Battle Royale: Day 2
Day 2, 1.30am
"Shinji-kun," Miyuki smiled as she ran across the green pasture towards Shinji. The tall bishounen smiled as he hugged her in his embrace, "Miyuki." "Miyuki," another familiar voice called from behind. Miyuki turned around and faced the smiling redhead with a tomboyish cut, "Natsumi- chan, we're all together again! I've missed all of you."
Natsumi and Shinji continued smiling as their images slowly faded away. "Don't go!" Miyuki shouted. "Take me with you! Don't leave me alone!" Her pleas went unheard as Natsumi and Shinji vanished from her sight and Miyuki was left alone shouting herself hoarse in the deserted yet ironically serene and lush green fields.
Miyuki jerked awake, as her tears silently rolled down her cheeks, staining her porcelain face, "Natsumi-chan, Shinji-kun, tell me how to go on without you." The images of her classmates', as well as her best friend and boyfriend's deaths flashed once more in her mind. What stung her most was killing her beloved and witnessing her best friend kill herself. I don't want to play this game; I don't want to kill anyone! Miyuki thought. Natsumi, help me.
Miyuki suddenly wiped her tears away and called out to the still-sleeping 'guests' in her 'territory', "Wake up, someone's here!"
"Nani?" queried Fuuko, rubbing her eyes sleepily. The other three people were also getting up and looking at Miyuki quizzically. "Shh," Miyuki whispered as she saw a shadow pass by them. "Keep quiet or we'll be discovered." Saying so, Miyuki reached for her weapons, keeping most of them and throwing a gun each to Eriko and Yamato, "You two idiots with only toys for defense will need it."
"Who is that?" asked Eriko.
"Aizawa Koichi, the other transfer student," Miyuki replied. "Be careful of him. His just signed up for fun when his class was not chosen."
"ACHOO!" Domon suddenly sneezed out loud, almost bringing the whole house down. Fuuko and Eriko started strangling him, while Yamato looked too frightened to do anything. Only Miyuki was observant enough to notice the shadow on the curtained window turn its head and walk towards the direction of the door.
"He's seen us!" Miyuki whispered fiercely to them. "The four of you will escape while I stall him." As Miyuki spoke, loud pounding was heard on the doors and windows. However, a few seconds later, everything seemed calm, when suddenly, a grenade was thrown in and broke through the window. The five of them all jumped out in time as the grenade exploded into flames.
As they all landed on the hard ground outside, Miyuki gave instructions, "Go escape on your own! I'll distract him!" before she took off towards the direction of where Koichi was. Yamato and Eriko were separated from each other, as well as Domon and Fuuko during the confusion.
Aizawa Koichi saw the silhouette of a female figure pass by him and disappear into the trees. Picking up his sword, he gave chase. He had barely entered the trees, when he was almost hit by a flying dart, which tore off a small piece of his sleeve. Looking around, he could see no one in the dark around him, but could sense the presence. Another flying dart shot at him. This time, he was quick to react, and missed the dart, also following the direction from which it came from.
A figure leaped out from behind the trees and stood facing him. He recognized the girl with dyed red waist-length hair and red contacts, which he had seen 'acting cool' in a different from him the day before. He smirked cynically at her before attacking his with his sword in a kendo stance.
Quick to react, Miyuki leaped up and somersaulted in the air, landing behind Aizawa, and threw, this time, a shuriken at him, which grazed his left arm, and boomeranged, back to her. Aizawa turned around and spoke in an emotionless voice, "You're the first person to injure me so far in this game."
"Afraid and wanting to back out now?" Miyuki replied sarcastically, in an icy tone.
"Wrong, I'm more interested in continuing this fight," Aizawa smiled, before attacking her in another stance. Miyuki dodged his attack again and they continued fighting.
***
Eriko continued running. Where could she run? Where was Yamato? Her head was starting to spin as her fever came on again and she suddenly collapsed on the ground, breathless and exhausted.
***
Miyuki hid under the leaves of a tree branch, panting slightly. Aizawa Koichi was a much better fighter than she had expected. After the first few attacks by her shurikens, he dodged most of them and had caught all of them before Miyuki could retrieve them, robbing her of her best-used weapon. Cursing under her breath, Miyuki unleashed her metal whip and leapt down from the tree to strike Aizawa.
