Hey my Fooly Cooly friends. Ok, ok….. 3 nearly 4 months? Opps.

Sorry about that but it's here now!

Chapter 3 : most probably filled with numerous grammar mistakes and who knows what else. :P

My Head's Cursed

Chapter Three : It's Here!

'Every morning that I've woken up to, she's always there. I'm amazed. Samejima Mamimi is back by my side…. But why? The reason doesn't seem to matter anymore but I believe it's something more than just wanting to see me again. Either way, worrying about it or not, I'm glad she's here. I could have gone insane through being alone, though I suppose I could go insane with her as well.'

"'Stay cool and you can do anything.'" Naota repeated the words of his brother and sighed. "Ok, Tasku." He was stood on the balcony, drinking plain water while looking out at the city. Mamimi walked over to him, with her cigarettes in hand.

"Still in your pajama's?" She asked, "What about your school? Did it burn down too?" Naota glanced at her.

"No. I can't be bothered about school, but I'm thinking of going back. Possibly tomorrow but its too late today to go."

"What are you going to do today?" Mamimi asked, joining Naota's stare into the city.

"I would normally lie in bed and not do anything but today I feel like going to the river. Do you want to come?" Mamimi nodded and leaned on him for a short moment.

Once they had reached the river, Mamimi started to walk up and down the side of the river, recovering lost ground. Naota, with his baseball bat in hand started swinging it around from side to side.

"Ow!"

Mamimi looked back at Naota, who had dropped his bat and was holding his head.

"Naota, are you okay?" Mamimi asked as she stood in the river, watching him.

"It's just a headache." Naota said, reassuringly causing Mamimi to smile.

"Are you sure? Could it be something else?" Mamimi smiled as he walked over to her.

"You mean that you think something's going to come through my head again?"

"A monster or … cat ears!" Naota looked away with a sad glint in his eyes.

"I- I don't want anything else to come through… It hurts!" Mamimi took him in her arms and put her hand on his head.

"I can feel it." She took Naota's hand and placed it on his forehead where hers had been.

Naota couldn't feel anything, to him, his forehead felt completely normal or at least as normal as it could be.

"I can't. I don't know if it is normal or not, my forehead, I mean." Mamimi looked down at him,

"What else would you be on about?" Naota looked away again as there was a long pause.

"Nothing." He replied. Mamimi stepped out of the river, smiling and walked over to where Naota had placed his bag. As she lay down, she watched him walk back to her.

"Cat ears… Can you make them come out again? I liked them."

"Mamimi, those ears were destroyed, remember?" Mamimi shrugged and took out a pack of cigarettes from her back pocket.

"I don't remember, Naota. I don't know if I was there."

"Oh." Naota lay beside her and watched the clouds in the sky. "Aren't you smoking more and more now? You never used to smoke as much as you used to with me."

Mamimi stayed quiet for a while.

"Maybe… I'm stressed. Or worried about your head Naota."

"Don't be. It's not like it'll hurt you." Mamimi lit a cigarette while watching the surroundings. "By the way, Mamimi, how come you have only called me 'Naota-kun' once? It sounds so cold, you just calling me 'Naota.'" Mamimi looked at him as he looked at her.

"I… Didn't know what to call you… Ever since you told me not to call you Ta-"

"Don't say it again, please. Just call me whatever you want." Naota said, breaking the staring.

"Okay, Naota-kun." Mamimi stood up and walked over to the river. "We'd be able to cope with the thing that's going to come out of your head if we had Lord Canti right?"

She dropped her cigarette on the grass.

"Yeah… Probably." Mamimi started to walk away. "Hey, where are you going!" Naota shouted. Mamimi turned around,

"To get Canti!" She looked back in the direction she was walking and muttered to herself, "It's going to come out of your head soon… I can feel it." She continued to walk off. Naota touched his head again as he stood up, grabbed his bat and followed her.

Before they got to his house, they saw Kamon get in his car and drive away from the house.

"He's probably gone to buy some groceries, or something." As Naota carried walking, Mamimi stopped and looked away. Naota looked behind him at her. "What's wrong?"

"Umm… Is Shigekuni still alive?" Mamimi asked, still not looking at him.

"Alive? That's a cold way to put it." Naota started to think, "well he is alive but he's not living here at the moment. Why do you care anyway? It's never concerned you before." Mamimi sighed and continued walking to the house without mentioning it again.

When they were inside a strong smell of bread overwhelmed them.

