Naoi and Chihiro were set up in a team of two to fight off the shadows haunting the school, scaring the SSS into obliterating.

It was not long before they ran into trouble.

It was not much. Chihiro was expecting more than the few they faced.

Naoi and Chihiro sat around mostly or took turns patrolling.

Naoi was acting strange he was asking her a lot of heart felt questions, especially about being obliterated.

"Hay, Chihiro?" Naoi said.

"Yes?" She replied.

"What is keeping you from passing on into the next life?" He asked.

Chihiro felt her breath leave her. She did not know what to tell him.

'TELL HIM THE TRUTH!' She heard her conscience screaming.

"Um, same as you. To help our friends move on!" She lied.

She swore her Conscience just punched her I the gut, even though it was just a feeling.

"Oh okay. That makes sense…." He mumbles.

Chihiro raised an eye brow at him. "That's why your still here right?" She asked.

Naoi jumped and looked at her. "Yeah! Of course it is!" He said in an awkward tone.

"Ha ha ok." She said dropping the conversation.

After a while, they started to drop there guard. The shadows did not seem to haunt the inside of the school.

Naoi and Chihiro walked into a class room to take a small break. Chihiro sat at a desk and laid her head down and Naoi just leaned against the chalk board.

She sighed. It was so quiet. Would now be the perfect time? How much time DID she have left? As soon as Naoi passes on, she will be trapped in this world.

She sat up and took a deep breath. "…H-hay, Naoi." She said.

"…Yep?" He responded.

"I-I have to tell you something…." She blurted.

"Yes?" He said

"That I—" She was interrupted by a dark veil surrounding her.

Her eyes went wide as she quickly turned around and there was a large black shadow threatening to engulf her. She ran forward. But it got her by the back and she tumbled to the floor.

Chihiro felt the shadow monster seeping into her skin. She couldn't tell what kind of a pain it was.

It was like burning Heart break trying to escape your body. She felt like it was kicking out her emotions, memories and feelings. And it for, some reason, it felt like a burning pain to her.

She struggled and tried to pull from the darkness. She tried to yell Naoi's name but it would not leave her mouth. Everything was fading black.

She remembered how Oyama explain how the darkness devours someone. It enters, eats you up, and you just disappear. The next day you become an NPC.

Every second felt like 5 minutes. She wondered what Naoi was doing. Was he to awe struck to come save her? Maybe he was trying and she couldn't tell.

Chihiro No longer felt a burning sensation. She was in a dark room. Was it a dark room? She could not tell which way was up or down. She could not tell if she was falling or laying still.

"I guess I never got to tell him—what was I going to tell him?" She thought to herself.

"I guess this is how the darkness turns you into an NPC" She thought.

Whatever it was she was going to tell him. She felt like her heart was going to break into a million pieces.

She began to cry… She did not know why, but she was crying, like her goal in life was gone forever, like she was never going to see the light of day ever again.

Who was Naoi again?

Why did that name make her sad?

Why did she feel regret?

Who was she again?

What was her name?

She really forgotten herself?

Chihiro was about to give up on remember anything and let the darkness carry her away.

But then she heard a fain whisper.

"Hello?" She said in a faint voice.

"Chihiro…" She heard the whisper louder.

"C-Chihiro? Is that my name?" She wondered out loud.

"Chihiro!" It was really loud…not like a yell… but a little too loud for a library.

"Hello?" She said a little louder.

"Chihiro!" Finally the voice was loud and clear.

Chihiro gasped. 'Naoi' Managed to escape her lips.

There was a sudden blinding light and she felt her eyes open.

She felt his sweet embrace.

"Naoi…" She whispered. It was all a dream.

The creature went away. It couldn't handle 2 people at once.

"Are you okay?" He asked

"Yeah." She said a little dazed.

Her memories were still fuzzy…But they came as back as quickly as the left.

She hugged him. "Naoi!" She whispered regretting forgetting him.

He looked at her sadly. "I'm sorry I didn't do anything sooner." He said his eyes darting to the side.

"It's okay! You saved me didn't you?" She said smiling.

"Yeah…but…it was almost too late, I didn't want to hurt you with the gun…So I did what Otonashi did for me when I almost got attacked, Last time you were there for me." He said

"Haha don't worry! Your god, God isn't afraid of anything!" She teased.

"Your right." He smiled.

She wanted to tell him, no, she needed to tell him right now.

Naoi turned to more shadows that entered. "He brought friends…" He said grabbing her arm.

The shadows began to invade the room. He looked around desperately for a way out.

He stood up and pulled her arm "Fallow me!" He said running for the door.

"Are you crazy? They're coming from that direction!" She argued but still fallowed.

"There's no other way out!" He said busting the door down and running down the halls.

The shadows were everywhere….Like cockroaches. There was no way both of us were going to make it out of here.

Not both of us.

Not both.

There were too many shadows in the way.

Naoi looked everywhere franticly.

"In there!" Chihiro said pointing to an empty class room.

Naoi pushed her in there and he slammed the door shut behind them.

"We should be safe for a minute…We need to think of a plan…" He said.

"N-Naoi I REALLY have to tell you something." She said her voice shaking.

"Can't it wait?" He said.

"No! It c-can't" She jumped her heart was racing and her palms were getting sweaty.

Naoi sighed. He turned and sat crisscross in front of her. "What is it?" He said in that sweet tone of his. She did not expect that he would go along so easily.