Aizawa Koichi glanced cautiously around. Where had that Fuyukawa Miyuki gone? At first, he had thought that she was only putting up a front to show-off, but now he was convinced that this deceptively fair and beautiful girl was an elite fighter. Her lightning-fast speed had disabled him from striking her. That girl had even grazed his arms and face with her shurikens, and some of the wounds were bleeding badly.
Aizawa jumped not quite in time to avoid Miyuki's attack from behind, and the metal whip tore of the skin on his right arm, and causing a scratch on his cheek. Miyuki tried to attack successively but suddenly stopped when she realized her whip was entangled. Kuso, she cursed silently, I haven't used a whip for six months, and this stupid whip must entangle at this crucial moment! She glanced up from where she was and saw Aizawa advance towards her. It was too late for her to avoid it as Aizawa drove his sword towards her.
Just as the sword reached her waist, Aizawa dropped it, wrapping his arm around her and pulled Miyuki close to him, before suddenly kissing her on the lips. Miyuki's eyes widened in disbelief and struggled for a few seconds, before she finally closed her eyes and succumbed. She did not know why she did not resist him or why she did not mind. All she knew was that the kiss gave her a passion and warmth she had not experienced even with Shinji.
After a while, Koichi let go off her, and she backed away, blushing fervently, "Why didn't you kill me?"
Aizawa moved closer to her and tilted her chin up, staring into her eyes, "Because I like you. You attracted me when I first saw you when the game started. I don't know why but I was interested in you. And you aren't like other girls who can only act cute, lie around and scream. Your coldness parallels mine, but I know there's more of you beneath that, including an emotional scar. I can't describe how I feel about you, but I hope you can survive till we meet again. I love you."
Aizawa turned and disappeared into the shadows after finishing his sentence, leaving a stunned and speechless Miyuki rooted to the spot.
***
Day 2, 7.03am
A rustle in the leaves behind him caused Manno Keisuke to turn around to see Imai Kyoko emerge from the trees with bloodstained hands and clothes, a scarred left arm, and specks of blood on her face.
"Kyoko? What happened? Where are the other girls? Come and join me and the guys on the other side of the island. We're thinking of a way out," Keisuke asked.
Kyoko shook her head, "The other girls can't join you. They were killed, by me."
"What are you talking about Kyoko?"
"Last night, I had a dream where they tried to kill me. So, when I woke up, I thought that I rather kill than be killed. Kotoki was still sleeping beside me, so I suffocated her with the pillow. Chiharu came in and saw me. I used Kotoki's chain necklace to strangle Chiharu before she could scream. Then I went downstairs, where Yuko and Ayumi were preparing breakfast. I first stabbed the unsuspecting Ayumi. Yuko panicked and tried to run away, but I pushed her face into the stove, all the while hitting her with a hammer till she also died. I felt ashamed of what I had done, seeing the bloodied mess around me, so to remember my friends, I made a scar on my arm for each person I had killed. But now, the scars are hurting me, they want me to join the rest of my friends, and I want to go too. But I needed to see you first. Keisuke, Ayami was not the only person who liked you. I did too."
Keisuke was too shocked to do anything when Kyoko suddenly took out a spear and drove it right through her body. Keisuke dropped to his knees, "Kyoko! Why are all of you dying? We're supposed to survive together, but now everyone is dying, one by one."
"Keisuke, let me save you from your misery to meet all your friends," spoke a voice behind him. Keisuke only remembered seeing Sakura point her gun at him before he felt a burning pain in his chest and he closed his eyes forever.
~Girls #18 Kanai Kotoki dead; Girls #19 Tsukahara Chiharu dead; Girls #20 Eto Ayumi dead; Girls #3 Asaka Yuko dead; Girls #1 Imai Kyoko dead; Boys #1 Manno Keisuke dead; 23 to go~
"Junichi!" Yamato gave a huge sigh of relief when he saw his best friend, Kanzaki Junichi behind him. Junichi strode towards him, "You alone?"
Yamato shook his head, "I was with Eriko, then we met Fuuko and Domon but then we got separated.
"Eriko?" Junichi asked. "Where is she now?"
