I'm just posting bits to keep motivated. Apologies to those who find them too short.
But yeah~ We move slightly forward with this post. Curse my inability to move things along.
Thanks for reading!
GHOST FRIENDS
Clash
“Bye mom! I’m going now!” Haruna yelled as she left the house for school.
“See you later, Yukirin!” Mayu cheerfully called to the older girl before leaving the apartment.
Yuu had checked to make sure he hadn’t forgotten anything before setting off for school on his bicycle.
The three of them soon arrived like many other students to their destination— Akihabara North High School.
“Wuaa, it’s Yuu-nii!” Ryoka ran up to the boy locking up his bike and hugged him.
Yuu shivered a bit as it felt like a cool breeze hit him. Looking around for the source he noticed that the new girl was there again.
“Mayu–!” A voice nearby called and Yuu noted that it sounded familiar.
“Mayu, you forgot your lunch!” A slightly winded Yuki—or Black, as Yuu recognised her as in surprise—ran up behind a smaller pigtailed girl and handed her a cute anime themed bento box. It was lucky for Yuki that Mayu’s school wasn’t too far from the apartment so she was able to catch up to her.
...Is Black her mother? The incredulous thought ran through Yuu’s head before he got rid of the ridiculousness.
There’s no way...“You’re that con artist from the bar!” Yuu pointed at Black who still hadn’t noticed him, all the while with Ryoka, unknown to him, still clinging to his waist.
Yuki’s eyes widened when he addressed her, aware that the spirit—who appeared to be a young girl—clung burdensomely to him. He was being haunted most severely. People who bore the weight of the spirits on them often became sick or in other ways negatively affected.
“I’ll get rid of the spirit immediately!” In contrast to the cross she held, she started chanting Shinto verses which seemed to have an instant effect on Ryoka who had let go of Yuu.
The small ghost seemed to be having trouble breathing even though ghosts didn’t have to breathe in the first place. She had crumpled into a small ball on the ground, shaking her head.
“Yuu-nii! I don’t want to go! I don’t want to go!”
“St-stop it!” Haruna was yelling, not knowing what was going on. Ryoka was fading in and out of sight.
“Yuu-nii!” Ryoka somehow managed to launch herself at her brother and when she hit him, for a miraculous moment, Yuu could swear he saw her.
“Ryoka?”
It was just a flash however and she quickly disappeared out of sight.
Haruna, tired of being ignored stepped right in front of Yuki, blocking her view of Ryoka and Yuu. She she slapped the cross out of the exorcist’s hand with all her strength, leaving it hanging limply on the chain. “Y-you have no right. Ryoka wants to stay with her brother so who are you to take that away?”
A stunned Yuki looked at the girl in front of her. “It’s an exorcist’s job to send the spirits on their way. They have no place here with the living. If you knew about the spirit, why didn’t you send her?”
“I’m not an exorcist,” Haruna gave Yuki a hard glare.
“Yukirin, let’s go,” Mayu, feeling the growing tension, grabbed hold of Yuki’s wrist. “Sorry about her,” she pulled her friend away, bowing to the two older students.
It was only now that the strange girl and her companion was gone, with things going back to being somewhat normal that Haruna realised they were only just past the school entrance. This means that with all the students arriving, there had been plenty of people around to see the whole bizarre episode.
“Oh my god, that was so weird!” A random female voice blurted.
“Wasn’t that 2-B’s Watanabe from the anime club? Who was that with her?” A boy who had stopped when he’d heard the yelling asked. There was general murmuring from those who had been curious about the commotion.
This was a disaster. More importantly though, had the exorcist succeeded? Haruna worriedly turned back to where she’d last seen Ryoka, only to meet with the gaze of a stony faced Yuu.
“Would you care to explain what is going on?”
“You see—” But then the bell rang. “Class is starting, afterwards I’ll explain,” Haruna made to go but Yuu grabbed her.
“No, I think this is more important than homeroom. Come with me, I know where we can go..” And despite Haruna’s protests, he dragged the girl around the back of the school. “We need to have a talk
now.”
The baseball team’s equipment shed was naturally abandoned at this time of day. It was also locked but Yuu seemed extremely knowledgeable in the way he maneuvered a close by trash bin to use as a step up to reach one particular window. A window he then expertly eased open for them to climb in through.
“You seem like you do this often.” Haruna commented right after he skillfully helped her down the window ledge.
“Sometimes,” Yuu shrugged. “More importantly, how do you know about Ryoka?”
So much for some friendly small talk. Not that Haruna really wanted to make friends or anything but Ryoka’s description of her kind and wonderful big brother sure wasn’t coming through.
“I know about her because I met her and she talks to me.”
“Talked to you, you mean,” Yuu corrected.
“No...
talks.” Haruna corrected back evenly. The nerve of this guy. “Look, you probably won’t believe me but I can see ghosts and Ryoka is one of them.”
Trying to think of a way to convince him, Haruna reminded, “She was the one who knocked down your pencil case yesterday.”
Yuu listened carefully to the explanation, his face not giving anything away. “Is she here right now?” His voice was quiet.
Haruna shook her head, “No.”
“Hey, don’t mess with me, okay?” The boy erupted, banging a fist against a steel locker. “Are you and that Black girl doing this together? Because I don’t know where my old man is and I don’t have money for you guys to scam me out of. There’s no leftover ransom or insurance or any of that crap.”
“I’m not trying to scam you, I don’t want any money and I have no idea who Black is.” Haruna had taken a step back from Yuu’s sudden outburst. She was holding her hands up in what she hoped to be a pacifying manner.
“Oh really? Isn’t it just convenient that we’ve moved somewhere there’s no way you could have set up any tricks that now Ryoka isn’t here?”
“Look, I don’t know how to make you believe but that exorcist might have already banished her. When she came here just now, she tried to make Ryoka go away and it might have worked.”
“Whatever.” Yuu pushed Haruna out his way to climb back up to the window. “Close the window on your way out,” with that, he jumped off the ledge.
Haruna heard him land outside and then he was gone.
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Note: Don't be surprised if this all gets deleted for proper revision later... I have no clue what I'm doing/where I'm going. *cough* >_____>
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