It wasn't unusual for Tucker to be making his way down to the School Nurse's office. He wanted to be in and out so he could figure out what Natsume wanted him over in the newspaper club for. He arrived at the hallway where Rin was standing. She wasn't particularly thrilled about this.

"You're here." Rin told Tucker about it. Tucker did his best while trying to keep the left arm of his in its bandage.

"I just want to be in and out of this, I don't intend to stick around, I was wondering if there was anything else in this, possibly the nurse slipping some kind of sleeping agent to have both of my arms chopped off." Tucker began. Rin looked at him as she knew she needed to drop some truth onto him.

"Tucker, one of your arms is completely fine, it's the left arm past the elbow the nurse is worried about." Rin explained to Tucker that the right arm was normal, and the other arm was normal until a certain point. Tucker looked at his bandaged arm before he gulped, he was going to have to get those antibiotics injected into him. Rin and Tucker walked to the School Nurse's office before the door swung open. Hisao and Eleanor stepped out. Tucker studied his little sister before Rin began speaking. "Hey what's up, Hisao."

"I had to take Eleanor to the Nurse's office as her left hand began to hurt badly." Hisao told Rin what was happening. Tucker looked over to see Eleanor's left hand was bandaged up. His anxiety shot through the roof. Did Hisao hurt his sister or something? He needed to figure out what happened.

"What exactly happened?" Tucker asked. He didn't know exactly what was happening, but he needed to figure out the events previously. Eleanor felt too sheepish to speak so Hisao began to speak on her behalf.

"I told you before but when the School Nurse touched it, Eleanor squealed in pain, it was clear the accident had definitely affected her hand in one way or another especially where she ended up losing her fingers. Her hand is in a brace for the time being until the pain goes away so it's going to stay on for a couple of days." Hisao told Tucker about this. Tucker nodded before he began speaking again.

"So that's good, I'm still thankful you're taking care of Eleanor for me." Tucker told Hisao. Hisao nodded. "So, anything you'll be doing for the time being?" Tucker asked Hisao what he planned on doing something next.

"I'm heading off to meet Lilly's sister Akira in the city as we need to get a few items. Eleanor told me she was heading to the art room." Hisao told Tucker what his plans were. Tucker nodded.

"Okay then, have fun." Tucker told Hisao that he might as well enjoy the time he had out. Hisao nodded before he and Eleanor parted ways and left.

"Take care Tuck." Hisao bid him farewell before leaving the scene. Tucker and Rin then went into the Nurse's office. They both arrived before Tucker sat down on the seat to get examined. Rin decided to watch over his belongings while getting her foot out for Tucker. It had to be one of those days.

Katawa Shoujo- Ah Eh I Oh You

"Ah Tucker, you're here." The School Nurse began to speak to him. Tucker looked at the Nurse as he went over to speak to him. "I need to check your arm." He instructed Tucker to take off the glove he had as his hand looked shriveled and black, it was getting darker by the day as it was pruning School Nurse unwrapped the bandage, he had on his arm to get an inspection, it seemed to be the infection wasn't going anywhere.

"What's the good news about this?" Tucker asked the School Nurse. The School Nurse laughed before he began to speak.

"Well, the infection has stopped spreading as it's just in that one area now. That's a good sign the antibiotics are working." The School Nurse began. It was just the portion between from the hand to the elbow that was black and shriveling up. He then walked over and grabbed a needle full of antibiotics. "We'll keep doing the injections to prevent the gangrene from spreading but unfortunately, you're going to have to lose half of your left arm one day, I can't say when, but that day will come around when we get there." Tucker gulped at the prospect of losing something. Rin stared at him although she herself had no arms.

"So, the treatments will go on like normal?" Tucker asked.

"That I can say for certain. You can look away while I take care of you." The School Nurse told Tucker. Tucker looked away as he closed his eyes. The doctor inserted the needle into Tucker's spot where the elbow was. Tucker clenched his teeth as this was going to hurt badly. After a moment or so, it was all done. The School Nurse took the needle out before dabbing away some of the blood that had erupted onto the surface with a cotton ball, Afterward, he began to bandage up Tucker's left arm and placed the glove back on.

"When do you want to see me next?" Tucker asked. The School Nurse smiled before he began speaking.

"Three days from now, we'll see if the treatment is working." The School Nurse explained to Tucker. Tucker got up as the nurse finished his work. He gathered his belongings and began to make his way to the door with Rin following behind him. "Take care, Kagami." The Nurse told him. Once they were out of the room, they began to make their way into the hallway as Rin began speaking to him.

"I'm heading to the art room for obvious reasons, I might bump into your little sister while I'm there. You said you had somewhere to go?" Rin asked as she decided to let him know where she was going. Tucker nodded before speaking.

