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Shintaro and Momo ran around with Hibiya, looking frantically for the missing girl. At first Hibiya was annoyed with all the questions, but as the sun was going down he grew anxious and became desperate.

"Over here! This is where I last saw her" he pointed towards a set of swings. The small group ran over. "When did you see her here Hibiya?" Asked a worn out Momo.

Hibiya scanned the whole playground, then looked at the swings confused. "She is normally here around mid day, we always meet here." He looked down at his hands and thought to himself "well I'm still here, so that must mean she's still here too right?"

Hibiya's thoughts were interrupted by an irritated sigh. "This is too exhausting, Ene why can't you find her?! The GPS thing worked before?!" Shintaro groaned while complaining into his phone.

"Sorry Master but she's impossible to find!" This was NOT what Shintaro wanted to hear. His whole body was sore, today was probably the most eventful day he had in a very long time. He went over to a park bench and sat down. He let his black hair hang down over his face, wondering if he was going to get any peace ever again. He sank his head into his hands, looking through his fingers. Suddenly as he blinked there was a flash of red.

"Hm~. You look pretty smart."

Shinaro's head bolted up. "what just.. . " he thought. "Momo did you say something?" He asked hopefully. Momo who was looking around the park only turned around when her name was called. "Huh? I didn't say anything".

"But then who-" Shintaro's words trailed off, he must have been hearing things. All of a sudden there was another flash of red.

"But I think you still have so much to learn."

Shintaro stared into the space before him unable to look away. No. It's not possible.

"One day I'll meet the real you."

Before him was a girl, with long brown hair, a middle school uniform, two red clips, iconic red scarf and the thing that stood out the most. Her red eyes. Shintaro knew who she was, but was so shaken by the sight he was stuck for words. She looked right into his soul with her deep maroon eyes, then smiled like she always did with her classic giggle. Shintaro was slowly reaching out to her, seeing his memories flash before him, the words she spoke, the things she did and the smiles she gave to him, they were swirling around his mind like a tornado. This made him reach out more, as if he could recover a memory or something he had lost just by touching her. She extended her hand out to him, but before their fingers could touch she was engulfed a knot of black snakes controlled by a black figure with the same red eyes, then quickly vanished into thin air.

"WAIT!"

Momo and Hibiya spun around looking at Shintaro. Shintaro blinked rapidly, he lowered his extended arm slowly. "Surely that wasn't a dream. Was it?" He was trying so desperately to make sense of it all somehow.

Momo looked deeply concerned and inched her way to her brother and nervously asked. "Um. Oni-chan? What happened?"

Shintaro hesitated still gazing at where the girl stood. "I couldn't tell you if I wanted to Momo".

Momo looked puzzled at Shintaro not sure how to take the answer she was given. Hibiya walked up next to her looking back and forth at the siblings. Momo glanced at Hibiya and smiled slightly. "Any luck thinking about where your friend could be?" Momo asked sweetly.

Hibiya looked up at the teenage girl annoyed. "Don't patronise me." He said coldly while crossing his arms and looking away. Momo forced a smile and said they will find her soon.

~meanwhile~

Seto and Kano were on the look out for the girl that Hibiya described. The boys walked silently until Seto spoke. "Man, today seemed like it lasted forever! I still can't believe I only met Shintaro, Momo and Ene only this morning!"

"Yeah. Great."

Seto looked at Kano worryingly. "Kano?"

Kano didn't respond, he looked quite stern and eyes shifting in every direction. Seto became very uncomforable, Kano would never show fear and seeing him like this made him think maybe he should be scared too. He reached out to tap Kano's shoulder. "Um Kano?"

Instantly Kano flinched and nearly pushed Seto away but there was a flash in his eyes, then he looked calm staring up at Seto. "Hm~?"

Seto stared at Kano "Did he just...let his guard down?" he thought. "Uh Kano? Are...are you alright?"

Kano sighed "Yeah I'm good, just thought I heard something is all. Listen I don-"

"Heard something? Like what?"

"Wh-! I dunno a person! Just I think we better leave, it's getting dark." Seto nodded and they began to walk in the direction they came, until something caught Seto's attention.

Seto slowed down and came to a stop. Kano continued to walk until he noticed Seto stopped walking. He turned around to face him. Kano stared at him for some sort of explanation but Seto was looking into space. It was as if all time had stopped around him. Seto stood in a frozen state until he spoke in a shaky voice: "Did you hear that?" The way Seto was acting scared Kano, this wasn't like Seto at all.

"Come on Seto don't pull this crap-"

"Shh! I'm trying to listen!" Seto was looking around frantically, his eyes glowing red trying to look for thoughts. Kano looked at him like he was crazy. "Listen to what? I don't hear anything! Seto what are you doing?!"

Kano was on the verge of screaming, Seto wasn't listening to him and was acting almost possessed. He never uses his ability unless he really had to. Kano felt the shadows and the darkness creeping up on him as the sun was slowly scraping down, between the strange atmosphere and Seto acting insane Kano had enough. He looked to where he thought Seto was standing, but to his horror Seto was running as fast as he could in the opposite direction down a dark road.

