Click, Click, Slide

Chapter II: Think Fast

Dislcaimer: I pledge not to chew with my mouth open, not kill my father, not join a gang again after being saved and beating up the Yuki-fanclub members. And also, I pledge of not owning Fruits Basket.

A/N: I like being freaked out, it's fun. Please do not mind my litterature, I suck, I know.

The Greatest Fudge: Eeeee, aww thanks. Heh, the 'eee' part, I'm starting to sound like the fan-club. Though they should reverse it to a Kyou fan-club o-o I'll gladly be a member teehee. Heh, I luff cliffhangers, they fun! Oh the click, click, slide thing XD ahahaha, you should've seen me glance around the room jumping at each brusque sound or moving shadows.

Iris: Yaay! Thank you! Heh heh heh, I love freaky stuff. Hmm laugh it off eh? Well o-o I can't laugh it off when it's too scary. Ever seen the Grudge? XD I COULDN'T LAUGH for that.

Kyou glared wide-eyed at the deformed shadow.

Slide, slide, slide, click, click…… the steps seemed to be limped. From the corner of the hallway, they could both see a figure approaching them. A gleaming blade reflected the moonlight upon them as is was dragged along the wall, marking it's bloody trail upon it.

Arisa wanted to run, but her legs seemed to be frozen in time, and unfortunately on that spot. Kyou too, was too shocked to move, or speak.

The figure finally moved into the light, where they could see torn flesh and missing body parts. The shocked-neko finally snapped out of it as he grabbed Arisa by the wrist and pulled her somewhere out of the mad-man's sight.

Then ran through the other end of the corridor, determined to get out of here at all cost. Kyou looked behind them to see that the man had simply vanished but when he averted his eyes back to the staircase door that led to the first floor, the mutilated corpse had appeared before him. Arisa gasped as she took her steel pipe and whipped it at the man's face. He vanished again only to reappear behind Arisa holding the blade up for the kill.

"WHAT THE FUCK'S GOING ON!" Kyou pushed Uotani aside as the knife was swished in air. This time, it was Arisa who pulled Kyou swiftly in the closest classroom, bolting the door shut and putting a chair against the door handle to lock it.

Though this didn't seem to hold the man back as the entrance was bulging by the tackles and punches. Kyou gasped as he looked around. This was a dead end, "Why did you lock us up here! We're on the top floor and he's going to get in here any minute!"

"Did you have another choice!" she glared at him with exausted eyes, "unless you wanted to be mutilated by him, then I suggest we find a way out of here!"

"LIKE WHAT!" he glared back with the same fierce eyes, "DO YOU SUGGEST WE BREAK DOWN A WALL! And after that! ANOTHER WALL!"

Arisa looked away for a second as her gaze drifted to the windows……. Kyou's eyes grew weak at the sight of what she was thinking of, "Are you crazy! Jumping out of the windows at this floor, do you really want to die this bad!"

"You wanna be demented and in pieces in your coffin! I saw you jump out of the window on your first day of school, this shouldn't be a pro-"

"What the hell are you talking about! Of course it's not a problem to me, but what about YOU!"

Arisa blinked at him a few times. This was the first time he showed concern about her, though he did have a nice glow from the moonlight……, "ugh snap out of it, you hate him, he hates you, end of story…… I'll be fine. Unless you're carrying on your stupid theory of girls, that they're weak," Kyou stared angrily at her. This wasn't the time to argue, and this was definitely NOT the time to delay any more minutes.

A huge 'bang,' from the door was heard as they both turned around to see a sharp point sticking out of the door. The knife was drawn back as they could hear an ear-splitting scream and blood oozing down the door crack. Arisa ran to the windows and pushed with all her might, "they're locked shut!" Seeing that there was no time to get a chair and break through the window, the Yankee punched the window, breaking it into little fragments of glass.

"What the fuck! Your hand!" The male teen stared agrily at her doing but was distracted by the dark figure, standing in front of the wrecked door. He slowly limped towards them in dead silence.

Arisa ignored the pricking sensation of glass biting at her open wound and looked back, "KYOU YOU MORON, WE HAVE TO GO!"

The man was already closing the distance between them fast despite his slow pace.

