Author : Epitsu Onna

Disclaimer : Konomi Takeshi. It's not mineee…

Pairing : ShishiTori, NiouYagyuu, SanaYuki, YanagiAkaya, JackBun.

Warning : Big CRACK, and some fail language.

SUMMER CAMPING CHAPTER V

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Hiyoshi never imagined it'll be ended up like this. Sitting on cold ground covered with rotten leaves and worms, under a really big tree that only God knew how old it was, staring at his teammates jumped to here and there because of a small brown frog.

"THERE, IT'S THERE YUUSHI! CATCH IT!" Gakuto jumped to his doubles partner shoulder.

"WHERE? I CAN'T SEE IT! ITS COLOR BLENDS WITH THE LEAVES!" Oshitari also yelled, running towards Atobe, which screamed, "Don't go here! How if that thing jumps at oresama?"

"Shishido-san!" Choutarou yelped, "It's there near your feet!" He ran behind his lover.

Shishido didn't scared of frogs, he claimed, he just didn't really like them, so when he heard Choutarou said that he jumped back, "D-DON'T BE SCARED CHOUTAROU, I'M WITH YOU!"

"Oh Shishido-san!" Choutarou beamed.

"Little froggy come here! Come to Jirou-chan!" Jirou, wasn't like his other friends, ran and tried to catch the jumping frog, "I'll be your mommy from now on, you little poor thing!"

"JIROU DON'T RUN TOWARDS MEEE!" Atobe screamed, but ignored completely by Jirou. The frog, which actually was frightened by Jirou, jumped to Atobe. Atobe yelled, "GYAAAAAAAAHH! KABAJI!"

"USU!"

Kabaji caught the frog before it landed on Atobe's nose.

"Kabaji, give it to me give it to me!" Jirou jumped beside Kabaji, and just like Jirou said, Kabaji put it softly on Jirou's opened palm. Jirou giggled, "He's cuteee!"

"EWWW…" Gakuto winced, "What's so cute about that slippery thing?"

"Eeh. Whatever," Atobe brushed the dirt from his jacket, "By the way, I'll take a look if the chefs already left or not,"

"If they haven't?" Shishido asked.

Atobe didn't answer, instead just walk away.

"Che,"

"Atobe, I'll go with you!" Jirou ran.

That two boys walked towards where they left their van.

"Atobe, isn't he cute?" Jirou showed Atobe the frog, "I think I will name him Kiko!"

"Kiko? Why is it?" Atobe asked.

"I don't know! The name just popped," Jirou grinned.

Atobe smiled. They walked more, quietly, and finally arrived on the spot where the van supposed to be. Atobe sighed. Well, of course they ran away with their van… and bags.

"They're already left!" Jirou beamed as he saw there's nothing there, "Yaaay, we're safe!"

Atobe wanted to yell about what's to be happy about it, but the boy looked so happy (and even a bit cute…) that he didn't have any urge to do so. Atobe sighed instead, and said, "Jirou, called the others to get here. I don't know if there's any chance of cars pass, but we should give it a try,"

"But it's scaaary to get back to the forest alone!" Jirou whined.

"You have Kiko with you," Atobe pointed out.

"Ah, you're right!" Jirou blinked happily, "Okay! I'll be back soon!"

Then Jirou called the others. Atobe explained to them that maybe it's better to stay there for awhile, to see if there'll be any car passed by.

"Then, if morning came and still no car, we will…" Atobe gulped, since it's also a very hard choice for him… and his beautiful legs, "…Walk. For help,"

None of them can say anything to reject the plan, because no one simply got any better plan. So they sat there, by the side of the empty road. Many woods scattered around them, so they gathered it in one stack and tried to start a fire.

They are very thankful that Kabaji still got his backpack with him, and the bag is like Doraemon's pocket, since it got so many things inside than it looked from outside, included match.

Sitting around the fire, Hyoutei's regular all sighed long breathes… Except Jirou and Kabaji, because Jirou was still busy playing with his frog, showing it to Kabaji and asked Kabaji to 'pet' on its head. Gakuto stared at them with disgust, even more as he saw Kabaji really gave it a nice, soft pet on the head, and the frog croaked long as if a cat will purr while stroked.