"Yes, I did, I made sure to have it posted to my uniform, so I know where it is." Tucker told Rin that he made sure to get the location before he was going to take off. Rin nodded before she smiled a bit.

"Take care." Rin told Tucker. With that, Rin headed off in the opposite direction. Tucker walked off as he was going to find that newspaper club that Natsume had been talking to him about.


Tucker arrived at the room where he was going to be heading to. It was on the second floor, close to the library. Tucker walked up before he knocked on the door to see who was inside.

"Tucker is that you?" Someone asked at the door if it was definitely him. Tucker began to speak as he knew it had to be him.

Katawa Shoujo- Daylight

"Yeah, it is, can I come in?" Tucker asked. The door to the newspaper room opened as it was Natsume that was standing in front of him. She looked at him with a warmth in her eyes.

"Come on in." Natsume told Tucker. She stepped out of his way before letting him inside. Tucker looked around to see what was in there. There really wasn't much in terms of members, just Natsume, Naomi and a third girl whom he wasn't familiar with. She was much darker in terms of skin color compared to Natsume and Naomi. She had black eyes and black hair that were tied up in braids. Much like Emi, she was missing her legs but unlike Emi, she had no knees so she couldn't bend her prosthetic legs that much. She spotted Tucker with a smile before getting up from her desk and walking over.

"You seem to be new around here." She greeted him. Tucker looked at her before he seemed curious.

"Who are you?" Tucker asked her. The girl giggled before she knew she needed to introduce herself.

"I'm Molly Kapur. You must be Tucker?" Molly introduced herself. Tucker listened in on her, she sounded a bit high pitched with an Indian accent.

"Yeah, you must be right." Tucker told Molly. Molly smiled before Natsume sat down beside her.

"Come take a seat." Natsume instructed Tucker. Tucker nodded before he decided to put his belongings down and grabbed a seat. He was now sitting next to Naomi and Natsume but across from Molly. Tucker knew that there were a lot of people around him.

"What did you invite me here for?" Tucker asked Natsume if she had an idea of why she brought him to this room in particular. Natsume smiled a bit before she began speaking.

"Yeah, we just wanted you to hang out with us." Natsume explained to Tucker that they just wanted his company. Naomi went over to where they had a cabinet and pulled out a partially eaten tray of soft cookies.

"Care for a bite?" Naomi asked Tucker. She opened the lid to the tray as she knew these needed to be eaten.

"Sure, I guess." Tucker told them. Naomi smiled as Tucker took a cookie and placed it on a plate. Natsume grabbed one but she felt something in her left hand. This made Tucker feel concerned for her. "Are you okay Natsume?" Tucker asked. He picked up her cookie and placed it on her plate.

"Yeah, it's just my left hand acting up again. Dumb Arthritis." Natsume cursed to herself. Naomi got out the tea kettle and began pouring tea into the teacups. Tucker notices Naomi handling everything with grace. Possibly as much grace as Lilly Satou.

"I didn't know you girls liked tea too." Tucker began. He broke a piece of his cookie off and began to eat it.

"We all do, we get together irregularly if we have the free time." Molly explained that the newspaper club tended to have irregular hang outs when their club wasn't operating. Tucker then began to drink the tea as it felt warm, it wasn't perfectly hot like how Lilly Satou did it when he stumbled into the tearoom but it was tolerable to drink without burning his tongue.

"I actually met Lilly and Hanako in the tearoom a couple days before you came to Tucker and we began chatting about her joining the newspaper club as it's just me, Naomi and Molly. Hanako said she wanted some time to decide on the matter and I told her that she could take her time. As much time as she needed to make her decision." Natsume explained to Tucker that they were looking for more members of the newspaper club and they reached out to one of the girls to join but she said she needed some time to think about it.

"I still don't know Hanako too well. I bet she does need the time before coming to a decision." Tucker told them about the decision. He was feeling worried for Rin but more specifically, Eleanor. He hoped Rin and Eleanor were doing good together and he hoped they were going to be friends assuming they interacted with each other. Tucker then began to drink more of the tea as Natsume began speaking again.

"I think you should try talking to her when you get the chance. I think you two will make excellent friends." Natsume told Tucker that he needed to find the courage to get to know people better. Tucker gulped as he only met Hanako once.

"Maybe we can figure out what makes her excited. Though this will take some time and we rarely bump into each other." Tucker admitted. He picked up his cookie and began to eat it. It was soft like the package had said but he didn't know if he was going to stay, or he needed to go. Either way he had homework to do, and he didn't want to sit around idle. He finished his cookie and looked at the clock.

