Stained with Blood By: Shojo

I know I have been really late with getting the chapters up, but my internet has been broken, so I can only type and put stuff up when I'm over at my sister's house. I'm so sorry. Well, here's chapter 4.

Chapter 4: Frustration

The next morning at Hachi and Shojo's dorm.

"Hachi! Hachi! Get up!" Shojo yelled, "Get up NOW!!!" Shojo pushed him onto the floor, waking him with a loud thump.

"Ouch! Hey Shojo, what'd you do THAT for?" Hachi said, rubbing his head.

"There's more news about the case we're on!"

Hachi jumped up and ran out onto the TV room.

The same reporter as before was on. "There was a riot last night at Eztobrakootov Jail. The only two survivors of the "Death" killings the previous night, Yrneck and Toopii, were murdered in their cells. It seems as though Death came and actually broke INTO the jail and killed them both in his usual way. How he got past security is not known, but it seems he bent the window bars on the outside of the cell and climbed in through there. And he did this with his bare hands. Whoever this Death guy is, he might not be entirely human. Well, that's just my guess. Thank you, and have a nice day. This is MRDux News, and I'm Ima Sobvious. Now here's Harry Bunns with the weather. Hachi plopped down on the couch and sighed. "Danm, he couldn't have waited one night. I was planning to go get info out of him today." he said.

"Hey Hachi?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you feeling alright?"

"Yes, a bit tired is all. Haven't been getting to bed 'til like tree every night lately. Why? Do you ask?"

"Oh. no reason." She was trying to avoid his eyes. "No reason at all." And she went into the kitchen. Hachi furrowed his brow. Then, shrugging, went into his room to sleep some more.

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The following three months passed with more killings, Hachi and Shojo going from place to place without any thing to go on, no evidence at all. Not one.

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"Come on sleepy head, wake up! It's your New Years Eve! You know what that means! It's your birthday! Happy 20th Hachi!"

Hachi just grumbled and mumbled, "Five more minutes."

You've been saying that for over 2 ½ hours now. You need to get up!" Shojo picked the lock and opened the door. Hachi was lying in bed. "Get up please? I made a great cake for you, and I want you to have the first piece. Please?" Hachi just grumbled more and turned over. An evil grin spread across her face. She went over to the window and opened the blinds. He just made a hissing noise and put his head under the covers. Seeing that this hadn't worked, she opened the window and began to shout. "HEY EVERYONE! DID YOU KNOW THAT HACHI MIDORI IS STILL A VIRG-"

She would have finished this sentence but just then Hachi stood up and covered her mouth. "OK OK! I'm up! Jeez!" he said.

Shojo smiled devilishly as she shut the window. "Hee hee, I know the would wake you up quickly." Hachi just glared at her. -.-

"That wasn't funny at all Shojo."

"Really? I thought it was funny. Your hamster though so too, see, it's laughing." She pointed at a glass case; and, sure enough, the hamster was rolling around on the ground in hysterics. He just glared at it too.

"Hey Hachi, how come you have been so tired lately?"

"Haven't been getting to bed until late." he said as he pulled on a pair of pants and a shirt. (He sleeps in his boxers)

"Ya know.ever since that Death guy started killing people.and his description.I was just-"

"Wondering if I was death?" he finished for her.

"Well.yeah."

"You don't have to worry, it's not me."

"How can you prove that to me?"

"I can't." He didn't meet her eyes then.

"Hachi, what are you hiding from me?" she pushed on, looking at his face.

"Nothing. I'm hiding nothing." There was no doubt about that time; he definitely didn't meet her eyes then.

"You're lying."

"No I'm not."

"Then say that looking into my eyes." He just turned his head away. Shojo then pushed him flat on his bed and put her face a few centimeters from his face and looked him directly into his eyes. "Tell me. What are you hiding? What do you know?"

His heart rate started to get faster and his face was turning red. He swallowed hard. He just couldn't tell her. "N-Nothing." He turned his head to the side. "I'm not.I don't.nothing.not anything."

She put her whole body on his. "Hachi. Please tell me." She persisted. "I need to know. Please."

Hachi's face was now a very deep red; and his heart rate was abnormally fast. He flipped over and she was now flat on the bed. He got up shaking with nerves. "No.I'm not.hiding, not any-not anything.I'm not.nothing.I cant tell.no." He ran out of the room and out of the apartment.

"HACHI!" She ran after him, but when she got to the door, he was out of sight. "Hachi."

Chapter 4 End.