Chapter 32: Cover Up

When Bo and Rei entered the storage room, she grabs him by the throat, slams him and raised him up against the wall. Rei panicked as he struggled against the angry blond. Fear consumed him as Bo stared at him with murderous content.

"Please...put me down…" Rei was gasping for air but Bo didn't care.

"What did you see?" she said with a dark aura around her.

"I'll tell you...just...put me down!" he said shaking. Bo lowers him to the ground and let's go but pushes him against the wall.

"Spill Ryugazaki." she said threateningly.

"I was walking through the park after going grocery shopping. As I was passing the park fountain I saw you Two standing there with those serious looks you guys have been looking for a while. I was going to go up to you guys but then that guy appeared in front of you guys. Then...I saw you two...fighting like in the movies...using water and...I saw Gou…" Rei goes silent as remembers and starts to shake. "Then after you guys left some guy in a hoodie came and did something to the body-"

"Guy? What guy?" Bo cuts him off.

"Some guy in a hoodie pours some strange liquid in the dead body and the body...just turns into dust! He obliterates that ice thing Gou made with one punch and just walks away."

"Did you see his face? Or any jewelry, specific brand of clothing, anything?" Bo asked. Rei shakes his head and starts to cry.

"Please I won't tell anyone! I swear so please don't beat me up!" he begs.

"You better not tell anyone Ryugazaki. This is serious. If you tell, we all will go down. Since you know, I'll show you what we are. After school at my house. Don't be late." she said, writing down her address. She shoves it into his pockets and leaves the storage room with such force. Then she runs to an empty hallway and breathes heavily.

'I didn't know I had that much strength in me. How?' she thought, looking down at her hands. Suddenly her head started to hurt. She slid down to the ground, holding her head in pain.

….

"Hey Bo-chan!" Nagisa came by after school to Bo's classroom. "Where's Gou today? Is she sick?"

"Yeah I think so." she said in a hurry.

"Makoto's worried since she hasn't called him in days. Can you tell her that her prince is waiting?" he smiled.

"Yeah I will. Later." she left hurriedly going past her boyfriend and Makoto.

She got home and threw her stuff onto the floor and ran to her room.

"Gou, are you okay?" she said worriedly. Gou laid on the futon in a trance as she was looking up at the ceiling. Bo sits next to her and holds her hand. "Gou…"

"I...didn't mean to do it..."Gou whispers. "I...was just protecting myself...I wanted to hurt him because he hurt you but...I...I froze but still...wanted to...I didn't mean to get that far…"

"Gou listen to me." Bo said strictly and forces her to look at her. "You did nothing wrong. You did whatever you had to do to protect yourself and me. You saved both of us from harm."

"It doesn't give me the right to kill a man. A human being. A disgusting, horrid, semi-human being." Gou said grimly. "The police will find me. There will be evidence that he was trying to harm us and that I killed him."

"About that…" Bo slowly started to talk. "Someone got rid of the body." Gou got up without taking her eyes off her friend.

"Who? How?"

"...Rei was there that night." Bo confessed. "He saw everything, before and after."

"He...saw...that!?" tears leaked out of Gou's eyes.

"After we left, he saw someone in a hoodie pouring some kind of liquid on Shank's body and disintegrated into dust and destroyed all the evidence that was there."

"Why?"

"To get rid of anything that can connect us and to him. He's behind this, that's a start on who set this all up from your curse till now."

"Can it be someone we know?"

"I don't know but at least we have some kind of lead on this guy." said Bo. Then she grabs her head and cringes in pain.

"Hey are you okay!" Gou became worried as she saw her go into a bowing position.

"I'm...fine. It's just a headache." Bo smiled trying not to worry her friend. Then the doorbell rang throughout the house, alarming the girls. Bo wobbles a bit as she gets up and goes to go get the door. When she came back, Rei was behind her with a worried look on his face.

"Gou! Are you okay?! Are you hurt?" Rei quickly got on his knees and hugged her.

"Rei! What are you doing here?"

"Bo invited me. She said we were going to talk." he said letting go of her. Gou looked at Bo worried but Bo nods her head.

"He saw us last night so now he has to understand what position we are in." Bo explains.

"He might get hurt."

"Or help us." Bo fought back making Gou quiet. "Let's talk." Bo sat down next to Rei and began to tell him from the beginning of their curse.

…..

"So let me get this straight: someone cursed Gou at the beginning of the school year and your family was cursed for centuries. So now you two are in danger because whoever cursed Gou, is trying to kill you so you guys are in danger all the time." he explains and the girls nodded.

"We know that there's someone in a hoodie is going around trying to get us killed. That was the person that you witnessed. All we need to know who that is and get him to reverse this curse." said Bo.

"What makes you so sure he's the one that cursed the two of you?" Rei questioned.

"It's obvious that this curse thing isn't working since he has probably seen that we are enjoying ourselves with it. To make us miserable or dead, he is sending monsters to kill us." Bo answered.

"That is plausible. You're not as dumb as I thought Watanabe." said Rei.

"The hell you just say to me!?" Bo said angrily.

"I'm sorry!" he quickly got on his knees. Then Gou started to laugh.

"I miss these kinds of conversations between you two." she smiled. Bo and Rei smiled as they watch their friend smile again. For hours, the three of them hung out in that room joking, arguing, and laughing until dark.

"Has everyone gone home?" Bo's aunt asked. Bo nodded and sat at the dinner table.

"Has anything turned up yet?" Bo asked.

"Nope. Not even a trace of what happened at the park." she answered with a stern look on her face. "Is Gou going to be okay? I mean, she killed someone. I doubt she's going be alright after that incident."

"Gou will never be the same." Bo said with dread. "Whoever is doing this to us will not see the light of day when my fist meet their face." she cracked her knuckles. "I'm not hungry. I'm going to bed." she abruptly got up and went to her room.

When she slammed the door her head began to hurt again. She sunk to the ground, holding her head. It felt like she was getting hit with a bat or pan over and over again. When it stopped she pulled herself off the ground feeling like she was made of lead. She looked at herself in the mirror and saw that her eyes were snake-like and there was small fine on both sides of her head. Her teeth were sharp like a shark. She became startled and looked away. When she looked back everything was back to normal.

"What the hell is happening to me?" She whispered to herself not looking away from the mirror.