Haunted

Third Haunting:

All his struggles did him no good, he could feel someone's breath by his neck, the red eyes were so close to him that he could feel its heat, only it wasn't heat, it was an ice cold chill that emitted from it. I'm getting sick of this...it smells like a swamp, with dead people...a lot of dead people... The next thing Dark knew something had slashed at his stomach, he yelled out in pain and rolled away, I can move again! He looked up and the eyes were gone but the smell lingered, Dark looked at his stomach, there was a claw mark across it and it was bleeding. Just then, his alarm beeped him again.

"Holy shit!" Dark ran into the bathroom and wrapped bandages around his stomach clumsily. He then changed and ran out with his bag, but he changed his mind, he ran in and grabbed With and ran out again, "I can't just leave you in there with that freaky thing."

With looked relieved and snuggled Dark. They didn't catch up to Krad until three blocks later.

"Krad!"

Krad turned around to see Dark walking towards him, "Oh, Dark. Morning, why's With with you?"

Dark looked surprised, "Err...With! What are you doing here?"

"Kyu?" With looked at him funny.

"Don't give me that look, I'm not an idiot."

"Kyu, kyu?"

They didn't talk much on the way to school, they took their seats in class and tried their best to listen to the teacher without much avail.

"Dark, what did Milton write?"

Dark looked up, "Uhhh...the bible?"

The class laughed as the teacher shook his head, "Last chance."

Krad shook his head as Dark looked back at him for help, he whispered, "He wrote "Paradise lost."

Dark didn't hear it clearly, but he caught the words "paradise" and "lost" so he just made something up, "He wrote "Paradise Lost" and when his wife died he wrote "Paradise regained?"

The teacher slapped his head and sighed, "At least you got the book name right...he wrote "Paradise Lost" Dark Mousy, can you at least try to pay attention in class?"

"What?"

"Are you listening? What did I just say?"

"What, you weren't listening either?"

The class giggled, the teacher didn't look happy, he walked up to the board and wrote a big letter A on it, "See Dark? A stands for attention." The class laughed, and Dark just grunted. The teacher looked at Krad, "Are you alright, you look exhausted Krad."

Krad looked up, his eyes half closed, "Yea, I'm fine."

Suddenly the principle bursted through the door, "I'm sorry to interrupt your lesson on... the letter A...I'm sure that's got to be quite interesting...but there's an emergency, come outside quickly, it's one of your students!"

The class rushed outside, led by the principle to the side of the school which was particularly narrow, Dark heard a lot of gasps and pushed his way up front to join Krad, who was gawking at the wall, he looked up and gawked himself, it was like a painting on a wall...a painting painted by a student's blood. The police were everywhere, one of the inspectors walked up to the principle, and whispered something, Dark overheard it, "It seems like the boy was suspended onto the wall, his feet wouldn't be able to reach the ground, and it's almost as though someone was able to blow him up from the inside. The killer left a sign, on the left over there."

Dark felt disgusted, he tugged Krad's sleeve and they made their way to a less crowded area to the left, "He was the kid that tried to take your bag yesterday, it's Hiroki."

Dark forced himself to look up, he saw the sign that the inspector told the principle about and he almost fainted, the sign by the left were two big blood red eyes with a mouth under it smiling, its sharp teeth almost gleamed. Dark kept on staring in horror as the eyes seemed to watch him, smiling at him, Krad caught Dark's gaze and looked up, the red eyes seemed to change the direction of its gaze to Krad, the blonde stared at the eyes then turned to his friend, eyes wide. He wasn't seeing things after all, last time he saw the red eyes watch them from the courtyard, Dark's suspicions on someone stalking them, the two of them just remained there, staring.

Dark tugged Krad's sleeve again, the blonde looked at his friend, "This is freaky...first the stalker thing, then this..."

Krad couldn't help but agree, "Yea..."

They looked at the teacher was still in the state of shock, Krad looked at Dark and then back to the scene, the police were trying to calm down the crying students while the principle told them to go back inside. Once in the class, the teacher calmed himself and just told the class, "Go have an early lunch."

The friends walked up quietly up the stairs with With on Dark's head. Violet eyes looked at the blonde, "I don't suppose you have an extra lunch again...do you Krad?"

Golden eyes looked at him, "Ah shit, I forgot my lunch too."

