Teasing

It all happened in a blink of an eye.

Naru was seating on the bed, a stack of books in his hands, when the room was dipped in darkness. Then, he could only describe that, like ink, it trickled down the walls to show the new room. Not that it was that different.

The most noticeable difference was the tidiness yet, despite that, the first thing the young Shibuya Psychic Research boss' noticed was the books disappearance and how the light dimmed. With a casual look around, he saw that the light sources were now the pointy candles -a parody of hogwarts ceiling-, the books were nowhere to be seen, a chair had taken the place of the bed he was seating on and the door had changed from a boring, ordinary one to a heart shaped, checkered with a crown above one. Any other guy would have freaked out but the blue eyed teen only looked at the exorcist, who happened to be studying the room at the time, waiting for an answer, after he made sure that his clothes were still the same that is.

"It seems the game began." Lavi stated, giving an uneasy grin to the teen. The exorcist was fingering his, now not so small hammer in a deceptive way, his posture revealing how he didn't like the situation at all "I'm assuming we're supposed to get out the door?" the only reply he got was Naru getting up and moving towards the door 'And here I thought Yuu was antisocial...'

None of them touched the door though. Looking closer, one could see that the crown had a clock. A clock that went backwards.

"We have a countdown." Naru muttered, his eyes narrowing.

The red head nodded "Now the question is, for what exactly?"

A knock startled the two, who took a step back, and the door creaked open. The exorcist reaction was, Naru thought, different than expected. Especially when the door revealed a person.

"Y-you are..."

-Mai and the others-

Like what happened to Naru, the base received a morbid makeover. The most noticeable thing about it was, quite possibly, the other door on the opposite wall. The other was the candles. Like in the other room, they were above them and Mai had the absent thought that if the Noah really wanted, she could make swiss cheese out of them by letting gravity work on those candles.

The golden golem, almost as if sensing this thought, bumped it's head on Mai's hands, like a pet wanting attention from it's owner. It worked and the brunette tore her eyes off the candles to look at it.

"It seems it worked." a voice commented and the teen nodded, not looking up at Ayako "You are really pale..." she heard the miko mutter and then felt the woman's manicured hands cupping her cheeks and making her look at her. The woman gave her a sympathetic smile and helped her get up from the chair, dragging her to where the rest was.

"So, we have no exorcist here." Bou-san declared "Well, Noah fighting exorcist." he added.

Yasuhara hummed in agreement "Anyway, there are two doors. Which one should we take?" he pointed to both of the objects to make his point "Or should we stay here?"

"Perhaps it would be better to stay where we are so that we don't lose each other." Lin commented. The others had to agree with the man until Masako brought up a valid point.

"What if they had the same problem?" the voice was slightly muffled by the kimono sleeve but it was enough for them to understand.

No one answered that though the implications were obvious.

"Then what should we do?" John inquired and everyone looked at each other.

Their answer came the next moment in an unexpected way. A transparent wall fell down on the group. They were fast to scatter so as to not get cut but, because of that, they were seperated. The wall divided the cafeteria in a perfect half solving at least the problem with the doors since each half only had one.

Mai, Ayako, Bou-san and Timcampy were on one side and on the other were Lin, Masako, John and Yasuhara. Mai somehow got the feeling she had been cheated (no offense to Ayako and Timcampy of course).

Then, the two doors opened simultaneuosly and from each a figure emerged.

The one on Mai's side was a clown, his face hidden beneath a white mask with an empty smile. The hair was white and the clothes were also a blinding white. All in all, it was an oddity in the room. The clown bowed and motioned the group to go through the door.

On John's side, the figure was a cat. A grey cat with golden eyes and no collar. It sat on the floor, next to the open door, staring at them. They noticed the animal had a letter on his mouth.

Both groups looked at each other, hesitant to take the first step, knowing that whatever was beyond that door they probably won't like it. It was Lin who was the first to take the step. The other's shrugged.

They were already deep in this after all.

-Lenalee and Kanda *.*-

"Perhaps we should have stayed with them, Kanda." said Lenalee while looking around. Contrary to the other rooms, the one they were in didn't have candles. In fact it received a crazy makeover.

There was a door but no walls, furniture and the like around. Only darkness. The floor had small lakes, each with a softly glowing pink or white lotus and the girl couldn't help but be captivated by them. However, she didn't get close to them, guessing they would be dangerous.

There was no need to be a genius to see why the room was like that. Kanda's eyes were the only thing that betrayed his anger at the small flowers.

Suddenly, both exorcists noticed dark butterflies landing on some of the flowers and mentally (and, in Kanda's case, outloud) cursed when some of them showed teeth and flied in their direction.

Lenalee couldn't resist asking "How did she get ahold on teases?"

The Japanese teen snorted at that and replied "Who needs real ones, when one is where dreams are as real?" he slashed a couple of the deadly insects. The other exorcist also took care of some and with a glance at each other they silently agreed that retreat would be the best. Even if the Japanese teen didn't exactly like it.

So, they were unpleasantly surprised when, on turning, they discovered they were already surrounded.

"Whirlwind?" Lenalee asked, preparing to attack.

"Tche, do what you want."

Things didn't really start yet and they already hated it.

-ºoº-

Gene, despite himself, was impressed. In the bad sense.

The teen, watching everything from the television like thing in front of him, could see what the Noah did to the rooms and what she had prepared for after those. He mused that having virtually nothing to do in years gave her time to make... that.

A childish giggle made him look down at the girl (since his prison was now on the ceiling) "So, do you like it?"

He moved a little, hissing at the pain it caused, before replying sarcastically "If I say yes, will you stop torturing me for awhile?"

"No." she ignored the sarcasm.

"Then no, I really don't like it. Why couldn't you have written a book or something while waiting for whatever you are waiting to happen?"

If he didn't know she was a sadistic, psychotic, ready to kill someone ghost, he could have probably found the pout cute "That's no fun~" she whined before smirking up at him. He had come to know that smirk as 'I'm going to do some torturing on you now' and sighed. His body wouldn't take much longer and he wasn't sure if he could distract her enough to avoid her killing them all in boredom. Not that he had a choice.

"Do the best you got." He smirked despite the pain, challenging her to break him.

And of course she accepted it, her favourite weapons already pointing towards the teen "Don't worry. I will."

Disclaimer: Nope. I don't own DGM, Ghost Hunt or Harry Potter (I would pity my fans if that happened 0.0')

I find it frustating that I have been trying to write this chapter since... at least September, and I always froze on the first paragraph and, today, the day before school restarts, I manage to write it easily, without any problem. Life is unfair -.-

I should have made the chapter bigger but then it would take even longer and I won't push my luck. (;.; sorry)

Yes, I'm shocked that I updated too. Seriously. Besides the reason above, my lateness is also a result of real life and Hetaoni/Hetalia. Since I'm assuming you like this type of thing, I'm going to say go watch Hetaoni. Go to youtube, type Hetaoni and watch it. I fell in love with the plot~ (I would advise you to see/read Axis power hetalia first though. More of an impact)

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