Chapter 2: Nami and Ash's First meeting
Notes: Begins in Ash's point of view
I was standing next to Mika, we were looking up at the old tower in Area 5, about a month ago there had been a suicide incident that was supposed to happen here, but Mika and her news story had prevented it from happening, or at least that was what the civilians thought. "So Mika why are we here?" I knew Mika very well, she wouldn't take me somewhere unless she had a good reason for it, and plus she was the one who was in charge of finding stories. "Well I was supposed to meet Nami here...and well she said she would only talk to me because of you..." I groaned, I couldn't believe she dragged me out of the food area just for this, and plus this place was way to cold to me, I just didn't want to be here anymore..."uh yea okay...well where is this Nami girl, cause I was in the middle of eating when you interrupted." Mika was trying to say something when there was barking and the next thing I knew there was dog sitting on top of me. "ow..." Mika was standing next to me trying her hardest not to laugh, but I could tell she was just about to fall when a young red haired girl walked up, she looked a lot like someone I had seen before...that girl from the hospital, the one who was with Atsuki. "Melody...off..." The girl who must have been Nami, pulled the dog off of me, as Mika helped me up. "So you are Nami...well I'm here so what did you want from me?"I could tell that this girl was not normal, she felt so familiar and yet she felt so different. She reminded me of someone I had seen before, and also she reminded me of Atsuki, she seemed to have the same power as he did, or at least she felt like, that presence he had felt when he was leaving the hospital. 'A..are you like me...' those words were spoken in his mind, but she seemed to nod like she had heard them, which made him nervous as he backed off moving towards Mika. "So is he going to school with you Mika?" Nami was petting Melody trying to keep her from jumping on me again, for some reason Melody seemed to be looking at me like she looked at Atsuki. "Um that's what Atsuki said...at least until they found out about where his parents are...or what they are going to do with him..." Mika must have been talking to Atsuki about me again when I wasn't listening, but why would Atsuki tell her and not tell me, but then again I remember that I heard them talking about giving me my school uniform tomorrow. "Wow that will be nice if you see my sister Yayoi...don't worry about her, she'll be nice...she just a few issues..." With that Nami turned and ran off, the dog following her after one last sniff at me. "Um what was with that dog...?" I was so unsure of what was going on, but Mika was looking at me as if I was crazy. "Oh she's Yayoi's little sister, and well the dog likes to cling to Nami since she can talk to animals...we both seem to have the ability to be put it danger..." Mika took my hand keeping me close to her as we walked back towards the hospital, she was cautious and she was looking for someone, it was as if someone was going to attack them from around the corner. "Uh Mika...can I ask you something..." But before I took to her, a man in a black hoodie came running around the corner, he didn't seem to notice us when he ran straight for Mika. I noticed her flinch, and saw the silver knife blade in his hand. "Mika!" I moved faster than I thought I could pushing her down, my eye had started to hurt when he showed up, but I couldn't understand why. All I was focusing on was the blade and the blood that was dripping onto the ground. There was a dark aura around him, and his eyes were empty as if something was eating him alive. 'Who are you...' There was a hoarse, scratchy voice in my head, that made my head hurt, and there was so many things that made me feel a bit painful, and plus I wanted to run off from this. 'I am your worst nightmare...' My eye hurt and something warm fell down my face, and the next thing I knew he was gone and I was sitting on the ground with Mika dabbing my eye. " Mika what happened? Why is Atsuki here?" I looked up seeing Atsuki standing over me...looking at the area where the man's shirt was laying on the floor. "Let's just get you back to the hospital and we will talk there...and Mika you should go back to work, they are gonna be worried about you..." Atsuki helped me up off the ground, dragging me back to the hospital, and even he had to take me kicking and screaming, he would have made me go anyway.
!.! The hospital{Atsuki's Pov}!.!
