"Now, where were we?" Kizami grinned, taking out his knife.
"No, please!" Ayumi screamed, and just as he was about to plunge the knife through her chest, someone ripped Kizami off of her.
"Kishinuma-kun!" Ayumi yelled. Yoshiki threw Kizami against the wall and punched him square in the nose, leaving him to grasp his nose, groaning in pain, and run over to Ayumi.
"Are you okay, Shinozaki?" He ran his warm hand over her cheek.
"I-I'm fine.." She replied, still shocked from the events that had happened.
"Let's get you out of here," He picked her up bridal style, Ayumi looked up at her knight, her eyes widened, and he smiled at her lovingly, before his face contorting into one of pain and agony. Ayumi looked down and saw a knife sticking out of Yoshiki's chest and gasped, tears in her eyes, before Yoshiki fell, and Ayumi met the concrete floor, the impact scraping her arms and legs. She looked up and saw Kizami looking at Yoshiki's bloody dead body and laughing maniacally before looking back at her.
"Now that we're alone with no interruptions, let's finish this."
"NO!" She screamed and backed up, but to her fear, her back met a wall. He was about to thrust the knife into her when-
"Shinozaki!" Someone was shaking her, her head shot up and she let out a breath of relief that it wasn't Kizami and it was just a dream.
"You started squirming and screaming in your sleep, did you have a nightmare?" Yoshiki asked, sitting next to her on the bed.
"Yeah, is it time for school already?" She asked as soon as she noticed him in his school uniform, avoiding the subject since she didn't want to talk about it any further.
He nodded, "Your mother dropped off your uniform, both of them, and the rest of your things a few hours ago."
"Did she say anything?" Ayumi bit her lip.
"She told me that your father said he'd let you back in the house when you got yourself cleaned up.."
"I'll try..You don't mind me staying here a couple more days, right?"
"Not at all, do you plan on telling your parents about the incident?"
"No, the last thing they need is to be worrying about me instead of worrying about Hinoe."
"Have they found her yet?"
"Nope.." Ayumi sighed.
"Are you going to be okay to go to school today?" He asked, worried that she may break down again, he wasn't too worried about Chiaki and the others confronting her, since he'd be beside her most of the school day to check up on her, and Seiko would be with her after school at cheerleading practice.
"Yes, you can stop worrying," Ayumi said in an annoyed tone, since she didn't want to come off as weak to him, but it was probably already too late for that.
"Just checking. You should go change into your uniform though, that dress is pretty distracting."
Ayumi blushed furiously, "Y-You! Fucking blunt perv!" She ran off with her uniform into the bathroom, slamming the door. Yoshiki rolled his eyes and chuckled, going off to make a quick breakfast of cereal for them.
Ayumi went to cheerleading practice after school, though she wasn't there to actually practice, she was there to drop off her cheerleading uniform that was folded neatly in her hands, when she got there, she saw Akemi crying and some of the other girls trying to comfort her.
"What is this?! If you're going to be my head cheerleader you have to show up in your uniform, Shinozaki!" Ms. Kimoto yelled.
"I'm not going to be your head cheerleader, I'm giving my uniform back, I quit," Ayumi said, pushing the uniform into Ms. Kimoto's hands and looking back at the cheerleaders who looked at her in surprise, especially Akemi. The only one who didn't was Chiaki, who was looking at her in pure rage, but Ayumi didn't care, she wanted nothing else to do with Chiaki, Aneko, and the others. She just wanted to get back to her real friends whom she'd gone to Heavenly Host to and back, she should have never left them in the first place, she should have just done the mature thing and told them about what happened and let them comfort her rather than be reckless and interact with trashy girls like them. It wasn't who she was, and it wasn't who she wanted to be.
"You're a disgrace! Nobody leaves my team, I kick them off!" Ms. Kimoto screeched as Ayumi walked away, she just wanted to get out of there.
"Actually, I'm quitting too!" Ayumi heard a familiar voice yell, Seiko.
"I'm not too upset about that, you're way too hyper for my taste, besides, everyone's replaceable!" Ms. Kimoto said, walking up to Seiko, "Now, you better remove that uniform right now, before I rip it off with my own hands."