Dark stared at Krad in disbelief, he had been the most organized person Dark had ever met and now it seemed that his forgetfulness was contagious, "Stop staring at me like that."

"B-but, you, Krad."

"Yes, me, Krad, and what about Krad?"

"This is like a once in a lifetime thing! You forgot your lunch!"

Krad fake gasped, "Oh my god! No really!? Look! Empty hands! Now what? An obento suddenly pops out of nowhere!?"

Dark huffed, "I mean this just isn't like you. You aren't the one to forget."

The blonde stifled a sigh, "I know, I know, I didn't get much sleep last night, happy?"

The two reached the empty roof, Krad leaned against the railing, "Figures, those two are still in class."

The blonde looked down the side wall and suddenly saw a figure emerge from the bloody was and smiled at him with the same eyes and smiles by the blood. Krad's eyes widened and he rubbed them thinking that he was seeing things from lack of sleep, when he opened them again, it was gone. I'm seeing things, I'm just being delusional.

"Krad? What's wrong with you?

"No, it's nothing. Looks like it's going to start raining anytime now."

"Aa..."

"Dark-kun! Krad-kun! You're early!"

They turned around and saw Daisuke waving at them, the first thing that Dark said to Daisuke was, "Do you have a spare lunch!?"

Krad sighed, "What a way to greet a friend Dark Mousy."

Dark pouted, "But I'm hungry!"

"You always are!"

"That's not...okay so it is true, but it's not my fault!"

"Then who's fault is it?"

"Err...it's....eh?"

An obento was shoved into his face, Dark rubbed his nose, he looked to see Daisuke handing him his lunch box. The redhead smiled, "It looks like the both of you don't have lunches, here, Hiwatari-kun agreed to share his."

Dark accepted the lunch box happily, "Thank you!" He plopped down beside Krad and snapped the chopsticks, "ITADIKIMASU!" He was about to chow down when he looked at Krad, he held some food in front of Krad's face as though feeding him, golden eyes looked at him in confusion, "Here, you've got to hungry too! You can't deny it Krad Hikari, I heard you stomach growl!"

Krad snorted and ate the food that Dark held out for him, "I'm not that hungry."

"That's what you say every time! I bet you and your stomach don't think the same way! You can't deny your stomach!"

The blonde just looked at Dark, before getting fed more food, "You don't have to feed me, you know, I can use chopsticks."

The dark haired boy grinned, "But if I let you eat on your own, you won't eat."

"He just wants to feed you like that. I bet he's been looking for an excuse for awhile now just to do that." Satoshi stated as he handed the rest of his lunch to Daisuke.

The older boys blushed, but instead of retorting, Dark whined, "Dai-chan! He's, he's, err...he's being himself!"

Krad just remained silent, Daisuke tried to be a peacemaker and calm everyone down. There's something weird going on around here...He looked at the obento, half of it was gone, "Hey, Dark, the rest is yours."

Dark looked at the obento, "Well what do you know!" He gobbled the rest down greedily and licked his lips.

Krad looked around seeing nothing out of place on the roof, but when his eyes saw that the roof door was opened and something red was behind it, he got up and ran towards it, "Stay there, I just need to check something!"

"O-oi! Krad!"

Krad ran onto the stairway and looked around, he smelled something familiar to a corpse and a swamp, he backed up a little closer to the door to the roof, then suddenly red eyes appeared in front of him. The blonde taken by surprise stumbled backwards through the door and onto the roof again, once he was on the roof, the door slammed shut. Golden eyes stared at the door for sometime, he heard someone run up to him and shook him, "Hey Krad! What the hell just happened!? Hello?"

Krad got up and ran to the side of the roof to where he first saw the bloody site, he could see the red eyes again, and the grin grew even wider, he yelled at it, "You bastard!"

Dark walked beside Krad, "What's wrong?"

Just then the railings crumbled and fell down the side of the building almost taking Krad with it down three or four stories but Dark grabbed his friend's hair and pulled him back. "Holy shit! You almost died just then!"

"No shit Sherlock, next time you decide to save me, don't save me by pulling my hair. It hurts."

Dark grinned, "It was either that or your pants, I missed your shirt."

Krad blushed, "...thanks...I think..." he looked at the roof door, it was closed, and then they heard a click, "Shit! We're locked out on the roof!"

Daisuke stared at them, forgotten in the background, "What?"

"We-are-locked-outside-when-it-might-rain-any-second-now-on-the-roof-until- someone-comes-and-opens-the-door."

