I walked out with a small smile on my face and a feeling of pride. I knew that I couldn’t linger and that I needed to think of a game plan so I ran for the cover of some bushes in the hope of not being seen.
I took out my map from the green bag that was given to me and looked for my position. I decided to head south towards one of the furthest edges of the island.
Quickly I took a gulp from one of my water bottles before heading off for my destination.
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(No one’s pov)
More People were called out of the class room. One by one they went until the class was narrowed down to only a few.
“Boy 15 Nanahara.” The woman on the TV screen said.
He was kneeling down by his friend’s side and as a soldier called out his name impatiently he picked up the photograph which was still covered in blood stains. “I’ll wait for you.” He whispered to Noriko giving her the picture before getting his bags and walking out.
Nanahara walked out of the building in a hurry, quickly looking back before making a dash through some bushes. He sat down at the bottom of a small hill taking a look through his bag and taking out a flash light when he heard a female voice saying his name.
He looked quickly towards his left and saw Mayumi Tendou walking towards him slowly with an arrow lodged weirdly into her neck.
“What happened?” He asked in surprise as she took more steps towards him.
“What am I going to do… What is this…?” Her voice was shaky and weak as she put her hand to her collar. Tears were starting to come to her eyes as fear took hold.
She fell down by Nanahara’s side and when he picked her up so that he could see her face her eyes rolled back and her breathing stopped. Blood was seeping from her wound where the arrow had gone straight through her neck.
As an arrow whizzed past he let go of Tendou and saw that the new arrow was now lodged into her leg.
He looked up to the top of the hill and saw Akamatsu the boy poor at sports stood at the top of the hill with a crossbow in his hand.
He ran towards Nanahara but slipped as Nanahara threw his flash light at him.
Noriko came running through the bushes holding her green bag close looking at the scene in front of her.
“Don’t, Noriko!” Nanahara shouted taking hold of her arm and running away from the scene.
Akamatsu slipped on the grass, he rolled off the hill and once he hit the ground he scrambled up having dropped his crossbow somewhere when he fell.
“What am I going to do?” He asked himself in a panic still looking around blindly on the floor.
“What are you doing?” A boy Kazushi Niida asked coming round from the other side of the hill. Akamatsu cowered back stopping the search for his weapon. “Isn’t this yours.” He asked picking up the crossbow from beside him.
Akamatsu jumped up and ran towards the now armed Niida.
Niida backed away and tripped whilst aiming the crossbow at Akamatsu. As he tripped the weapon was set off and the arrow landed straight through the panicked boys heart.
Niida got up from the floor “It’s real.” He said over and over again whilst running from the scene with the crossbow in hand.
Boy 1 Akamatsu Dead
Girl 14 Tendo Dead
40 To Go
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Nanahara and Noriko didn't stop running. Noriko was grabbing her injured arm as Nanahara was helping her along through the rocky terrain and the puddles of water that rain from the day before had left.
They ran towards a cave, it was dry and seemed like a good place to rest.
“Is your arm ok?” Nanahara asked after they had both sat down in the cave by one of the walls.
“I'm not sure.” Noriko said trying to catch her breath whilst taking off her blazer.
“Let me see.” Nanahara said taking her arm in his hands whilst shining his flashlight onto the wound which was covered in blood.
“It’s just a scratch.” He said relieved “Let me wash the blood off.”
Nanahara went to look in his bag but instead of pulling out water he brought out a circular metal object from his green bag “What is this? Do they expect me to fight with a lid?” He said turning it over seeing if it really was just a pot lid.
“This is what I got.” Noriko said shining a light on some binoculars.
“The bastards…” Nanahara started mumbling looking back in his bag “Maybe Mimura, Sugimura and us could all escape.” He said before bringing out a bottle of water and pouring it onto Noriko’s injured arm.
“I don’t think so.” Noriko said in almost a whisper.
“Why not?” Nanahara asked, stopping what he was doing.
“You won’t like me for saying this,” Noriko said worriedly “but I don’t trust any of them right now.” Her voice was scared and sad as she thought about her past when she was still in school.
She remembered being trapped in one of the toilet stalls. The door was not opening because of chairs that other girls had placed outside of it. “Die Noriko! You ugly shrimp nit.” The girls chanted before running away giggling.
“How about me?” Nanahara said bringing Noriko out of her thoughts.
“What?” She asked looking up at him.
“Are you scared of me to?” He asked putting more water onto her wound.
Noriko shook her head quickly “You’re the only one I trust, Shuya” then she stopped suddenly “Oh, I’m sorry.” She said looking away.
“Why?” Nanahara asked confused.
“I called you Shuya, just like Nobu.” She said getting quieter at the end of her sentence.
At the mention of his best friends name Nanahara stopped what he was doing and looked down towards the floor with tears in his eyes.
He remembered the days he had shared laughing with Nobu. He remembered Nobu teaching him how to play the guitar and how it used to be back when Nobu was alive, when they used to be able to tell each other about anything.
He remembered one time in the summer by the lake when Nobu told him about his crush on Noriko, and when they were sitting in their room talking about other random stuff.
“Noriko wrote to me.” Nobu said “Saying for me to come back to school and that we could all go on the school trip together. Even if she didn’t really mean it, it’s nice to have someone there waiting for you.”
Nanahara came out of his thoughts and got out a piece of cloth to tie up Noriko’s wound with. “We were roommates in the foster home after dad died.” He told her “When I was feeling down after quitting baseball, he taught me how to play the guitar.” Nanahara’s eyes were watering again thinking about the good times.
“I shouldn't have invited him.” Noriko said in a sad voice
“No, he was happy he came back, really happy. But I couldn’t help Nobu either, he needed my help but I was helpless. I can’t give this up, I will take revenge for him. I’ll protect you till the end, in his place"
“Thank you Nanahara.”
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(Rin’s pov)
After a while of jogging I had almost reached the end of my journey without seeing any unwanted people.
Just as I was about to leave the cover of the forest’s trees I heard voices over the sound of crashing waves. I could tell that there were at least two or more guys and one girl but I didn’t know exactly who they were.
I took a quick look out of the trees to see a rocky reef like terrain. Large boulders covered the land not letting me see clearly what was going on.
I listened and when I heard Kiriyama’s name I stopped thinking properly and left the cover of the trees to hide and look from behind one of the many large boulders.
When I looked from behind the boulder I noticed one boy but I couldn’t see his face properly. He was pushing a tall figure which I soon realised was Kiriyama. As I looked around more I saw three more boys and a girl standing together.
They seemed to make a circle around Kiriyama and started to push him around, the one thing I couldn’t understand was why he let them. That was when I realised the amount of weapons they had ranging from guns to grenades, I guess that they got lucky.
“We knew all along that you were up to something, that’s why you never speak. Your Kitano’s spy, aren’t you?” One of the boys said to him whilst another guy was looking in Kiriyama’s green bag.
“Nice weapon.” The guy said with a laugh pulling out something which looked like a paper fan “You sure got a good one didn’t you.” He said whacking Kiriyama over the head with it.
“None of us are going to kill each other so you might as well just give up now.” The girl said.
“You listening.” One guy said putting a gun to Kiriyama’s head.
I wanted to run out and distract them from him and just as I was about to I felt a strong hand clamp over my mouth.
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