'Hello, I'm Amane Yugi, the soon-to-be 'heroine' of this story
Searching for our missing friends, we've embarked on a quest to No.2 of the seven schools mysteries, The Misaki Stairs
Our goal was to get to the innermost reaches, Where a mysterious weakness is held
Their Yorishiro
Tsubaki said it should be sealed away there.
We came up against many, many obstacles
That we surprisingly overcame them all and once we reached the top floor
Misaki wasn't actually Misaki?
A sad reunion between friends
A precious sacrifice
and a shocking new information'
"This isn't the innermost reaches-"
"Then where is it?"
"Well the only other logical location is
The Bottom"
"What-"
'So I oh so bravely
. . .
Got pushed off a ledge'
"You think he's dead"
"oh no, he's definitely dead" Mokke were surrounding me as I layed with a bland stare on a pile of flowers"
'Well this seems familiar, wonder if a Fallen is going play soon' I thought as I tried to sit up "I'm not . . . dead" I said with my sore throat, I held my head and felt scales
'Scales? oh right, Tsubake pushed me off a cliff, I guess I turned into a fish and got washed up here' I looked up and saw the place was filled with nature; trees, brushes, it even had a sun. It's such an atmospheric difference, you would've never thought that it would be connected to a claustrophobic nightmare filled with more things that I could think of "This has to be the innermost reaches! What else could this be" I said outloud as I walked towards a shrine gate up ahead, I didn't pay attention to much of my surroundings so I soon stubbed my toe on a desk like table.
'Ahhhhhhhhhh!! Fudge covered lemon drops, this hurts' I yelled inside my head as I held my foot crying silently to myself, I noticed that all sorts of papers fell out and onto the floor. But what caught my eye was a book that landed on my head labeled 'TOP SECRET' in red ink subtitle 'NO PEEKING!!' in black ink
"Is this the Yorishiro?" I opened the book only to see writing'Today I THRETENED a Student. It waz fun' As I turned the page thier was a 'Well Done' flower stamp next to a sentence with perfect grammar, under the samp it read 'Misaki'
'Misaki ...like the Mystery?' On the next page there were two sentences, one that's negative
'MISAKI CUT MY HAIR
I Hate Misaki'
And the other positive 'Misaki gave me a hair cut, Thank you, Sensei'
'Dang it! This isn't going to help with anything. I need clues' I yelled in my head as I flipped through the pages of the book, a picture fell out of the book. It was a picture of a class, and a fox statue, on the back it read
'Took a "photograph" with Misaki and other children'
'So Misaki of the stairs isn't the real Misaki, so is it the teacher' I asked to myself
I flipped through the pages and read through all the messages and comments between the teacher and No. 2
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But then 'Misaki didn't come today. I have nothing else to do, so I made dolls while watched people come and go all day'
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Their was no comment
Page after page there was no teacher's comment and No. 2 kept writing the same thing
'Still no Misaki'
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'Still no Misaki'
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'Still no Misaki'
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But then a rumor
Today I heard a rumor that there was an accident on these stairs the other day . . . and I teacher Died' I felt my whole body shiver with the thought 'Wonder what it means to die?, Next time I see Misaki, I'll ask' I turned to page and saw it was blank, the rest of book was blank until
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'Misaki isn't coming back, So the next thing to do is to
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make
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my
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own
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Misaki'
"I get it now-" I said out loud "And what a clever, little, snoop, you are too boy~" I heard No.2's sandals clacking against stone stairs "Now what are you doing here, child" Her voice was sweet but was laced with a thick layer of menace "Y-You aren't Misaki, right?"
"Correct"
"So you wrote this, right?"
"Of course I did, I'm collecting parts so I can create my perfect Misaki"
"So you forced kids to make you a doll, turn them into dolls and never let them go back or retry, erasing them from thier loved ones minds!?? You did all thoses things to innocent children, Just So You Could Recreate Misaki!?"I yelled as she walked towards me calmly "That's right," she replied, I felt tiny hand grabbing at my pants and legs
'The Dolls?!'
