A/N: Yes! The next chappy!

I'll have you know I have much more planned

And I apologize

I'll stop making promises now

If you know what I mean

BUT THERE WILL BE! I SWEAR!


"How are we going to get away in five minutes?!" Kouyuu's shout was barely audible over the loud congealment of murmurs and chatters and yells of many blended into one.

It was a futile question really. From the expression on Shuuei's face it was clear that he knows what he was doing. But it couldn't hurt to ask, right?

"Find Mei or Ensei first," Shuuei replied whilst keeping his eyes straight ahead on that invisible path between the mass student bodies. "Better yet, Ryuuki. As to get Seiran off our trail."

Kouyuu nodded. Of course. This has been obvious. He knew it. Seiran knew it. It was a race between the two teams as to who would get to their goal first: the cat chasing the mouse racing for his burrow in the wall. But he was surprised. Shuuei, being Ran Shuuei, would've- should've- came up with a fool-proof, or better yet direction-less-proof plan already.

"I know it's already more than obvious," Shuuei admits, answering the unasked, skeptical question from the one behind him. "But it's our first priority right now. So let's get things straight."

"So we're looking for… Mei first, I suppose?" Kouyuu gasps out after finally entering the more secluded halls of the dorm buildings. Everyone else was at extracurricular activities after school. In fact, Kouyuu grimaced inwardly when he realized there was an Archery Club meeting today. No way he was going to make that.

Shuuei only nods in response, dabbing at the sheen of perspiration gathered on the nape of his neck with the gold-trimmed cuff of his uniform.

"So where was Ensei's room again?"

A mutual question; answered only by stinging dabs of pervasive memories of that three-digit number engraved upon that copper plague mounted on that wooden door.

After a grueling, well, but tiring disguised questionings, Li Kouyuu and Ran Shuuei arrived upon the closed door of what they knew as Ensei's dorm room. But…?

"What the hell is this?!" Kouyuu, a lot more than slightly irked, ripped the note taped onto the door off in his fury.

"I'm sleeping, so don't bother me. P.S. Li & Ran, run far and fast. Ryuuki will come running at The Word, so don't destroy his acquaintanceship. Perhaps mention it to Seiran though. Imagine; 'Ojou-sama's my love rival'."

Shuuei's eyes barely scanned across the last word before the paper disappeared into a crumpled ball between the scholar's fists.

"That Mei…"

Shuuei sighed. If this was the way it is, they'd have to find Ensei first. But if Mei was in Ensei's room…

Another sigh passed through his lips. There was only one place the boy would go whenever his sanctuary (a.k.a. his room) is- literally and metaphorically- taken over, and there's no way in absolute hell they were going to get there that easy.

"Last choice: Ryuuki."

The duo nodded in grim agreement, knowing perfectly well that if, by slim chances indeed, they could find Ryuuki before that ominously ticking clock ran out of time, their too-short lives may be saved. But if not…

"Let's go!"


A/N: Experienced humanizer, that Ran Shuuei

Kouyuu may be book smart

but Shuuei's the only one who could plot out every single move

Understood?

'cause that's gonna be the idea of the next chappy~~

enjoy the spoiler while you can~~

n.n

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