Dark gawked at the door, he ran to it and started pounding on the door and tugging on the doorknob, "This is sooo not funny!"

"Kyu?"

Dark looked at the rabbit, "Oh yea...With, you're here too."

"Kyu, kyu!"

Suddenly, Dark clutched his stomach in pain, he leaned against the door as Krad ran up to him, "Dark?"

The blood started to seep through the uniform, "Shit! Dark, take off your shirt!"

"Excuse me!?"

"Take it off so I can see your wound, baka!"

Dark obeyed, Krad started unwrapping the clumsily applied bandage, he ripped Dark's uniform and used it to stop the bleeding, he didn't ask about the claw marks, he reapplied the bandages along with an extra layer from the torn up uniform. "You and your clumsy first aid skills."

Dark huffed, Krad took off his own shirt revealing a loose sleeveless that showed his part of his stomach and handed it to Dark, "It's going to get infected if you leave it out in the cold."

Dark looked at his friend, "And YOU aren't going to get sick in the rain without a shirt?"

"I've been through worse."

Dark put on Krad's shirt while Krad sat back down and thought about what to do. He looked up at the darkened sky, "Looks like we're going to have to wait this out."

Satoshi made no reaction, Daisuke sighed, and Dark whined, "But, but, but...we have to skip class...oh sweet! We get to skip class!"

"Don't get all that excited, you're going to agitate that wound, anyways, we might have to wait in the rain, AND there's nothing to do."

"Damn..."

Soon everyone fell asleep; Dark was resting his head on Krad's shoulder while Krad rested his head on Dark's head. Daisuke's head was on Satoshi's lap while the blue haired boy just slept with his head down. Suddenly, there were raindrops falling which woke Krad up and that made Dark wake up. "Huh? What Krad?" He asked as he rubbed his eyes before resting his head on Krad's shoulder again.

Krad held out a hand, "It's raining..."

As soon as he finished saying that, it went from droplets to heavy rain, "Nice curse Krad, nice curse..."

"Aa..."

Satoshi and Daisuke woke up and looked around, Daisuke looked around, "It's raining pretty hard...the roof doesn't have enough covers...we're all going to be soaking wet."

Dark and Krad looked at Daisuke, "Check that, half of us are already dripping wet, and we're going to be next."

Satoshi grunted, "Hn, I couldn't care less if the love birds are wet, I'm not getting wet."

He grabbed an umbrella from his bag which he had brought with him and opened it up so that it would cover both him and the redhead.

Dark sat up and whined, "That's not fair! Dai-chan! He's just going to let me and Krad stay out in this pouring rain and die from hypothermia! I'm injured, and Krad's not even wearing a uniform! WE should get the umbrella!"

"Fat chance, I'm the one with the umbrella, and there's only enough to fit two people."

Krad glared at the blue haired boy, "You're pretty selfish aren't you? Only think about yourself and Niwa, no one else, and you call us lovebirds."

Dark cheered, "Yea! Tell the little creepy bastard off!"

The two younger boys blushed under the blue umbrella, Krad sighed and got up, "I'm not telling anyone off, I'm simply stating the truth."

The dark haired boy just nodded, "Err....yea...right..."

The blonde looked up, "It hasn't rained in a long time...it feels pretty nice..."

Dark closed his eyes, "Yea...it does."

There were puddles forming on the roof, there was a particularly large one by the other two, Dark decided to take revenge, he got up and ran towards them and jumped onto the puddle, splashing both Daisuke and Satoshi, causing them to both become dripping wet.

Daisuke whined, "Mou...Dark-kun!"

Dark grinned, "Now none of us need umbrellas. Isn't that right every so creepy boy?"

Satoshi glared at Dark, he made him and Daisuke wet, he shall die...eventually. Dark just stuck his tongue out at the boy. Krad laughed a bit at Dark's childish display, "Looks like we're all wet and stuck in the rain eh?"

Daisuke flashed a warm smile, "Yea...looks like it."

The redhead was about to put the umbrella away but decided that he should dry it off first, he shook it and all the water flew off...on to Dark, the older boy's eye twitched as he said in a calm matter with a crooked smile, "Dai-chan...I'm going to kill you..."

Daisuke backed up cautiously, and laughed nervously, "G-gomen Dark-kun..."

Suddenly Dark started chasing after Daisuke, "Get back here you!"

