"Big brother….where the FUCK are we?!" Gou whispered sharply She looked over to me, fear and anger clouding her eyes. We sat on the floor of a crappy little classroom, if it can even be called that. Everything was broken and dusty, and most likely hasn't been used in decades.

"How the hell am I supposed to know?! You tell me! We did your dumb charm, and then the fucking floor opened up!" I can still remember the flash of fear the appeared on Haru's face right before he fell through the hole. He was the first one to fall, and seeing him terrified instilled a fear in all of us.

"Look...I don't know what happened, okay! Don't place all the blame on me!" she screamed. We had been going at this for a while now. Maybe an hour, I'm not sure. Time feels...different here, almost, even though that's absurd. I turned to look at my sister, and I placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. She was shaking in fear. I would be too, but I have to be the brave big brother she thinks I am. She looked over at me, tears swimming in my eyes.

I gave her a small smile. "Hey, calm down, okay? We need to find the others." Who knows where they are."

"But...what if there are more…." She didn't have to say it. Dead bodies. In this room alone, there were at least two corpses, mostly bones except for maybe a scrap of clothing stuck to them.

I gently grabbed her chin and forced her to look in my eyes. "Kou, they won't hurt you. Just stick with me and I'll protect you. Alright?"

She nodded, and I slowly stood. Holding my hand out to her, I pulled her up.

"Now let's go find the others."

This is pointless.

No one is here.

Well, unless you count the dead. Then this place is way overcrowded.

Kou was starting to get discouraged; I could see it in her eyes. Every time we found a door, her eyes would light up, but when I either opened it to reveal nothing or couldn't open it, she became downcast.

We were nearing one of the last doors, a red door to be exact. It was the janitor's closet, well, if the key that says that goes to this one.

Giving a reassuring smile to my sister, I took the key out of my Samezuka jacket and put it in the door. It fit. I turned the key until I heard the click of the door being unlocked, and then slowly turned the handle.

"AHHHH! Please don't eat me !" someone squeaked from the room. I slammed open the door, relieved at hearing a familiar voice.

Nagisa.

Kou immediately went over to him and gave him the biggest hug ever. After a shocked moment, he returned the gesture, a bright smile plastered on his face.

"Oh my gosh, Nagisa, are you okay?! Have you seen anyone else? No one is dead, right?!" She rapidly fired questions, both Nagisa and I having trouble keeping up.

"Slow down Kou," I told her, "One at a time." I looked over at Nagisa. He seemed fairly unharmed, a few scratches here and there. But overall, he looked just about as good as the rest of us.

"Oh, sorry," she replied. She released Nagisa from her vice grip hug and took a step back, looking him over like I had already done.

"It's okay, Gou, I'm just glad you guys are alright! This place is scary as hell! Have you seen the big hammer man. One minute I was walking around a corner, next moment BOOM! and Ugly appears dragging around a HUGE hammer! I ran over to this room and have been here since."

That doesn't add up. This door was locked, I heard the door unlocking. "Nagisa...the door was unlocked?" I asked.

"Uh, yeah!" I raised my eyebrow at his remark. How can he be so...happy here? I mean, there are dead bodies everywhere! Everyone could be dead for all we know. Ok, Rin, stop talking like that. Thinking negatively will get you nowhere.

"Weird," Kou remarked, "We had to use a key to get in here." Nagisa raised his eyebrow at that.

"You guys have keys too? Same here. It seems almost like someone placed them around just so we could find them. This place is just a big puzzle, man. And I hate puzzles!" That's a shock there -_-.

"Well, the keys don't seem to be helping us in getting out of here faster. Where are the others do you think?" I asked.

Nagisa suddenly wore a frown, an expression seldom worn by him. "I haven't the slightest clue. All I've seen is Hammertime and the dead, which aren't exactly friendly people."

"Yeah, well, I want to get out of here sooner rather than later. With three people we can split up now and search for the others. They have to be here somewhere, they fell with us.

"Big brother, you said you wouldn't leave me!" Kou protested. Oh, right, I told her that. Shit, now what. If I leave her alone, she'll die in seconds probably. Well, I could always send her with Nagisa, then she wouldn't be totally alone.

"Why don't you go with Nagisa," I told her, "That way you won't be alone, and I can search freely. I don't want you to get hurt, Kou, you have to understand that."

She huffed at me and turned away. "Hmph! Why do I have to go with him!? He was alone before, he can be alone again!"

I shook my head. "No, it's better this way. What if I die? Or get hurt. I wouldn't want the same fate to befall you. I plan to look in dangerous places, 'cause who knows if they're there. If you go with Nagisa, I will feel much better. So please, for me?"

She sighed heavily, then looked back towards me. "Fine. But I swear to God, if you die, I'm gonna kill you! You hear me!"

I gave a light laugh at her remark. I walked over to her and gave her a big hug. Who knows, this could be the last one.

I've never been more right...