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Today was a banner day in the life of Faustus Necromonium! Granted, there had been quite a few of them prior to this day...the day he had obtained his persona, the day he had befriended Rose, and the day that he had finally stood up to his perennial tormentors stood close to the top of the list, of course. This day, however, had the potential to surpass them all! The green-haired trap smiled as he waited by the escalator down into the Okina Station Mall; today was the first time that Yuno had agreed to come with him to the movies...without Rednal! Usually when the two of them went out somewhere like this that could generally be considered a "date place", there was the restriction that Rednal had to come with them, or more often than that, the understanding that Yuno was simply in the mood for a parfait and Faust was enough of a doormat ['Gentleman!' he told himself] to get her one. Today, however, there were no conditions. She had called him up in the morning with the simple phrase, 'Faust! Yuno wants you to take her to the movies...meet you in Okina at 5!' and that had been that. Just Faust, Yuno, and a romantic comedy at the Okina Movie Theater. He practically giggled with delight at the thought, failing to notice the approach of the pink-haired yandere until she was right in front of him, staring up into his face much closer than most would find comfortable. And being Faust, his natural reaction to the sudden invasion of his space was to blush, jump, and stuttered...so he did exactly that.

"Y-yuno san, when did you get here?!" he cried, embarrassed that he had drifted off into dreamland and forgotten to greet her properly. He felt something of an idiot now, but one smile from Yuno and a playful giggle was enough to tell him that he had nothing to worry about. "Yuno was in the cafe over there getting a smoothie! Yuno has been here for hours, you know...and stop calling me -san...Yuno is just Yuno to Faust!" the pinkette pouted cutely, simultaneously making Faust feel awful and inwardly, squeal. There was no denying how cute he thought the girl was, and even as she was chiding him for not finding her first, he couldn't help but think how adorable she was doing it. "I-I'm sorry, Yuno-s...I mean, Yuno," he corrected himself awkwardly, before deciding to hurry up and start the date before he did something stupid and screwed it up. Fortunately, Yuno saved him the trouble, as she was apparently quite eager to see this movie...for whatever reason that might have been. "Come on, Faust! Yuno doesn't want to be late!" she beamed excitedly, pressing herself against his arm and looping hers around it, starting in a fast walk towards the movie theater.

Yes, this was Faust living the dream...together with just Yuno, walking into the movies together, his arm pressed firmly between Yuno's two bre...he looked away from the girl as she paid for their tickets, his face beet red at that particular thought. In fact, he looked away so hard that he hadn't even noticed Yuno leading them back towards the theater itself until a sharp, distinctly female voice called out harshly from behind him. Whipping his eyes around, green hair dangling loosely behind him, Faust stared in abject horror at the person to whom the voice owned...a piping-hot black-haired girl with a peculiar style hanging it over one side of her face. Standing in front of he and Yuno was none other than Kusuri Keiraku, in all her furious glory, and at the sight of the the green-haired boy with in such a compromising position with the pinkette she seemed ready to explode! "What the Hell are you doing here with her?! I thought you said that someone else was her love? Was that just a lie?!" she shouted in the middle of the cinema complex, outside the theater where any passerby could...and many did [stopping and staring in awe at the poor girls being shouted at by the scary girl]...hear them. Faust raised his hands in self-defense...or rather tried, because in spite of his attempts he found one arm still pinned together by Yuno's arms...speaking of whom, seemed totally unfazed by the entire situation. "K-Keiraku-san! It's...not what it...looks like!" Faust defended meekly, though it only seemed to deepen the scarred girl's anger. "Oh really?! Because it looks to me like you're ARM DEEP in Yuno's cleavage, you b*****d!" Kusuri protested hotly, warm tears beginning to form in the corners of her eyes. Meanwhile, Faust scrambled for something to say, and Yuno seemed as if she were considering something...but just as Faust tried to explain again, a piston-like strike from Kusuri Keiraku cut off his excuses...and opened a flow of crimson blood from a now-broken nose. "Whatever! You can have your Yuno...you jerk!" she cried, spitting pure acid at the boy before stomping off meaningfully in another direction, leaving a stunned and bleeding Faust and a mildly surprised Yuno in her wake.