"I don't know," replied Yamato. "I told you we got separated."
***
"Who's there?" Domon turned around and faced Takana Hikaru. Holding his sword, Takana advanced towards them. "Don't come any closer," warned Domon, taking out his axe, trying to scare Takana off. Takana took no notice of the axe and raised his sword to strike the two of them. Without thinking, Domon tried to push Takana away but his axe slipped and cut halfway through Takana's head.
Fuuko gasped as Takana's dead body with its mutilated head and wide-open eyes fell down onto the ground with a hard thump. Domon was staring down at his hands in disbelief, "Fuuko, I.I killed someone."
"Domon," Fuuko hurriedly tried to comfort him, "It was just an accident. You're not to blame." As Fuuko tried to convince Domon that Takana's death was not to blame, her mind screamed, "Kami-sama, why must you make us all join this game, which is turning everyone into killers and costing lives?"
~Boys, #14, Takana Hikaru dead, 22 to go~
Nanahara Takeshi stumbled then fell down dead, as he was suddenly shot by Uehara Takuya. "Takuya, what are you doing?" asked Yukimura Sojiro and Nagase Kinnosuke in disbelief.
Takuya turned towards the two of them, "I never wanted to ally with you guys in the first place. Now it's time to finish you off." Takuya was about to shoot the two of them when he was shot, and he too, fell down. Tamori Ken was behind holding his rifle, "If I didn't kill him, he would have killed all of us."
Yukimura suddenly took a knife and tried to stab Tamori Ken. Nagase tried to restrain him. "Nagase, if Ken can kill Takuya, he can kill us two. Takuya turned his back on us, you also might do that. So it's best to kill both of you."
"Don't be rash, Sojiro," Nagase reasoned. Sojiro's reply was a huge slash across Nagase's stomach before he charged at Ken. Another shot was fired from Ken's gun, and hit Sojiro, who fell forwards, at the same time, stabbing the knife into Ken's heart.
~Boys #4 Nanahara Takeshi dead, Boys #20 Uehara Takuya dead, Boys #16 Nagase Kinnosuke dead, Boys #11 Tamori Ken dead, Boys #13 Yukimura Sojiro dead, 17 to go~
Day 2, 5.30pm
Kawashima Megumi felt the warmth of hers and Domoto Hidetoshi's soft nude bodies against each other. She felt Hidetoshi's pressing his lips gently against hers then moving down her neck, all the way caressing her face and body with his warm hands. She wanted to be closer to him and hugged him tighter, resting her head on his muscular chest.
"Megumi, you sure you don't mind?" Hidetoshi sat up and asked Megumi who was still holding onto him tightly. "You've always been very conservative."
Megumi shook her head, "This will be the first and last time I'm doing it. I really love you, Hidetoshi, and at the thought of dying tomorrow, I." Megumi tried to stifle her tears but failed to do so.
Hidetoshi hugged Megumi tighter in his embrace, "I'll always be by your side, even in death, Megumi, don't worry."
"Really?" asked Megumi looking up in his eyes.
Hidetoshi nodded. Megumi's tears flowed out again as she wrapped her arms around Hidetoshi's shoulders and was intoxicated into a long passionate kiss. Finally, when they broke away, she asked, "What if I were to die now? It's so frightening thinking of when we'll be killed. It'll be less stressful if I were to die now."
"Then I'll die together with you."
"Can you kill me now? I don't dare to kill myself. Please help me," pleaded Megumi as she passed to Hidetoshi a thick long string. "I'll still see you in the nether world, right?"
Hidetoshi took the string and silently nodded, knowing that this would be Megumi's last wish, "I'll try and make this as painless as I can."
Megumi smiled, "I'm happy to have you by my side even in my death. We'll continue this unfulfilled love relation after this life."
Hidetoshi then put the string over Megumi's neck and tightened it. Megumi gasped and grasped his hand, clutching it tight. Hidetoshi's heart hurt as he saw Megumi in pain but he continued until Megumi's hand went limp. Restraining his tears as hard as he could, he took a gun at the side of the table and shot himself, "Megumi, I'm always with you."
