Izuru pushed open the door to the music room. It wasn't his first time attending a meeting, so he wasn't surprised by the metal-inspired decorations. Towards the center of the room, there was the leader of the club alongside his drum-set. Ibuki sat on a stool with her guitar was propped up on a nearby stand. In one hand, she held a black waistcoat with eccentric and wild embroideries and additions in white and gold. In the other, she held a thread and needle, sewing the decorations into place.

She looked up, grinning at him, "Hey there, bandmate!" She held up the coat, "Ibuki's just workin' on your outfit for our debut!"

He shrugged, "So long as it's comfortable, I'll wear it."

She nodded, "Heh-heh, as expected of Zu-Zu."

"How goes the newest song?"

The rocker looked off to the side, "E-Eh…"

The ravenet nodded as he adjusted the drum-set, "Still dealing with the block then?"

Ibuki sighed, "Y-Yeah…" She groaned, "Ugh! Ibuki's mind just won't chug along!" She dug her knuckles into the sides of her temples, "I'm just stalled out in the middle of a highway of procrastination~!"

"Hmm."

"It's settled! We must act upon our youth!"

Izuru's eyes narrowed, "Okay…"

"We need… an adventure." She tapped her fingers against her temple, teetering her head, "Hmm… Where oh where can we go?"

The ravenet blinked, "The tunnels…"

She leaned forward, "Ooh, ooh, what-what?"

"There are tunnels that run underneath the entire campus. Some are in use; others are abandoned." He crossed his arms, shrugging, "It just so happens that one of those tunnels has an access point near my dorm."

"Have you ever been in them?"

Izuru rubbed his chin, shrugging, "The abandoned tunnels are a mystery to me." He turned to her, "I had plans to explore them but hadn't gotten around to it."

Ibuki rubbed her chin, cooing, "Ooh, mysterious…" She blinked, turning to him, "You don't plan on offing Ibuki down there, do you?"

"Of course, not." His mind rolled, "That would be an inconvenience for both of us…"

She hummed, "Hm…" She nodded, "Okay, Ibuki trusts you enough to explore these tunnels with you!"

"We'll need a light…"

The rocker grinned as she pulled her guitar from its stand, strumming it and shooting a small burst of flame. "Don't worry, Ibuki has her flamethrower!"

The pair made their way through the overgrown forest, coming to a stop at stone trapdoor. It laid underneath a few fallen branches and a vine or two needed to be ripped from its crevices. Ibuki helped with a grin, but that expression left when she spotted the chain that sealed the doors shut with a lock. "Darn." She rubbed her chin, "How will we get past our first obstacle?"

Izuru reached down, gripping the chains. The metal creaked and whined before the chain snapped as he ripped it from the doors' handles.

Her eyes widened as she cheered, "Woah! Y-You're crazy strong, huh!?" She laughed, "What a blast to my expectations!" She tilted her head, "You look so thin, though…"

He rubbed his hands, "Appearances can be deceiving." He then leaned over to pulled the doors open and revealed a darkness below. He coughed at the dust in the air, eyeing the cobwebs in the corners of the entry way. "Mind your hair."

The rocker strummed her guitar, bringing another small burst of flame from its nozzle, "Gotcha."

Izuru pulled a flashlight from his blazer before leaping into the dark. A beam of light shown from the small device as he looked down either side of the tunnel. Down the left, he saw a damaged pathway with metal beams fallen. The beams were wedged across the tunnels with wires and lights swinging from the ceiling.

He noticed the blast markings of an explosion on a few panels of the walls, "I remember this hallway…" He looked back up at the trapdoor, "Escape was closer than I thought…" He blinked when he saw Ibuki leap in. His hand quickly let go of his flashlight, catching her in his arms.

She smiled at him, "Heh-heh, impromptu trust fall." She tapped his shoulder as she left his arms and aimed her guitar down one end of the tunnel.

The ravenet's eyes couldn't help but travel to the helm of her skirt, "Harakuji-style…" He coughed, shaking his head, as he made his way to pick up the flashlight.

A strum of the guitar's strings and a quiet burst of flame lit the other end of the tunnel, "What is this place?"

He crouched over the flashlight before his eyes traveled to a burnt patient's bracelet on the ground. His hands traveled to pick up both, bringing the light to the remnants of the bracelet.

Ibuki's voice pulled him from his thoughts, "What ya find?"

Izuru Kamukura was all that was left, "Nothing." He dropped the burnt bracelet to the side, point his flashlight down the relatively clear side of the tunnel. "There are more interesting things to attend to."

"What was this place used for?"

"What indeed…"

Ibuki looked around, "This is like a horror movie." She gestured to herself, "Heh, Ibuki can promise you that I can panic more than any of the cast members would!"

"I doubt we'd come across anything down here."

She grinned excitedly, "Well, lemme at 'em! Let's plunge into the unknown!" She jogged ahead before slowly to look over her shoulder, "Oops." She gestured for to walk ahead of her, "I'll let you lead the way here! From now on, you're the squad leader!" She saluted him, "Kamukura Izuru's Exploration Team will scour the entire world searching for mysteries!"

His eyes traveled to notice the shake of her knees, "Brave words… You're creeped out by this, huh…?" He shrugged, "Well… this was my home once… I suppose…" He stepped ahead of her, "I'll lead the way."

She pumped her fist, "Team Izuru! Away!"

Izuru marched on, lazily pumping his own fist, "Away…"

"You gotta have more energy!"

He replied simply, "No."

Ibuki chuckled, "We'll get there."

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AN: A Mini-Chapter. Sorry for the short update but a lot of shit is going sideways, currently. One of them is that my glasses are very broken and that my vision is must worse than I remember. Reading my screen has never been harder. So, quick update and we will have a full chapter next month.

This chapter itself was something I thought of but couldn't quite lengthen into a full chapter. I was actually hoping to do this sort of stuff between arcs and connected chapters. Well, 'Arc' is a bit much but the concept remains the same. They were kinda planned to be mini-sodes of the brothers individually interacting with everyone. A way of having my cake and eating it too.

Well, thank you for reading and criticize away!