Sorry I took so long! I got a few Story Alerts but I would also like some Reviews, as well :D.

I already made anime history for making an crossover fanfic of Higurashi and Code Geass, so I deserve better D:

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Chapter 4

"This is the principal's office!" Shion said happily as she gestured to a door in the hallway, "The principal's usually very busy, so we try not to bother him..."

She pointed to two doors by the side, "Over there are the boy's and girl's restrooms! In case you need to spring a leak!" She giggled.

Suzaku was enjoying every minute of it. He ignored the fact she was faking it, but at least she wasn't ranting or anything.

But then he wondered what she could possibly do to him if he lost the next game.

She had been too happy-acting during the tour of the school. He knew she was trying to annoy him, to make him regret his punishment game.

"Kiryuu-kuuun?"

He noticed he had stopped walking, and she was leaning in, watching him with wide green eyes.

"What's the matter? Legs lost their feeling?"

Suzaku sighed, "Listen, Shion-san....I don't want you to be like this any longer."

Shion titled her head, "WhatEVER do you mean, Kiryuu-kun?" Obviously, she was expecting him to tell her to stop smiling.

"I mean, I want you to stop hating on me even though we just met yesterday."

Shion's smile faltered, "I see."

"And if you somehow have a certain way besides stupid punishment games to satisfy you----"

He was interrupted when a stinging slap fell across his left cheek. It jerked his head to the right, and he restrained himself from getting angry.

"...Then I will agree without complaint." He finished, not moving his head.

Shion was still smiling, though it looked really forced now.

"I hope you understand, Kiryuu-kun, that I do my absolute best to protect all the people I love. I make sure nothing bad happens to them, and if something does, I believe it's my fault."

"I'm that way, too."

"I'm sure you are, Kiryuu-kun!" She replied, "But still...."

She shoved his back against the wall, and he felt her taser poking his stomach, "I'll be keeping a close eye on you. Making sure you don't do anything that might cause your death."

"You couldn't kill me even if you wanted to." He said smoothly, the side of his face already red from her slap.

Her smile stretched into something even more sinister, "We'll see about that..." She was so tempted to turn on her taser...but doing so in school wouldn't be pretty.

Apparantly he still thought she was going to do it, for he suddenly grabbed her wrist and twisted it slightly not to hurt her, but to surprise her enough to gasp and drop it.

The taser was now in his hand, and he let go of her and she jumped back.

"This taser is rather old." Suzaku said, inspecting it, "How come you prefer the old brands then the better new ones?"

"Give that back!" She cried out, forgetting to smile, but Suzaku was taller than she, and thus he held the taser up high, where she couldn't reach.

Then she blinked. Did Suzaku's sage green eyes suddenly flicker red for a second? It must've been her imagination.

"You're not smiling." Suzaku pointed out with a serious and sort of smug expression, "All I've wanted is a truce. And yet you try to hurt me."

He turned away, "I guess since you broke the rules of the punishment game, I'm afraid I'll have to confiscate this."

"What?!" Shion exclaimed, practically jumping on him, "You can't do that!!"

Suzaku held her back with ease, "Then tell me you're sorry, and make a truce with me."

The green haired girl clenched her fists, gritting her teeth.

When he heard no response, Suzaku headed for the door out of the school, "Well then...."

"Wait, Suzaku!!"

He turned back at her in shock. She just called him by his first name?

"This must really be precious to her...." He thought, looking at the device in his hands again.

Shion suddenly flushed, then she bowed, "I'm sorry for threatening you, Suzaku-san! Just..don't take my taser! I'll make a truce, I won't tease you anymore, or injure you in any possible way!"

He blinked, and when Shion looked up, she saw him holding the taser out to her.

Suzaku was patiently waiting, and only lowered his hand when she took it from him slowly.

He studied her mint eyes, and noticed they had slight tears in them.

"I'm sorry. I won't take your taser again."

Shion nodded quickly, then she blinked and stood up straight, holding her hands behind her back, "So...."

"Truce?" He asked.

"Truce!" She said a little two loudly, and she blushed even further, looking down.

But then she managed a small smile, this time it was truly honest. She didn't expect for Suzaku to smile. It would take a while to get one out of him.

Over by the side, five heads were barely visible by the window.

"Wow!" Mion said triumphantly, "Who knew THESE two would work together! We've got to make it better somehow..."

"Yeah, bring them closer together!" Keiichi agreed, grinning, "Man, this is gonna rock!"

