A/N: Hey ya'll it's Sushicat! Holy cow 26 views and 1 favorite...I might cry! Thanks to all the awesome people who I haven't disappointed yet! Anyways so Zack is in the rest of the chapters from now on so swearing and violence! Also, I forgot to mention a couple things last chapter but this story is also on and follows both storyline from the game and anime. Huge thanks to Kiki for proofreading and helping me make sure Nagisa is still mostly in character, I really want to nail their personalities! So yeah hope you all enjoy the chapter.
A/N: Hey, this is Kiki! I know it says I am co-author but I am mostly an idea factory and beta reader. I have literally no motivation to write and have tried to start multiple fics that never even got past the first chapter, this is the closest I've ever come to posting a fic. Sushicat is the one who takes time out of her busy schedule to work on this fic, so all of your love should be going to her! Hope you continue to enjoy this fic!
"The play area? Is this some kind of game." Nagisa asked himself as he walked out of the elevator. The doors immediately shut behind him. There was a large road with rotting garbage in dumpsters and metal piping lined the ceiling. There was no end in sight.
"It's kinda hard to believe that this all in one building," Nagisa stated. He started forward to the alleyway in front of him.
"It doesn't matter right now. I have to focus on getting out." Nagisa walked down the alleyway passing crumbling buildings and broken windows. A crash rang out from one of the buildings causing Nagisa to stop. He turned around to face the broken window.
"Is someone there?" He asked skeptically. No one answered the air grew tense. Nagisa turned from the window and started out again his walking moving to a slight jog. He turned the corner of the alley. Back where he had been, a paper shifted slightly, a picture of a police investigation scattered among words.
Nagisa picked up his pace moving out of the alley and back into the main road. At the end of the road lay two construction roadblocks that blocked off large splatters of blood. A lone potato chip bag lay in the blood. "Blood?" Nagisa was distracted by the sound of chirping. Nagisa looked up to find yet another broken window where a small white bird lay resting on the windowsill.
"A bird," Nagisa stated to no one in particular.
"I wonder if it's hungry?" Nagisa turned towards the chip bag on the floor.
"Will it eat this I wonder?" He picked up the bag carefully, however, no blood seemed to be on the bag. He poured a few chips into his hand and held them out for the bird. The bird tried to fly down but fell halfway revealing a wound on one of its wings.
"It's hurt." Nagisa abanded the chip crumbs in his hand and approached the bird. The bird hopped away until it was positioned in front of a building with boarded up windows and doors.
"Don't be afraid. It's okay." Nagisa spoke to the bird in a calming voice and crouched down to its level.
"I'm a friend. We'll leave this place together, okay." Nagisa held out his hand towards the bird. His eyes held a sliver of hope. One second the bird was fine, the next the boards on the door broke apart and blood splattered up into the boy's face. Nagisa's eyes widened, the bird was dead. Maniacal laughter rang out and into his ears. A man in a bloodstained brown hoodie and red pants stepped on the blood puddle that was beginning to form. Nagisa noticed that he also had bandages wrapped all over his body and held a giant scythe in his hand.
"You know you looked almost hopeful for a second!" His voice was dark and slightly hoarse.
"But now, there is only despair." Nagisa sat frozen by the shock of the man.
"You have until the count of three, go ahead try to run away." Nagisa could only stare, the stranger's grin seemed to freeze into his soul and for a moment he could only see a boy his age with red hair and the same smirk, blood on his shirt.
"Oh yeah! I want you to cry and scream and beg got it!" The man got right up to Nagisa's face locking his bloodlust filled eyes with the boy's frightened ones.
"I can't get enough of that sad, pathetic face! Three!" Nagisa snapped out of his daze and immediately started running,
"Two" Nagisa kept running, almost tripping on his flats in the process.
"ONE!" Nagisa heard shrieking laughter and footsteps started behind him. Nagisa kept running. He spotted a door that was mostly undamaged and ran into it, before shutting the door behind him and locking it. He scanned the room for hiding places before settling on a large chest he climbed inside and hugged his knees tightly to his chest. He heard the wood from the door starting to crack. The stranger was breaking down the door. Nagisa steadied his breathing. More laughter rang out and the door was kicked open. The killer entered the room and surveyed the area.
" Where are you, you little bitch!" He walked over towards the large chests stopping in front of the one where Nagisa was hiding.
"We playing hide and seek now?" Nagisa heard the killer's muffled voice from inside the chest and steadied his breathing.
" GET OUT HERE SO I CAN KILL YOU!" The killer kicked the chest with his foot. Nagisa's demeanor changed and his breathing evened out. The word kill echoed in his mind. He couldn't believe this psychopath had any idea what it was like to actually kill a person.
"Yeah, I guess I wouldn't come out either." The killer let out a small, psychotic laugh. He slammed his scythe into the chest, the blade was a few inches off. The killer pulled the scythe out.
"Damn it. Missed." The killer slammed his foot back onto the chest. His scythe slammed down again and a few strands of Nagisa's hair fell down. Nagisa stared at the scythe with a blank stare.
"Welp not in there…" The killer stated with a bored expression before pulling the scythe back out. He walked out of the room, Nagisa snapped out of his daze a moment later. The killer's footsteps faded in the distance.
Nagisa opened the lid of the chest and peaked out slightly before decided it was safe enough to get out.
"I have to get out of here before he comes back. There's no way to take him head-on in a fight." Nagisa stated quietly to himself. He took off running down a random hallway until he ended up back at the dead bird. One of the bird's wings had been detached from its body and small feathers were mixed in with the pile of blood. "It feels kinda wrong to just leave it here," Nagisa told himself.
"I wonder if there is something I can use to bury it." Nagisa looked around and noticed a room with high fenced walls. He picked the bird and walked over to the room and found a shovel and other tools in there. He picked up the shovel.
"I guess this will have to work." Nagisa took the shovel and dug a small hole in the dirt, before placing the dead bird in the hole. His hands were now covered in blood, but that didn't matter at the moment. He took the shovel and filled in the hole burring it under the dirt. Nagisa set the shovel down and looked around spotting a sizable stick. "Maybe this will come in handy at some point…" He grabbed the stick, securing it between the waistband of his skirt and gave one last look towards where the bird was buried. "Sorry I couldn't give you a proper burial, but at least it's better than nothing." He turned and walked out of the room
Nagisa kept running until he reached a doorway with a sign on the wall next to it. "Elevator Passage. That must mean there is an elevator back here." A familiar psychotic laugh rang out, and Nagisa froze. "This isn't good." He stated to himself.
"Peek-a-boo, I found you! Thought you could get away from me huh bitch. No head start this time! YOU DON'T EVEN GET ONE SECOND! THIS TIME I'M REALLY GONNA KILL YOU! " The killer got ready to attack Nagisa when Nagisa's expression changed, it was more serious and dark. "Kill?" He muttered under his breath. The killer looked confused. "Huh, what's with that shitty expression!" Nagisa grabbed the stick from his elastic band, rose his hands up to the killer's face and dropped it clapping, distracting the killer. Nagisa turned and ran down the passage towards the elevator. The killer's eyes went back to where Nagisa was. "OI! GET BACK HERE BITCH!" He sprinted after Nagisa. Nagisa got to the elevator and slammed the up button slipping inside as soon as he could squeeze inside. He kept slamming the close button and the doors slowly started to close, the killer was almost there. The killer reached the end of the hallway just as the doors closed shut causing a small dent in the metal. Nagisa shrunk down to the floor and let out a sigh of relief.