~ "I'm happy to have you by my side even in my death." "I'm always with you."~ ~Girls #2 Kawashima Megumi dead, Boys #18 Domoto Hidetoshi dead, 15 to go~
"I don't know what's up with Eriko," finished Yamato as he told Junichi of what had happened. "She just suddenly saved me at the beginning of the game and stuck with me own her own. She's weird."
Yamato had not finished his sentence when he fell hard backwards as Junichi suddenly struck him, "Don't you insult Eriko!"
Yamato wiped off the blood from his lips, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so worked up?"
"Eriko's doing all this for you, so you better appreciate it!"
"Come on, Junichi! Don't tell me she still likes me! Look at the way she insults me and shouts at me during class! That girl who only has feminine looks but not actions doesn't even care about me and she's not a girl worth appreciating or caring for! When has she ever done anything for me other than shout at me?"
"I thought you said she just saved you? And remember the thousand paper cranes and box of cookies you received last month for your birthday?"
"Wasn't that given to me by Chizuro?"
"Only the video game was. The paper cranes and cookies were from Eriko. She folded each of the cranes and baked each cookie by herself. Afraid that you wouldn't accept it, she asked Chizuro to give it to you in Chizuro's name. And the reason Eriko always scolds you is because she still likes you. The hurt you caused her when you rejected her still leaves her heart hurting whenever she sees you and thus she behaves that way."
"How do you know all this?"
"Because. I like Eriko. but she only has eyes for an idiot like you."
***
Eriko opened her eyes to see Nakata Sanosuke looking down at her concerned, "You're awake."
Eriko blinked her eyes a few times to shake off her drowsiness, "What happened?"
"I found you unconscious in the forest. You are having a high fever. You better rest."
Eriko shook her head and tried to get up, "I've got to find Yamato."
"But you're not alright yet." Sanosuke had barely finished his sentence when a gunshot rang and he was hit in the chest. Eriko gasped as she saw Aizawa Koichi running towards them from further away.
Sanosuke clutched his chest and turned. Seeing Aizawa, he quickly carried Eriko and ran out of the house, bringing her to the thick dense forest where she could not be seen easily. "Eriko, make your own out of here now, I'll take care of Aizawa."
"But you'll get killed!" Eriko shouted. "Why are you doing this for me?"
"The top student in class should be intelligent enough to know the reason why. I'm sure you should know by now," Sanosuke smiled at Eriko before dashing out in the open to face Aizawa. A few gunshots rang out and then there was silence. Eriko felt her tears flowing down her cheeks and mouthed Sanosuke's name but no sound came out, and she knew what had just happened."
~ "I'm sure you should know by now."~ ~Boys #19 Nakata Sanosuke dead, 14 to go~
Day 2, 10pm
Ichikawa Tsuyoshi rolled onto the ground panting and gasped, wide-eyed and open-mouthed at the house, which had just burst into flames. "Nanami! Reiko! Yuki!" he shouted at the burning house, where the girls were still trapped inside. Minutes ago, they had been sleeping peacefully and soundly, now their had lodging had 'mysteriously' caught fire, the flames taking the girls with them to hell. Before Tsuyoshi could think of anything else, he felt something sharp and hurt cut through his neck for a split second, before everything vanished. Morishima Sakura stood next to the decapitated body of Tsuyoshi, admiring her masterpiece, the house burning throughout the night.
~Girls #6 Tsukino Nanami dead, Girls #8 Kagemura Yuki dead, Girls #14 Mada Reiko dead, Boys #17 Ichikawa Tsuyoshi dead, 10 to go~
The night air was still and humid as the last few remaining survivors neared one another where the final showdown for the survivor to emerge would take place, which would change everyone's lives forever. Everyone remaining was preoccupied with his or her own thoughts, while the teacher and his soldiers in the control room, waited anticipating to know what would be the fates of the last few students.
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Ok, another chapter finally up! Sorry to have kept all of you waiting, but it really needed time to think of how to kill these people. Next chapter is the last chapter and I'll try and put it up as soon as I can. Anyway, r&r please, I really want to know how you guys feel about this! Btw, I made Recca kill himself in the previous chapter as I thought that Recca is so smitten with Yanagi that he'll most probably follow the Ninja code and kill himself. Please do r&r and read on to find out what happens in the end. Thanks!
