i've been watching a lot of horror game walkthroughs and playing horror games too to improve my horror...or suspense...but i feel as if i fail ahahaha;;;;
enjoy reading! i hope!
"…T-Tenma?"
In front of Kariya, Tenma stood in front of him. But there were various things different about him. Transparent body, being able to float in the air, his hair looked like those pictures of a young Tenma he saw when Aki showed them in a photo album she kept. Kariya felt doubtful about this Tenma, so he raised his hand and let it touch Tenma's chest.
It went through Tenma's body and Kariya moved it around his transparent body. Nothing, it felt like nothing was there at all.
"Tenma…what are you…?"
Tenma smiled, "I'm a ghost. I died when I was a young boy. Remember that story I told you about when Gouenji-san saved me from those planks falling at me?"
Kariya nodded.
"Well, he was never there when that happened. I suffered it…I…never became who I was supposed to be." Tenma explained to him.
Kariya kept silent, noticed how Tenma looked like he was crying and touching his head over and over again. It must have hurt so much.
"I'm sorry, Tenma." he apologized.
"Don't apologize, Kariya, this has nothing to do with you." Tenma said, "Anyways, we better get going! You're probably wondering why you're here."
The ghost pointed to a direction and started floating there hurriedly. Kariya followed, running after the ghost. He bumped into a lot of students, which made them grunt and glare at him.
Soon, they reached the back of the school grounds. The place looked so mediocre and putrid. The scent of two month old garbage and animal waste consumed the air. Tenma handed out Kariya a mask that looked like it would cover the nose and mouth.
"Use this, it's an oxygen mask created by scientist in this place." Tenma explained.
"Scientist? This place?" Kariya asked as he put on the oxygen mask.
Tenma stopped walking and Kariya looked up to see that they reached the entrance of some sort of building. It looked similar to a garden shed.
The ghost knocked twice on the door and a voice responded to it, asking: "Password?"
"Banana split topped with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and rubber bands." Tenma replied.
"Rubber bands…? Really? And to be topped on banana split ice cream…" Kariya thought to himself.
The door opened. Tenma motioned Kariya to enter the shed and he did as the ghost asked him to do. Odd, no one is at the door, so who asked for the password? Well, back to what the duo, they started to walk down a long path that seemed went down and down to the ground.
After what seemed to be like forever, they reached another door and Tenma opened the door. Inside, there were various people chatting or eating ice cream. Kariya recognized a few people, like Kageyama Hikaru and Amemiya Taiyou were there. But they all looked completely different from their other counterparts who Kariya knew more.
At the far end of the room, someone sat down at the throne. It was Tsurugi Kyousuke, but he looked different as well. His hair no longer had bangs so it was smeared back (although, the ponytail was kept but it was put in a lower spot), and his eyes were covered with a white bandanna.
"The boy who lost his way." a voice whispered in his head. It was like that time when he entered and saw Tenma.
"Kyousuke! I brought to you the boy you requested me to summon!" Tenma said, pushing Tenma in front of Tsurugi.
Kariya cringed and tried to back away from him but it made Tenma push him further and further to Tsurugi, without realizing that he got too close to Tsurugi. Tsurugi held onto Kariya's shoulder when he went close, causing Tenma and Kariya to stop their actions.
Tsurugi went close to Kariya and examined him closely.
"Same hair colour, same eye shape and colour, somehow same personality, we just need to work on his hair." Tsurugi noted, "Yes, this is him."
Whispers of excitement and giggling filled the atmosphere of the room. Kariya looked around in confusion.
"You must be wondering why you're here, right Kariya?" Tsurugi asked him, standing up from his post.
Kariya nodded.
"Well, it goes like this," Tsurugi started, "You see, the reason why you were called here is because we need you. You see, you're in another world… that probably seemed obvious already but still. Normally, we don't try to mess with people from other worlds but we have a purpose. Your counterpart from this world died."
"…Died?" Kariya asked, "Sure, he died, but why did you have to summon me?"