"Oh man," Gakuto decided to whine, instead of kept silent, "Never expect it will end up like this. Maaan. I don't want to die hereeee!"

"Huuh, I miss tonight's special romance drama cause of this!" Oshitari frowned.

"There won't be any televisions in the camping site either, senpai," Hiyoshi raised his eyebrows.

"Shishido-san, are we going to die here?" Ohtori asked, sobbed a little, "We haven't had chance to bake the cupcakes and…"

"No, no, I will protect you no matter what," Shishido hugged his lover lovingly, "I won't let you die, Chouta. I rather kill myself!"

"Kill yourself then, rather than being so annoyingly noisy," Gakuto snapped.

"If you're jealous, go find Hiyoshi or someone else to cuddle with, shortie," Shishido glared.

"Don't call me short, Shishido! You want to have a height battle now, huh?! I will tell right on your smug face who's the shorter one!" Gakuto yelled.

"Waaah, it sounds so interesting! I will join the battle!" Jirou said excitedly, his frog croaked as if it's an appreciation of his… new… master.

"Ah…" Choutarou suddenly said, stopping Gakuto or Shishido from answering, "I heard something,"

"You heard something?" Shishido looked up to his lover, "What did you hear, Chouta?"

Ohtori said quietly, "It's a sound of car… and screams…"

And the others fell silent on the answer.

"D-Don't play with your words, O-ohtori," Atobe pretended to be brave, but he was clenching on Kabaji's jacket, "I don't hear anything,"

"W-What do you mean by scream, Ohtori?" Oshitari asked nervously, "Y-You must be… misheard it…"

"Oshitari, don't you dare to doubt my Choutarou's auditory sense!" Shishido yelled. Though he actually became a bit scared too, but he hides it for the sake of his lover.

"I really heard it," Ohtori said, "It's like… a faint sound… of cry and screams… and also car's break…"

"O-O-Ohtori! You gotta stop it now!" Gakuto covered his ears, scared to death, "I don't want to hear it! No I don't hear it! Lalalalala!"

"Oh my God are we telling ghost stories?! I love ghost stories!" Jirou beamed.

Hiyoshi grew excited on the topic, "R-really, Ohtori? A-and… how's the cry? Is it in pain, or…"

"It's like… the cry of fear…" Ohtori said quietly.

"OKAY. YOU'RE, LIKE, TOTALLY GOTTA STOP THIS NOW!" Atobe yelled, "Don't spread non sense, Ohtori! EVERYONE, SLEEP!"

"Hey Atobe! Don't you dare to say something like that ever again! Choutarou won't lie!" Shishido yelled back.

Atobe threw him a sharp glance and said coldly, "Sleep,"

Shishido hissed, walked and took Choutarou with him for to a big tree, to sleep under it. He leaned his back to the nearby with a frown on his face. But his frown quickly faded as he felt Choutarou pecked on his cheek.

"C-Choutarou?"

"Thanks, Shishido-san, for being on my side…" Choutarou smiled softly.

Well, there they go again; holding hands as they're staring at each other's eyes lovingly and sometimes, joining their lips in kisses

"And where we should sleep, anyway…" Oshitari sighed, "On the ground?"

"You can choose," Atobe shrugged, "Kabaji,"

Kabaji actually taking out a very small thing, folded, but as he pulled on a string attached there, it grew to a very comfortable looking sleeping bag.

"You have that kind of thing for you?!" Gakuto asked, "UNFAIR!"

"It's Kabaji's," Atobe smiled smugly, "But of course I have every right to use Kabaji's property. Na, Kabaji?"

"Are you his wife or something?" Oshitari hissed, also as pissed as the red-headed midget beside him. Atobe just smiled, but he realized something was off as Kabaji wasn't answering. He glanced at Kabaji, "Kabaji?"

