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Chapter 11: Broken Home

With the School Festival drawing to its end. MC and Yuri confessed to each other their feelings and are heading back to the club hand and hand. The both of them still feeling flustered about being in a relationship. Not knowing what couples do or how to tell the others their relationship is blooming.

MC: "Say Yuri?"

Yuri: "Y-yes, is something the matter?"

MC: "I just wanted to ask if it would be alright to not let the others know just yet?"

Yuri: "Why is that?"

MC: "I don't want to make them feel uncomfortable with us being all lovey dovey. I don't want to make them feel the same way I feel when I see couples doing it. You know?" He lets go of her hand.

Yuri: "I-I agree, but can we still?"

MC: "Yeah, we can still hang out together. Just no hugging or kissing. I'm sorry if that's a huge request?"

Yuri: "No, no, I'm fine with this because, I'm not experience with a relationship. I'm shy with people just looking at me being alone and now I would feel even more embarrassed if people saw I was in a relationship. I'm sorry for not having experienced with this new concept."

MC: "Don't be, I'm not experience with this either, so don't feel pressured." Yuri sighs in relief.

Yuri: "I see."

MC: (Why do I feel like I just lied to her about this? Relationship experience? Have I been through one before?) "Oh one more thing, you should let your parents know about your cutting habits. They have the right to know about that and about those nightmares."

Yuri: "I-I suppose so? … Very well, I'll try."

MC: "Good"

They both continue their walk back to the club room and when they entered they saw the others talking amongst themselves until Monika noticed the two of them has returned.

Monika: "Oh! Perfect timing." Sayori and Natsuki look to where MC and Yuri entered.

MC: "What's going on?"

Sayori: "We're going to celebrate! Yay!"

Monika: "Since you all did great I thought we could celebrate. Natsuki took the time to make us all a special cupcake just for us." Natsuki holds up a trey of five cupcakes with different shapes and colors.

Yuri: "Oh if that's the case I will make us all tea."

Monika: "That's not necessary we already got it prepared when you went out with Michael."

Yuri: "Oh thank you very much."

MC looked past the girls and see that the desks were already set up in a circle and they all soon picked their spots to sit. MC and Yuri sat next to each other. Sayori sat near MC's left side followed by Monika and Natsuki sat next to Yuri. Monika grabbed the tea pot and pored everyone tea while Natsuki gave everyone their specially made cupcakes.

Sayori receives a coral pink dog shaped cupcake with blue eyes. Yuri was handed a purple raccoon shaped with a darker shade of purple for its eyes. Monika got a coral brown color fox shaped cupcake with green eyes. Natsuki gave herself a pink cat with a darker shade of pink eyes and MC received a very unique wolf shape cupcake. What made it unique was the black and white coloring very similar to the cat cupcake he received the first day he joined the club. However the bizarre part of the cupcake was its eyes. One eye was gold and the other was red.

Natsuki: "Oh sorry I ran out of red and gold for the eyes so I just use both instead of wasting the last two."

MC: "Makes sense." He observes the cupcake again. (Red and gold. Red eyes … gold eyes … so familiar? Ultimate?) A flash of red eyes appeared before him. "!"

Monika: "Here's to the Literature Club." She raises her cupcake.

Everyone Else: "To the Literature Club!" They all raised theirs, but Sayori's already had a bite mark on hers.

They continued to celebrate by laughing and having a good time. When the School Festival had officially ended, all of them began to clean up the room before leaving school campus. Soon after they all said their good byes and headed home. During their walk home, Sayori spoke up to break the silence.

Sayori: "That was fun." She stretches her arms.

MC: "Yeah it was."

Sayori: "Sssooooo, did any of them confessed to you their feelings?"

MC: "What! No, why would ask that?"

Sayori: "No reason." He looks at her with concern. "Don't worry MC as long as your happy I'll be fine. Besides you told me you love me as a sister and that you'll always be there for me when I need you."

MC: "Sister?"

Sayori: "Did you say thing?"

MC: "N-nothing, hey look we're home."

Sayori: "Oh! Ok then I will see you tomorrow. Bye MC." She waves to him and leaves for home.

When she was gone, MC went straight to his room and started thinking about what happened today. Yuri acting different than her usual self, Sayori's depression, Natsuki's abusive dad, and Monika's nightmares. He pulls out Yuri's knife, book, and poem, placing them in his drawer. He sat on his computer chair and searched up The Portrait of Markov, but to no avail there were no info about it. He went to his book collection and grabbed his copy of the book and stared intensely at the cover.

