Chapter 5: The name of the game is Murder

Ash's P.O.V

The area around me was dark, and my eyes were still closed. I was tired, but my phone was ringing I had to pick it up, it might be something important. It always seemed to be if they called this early. "H..hello..." I was still half asleep when I picked up my phone, and all that was on the other end of the phone was a woman's cries for help. "W...where are you?" that was the only question that could come out of my mouth, but I already knew where she was, my body moved faster than I thought it would. 'I will find you...no one else will die...' I jumped out the window landing on the ground, spraining my ankle, but I just kept running,moving towards the tower. The screams kept echoing through my head, as if they had transferred from the cellphone into my head. The air was cold, I figured that Atsuki would know I was gone, and he would freak out, but it hadn't happened yet so maybe it wasn't going to. The tower was looming over me, and there was a man in a hood standing there, something glinted off the light from the flashlight in my hand. I probably should have looked at it, but all I saw was the girl. "So you have come Ash..." the voice that came from the man's throat did not sound like a mortal or human's voice, it was something but at that moment I couldn't put my finger on it. "how do you know me?" I moved towards the girl, and for some reason the man didn't try to stop me, he was just following me with his eyes as I walked. "You have something we want give it to us..." The voice seemed to get a lot darker and creepy like as he moved up behind me, running a hand over my cheek. "get off..." I kicked behind me looking down at the woman, who was clinging to my pant leg. The man grabbed my leg flipping me onto the ground next to the woman, I heard my arm shattered as I was slammed into the ground, what came next was slightly distorted, but I could tell it was my scream. "give us what you have...the moment where you took something from us..."I grabbed the knife from the ground, wobbling up taking one look at the woman, tossing her my phone. "Run and call the number under atsuki...and hurry..." My body hurt, my right arm was useless and limp at my side, but I had to do something. I was facing him, but he moved so fast that I hadn't seen him and everything had gone black. Only one voice reached through the blackness. "Ash wake up...wake up... "I looked up and Atsuki was leaning over me, somehow I was in my bed, and next to me there was a woman sitting on the floor. "W..what happened?ow..." I tried to use my arm to get up, but it hurt so badly, I didn't know why but then I remembered it had been shattered when I fell onto the ground. "That's what I was going to ask you..." Atsuki was looking at me like I was crazy and I really didn't know what was going on, I had been outside and now I was here. "Well let's get your arm taken care of and go by the police station to find out who this woman is..." the woman wasn't talking she was crying, and when she looked up there was the face of the girl in a picture I had seen before, but I couldn't remember where. "U..uh yea..." I climbed out of my bed, feeling a bit unsteady, but my eyes were on the girl, she was mouthing words to me...but I could hear them loud and clear.' You are nothing more than an embodiement to the voices...they use you to speak...and to save them you must listen...and they want you for something...' She was looking at me like my mother had when she was trying to tell me something really important, but yet I still couldn't figure out what it was. The woman stood up and walked out to the car, I followed sitting next to her, shivering. She put her jacket around me, it smelled a lot like my mother, but she was dead, there was no way she was still here...but how did I even know I couldn't remember her at all. "Just relax Ashy..." that nickname was one my mother gave me, but I couldn't bring myself to really register that at the time, my mind was on the fact that my arm hurt and the voices wouldn't leave me alone.'Help us...''You have the power' 'Use it' 'Don't leave us...''They want us dead...they will find you...''give up...you can't save yourself...''Die...'All I could was try my best to ignore them, hoping they would go away, the Shinen eventually would fade, they didnt' stay forever, they were just there for awhile, and then they moved to someone else. "atsuki..." I coughed curling closer to the woman, she was holding my arm so I didn't hurt it, but yet I didn't know what was going on, I was just so tired. The blackness consumed me again.!.!The hospital{the woman's pov}!.!The young boy was shivering as if he was having a bad dream, he seemed to be so different, and I knew he was because he had seen the real me, the me who had died years ago. "Shh...you're okay now...they have helped you...now my little boy I have to go..be strong..."And with that I walked out of the room, vanishing out the door just as Atsuki walked back into the room.

!.!Atsuki's POV!.!

When I walked back into the room, the woman was gone, she was nowhere to be found, and the boy was sitting up in bed, his arm wrapped up and in a sling. "Can I go..."was the first question out of the boy's mouth. The boy didnt' seem to want to be here but he was so tired, the dark circles under the boy's eyes said that. "Well we can...but are you alright?" I asked sitting down on the bed next to him.I knew he hadn't been getting much sleep, but I didnt' want to pull it out of him. "Uh yea..i'm just not feeling well today..don't we have school..." The boy always seemed to hit the nail on the head, he knew many things about me, and he was using it against me. "Yes we do your bag is outside in the car...come on..." He got off the bed and we walked out to the the schoolA teacher moved towards us, she seemed angry and she was looking right down at Ash who was avoiding her eyes. "Boy where is it..." she ignored me completely and looked down to him. "Not here...I left it at home..." He seemed to know what she was talking about but he was avoiding her eyes as he pushed past her walking into the cafe. "I'm sorry Ms. Aoi...I'll talk to him..." I ran past her following him pulling him aside. "What did you take?" The boy seemed to just ignore me, he didn't want to even talk, at least that was what his face said. "All I took was something that would have hurt someone...so who cares..." He turned and walked away from me, the shinen from the object was snaking up the young boy's arm. How could I have not noticed that before...I had been so blind and he had been trying to tell me something. "wait Ash..."I tried to stop him but he was already gone, it was as if he didn't want anything to with anyone. But Ash was in a lot of pain and no one around him had really noticed until now. I couldnt' believe I hadn't seen this before, but I was annoyed with the fact that I hadn't noticed. Mika was walking after Ash, she squeezed his hand pulling him towards the nurse's office.

