Juuzou

He saw her in his dreams that night, in a field that was quite confusing to him.

In the sky were stars, but the sun was out and it was bright. The trees and bushes were made up of cotton candy, and the flowers were made out of actual candy. There were a circle of people dancing around a campfire, happily stepping to the sparks of flame. The thing was, the fire was blue and they were greeting each other by saying 'good morning' when there was a campfire. They were quite all young and seemed to be near his age, but of course, composed and not as simpleminded. They didn't seem to notice him walking towards him.

"Ohayou...minna...good morning...everyone..." [AN: making the translations in the sentence to make it easier!] Juuzou muttered, to nobody. They didn't notice him here, either. "Do you hear me?" he waved to them. They wore...the normal CCG attire.

Where was Shinohara-san in all the midst of this?

"Oi, Takizawa. Would you stop blushing whenever Kazumi's around and get to work?" It was Takizawa's partner. Takizawa choked on the water he was drinking and his face grew even redder.

"I blush around her?" Takizawa gasped. His partner's expression darkened and looked at him.

"Idiot," His partner shook his head.

"Hello, Takizawa," A voice came from behind Takizawa. Kazumi.

"K-K-Kazumi...h-h-hi..." Takizawa quivered nervously.

"Do you know where Taiki is? His wife is waiting for him," Kazumi stated.

"O-oh, I just saw him around here a few minutes ago. He w-went to go see his w-wife," Takizawa stuttered.

"Are you okay? You're not speaking normally," Kazumi worried. Takizawa looked alarmed and his partner had a smug look on his face.

"Yeah, I-I-I-I-" Takizawa's lip quivered. "I'm fine!" He ran off to go talk to no one in particular. Juuzou didn't really care for either of them, and they were both jerks to him. They would have been a good couple, and Takizawa seemed to like her anyways. What bakas, idiots.

Looking around, Juuzou strained to get anyone's attention, and Shinohara wasn't there. "Hello, anyone? Please?" Juuzou tried.

"J-Juuzou...? I didn't know you were here. We would all have noticed you by now. Are you looking for Shinohara-san?" Kazumi said to him.

"...Konnichiwa. Hello. Where's Shinohara-san? I want to see him! I'm confused! The trees are made up of cotton candy and there are Investigators in a place like this with a campfire in the morning and there is a sun out but there are stars too and I'm scareddd!" Juuzou whined.

"Cotton...candy...trees? A campfire in the morning?" Her eyes widened and everything else but Juuzou and Kazumi disappeared, leaving the landscape and sky around them, and a black square hole below them. "What's going on?!"

She fell on top of him as they freefalled to the blackness below, and she was hyperventilating.

She grabbed onto him. "I hate heights sometimes," She yelled. "I'm sorry for doing this." And she appeared truthful. Normally she wouldn't even touch him at all, or even look at him. Right now, her arms were around him, clinging for dear life. It was like a hug, but he didn't really know what it was like. It was weird. All he felt was warmth.

Weird.

They landed with a thud. Juuzou was unfazed. Pain was nothing to him. Kazumi was scared out of her mind and she was whimpering like a puppy. Her eyes were closed and her face was pale.

"Is it really that bad?" Juuzou was annoyed.

"Yes," Kazumi replied. "S-sorry..."

"It-it's okay," Juuzou said. She tried to get off of him, but fell back oh his chest. Blushing, she tried again. And fell straight down again.

"I-I can't move my legs and arms very well," Kazumi was panicking.

"Well, try again," Juuzou was getting more frustrated. She tried moving her arms and succeeded, but whilest trying to move her legs, it didn't work. She cried out in pain as she bent it. Juuzou, being the careless person like he was, didn't know what to do. He didn't really relate to the pain she was going through.

"I...don't know what to do..." Juuzou said. He could see a light up ahead. "I'll try walking over there...but...I don't know...what to do," He started getting up, but Kazumi pressed closer to him.

"No! I mean...um...please don't...I erm, have a lot of sudden fears," Kazumi looked very serious.

So she wasn't the fearless, arrogant girl like he thought she was. Juuzou smirked.

"What if I leave you here? It's not like you can stop me...you can die here..." Juuzou laughed. Kazumi wrapped her arms around him.

"Please don't." Her eyes were as wide as saucers and were terrified.

"The next time you annoy me, I'm leaving you here," He said and lifted her to her feet.

They walked slowly towards the light. Well, he was half-carrying her, at least. And she wasn't really walking, more like shuffling her feet VERY loudly.

Suddenly, he heard a voice. Shinohara...? "Juuzou!" He was looking for Juuzou!

"Shinohara?!" Kazumi looked at him. Shinohara was right there!

Thing was, there was someone trying to kill him.

"Shinohara-san!" Juuzou yelled. Wait...

It was his mama. Which one should he save? Shinohara? His beloved mama? Kazumi?

Those words rung in his mind until he could not think. "Juuzou, leave me," Kazumi smiled.

"What?" Juuzou was surprised by her sudden gratitude and selflessness.

"Leave me."

A sudden wind blasted up and Juuzou didn't know what was happening. "Mama? Shinohara-san?" They disintegrated into the wind. "Wait! Wait!" Only Kazumi was left.

"...I..." Kazumi said.

"I'm sorry..." She said as she disintegrated too.

"WAIT!" Juuzou yelled. He ran into the light.

Juuzou gasped for air. "Wait..." He murmured.

He was sleeping. And he just woke up from a weird, confusing, and scary dream.

On the other hospital bed besides Kazumi's.

What had just happened?

Oh yeah, the ghoul...he had slaughtered it and left Juuzou with an injured leg, apparently 'no good for Investigating'.

"Juuzou...hey, thanks for the save back there...even though I blacked out before I could see," Kazumi was sitting on her bed.

"It was fun!" Juuzou smirked. But he didn't know what had happened.

"And...well...I'm sorry about a lot of things...so erm...oh well," Kazumi muttered under her breath.

"Sorry...?" In his dream, she said 'I'm sorry' too. "Sorry, eh? Well, I'll leave you to get eaten next time if you're not!" He grinned.

She smiled. "I'm glad," She said.

Yeah, that was confusing. Sorry. Feedback? The part before the line break is Juuzou's dream. This chapter was kind-of filler but it introduced their new friendship.

I'm still not over Hide ;-;

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