Day 2, 1.30am
"Shinji-kun," Miyuki smiled as she ran across the green pasture towards Shinji. The tall bishounen smiled as he hugged her in his embrace, "Miyuki." "Miyuki," another familiar voice called from behind. Miyuki turned around and faced the smiling redhead with a tomboyish cut, "Natsumi- chan, we're all together again! I've missed all of you."
Natsumi and Shinji continued smiling as their images slowly faded away. "Don't go!" Miyuki shouted. "Take me with you! Don't leave me alone!" Her pleas went unheard as Natsumi and Shinji vanished from her sight and Miyuki was left alone shouting herself hoarse in the deserted yet ironically serene and lush green fields.
Miyuki jerked awake, as her tears silently rolled down her cheeks, staining her porcelain face, "Natsumi-chan, Shinji-kun, tell me how to go on without you." The images of her classmates', as well as her best friend and boyfriend's deaths flashed once more in her mind. What stung her most was killing her beloved and witnessing her best friend kill herself. I don't want to play this game; I don't want to kill anyone! Miyuki thought. Natsumi, help me.
Miyuki suddenly wiped her tears away and called out to the still-sleeping 'guests' in her 'territory', "Wake up, someone's here!"
"Nani?" queried Fuuko, rubbing her eyes sleepily. The other three people were also getting up and looking at Miyuki quizzically. "Shh," Miyuki whispered as she saw a shadow pass by them. "Keep quiet or we'll be discovered." Saying so, Miyuki reached for her weapons, keeping most of them and throwing a gun each to Eriko and Yamato, "You two idiots with only toys for defense will need it."
"Who is that?" asked Eriko.
"Aizawa Koichi, the other transfer student," Miyuki replied. "Be careful of him. His just signed up for fun when his class was not chosen."
"ACHOO!" Domon suddenly sneezed out loud, almost bringing the whole house down. Fuuko and Eriko started strangling him, while Yamato looked too frightened to do anything. Only Miyuki was observant enough to notice the shadow on the curtained window turn its head and walk towards the direction of the door.
"He's seen us!" Miyuki whispered fiercely to them. "The four of you will escape while I stall him." As Miyuki spoke, loud pounding was heard on the doors and windows. However, a few seconds later, everything seemed calm, when suddenly, a grenade was thrown in and broke through the window. The five of them all jumped out in time as the grenade exploded into flames.
As they all landed on the hard ground outside, Miyuki gave instructions, "Go escape on your own! I'll distract him!" before she took off towards the direction of where Koichi was. Yamato and Eriko were separated from each other, as well as Domon and Fuuko during the confusion.
Aizawa Koichi saw the silhouette of a female figure pass by him and disappear into the trees. Picking up his sword, he gave chase. He had barely entered the trees, when he was almost hit by a flying dart, which tore off a small piece of his sleeve. Looking around, he could see no one in the dark around him, but could sense the presence. Another flying dart shot at him. This time, he was quick to react, and missed the dart, also following the direction from which it came from.
A figure leaped out from behind the trees and stood facing him. He recognized the girl with dyed red waist-length hair and red contacts, which he had seen 'acting cool' in a different from him the day before. He smirked cynically at her before attacking his with his sword in a kendo stance.
Quick to react, Miyuki leaped up and somersaulted in the air, landing behind Aizawa, and threw, this time, a shuriken at him, which grazed his left arm, and boomeranged, back to her. Aizawa turned around and spoke in an emotionless voice, "You're the first person to injure me so far in this game."
"Afraid and wanting to back out now?" Miyuki replied sarcastically, in an icy tone.
"Wrong, I'm more interested in continuing this fight," Aizawa smiled, before attacking her in another stance. Miyuki dodged his attack again and they continued fighting.
***
Eriko continued running. Where could she run? Where was Yamato? Her head was starting to spin as her fever came on again and she suddenly collapsed on the ground, breathless and exhausted.
***
Miyuki hid under the leaves of a tree branch, panting slightly. Aizawa Koichi was a much better fighter than she had expected. After the first few attacks by her shurikens, he dodged most of them and had caught all of them before Miyuki could retrieve them, robbing her of her best-used weapon. Cursing under her breath, Miyuki unleashed her metal whip and leapt down from the tree to strike Aizawa.