MC: (This book is none I've ever seen before. Something about it pisses me off, but why? Why am I this offended by a book? Yuri's confession and my heart skipping a beat when I hear the word sister. What the hell is going on here?) "Huh?"

He looks down to his hand and sees it was shaking like crazy. "Huh, What's going on?" He lost control of his body as he goes through his lower drawer. (My body is moving on its own. What the!?) He pulls out a Revolver gun and pointed it at his head. (My body … I can't move it myself.) He tries to fight it, but his hand wouldn't allow it. With no thought he pulled the trigger, but nothing happened, to his luck there were no bullets in thee barrel, but that didn't excuse the fact that he pointed it at himself.

After pulling the trigger on his head, he regained control of his body and threw the gun away from him as far as he can as process of what just happened. "What the hell!? When did I have that and why would I do that!?" He looks at the gun with immense pain in his head. He started seeing visons of pulling the trigger on himself multiple times as he soon started to remember one of the dreams he had where the Mysterious Boy is confessing to the girls. He now knows the identities of all of them, but refused to believe it. All those dreams he had were just way too convenient for him to ignore.

"There is no way that everything is happening at the same time. It's way too convenient that my nightmares are connected to the girls and me, but why do I keep seeing them? This is too weird, but why do they feel like their the truth?" He shakes off his thoughts and just went to is parents room to grab more pills to help forget what just occurred and headed off to bed. "I need to sleep it off. Yeah that's it. Sleep can help.) He tucks himself in and heads to sleep hoping it would help. In the beginning he had some trouble sleeping, but after a while he finally relaxed and drifted to sleep.

After finally going to sleep, he is soon given a new dream. He sees Natsuki with bruises on her body begging to be taken away from her home. MC tried to interact with her, but her neck snapped when he got close. Next thing he sees is nothing but water. He tried to swim up for air, but something was stopping him to reach for air. When he was able to reach the surface he sees Monika crying and an ambulance near the pier of the beach. He gets out of the water to check it out. Since he normally can't interact with anyone in his dreams he knew he could just sneak by to peek. What disturbed him was he saw himself in the water. Did he committed suicide by drowning himself? He wasn't sure what was going on or the meaning of this dream, but the nightmares only get worst.

?: "Our job is to spread Despair. That is our purpose. That is our plan."

*Alarm Clock Rings*

He immediately wakes up.

MC: "What was that? That felt so real? Those damn pills still aren't working." He turns off the alarm and stares at his hands. "Spread despair. That's the purpose a plan?" (That voice … It was way to familiar.) He wipes his eyes before doing his morning routine. When he finished getting ready he went to Sayori's house to pick her up. When he reached there he knocked on her door. When there was no answer he let himself in using her spare key again. "Sayori?" He looked around the house and saw no one around. He went to her room and knocked before he enters so he doesn't accidently see her changing or anything embarrassing. "Sayori?"

He sees Sayori on her bed still asleep. "Sayori get up its time for school." He poked her on the cheek and noticed something is wrong with her. He places his hand on her forehead and realized she's sick. "Sayori" She finally opens her eyes.

Sayori: "Oh hey MC, when did you get here?" She tries to get up.

MC: "Woah there, your sick. Take it easy."

Sayori: "Yeah I am, but what are you doing here? You should be at school."

MC: "I ain't going anywhere knowing you're sick."

Sayori: "But …"

MC: "No buts. Where do you keep your medications?" She tells him where she keeps them and he heads off to her bathroom down the hallway. When he got there, he checked the cabinet and grabbed her medication. He then went downstairs to get her a cup of water before returning to her. "Here"

Sayori: "Thank you." She takes her meds and drank her water. "You better get to school now."

MC: "Are you crazy I can't leave you here all alone."

Sayori: "Please go to school. I can take care of myself. I'm not a little girl anymore."

MC: "But?"

Sayori: "Please MC. Don't worry about me. I'll be fine."

MC: "Fine, but I'm coming back here as soon as school is over."

Sayori: "What about the club?"

MC: "I'll just skip it this one time. It's not the same if you're not around. I got to take care of my sister right?" He gives her a confident smile.

Sayori: "Ok I'll see you then."

MC: "Yeah just rest up. I'll get dinner ready for you when I get back." He leaves her in bed and heads off to school. Through out the entire walk he couldn't concentrate knowing the state she's in, but presses forward. He manages to barley get to school on time and manages to focus a little at school until lunch time came around. He went to the roof hoping to clear his mind and when he got there he saw Yuri alone sitting on the bench reading her book again. "Yuri?" She notices him and he waves to her.

Yuri: "Hello Michael how are you?"

MC: "Terrible I'm worried for Sayori."

Yuri: "Is there something wrong with her?"