"Well that's because your counterpart and you have a similar statistics in many things, which makes you the only other suited candidate to stop her." Tsurugi explained, "And by her, we're talking about a friend of yours from your world."
There's only one girl who's closest to Kariya in his world, and that's…
"…Aoi…? Why? What did she do?" Kariya asked.
"She made this school into the most dangerous school in Japan." Tsurugi answered, "Because Tenma died, and many other incidents no one knows, she fell into deep despair and a dark power controlled her."
"That's intense…" Kariya commented.
"It is, and the only way to stop her is through all of us, she needs to hear all her friends voices from the world you live in because our world and your world are similiar in many ways. We need to wake her up from her nightmares." Tsurugi explained more, and with that, he finished his whole explanation to him, "So…any questions?"
Kariya wanted to ask Tsurugi badly about his bandanna but he decided against it, as he might get offended. He shook his head as a reply.
"Good, now let Tenma direct you to your way out and I hope you don't mind if he cuts your hair before you leave the school to make you look like the Kariya from this world." Tsurugi said and instructed Tenma to bring him back to the school. Everyone else left the place through the various holes on the walls, probably shortcuts to other places.
Tenma and Kariya left the shed quickly. From the orange colored sky above, it seems like it's already late afternoon. They both scurried to a classroom, where they decided to cut Kariya's hair with scissors Tenma found on the teacher's desk. The ghost started cutting the hair gently, being careful with the scissors to not accidentally cut a skin on his head.
"Isn't Kyousuke such a nice guy?" Tenma asked.
"Yeah, but there's still some questions I want answers from! Like how the "me" in this world died or what's with that bandanna on his eyes? Makes me feel a little uncomfortable about him." Kariya asked with impatience at the tone of his voice.
"It's best if you won't know for now, just focus on your mission first!" Tenma responded, smiling at Kariya.
"Hmph, fine." Kariya pouted.
Minutes later, Tenma finished cutting Kariya's hair. He handed to the teal-haired boy a mirror and watched as Kariya looked in awe at his hair. It was shorter than his neck, like how every typical boy would look like. But he had small fringe covering a bit of the left side of his face.
"Thanks Tenma, it looks great!" Kariya thanked him happily.
"No problem! You better get going now, Kirino is probably waiting for you!" Tenma exclaimed.
"Kirino-senpai…?" Kariya asked.
"Ahh, Tsurugi forgot to say! In this world, you live Kirino-senpai's family! And also, Nozaki Sakura gets adopted by Kirino-senpai's family too so technically, she makes her Kirino's sister." Tenma explained.
"Eh?! I LIVE WITH KIRINO-SENPAI?!"
…
Earlier today, an assembly was called to the current-graduating students of the school. All the students lined up outside the auditorium, all. A certain student waited for his friend to arrive because he's taking so long in the bathroom.
"Geez, does it take ten minutes to be in the bathroom?!" he asked himself impatiently.
After a short while, his friend arrived from the bathroom. That's when the boy noticed that he looked a little paler than awhile ago.
"Hey, you okay?" the boy asked.
"…" his friend didn't reply.
"Oookaaay…let's just hurry inside." the boy said and lead his friend inside the auditorium.
Minutes passed and everything went silent now. A teacher went up to the stage, took out a microphone. He started speaking the words written on the paper, his voice sounded a little jumpy and frightened.
"A-According to our head, we must make a program that will prove that you're all worthy of graduating from this school. So, have you read on what you have to do in the slip we have you this morning?" he asked.
"Yes, sir." the students said in unison.
"Well, you all know what to do." the teacher said, and he quickly left the stage and auditorium all together.
No one moved a muscle, not wanting to do what was instructed on the slip. But was someone even dating enough to do so?
Suddenly, the boy's friend stood up from his chair. Everyone stared at him.
"H-Hey, what are you doing…?" the boy asked.
The friend smiled, "Starting up the games, of course~"