"Maybe they'll kiss eventually, kana?" Rena giggled, "Hauu~~! That would be sooo cute!"

"It might not happen too fast, though." Satoko said in a rather concerned voice, watching the brunette 17-year-old and the green-haired 16-year-old turn and continue down the hallway, almost out of view, "They've both been scarred in their past somehow..."

"There's no need to worry." The sincerity in Rika's voice caused them to look at her, "Suzaku and Shion might've had sad events, but they may be the only ones to heal each other."

She looked back into the school, "In time...." She smiled.

"Come up here, Suzaku-san." Shion opened a trapdoor and climbed out onto the roof of the school building.

Suzaku poked his head out, and Shion grabbed his jacket, yanking him outside.

"Usually nobody's ever up here." She said, heading to the edge, "I'm up here all the time during lunch. The breeze is magnificent."

"That explains her absence..." Suzaku thought. But then he wondered why she would rather be alone.

He walked and stood next to her, seeing that she was right. It was simply a perfect cooling sensation, it was different than other breezes.

"Y'know, sometimes Sato----" Shion stopped abruptly.

When he looked down at her, she stepped backwards, hand over her mouth.

"Are...you alright?" He asked hesitantly.

Her body began to sway, but then she shook her head and stood up straight, "No. I'm fine."

"Can I ask you something?" Suzaku now wanted to change the subject, and hopefully get Shion's somehow disturbed thoughts focused on something else.

Shion lowered her hand from her mouth, "Sure, what is it?"

"When I first met Houjou-san...." He gazed out over the trees from behind the school, "...I heard people call her a traitor. Some people just completely ignored her. I was wondering if you could tell me---"

Suzaku was turning when he spoke, and then he heard a slam and saw the green-haired girl gone, the trapdoor now shut.

He blinked.

Then he sighed.

It would be of no use to follow her so early.

Shion couldn't stop her sobbing as she ran out of the almost empty school and clutched the bark of a nearby tree.

"Sa---Sato--Satosh----" She could barely choke out the name, she was crying so hard.

"I-I'm sorry....I won't ever betray you...I promise...."

She slipped to her knees, forgetting all about Suzaku, the one who inadvertantly brought the pain back.

Suzaku found Shion outside of the school, waiting for him. She was looking down, hands behind her back, cheeks faintly red.

"S-Sorry for abandoning you like that, Suzaku-san..." She murmured, not meeting eyes with him, "I started to feel very very nauseous....I think it was my lunch or something...."

"Don't worry about it." Suzaku nodded, "Did you hear my question earlier?"

"Oh, yes, that one....about Satoko...." Shion took a breath, then held her hand out at the road, "Let's walk while I explain."

While they went between the trees and passed the fields and flowers, Shion began to speak.

"Well, a few years ago....it was decided that a dam should be built near here. It seemed like a good idea to everyone who didn't live in Hinamizawa...but it wasn't great to us, because the dam would end up filling the entire town with water."

"I think I heard there was supposed to be a dam, I can't remember the details." Suzaku commented, "But filling up this whole place?"

"I know, right? Everyone would have to be evicted, forced to move somewhere else. But we all belonged here!" Her arms stretched out, "I mean, we can't just be kicked out! So the townspeople decided to fight back."

"What does this have to do with Houjou-san?"

"I'm getting there. Anyway, the folks of Hinamizawa fought hard. VERY hard. I don't know much, but then it was revealed that...." Shion sighed, "...It was revealed that Satoko's parents supported the whole dam idea."

Suzaku blinked, and the girl said, "This shocked everybody, that a family who lived here actually turned against them. So the residents called them traitors, and hated them ever since."

"But Houjou-san had to have been very young when this happened." He pointed out, "Why does---"

"It doesn't matter if only the parents were involved." She looked away, "They still have the traitorous blood in their veins, I was once told...."

"You sound like you weren't present during all of this."

"I wasn't. I was in a private boarding school during the dam war. Been there for years, but managed to transfer here just a few weeks ago."

"Seems you didn't like it there."

"I didn't. It was extremely boring. I hate boredom."

Suzaku watched her for a second, then looked ahead on the path, "So, everyone hates Houjou-san because of what her parents did."

"It's totally unfair!" Shion shouted, "Satoko had absolutely nothing to do with it! She had to have been like, I don't know, 5 or 6 or something, yet everyone still threw rocks at her family and..."

She calmed down, gritting her teeth, "Well, there's nothing we can do about it now. The curse finally had it's way with Satoko's family. She's been through enough."