Seiko ran off to get changed in her old school uniform, and Ayumi decided to wait for her, and followed her when Seiko went to return her cheerleading uniform.
"Great, just before Nationals, too!" Ms. Kimoto complained.
"Sucks for you!" Seiko replied, turning around and leaving with Ayumi, a few cheerleaders laughed but stopped when they received a deathly glare from their coach.
"I'm so sorry about what happened, Ayumi! If only I followed you to that party, I could have got you out of there! No, if only I didn't make you join the cheerleading squad, you would have never ran into Chiaki and joined those tramps!" Seiko cried as soon as they went walking home on the sidewalk, well, not necessarily home, since Ayumi was going to Yoshiki's apartment.
Ayumi shook her head, "Didn't matter, it would have happened either way, I would have ran into them eventually, besides, it wasn't your fault."
There was a silence before Seiko spoke up, "Why did you do it?"
"I don't want to talk about it yet, I'll tell all of you guys when I'm ready.."
"Okay.." Seiko replied before turning back into her teasing self, "So, how is it going with Kishinuma?"
"N-Nothing!"
"Really? Because last I've heard, he pulled you out of that party, and he probably took you to his apartment, I assume?"
"Yes, he did, but nothing happened!"
"You sure? You look a lot less innocent to me," Seiko winked, but it hit Ayumi hard. Because she had lost her innocence, just not to Yoshiki. Seiko noticed this, and frowned.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you upset.."
"It's fine, it's just.." Ayumi didn't want to tell her just yet, "I'll tell all of you on Saturday."
Seiko nodded, "Don't rush yourself."
As they continued walking, Ayumi turned to cross, and it made Seiko confused.
"Why are you going down that sidewalk? That's not where your house is, unless.." Seiko grinned. And Ayumi blushed.
"I'm staying at Kishinuma's until I get myself back on my feet."
"I'll be sure to stop at a convienence store and get some condoms!"
"S-Seiko!"
"Be sure to text me what size he is, that would help me out a bunch, wait, you know what? I'll just get all of the sizes and ship them to you!" Seiko laughed and continued walking to her house, leaving Ayumi red faced.
Ayumi knocked on the apartment door, and Yoshiki opened it a few moments later, looking surprised.
"You're home early, how come?"
"I quit the cheerleading squad, I didn't want to be near Chiaki or Aneko anymore.."
"That's good, I didn't like the cheerleading idea from the beginning, the uniform looks good on you and all, but it isn't you, you like ghost stories and charms, not shaking pom poms," He replied, letting her in, she immediately went into the apartment, hiding her blush at his compliment.
"Yeah, Seiko quit too, I'm really glad as well, cheerleading is fun I guess, but as you said, it isn't me."
"Are you going to tell the others about...?" Yoshiki asked, not wanting to upset her about bringing the topic back, but surprisingly, she was okay with it.
"Yeah, on Saturday."
"You don't think you're pregnant, do you?"
"E-Eh?! No! At least I don't think so," Ayumi replied, caught off guard at his question, "I haven't had any symptoms or anything, so I think I'm good."
"Thank god."
"Can we just stop talking about it, please? I don't want to remember it, at least not until Saturday."
"Okay, sorry."
"So, are you-" Ayumi was cut off by her phone ringing, she flipped it open and saw that her mother was calling, she immediately picked it up.
"Hello? Mom?"
"Ayumi, you have to come home, right away!"
"Why?"
"There's something you need to hear, and something you need to see."
"I'll be right over," She replied, putting her phone in her pocket.
"I need to go back to my house," She told Yoshiki, but she left his apartment before he could say anything, she was incredibly worried that something bad had happened. Yoshiki followed her outside, and drove her to her house since her car was still at her house.
"Just stay here," She told Yoshiki, before going up to her front door, she didn't even need to knock before her mom opened the door and pulled her into her arms.
"Ayumi.."
"Mom, what's going on?" Ayumi asked worriedly.
"Come inside, there's something I need to tell you."
Ayumi followed her inside, and sat on her living room couch, everything that had been so familiar to her now seemed foreign, since she had been kicked out of her own house temporarily, her father sat on the chair next to her, remaining silent, the look on his face said that he didn't want to talk about whatever her mother was going to talk about, it was a pained look, and it made Ayumi more worried than ever.
