Chapter 5
It's Thursday which means it dream class day, what's going to happen once Mashiro falls asleep?
Thursday
It's Thursday Mashiro though to himself, which means dream class day.
Even since he'd broken his promise to Kureha in the dream class a few weeks ago Mashiro had avoided the dream class all together, however this week was different, this week he would finally find out if the knight was Sou.
However this goal that had been driving him since his first class seemed pointless now, even if he was proved right what good would it good now. Kureha wouldn't just suddenly start trying to be Mashiro's girlfriend again, even though the knight had caused her pain as well, Sou had become an ally to her and she'd say that Sou attacked because they had originally been enemies. Mashiro wondered what good the information would do him personally, could he graduate now he had irrefutable proof that the knight was Sou. Mashiro didn't think so, for some reason Mashiro believed that he wouldn't be able to graduate until Sou was out of his coma. No until Sou was back in Mashiro's life. This brought Mashiro back to the dream he'd had last night.
Mashiro had managed to fall asleep for a few hours last night however, every time he had closed his eyes he saw Sou lining on the ground in front of him, around 2 am after tossing and turning Mashiro managed to fall asleep but rather than see Sou, he dreamed that he was in the hospital room that he and Kureha had visited the pervious day. Mashiro walked to the bed and saw Sou looking like he had the last time Mashiro had seen him. Dying. Like last time Mashiro reached out for Sou's hand, but before he could get close enough the tubes that were sticking into Sou's arms came out and began to go round his whole body as if constringing it. Sou's eyes opened monetarily and Mashiro saw the fear in them.
"Sou!!" Mashiro screamed. Mashiro tried again to reach out to Sou and remove the tubes that were tightening their on grip the dark haired boy with each passing second. The tubes closest to Mashiro left Sou's body and latched on to him.
"Ah" Mashiro screamed.
The removal of the tubes from on side of his body meant that one of Sou's hands was temporally free. Sou raised his free hand to Mashiro's stomach and dark haired boy pushed the lighter haired boy away to the edge of the room, Mashiro, shocked tried to make his way back to the bed, but he heard a sound that made his blood run cold. The sound that hospital machines made when the person using them died.
Mashiro had suddenly woken up in a cold sweat with tears running down his face. Even after everything that Mashiro had done to Sou, all the times he'd hurt him, Sou had still saved him at the cost of his own life.
It was just a dream Mashiro told himself nothing like that could ever happen. But Sou had saved him in his own way, when had Mashiro skipped school last month Sou had brought him back, not by force but in his own way.
"Are you coming to class today Mashiro-kun?" Mashiro was brought out of his thought by a familiar voice."Yes Sensei" Mashiro said to the woman with long light brown hair and white coat.
Lying down on one of the basement infirmary's 6 beds Mashiro wonderd if going to class really was such a good idea, he wasn't sure he was ready to go back to the dream world, not after all that had happened.
"You look tired today Mashiro-kun" said his teacher
"A lot has happened this week Sensei"
"Are you sure it's not because you're becoming weary of not listening?"
"To who?" asked Mashiro
"To yourself?" replied his teacher"
"?"
"Good night Mashiro- kun"
When Mashiro awoke in the dream class he was wearing the women's uniform and had three beads on a string around his neck, everything was pitch black
"Hello" Mashiro called out, no response came
Whose dream is this Mashiro thought to himself, and where am I
As he continued to walk Mashiro could hear a noise off in the distance Mashiro paused and listened. Clang Clang, no way Mashiro thought that noise is made by only one dreamer and that's the…
Suddenly a shape appeared before Mashiro and the noise got louder.
It can't be
The dream world suddenly became illuminated and standing before Mashiro was the Black Knight.
"Hello Ichijo" said the Black Knight in his metallic voice
"What are you doing here?" Mashiro asked shocked
"What do you mean?"
"You're in coma in the hospital, I just saw you yesterday"
The knight made a sound which Mashiro took to be laughter, figuring that her need to come up with a new strategy, looking around he noticed that he was in a medieval banqueting hall, no he was in the banqueting hall. Last Friday a group of historians had come to the school and set up a workshop for the students in the gym and one of the things that had set up was a model of a banqueting hall with book open to the original and this was it, this was the hall from the book only now it looked like it hadn't been used in years with cobwebs and dust everywhere.
The knight had stopped laughing at this point and had drawn his sword I'm in trouble Mashiro thought.
"How do you feel?" Mashiro asked the knight
"What
are you saying" said the knight
"Even if you woke up this
morning, you couldn't have got discharged so quickly, so you taken
a big risk with your health Sou by coming back to school"
The knight laughed again
"You still think that Sou Mizuashi is the one under this amour don't you Ichijo? You're not as smart as I gave you credit for."
Mashiro eye's widened in surprise, so Sou wasn't the knight, then who was?
"Why did you let me believe that you were Sou then"
"You came to that conclusion on your own, but I can't say that it didn't work to my advantage" responded the knight
"What?"
"Sou was my biggest obstacle to get what I desired as long as you thought that he was the one causing all of your problems both here and in the real world then I could make it that I was the one you wouled became close to rather than him"
Well you succeed in that thought Mashiro, he and Sou were unable to have a normal conversation any more let alone try and be friends
"You want me don't you?" said Mashiro
"Of course"
"Why?"
"A body that is half male and half female is too good to pass up"
Mashrio realised that the Knight lusted after him then anther darker thought occurred to him
"You were the one who pushed Sou off the roof weren't you?" Mashiro asked the knight
"Very good"
"By why would you do some thing so extreme?"
"Aside from keeping you from me I found Sou very annoying and stupid, he was supposed to hate you and yet he brought you food, when you hadn't eaten all day and he can't keep his eyes off you, a least that's what I see every day at school, its pathetic.He fools himself into believing he doesn't love you when it's obvious to the world he does" the knight replied.
"You Basted" said Mashiro
"It doesn't matter what you think, not any more I just want your body not your heart"
"If Sou..."
"If Sou what? Said the knight If Sou dies" Mashiro relied back in horror at the knight's phosphatic nature
"It won't matter if he does, his death certificate will say he died from injuries sustained during an attempted suicide"
"I saw you, up on the roof that night" Mashiro replied
"You saw a shape and even though it was a person you'll never be able to figure who I am, every one in the dormitory was already in their room, except for Sou and me that is"
The knight made that laughing sound again, it was making Mashiro skin crawl and was he saying about Sou, Sou no longer loved him. Sou had never loved him he only lusted after Mashiro like the Black Knight, But…
The Knight held his sword over Mashiro's head, and Mashiro knew that he didn't have a chance but he wasn't giving up that easily.
"I'll find you, don't you worry about that" he said as the knight cut thorough him breaking all his beads.
Mashiro woke and found the nurse gone, so he left the basement and when back to his room and tried to sleep.
At doctor placed a heater in the room of the dark haired boy, thinking that a constant source of heat would warm the body. The doctor was wrong.
So Sou wasn't the knight after all, then who is? Just 2 chapters left. Part 6 will be half intense and half fluffy.
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