Faust knelt on the ground and covered his nose with his free hand at that, trying to stop the bleeding...just what in the Hell had THAT been all about? "Don't worry, Faust! Yuno understands...here, take this," she offered him a handkerchief from her bag and an apologetic smile, though it did little to calm the boy until the blood began to cease flowing from his nose. At that, Faust finally stood from the floor, arm still trapped by Yuno, who had waited until he recovered out of consideration before growing slightly antsy at wanting to get into the movie already. She knew Faust had just been through quite an ordeal, but this was important! And somehow, she knew that Faust would understand. "I'm...I'm all right, Yuno..." he choked out finally, his voice nasally from the blood clotting, "I guess I'll have to explain to her later..." He knew that after this, Kusuri might not forgive him, and he didn't expect her to. Just why did she punch him in the face, anyway? It's not like she...liked him...right? No, that was crazy...well, no more crazy than running into anyone else that might have liked him, right? Which, unfortunately for him, was exactly what happened...as Naomi Fujiyoshi just happened to be on her way by towards another theater at the time.

"Of all the...?! Fausty-kun?!" her eyes widened in recognition as she spotted the guy she had been interested in for so long while on her way to see a movie. She blushed prettily and grew excited at the prospect that maybe they could sit together...until her eyes followed his arm to the girl connected to it, the pinkette smiling back at her in complete obliviousness. Recognition dawned on Naomi's face, turning it into an expression of disgust...which in-turn, brought a dawning of recognition onto Faust's face since he had just seen the same scary expression on the face of the scarred girl before. "N-Naomi-san...I-I can explain!" he practically shouted, raising an arm over his face...though with his other hand occupied, he couldn't protect the target that the girl had chosen...and was subsequently crushed by a patented [Naomi Kick!] to the groin. Feeling his family jewels crushed in such an unforgiving fashion that it felt like he had swallowed the things, he crumpled to the ground in a heap, dragging Yuno down on top of him. Standing over the two of them in a justifiable rage, Naomi used all her restraint not to follow the blow up with more. "You're just a player and a user, Fausty-kun! I HATE you!" she bit out through the tears, before running away as fast as she could towards the back theater where her movie was playing.

At this point, it was safe to say that Faust wasn't living the dream anymore. Nose crusted with blood and grapes smashed into raisins, he lay on the ground in a nasty heap...tears in his eyes obscuring his vision save a cloud of pink just overhead. He lay there gasping, writhing for a minute or two...or ten, for that matter, he had lost track of time in a haze of pain after Naomi's vicious kick...though when he finally had recovered enough to move, he wiped away the cloud of tears in his eyes to see that Yuno had been sitting dutifully over him. And that, at the very least, brought a weak smile to his face. "Y-yuno...I'm...sorry," he spoke quietly, still nasally and a little higher pitched than usual, "this is...I didn't mean for this..." He trailed off and was thankful when Yuno shook her head, ending his stuttering before it could get too far. "Yuno doesn't mind! Yuno is just glad that Faust isn't hurt too bad. Though, Yuno thinks that maybe Faust should go for less girls if he doesn't want them to get angry at him like that," she teased him playfully as she stood and began to aid the green-haired boy in getting back to his feet, for which he quietly thanked her once he had done it. A lot had happened in such a short time...Keiraku-san had socked him in the face, Naomi had kicked him, but the silver lining was still there...he was standing outside a theater with Yuno, about to watch a movie alone with her! And she had been the one to invite him! He could...at least with this maybe he could... 'Y-yeah! It's time to...to be a man,' he thought, not even realizing that the words he had spoken were a contradiction to his beliefs. Then again, it was true...despite how he was, Faust WAS a man. And he WAS feeling...strong feelings for the girl that grasped his arm now, smiling brightly up at him as if she trusted him with her very heart.