MC: "She's sick and all alone at home. I tried to stay, but she forced me to go to school."

Yuri: "I'm sorry to hear that. Are you planning to go to her after school is over?"

MC: "Yeah so I won't be able to make it to the club today. Can you tell Monika and Natsuki about what's happening?"

Yuri: "Of course."

MC: "Thank you. What are you reading?"

Yuri: "Mary Shellie's Franken Stein."

MC: "Oh interesting."

Yuri: "Have you read this before?"

MC: "No, but I heard enough about it thanks to the internet. Say Yuri did you tell your parents about the cuts yet?"

Yuri: "No not yet. Right now I'm working up the courage to tell them, but the good news is I'm not cutting myself anymore."

MC: "That's great." He leans in closer to her.

Yuri: "M-Michael?"

MC: "What? We're not in the club."

Yuri: "I know, but there are still people around."

MC: "Then may I rest on your shoulders?"

Yuri: "O-ok then." She lets him rest his head on her shoulder while she turns bright red. Soon after she started resting her head on his. "Can we stay like this forever?"

MC: "Well lunch is about to end, but if it wasn't for that then yes. I would love that." (Her scent puts me at ease.)

*Lunch Bell Rings*

Yuri: "Oh I guess it's time for us to attend class again. I wish we could cuddle some more." She shuts her mouth with her hand after saying that and MC smiles to her.

MC: "I would like that. See you tomorrow."

Yuri: "Y-yes see you tomorrow and tell Sayori that I hope she gets well soon." He waves to her before heading downstairs.

After spending some time with his lover, he was able to attend class feeling a little bit better. However it did not help him relax as much as he wished. Through out the rest of school, MC would continually look at the clock hoping it would end soon. When the final bell rang he immediately packed up his belongings and rushed to Sayori's house. On his way to her house he thought of stopping by a convenience store to pick up some chicken noodle soup for her.

When he finished paying and continued his walk to Sayori's house, he went straight to Sayori's room after he dropped the bag of ingredients in the kitchen. He knocked at her door, but heard nothing. Feeling worried he gently opened the door and saw that she's still asleep. He pats her on the head and notices her fever is down a little.

MC: (She's healing well. That's a good start.) He goes back downstairs and starts cooking the chicken noodle soup for dinner. By the time he finishes Sayori came down.

Sayori: "Mmmm that smells good."

MC: "Oh good, you finally woke up. How do you feel?"

Sayori: "Oh MC you're here. I'm feeling a little bit better."

MC: "I'm glad to hear I was worried about you. Oh and Yuri said she hopes you feel better soon."

Sayori: "She did? Did you go to the club after all?"

MC: "No I talked to her during lunch when I went to the roof to clear my head. I already asked her to let Monika and Natsuki know that we're not going to the club today."

Sayori: "You know that you could've stayed?"

MC: "Not when I'm worried about you. Now here's some soup, so eat up."

Sayori: "Thank you for the food." She started eating the soup slowly trying not to burn her tongue while MC looks at his phone. "Not going to eat?"

MC: "I'll eat later." He gets a phone call from Monika. "Hello, Monika?"

Monika: "Hey Michael. I heard what's going on from Yuri. Is Sayori doing fine?"

MC: "Yeah she's just eating some soup."

Monika: "Good, good, say have you heard anything from Natsuki?"

MC: "Natsuki? She didn't go to the club?"

Monika: "No and since it was just me and Yuri we decided to end todays club meeting. Wonder what happened to her?" It was at that moment MC knew something was off.

MC: "Oh my God."

Monika/Sayori: "What's wrong?"

MC: "I have to go. I'll see you tomorrow bye." He hangs up. "I need to check on Natsuki, I have a bad feeling about something horrible is happening to her."

Sayori: "Ok, please be careful."

MC: "Right" He rushes out of Sayori's house and tried to contact Natsuki, but to no avail. "Damnit I hope she's doing fine." He goes through the text Natsuki gave him with her address and searched it on his phone. When he discovered the location, he quickly ran there. He tried calling her again, but nothing. He ran as fast as he could hoping she picks up her phone.

During this the pain in his head starts taking affect again. The closer he gets the more pain he feels, but instead of stopping he kept going, pushing pass the pain. The more he runs the more he started seeing flash backs of the nightmare he witnessed this morning. He remembered the bruises she had and the amount of tears on her face. Soon after he started seeing new visons of her hanging herself after being taken back by her dad with force.

He would kept telling himself it was all just a dream every single nightmare he had, but lately most of those nightmares came true. The only difference is that he prevented it. He stopped Sayori from hanging herself, he saved Yuri from herself, and he let Monika know that she's not alone. However it doesn't stop him from suffering those nightmares no matter how much medication he's been taking.