Kabaji was putting as stiff face, and said, "I'm sorry, Atobe-san,"

Atobe was frozen as Kabaji threw the sleeping bag to the air –and considering his power, it flew to the sky and became a simple dot like a star in the night sky. He gulped, "I don't want Atobe-san to use it as it's mine, but I can't use it by myself too. Let's sleep on the ground like the others,"

Atobe widened his eyes, still frozen as a statue, as it was the very first time Kabaji didn't do as he told him and it was a very shocking thing for the self-proclaimed king! So Kabaji dragged him to the tree –it was actually the tree Shishido went to back then, and now the brunette was yelling, "WHAT? NO! Why you put him there! This IS MY AND CHOUTAROU'S TREE!" and Kabaji completely ignore him –and lay him down on the ground, after he put his own jacket so Atobe won't sleep directly on the dirty dry leaves.

"Oshiin, Gakkun! Let's sleep under this big tree Shishido and Tori-chan found!" Jirou waved.

"NO! Go find another place to sleep!" Shishido yelled, because he actually wanted it to be just the two of them there. But Choutarou didn't mind and just chuckling as his usually sleepy senpai said with pout, "It's warmer with a lot of people!"

"It's okay, Shishido-san. It's indeed warmer with a lot of people," Choutarou smiled. Shishido sighed –he could not do anything if Choutarou already said something like that.

So there they are, Kabaji next to Atobe, Atobe next to Shishido, Shishido next to Choutarou, then Jirou, Oshitari, Gakuto, and lastly, Hiyoshi. Oshitari couldn't stop smiling weird smirk as he was sandwiched by two of the cuties.

"K-Kabaji… just… reject my order. K-Kabaji.. just… my order…"

"You're so noisy, Atobe! JIROU! Stop hugging and pulling on my Choutarou!"

"Tori-chan is warm!"

"But he's mine! STOP HUGGING HIM!"

"S-Shishido-san? It's hurt when you pull me like that…"

"A-AH! Sorry, Chou! You're hurt? Where? I'm so sorry! Ehem~ Should I kiss it to make it better?"

"N-No way… S-Shi…Shishido-san you silly…"

"You're cute when you're blushing like this. Come, I'll hug you and make you warm,"

"Ehm~ Okay… Good night, Shishido-san~"

"Good night, Chou. I love you…"

"Che, that two being disgusting again…"

"Don't envy them like that, Gakuto… You can do it with me,"

"Ew, no way!"

"Huweee, Shishido is pulling Tori-chan to him!"

"You can hug on me instead, Jirou… fufu~"

"No way, you got that perverted smirk on your face, Oshin~!"

"Then, Gakkun…"

"D-Don't touch me, DAMMIT! Hiyoshi! I'll just face to you… ERGH! Hiyoshi is showing scary face!"

"Scream of fear, sound of car… maybe a terrible car crash, and the ghosts are still wandering…? Fufu… What… maybe this trip wouldn't be such a waste, after all… fufufufu…"

"Oh, shit, I'll just… face front,"

"Usu,"

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BAAAAAAAAAAAAM!

The landing was not smooth at all, but for all the Rikkai's member, the fact that they can land is already the best idea ever. Akaya opened his eyes, only to found that he's still alive.

And he cheered.

"I'M STILL ALIVE!"

"OH MY GOSH ME TOO!" Marui almost cried in relief, and he hugged all his snacks onto his chest, "As the celebration, I will share my snack with everyone!"

"REALLYY?" Akaya screamed in delight, "YEAH!"

"Oh, but not this one! I love this one, and it's special edition! Not this one too, I like this. AH, NOT THIS ONE TOO! This one is my favorite! Not this one, not this one, oh this one too, I want to eat it all…"

Jackal sighed, "You saved almost everything, Bunta,"

Bunta blinked as he realized Jackal was beside him, and blushed while pouted, "W-Well…!"

"What's wrong with you? Your face is as red as your hair," Jackal laughed. He patted on Marui's head, and made the latter blushed even more.

Akaya was blinking, staring at the scene in front of him with confused face, but then he realized Yanagi was walking towards him. Akaya smiled brightly, "Senpai!"

"You're… okay," Yanagi sighed, relieved.

"Um, I am!" Akaya nodded cheerfully, "Senpai, may I sit beside you?"