That thought, if nothing else, was enough to set him back on the proper path. And so he smiled through the crusted blood and tear streaks and chuckled a little to himself, looking down at Yuno with an obvious glint in his eye. "Y-you know, Yuno...t-there's...something I've been wanting to...to say to you," he started, fumbling over his words before hastily adding, "a-about girls, that is! I mean...I-I mean...about Yuno....who is a girl...I mean! The girl...oh, what am I saying?!" The feminine male stumbled over his words awkwardly, earning a strange look from Yuno as he turned away from her, face a darker shade than a tomato, to recollect himself. By now, she seemed to be getting the picture of what he was saying...and by the strange look dawning on her face, she wasn't liking where it was going. It was almost as if she were looking through him...past him, even. Into the door of the theater behind him. But Faust didn't notice, because he wasn't looking...in fact, as he looked down the hall [and away from Yuno], he was gathering all of his courage for this one moment...this ONE moment he had been waiting for since...Hell, who knew when?! 'I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away!' he repeated like a mantra the line which a character from one of his favorite anime had used to steel his resolve, and once he was sure he could do it, he clenched his fists. Now was the time! Gritting his teeth, icing his veins to cool his overheating body, he whipped around to face the pink-haired girl of his dreams and began what he hoped would be his first and final confession! "Yuno! I love Y-!!!

"Rednal!!! Yuno's excited voice shouted over the bustle of the hall, drowning out the green-haired boy's confession with her overwhelming excitement. And indeed, as Faust looked into her face he saw that she wasn't looking at or through him, but over his shoulder at the form of her love stepping out of the theater they were going into en route to get a thing of popcorn. And Rednal, somewhat startled by Yuno, turned and offered a small wave to the girl as if he hadn't been expecting her at all. "Yuno? I wasn't expecting you here," Rednal greeted her with his usual, casual smile, "are you coming to this movie? There's a seat next to me if you want it." He offered it to her as he usually would, mostly to be polite, and Yuno accepted the offer within milliseconds, leaping from Faust and attaching herself to Rednal's arm in a nigh-invisible flash. Smiling apologetically, Rendal looked over at Faust and shrugged his shoulders. "Sorry I couldn't save two...but there should be some open seats in the back," he explained coolly, "well, I'll see you..." And with that tiny greeting, a small wave over the shoulder of Rednal from Yuno, the strange couple made off towards the concession stands and left the green-haired boy behind to think about what had happened.

'B-but I...today was...Yuno and I...?' Faust thought pathetically, standing in front of the theater like a whipped dog. Now it all made sense to him...her sudden invitation, her not mentioning waiting on or bringing Rednal here with them, her desperation to come to the movie...she had done it all so that she could surprise [stalk] Rednal into the movie HE was going to see! And Faust...Faust was just her patsy and escort until she found him! ]'I...I was such an idiot...' he realized all of a sudden, feeling tears spring to his eyes as he realized just what had happened. All of his attention on Yuno...and she hadn't even been interested in him. Not for a moment. And the girl who had liked him...Naomi, Kusuri....they had seen him with Yuno and assumed the worst, leaving him behind...and he had let them. 'I...I'm going to have a lot of explaining to do on Monday,' he thought grimly, head sinking even further as Yuno and Rednal passed back by him and into the theater without so much as a glance in his direction, trying to figure out how he was going to salvage this situation without all of the girls thinking of him as some sort of player or a jerk which, at the moment, he really kind of was...or at least he felt that way. 'Banner day my a**! If this is what it's like to have a harem,' he thought grimly, sighing as he sunk to the floor in a heap, 'then I don't even want one!'

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Meanwhile, standing nearby in the hall was a silver-haired young man with clouded eyes that had taken in the entire scene. It was sad, really...the boy had lured in so many cute, potential girls, but his indecisiveness had ended up biting him in the back. Well, if you wanted to be a player, you had to understand the game...and Faust, sadly, had just come up snake eyes, the poor kid. Alas, the senior merely rolled his eyes as Faust sank to the floor in his resignation, returning his attention towards a group of several girls around him. "Tch...amateurs," the boy scoffed as he slipped his arms around the shoulders of a blond haired-senior, a black-haired Senior, and stood flanked by a pair of red-haired Juniors, a green-haired Senior, and a pink-haired freshman to round out the group...then snapped his fingers in a smooth motion to signal for all their attention, "Come on...let's leave him alone for now." His voice carried a vague hint of amusement as he navigated he and his female escorts down the hall and into a theater of their own...much to the delight of all. "This is how it's done..."

