Threatening Threes

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Chapter 8

"Kousuke, why did you come? I told you, I could have called Ayumu. Ayumu's covering for you." Rio shook her head. "The bomb's over there." Rio pointed at a statue in the middle of an intersection. The statue stood about six feet high and had a small bag that clearly didn't belong in its arms.

Kousuke approached it carefully, not wanting to trigger anything.

"Kousuke! What are you doing? Hurry up." Chastised Rio.

"Rio, its just… this note…" Kosuke meekly held out the note for the young girl to see.

"Note? What's this note about? I'm not in a joking mood right now. This better be good."

Rio plucked the note out of his hands and read out loud.

"To disarm bomb number eight, you must use unseen threads to get, use unseen logic to disarm, and use unseen resources to dispose." Rio looked at Kousuke, her glare not forgotten.

"I got some of it, but I'm not sure about the rest."

"Kosuke! You could have just read this off to Ayumu on the phone, why did you have to come? You're so stupid, Kousuke." Rio shoved the note into her pocket and pulled out her phone, "I'll call Ayumu again, he should be able to figure it out."

Kousuke paced around the room, as Rio relayed the message to Ayumu. When Rio started walking while still talking to Ayumu, Kousuke followed. When they reached the front of the statue, Rio leaned down and started pulling on something unseen. Kousuke caught a gleam and followed it up towards the dark pack on the statue.

He looked from Rio to the bag, watching as the bag creeped closer to the edge. As it was about to fall off, Rio stopped and stood up.

"What…" Started Kousuke, but stopped when she shushed him.

Rio stood up on her toes and waved her hand around before it caught on something. She grabbed the invisible string. Rio started to pull on the unseen string, always looking up at the bag. Kousuke held his breath as the bag lifted up off of the statue.

With a gentle flick of her wrist, the bag landed in front of Kousuke. Rio turned and mumbled something into the phone before hanging up.

"Ayumu said that the last part, 'unseen resources to dispose' is unimportant. It's there to throw us off. You wasted your time coming here, come on, lets' go." Rio opened the bag and quickly disarmed the bomb.

When they got to the train station, Rio turned and Kousuke tried to follow her. "Kousuke, you're going to look for the last one. Ayumu and I will look for you there."

"What ever," mumbled Kousuke as he walked off in another direction. Rio puffed out her cheeks and followed him, running to catch up.

They both walked to the train station in silence. After five minutes of silence on the platform, Kousuke's phone rang.

"Yo."

"Hey, it's Ayumu. What were you thinking? Lives are at stake, and you go running around. I don't care what you do. Just don't bring danger to Hiyono. Next time, listen to Rio. Are you on you way to the last bomb yet?"

"Yea."

"Well, don't do any thing stupid this time. Do stupid things on your own time. Well, I've disarmed the seventh one, so I'll disarm the eighth one when Rio calls. You better not mess up." And with that, he hung up.

"Geez, don't people say bye anymore?" Rio stared at Kousuke for a moment before getting up.

"I'll call you after I get the ninth."

"O, and call Ayumu too." Rio nodded and boarded a train.

Soon after, Kousuke's train pulled up.

Rio watched the scenery pass by, noting the lack of foliage. When the train stopped at her station, she went out and dashed up the stairs. She looked around, gaining her bearings before heading out. She stopped in front of a big building.

She sighed to herself and mumbled, "Going to school on a Sunday, this is painful." She did a quick scan of the outside, making sure nothing was off before continuing further.

She thought for a moment about where the bomb could be. She narrowed the areas to about ten spots before she entered the school. Staring at the ceiling, she walked forward. Rio glanced down the deserted hallways. When she reached a door, she opened it and peered in.

The lecture hall. The place where Imazato was murdered, by me. If the hunters were wise, they should put the bomb somewhere significant. Somewhere where it would bring back memories.

At first glance, the room looked spotless. Nothing was out of place. She walked to the top of the room and surveyed the room again. Nothing was strange.

Rio peered into the podium where she hid the dry ice and pulled out a black box.

Before looking at the clue, she opened the box. She inspected the wiring carefully and noticed a slight flaw. She then opened the note. Humming to herself, she got to work disarming the bomb.

"Ayumu, I found it. I can disarm it as soon as you finish with yours."

"Good. I'll disarm it now." In the background, you could head the clicking of keys. "Alright, done. I'll go to the last stop and meet up with Asazuki. We'll see you there." With that, they hung up.

Hearing the ticking of her bomb, Rio severed at wire. When the ticking stopped, Rio left, leaving the bomb for the janitors to find. She proceeded to exit the school, looking around before finally leaving.

She noticed the shadow following her, but decided to act ignorant for the time being.

Notes: Alright. This story is listed as oh-hold in my profile, so don't expect many updates. I need to make it more suspenseful, so this might take a while. Spiral is a smart anime, I need to make the fanfic smart. If anyone has any ideas, please tell me! I will be grateful.

For now, I'm going to be mostly working on my other stories. Please bear with me, I will NOT drop this story completely.

Thank you for reading.

LWB