"W-What?" Yanagi blushed, "U-Um… w-well…" Yanagi smiled, "Of course,"

Akaya's smile grew wilder and he hugged Yanagi arms, and took his senior all the way to the front seat.

"A-Akaya!" Yanagi blushed harder, "O-oh, well…"

"Well, I guess now we will sit together again on the back?" Jackal smiled at Marui, "You're not mad at me anymore, right?"

"I am… in… semi okay, semi mad mode! So if you make me mad again, I won't forgive you!" Marui answered. He sat on the back seat, started eating on his snacks again, and Jackal just chuckled.

"Oh my God," Yagyuu sighed, "T-That's was very terrifying..."

"Yagyuu!"

Yagyuu blinked and there's a flash of silver hair, before he found he was inside Niou's tight hug. The gentleman blushed and wanted to push the boy away, but then he felt a hand stroked softly on his brown locks, and he smiled.

"You forgive me, right?" Niou asked worriedly, "Please, I…"

"I forgive you," Yagyuu said, "Silly,"

Niou smiled, "Yagyuu…"

"SEE, EVERYTHING IS OKAY!" Yukimura exclaimed, a wide grin on his face, "You all should trust your buchou more…"

"Well, it's still hard to believe, but…" Niou shrugged, "We're safe and Yagyuu forgave me, so I think it's all very much okay now…"

"We're thankful that you can maintain the landing very well, Yukimura," Yagyuu said with a smile.

"Yesss! Buchou is so much rock!" Akaya threw his fists in the air, laughed happily.

"Well, it's all okay enough that we're still alive…" Jackal laughed.

"At least we don't have to walk!" Bunta grinned, "Thanks, Yukimura!"

"S-Sorry Yukimura, I didn't trust you before…" Sanada walked to his lover.

Yukimura just smiled, "But you won't doubt me anymore, right, Gennichirou?"

"I won't," Sanada smiled, "I will believe you forever…"

"Well then, let me drive all the way till the end!" Yukimura said excitedly.

"W-What?" Sanada gaped. The rest of the team also came back from their relief and shouted, "W-WHA-?!"

"You said you will all believe in me, right?" Yukimura smiled, "It'll be okay!"

They're all back grasping each other's hands and babbling prayers as Yukimura started the engine. But then Sanada yelled, "Y-YUKIMURA! I-It's dark… I-I-I'm sure about your magnificent driving skill… But... it's… very dark in the forest, so how about…uh… w-well… at least… drive… s-slowly?"

"IDIOT FUKUBUCHOU! You should tell him to not driving instead!" Niou yelled… in whisper (how can he do that…)

Yukimura blinked, "Ah, you're right, Sanada…" Then he smiled, "Okay, I'll drive slower!"

Well, Yukimura's term of driving slower is a bit different than rest of us… rest of humans. Yeah of course, since the grasping hands and prayers are still going on inside the van. Yanagi was choked on the different reason, though… Akaya hugging his hand that tightly was just too… awesome!

When the van stopped with a very sharp brake, all squeaked in fear, they almost thought it's the sign of death coming soon –but then nothing happened, and Yukimura's voice broke a silent with a question, "What's that?"

The rest of the team blinked their eyes open, and looked at the way Yukimura's finger pointed. There's a fire on the side of the road.

"I-Is that… that scary fire soul?" Marui blabbered, face pale with fear.

"No, Bunta… It's sort like… camp fire?" Jackal tried to see it clearer, squinted his eyes, "Look, there's another car there. A… kinda big van,"

"Oh! God! How fun!" Yukimura squealed, "What a wonderful idea those people have! Of course, shouldn't we sleep outside too first? So it'll be totally like a long journey!" He stared at his teammates, eyes sparkling and hands joining in awe.

"I THINK THAT'S A VERY GOOD IDEA!" Niou exclaimed before everyone else could answer or whined. Then he widened his eyes to the others and hissed, "It'll be much better to stay here now rather than let Yukimura drive in this darkness!"

"Oh, you're right, senpai…!" Akaya nodded, "You're not so idiot after all!"

"Now now, why did you call yourself just now, Akaya?" Niou smirked, knuckled hand ready to punch the seaweed head.