A Day in the Set!?

Ah~! A day at the beach! The sun's heat, flowing through my head, the breeze of the ocean gently grabs my perky skin, and the water refreshes the soles of my feet from the soft dry sand.
Fabulous! This will be in the nect magazine shoot!
A Camera man said to a girl. As the Camera man continue to shoot the girl
Thank you.
the girl said in a monotone, as she continued to pose for the camera as a few minutes passes.
Why am I here Megumi?
Hikaru asked abit worried of what is happening to this girl...Megumi inviting people to her shoots are very rare, so rare that rare isn't even a word to desribe how rare an occasion is.
I dont get why Im here either...
Shikari also commented as few other people came from behind...
More importantly why am I here?
Yuuki remarked knowing that Megumi didn't like her very well.
Well this is suppose to be a group shot in the afternoon I was hoping I could have Friends With me...
Megumi shouted as she got of the set to get a drink of water, taking quite a long sip she pointed to the swim suite section to choose wich swim suite they wanted to wear...
Well theres the swim suite section! Go choose till you're hearts content. And remember were showing the swim suite of not ourself so make sure its comfortable...
Of Cource Megumi was wearing a swim suite very appropriate for her age a one piece with a frill at the end, strangely elegant and more adult like choice it also matched her hair and skin tone so it was an amazing choice for a 15 year old.
...
A Mysterious man was standing in the corner with his face flushed
OI! Vaust! C'mon!
Megumi waved her hands to direct the princess buddy to have a blast of his but more like "Her" time! They were friends not very close but this was all she had so she just had to roll with it but it did make her happy to see him once again. And Vaust She is still unaware with his real name "Faust" But it seemed that even if she did know she would be stubborn and still call him that so it was out of anyones hand anyway.
I think this is very handsom Shikari-kun!
Hikaru pointed a water suite thats was black and dark red
H-hey! Choose you're own!
Shikari snapped in emberacement choosing a bathing suit from a man...
Aww...But I would think that Yuki-chan would love to see how masculine you are... Oh well...Vaust-kun...Ummm...I know how about this!
Hikaru pointed out a bathing suit set with a tube with a bear on it, he heard from megumi that he was into cute things so he pointed out a character designed by Risset by a famouse swim suit desiner....I think it was the mascot of junes but thats not that point. The point is he thought it would look very nice on Faust.
'///'
Faust had nothing to say afterwords...such a strange boy...Mean while in the girls room Megumi, and Yuuki was getting ready for there swim suit.
Well wich one do you want to wear? The One piece out lines the curves of the body so I would chose this one, but the 2 pieces gives alittle extra to the guys, guessing that Shikari was a man he would be over you! And then theres the leg wrap its good for hiding the legs, but I think you have long legs judging from my point of view of cource.
Megumi said with all pointers from swimsuite lines
Megumi, I think Im fine with...Oh my this is just strings...how do people wear this! Im definetly NOT going to wear this...I'll go with this.
Suprised with the difference in swimsuites Yuki went ahead with a one piece ( With an intention to show of her body to Shikari) and so did Megumi, but before they left a suprise visit from a cirtain someone came!
IIIIIIIIM! HEEEEEERE! RIZZZZZETS READY TO ROLL!
A Famiar voice came by it was no one other than the famouse idol risset!
Risset! Glad to see you!
Megumi came by and french kissed Risset you know the kiss the french do where the cheeks brushes with one another from each side... as Risset explained that she was here as a boost for more "Male" and "Female" people to read the magazine They all got ready together.It was shooting time and as the males and females gathered around some of the guys and females were speechless except Megumi and Rise...
Omg! Risset! You're so fashionable!
Megumi commented to Rise
No U! You're adorable!
This continued the whole shoot but back to the people participating, Shikari and Yuuki was too in love with each other to even pay attention to anyone else. Faust was too satisfied to talk to anyone and Hikaru was a 3rd wheel like always annoying Yuki-chan and Shikari-kun's love life...Every one having a blast at the shoot laughing and having fun, goofing off, and playing in the water.

