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Chapter 3

There were no more attacks reported for the next three days, much to everyone's relief. "It appears we have halfway succeeded. No more attacks have been reported, but our assignment was to capture or at least identify the culprit." Korone explained to the others who were wondering why Akuto seemed a little stressed today. Korone then proceeded to eat a rice cracker.

"Don't remind me, Korone. I didn't want to scare them away, I wanted to catch them." Akuto was exasperated.

"Why are you making such a big deal out of this? No more attacks means no more attacks and if they ever come back we'll catch them with the help of Korone and Akemi's tracking prowess. There's no way they will escape." Hattori sure did sound confident. "But speaking of Akemi, where is she?"

"She's a little bloodsick, so she stayed in bed today." Shinku seemed to have popped out of nowhere, sufficiently spooking everyone but Korone.

"A little warning would be nice." Akuto muttered after seating himself again with Hattori nodding her agreement.

"Bloodsickness? Even I haven't heard of that and I'm a liridan." Korone admitted, to which Shinku shrugged.

"It's a little complicated and I don't fully understand it myself, but it's a disease unique to bloodwalkers. To make a long story short, her body is accepting and rejecting the foriegn blood at the same time."

"Isn't that extremely unusual because I heard that bloodwalkers can manipulate all properties of blood." Korone seemed to know more than most, but that was to be expected.

"I assume that would be things like the blood type and the nature of mana in the blood?" Akuto asked.

"Good assumption, but everyone's different and their bodies react differently to different things. It could be that just one protein is off, or the mana is slightly to volatile and then you are bloodsick. Just like that."

"I'm about to be sick if we keep talking about this." Hattori looked a little queezy.

"Sorry, but I'm leaving anyways. I have some business to take care off." And just like that Shinku was already halfway down the hallway.

"Do you guys ever get any, weird vibes from him?" Akuto asked.

"Yeah, he's a little off. But he's a good guy, always looking out for his sister. Why do you ask?" Hattori looked inquisitively at Akuto.

"I get the feeling he's hiding something. He always leaves the guy's dorm at around the same time."

"Exactly eleven thirty p.m. to be precise." Korone added.

"And he doesn't return until late into the night."

"Three a.m right on the dot."

"So what, do you think he's like sleepwalking or something?" Hattori didn't like where this was going.

"For three and a half hours? I don't think so, but I can't check it out tonight. So the real question is can I ask you two to see what he does at night?"

"WHAT!? You want me to stalk...Shinku?" Hattori was caught completely offguard, and slightly terrified.

"Okay." Korone's answer was expressionless.

"I'll help Achan." Keena had been quiet until now, daydreaming.

"Fine, but just this one time." Hattori said with a sigh.

The three of them had gathered just outside the boy's dorm out of sight. "I can't believe we are seriously doing this."

"Don't worry Junko, it's for Achan!"

"Be quiet Keena. We don't want to get found out here, it will look suspicous." Hattori clamped her hand over Keena's mouth.

"Shh, it's time." Korone told them and watched the door with anticipation. They watched him noiselessly open the door, look around and step outside, and quietly close it. There wasn't even a squeak. They followed him for a good thirty minutes before he started slowing down.

"What's he doing?" Hattori was squinting her eyes, trying to see what Shinku was doing.

"He's sniffing the air for rice." Keena reasoned. He then went back to his normal pace and Korone had a revelation.

"The Calcerous Cave? Why would he come in here?" Korone looked to others, hoping for answers but instead she recieved confused looks and shrugs. The followed him inside and Hattori and Keena nearly screamed. He was stripping, revealing his toned body. But that's not what caught their attention, there were scars all over his body of every different shape and size. He neatly folded his clothes and left them in a pile on the water's edge before heading into the larger side of the cave.

"We're going to follow him, aren't we?" Hattori asked, the depression evident on her face. Korone was already down to her underwear.

"You two can stay here and I will tell Akuto what he's up to." Korone said.

"No! You are just doing this to impress Achan!" Keena followed after her.

"I won't be defeated by either of you!" Hattori went in after getting over her hesitation. It was only natural considering that last time she was here she was naked and Akuto had seen her. They came up on the other side and hid behind a rock while watching Shinku. He was just sitting there with his eyes closed and a troubled look on his face.

"I wonder what he's thinking about, I hope it's rice." Keena commented. He stayed like that for a solid hour. He was just about to leave when he sniffed the air and he became deadly serious.

"Show yourself or die, you can't hide. I'll find you." The three girls panicked at first, thinking he was talking to them as he walked over in their direction. But he was interrupted when a girl jumped on his back. No one except Shinku seemed to recognize her.

"Calm down, it's me." There was someone hiding in the shadows, someone they couldn't see. Shinku relaxed, easing himself into the water again.

"Well didn't you pick a grand time to come see me. Obviously something big is about to go down, so what is it?" He asked, trying unsuccessfully to look at his companion.

"Be ready, tomorrow night is when the big event will go down. Tonight expect some them to test this place."

"So why the hell am I here?! If there are people out there getting hurt, I need to help them!" Shinku declared, standing up and wrapping himself in the towel he brought. There was a collective gasp from the girls, his whole body appeared to be covered in scars.

"I guess know we know why he always wears pants and long sleeves." Korone mentioned.

"Calm down, so quick to act. If you always acted like this, you might get noticed. I'm just making sure that you do what you are supposed to do. Don't tell anyone about this until tomorrow. Otherwise you will have failed us and all your little friends at this academy will probably die. Have a nice night." Shinku remained in the hotsprings for about ten more minutes before getting ready to leave.

"Leave...Now! He'll catch us if we stay too much longer." Hattori said in a panicked whisper before trying her best to quietly go back under the rock wall and get to the cave entrance with Keena and Korone following suit. They appeared to have gotten in and out without being noticed much to their relief.

"We have a lot to tell Achan tomorrow." Keena said seeming unfazed by the events that just occured.

"But it will have to wait until tomorrow. Don't you think it will kinda be suspicious if we girls all head into the boy's dorm this late at night." Hattori voiced her concern.

"She's right, and Akuto is already branded a pervert. So we will tell him tomorrow." With that the girls dispersed back to their own respective rooms. unbeknownst to them, they were all being watched by a pair of eyes, tracking their every movement.

Please R&R also sorry for the short chapter, but the next one will be a lot more...something