Yanagi stared at Niou angrily, making a sort of anger telepathy, "Don't you dare hurt Akaya!"

Niou startled and obeyed, but also make sure to make fun of Yanagi later when Akaya wasn't around.

So the members of Rikkai jumped out of their bus. They looked around, and tried to find a place to sleep.

It's so dark that they can barely see anything. Marui was walking around then almost fell as he felt his feet knocked with something, "HUWAAA!"

Luckily, Jackal was there, and caught his doubles partner on time. Marui blushed and mumbled, "Th- thank you. Though I'm sure I'll be just okay actually… GYAAAAH!" The redheaded screamed one more time as he saw the thing that almost made him fell now jumped towards a big tree behind them. He almost fell again, and again, Jackal caught him.

"Marui-senpai! How can you be such a klutz!" Akaya was laughing hardly along with Niou who yelled, "That's because you're too fat, you almost rolled!" It's indeed a funny scene about how Marui almost fell twice, and even the kindest Yagyuu was covering his mouth, holding himself to not laugh loudly.

"SHUT UP!" Marui screamed back, "It's just normal not too see something in the dark! Nothing to do with my… heartily cute appetite!"

"I think it's frog or something," Jackal stated, "You're not hurt, right?"

Bunta blushed to the affectionate question, and shook his head. He said, "U-um. Thank you… again, I guess."

"You're welcome," Jackal smiled, patted at the red hair. Marui blushed more, now his face was in the exact same color as his hair. He walked away, tried to hide his steaming hot head, while screaming in his head, "MARUI, THAT'S JUST JACKAL. What happened to you?! He's acting like usual! Just because he said something like… H-he l-love me… It doesn't mean…" As if it's possible, Marui grew even redder and hotter as he thought of Jackal's words before.

"What's wrong with Marui?" Sanada asked Jackal.

"I-I don't know," Jackal scratched on his cheek, "He's been weird…"

"Well, tell him not to walk around too far. Yanagi and I already found a suitable place to sleep," Sanada pointed on a big tree across where they're now.

"Okay, I guess I will just accompany Marui," Jackal smiled, and walked after his friend.

"Do you mean we have to sleep on the ground?" Yagyuu winced, "I-I'm sure there's better solution for this… C-can I sleep in the car?"

"You can sleep on top me," Niou winked.

Yagyuu knocked his head, hard, and leaving his lover sprawled on the ground, hand covering a big bump he just created, to ask Sanada again.

"Sanada, please. You know I just… can't… sleeping. On the…. This," He gulped as stepped back to let a bug made it way between the dry leaves.

"No, Yagyuu," Sanada said strictly, "Yukimura wanted ALL of us sleep here, so WE WILL DO,"

He stared at Yukimura who happily set his jacket under the tree, patted on it lovingly as if it's the best bed anyone could have. Okay, he rather not let down Yukimura, or maybe his captain would push to drive again. Frustrated, the brunette tried not to look at his lover in the eye, whom without doubt still will offer Yagyuu to sleep on top him happily. Anything aside that! That'll be hell embarrassing if he had to sleep on top Niou.

Akaya huffed as he sat under the tree beside Yukimura, and grinned to the worried boy, "It's okay, Yagyuu-senpai, it'll be just fine! If there's worm or bug, just step on it and it'll be fine!"

"How can I step on it if I'm laying down?" Yagyuu snapped.

"Well… I guess… you can use your hand," Akaya shrugged, and as he saw a big ant crawled beside him, he used his palm to smack on it, "Like this! See?"

Yagyuu tried his hardest not to make a face. He gulped. Had no choice, the gentleman slowly made a move to sit. He took a deep breath, still cautious. He yelped as he felt something creped on his hand. He didn't want to know what that is, he kept his eyes straight to the front and could only called, "Niou. Something. On my hand,"

The silver head widened his eyes and looked at the brunette's hand, "Wow, okay… It's a butterfly, he just landed on your hand…"

Yagyuu stared down. Niou was right –it's a little butterfly, yellow and small. He never really cared about butterfly before, but now that he was this close to them… they're indeed beautiful. It's such a honor to be a place for them to landed, as they're usually scared of humans, and Yagyuu wasn't even an animal lover.