This should be a regular day!

Winter, is the worst season in the history of seasons. It Rains, its cold, little snow, even when it snows it’ll just turn to slush in the next 24 hours. Nothing about winter is fun.
“How can people stand the cold?” A Young brown haired boy commented. Winter, oh how he hated winter. Unsatisfied with the day he was having. It was rainy few seconds ago and now the whole Washington state is being pelted by snow. How fun to have Cold, Hard, Bulleting, Snow. Hikaru the young boy who commented on the winter season sneezed as he bent over to pick up the remote to the T.V.
“Winter should just go away forever…” He distastefully exclaimed as he picked up the remote and comfortably laid on the leather couch next to the warm fireplace. Of course the fire place was on roaring in alley. He was the same as the fire lazily burning away.
“Wow Look at the snow!!” A Cheerful younger girl yelled excited to play in the snow like a cat to a ball of yarn. Hikaru looked over to the girl in a irritated look no way was he going to go outside!
“I don’t want to. Megumi” He articulated to her in a monotone. He just didn’t want to get hit by the cold, like last time when his friends shoved snow down his back, traumatizing his pride for a life time of winters.
“C’mon! I Wanna play in the snow!” The girl screamed into his ears. How can he play in the snow when he’s already 8! For crying out loud she’s 6!
“Why am I outside?” Hikaru asked himself cocking his head to the right trying to remember the event that caused himself to be forced into this ill-omened fate.
“Hikaru, Have a heart! Play with her!” as the mother scolded him he could see his sister curly brown hair, rolling back and forth, flailing her hands out of control yelling
“I Wanna, I Wanna!” As the flash back ended, sighing just to remind himself that he was downtrodden to do so, simply sighing again after moments of production of a snowman with his sister. Since when did he get this productive in his life? Watching his sister run around with her head held high, hands in the air, catching the snow like a five year old, and having no pride what so ever in herself, Hikaru sighed once more
“Be careful not to trip.” The brown haired boy warned her caring for his sister. Putting his palm of his hands up to his chin concealing it completely he had a hard time looking over his sister so he just thought of leaving her. Moments later he was too uninterested with his sisters’ affair to keep an eye on her. Not too long after, he was on his own walking to the trail his parents use to take him and his sister along to explore the nationhood. As soon as he reached the starting point he was interrupted by a fence. Why a fence here? This is a public route. He smirked mischievously. He was going to jump the fence. He never remembered anyone building a fence here nor did he remember anyone talk about it. Putting his leg onto the vertical wood in the middle of the fence he felt his heart beat fast. He was going to break into land. Was this okay? Contorting his legs over the fence, working hard to get to this point Hikaru leaped with great force in his leg, in the air he felt free but moment seconds he fell, just like throwing a stone into the air, landing on both his legs in an awkward position on top of ice he tripped.
“Ooof!” He mumbled hitting the ground with his rear end.
“I Hate winter.” He shook the snow off of him, taking his anger out on the ice. He had to keep quite; he did not want to be caught by the FBI or State Police for trespassing. The pain wasn’t that bad it took his mind off of the numbness of his hands. His leather gloves did nothing to change the cold. It has been a while since his last venture into the wood trails. Coming here would be the 1st in years! He remembers playing in the bush, and leafs, making mud pies, and playing with the trees with a mean game of tag. He reminisced about the old days for a while laughing at how stupid he was back then when he stumbled out side of a cave.
“Hmmm? Never seen this before.” Hikaru questioned himself if he had ever seen this before. Definitely he did not. Crawling inside of the small cave unimpressed of how it looked, the cave was as big as he was just a bit spacey. The cave was long it has been near a minute of crawling and it was getting boring he was getting Closter phobic and something was definitely wrong. How long is this cave? He pondered still crawling. His hands were pass numbness and now its freezing pain but enduring it he kept crawling. The Cave seemed to turn more narrow as time passed it was getting harder to crawl at a pace he felt most comfortable with. He was in a box. There’s no way this will end. But going back would mean losing to himself and no he couldn't lose to himself! That would be sad! Crawling with courage, and curiosity he managed to see an opening. Finally he screamed in his head, he did not want to be in this small space anymore! As he swam to the open sky
“Buha!” he breathed in to the open air Where am I? He thought seeing that there were little trees and a garden next to him. He walked to see a court house which looked like the only civilization he could really find at the moment, He thought about going through to the court house. Taking a step to the court house, he was interrupted by a loud vibration.
“OF WITH HIS HEAD!” A familiar female voice screamed as the guards took the man in a tow somewhere he did not want to know.
“Please, I beg of your highness!” The man pleaded, being towed away by the guards. (Faust?)
“THE QUEEN’S WORD IS LAW!”The girl said emphasizing on the word “Law”
“Strange…” The boy commented as he thought deeply to himself of if it was a good idea to talk to this strange female authority. He was sure he was in Japan, Inaba... Why was there a court house? Passed a cave he found through a cave. It couldn’t be that long. Hikaru sighed, walking back to the cave, but where’s the cave!? He could have sworn it was in between the two big willow trees! Going towards the courthouse was a bad idea and wondering aimlessly was also bad.