"Well thanks for having me over, I kind of need to get going if I am to take care of my homework, I promise I will stop by again to see how everything is going." Tucker told them as he got up and left the scene. Molly looked at his empty cup and plate with crumbs on it. It was clear he didn't stick around for very long.

"Take care." Natsume told Tucker as he left the scene. Tucker knew he definitely wanted to get some work done but he was running against the clock. The one person whom he was scared of at the moment was Kenji. After saying yes to helping his fort and just walking away from him at the festival. Tucker was running as fast as possible, hopeful that he was going to reach his dorm first.


Tucker reached for his dorms after taking a mad sprint for what seemed to be for his life. He was just about at the door before a voice caught him off guard.

"There you are." The voice belonged to Kenji and by the looks of things, he was pretty mad at Tucker.

Katawa Shoujo- Out of the Loop

"What do you want, Kenji?" Tucker asked as he was a bit agitated. Kenji adjusted his glasses as he prepared to yell at Tucker.

"You promise me that you were going to build the fort with me to hide from the Feminists, I had the whiskey ready." Kenji began, his voice definitely sounded like some kind of booming thunder. "I waited for you all day, but you never showed up! The feminists have got you and look at you, their influence is beginning to show. What did I tell you about hanging out with those girls?!" Kenji was borderline screaming at this point as he wanted to see what Tucker's reaction was going to be.

"Listen Kenji, you need to calm down, second I wanted to attend the festival. You were blocking my way and I said yes for you to get out of there." Tucker explained that he had no intentions in building that fort. This made Kenji even more mad.

"Still, their vice-like grip is getting onto you. They're trippy men. You need to stop hanging out with those feminists." Kenji did his best to try to slap some sense into Tucker.

"Kenji, what did we say about harassment?" A voice called out. Kenji and Tucker looked to see who it was, it was Ernest as he was helping William walk on a pair of crutches.

"What do you need Ernest, can't you see I am telling someone to not join some kind of conspiracy group that will bring down all the men?" Kenji asked. Kenji was trying to justify his reasons, but Ernest was having none of it.

"Kenji, do I have to call Shizune and tell you about what the school rules are?" Ernest began speaking sternly to get Kenji to reconsider his choices before he was to have them speak to him. Kenji knew he had to back down.

"No, you don't." Kenji told Ernest before he began to back away. Ernest looked at him as he decided to let him off with a warning.

"Okay good. Harassment will not be tolerated under any circumstances; you may go to your dorm and stay there." Ernest told Kenji to leave the scene at once. Kenji sadly nodded before he ended up leaving. Ernest turned to Tucker, and he began speaking to him. "It's okay Tucker, Kenji doesn't know when enough is enough, I don't mean to speak like this, but I have to keep order around here." Ernest told Tucker.

"Yeah, I know, it seems strange why Kenji went after me even though I made an excuse not to help him. I followed William's advice on how to get him to go away." Tucker did his best to explain what happened. William smiled a bit as Tucker was learning but Ernest seemed to be a little shaken.

"Well Kenji is one that expects you to be true to your word. If you said no, then it's clear you have a different motive. It's a good thing to say yes just to say no with him and not attend what he has planned." Ernest explained to Tucker why Kenji expects these promises to be fulfilled. It was best to say yes to then dump them onto the side of the road.

"Well, I mainly use it as a means of getting him out of the way." Tucker explained. Ernest looked on as William hobbled his way onward.

"You did good. If Kenji continues to bother you, let me know, I can send a security force to see what he has hidden in that dorm of his." Ernest told Tucker that if Kenji continued to bother him, he could just tell Ernest and possibly get Kenji expelled.

"Okay I got you." Tucker told Ernest about it.

"Good. I got some things to do, I'll see you around Tucker." Ernest told him. Ernest then began to walk away from the scene leaving him and William alone.

"It's a good thing we spotted you when we could. Kenji looked like a rabid dog Tuck." William began. Tucker began to think about it before he spoke.

"I know. He was one of the things I dreaded today. He was going to yell at me for not helping build his bunker or something." Tucker explained to William about it. William nodded as he hobbled to his dorm.

"Yeah, Kenji's pie hole is always spewing nonsense. I don't believe any of it. What makes you think girls will take over the world?" William asked while he unlocked the door to his dorm.

"Yeah, I'm asking the same question as you are." Tucker admitted. William paused before he began to think about what to say next.

"Weird huh?" William asked. Tucker nodded and didn't speak about it. William then unlocked his door before he turned back to Tucker. "I wish to hang out with you more, but I have to get some rest, Ernest is trying to help me walk again and he wore me out." William then closed the door behind him. Tucker nodded before he unlocked the door to his dorm. He went inside and decided now was a good time to unpack his books and get his homework done.