The poor redhead ran for his dear life, "I'm sorry! You're already wet! I don't want to die! Hiwatari-kun!"

While Dark was chasing Daisuke around on the roof top, Satoshi stuck out a leg and Dark went splat, he did a face first dive; he sat up crisscrossed and pouted, "That's not fair! That's two on one! Krad! This isn't a fair fight!"

Krad just watched Dark whine while using Satoshi's head as an armrest, Satoshi glared at Krad but the glares went by unnoticed. Daisuke walked towards Dark, "Daijoubu? Dark-kun?"

Dark grabbed Daisuke into a headlock, "HA! Got you!"

The redhead struggled, "Ah! Dark-kun, let me go!"

Krad sighed, his arm not leaving its wet armrest, "So immature Dark, you should know better."

Dark just grinned, "No way! He got me more wet then I needed to be, he's going to PAY! You can't escape Dai-chan, after being caught in headlocks by Krad for all these years I picked up a thing or two."

Daisuke struggled some more, "Gah! Let me go!"

"It's still raining, you can't possibly get anymore wet then you already are." Krad noted.

"You just want me to let Dai-chan go don't you!?" For some reason or another, Dark felt jealous that Krad was taking the trapped redhead's side instead of his.

Krad shrugged, "I personally couldn't care less whether you let Satoshi's lover go or not, just try not to make him unconscious in anyway." He looked down at Satoshi with a smirk. Satoshi tried to blush and glare at the same time but the flush made the glare less threatening.

The redhead stopped struggling, "We heard what happened to Hiroki-kun."

Dark let go of Daisuke and sat in the rain, "They think he blew up from the inside."

A hand laid on Dark's head, violet eyes looked up to meet golden, Dark felt the jealousy disappear as Krad sat down back to back with him.

"How's that possible?" Daisuke asked.

Dark snorted, "You make me sound so smart, how would I know? The only way I can think of is someone stuck a bomb in him. You should be asking Krad about these things not me."

Daisuke looked at Krad who looked up at the crying sky, "I doubt he spontaneously combusted, usually it's only old people who do that, and it never leaves a mark except a little burnt mark on where they last were. There's also alchemy but that's illegal and I personally think it's fake. I'm sorry to say I can't come up with an answer."

Dark turned around and petted Krad understandingly, "Its okay, its better if you don't think, like me! If you think too much your brain might explode one day."

The blonde laughed, suddenly Satoshi cleared his throat, the three of them looked at him and he put his hand on the doorknob and it twisted, the door swung open. Krad looked at him, "How long have you known?"

"Quite some time now but I didn't want to interrupt your little conversation."

Dark spazzed, "What!? You knew and you didn't tell us!? You really want us all to die from the rain don't you!?"

Satoshi shrugged, "If you die, there'd just be one less idiot in the world, better you then me."

Krad got up, "Oh well, now that we can actually get off the roof, we can go home and change into dry clothes."

Dark cheered, "Woot! Dry clothes!"

The blonde headed for the door, "Come on then, we're all going home, get off your butt and let's go. The two of them already left."

"Hai, hai."

The two of them grabbed their bags and walked out the backdoor incase the teacher was in front looking for them, they past the site of the murder, most of the blood had washed away, but the first few layers stayed on and the eyes and the mouth didn't get washed off either. They got goosebumps walking past the blood; the eyes seemed to watch them as they walked by, the mouth always flashing its fangs. They walked past and behind the, the shadowy figure came off the wall and watched them walk away, smiling its predatory smile.

Krad stopped at his house and waved goodbye to the rabbit and Dark, he was really glad that it was Friday and that there'd be no school the next day, just thinking about school gave him shivers. He started to wonder how Dark got scratch marks on his stomach, but first, he needed dry clothes.

Dark got home, he changed, he gave With his strawberries, then he grabbed some leftover pizza and a chocolate bar and went to his computer to look things up. He found a link to a site about the paranormal, who knows, this might actually be helpful. He was looking through it when he saw a picture of the red eyes, he clicked on it and waited anxiously for it to load, but when it was about to show up, the power went out. What the?

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Nya I'm making this fanfic longer and longer, it started out being a two chapter thing but now it seems like it's going to go on for quite a few more chapters nya Sorry this took a bit longer to update, I was typing up my other fanfics and I didn't want to think too much either, I don't want my brain to blow up nya Please R&R!