Chapter 1-The Blue Box

Shu rubbed his eyes. He realized he shouldn't have stayed up late last night. The noise of the school was slowly fading away. Shu liked that; it meant he could finally be alone. He headed to his normal hide out near the area with his lunch in hand neatly wrapped in blue cloth. He hadn't noticed the blood stains on the floor leading to a girl sitting in the middle singing a song.

"Saita no no hana yo"

"Aa douka oshiete okure"

Shu recognized her as Inori, the vocalist of EGOIST

"Hito wa naze kizutsukeatte"

"Arasou no deshou"

He was slowly approaching the wounded girl when he accidentally hit a can with his foot.

Inori turned around immediately. A small robot appeared behind her grabbing Shu and tossing him over.

"Wait! Hold on! I mean no harm!" he shouted. "Are you perhaps-"

He was cut off by a weird groaning noise. Wind was blowing from his left. A blue box suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

*DEEP SPACE*

The Doctor had just dropped off Clara at Coal Hill for her teaching job. He thought he could have some time to himself. He was up on the roof of the TARDIS again for his daily meditation when something projected in his mind.

"Saita no no hana yo"

He opened his eyes.

"What?!" he said.

For a second there, he thought he heard a voice. The time lord closed his eyes and tried focusing again.

"Aa douka oshiete okure"

There! Definitely something! He rushed into the console room closing the doors behind him and inserting his fingers into the telepathic circuits.

"Now who's calling for help?" he muttered.

*ABANDONED BUILDING*

The doors of the blue box swung open and an old looking man came out. Shu looked him in the eye and he looked back.

"Ah hello there, you don't happen to be singing, do you?" the Doctor asked.

Shu immediately looked at Inori. The Doctor followed his gaze.

"Ah of course. I should've known it was a girl." He approached Inori but before taking a step, the robot knocked the Doctor over as well. He fell to the ground with a thud.

"Ouch! Some robot you got there. Elastic tentacles, brilliant!"

He looked at Inori and saw blood around her.

"You're hurt." he got back on his feet. "Look, I can help. I'm sort of a doctor." he used his sonic to temporarily deactivate the robot.

As he walked forward, Inori backed up and hit her head on the table behind her. A computer turned on revealing an unfinished music video.

"I-It's not completed yet." Shu said. "That's footage of my hometown-"

"It's beautiful." Inori said.

The Doctor spoke up. "Alright, I think we all got off on a bad foot. Introductions would be nice."

"Huh?" Shu had forgotten he was there.

"I'm the Doctor and you?"

"Shu, the name's Shu."

The Doctor turned to Inori.

"How about you?" the Doctor said. Inori stayed quiet.

"Not much of a talker huh? Probably like singing better."

Her stomach rumbled.

"H-hey, are you hungry perhaps?" Shu held out his lunch.

Minutes later, they were upstairs and Inori had finished all of Shu's lunch. She had allowed the Doctor to examine her wounds and he was replacing the bandages. She was singing London Bridge while tying up some string in her hand.

"You have a good voice. You ever gonna tell me you name?" the Doctor asked. Inori kept singing.

"You don't recognize her? She's EGOIST's vocalist, Inori. Right?" he asked her. She continued singing.

"I'm not really into modern music nowadays." The Doctor said. He finished up the bandages.

"Alright, that should do."

Inori felt the bandages.

"Where did you come from?" Shu asked the Doctor.

"Hmm? Oh the box obviously." He replied.

"Yeah but where did that box come from?"

"Look it'd probably not make a lot of sense for a high school student. Let's just say I'm not from around here."

The Doctor wiped his hands with a handkerchief from his pocket and placed it back.

"Besides, what I want to know is why you're here Miss Inori."

"I have to deliver her to Gai." She replied. She faced Shu holding the string in her hands.

"Take this." She said. "Take this umm…"

"Shu! Shu Ouma!" Shu said.

The Doctor stared in curiosity.

"You might be able to do it if you try." Inori said. "But if you don't try, you definitely can't do it."

Shu glanced at the Doctor. He just replied by nodding his head towards her.

"Shu Ouma, are you a coward?"

Shu suddenly saw a vision. He couldn't tell what it was but he definitely saw something.

The Doctor stepped in. "Look, I hate to break the moment here but I need to know: who's Gai and why's the robot important?"

Inori didn't reply. The Doctor crouched down in front of her meeting her in the eye.

"Fine, if you won't tell me, show me." His hands held the sides of Inori's head but before he could establish a psychic link, the door of the building was suddenly kicked open. The Doctor got up as soldiers filled the room.

"Fyu-Neru." Inori whispered as she jumped off the balcony.

"Inori!" Shu shouted.

Inori tried to run but one of the men wearing her by the arm.

"Hold on."

Another soldier hit her with the butt of his gun and she fell to the ground.

"Hey!" The Doctor shouted as he began to go down the stairs. The soldiers immediately pointed their guns at him.

"Can we do this without the guns please?" He said.

Shu spoke up. "S-sir! She's hurt so please don't-"

"You a student?" The man with shades said.

"Yes!"

"This woman is a criminal. If you try to protect her, you'll be purged as a criminal too."

"May I ask what her charges are?" The Doctor said.

The man faced the Doctor.

"And who might you be?"

"The Doctor, her lawyer and again: her charges please."

The man walked up to him and punched the Doctor in the face. The old man knelt down holding his jaw.

"Terrorists aren't allowed lawyers." He said as he kicked Inori in the face. "Take her back."

"Yes sir!" The soldiers replied.

They dragged Inori out of the building.

Shu couldn't move. At least the Doctor tried stopping them but him? He did nothing.