"Huh...?" Suzaku asked, "...Curse?" He immediatly thought of something other than what Shion was talking about.

Her green hair covered her eyes, he only saw her lips move, "Oyashiro-sama's Curse......It's a curse that caused different murders to happen every year on the day of June 19. When the Watanagashi festival started. Although, turned out not being a curse after all."

Suzaku waited.

"The first year, the director of the dam construction was found dismembered, only one limb found. The next, Satoko's parents fell off of a viewing platform while on vacation. After that, Rika's father died of a sudden illness, and her mother vanished in the swamps. Finally, Satoko's aunt was found beaten to death, and......"

She trailed off. Suzaku's eyes were wide the whole time. THIS had been happening in this town? Seriously?!

"I'm not sure explaining the whole story to you would be such a great idea." Shion said finally, "I mean....nobody's really supposed to be speaking of it, and....I'm one of the few people who do know the true story, and...."

"I understand."

"Y-Yeah...."

They stood in silence, Shion rubbing her arm and Suzaku looking in another direction.

"Well, this is awkward...isn't it?"

"Greatly."

"So..." Shion looked up at him, "What shall we do now?"

"SHION! KIRYUU-SAN!"

They looked over to find the green-haired twin running her way over, Keiichi, Rena, Satoko and Rika following closely behind.

"Guys! Didn't expect YOU to be here!" Mion said in surprise, lifting her eyebrows.

"We were supposed to stay after school so I could show Suzaku-san around...." Shion muttered from between her teeth.

"Really?" Keiichi clapped his hands, "Yay for you two!"

"Why're you guys still around?" Suzaku asked coldly.

Rika's smile was completely innocent, "We wanted to come back and say hi to you, nano desu."

"Why not we go to Angel Mort together and get some dinner?" Satoko suggested, "We can learn more about Suzaku-san and get Nee-Nee to stop hating him!"

"But they made a truce..." Keiichi pointed out quietly.

"What was that, Maebara-san?" Suzaku asked.

"Uh, nothing!"

"What's this?" Mion exclaimed, leaning in, studying Shion's face with a grin, "Shion isn't smiling? She broke the rules of the punishment game? How will you pay for this?"

Shion's face turned red, and she started to sputter for an answer. Then Suzaku spoke.

"No she didn't. I said whenever I looked at her, she would have to smile. Am I looking at her right now, Mion-san?"

When Mion turned to Suzaku, she saw his eyes on her, not her sister.

"Aahh, I see now. But you better not break the rules, Shion. This old man's got her EYES on YOU." Mion then laughed and shrugged, her grin still there, "Now, are we heading to Angel Mort or not?"

"Mii, let's go, nano desu!" Rika jumped.

Rena grabbed Suzaku's arm, "You'll love Angel Mort! All the CUTEST things!"

"And all the HOT GIRLS who work there!!" Keiichi emphasized on the 'hot girls', receiving an elbow jab from Mion.

"Doesn't Shii-chan work there as well, kana?" Rena asked suddenly.

Shion gasped, "Re-Rena-san!!"

"Oh ya!" Rika agreed, "Shii's outfit is a tad bit revealing as well, nano desu..."

Satoko blinked, "Rika..."

"Ooohhh yeaaahhh..." Mion made an evil grin.

Suzaku couldn't supress the faint blush on his face at the thought, and Shion noticed this. It resulted in another slap across his cheek.

"You...PERV!!" She steamed, "You go after Satoko then go after me?! You---!!!"

She breathed in and out, calming down, then turned away and grabbed Satoko's hand, "We're going."

Satoko made an apologizing look to Suzaku and allowed Shion to pull her off.

"Awww, Shion!" Mion called after, "You can't blame Kiryuu-san for thinking like a man!"

Rika titled her head, "You wanna just go to Angel Mort without them, Mii?"

The girl with the pony-tail shrugged, "I guess so. Shion can be so sensitive and stubborn. And she's too protective over Satoko-chan."

"I can see that." Suzaku commented.

"Well, no matter." Rena waved her hand, "Shii-chan is always like that. Let's head over to Angel Mort and maybe Satoko-chan would've convinced Shion to already be there by then!"

"Mii!" Rika smiled.

Even though Suzaku was weary and wanted to take a nap, he allowed the kids to pull along the road to Angel Mort.

Yays, glad you liked this one. 8D

Expect more!

Maybe....

If I'm encouraged enough ^^