Here! Another chapter today! I'll probably update tonight too.

Anyway, we are finally back with Masuto, Hisaka and Shawn after a long time! Suddenly got an idea for them. XD

Enjoy! :D

A horrible sound echoed as Jin's skull was crushed by the huge sledgehammer of Yoshikazu Yanagihori.

Sora stared with horror at his friend who just had his skull cracked open. His dark blue eyes wandered to the remaining friends that were with him. Houtarou stood beside him, frightened while Urata was looking elsewhere, getting ready to run. The last one, Akemi, his supposed 'girlfriend' he hated most of the time, began to scream while tears rolled down her face.

Obviously, she had to attract that dude's attention! grunted Sora in his thoughts, turning to run like his friends.

Avoiding holes, jumping over decaying corpses, the chase never seemed to end. The hallway seemed incredibly long as the seconds seemed hours.

"Aaaaah!" screamed Akemi, tripping over a corpse and spraining her ankle.

"Get up!" shouted Urata, stopping for a second.

"I think my ankle is broken!" Akemi cried. Annoyed, Sora looked at her; Akemi always had been the kind of girls that if they broke a nail, it was the apocalypse. Obviously, in this place, this wouldn't be of any help.

"Ah come on! Stop dramatizing everything! If you don't get up in 5 seconds, we leave you here!" continued Urata as Yoshikazu's loud steps became closer.

"It hurts! I can't! Sora, help me!"

"Sorry, the five seconds passed!" shouted the boy, leaving her alone while running away with Houtarou and Urata.

She would have died sooner or later, anyway. reasoned Sora, feeling a bit bad to had left her to death. She just had to get up, anyway. Sprained ankle is nothing! Even Kano with her sickness that makes her body super-weak is more tuff than that! She… She would had slow us down.

They had passed the corner when they heard Akemi's ear-splitting scream. Urata blocked her ears, saying: "Wah! She yells so loudly! I'm going to become deaf!"

"We have to continue!" panted Houtarou, pointing toward a staircase.

"Let's go down!" agreed Sora as Akemi's scream suddenly stopped.

"At least, Akemi's death made us win some time!" joked Urata. "And it's not like if anyone even liked her, anyway!"

Hisaka looked at Masuto as this one bite one of his nails, deep in thoughts. His shirt was stained by Reon's blood. The blond male felt really sorry for him, but still had to remove the girl's head from his grip and shouted at him that they needed to continue to go forward to get him out of his trance.

And now they were there, still alive, he, Shawn and Masuto, carefully checking all the hallways for any traps like the one who cost Reon's life.

Hisaka was also watching for ghosts. After seeing the beheaded spirit, he kept wondering what had happened for this place to become like this.

Suddenly, someone bumped into him, sending him on the floor.

"Sorry kiddo!" the guy said, handing his hand to help him get up. Hisaka accepted his help, going back on his feet.

The guy had dyed blond hair and striking dark blue eyes. He had a pale skin and he wore a simple white t-shirt under a black vest and a yellow tie. Black pants and boots with straps on the side, of the same color than the pants, finished his outfit.

Suddenly, two other persons appeared beside him. All three looked in the twenties, apart from the girl, who looked younger.

The girl had curly, waist-length light pink hair with heterochromatic eyes (one golden/amber and the other eye light pink) and thick, natural eyelashes. She wore an over-sized grey turtle neck shirt which stopped under her hips. The sleeves covered her hands and the shirt adorned a design of white, pink and grey lozenge pattern on the front along with a strange golden sign on the right side of her chest. The bottom of the shirt almost fully covered her grayish-blue jeans shorts. Mid-tights black socks and beige boots with flat heels and double zips (two zips) completed her uniform-like clothing. Also, she was kind of short, without being a midget, making her look younger.

The last one, a guy who was panting, had dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He wore simple blue shirt and jeans. His shoes were blue and black.

"I'm okay.." answered Hisaka.

"People… Who are alive?" wondered Shawn, not believing it.

"Pff! Obviously we are!" answered the girl, smiling widely while putting her hands on her hips and laughing.

"You're… You're Kano Aoki's and Usaji Aoki's brother, right?" asked Masuto to the blond, who frowned.

"Why? You're one of her classmates?"

"Y-yeah…?

"Where are they?" eagerly asked the blue-eyed male, bending down to Masuto's height, being taller.

"I don't know. The last time I saw them was when we fell down the earthquake's gap, before I was transported here."

"She was with you while you perform the 'Sachiko Ever After' charm?"

"Yeah, it's her who proposed it." Masuto answered all the questions of the older brother of the Aoki twins. This one was deep in thought, muttering 'where are you…?' under his breath.

"Anyway… I'm Hisaka Ishibashi. This is Shawn Smith and Masuto Tsubaki." began Hisaka, presenting his group.

"I'm Urata Katayama and this is" began the girl, then pointing at the blond, "Sora Aoki and this dude is Houtarou Kimura." She finished, pointing toward the brown-haired boy.

"We have to find Usaji and Kano…" muttered Sora.

"And rescue anyone still alive, including them." added Houtarou, pointing the younger boys.

"Yeah! So let's go in that quest of rescuing everyone still alive!" Urata cheered as she hopped toward a class.

"Why… Are you here, Sora-sama?" asked Masuto, adding an honorific as the blond was older than him.

"I came here to find my younger siblings." shortly explained Sora.

"Did you know that we would end up in such a place?" wondered Shawn.

"Two friends of ours told us that that it was link to many disappearances…" began Houtarou, before being interrupt by the energetic Urata.

"And that only made Sora worry even more about his siblings and made his will to save them stronger!"

"I…" Sora smiled sadly before continuing. "I only want my siblings to be safe and sound, you know? They're like my children at the place of siblings!" he laughed, even if the heart wasn't part of it.

"And because of their older brother's indestructible will, they'll be safe and sound and probably talking and making friends with a random ghost!" sing-sang Urata, trying to cheer up the older Aoki.

This one smiled, a bit relieved. He knew that his friends, that Urata, Houtarou, Enemoto, Misao, Hiro, Madoka, Izaya and Yuuki, (all his friends that were still alive), would do anything to protect his siblings and help him find them. If anyone but Urata or Houtarou (as they were with him) would find Usaji and Kano, he knew that they would take care of them. Make them safe.

He looked at the friends accompanying him. Houtarou was kind off of a scaredy cat, even though he could be brave for his friends. Urata, her, was the one to joke even in the worst situation and make others feel better. It was her secret power and Sora liked her for that.

More than only like…

At this thought, Sora shook his head violently. What was he thinking?

And now, Hisaka Ishibashi, Masuto Tsubaki and Shawn Smith were added to the group. Shawn seemed like the optimistic guy that never abandoned while Hisaka seemed cunning and smart. The last one, Masuto, his siblings' classmate, seemed quite rude, but Sora felt like it was a way to protect himself from strangers, or something of the likes that his sister kept rambling on; 'People can be rude and uncaring but really care on the inside! They're just too shy to show their caring side! They're tsunderes!'.

He truly missed his sister, along with his younger brother. Then, deciding to concentrate on their rescue, he followed Urata, Hisaka, Masuto, Houtarou and Shawn in the classroom.

CHARACTERS' LIST UPDATED