(Last Time)

"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.

Continued...

Hitoshi's eyes widen as the scissors fly at him. As instinct, he holds up his hand. The scissors miss their mark and hit the wall next to his head. He looks sideways at the scissors and looks back at the small girl.

"Aww I missed…" Sachiko walks towards him with a devilish smile. She reaches up and pulls the blades out of the wall. "You're not going to run?"

"No…" He says as calmly as possible.

"Most people don't want to die so soon. I know those kids didn't! Haha! They wouldn't stop screaming! "Mommy, Mommy! Help me!" She laughs.

"I don't have parents…" He says solemnly.

"Then your poor sister will yell 'brother' when I go for her next?" She says devilishly.

"You leave her out of this!" He yells.

"Aww, Brother doesn't like the fact that his sister might get hurt or die!"

"Kill me if you want but don't you dare touch my sister!"

"Haha! Yay! I know how to make you suffer…" Laughing, she steps away from Hitoshi and disappears from sight.

He stands in the now quiet hallway shaking, breaking is feet from their grip on the floor he runs back to the classroom. He'd never had this much fear hit him so quickly, he tripped and fell to the floor but quickly got up. He grabbed the door and practically threw it open and ran into the room

"Oni!" He looks around for the silver haired girl. He finds her, again, asleep next to Ayumi.

"Hitoshi, what's wrong?" She stands up after Hitoshi takes the sleeping Oni away from her.

"I won't ever let that girl touch you. Even if it kills me." His eyes go blank as a sadistic smile crosses his face, "I will kill her…"

Oni slowly wakes up, "Blood…? You're bleeding…" She reaches up and touches his cheek.

"Looks like she got me…" he looks down at her.

"What's happened?" Ayumi speaks up.

"That ghost was going to kill me then she decided she was going to torture me… by torturing my sister…" Hitoshi looks down at his sister, "She's still alive… She's all I have left…" His grip on her tightens.

"Come on we need to find the rest of their t… tongues…" Yoshiki stands up and brushes dust off of his pants.

Hitoshi nods and carries Oni towards the door. "Brother… Can I walk?"

Hitoshi doesn't answer.

"Brother! Let me walk!"

Hitoshi roughly sets her down. Oni almost falls before Ayumi catches her. Hitoshi turns towards the door, "Alright fine see if I care! It's not like you're the only family left!" He storms out of the room.

"B…brother…" Oni shakes.

Ayumi looks at Oni and helps lead her down the hallway after Hitoshi. They find him sitting next to the wall muttering to himself. Oni stays behind Ayumi looking at her brother silently. As they get closer they are able to hear the young man's voice.

"Idiot, I'm an idiot… She's all I have left… why does the girl want to torture me..?" His voice shakes.

"Hitoshi snap out of it!" Ayumi's voice fails to reach the dark haired teenager.

"Death, it's around every corner there's no escaping… more and more will die…" the shaking in his voice slowly turns to him chuckling.

Oni steps out behind Ayumi and to her brother, she goes to slap him back into reality but Hitoshi catches her hand before it reaches him. Oni gasps as she steps back pulling her hand back to her. He looks up at her with blank eyes.

"H… Hitoshi?" He stands up unresponsive, "Brother? Are… you okay?"

"Fine… just fine…" His voice holds no emotion as he slowly walks to the front door. Hesitantly Oni follows her brother, the bear dragging against the ground as she holds it by the arm. He looks around the small locker hall, "Come out and play…" Almost immediately on command Oni screams.

"Gladly!" Sachiko appears behind Oni and holds a blade to the silver-haired child.

"What do you want from me!?" Hitoshi spins around and shouts at the girl in red.

"Why nothing at all!" She laughs as she holds the scissor blades closer to Oni's neck.

"Then leave us alone!" Hitoshi's whole body shakes with feat and anger, "Kill my sister and I will come after you even after I die…" A dark smile slowly forms on Hitoshi's face.

"Aww she's shaking, I think you're scaring her. What do you want sister?" She looks at Oni crazily as the she shakes.

"Let her go and no one dies…" Hitoshi walks towards Sachiko.

"Please let her go!" Ayumi speaks up.

"Kill me but not my sister." The dark-haired boy again takes another step.

"Try to find us big brother…" After a devilish smile to Hitoshi, Sachiko and Oni disappear.

"Oni… No!" Hitoshi takes off running, "I'll find her! And I will kill that girl, she's not going to rest easily!"

He only gets three classrooms down before Yoshiki grabs his shoulder and pulls Hitoshi to face him, "Stop it!"

"She's the only family I have left! I will die to protect her!"

"You're going mad Hitoshi it's scaring your sister!" Ayumi says after she's caught up.

"I'm not going insane! If I was I would have killed you both and not have cared what that little bitch did to Oni! But I do care about her and you two are still alive!" He starts walking again.

"Wait!" Ayumi stops him again.

"What?" He looks at her.

"She… may have been moved to another dimension." Ayumi breaks it to him as calmly as possible.