He still admired the prettiness of its wings and how soft it looked like, but then it fluttered its fragile wings and flied away. Yagyuu keep staring at it till the yellow shade disappeared in the darkness.

Niou looked at Yagyuu, who now sat with the adoration glint on his eyes. It could be bad –it'll make Yagyuu totally gave up the idea of sleeping on top him!

"Yagyuu, that's one pretty example, but you have to know that not all the animals and bug are that beautiful. Most of them, the big ones, are dirty and icky, not to mention the little germs. Right?"

Yagyuu raised his eyebrow at Niou, "Sorry, I still don't want to sleep on top of you,"

"Che," Niou pouted.

Yagyuu sighed, and sat for awhile. Nothing really happened… He didn't feel like his skin would start to itch or something burn his skin as it bit him, like what he always imagined. It's not as bad as he thought, and… even though surely there're a lot of bacteria and all things he didn't want to think about, he couldn't see it, so it's… actually fine.

"Hmm, okay…" Yagyuu slid down to lay his body.

Niou mumbled, "You should worry about what's under your body, really. Germs. Bacterias. Source of diseases,"

Yagyuu gritted his teeth. He would be better if he didn't listen to Niou, that bastard. Why they even going out anyway? How could that boy say that to him! He wanted to try to change! It's important to try new things he never dared to do before. Niou, his dearest lover, should be encouraging him in every aspect he went through, now to change his clean freakiness! That's if he loved him!

Yagyuu smiled as he completely lay down. It's actually comfortable. You can feel the ground is warm by the leaves, and it's like… you're closer to nature. He even began to feel sleepy because it's so comfy. Surrounded by leaves and roots and grass… They're supporting his body with their smaller one, what a kindness. Sure it's just normal if there're little bugs and spiders, but they're friendly, he thinks. They won't bite unless you harm them first… And there're also beautiful ones like the butterfly before…

But then he saw, as he opened his eyes, something dig the soil from inside, and from the hole, appeared a worm, brown red with slippery skin glowing even in the dark as it swayed his body to move.

Yagyuu froze. Then he got up and sat.

"Yagyuu?" Niou blinked.

"You know what?" Yagyuu looked at his lover, "I think it's not too bad to sleep on top you,"

Niou stared. The he smirked, "I know, right?! Come here, baby. Let's find us another tree!"

"W-Wait! W-Why we should find another tree?" Yagyuu protested.

"Why, of course, to sleep under it! Won't it be embarrassing to sleep like that in front of the others?" Niou answered.

"Oh…" Yagyuu blinked, then blushed on his own thought, "Okay…"

"Also, do you think I can hold my hands to be kindly positioned on the sides of my body when you're on top of me?" Niou winked, "Not sure about that,"

"I don't want to make out in the middle of forest," Yagyuu raised his eyebrow, "I thought I made myself clear yesterday,"

"But my dear, you just thought about it too, right?" Niou smiled. He grabbed Yagyuu's hand and kissed on it softly, slowly, and Yagyuu blushed again, almost yelped.

"W-well…" Yagyuu gave in, mumbled with red cheeks, "Just find the one… far enough so no one could hear our voices,"

"Aye, aye, sir~" Niou grinned happily. This sleeping activity will be much better than he thought.

Niou and Yagyuu got up, and then walked to start searching for another tree.

"Oh great," Sanada mumbled, as he saw the couple walked deeper to the forest, "I hope they went deep enough that we don't have to hear them. So embarrassing! Amoral! They did it in the middle of this pure camping event, without even care of others and the pride of Rikkai…"

"Hmm~ How about we found another tree too?" Yukimura hummed.

Sanada widened his eyes at the giggling captain. He stared more, then he bowed down his head, "Very well, then,"

Yukimura hummed and grinned, "Just kidding~ I'm sleepy, and I want to sleep~"

Sanada left dumbfounded. Tarundoru! He's still lacking of will power upon Yukimura!

XXXXX

Jackal walked to the way where Marui went before, and found the latter in no time. He's not walking far –he settled under a tree, sat with his legs folded.

