The next day, the morning routine was the same as the other day. I woke Yuno up, made her breakfast, and teased her about her crush. When we made it to school, we saw a substitute teacher standing behind the podium. Seems like our teacher, Hiyama, is absent. I shrugged my shoulders and took my normal seat.

Once Yukiteru walked in, I glanced at him. 'Wonder how he's doing..?' I thought. Overall, he seemed normal, a little jittery though. After class ended, he walked up to Yuno and I.

"Um.. Do you guys have a minute..?" He sounded nervous. "Sorry, sweetie, but I have PE next." Yuno responded. I nodded my head in response to his question, "Sure, I can talk." I said. His face flushed with relief. We waved Yuno goodbye as we waited in the empty classroom.

"Do you think you and Yuno can-" Just then, a knock came from the entrance of the classroom. We looked over to see who it was. In the doorway, stood a fairly young woman. She had purple hair that came into curls on each side of her head, ribbons on either side of her head. She wore a gothic style dress. She seemed familiar, but I didn't know why.

"Excuse me," She asked, "Could you point me in the direction of the faculty lounge? I need to talk to Takao Hiyama." Yukiteru started to stutter. I was just still, more or less observing her. "Hey, did you know that he is a killer?" She randomly said.

Yukiteru's face filled with fear. I instead countered, "Interesting. And how do you know this exactly?" She gave me a wicked smile. She started getting closer to us, her smile growing ever more menacing. "He died yesterday. You see he was hunting down First."

My face grew darker, but my smirk remained. "Hey, that's a nice phone." She ran up to Yukiteru, examining his phone. Of course, he recoiled back. "So you're First." She jumped back as I swung my blade at her, "And you must be Thirteenth." She was now crouching on the windowsill.

"That explains your familiarity," I told her, "You're Ninth."

She laughed. "You bet your ass I am!" I rushed at her, bringing down my knife. She jumped backwards, pressing a button in her hand.

At that moment, Yuno rushed into the room. I growled as I ran to Yukiteru and Yuno. I grabbed both their arms as we sprinted to the end of the corridors. As we were running, a series of explosions blew up the hallway.

We got to the other end, gaining only a few bruises and marks. I hissed from the pain. "Yuno, take Yukiteru somewhere safe, okay?" She nodded her head. I returned the nod as we got up.

"Be safe, okay? I don't want to be the only one to do chores around the house." She glared at me as I chuckled. We then ran our separate ways. I was running towards the school's entrance. Bombs were being set off everywhere around me. I checked my diary.

February 24 12:30 [Corridor]
Yuno and Yuki narrowly avoid an explosion

February 24 12:35 [Stair]
Yuno and Yuki get blocked off from the wreckage

February 24 12:40 [Classroom]
Yuno and Yuki make it to the students

'No Dead End..' I continued my running. I made it to the second story balcony, looking at the Ninth. She was standing in the center of the yard, detonator and megaphone in hand.

"Listen up you brats! I have bombs set throughout the entire school! Make one wrong movement and I'll detonate them all!" She was shouting through her megaphone.

"Shit.." I muttered. I was weighing my options. I couldn't run in at her without a plan. I bent down behind the banister, contemplating. 'If only I could get behind her' I thought.

Out of nowhere, I heard Yukiteru pleading. I raised my head above the banister. He was out in the courtyard, his phone kicked away from him. I checked my diary to make sure Yuno was okay. Apparently, Yuno and Yukiteru were betrayed by our classmates. 'Assholes. Betraying a friend' I made my way to the staircase, sneaking my way down.

I peeked around the corner, Ninth was taunting Yukiteru and a new man. The man then pointed a gun at Yukiteru. I made my way outside, staying extremely close to the wall. I made my way around to the side of them when Yuno jumped out of a nearby window. I smiled, 'What a daredevil she is.'

As Ninth was distracted, I ran up to her. Yukiteru also made a sprint, but it was towards his phone. As I reached Ninth, Yukiteru was also running at the Ninth. He pulled out his dart as I pulled out my knife. As he went for her eye, I went for her back. At once, we both got her, knocking Ninth to the ground.

She collapsed, a pool of blood forming around her. "Huh.. And here I thought she might come back later on and help us.." said the man from before. I looked over at him, giving him an ' Are you serious? ' look. "She was a bloodthirsty, wanted terrorist that would stop at nothing for power. Why the fuck would she come back to help a bunch of high schoolers?"

"You have a point there.." he said. I walked over to where Yuno and Yukiteru were. Yuno was comforting Yukiteru. "Honestly Yuki, how do you keep getting into these situations?" Yuno scolded him. "My question is how is he still alive." I said.

The man walked over to us, offering me his hand. "The name's Keigo Kurusu, kid. Fourth diary user and Chief inspector of Sakurami City's police force. I wanted to compliment you on how you took out Ninth there." I shook his hand, "Rai Gasai. And thanks, my sister and I.. well.. we are skilled with melee weapons." Yuno cheerfully nodded her head.

"I wanted to talk to you three," Kurusu stated, "In private." He walked us into the building of the school.

We walked into a classroom. "Umm, why did we have to enter a destroyed classroom just to talk? Why couldn't we have just gone to the police station?" I asked. He ignored me and started talking. 'Dick..'

"I wanted to offer you three a proposal. I say, we should all form an alliance." Kurusu offered us. "The skill and cooperation among you is so admirable. If we join together, we could take out every diary owner and end this ridiculous game."

I raised my hand. "Excuse me, but how can we trust you?" He looked over at me. "Well, you see, I have no intention on becoming god. I do not want to be burdened with such a responsibility as that."

"Not buying it." I flatly told him. He sighed and pulled out three tickets from his pocket.

"If I give you these amusement park tickets, will you join my alliance?" I took the tickets from his hands. "I'll consider it."

He glared at me. I just smirked. I turned my head towards Yuno, she was blushing really hard and had her phone close to her. 'Odd. I'll have to find out about this later.'

After our conversation ended, Yuno and I exchanged our goodbyes with Yukiteru. We trotted our way back home, silence falling between us.

"Hey Yuno," I begun, "You don't have to answer this if you don't want to, but why were you blushing during our talk with Kurusu?" She blushed even harder then before. She looked over, "Promise you can keep a secret?" I nodded my head and she showed me her diary entry.

July 28 21:10
Yuki and I become one.

HAPPY END

I smiled to myself. 'My little sister is starting to grow up then..' I patted her head. "Don't worry, he's a good kid." She smiled appreciatively at me. "All though, I don't know if he will make it that long, just being honest." She began to become angry, you could practically see the steam coming off. I took that as a message to run.

'I don't need a future diary to know I might have to sleep outside.' I thought, enjoying the moments I could spend with Yuno. Once again, reality knows that eventually, one of us will have to die.

The sound of static went off.

July 28 21:59
Yuno dies.