going on right now, listen to me, we have to find your friends and sister and you have get out of here!"
"But what about you Saenoki-chan? Your piece of charm isn't part of ours."
"I'll...I'll figure something out..."
I knew very well what would happen if I used the wrong piece, and I'll try to see what I can do about it, but Satoshi's safety was all that mattered to me right now.
"I...I know the way out..."
"That's good to know."
He said that as if part of him didn't want to leave.
"Let's find Yuka and the others together, Saenoki-chan."