"Marui? What are you doing?" Jackal asked, stepped closer.

Marui startled and blushed again, "Gosh, I want a little time to think, why are you always following me around?"

"Oh, really?" Jackal raised his eyebrow. He sat beside Marui, and smiled, "I just want to make sure you don't get lost. And maybe, I can help you think,"

"No, you can't," Marui groaned.

"How can you're so sure about it?" Jackal asked.

Marui didn't answer, and pouted.

Jackal stayed beside him, silent and still.

They didn't say anything for awhile. Their soft breaths, along with croaks of frogs and many other bugs' voices were the only one could be heard.

Marui finally speak up, his voices was soft, came out almost as a whisper, but it pierced through the extremely quiet night, "The one from before… the… 'I love you'… one,"

Jackal stared at his partner, before looked up, eyes searched for other scene than his best friend, hand covering his mouth with his cheeks blushed, "Oh, that,"

"You… mean it?" Marui sure his face was so red now, maybe even glowing in the dark.

"Um," Jackal huffed, "I… I'm not sure,"

"What do you mean by… you're not sure?" Marui asked. He didn't expect this answer –he didn't know what answer that he wanted to hear, but… 'not sure' is not what he thought Jackal will say.

"Well… I'm not sure if it's the right time to tell you. Actually, I don't even plan to tell you at all," The grey eyes shifted back to look at Marui's lavender one. Marui was so much pulled to the warm colors that he couldn't say anything.

Jackal laughed, eyes moved to look up again, "But… with the thought that we will die on Yukimura's crazy driving, I let it out. You can just forget it, okay?"

When the eyes looked away, Marui felt his heart grew cold. He bit on his lips, his fingers went white as he grabbed so hard on his own jeans.

"There's no way I can just forget it, you idiot." He murmured.

"Sure," Jackal hummed, "I know. But at least, try, okay?" He stood up, and smiling as he reached his hand to Marui, "Let's go back. Sleep first, and think about it again later,"

Marui, was still so confused, and now even a bit angry without any particular reason, ignored the hand and pouted instead.

Jackal sighed, "Bunta, come on,"

Bunta mumbled, "We were friends."

"We are,"

"Then why do you have such a feeling to me?"

"…Well, it's not like I'm the one who decided who to love, okay."

"And you don't even want to hear my feelings for you?"

Jackal stared, eyes widened in disbelief. He asked slowly, "Then… how's your feeling… to me?"

Marui looked up, blushed hard. He blushed more as he looked at Jackal in the eyes, and even wanted to cry a bit now. He bowed down, tried to hide his teary eyes, "I don't know…"

Jackal sighed, but smiled, "I know. I'm sorry for saying this kind of thing…"

"NO, I MEAN…" Marui yelled. He stood up, face still red, but eyes were serious, "I-I… I'm indeed don't know, but…" Marui lowered his eyes again, wavered by his own words. He didn't know what he wanted, but he didn't actually mind with Jackal's feeling, strangely.

Okay, he'll just say that. Jackal will understand. Jackal always understands.

"Maybe, we should…" Marui upped his head, actually meant to look at Jackal –but before he could finished his words, he was extremely shocked by a figure with straight hair and bangs almost covering the entire face, with the faints light under his chin, shading the curve of the face in the scariest way, stood silently behind Jackal. So shock, after he screamed a loud, "GYAAAAAAAAA!", he went pale and fainted right away, fell to the ground with a loud 'thunk'.

"B-BUNTA?!" Jackal yelled, surprised. He ran to his partner and looking around, then spotted the same figure his partner saw earlier, still behind him.

The half-Latino almost screamed to the top of his lungs, too, but then the figure said something with a voice he's kind off recognized.

"Wait, you're humans. Che. I thought you both are ghost Ohtori was speaking of," The figure's eyes squinted, and widened, "Wait, you…are… from Rikkai?"

Jackal blinked, "Y-You're…"

"Hiyoshi Wakashi, from Hyoutei," The figure said, "Oh, okay. I wonder if it's a good thing or not. Ghosts will be better, for sure though."

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