Aizawa Koichi glanced cautiously around. Where had that Fuyukawa Miyuki gone? At first, he had thought that she was only putting up a front to show-off, but now he was convinced that this deceptively fair and beautiful girl was an elite fighter. Her lightning-fast speed had disabled him from striking her. That girl had even grazed his arms and face with her shurikens, and some of the wounds were bleeding badly.
Aizawa jumped not quite in time to avoid Miyuki's attack from behind, and the metal whip tore of the skin on his right arm, and causing a scratch on his cheek. Miyuki tried to attack successively but suddenly stopped when she realized her whip was entangled. Kuso, she cursed silently, I haven't used a whip for six months, and this stupid whip must entangle at this crucial moment! She glanced up from where she was and saw Aizawa advance towards her. It was too late for her to avoid it as Aizawa drove his sword towards her.
Just as the sword reached her waist, Aizawa dropped it, wrapping his arm around her and pulled Miyuki close to him, before suddenly kissing her on the lips. Miyuki's eyes widened in disbelief and struggled for a few seconds, before she finally closed her eyes and succumbed. She did not know why she did not resist him or why she did not mind. All she knew was that the kiss gave her a passion and warmth she had not experienced even with Shinji.
After a while, Koichi let go off her, and she backed away, blushing fervently, "Why didn't you kill me?"
Aizawa moved closer to her and tilted her chin up, staring into her eyes, "Because I like you. You attracted me when I first saw you when the game started. I don't know why but I was interested in you. And you aren't like other girls who can only act cute, lie around and scream. Your coldness parallels mine, but I know there's more of you beneath that, including an emotional scar. I can't describe how I feel about you, but I hope you can survive till we meet again. I love you."
Aizawa turned and disappeared into the shadows after finishing his sentence, leaving a stunned and speechless Miyuki rooted to the spot.
***
Day 2, 7.03am
A rustle in the leaves behind him caused Manno Keisuke to turn around to see Imai Kyoko emerge from the trees with bloodstained hands and clothes, a scarred left arm, and specks of blood on her face.
"Kyoko? What happened? Where are the other girls? Come and join me and the guys on the other side of the island. We're thinking of a way out," Keisuke asked.
Kyoko shook her head, "The other girls can't join you. They were killed, by me."
"What are you talking about Kyoko?"
"Last night, I had a dream where they tried to kill me. So, when I woke up, I thought that I rather kill than be killed. Kotoki was still sleeping beside me, so I suffocated her with the pillow. Chiharu came in and saw me. I used Kotoki's chain necklace to strangle Chiharu before she could scream. Then I went downstairs, where Yuko and Ayumi were preparing breakfast. I first stabbed the unsuspecting Ayumi. Yuko panicked and tried to run away, but I pushed her face into the stove, all the while hitting her with a hammer till she also died. I felt ashamed of what I had done, seeing the bloodied mess around me, so to remember my friends, I made a scar on my arm for each person I had killed. But now, the scars are hurting me, they want me to join the rest of my friends, and I want to go too. But I needed to see you first. Keisuke, Ayami was not the only person who liked you. I did too."
Keisuke was too shocked to do anything when Kyoko suddenly took out a spear and drove it right through her body. Keisuke dropped to his knees, "Kyoko! Why are all of you dying? We're supposed to survive together, but now everyone is dying, one by one."
"Keisuke, let me save you from your misery to meet all your friends," spoke a voice behind him. Keisuke only remembered seeing Sakura point her gun at him before he felt a burning pain in his chest and he closed his eyes forever.
~Girls #18 Kanai Kotoki dead; Girls #19 Tsukahara Chiharu dead; Girls #20 Eto Ayumi dead; Girls #3 Asaka Yuko dead; Girls #1 Imai Kyoko dead; Boys #1 Manno Keisuke dead; 23 to go~
"Junichi!" Yamato gave a huge sigh of relief when he saw his best friend, Kanzaki Junichi behind him. Junichi strode towards him, "You alone?"
Yamato shook his head, "I was with Eriko, then we met Fuuko and Domon but then we got separated.
"Eriko?" Junichi asked. "Where is she now?"