Slide…… Slide…… click……

"Yankee quick!" swiftly taking hold of her wrist, he jumped out the window, but as he was doing so the man had reappeared behind Arisa, grasping her by her other arm and tried to slice her through the neck. He narrowly missed and plunged the knife down her collarbone causing her to scream in agony as she fell out the window. Kyou had lost control of his position and fell too, though his gaze never left Arisa's.

The rest passed like a blurr…… his fall……… the anguish of pain that shot through his back and shoulders within the impact of the ground……… that Yankee's motionless body, lying in a heap of her own blood a couple of metres from him………. And that noise………

Slide…… slide…… click……

Then total darkness.

"Oi, Kyon-Kyon, wake up!" a soft voice woke him up as well as gentle fingers running through his ruffled hair.

He groaned, feeling the ache in his back subside. Fluttering his eyes mid-open, Kyou found concerned, beautiful eyes boaring into his.

Kyou, all traces of sleepiness gone opened his eyes to their full extent to see what was going on. There they were, in the middle of nowhere, grassy field full of blooming flowers. The sun shone brightly down upon them as there were no clouds flaoting lazily up in the heavens.

"Yankee? What the……. What's going on?" he rubbed his aching head looking at her awkwardly. Her golden hair gleamed in the sunlight giving it a wheat glow as for her loose blouse. He could see a bandage covering her shoulder blade and her dazzling smile.

Before he could react, warm arms pulled him closer as he felt a tender body against his. What the hell was going on? Why didn't he poof into a cat? This…… was……. Was this a feeling of freedom? Arisa…… she smelled so nice……. Her body curved to his perfectly as her warmth…… this was the first time he felt…… normal. Without hesitating, he pulled her closer, though as he opened his gaze with a smile, his eyes became wide with shock.

"Arisa!" he yelled as her figure became limp, leaning into him. Kyou's breath started to become heavier, pulling out the knife from her back and watching her blood drip. Everything around him start to wilt as the sun became dark.

This was all wrong, how did this happen? What was going on? This had to be a dream……. No, a nightmare!

Slide……. Sliiide…….. click……….

Kyou froze, "No, not this, not now! ARISA! ARISA UOTANI!" he yelled at her lifeless body. Everything became dark, everything including Arisa as she faded into the darkness that threatened to engulf him too……

There appeared Tohru, running happily with Yuki out in the distance where Kyou couldn't reach…… Akito's figure came into view as his hands were on his shoulders, shaking him with all his might.

"STUPID CAT, HOW CAN YOU APPROVE FEELINGS FOR THIS…… GANG MEMBER? DIE-You……. Never-…… be-….. longed….. this……… fa-.. mily. Wa-………ke," Akito's agonizing face somehow became warmer and…… more feminine as his hair turned into long blonde locks. Was it him or did Arisa just turn from an Akito to a her?

"MORON WAKE UP! OR ELSE YOU'LL HAVE THE BEATING OF THE CENTURIE!" Arisa shook him by his shoulders. He was starting to freak her out ever since he started to mutter….. or rather scream out her name out while he was asleep. Drooling, and widly kicking around non-stop, that was unlikely of that Kyou.

"ARI-WHA!"

"THAT'S RIGHT CARROT-TOP ARISA WILL KILL YOU IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP!" the previous gang member had ceased shaking him but huffed out in anger. Being alone with a freak and an event she wasn't close to forgetting was starting to get on her nerves not to mention give her an early heart attack.

"Wha? Where am I?" Kyou rubbed his neck from the pain it gave after being shook wildly around.

"My apartment, moron," she sighed, finally happy to have him back to his senses.

The short-tempered cat looked around. He was, after all, in a clean apartment with various belongings to Arisa. Her closet was half-open as he could see her Red Butterfly dress inherited from Kyoko as well as other long skirts. The drawers and desks held either stacks of neatly-piled homework, books or make-up. On the mirror there was a picture of her mother, father and herself being tightly hugged by the two. Then the picture beside it was a picture of a young woman with a Red Butterfly robe, holding a steel pipe gracefully.

"What? That's Kyoko, she gave it to me when I was over at her house one night."

"Ugh," Kyou looked away. His head was giving him a hard time already. He tried bringing his hand up to support his head but a great shock of pain went through his whole arm and shoulder, "agh!"