"Lord Canti!" Mamimi ran off into the kitchen, guessing that was where he was. Naota also walked into the kitchen but not in the excited way Mamimi had. Mamimi was stood next to Canti, hugging his arm as Naota watched. "Canti, you have to guard us 'cause something's going to come out of Naota-kun's head!" Canti looked back at Naota.

"This time you better not destroy whatever comes out. Naota reminded Canti, causing Canti to blush and scratch his head. Naota took off his jumper and walked over to the living room, "Unless it's Haruko."

"Ooo, he doesn't like her… Does he?" Mamimi asked Canti. Naota carelessly threw himself on the floor and switched on the TV. He then turned it off again, suddenly remembering something and walked up the stairs into his room.

Shortly after, Mamimi and Canti went up too but they had quietly slid the door open and walked in. Naota was sitting on his bed, plucking Haruko's bass that she had left behind. Mamimi pulled out the chair from under Naota's desk and sat on it, looking curiously at Naota.

"What are you doing?" Mamimi asked him softly.

"Practicing bass playing."

"Hmm… It sounds awful!" Mamimi admitted.

"It's because that bitch didn't leave me an amp either!" Naota said in annoyance.

"Why are you practicing?"

"Because I've 'gotta be c-" Naota paused for a second. "No, I don't know why."

'Tasku was right to leave this place but he still betrayed his family, I don't have to listen to him!

Last year when I had enough courage to tell Tasku about everything that had happened with Haruko and her bass he said to me 'you may as well use it Nao, remember – stay cool and you can do anything.' Yes Tasku had said that to me so many years ago and would continue to keep saying it. I looked upon him as an idol… but he turned his back on me. He doesn't want to come back home either!'

Naota lost himself I thought as Mamimi stayed silent and Canti walked over to his bed. After a while, Naota finally looked up at him.

"Huh? What is it?" Canti put his metal finger on Naota's head.

"You can feel it too, huh?" Mamimi asked, Canti looked back at her and then at Naota. He took his finger off Naota's head and stood still next to him. After a while of silence Naota started to become agitated.

"Argh! Are we just waiting for it to come out of my head! I can't take it anymore!" Naota stood up, put the bass on his bed and walked out of the room.

"There he goes again… I guess." Mamimi slowly got up from the chair and followed him down the stairs.

Outside Naota started to look up at the sky, remembering what Mamimi had said about the peace and the chaos. He began to walk around, without taking his gaze off the sky. Suddenly he bumped into someone and fell to the floor.

"Sorry!" Naota said with his eyes closed. When he opened them, they looked upon a 'washed out' Ninamori. Naota got to his feet, wondering why she looked so weird. "Uh, Ninamori… Sorry. Are you okay?" She didn't respond even though her mouth was moving as if she was trying to speak. Naota looked closer at her to see that she was shaking. Naota sat on his knees and put his hands on her shoulders. "You're cold!" her eyes were quivering, she closed them as Naota took his hands off of her and as soon as he did, Ninamori leaned on him. Naota didn't move and after a while Ninamori whispered in his ear,

"Naota…… T-There's a guy… haunting… inside m-me." Naota looked at her but before he could say anything, she collapsed.

"What happened, Naota-kun?" Mamimi asked. Herself and Canti both walked over to Naota and Ninamori. Canti picked up Ninamori in both arms.

"I'm not too sure, she just collapsed." Naota looked up at the sky, little raindrops fell onto his face. "Let's stay here for a while." Naota decided.

"But it's raining!" Mamimi complained.

"We'll go under the bridge then." They quickly walked to the dryness of the bridge. Canti placed Ninamori on the floor as Naota sat near Mamimi, who was sitting on the edge of the cold slabs taking her shoes off. She then stuck her feet in the water,

"Do you think she'll wake up soon?" She asked, kicking the water with her feet.

"Yeah of course she will. I hope." Naota indecisively said. He heard a few mumbles from behind him and looked around. "Eh? She's must be having a nightmare of some sort." Naota thought aloud, watching Ninamori roll around on the floor in a curled up ball. Suddenly she opened her eyes, making Naota jump. "Ninamori?" quickly, she jumped to her feet and in the blink of an eye, had run off. Naota got up, in the intentions of going after her but stopped realising that he couldn't see where she went.

"She's gone…" Mamimi said, looking out at the river.

"Forget it then. She'll come back I suppose."

"You never know."

Naota looked out at the sky, listening to the rain. He sat back down again, hugging his knees. Naota touched his head with his fingers; it felt like he could stick them through his head, regardless of skull. Before he could realise, his forehead had started to move.