The afternoon would drag on as he was quick to finish it. He didn't know what he wanted to do at this point as he had nothing to read on him and he didn't know if his friends were still going to be busy. He should have stayed longer in the Newspaper club room, but it turned out that he thought he was going to be busy. He didn't know what he wanted to do, might as well borrow a book tomorrow to read. Tucker tried to think of what would make him interested. He got out his phone and he began to text Hisao.

Hisao began texting back as the two of them got into a conversation about books. Tucker felt hesitant about borrowing books from the library, but Hisao's texts reassured him there was nothing to worry. Eleanor texted him and he answered her back in the hope that she was okay before continuing the conversation with Hisao. Hisao told Tucker about the books that he gets every few days and the fact that he should begin to develop a bit of a side hobby. Tucker nodded as he yawned. It was clear they had been talking for the past couple of hours and he was tired. Tucker decided to clean himself up and head for bed.

Tucker pulled the covers over him as he was definitely keeping the cat with him as a sign of good luck. Maybe he was beginning to enjoy his time at Yamaku, perhaps he was beginning to. He fell asleep at once.

Johnny Ripper - Imaginary Friend

Tucker had opened his eyes in the dream. He looked at his left arm to see that it was perfectly normal. Not like the bandaged-up state it was. He looked ahead to see the trees surrounding them. He looked ahead of him was Rin, he looked to his sides where the trees were, there were red, golden and green fruit on it, it was clear they were apples. Rin seemed to be different compared to what Tucker had seen of her. She seemed to be smiling happily, probably more than normal. Tucker looked ahead to see the sleeves of her uniform weren't tied up but, she had hands. Tucker couldn't believe what this dream was as she seemed to be beautiful, looking a lot like Lilly or Natsume. She turned away and began walking. Tucker knew he needed to go after her.

Tucker darted after Rin as she picked up her pace, the two of them were happily racing through the orchard. Rin seemed to be like a fleeting dream to him, the rows upon rows of apples in various sizes were shown. It was just them, nobody else around them. Tucker felt very happy about this as he couldn't get enough of the auburn hair that Rin had. She seemed to be happy, in her element. They raced out of the orchard into the dandelion field.

Tucker looked up to the sky as there wasn't a cloud in sight and the field was happy with the dandelion flowers, the golden flowers were everywhere. He looked back straight ahead to see that he was catching up to Rin. Rin seemed to be enjoying herself, the lush green grass being felt between their toes while they ran along. He felt happy. However, the terrain was going to change again for the both of them.

The dandelion field turned into a wheat field as the stalks of golden-brown wheat swayed in the wind. They definitely felt lost and alone in the field. Tucker knew he had to keep running to keep up with Rin. Rin began to slow down as she was getting tired. Tucker quickly closed the distance as his run slowed to a walk. Rin was looking out ahead of her, she was in the element she could have asked for. Tucker walked up to her and hugged her. He didn't know if he was going to get this chance with Rin, but he definitely wanted to make it count.

"This was an exciting time to be together?" Tucker asked Rin if she had any ideas of what to think about. She closed her eyes almost as if she was melting into his arms.

"I want to make this moment last forever." Rin told Tucker. Tucker just smiled as if Rin seemed to be the person who he wanted to connect to but more importantly, she was trying to connect with him. The two of them would stare out into the sunset, alone in the wheat field. Tucker felt like the world was turning into white as if this wasn't made to last. Tucker jolted awake as he tried to figure out what was going on. His heart had been asleep when he suddenly woke up, it felt weird, and it caused him to have chest pain for a moment.

The room was dark, there wasn't any light. Tucker looked around to see what was going on. He looked at the alarm clock. It was two twenty-six in the morning. Tucker needed to know what was going on. He walked over to the window and opened up the curtains to see what was going on. The nighttime sky was clear as the sea of stars were tiny islands in the vast ocean. The moon was the big island that was held up in the sky. Tucker looked out ahead and he began thinking to himself. What was Rin capable of dreaming? Could she have the same dreams as him? He prepared to head off to sleep when a ghost-like whistle was heard throughout Yamaku. Tucker looked down to hear what it was. The moment after it occurred. It was gone.

"Rin wherever you are out there, I wish to speak to you in the morning." Tucker told himself. He felt something was compelling him to say it. Before long, he turned away and headed back to bed. He pulled the covers back over him and he tried to fall asleep again.

He knew he had to speak to Rin.

[A/N]: A bit of a dream sequence for you, it appears that something is pulling on Tucker and compelling him to speak to Rin, was it what he said yesterday about going out with her? Did it mean listening to Shinichi? Will he go on his own path? I want to see what your reaction is so we can figure out what the dream meant. See you later.