"I don't know," replied Yamato. "I told you we got separated."
***
"Who's there?" Domon turned around and faced Takana Hikaru. Holding his sword, Takana advanced towards them. "Don't come any closer," warned Domon, taking out his axe, trying to scare Takana off. Takana took no notice of the axe and raised his sword to strike the two of them. Without thinking, Domon tried to push Takana away but his axe slipped and cut halfway through Takana's head.
Fuuko gasped as Takana's dead body with its mutilated head and wide-open eyes fell down onto the ground with a hard thump. Domon was staring down at his hands in disbelief, "Fuuko, I.I killed someone."
"Domon," Fuuko hurriedly tried to comfort him, "It was just an accident. You're not to blame." As Fuuko tried to convince Domon that Takana's death was not to blame, her mind screamed, "Kami-sama, why must you make us all join this game, which is turning everyone into killers and costing lives?"
~Boys, #14, Takana Hikaru dead, 22 to go~
Nanahara Takeshi stumbled then fell down dead, as he was suddenly shot by Uehara Takuya. "Takuya, what are you doing?" asked Yukimura Sojiro and Nagase Kinnosuke in disbelief.
Takuya turned towards the two of them, "I never wanted to ally with you guys in the first place. Now it's time to finish you off." Takuya was about to shoot the two of them when he was shot, and he too, fell down. Tamori Ken was behind holding his rifle, "If I didn't kill him, he would have killed all of us."
Yukimura suddenly took a knife and tried to stab Tamori Ken. Nagase tried to restrain him. "Nagase, if Ken can kill Takuya, he can kill us two. Takuya turned his back on us, you also might do that. So it's best to kill both of you."
"Don't be rash, Sojiro," Nagase reasoned. Sojiro's reply was a huge slash across Nagase's stomach before he charged at Ken. Another shot was fired from Ken's gun, and hit Sojiro, who fell forwards, at the same time, stabbing the knife into Ken's heart.
~Boys #4 Nanahara Takeshi dead, Boys #20 Uehara Takuya dead, Boys #16 Nagase Kinnosuke dead, Boys #11 Tamori Ken dead, Boys #13 Yukimura Sojiro dead, 17 to go~
Day 2, 5.30pm
Kawashima Megumi felt the warmth of hers and Domoto Hidetoshi's soft nude bodies against each other. She felt Hidetoshi's pressing his lips gently against hers then moving down her neck, all the way caressing her face and body with his warm hands. She wanted to be closer to him and hugged him tighter, resting her head on his muscular chest.
"Megumi, you sure you don't mind?" Hidetoshi sat up and asked Megumi who was still holding onto him tightly. "You've always been very conservative."
Megumi shook her head, "This will be the first and last time I'm doing it. I really love you, Hidetoshi, and at the thought of dying tomorrow, I." Megumi tried to stifle her tears but failed to do so.
Hidetoshi hugged Megumi tighter in his embrace, "I'll always be by your side, even in death, Megumi, don't worry."
"Really?" asked Megumi looking up in his eyes.
Hidetoshi nodded. Megumi's tears flowed out again as she wrapped her arms around Hidetoshi's shoulders and was intoxicated into a long passionate kiss. Finally, when they broke away, she asked, "What if I were to die now? It's so frightening thinking of when we'll be killed. It'll be less stressful if I were to die now."
"Then I'll die together with you."
"Can you kill me now? I don't dare to kill myself. Please help me," pleaded Megumi as she passed to Hidetoshi a thick long string. "I'll still see you in the nether world, right?"
Hidetoshi took the string and silently nodded, knowing that this would be Megumi's last wish, "I'll try and make this as painless as I can."
Megumi smiled, "I'm happy to have you by my side even in my death. We'll continue this unfulfilled love relation after this life."
Hidetoshi then put the string over Megumi's neck and tightened it. Megumi gasped and grasped his hand, clutching it tight. Hidetoshi's heart hurt as he saw Megumi in pain but he continued until Megumi's hand went limp. Restraining his tears as hard as he could, he took a gun at the side of the table and shot himself, "Megumi, I'm always with you."