"B-But you loved Misaki, didn't you!? Wouldn't this make him mad at you?! Wouldn't you want to make him happy??" I yelled out, She giggled "Oh please," She then dashed at me and kicked me in the stomach, sending me to land back first into a wall "I know that" Her scissors then came and pinned me onto the wall "Misaki cared dearly for his students, If he found out about what I've been doing he'd be furious~ But that's what I want" She stopped to grad at the handle of the scissors "I want Misaki to ... yell at me again ... of course you wouldn't understand," She unpinned the scissors "I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO BRING HIM BACK!" She then pulled back and tried to stab me "TSUBAKI CHAN!" I yelled out, Then one of Tsubaki's whips came and disarmed No.2 "Yang?" I questioned as it floated away "No. 7!? How did you even find us so quickly!?" No. 2 yelled at her, Tsubaki only giggled and responded "Oh lil-old me, by Yang of course" She said with a smug look "Tsubaki?!" I yelled out to her, she looked beaten up bad, almost gasping for air yet she still held that smug look like it was nothing
"How's my lil human doing?-" Tsubaki then fell, I ran to her and held her up in my arms "A-are you ok Tsu chan?" I asked worried "Aww, you gave my another nickname~ My lil humans the cutest~" She said swinging her head "What?? Oh no, Tsubaki's delusional!" I blushed and yelled at her "My Goodness! Dear Tsubaki, You're so fragile~, did the little game upstairs tire you out so quickly?" No.2 spoke as she laughed with her creepy dolls "I'm not delusional! you are rather cute ... still, fighting No.2 in her domain is a little-" I glared at her, knowing she'd play off her injured state "Okay maybe a lot, a real lot harder then expected" She said swallowing her pride "Then what are we going to do?" I asked "Listen closely,-" Tsubaki pulled me in by the shoulders whispering "If we destroy No.2's Yorshiro I'd be able to defeat her, so did you find any clues about it, remember it's something that's near and dear to her" I remembered that in the book she talked about the pair of scissors Misaki used to cut her hair, she wrote that she put them in a shrine, that must be her Yorshiro then "Yeah, I think I got a lead"
"Good, once you find it you'll need to destroy it by peeling the seal that's on it, Don't worry I'll keep her busy" No.2 then interrupted us "Sorry for the interruption but, The Time For CHITCHAT Is Over!" She yelled out as a closed pair of scissors tried to stab at us Tsubaki pushed me away from the scissors and threw some seeds at the ground, once they made in pact with the ground below No.2 roots grew from them and trapped No.2 and her scissors "Wha- No.7! Don't do this!"
"I'm dearly sorry No.2 but the show must go on" Tsubaki said as she warped the Mystery in a colorful rope "NOW, AMANE!" She yelled out to me. I ran towards a small shrine on the other side of the small island "STOP!" No.2 yelled out, dolls then began to block my path to the shrine "Please!, I need my Yorishiro, or I can't make Misaki... All this time, My very being! I've Done all this for Him! Only Him!" I turned around to see her face, the desperation, the fear that all her hard work, it'll be for nothing "Ych, Shut It!!" I yelled at her, making Tsubaki and the other mystery stop thier movement, I felt the dolls hand grad me but I couldn't care "Just looking at you makes me feel ... Awful! It makes me fidgety and it's like seeing myself in a mirror! A dark twisted version of me that I decided to never indulge in!" I looked up at No.2 with a hard glare "YOURE NOT DOING THIS FOR MISAKI-SAN, ... YOURE DOING THIS FOR YOURSELF!"
Both ghosts looked at me in shock as I turned around and kicked the dolls off my legs 'H-He Kicked Them!??' Both ghosts yelled inside their heads as I ran towards the small shrine, I opened it and there was a pair of scissors with a black seal on it with red writing "No! Please" No.2 yelled out finally kicking off Tsubaki and unteing herself. I ripped off the seal as No.2 big scissors tried to attack but was blocked by Tsubaki's knife, the scissors broke into glass shards and Tsubaki yelled "Mystery No.2 of the Misaki Stairs! YOU HAVE ABANDONED YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES!"