"There's something you need to know, Ayumi, you know how I told you Hinoe went missing?"
"Yes.." Ayumi didn't have a good feeling about this.
"Well, the police found her."
"What?! Where was she?!" Ayumi was incredibly relieved to hear about her sister being found.
"She was found dead, in the bottom of a lake, I'm so sorry Ayumi," Her mother said, tears in her eyes.
Ayumi shook her head, planting it in her hands, sobbing. Words could not describe how she felt, the events that occured with Kizami were no match for this, though with all the things that had happened to her, it became too much to muster.
"Did they find the murderer?" Ayumi choked out.
"No, but they have a suspect, he goes by the name Kizami Yuuya."
Ayumi froze. Anger boiled in her veins, he killed Hinoe, she had no doubts about it, he had tried to kill her, and right in this moment, he wish he would have succeeded.
"That's not all, though. Someone left a note."
"A note?"
Her mother nodded, tears still trailing down her cheeks, she took out the crumbled note that was in her pocket and handed it over to Ayumi. Ayumi flattened it out and stared at it for a long time.
It's been quite a while, I've been missing your cries of pain, I never did get to find out what they sound like when I twist a blade through your chest, though. But no worries, I'll find out soon enough, I'm coming back for you, and I will fulfill my wishes this time around with no interruptions. Don't bother running away or hiding, I will always find my way back to you.
Sincerely, "H."
P.S I really liked that dress you wore to that party, it's a shame your little friend saved you before I could see what it looked like soaked in blood. (;
Ayumi couldn't move, or breathe. She knew it was Kizami, and he was coming for her, and she never felt so unsafe in her life, it's like she had no choice but to accept what was coming her way-an inevitable death. But the other half of her knew that Yoshiki would never allow that to happen. But what if Kizami killed Yoshiki? Or both of them? What if he killed her parents, or her friends? She had never hated anyone as much as him, he made her stomach churn and her teeth grind in rage and tears run down her cheeks in fear.
"Ayumi, who is this? What is he, or she talking about?"
Ayumi looked up at her mother with red puffy eyes, "It's Kizami, I'm sure of it."
"How do you know that? You haven't interacted with him, have you?"
"I don't want to talk about it.."
"You damn well better talk about it! He killed our damn daughter for Christ's sake, and he's going to try to kill you next!" Her father yelled, and Ayumi cringed at how loud his voice carried.
"Ayato!" Her mother replied, "If it's hard for her to talk about, we'll give her all the time she needs to be comfortable talking about it with us."
"And what if she gets killed before then?! What's stopping him?!"
"Kishinuma will protect her!"
"He's a teenage boy! What makes you think he'll stand by her 24/7 and protect her? He's a delinquent, he'll probably go out and screw some girl while this Kizami guy is stabbing our daughter to deat-"
"Don't talk about him like that!" Ayumi yelled at him when she couldn't hold it in anymore, "He's nothing like that, he's not a delinquent anymore, and he's more of a man than you'll ever be!" And with that, she ran out of the house, tears rushing down her face and she ignored her mothers calls for her to come back. She ripped the paper to shreds, throwing it on the concrete ground, and she climbed into the car and started sobbing uncontrollably, letting her emotions out.
"Shinozaki! What happened?!" Yoshiki asked, knowing something went wrong.
Ayumi looked up at him, "Hinoe, she's dead. Kizami killed her, and he's coming back for me."
Sup guyss! :3 So I decided to kill off Hinoe since she died in the prologue of Blood Drive anyway. Anyone hate Ayumi's father as much as I do right now? xD How dare he insult our Yoshiki! D: So yeah, Kizami is out for Ayumi as well, will he find her and finish what he started? Or will there be an epic Yoshiki vs. Kizami fight? Or will Seiko come and kill him with a bucket of tacos? I'm pretty sure that won't happen, but it would be awesome if it did! xD Next chapter or the one after that will have a bunch of Naoshi for all you Naoshi shippers! :3 Tell me if you want some Mayushige, since I don't really show much for that ship in this fanfiction. Be sure to R&R, it makes me want to sing the Nyan Cat song while dancing on rainbows! :3 ..What? People have different ways of handling excitement, ya know! xD Ciao!