A/N: Update a continuation with scenes featuring Hizumi and Hiyono.

Disclaimer: Once again, I do not own Spiral.

No use. It was no use. Who the hell did he think he was. He couldn't change fate. It didn't matter. Nothing mattered. Narumi was a fool. The Blade Children. They were all fools for believing that things could change. That they could change fate.

Oh good, he was alone. "Hizumi!" the girl called as she ran to catch up with him. For a moment she didn't recognize his somber face. It looked so sad. No, she must have imagined it. He was smiling again. That bright smile which captured her heart.

"Yes?" His smile, as bright as it was...his eyes weren't smiling. Those cat-like eyes studied her...Their intensity frightened her...Before they glazed over. "Oh, I'm sorry. I was rude..." he pouted. Damn, that puppy dog face. He was so irresistible. She could just lose herself...

"H-Hizumi...I like you."

"Damn that Hizumi," a passer-by said loudly, his disdain was echoed plainly in his remarks. "He has girls confessing left and right..."

The girl blushed.

"...while the rest of us... And Narumi too...they're so popular that they might as well rule the school! Hell, they already do," the boy obnoxiously continued.

Her face was crimson by now. "SHUT UP! The likes of you have no right to right to speak to him like that!" she spat in his face.

"Oh, but what am I supposed to do, my sweet. The likes of me can't compete with hunk #1 and hunk #2. I bet you never noticed the likes of me."

"And why would I? Hizumi is so much better than you!"

"Well, what can I say?" Hizumi shrugged. He was already bored with this conversation and he had just joined in too..."I'm sorry, but I can't feel for you. Ayumu...you see, I'm worried about him...I have to see where that bastard disappeared to." Hizumi grinned. Besides, he didn't even know her name.

"Oh, Hizumi!" His fan girls suddenly made an appearance. "Oh my, he's so admirable, isn't he?" "Yes, simply dashing." They cooed as Hizumi made his escape.

"Wait, Hizumi!" the nameless girl who just confessed chased after him. "Here," she shoved a tiny metallic object in his hand. It was his phone. "You left it in the classroom." And to think she had been overjoyed when she had found herself in possession of the object. That she would have an excuse to talk to him instead of just admiring him from afar. "I'm sorry I tried." With that, nameless girl disappeared back into the mob of Hizumi fan girls.

What did I say? It's no use, Hizumi thought as he examined his phone. He had one missed call. He sighed and pressed redial.

Hiyono was typing away on her computer in the solitude of the newspaper room. More late hours. She was hoping to finish the latest edition of the school's pamphlet. Although it looked like she was at peace and busy just typing away...actually, it had been quite lonely in here. Like it was before she met Ayumu and the Blade Children. But Ayumu had told her to stay away. "You'll be safer this way," he had said awkwardly. He loves me, she had thought. And so far, she had kept her word.

"You have one new message," the computer interrupted her thoughts as it spoke to her in its robotic voice. A message from an unidentifiable source. Oh, how she loved information and the power it held over people. After all, blackmail was her specialty. Hiyono's fingers quickly eagerly accessed her e-mail account and the mouse clicked on the new message.

A photograph of Ayumu Narumi, tied and bound uncomfortably. Clothes were torn. She zoomed in. He appeared unconscious. Like a sleeping angel. His messy chocolate brown hair was messier than usual. But still, she couldn't determine his surroundings. She would have to work to find his location.

"Hmmm, looks like you can't do anything without me," she smiled. No, she couldn't stay away from this one. Not when her heart was already involved. Stay away? Who me? Since when had she kept her word.

"Sir, we have him," the voice on the receiver said.

"Is he alive and well?" Hizumi asked.

"Unconscious, but alive," the guy affirmed.

"Oh goody. Don't touch him. Are the preparations ready?

"The nest of hornets should be arriving tomorrow morning...If that be all..."

"No, just one last thing...Deliver a message to Eyes and the others."

"What should it say, sir?"

"Just tell them, 'We have your hope.' They'll understand." Click. Hizumi ended the call. We have your hope... Hizumi frowned. The plan was already in motion. Hope and Despair. One of them wouldn't survive. They both knew that since the beginning. The long confrontation that would come. But why did his heart feel so uneasy about this. Could it be friendship? Nah. Hizumi didn't...he couldn't feel anything besides despair.

To be continued...