Author's notes:

Dreamer: hey there! Back and ready for action!

Helen: About time!

Dreamer: Anyway, I'd firstly like to apologize to ZaphYlight and Mizuhara Yukie for using Your OCs as plot devices or something similar. I know I totally missed the mark on them for the last two chapters and I hope you forgive me. Now on with the chapter!


Chapter 4: Eyes

Rin entered her room, really agitated about the strange incident. She really was annoyed about the fact that the incident had occurred on the day her parents were out of town. She felt really insecure since she was completely alone and virtually defenseless to any kind of danger, even though it was her own house.

She sat down on her bed and buried her face in her hands, still hoping that she was daydreaming or hallucinating. Maybe it was just karma getting back at her for giving the Minami siblings a rather bad first day...

Rin shot upwards at the sound of the main door to the house opening. The sound was loud as a whip crack in the silent house. 'Darn it!' She thought. She had left the main door open.

She quickly but silently went towards the staircase, grabbing a clay vase on the way to use as a weapon.

She heard steps coming towards the staircase. They grew louder and louder still and soon was reaching near Rin
.

Rin hid by the side of the staircase, waiting, almost dreading the fight she had a good chance of loosing...

The person was almost at the top the stairs. Rin braced herself. She closed her eyes and jumped out of her hiding place, swinging the vase wildly. She heard an oddly familiar voice yell and then strong hands grabbed her wrist in a flurry of teal hair.

'RIN!' The teal haired teen yelled. Rin sighed with relief, it was only Kazemaru Ichirouta, her friend, neighbor and sempai.

Rin stopped trying to struggle and sighed with relief.

'What was that about?' Kazemaru inquired as she left the vase on it's perch and straightened up. 'What do you think it was about? I realized I left the door unlocked and heard you coming in and...' 'Thought that I was a burgler or something? This isn't the first time you left the door unlocked, you know.' Kazemaru interrupted with an eye roll. 'I did wander in here a fair few times without any overreaction.'

'Hey! I dad a bad day and I'd just had an adrenalin rush, what would you expect?' Rin said exasperatedly as she led Kazemaru to her room. She sat down on the chair of her desk and noticed Kazemaru looking at her with a raised eyebrow.

Rin raised her eyebrows in return and Kazemaru inquired, 'What adrenalin rush?'

Rin's mouth curled into a grin, his tone was so like a worried father or a rather protective older brother.

'Oh, it's nothing.' Rin said dismissively. She was reluctant to have another person think that she was loosing her marbles and decided the matter could rest, for now anyway.

Kazemaru looked rather skeptic but acknowledged the dismissal and thought it prudent not to pursue the matter. He instead walked up to Rin's desk and picked up a finely wrapped gift. 'Who's it for?' He inquired, surveying the box closely.

'I wouldn't open that if I were you.' Rin said while stifling a small yawn.

'Why, does it have a punching glove in it?' Kazemaru said, remembering the fondness she has for pranking Nagumo Haruya.

'No, I don't do those old school tricks anymore.' She replied. 'But it is in fact a prank, so be careful.' Rin yawned again.

Kazemaru left the box alone. Knowing Rin, it might be a stink bomb or itching powder. 'What's with the yawning, sleepy so early?' He asked looking at her.

'You would've gotten tired too, the new kid Aranthe and Helen and Addie seem to have declared war on each other... Trying to break them up and keeping them from breaking our bones as well is no walk in the park...' She replied.

'I'll leave you alone for now, then, just came to check on you . And please lock the door, we don't want you attacking other innocent people too.' Kazemaru said grinning.

Rin rolled her eyes and accompanied him to the door and locked it after Kazemaru left. She returned to her room and sat in front of the window, looking at Kazemaru who was walking along the street with her head in her arms.

She was feeling relaxed, sleepy but suddenly...

She staggered as a great gale pushed her back after Kazemaru and the few people in the road vanished into thin air.

The window nearly shattered as it violently shook and shuddered in the wind. Rin was absolutely horrified and ran down, out to the road. She feared the worst for her friend, the sudden disappearance was so unprecedented that she couldn't think straight.

'KAZEMARU!' She shrieked as she ran barefoot to where Kazemaru was standing last. The sudden gales of wind, obviously unnatural could only slow her down by impairing her vision by making her hair fly in all directions.

She reached the alleyway adjacent to Kazemaru's home, still calling out to her friend to no avail. Oddly enough, in normal circumstances people on the would've looked at her as if she was a madwoman or come out of their homes to see what the commotion was all about, but the whole area was deserted as a ghost town.

She looked wildly around and was shocked when Kazemaru came out of the shadows of the alleyway smiling slightly.

'Kazemaru! You were here all along? What was happening here?' She said in a rush.

'Whoa, take it easy there!' Kazemaru said soothingly but in a rather odd tone. 'You're just tired, so go get some sleep, you're starting to hallucinate now.'

'Ye-yeah... I guess so.' She said, feeling very stupid for the fourth time that day.

'Good, and I'll go take care of a few along now Chihara-chan ' Kazemaru said and went into the shadowy alley.

Rin was about to turn to leave when several things clicked in her head, 'Wait, 'atashi'? And he called me Chihara-chan? only Mika..'

Rin whipped around and dashed to the shadow that was Kazemaru. She opened her mouth to say something but the shadow whipped around and the only things Rin saw as she fell into unconsciousness were two pairs of eyes in a flurry of black...


END

Sorry for the short chapter, it was supposed to be a lot bigger, but since I didn't publish it for a long time I thought it best to publish the first part. The next chapter will be Eyes part two.