~ "I'm happy to have you by my side even in my death." "I'm always with you."~ ~Girls #2 Kawashima Megumi dead, Boys #18 Domoto Hidetoshi dead, 15 to go~
"I don't know what's up with Eriko," finished Yamato as he told Junichi of what had happened. "She just suddenly saved me at the beginning of the game and stuck with me own her own. She's weird."
Yamato had not finished his sentence when he fell hard backwards as Junichi suddenly struck him, "Don't you insult Eriko!"
Yamato wiped off the blood from his lips, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so worked up?"
"Eriko's doing all this for you, so you better appreciate it!"
"Come on, Junichi! Don't tell me she still likes me! Look at the way she insults me and shouts at me during class! That girl who only has feminine looks but not actions doesn't even care about me and she's not a girl worth appreciating or caring for! When has she ever done anything for me other than shout at me?"
"I thought you said she just saved you? And remember the thousand paper cranes and box of cookies you received last month for your birthday?"
"Wasn't that given to me by Chizuro?"
"Only the video game was. The paper cranes and cookies were from Eriko. She folded each of the cranes and baked each cookie by herself. Afraid that you wouldn't accept it, she asked Chizuro to give it to you in Chizuro's name. And the reason Eriko always scolds you is because she still likes you. The hurt you caused her when you rejected her still leaves her heart hurting whenever she sees you and thus she behaves that way."
"How do you know all this?"
"Because. I like Eriko. but she only has eyes for an idiot like you."
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Eriko opened her eyes to see Nakata Sanosuke looking down at her concerned, "You're awake."
Eriko blinked her eyes a few times to shake off her drowsiness, "What happened?"
"I found you unconscious in the forest. You are having a high fever. You better rest."
Eriko shook her head and tried to get up, "I've got to find Yamato."
"But you're not alright yet." Sanosuke had barely finished his sentence when a gunshot rang and he was hit in the chest. Eriko gasped as she saw Aizawa Koichi running towards them from further away.
Sanosuke clutched his chest and turned. Seeing Aizawa, he quickly carried Eriko and ran out of the house, bringing her to the thick dense forest where she could not be seen easily. "Eriko, make your own out of here now, I'll take care of Aizawa."
"But you'll get killed!" Eriko shouted. "Why are you doing this for me?"
"The top student in class should be intelligent enough to know the reason why. I'm sure you should know by now," Sanosuke smiled at Eriko before dashing out in the open to face Aizawa. A few gunshots rang out and then there was silence. Eriko felt her tears flowing down her cheeks and mouthed Sanosuke's name but no sound came out, and she knew what had just happened."
~ "I'm sure you should know by now."~ ~Boys #19 Nakata Sanosuke dead, 14 to go~
Day 2, 10pm
Ichikawa Tsuyoshi rolled onto the ground panting and gasped, wide-eyed and open-mouthed at the house, which had just burst into flames. "Nanami! Reiko! Yuki!" he shouted at the burning house, where the girls were still trapped inside. Minutes ago, they had been sleeping peacefully and soundly, now their had lodging had 'mysteriously' caught fire, the flames taking the girls with them to hell. Before Tsuyoshi could think of anything else, he felt something sharp and hurt cut through his neck for a split second, before everything vanished. Morishima Sakura stood next to the decapitated body of Tsuyoshi, admiring her masterpiece, the house burning throughout the night.
~Girls #6 Tsukino Nanami dead, Girls #8 Kagemura Yuki dead, Girls #14 Mada Reiko dead, Boys #17 Ichikawa Tsuyoshi dead, 10 to go~
The night air was still and humid as the last few remaining survivors neared one another where the final showdown for the survivor to emerge would take place, which would change everyone's lives forever. Everyone remaining was preoccupied with his or her own thoughts, while the teacher and his soldiers in the control room, waited anticipating to know what would be the fates of the last few students.
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Ok, another chapter finally up! Sorry to have kept all of you waiting, but it really needed time to think of how to kill these people. Next chapter is the last chapter and I'll try and put it up as soon as I can. Anyway, r&r please, I really want to know how you guys feel about this! Btw, I made Recca kill himself in the previous chapter as I thought that Recca is so smitten with Yanagi that he'll most probably follow the Ninja code and kill himself. Please do r&r and read on to find out what happens in the end. Thanks!