I brought Ash back to the hospital putting him down on the bed, checking his eye, the eye was dark in one corner, his pupil seemed to be changing black for some reason. 'Hm I should get Natsuki to look at that...' The whole time I was looking at his eye, he was glaring at the wall in the right corner of his room, but when I turned and looked there was really nothing there. "What happened out there?" Ash just growled and leaned back as if he was ignoring me, but then he spoke. "Some guy showed up...I saw a shinen..whatever they are...and well then you showed up...I musta blacked out..." He seemed to be comtemplating whether he had actually blacked out or something had happened. "Well let's get you set up with your school uniform and then you are coming home...I have to get all your stuff unpacked anyway...and you can help..." I moved towards the door where Natsuki was coming on with a box and a small communicator thing. "So you have his uniform..." I was not about to let him get off the bed, he had already had enough action today, all he needed to do was go home and rest. "Yes and the rest of his stuff had been moved to your house...we can't have him living by himself anymore..." She handed the box over to me, as she turned and handed the communicator to Atsuki as well. "Give this to him when he leaves in the morning..." She was looking at him, and I realized that he was out of bed and was walking towards the door. "Well we will see you later..." I walked out the door after him, holding his box of stuff to keep it from falling apart, and making a mess. The two of us walked out to the car, as I opened the door placing the box in the back of the car, as I helped him climb into the car. "You know I will help you...if you really need it..." The boy just turned and looked away from me, it was like he didnt' even want to talk to me, so I just sighed and drove towards my house.
!.! Inside the house{Ash's pov}!.!
"Come on in..." Atsuki looked at me like at me,and waved me in, I couldn't believe they had move me to some other person's house. I hated this, I didn't want to be here I wanted to be at home. "so where am I sleeping?" I didnt' want to stay and talk with him, it had been a long night and all I wanted to do was fall asleep now. "You are sleeping in the room to the right...do you want to unpack your stuff tonight or wait..." Atsuki seemed to be asking me if I wanted to talk to him more, but no I really didn't so I just shook my head and walked into the room shutting the door behind me. I heard Atsuki walked into this room, and he seemed to have fallen asleep, because the whole house was quiet. I laid down and tried to sleep, but the images from what had happened earlier weren't letting me sleep at all. "Atsuki..." Next thing I knew I was standing outside of his room, looking at him laying in the bed, I crept into my room, laying down on my bed hardly able to sleep as I waited for morning to come. "uh...how am I supposed to sleep...I just can't..." But yet somehow during the middle of the night I closed my eyes and happened to fall asleep dreading the day tomorrow, I didn't want to be at school tomorrow and well I had to go that was what he said. 'Sleep well you little mistake..I will ruin your life...' A black form was hiding in the corner, as a man walked out dropping my ruined bag from the incident a few days ago, onto my bed. His image shimmered, and then flickered out as he walked through the wall, or at least that was what it seemed, to anyone who would have been outside, but everyone was inside there house, watching tv or sleeping or reading stories. The shinen was stronger than most, and it made me flinch even though I didn't know that he was really there or at least I wasnt' awake to see it. "Ow...please leave me alone..." that was the last word out of my mouth as I passed out again.
!.! in an alley!.!
The alley was dark, and there was the sound of a light rain hitting the pavement. There was only one person in the alley or at least that was what someone would have thought. There was a girl walking home from a night of studying with her friend, usually she would have had her car, but she had left the car at home, and was walking because her friend had fallen asleep while they were studying. "Yes mother I am on my way home..." She was talking into her phone, her mother wanted her to come home, but she wanted to pick her up. 'Alright just please be careful...' She had been told about girls being murdered walking alone by themselves, but the girl didnt' want her mother to know that, she didn't need her mom to worry about her even more. "I'll see you when I get home..." she hung up the phone, something knocking it out of her hand. "Huh...all that could be heard as a number was dialed on the phone was the girl's scream. The question on everyone's mind would be who did the girl call and when they found out why, what would they do and why would she have called him. "This is my first murder in alongtime, this town is no longer gonna be safe...after all I have the strong one who will take the life from this world..." There was a dark amount of laughter that echoed through the alley, catching the ears of a dog from a distance, who howled sitting down and sniffing the body, and as soon as the man vanished so did the dog.