She stabbed No.2 staining her white kimono in red
"You Must Return Your Seat Number" Tsubaki said demandingly
The Mysteries domain shattered into millions of prices of glass as it all turned white
'Ok everybody, lineup!' the sound of a male's voice rang in my ears, childish giggles and laughter calming down slightly after his
'Hey Sensei, Why are we taking it here!?' I small child asked, everyone else wonder the sane thing
'I wanted to take it here' The teacher said playfully gathering his students in an orderly fashion for a picture 'Ok everyone, Face forward and smile!' He said while smiling at the carma, his students following there sensei's instructions 'Come on everyone smile big and wide!' He said cheerfully, he then looked to his side and put his hand gently on a fox statue
'You too' he said gently as he moved his hand over the smooth gravely texture of the statue. Then a little kitsune girl looked at him, her big doe like eyes filled with a warm feeling
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"Amane~" I felt a cold yet gentle poke on a cheek with the sound of my name being called "Aaaa-maaaa-nee" I heard Tsubaki's cheerfuly childish voice call out, I rubbed my eyes as I looked up to her, No.7 "Tsu-chan?" I asked "The one and only love~" She teased as she waved hello, I looked around at my surroundings "We're back ... in school?" I quickly stood up suddenly relishing that Yashiro and Kou aren't around "T-Tsubaki, Where's Yashiro and Kou??" I yelled out "Oh Blondei? Here's right here~" She said while pulling out a plushie of kuo "And Daikon girl left a while ago saying 'My family would worry'" She continued "Ahh, so cute, what about the others and Aoi, will they change back?" I asked as I held kou "Yup, they'll all change back! She'll make dure of that" She giggled "She?" I asked, Tsubaki then held up a tiny white fox by the back "The Misaki Stairs' True Identity~"
"A cute fox?" I was confused as I put down kou to hold it "An Inari statue, to be exact" She explained "Come on No.2, just like we practiced. Say Sorry" Tsubaki asked kindly but No.2 only turned its head and 'hmnp-ed' at her "I guess you'd enjoy being turned into Fox Udon Uh?" Tsubaki questioned the fox as it jolt trying to run away by Tsubaki just held it by its head light swaying her knife around "Ok, Ok! I'm sorry! I'll turn them all back by tomorrow" The fox yelled out "Good Inari Statue~" Tsubaki said while disappearing her knife and petting the fox. I sighed in relief as I leaned on the wall behind me, I felt something in my pocket and took it out to see that it was the picture with Misaki "U-um No.2, ... I think this belongs to you" I sat down as I held the picture to her, She held it in her paws as she looked at it "J-just so you know! I haven't forgiven you for the things you did, You could've killed anyone of us! ... but I destroyed something of yours, something dear to you so ... this' the least I can do or give to you ... Sorry for that" I tried to pet her but bit me on my hand "Fuuuughhhhhh" I yelled out as I pulled my hand away from the fox "Don't touch me,Creep!" She yelled as she hopped onto the stairs "I was only being nice" I whined out "And my name it Yako! so next time you call me cute fox ...I'll bite your hand off" She said as she jumped away into the darkness of the upstairs "Maybe we should have had Fox Udon" I said as I held my poor hurt hand "Next time hun, next time" Tsubaki said patting my head, Suddenly I was hit with a wave of dizziness "Amane?" Tsubaki questioned as she held me up "Guess all the excitements hitting me all at once now" I chuckled as I leaned onto her shoulder, she placed me on the wall and asked "Could you hold still for a sec"
"What-" I asked as she gently pinned me to the wall and kissed my neck, I felt all the blood and heat in my body rush up to my face as she just smiled at me
"A reward, a happy protection spell, for my lovely assistant" She giggled as she leaned away "Tsubaki!??" I squealed as I covered my face with one hand while the other flared around like a child would when they didn't get what the want, A black crane then flow away from Amane's pocket, going unnoticed by the pair's childish argument, it flow outside the window across the school house and into a boy's hand. He was a tall boy with bright short, messy pinkish-red hair with an undercut. His grey eyes looking at the paper crane "Well hello there, took your sweet time didn't you~" He smugly said with a cat like smirk, He walked inside the broadcasting club room "My Lady, Oh My Lady~ It's bac-" The boys loud announcement was so graciously stopped by a girl with green hair "Be Quiet Natsuhiko. The Teachers Might Hear You" She said a sternly yet calm and low tone "Yes m'lady" The boy said hold his now throbbing head, The crane then flew to the green haired girl as it transformed into a wisp "Ah, welcome back, Koku-joudai ... I see, then it all went well, good" The girl talked to herself as another wisp flew to her
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I am an actual insane person Aaaaaa! I thought that it'd be cute to let Tsubaki kiss Amane on the neck but now I can't stop thinking about confession tree and the hat seance! I'm internally screaming rn
Anyways hope you enjoyed and stay tuned for next chapter