At long last he felt a vibration from his phone and immediately answer the call he's been receiving. "Natsuki are you alright?"

Natsuki: "No! he's breaking down my door and I can't escape! Help!" He hears a scream and the call was disconnected.

MC: "Natsuki? Natsuki!" He tried calling her again, but no response. He kept running without stopping to catch his breath. By the time he got there he saw a silhouette of two people. One was short while the other was taller. He heard screams of a girl and looked at his text again knowing that this was the right address. He quickly called the police before he entered hoping to buy them enough time to get here.

He pounds on the door only being more motivated when he kept hearing her screams. "Natsuki!" He continues to pound the door and instead just started to break the door down using his shoulder. He busted down the door and saw the tall figure coming down from the upper part of his house.

Natsuki's Dad: "Who the hell are you?" A man with brownish hair with pink eyes wearing a white tank top. The rest of his outfit looked like he just left the office and when their eyes met, he stared down at MC.

MC: "I'm a concerned friend. I know who you are, so tell me where's Natsuki? You can't lie with these pictures around your house." He takes a closer look at the man. He was slightly taller than him and had a well built physique. The closer he examines the man, something about him seemed strange? (Is this really her dad?)

Natsuki's Dad: "Hmph I see she told you. That little brat. Telling people about me behind my back. No matter I'll deal with her later after I deal with you." He cracks his knuckles preparing to fight.

MC: "Oh yeah, well come at me you bastard!" He prepares himself for a fight he wasn't sure he could win. He doesn't really fight all that much. Hell he wasn't even sure he ever had been in a fight. No matter all he needed to do was to buy sometime for the police to show up.

Dadsuki went in for the punch, but MC ducked and rolled behind him so he could get some room to fight back. Dadsuki tried to punch him, however MC was able to dodge and get a couple of hits in before Dadsuki grabbed MC and threw him near a wall. He went for the deadly punch again, but this time MC ducked again letting Dadsuki hit the wall.

MC would then punch him in the ribs and the face before he was knocked down. Dadsuki would then try to stomp his foot on MC, but MC would flip back to his feet again and tackled him down. MC would then try to stomp on his legs so he couldn't get back up, but Dadsuki would kick MC away from him. MC would then grab a frame on the wall and hit Dadsuki right on the head with it.

Despite not being in a fight MC was impressed with the feats he was able to do. While Dadsuki is trying to take off the frame off himself as soon as he did MC gave it his all in one kick Shawn Michael's style knocking him out. MC breathed heavily with that intense fight and looked down on the unconscious man.

MC: "Bastard, why would you do this to your own daughter? The only thing your wife left you with and what did you do? You take your anger out on her. Ow." He got a couple of bruises and cuts, but manages to walk to Natsuki's room. "Never knew I could fight? Felt as if I had been in a couple of fights before?" He looks around the upper floor trying to figure out where Natsuki is. "Hey Natsuki, it's me Michael." She comes out of her room trying to hide her bruises.

Natsuki: "Michael you came, but my God look at yourself. You look terrible."

MC: "So are you, but I'm more worried about you. Considering you have to deal with him every day. Heh, heh, ow it hurts to laugh."

Natsuki: "Michael look out!" He looks behind himself only to get knocked out by Natsuki's dad. "Michael!"

Natsuki's Dad: "You son of a bitch! You! I'm done with your shit!" He picks up MC and attacks him.

Natsuki: "Stop dad! Leave him alone!"

Natsuki's Dad: "Sorry I don't take orders from pests like you. Besides he asked for it. I'm only delivering."

Natsuki: "I said … Stop!" She ran up to her dad and started fighting back. "Don't hurt my friend! You abusive bastard!"

MC got back up and continued to watch Natsuki beat on her dad. Dadsuki would get back up and throw Nastuki away from him and when he did he tried to stomp on her not realizing MC is right behind him getting another kick ready for this face. By the time he looked back MC gave him another sweet chin music to the face followed by Natsuki punching him right on the nose making a huge popping sound of his nose breaking.

Natsuki: "Michael are you ok?" He falls on his butt.

MC: "Yeah and where the fuck are the police!" She helps him get back up and Natsuki's dad gets back up as well.

Natsuki's Dad: "Gaaaa! Bastards!" Both MC and Natsuki punched him right in the face together.

MC: "Hey! We're talking here so stay down." He falls down to one knee, but Natsuki catches him.

Natsuki: "Thank you." She helps him down the steps to the front door and when they reached outside the police finally showed up.

End of Chapter 11