"Mamimi!" Naota said, trying to remain calm. Mamimi turned around and looked at him,

"It's coming!" she said curiously, crawling over to him. "Wow, it's interesting, your head's all bubbly!" Blood trickled down his forehead as Naota wiped it away quickly.

"Oooo, you're bleeding… Why's that?"

"I don't know! It's only been happening for a while!" The surface of Naota's head started to bubble rapidly; he clenched his fists and braced himself.

"What's that? … It's white!" Naota looked up at the thing that was coming slowly out of his head and grabbed hold of it and pulled. He gritted his teeth as he did.

'The pain is immense but I have quickly pull it out of my head! It had to come out now, I can't afford for Ninamori to see this! She'd probably go berserk.

What I'm holding… It feels cold, like metal. Even though I'm pulling it, it feels like someone's on the other side, helping me out!'

For at least 5 minutes of sidesplitting pain and frantic pulling, Naota had fully pulled out the object from his head. The force upon pulling it out, made it slam on the

Floor, making a sound.

"I've heard that sound before!" Looking at where the thing that he had pulled out was, he had to take a second look at it. Angrily, he looked between the object and Mamimi. "That sound…"

"A guitar?" Mamimi asked.

"No, a bass. It's… Haruko's. well, actually, it was mine and Atomsk's but, when they joined together Haruko stole it."

"Haru-san's? Why is that here then?"

"I'm sure we'll find out. Damn bitch." Naota stood up, brushing the dirt off his shorts. "Let's go home." He said, helping Mamimi up.

"But… Ninamori."

"I don't care, I just want to go home." Naota looked at Canti, who looked eagerly at the bass, as if waiting to get a signal from Naota. "Don't destroy it, Canti. It's mine and I got it back." He said smiling. "We'll forget about Ninamori for now. Hey, Mamimi, why do you care about her anyway? It's just like what you said about my granddad. Ninamori called you a child molester, remember?"

"That was a while ago though… I suppose I don't really care but… I thought you liked her."

"She's an ok person, it's just that I can't be bothered to run around looking for her." Mamimi started to light a cigarette and put it up to her mouth. Breathing out, she said,

"That's cool with me, Naota-kun."

Once they had got upstairs, Naota happily put down his reclaimed bass and baseball bat. He looked at Mamimi who was closing his door.

"Naota-kun, I'm soaking. Can I use some more of Haru-san's clothes?" Naota nodded and pointed to the location of the box under his bed. Mamimi went to his bed and bent down to pick it up. Naota lay down on his bed as Mamimi sat on the floor as Naota unconsciously stared at her. Without hesitation, Mamimi started to take her top off. Suddenly Naota sat up. Mamimi froze after pulling her top off, so her bra was revealed.

"Naota-kun, what are you doing?" Mamimi asked, frantically. It wasn't because she was 'flashing' him, it was because Naota had a hold of his head with both hands and looked as if he was trying to pull his head apart.

"Something's trying to come out! I-It doesn't hurt but it feels so strange!" All of a sudden, a finger poked out of his skin, then followed by the whole hand and a bracelet made of metal and one chain on it. Naota watched in horror as it started to emerge from his head. Mamimi watched, amazed by it.

"Your head isn't bleeding either!" Pink hair started to join the hand that had come out of his head, followed by its face. As her arm started to come out, Naota fell on the floor in front of Mamimi.

"HEY TAKKUN!" the head said, still being pulled out. She put her arms on the floor and dragged the rest of her body out from his head. She opened her eyes to reveal her golden burning eye colour; smiling her first glance was Mamimi who looked gob-smacked.

"Sameji' are you about to Fooly Cooly with him! That's just wrong!" She said, looking disgustedly at Mamimi.

Mamimi shook her head violently.

"What's also wrong is the fact that you're wearing a really short skirt, Haruko!" Haruko turned around,

"Oh my, did 'lil Takkun get a pre-adolescent glimpse?" she said touching her lips with her fingers and smiling. Naota looked away, angrily but at the same time, blushing. Her eyes scanned the room that looked completely different than when she left it. "Hmm. Takkun, it seems you've removed every trace of me!" Naota smirked. Haruko quickly grabbed him in a tight embrace, before he had a chance to say anything. Naota struggled but her grip was too tight. Haruko started to whisper in his ear,

"You know, Takkun, I won't let you regret me for entering your life!"

Wow, I'm soooo happy I finally finished this but I have been busy with mock exams and crap like that….. Ok, not a very good excuse but oh well.

Sorry for the grammar again, try to ignore it :P

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