!.!Ash's pov{The Nurse's Office}!.!

Mika was holding my hand as we sat on one of the beds, she was worried about me and I knew that, but part of me feels like she wasn't. "Thank you Mika...but why are we here?" I wanted to know why we were here and why she was treated me like this. She leaned over kissing me again pushing me back onto the bed, placing a charm in my hand. "I like you Ash..." She smiled and helped me up. "I'll be waiting outside...you can fix your stuff..." She moved out of the room looking back at me. I looked down at my knee fixing up the cut, and moving towards the door where I heard Mika talking to someone. "Oh Akira...I love you..." I flinched back hearing that as I looked out seeing them wrapped up in each other. I said nothing but I let go of the door, letting it slam against the other door, as I turn and ran off. 'I dont' need anyone...I just need me...' I stopped looking into my classroom seeing Atsuki. I had to calm down before I went in there, he didnt' need to see me like this. I walked into the classroom shoving my hurt down, I had to deal with the Shinen in the object later so I could return it, but my feelings were bugging me right now. "Are you alright?" Atsuki could always tell if something was wrong, he knew so much about me and yet I could barely believe it, believing tha the knew me better than anyone. "Uh yea I'm fine...I was just in the nurse's office, my stomach hurts..." I had to cover it all up, no one needed to know anything about me, but it was true my stomach did hurt."oh well if it hurts you can go home...I will take you.."Atsuki moved closer to me, putting his hand on my shoulder, as if he was here to say he was here for me which was true because he was. "Thank you but I think I'll be fine..."I never told anyone what was bugging me and I wasnt' about to tell anyone now, I had my own things to do, and well I didn't really want to tell anyone that, or what my feelings were. 'i dont' like lying to Atsuki like this...it's bad...' I felt so bad about lying to him, but I was just to tired to think on it, so I put my head down on the table closing my eyes. "Ash stay awake...if you don't feel good you should go home..." Atsuki was looking at me again as he put his hand on my arm, feeling the heat rising from my arm. "Yea you are going home..." he gathered our stuff as Honoka raced over looking at my pale face, she could tell I was in a lot of pain, but all she could do was help me outside to her car, and take me and Atsuki home, only because Atsuki had left his car at home, since we walked this morning. Part of me was glad to just go home, where I wouldnt' have to deal with her...anymore. I closed my eyes and fell asleep, trying not to think about what she had said, and what she had done, if she loved Akira, why did she try to play with me, my heart was not a string instrument for her to play. The thought of that made me look at the scar's on my wrists, I remembered all the blood, it hadn't been me, I hadn't cut open my wrist someone else had come and cut open my wrists, they had been looking for something...my mind kept telling me I had been protecting someone. "Ow..." there was a stinging pain, and all I heard was a small pitter of something dripping onto the floor. 'Was it my blood..again...' I looked at my arm...there was blood dripping on the floor, and there was something else, it was kinda like acid, since it was melting the floor. 'This is last time all over again...' I thought as I bit my lip, and got up, the image was gone, but the cut was still on my wrist, but there was no more blood, and there was nothing on the floor anymore. "Um Atsuki..." I cried out slipping over someone's arm, there was something under the bed. "W...what..." I leaned down only to have the girl grab me and pull me under the bed, she was bruised, and her clothes were torn. "FIND ME!" She cried out and vanished...but I was still a bit unsure of what was going on, after all she hadn't been there before. 'I have to find her...without Atsuki knowin...' I climbed out the window holding my knife that was under my bed.

!.! Toy Box!.!

As I neared the toy box, I could see a fight happening, there was a man with a knife, a young girl, and there was a shadow another shinen, but who was the man fighting with. Until I got closer I realized that it was me, this was the night when I lost most of my memories. The man...his blood..everything...it was all coming back to me...and just like that in a flash it was all gone and I was laying on my bed, my wrists slashed something sitting on my throat. !.! back at the house!.!"ATSUKI!" I cried out kicking whoever was on me off, my wrists hurt and I didn't know why, but they must have had to do with that vision I had, but who was the girl, and who was that guy. There was no noise in the house, but some things were not working out altogether, and well there was something here. Atsuki moved towards me, he was holding a knife, as he moved towards the man who was in the house. "Um...are you okay Ashur?" Atsuki leaned down next to me, rubbing my arm, the pain seemed to cease for a moment, but then it was back and it was worse than it had been. "O..ow..." my vision seemed to go black, like it did when I fell asleep and I was dreaming.

!.! Atsuki's Pov!.!

"ASHUR!" I tried to wake him up, he was cold and shivering, he didn't seem to be waking up, but he was so weak, and so tired. "Oh no...I have to help him..." The boy seemed to be getting colder, and he was hardly able to worry about it, and plus he had to hurt himself, and he was trying to move or at least the way his body was shaking, that was what it seemed. "Mika...don't hurt me..." the boy was talking in his sleep, he was thinking about Mika, and the question that came through my mind was what had happened between the two of them, he had been wierd ever since that last time he was with Mika. "Natsuki...something happened...and Ashur is unconcious...we need to make sure that the school thinks he is sick, so no one figures anything out about him..." I was trying to figure it out and keep him safe so nothing happened, after all Ashur meant the world to me, and nothing was going to get in my way.