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"What's up, Tsukasa?" Soujiro asked. He was walking with Yuki when they saw Tsukasa and Tsukushi sitting on a mat in the fields. It has been a week since the confrontation with Shigeru and nothing unusual has happened...yet.

"Hmm...nothing really important. Shigeru haven't been in school and she's not attacking yet." Tsukasa thought of Shigeru as a monster, and laughed at his own imagination. Tsukushi looked at him worriedly.

"What's so funny? You're laughing all by yourself, are you okay?"

"Haha...yeah, I am. I just thought of something weird! Imagine Shigeru if she's a monster...that would be cool to see!" Tsukasa couldn't help laughing, but Tsukushi wasn't as happy as he was.

"Stop, will you? Shigeru is someone who shouldn't be taken easily." Tsukushi got irritated. How could Tsukasa take things as if they're just playing? Tsukasa looked pensive, and the worried looks on Yuki and Soujiro's faces came back again. All of them fell on serious thinking as Akira and Rui walked to them.

"Hey ya! What's with the long faces? Not a good way to start the day!" Akira asked cheerfully. Rui walked straight beside the tree and sat there, listening quietly. After a while Rui spoke up.

"I'm sorry. It was my idea to take Shigeru away, I didn't expect she'd be able to think something against you after all those 'heart-wrenching' plays she watched." Rui said honestly.

"What's done is done. All we have to do are the things that need to be done, and stopping Shigeru is one of those things." Tsukasa said firmly. Tsukushi was amazed on how determined he was to fight for her.

"Aha! I didn't know you could be so sensible, Tsukasa!" Akira laughed at his own compliment.

"Akira, you're being sarcastic. Tsukasa wasn't that smart until he met Tsukushi. Tsukushi lit up his senses!" Tsukushi blushed, the others laughed, and Soujiro got a playful smack from Tsukasa. The group was having fun, oblivious to the pair of eyes watching then from afar.

"Laugh all you want...I'll have you crying until blood comes out of your eyes...Makino Tsukushi." The stranger swore before leaving Eitoku.

"Are you sure you don't want me to bring you home?" Tsukasa was worried about the idea of Tsukushi going home alone. The two of them had a date on a cozy restaurant after school.

"I am. Don't worry about me, nothing's happened yet. I'll be okay." Tsukushi assured her almost paranoid boyfriend.

"If you say so, but take every care, alright? I don't want to lose you." Tsukasa caressed her cheek before giving her a sweet kiss as Tsukushi got inside of a cab. Tsukasa waved goodbye and drove his own car home.

Tsukushi stood in front of her mansion, constantly ringing the doorbell. No one came to greet her, to her surprise. She also noticed the lights were off and the house was unusually quiet. Empty. Tsukushi's heartbeat raced as she became nervous. Setting her fears aside, she repeated ringing the bell until she got fed up and started banging on the gates.

"Where are all those guards? Could somebody be kind enough to open the gates??!!" Tsukushi yelled as loud as she could but still, no one came to answer her call. Tsukushi scratched her head in frustration as she pulled out her phone to call Tsukasa. Suddenly, she heard an eerie sound as the gates open automatically.

"What the? What on earth is going on in here?!" Tsukushi walked as fast as she could to the door and opened it immediately. She was shocked on the view that came to greet her. Tsukushi picked up her phone and dialed Tsukasa's number.

"Tsukasa, I need you right here, right now. Something came up, I think the thing we feared has come already." Tsukushi choked at her own voice as nervousness spread across her body. She turned to look at the house again.

All the servants, the butlers, the drivers, and the gardeners were all tied up with tapes on their mouths to prevent them from creating a sound. There was red fluid all over the place, and the vases and the antiques were all ruined. The house was a mess and the household has fear in their eyes. Tsukushi ran quickly and untied the ropes.

"What happened here? Why is everything ruined? Have we been robbed?" Tsukushi's questions came out one after the other that the servants got confused.

"Young lady, there were men here a while ago...they were dressed in black and they have masks so we didn't see their faces. They were carrying guns and threatened to kill us if we call for help." A maid told Tsukushi. She was still shook up with what happened. Tsukushi was about to ask again when someone came pounding at the door. The butler ran to open it.

"Tsukushi, what happened? You sound scared...was it Shigeru? I told you, you shouldn't have gone home by yourself!" Tsukasa scolded Tsukushi lightly.

"I'm sorry, I thought it was still safe." Tsukushi was looking down, she knew it was dangerous, but she still insisted that she'd be safe.

"Is this blood?" Tsukasa had walked towards the red fluid scattered on the floor and smelled it. The maids left them so they could clean up the mess and secure everything in place.

"I think it's something's blood, sir. We didn't know, there was a knock and when I opened the door they pointed the gun at me and ordered all of us to come in the lobby at once." One of the butlers informed Tsukushi.

"It was weird though, young lady. They were alarmed when they saw it was you and they ran through the back door. I notice that they went in one of the rooms upstairs because it became quiet until they came down here again." A young maid told Tsukushi.

Tsukushi looked at Tsukasa and they ran all the way to her room. Tsukushi tried to say something but she choked at her own voice as hot tears blurred her eyes. Tsukasa hugged her and comforted her, though he knew this was only the beginning.

Tsukushi's bed was tattered and all her things were dug out of their places. Her clothes were strewn and placed messily in the washroom and everywhere in her room. The mirror in her dresser was shattered. But Tsukushi couldn't take to look at her bedroom wall. There were writings of blood that said: "Stay away from Tsukasa while you still can. You'll be the next target when we get back...you'll be sorry, bitch!", and a dead body of a pig was mutilated and hanged on her nightstand and the blood was poured all over her bed. Tsukushi almost fainted, but she noticed something missing.

"Tsukasa, my family picture is not here! They took it away...they're serious...what am I to do?" Tsukushi collapsed on the floor crying, her loud sobs could be heard all over the house and the maids stopped to listen to their young mistress's heart-wrenching cry.

"You're not staying here. I'll bring you at my place, this house in no longer safe for you. We'll send the household to their families first, and we'll call the police later." Tsukasa cupped Tsukushi's face in his hands and told her she'll be safe. They spent no time packing, since Tsukushi has no clothes to pack anymore. They told the maids and the servants to go to their families and they'll get their jobs when they got everything settled.

"Tsukasa, do you think it's Shigeru who did this?" Tsukushi knew Shigeru has declared war, but could she sink no lower that she even plotted a gruesome threat like this?

"Who else do you think would do this?" Tsukasa slammed the steering wheel with his fist. Shigeru's getting into his nerves.

"Should we call the police? Shigeru might get angrier than she already is when we do that."

"Of course we should. They could've got you if you hadn't went out with me."

They had reached Tsukasa's house and they were halfway through the stairs when a voice called them.

"Tsukasa, where have you been?" Tsukasa turned at the sound of the voice, there standing at the foot of the stairs was his mother.

Tsukasa's mom was here. Domyouji Kaede was staring at Tsukushi disapprovingly, and she was holding a folder on her hands.