A/N: HEY LOOK AN UPDATE. Who woulda thought this fic would take so long to finish? And even then, it's not even really finished, seeing as I decided to split it into a sequel... that will probably take forever to upload. But I'm spamming Kagerou Project until I finish at least this, so let's hope I can go through with it! And to those of you still waiting on the last chapter of Underground Rainbow... I really messed up on that, honestly. I might have to extend it a few chapters, since I realized I missed a lot of little details. But hey, rainbows are supposed to have seven colors, right?... Not a legit excuse, I know, but I'm trying. Kinda. Not really.

Chapter 13: Reminder

"Buchou... where did you get that book?"

He honestly hadn't heard the door creaking open, nor did he notice the boy sneaking up on him from behind. He did, however, notice when wide eyes locked onto the large book in his hands. Hiyoshi was tense, almost terrified, and his voice was strained.

"Is something wrong?" He asked, not sure what the proper response to the boy's question would be. He was still staring at the book, pages open to a familiar circle. He sighed.

"Give it up, magic circles won't do any good." He said, although the apprehension on his face spoke otherwise. Atobe frowned.

"You're not telling me everything. Why," He held the book up, pages wide open, and watched as Hiyoshi took a step back. "does this concern you then?"

"It's..." He paused, glancing at the book once more before looking away. "It's the same one that got us into this situation. A seal can only be undone with the same spell, but I've been doubting the effectiveness of circles."

"Seems legit, seeing as you're in this situation now."

"I didn't think you'd actually find one, though." He said, purposely ignoring his captain's comment. "Besides, then spell won't work anyways." Atobe frowned again.

"Why not?"

"Because we need something of mine."

He nearly jumped out of his chair when Hao materialized next to him, leaning over to read off the page.

"Yup, that's the one. Totally ineffective, but I can't really talk." He ran his transparent fingers over the yellow pages. "I don't know how they got it to work in the first place, actually. I thought I'd gotten rid of all my old stuff."

Atobe sat up straight, turning the book back around. "It says here that you need an item that's valuable to the one being sealed." He read. "You're a demon, I didn't think you had important things." Hao frowned.

"I don't. At least, not anymore. I got rid of it all when I joined the Council." He crossed his arms, scowling at the carpeted floor. "I think..."

Hiyoshi sighed. "It's pointless to try with that, Buchou. We've tried other circles, but they've all backfired horribly." He shook his head. "We'll just have to keep looking."

"Someone's pretty negative today." Atobe smirked, adjusting his grip on the book. It was heavy, but Hao was still reading, and he didn't think it would be a good idea to interrupt him.

"Can you blame me? We're getting nowhere and it's not exactly fun dealing with this situation." He sighed heavily. "I'm just... tired, is all."

Atobe stared at him for a moment, opening his mouth to speak, but Hao suddenly jumped up.

"Got it!" He exclaimed. He was grinning from ear to ear now, and both boys felt slightly unnerved.

"Got... what?" Hiyoshi asked, because Atobe didn't know if he could trust his own words.

"We can make it work." The demon said, grabbing Hiyoshi's hands. "I may have thrown everything away, but there's one thing we can use. But we need to go there to get it."

" 'There'?" Atobe repeated. Hiyoshi furrowed his eyebrows for a second, before realization flashed in his eyes.

"Oh." He said, eyes widening. "Oh. I get it now." He turned to Atobe. "Buchou, how soon can we leave?" Atobe frowned—He'd been doing that a lot lately—and shook his head.

"You want to explain what we're doing, exactly? You know, so I can actually come up with a believable excuse to give my parents? It's kind of the middle of the school year, and I don't think they'd approve... much... of me leaving with our whole regualars team on a trip to China."

"The whole team?" Hiyoshi had an expression between concern and annoyance. "Do we really need to take them?"

"They'd want to come, and I don't think Choutarou would let you leave the country without him for something like this." He gestured to the book now lying on his lap. "Besides, Jirou can translate if it comes to that?"

"Akutagawa-san? Isn't Chinese his worst class?" Hiyoshi asked, slightly surprised. Atobe smirked.

"He only hates it, it is by no means his worst class. Actually, he's quite good at it." He said. "When you hate something, you'd want to overcome it so that you'd never have to do it again, right?" Hao hummed.

"He's right, you know." He said, and Hiyoshi raised an eyebrow. "We're the perfect example, aren't we? We hate being stuck together like this, so we want to get out of it as soon as possible." He grinned. "Besides, your Chinese is shit, I would know."

Hiyoshi scowled, punching the demon in the shoulder, who laughed.

"Fine, but we need to go soon. Who knows how much longer we'll last like this." He said. "I can already feel your murderous needs." At that, Hao stopped laughing and frowned.

"Okay, hey, that's not something I can help. If I die, you die. And if you die, Choutarou dies. remember that." Hiyoshi rolled his eyes.

"As if I could forget."

Atobe sighed, putting the book aside and clapping his hands. The other two jumped, looking at him.

"I understand your situation almost as well as I used to, but I still need to know your reasons for wanting to go to China." Hao raised an eyebrow.

"Isn't it obvious? I thought you were the smart one." He scoffed, and Atobe glared at him. "We're going to get something of mine so the magic circle will work."

Both males looked at him, Atobe with confusion and Hiyoshi with concern.

"Didn't you say you got rid of everything?" Atobe said, getting more confused with every word that left the demon's mouth. Hiyoshi shook his head.

"While I'm not entirely opposed to this, I don't think it's a good idea."

"It's mine anyways, there shouldn't be any problems. And it's not like there's anything keeping me here in Japan." He turned to Atobe now, face serious for the first time during their conversation. "I got rid of everything, but there are some things you just can't throw away. So I buried it."

"I see." The silver-haired boy said, turning around in his chair to grab his cellphone. "And where, exactly, are we going?"

Hao didn't respond. Atobe looked up.

"Hao?"

He turned his head away, red pupils thinning slightly.

"My house. The house I lived in... when I was human."

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A/N: This was... not nearly as hard to write as it should have been. Maybe cuz I actually tried a little? Oh well, at least it's done after... how long? Anyways, next chapter will be the last one, before I split it off and work on the sequel. Also, I think after I finish with this and it's second part, I'm going to hold off on TeniPuri for a while. I don't know why, but it just got really hard to write the characters. I think it might be because I've been watching stuff outside the sports category, but after the whole Unseal is over and done with, I'll be jumping into another fandom for a while. I'll still try to update some of my drabble fics, but that's a matter of getting ideas.

Also, I hate the new FF filter. I can't click the 'apply' button!