Fear shot through Kano's spine, his legs started to move on their own following his friend's footsteps. "SETO!"

Seto didn't stop or waver in the slightest. "SETO!" Kano screamed at the top of his lungs, desperately trying to catch up but it was no use. Seto was swallowed by darkness and left Kano alone. Kano continued to run after him but he was running out of stamina and slowed down with his lungs burning with lack of oxygen. "How could he just run off like that?!" Kano thought as he looked around the street for any sign of life. He began to walk around slowly and see if there was a land mark so he could find out where he was, but there was nothing, no indication of a street name or number, just buildings lumped together as if they were pretending to be real. He was sure he had not been in a place like this before but it felt somewhat familiar, as if he'd been there in a dream... or a nightmare.

His stomach turned unpleasantly, this place was giving him the creeps. Kano kept walking and eventually met a corner at the end of the road. He was about to turn around when he heard footsteps, at first he thought they were Seto's footsteps but as he listened they became very different. They were heavier, slower and each footstep was followed by a rattle from a buckle. Kano heard those footsteps before, a very long time ago, Kano was immediately paralyzed with fear. Kano jumped as the person began speaking in angry muffles, Kano couldn't make out what he was saying but the voice was getting closer. Unwanted memories started to seep into his mind, the fear, the helplessness and the pain still felt so strong to him. Kano wanted to jump out and fight it, he wanted to defeat it, he didn't want to be scared. No matter how hard he tried he was unable to move, all he could do was shake in fear as he felt his breathing become rapid and his heart beating so fast he felt throbbing in his ears. He shut his eyes tight pushing unwanted tears out in hopes it would make the man turn away and never come back.

Then the footsteps stopped, Kano strained his ears to listen around the corner but was too scared to open his eyes.

"Where are you?!" the voice echoed. Kano's eyes shot open, he knew that voice. He bolted around the corner. "SETO?! WHERE ARE-"

Kano was abruptly cut off as he saw to his horror, Seto leaning too far over a fence next to a river, nearly falling into the rapids below. Without thinking Kano ran and yanked Seto to the off the railing pulling them both to the ground with a thud. Kano was too worried to think and sat up and leaned over Seto looking to see if he was alright. Seto was lying on the concrete with his eyes wide open as if he had just woken up from a bad dream. He began to look around like he didn't know where he was, then turned to Kano who wanted to punch him and hug him at the same time.

Seto looked distraught and couldn't find any words to say. Kano who was exhausted after everything that happened tried to compose himself, "Seto, are you alright?" Seto slowly sat up half consciously and gazed at where he was on the railing. "I. -I don't know..."

This answer scared Kano "What do you mean? A moment ago you were fine?! Then you started acting crazy! What happened?!"

Seto didn't respond he just sat there with the same dead expression on his face. Kano couldn't take it and snapped. He grabbed Seto's collar so that their eyes met. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! I COULD EXPECT THIS KIND BEHAVIOR FROM SOMEONE AS LOW AS ME BUT NOT FROM YOU! NOT YOU SETO! SO FORGIVE ME WHEN I SAY I WANT SOME ANSWERS AS TO WHY! WHY YOU?! WHY AM I THE ONE WHO HAS TO SAVE YOU WHEN YOU'RE ABOUT TO-" Kano began to choke up. "Wh-when your ..a-about t-to..." He couldn't look at Seto, his grip loosened and he slumped down giving into the tears and the pain in his heart. "Seto say something please-" He looked back up to Seto who was just looking back in shock, tears falling down his face." I'm...I'm so...sorry"

"Seto I don't want apologies, why? Why did you do it?!"

Seto looked to the ground and said. "It was a misunderstanding." Kano looked at him for more answers "I'll explain later, but can we just get out of here?" Kano suddenly remembered where he was, he tensed up "Yeah, I think thats a good idea." and with that the boys picked themselves up and walked back to the others, walking a little faster than before.

~meanwhile~

...

"please don't go sister!"

"I'm sorry, I have to go"

"Please! I don't want to be alone."

"don't worry father is here. I'll see you soon."

"No!Don't leave me alone!"

"You be good Kido~."

Kido bolted awake and found herself in a cold sweat. She slowly sat herself up and realised that she wasn't in her room, or anyones room. "Where am I?"

"Kido?" said a kind familiar voice.

"Mary?"

"Kido! Your'e awake, how are you feeling?" Mary rushed over to Kido's side with a cold towel "You look very pale, has your fever returned?-"

"Um Mary, where are we?"

"Oh! We are in Hibiya's home, He's a new friend." Mary said with a smile.

"A new friend? Wait where are the others?"

"They went out to find Hibiya's friend because he let us stay here."

"Ok" Kido slightly sank down. "I'm sorry I caused so much trouble, I'm so pathetic."

"Kido please don't be so hard on yourself, we couldn't have predicted it." Mary urged Kido to layback down as she put the cold towel on her forehead. "The others should be back soon don't worry."

"I'll see you soon."

"Yeah I hope so."

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Dear random guest who was curious: I'm sorry for the confusion! But for now lets just say she wants to keeps things a secret. : 3 Thank you!