"Woah, hold your horses," Arisa moved in to put bandages over his cuts from the fall. He flushes and looked away though he noticed that she didn't have any bandages on the collarbone.

"H-hey……. Was that all…….. a dream?" he suddenly asked, unnable to think straight.

"As much as I'd like it to be, nope. I remember it well and clear……. So the school's cursed after all……"

"Where the hell was that principle?" Kyou scoffed, ignoring the pain from the disenfectant.

"I don't know…… but all I know is that……. You remember when he stabbed me? The wound…… it's gone," Kyou turned around as she opened her blouse slightly enough to show her collarbone unscarred. The cat blushed a bit but was still amazed by what happened, "though the cuts I got from punching that window and falling down are still there. And man, does it ever hurt like hell."

"Wait……. But did you feel it when he stabbed you?"

"No shit sherlock, why the hell did I scream for?" Arisa rolled her eyes as she finished securing the bandages.

"Keh, don't have to spit an insult back out. Anyway, how'd you get me here?" A realization and anxiety of how Arisa carried him here came with a pang. Did she see how he transformed into a cat? And when he did transform back, what the hell did she do to put his clothes back on?

"Oh, well, they found us unconscius on school ground at 7 a.m. They were of course worried, and by 'they' I mean the secretary who seemed as shook as us. She tried to send us to the hospital after we woke up but I refused, heh, I don't like hospitals. Then she drove us to my apartment seeing it was the closest, not to mention that school started soon," Arisa shrugged, "there seemed to be a lot of cops around too."

Kyou narrowed his eyes and ignored the 'cops' part, "Did you gave me a piggy back ride iniside to your room?"

"Hell no, you're too fat and heavy. The Secretary had to hold your feet while I had your shoulders," she smirked at the sight of Kyou reddening of anger, "say, what were you dreaming about? All you said was: Arisa, Arisa, ARISAAAA!" she burst into a hysterics of laughter after having mocked him. Kyou steamed of anger and fluster while glaring at her through small slits.

"Shut up, it was nothing……" he muttered, "Besides…… you don't seem too curious about what happened."

"Unless you want to remember those terrifying moments, I suggest we don't go on about it," her words seemed sincere this time as here eyes held a gleam of fright.

"Whatever……."

"Hey Carrot-top?"

"What?"

"Thanks……"

"What? For what!"

"For being there and not leaving me behind……"

"………"

"OU-CHAAAN!" Tohru sped to her missing friend and hugged her tightly not noticing the wincing that came from her.

"H-hey! Tohru, what's up?"

"It's terrible Uo-chan! The principal has been brutely murdered!"

Kyou and Arisa had gone white. They had come back for the after noon classes and arrived at the lunch period.

"Wh-what? How?"

"He was mutilated……" Hana had walked up beside Uotani, "we were afraid for you guys. But you're safe, it's all that matters," she smiled.

Arisa let out a small sigh. The secretary hadn't announced anything about them after all.

"Oh my god! Your hand Uo-chan! What happened! And Kyou! You're bruised everywhere! OH MY GOD! YOU TOO UO-CHAN!" Tohru was on the verge of stress break down as she pulled them both under a tree. The rice ball took out her huge medical box that came out of her school bag and started to take care of their already-taken-care-wounds-that-don't-need-anymore-care-and-woah-where'd-she-get-that-medical-box-from? ahem

"Talking about wounds……" Hana gazed at them with her creepy eyes, "how come both of you haven't showed up for this morning's lessons? Your waves are quite off…… Are you two okay?"

"Couldn't be any better……." Kyou mummured sarcastically looking around for any sight of Yuki.

"Say Hana…… Where DID they find the principal anyway?" Arisa helped herself to new bandages for her hand and bleeding wrist.

The psychic looked at Uo which creeped her out a bit, feeling the static in her body, "He was found in the second floor hallway…… in front of the wrecked door and the classroom with a broken window."

Uotani felt like a huge lump was overwhelming her throat. So it had been the principle's blood and scream…… But…… when the 'thing' had stabbed her…… why was it not there anymore? Wouldn't the principal be alive right now?

Kyou looked at Arisa as she did for him.

What was going on?

A/N: ack, eyes aching away in mah heeaaaad! Hee hee, please review, I'm eternally grateful.