(Last time...)

Oni holds her head, "I feel sick…" Slowly Oni and helps Ayumi stand up. "We have to leave now… We have wasted enough time… If they know we are here they might know your friends are here!" He looks at the student he sees a bloody bag in her hand. "What's that?"

"It's uh… One of the children's tongues…" She replies her voice still shaking.

"You have this why!?" He lets go of her hand.

"He… The boy… I think we have to give them their tongues back…"

Hitoshi sets his sister back down, "I'll do it."

"A-are you sure Hitoshi? You could die!"

"I said I would protect Oni even if it means I'll die…"

"You're not going to die!" Oni speaks up.

Hitoshi looks at the small girl and the back to Ayumi, "Take care of her 'till I get back." He takes the bag and then leaves the room. Oni tries following her brother but Ayumi holds her back.

Hitoshi walks through the hallway looking back multiple times. The floorboards creek with every step he takes, weakened with age and decay. He looks out the window occasionally at the endless rain, forever falling from the sky with no sign of stopping, accompanied by random shots of lightening and booming of thunder. He continues down the hallway when it suddenly drops in temperature. He looks around, looking for any sign of the ghost boy.

"Giff it baw…"

Continued...

Hitoshi spins around to the voice and holds the bag out in front of him. "I have it right here!"

"Giff it baw!" The small ghost boy attacks Hitoshi knocking him backward. Hitoshi stayed on his feet and looked shocked.

"I was going to give it back!" His voice filled with disbelief.

"You sole if from me…" The boy holds a pair of bloodied scissors.

"No I didn't!" He holds the bag out in front of him, "Here! Take it!" He's been backed up into a literal corner by the boy. The boy tries to cut Hitoshi's hand and barely misses, cutting open the bag instead. Hitoshi drops the bag and gets past him grabbing the tongue and pushing it in front of the boy's face before he could attack him again.

"M…My tongue…" The small boy glows and slowly disappears.

"He's… at rest now right..?" Hitoshi catches his breath as his voice echoes down the hallway. "That's creepy…" He barely has his breath back as a small girl with pale skill, in a red dress enters his field of vision. Her dress is torn in many places, her dark hair oily, messy and falling down in front of her face. She stopped moving only five to seven feet away from him. He looks at the girl a little worried, not for his own sake but for hers.

"Hello..?" The girl's voice was small and cheerful.

"Hi… are you lost?" He walks towards her a little but she laughs and runs in the opposite direction. Shocked, Hitoshi runs after the girl. Listening to her steps he realizes that she wasn't wearing any shoes. Hitoshi sees the girl ahead of him one minuet but the next she's gone and the footsteps stop. He stops where he last was her and looks around. He was in the main entrance of the school, lockers lined the walks and middle of the room as small dusty children's shoes laid out all over the floor. He looks around one last time for the girl. He doesn't see her, "Seems like that girl is just a ghost too…"

"Ayumi! Naomi! Satoshi! Damn it, where are you!?" Another voice. Hitoshi turns and looks at the door he came through. A taller teenager with blond hair walked through into the room. He was wearing a school uniform.

"Hello?" Hitoshi looked at the student.

"Oh? Thank God I'm not the only one here! My name's Yoshiki Kishinuma." He holds out his hand. Hitoshi takes his hand and shakes it.

"I'm Hitoshi Ichiro. You were calling for 'Ayumi'?" He looks at the teen with question.

"Yeah I was have you seen her? She has dark hair pulled back into two tails." Yoshiki asks eagerly.

"I've seen her she's back in a classroom with my little sister." He explains calmly, "Come on I'll take you."

"Thank you!" Yoshiki follows him as Hitoshi explains how he found her and how he and Oni got to the cursed school in the first place. Yoshiki also explains why he and Ayumi had gotten there as well. Ayumi had found the charm online and one of their friends was going to move away. She had thought it was a good idea to do the charm so they would all stay friends forever. Hitoshi and Yoshiki reach the door of the classroom and walk inside.

"Ayumi? Oni?" Hitoshi asks to make sure they were still safe in the room.

"Oh Hitoshi you're…"

"Shinozaki!" He cuts her off and he runs over.

"Kishinuma?" She stands up as Oni moves away from her.

Hitoshi walks over to his sister as she looks up at him, "Who is he?"

"One of Ayumi's friends I guess." He speaks over the two reunited teenagers as they catch up on everything that had happened.

"Do you know where the others are Ayumi?" Yoshiki asks hopefully.

"No I don't, but I found these two around here." She replies disappointed.

"They have others with them brother…" Oni looks up at him.

"We will help look for them, but first, we have to give back what the ghosts back what they want…" He looks at his sister promising safety.

"Ghosts?" Yoshiki looks at Hitoshi.

Hitoshi nods, "I gave the boy back his tongue, but there's a girl I saw. She seemed to be trying to lead me somewhere…" He looks aside and thinks.

"We'll need to find the other's tongues…" Ayumi hesitates.

"I'm going to follow the girl again and see what happens…" He looks up to Ayumi and Yoshiki. He looks back down when he feels Oni tugging on his shirt.

"Please… Don't get hurt… Please…" She looks down.

Hitoshi looks at her and smiles and pats her head. "I won't… I promise." He lets her go and leaves the classroom. He hears Ayumi and Yoshiki resume their conversation as he closes the door. He looks around and starts again down the hallway. He looks for the girl but can't seem to find her until she appears sitting on an old rotting desk. A first he smiles but that soon fades as he sees the bloody scissors in her hand. Again with the scissors? He backs away a step.

"You care about anyone you come across… don't you?" She chuckles.

"Yes I do…" He replies matter-of-factly.

"You helped the boy… why?" she tilts her head to the side slightly.

"No one deserves to die… and he was restless… I don't blame him for coming after me…" With this remark the girl just laughs a little harder. He narrows his eyes at her.

"My name, is Sachiko Shinozaki. Prepare to die!" She jumps down from the table and quickly throws the scissors towards Hitoshi.