"Well…You see….I-I always, well…we're friends but I…" She played with her braid nervously.

"Well I think I'm here because—"

She was interrupted yet again the shadows banging on the door. They were trying to knock it down, since they could not squeeze through the cracks.

"Damn." Naoi said Getting in front of Chihiro with his gun out.

"Chihiro get into the closet." He ordered.

"But—"She tried.

"Now!" He pushed.

Her eyes began to tear up and she nodded as she dived into the closet shutting the door behind her.

She held her breath hearing the gun shot go off. She huddled up in the corner like she did when her aunt was out of control when she was alive and little.

She covered her ears as the loud bangs filled the room.

Finally they stopped. She looked up her eyes wide and full of tears. She stared hard at the door without blinking for what seemed like forever, but then finally the door swung open and Naoi tumbled in slamming the door behind him.

He practically tumbled into Chihiro and before she knew it she was helping him sit up. "W-We need to get out of here…There a lot of them. I don't know if we can both make it but…I'll protect you." He said

She gasped. She could not let him do that. She was the one who needed to pass on anyway.

The shadows were leaking in by this time.

She was tired. She grabbed her head. Those shadows really drown the energy out of you.

She fell back dizzily. "Chihiro?" He said catching her. "Naoi? Can I tell you what I've wanted to tell you?" She said tiredly.

He nodded with a worried expression.

"I know why I came here now." She said

He kept listening.

"Because I died on the day I was going to say something that was very important to me…" She said.

"…I was going to say it to you." She told Naoi

Naoi gasped. "To…Me?" He said.

She nodded with a faint smile.

"Yeah, we were great friends." She said

"In fact I think you were my only friend."

The shadows got in. Naoi jerked his head in their direction.

"Don't worry they won't get to us, for long, they can't eat two people…Not very quick…I have enough time to say what I have to say…Then you need to dart out of here, jump out the window across from the classroom…okay?" She said.

"You talk like you're going to stay." He said nervously.

She smiled looking up at the ceiling, taking in every moment of her in his arms.

"Naoi, I think I—no, I know I've fallen in l-love with you." She hesitated.

Naoi's eyes went wide. "Is this what's been holding you back?" He asked

She nodded. A tear went down her face. She was not sobbing, if you did not know better you would think she was leaking.

"Are you going to disappear?" He asked.

She nodded again.

He hesitated. "I-I think I love you too." He said "And I think that's what's been holding me back…I just didn't know it, except I made that promise with Otonashi." He said.

Chihiro smiled. "I'm glad…I'm finally at peace now. It feels…good." She said.

Naoi had tears rolling down his cheek and hit Chihiro's face. "W-why are you crying?" She said in shock.

He embraced her…and it wasn't like any other hug from him either.

"I don't want to lose you again. If you pass on…We might not ever see each other again." He said with his voice choked.

"Naoi…" She breathed.

"You can't…I…I won't be able to pass on…then what?" He sobbed into her shoulder.

"Naoi, we will see each other agian…I can feel it." She laughed softly.

"The fact we met in our previous lives…and this after life. I just know we will…I don't have a doubt in my mind." She smiled.

He hugged her tighter. "No I won't let you leave!" He said.

"Naoi…please…" She pleaded.

He loosened his grip and they both looked at each other. They were both crying hard. She tilted her head and smiled. She touched his face.

"I love you." She said in a sweet sturdy voice.

He just looked at her.

He knew it was the right thing to do. He could feel it threw her touch. She threw her arms around her neck. And they were both hugging each both equally this time. "Hurry up and pass on." She laughed.

Pretty soon Naoi felt nothing there, but the shadows presence.

He looked around franticly, She was not there…She was gone. All that was left…Was that silver head band she wore all the time. He picked it up, and hugged it.

He did not want to move. What was he going to do?

The shadows surrounded him.

Then her voice rang in his ears. "…Dart out of here, jump out the windows across from the classroom…"

He stood up and ran as fast as he could…running through shadows was a little like running through, mud, but slightly easier. As soon as he made it out the door. He spotted the windows directly across from the room.

He put his arms in front of his face and broke threw them.

He hit the ground running, and looked back, with the slight hope that Chihiro was behind him.

But she wasn't.

He closed his eyes for a second gripping the head band in his hand. Then looked forward running faster to go find Otonashi.

(I had a vision in my head that I CANNOT remove and it's DRIVING me nuts…idk how to word it in the story…but the camera would zoom out and her face would be smiling in the moon XD)

(Three days later)~~Spoiler to the end of the anime!~~

Naoi volunteered to be the first to pass on.

He looked up at Otonashi, Hinata, Yuri, And Kanade. He was crying, he was going to miss every one.

He told Otonashi thank you for helping him finding out he was worth something.

He bowed to his friends one last time. He gripped Chihiro's head band in his pocket. 'Here I come, Chihiro.' He thought to himself. And he disappeared. The others stared were he once stood, taking in the moment.

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I might make a couple more chapters…about the afterlife… just because I love this Idea that came to me in my sleep (Literally XD) But idk how long im going to make it…it depends on how much everyone likes it ^^ I know it won't go to deep into their lives…just to the point you have an idea on how it's going to work :DD…_ yeah im not good at explaining things...YOU'LL FIND OUT SOON ENOUGH ANYWAY XD ^^;…Let me know what you think…okay? PROMISE D':?