"What do you mean, he's gone?" Gouenji asked. He raised an eyebrow at Tachimukai, who just held out his arms and shrugged.

"I don't know! What does gone mean?" Tachimukai said. "One moment, we were waiting for our trap to work-"

"Wait – a trap?" Hiroto asked. He glanced at Midorikawa. "You actually went through with that?"

"Well, yeah," Midorikawa sniffed. "Me, Tachimukai, and Endou were all sitting in my room trying to catch the thing, and right when things got exciting, I don't know... the window opened or something, and he was gone."

"I think something took him!" Tachimukai said. "The window flew open and a shadow thing took him! Oh man, it was horrible..."

"A shadow, huh?" Hiroto glanced up at Gouenji, and the two of them were trying not to crack smiles. The two boys seemed pretty convincing, but Endou disappearing? That seemed pretty fishy.

"You know, shadows do tend to get violent this time of year-"

"Don't joke around! We're serious!" Midorikawa cried. "He is gone. One hundred percent gone and not here."

"We need to find him!" Tachimukai said. "Who knows what could have happened to him by now?"

"I think you guys are overreacting." Gouenji said. "Maybe he just left and you didn't notice?"

"No!"

As the four boys argued about Endou, a very tired Kazemaru tossed in his bed. Out of all the doors in the cabin, they had to chose his to gather in front of? Being very irritated at this point, Kazemaru threw the blankets off his bed and stomped to his door.

"Will you guys knock it off?" he demanded as he flung his door open. "People are trying to sleep!"

Hiroto turned around to see him, and he covered his mouth, trying not to laugh. Having just gotten out of bed, Kazemaru... well, he didn't look very good. His pajamas were uneven, he had bags under his eyes, and his hair was done up in a messy ponytail/headband combo that looked ridiculous.

"Oh, sorry. Were we interrupting your beauty sleep?" Hiroto asked.

Kazemaru frowned. "Ha ha. What are you all even fighting about, anyway?" he asked.

"Those two think Endou disappeared." Hiroto said. He nodded over to Tachimukai and Midorikawa.

"We don't think it, we know it!" Midorikawa said. "We saw him disappear with our own eyes! I swear!"

Tachimukai nodded in agreement. "It sounds weird... but it's the whole truth!"

Kazemaru crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows at the two. "So you're telling me Endou just disappeared?"

"Well, he didn't just disappear. Something took him, we're pretty sure." Tachimukai said. "It looked like a shadow or something, and it came from the window!"

"The window, eh?" Kazemaru said. "It must have been a pretty tall creature, then. Considering how we're all on the third floor and all."

Midorikawa and Tachimukai exchanged glances, and Hiroto and Gouenji continued to hold back their smiles. They both knew they were busted now.

But they didn't confess to their little trick just yet. Tachimukai nodded. "That's what makes this even scarier. We don't know what we're up against here!"

Kazemaru rubbed his temples and sighed. "Sure. Okay. Whatever. Now, can you all settle your business elsewhere? Go off to find Endou and just let me-"

"Hey, that's a great idea!" Midorikawa said. "We should all go look for Endou!"

"I don't think that's what he meant-" Hiroto started, but Tachimukai cut him off.

"Thanks, Kazemaru! We appreciate you offer!" he said.

"He doesn't mean-" Gouenji tried to talk some sense into the boys, but of course they didn't listen. Midorikawa grabbed poor Kazemaru's arm and lead him down the hall.

"Wha- what are you doing?" Kazemaru demanded. He struggled to get his arm back, but Midorikawa's grip was quite strong. "Let me go!"

"Shh!" Midorikawa shushed the blue haired boy and pointed to a door. "You'll wake people up if you're not quiet!"

"Too late." Kogure said. Kazemaru and Midorikawa were quiet shocked to see him standing in his doorway, his arms crossed.

"See? Look what you did." Midorikawa said as he shook his head at Kazemaru. "I know you really want to help look, but you don't need to wake up people so rudely like that..."

Kazemaru shook his head and sighed.

"What's up with you all, anyway?" Kogure continued. "You all look terrible."

Gouenji and Hiroto had caught up with them, and Gouenji went to free Kazemaru and Hiroto decided to explain what was going on to Kogure.

"Sorry about them. I guess they all heard some noises, and they're claiming that Endou's gone..."

"Ooh, do we have a kidnapper on the loose?" Kogure chuckled. Tachimukai nodded.

"Either that or something worse," he said. "A monster probably go him."

"Or real aliens," Midorikawa added.

"We decided to go out and look for him. Before it's too late and all. Kazemaru agreed to help-" The blue haired boy shook his head in protest. "-and well, it would be really nice if you could help us too!"

"Sorry about waking you up, but any help would be appreciated!"

"You guys, just let him go back to bed-" Gouenji said, but Kogure waved a hand at him.

"Nah... I'm in a good mood. I'll help you guys out. After all, what good will we be without our captain?"

He stepped into his room, and before closing his door, he glanced up at everyone and smiled. "Give me a few minutes and let me round some stuff up. Oh, wake Kurimatsu and Kabeyama, too."

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AN:

Oooooh man this was on hiatus too long. Sorry about that! But Dylan's beautiful fics (The Psiioniic here on FF) got me into the Inazuma mood again! Check out her stuff, it's really great!

There is like a four month writing gap between first and last bits of this chapter soooo I hope you can't tell the difference. Not that I've improved much since then OTL

Okay that's enough talking so read and review :3