“A wonder has left a key
To a home you least enjoy
Lead the heart or perish trying
As she will show the way.”

(Igor?)
Hikaru jerked and turn around. No one was there. Thinking it was himself hearing thing he thought going to civilization was the best option he had. Even when they were a bit medieval.
“Weird”, He stated as he left remembering the words vividly, he had to go to this “Heart person” then will he find his way home. This was his only clue home so he might as well try.
“Hello~?” He cowardly entered the courthouse to be devastated at what he saw.
“Megumi!?”, He cried as he thought of only one thing. I’m screwed… He face-palmed himself, stepping up to the stand. The Queen of Hearts was wearing a hard core frilled rose dress with a cane with a rose vine and a crystallized heart at the end. He was sure she was obsessed with roses and hearts.
“Who dares to speak to the queen of hearts!”, she screamed to the strange boy.
“It is the Jack of Spades?”, obviously joking he nonchalantly smiled seeing his sisters face again.
“I’m looking for a route home…” He announced to her.
“Of with his head!”, She yelled at the body guards, irritated of the boy.
“Megumi please. This is irrational!” he yelled as her running franticly to the nearest place he could run to.
“A Garden?”, He said aloud but he had no time to think quickly taking action and running to a random route. He was lost in a maze. He had no where to go and no where to hide.
“There you are!” The queen said coming shortly after he had arrived to this point.
“Megumi, I know you and I had our problems in the past but please!”, he cried out to her turning around to see an unfamiliar door. No time to ask questions for this either. Opening it and running in side he found himself warm and surrounded by a familiar scent, arousing him after every second.
“I’m home!” Megumi screamed walking in.
“Wha- but I, you, Hugh?” Hikaru questioned where he was again walking in
“Mom you wouldn’t believe what Hikaru did! He wouldn’t play with me!”, She whined as her complaining was ignored by there mom and dad. Was this all a dream? Just more reasons to add why he disliked winter.
“Hiko is that a heart? You carved that out smoothly, I’m impressed!”, His mom said in astonishment.
“Please. Don’t remind me…”, Hikaru rolled his eyes as he flopped onto the couch thinking “Home Sweet Home.”
Akumu smirked remembering the past reminicing looking at a picture from when Hikaru was 8, how cocky his son was back then.

Kusuri backstory

The numbers 6:30 were blazing out of the alarm clock as it went off, before suddenly being shut off by a hand.
As it was, a girl climbed out of her bed, silently with almost impossible grace. Her short purple hair covering her ears slightly as she snuck down the stairs, and headed into the Kitchen.
Pulling out the pans, and preheating the oven, Kusuri was beaming at her idea.

Making her own mother's cake for her, with it being her birthday. She had prepared all the ingredients last night, and as such, took little time in arranging them in the proper order, eventually combining the materials and preparing it for baking.

The oven set at a good enough temperature, she slid the uncooked cake into the oven, as she set the timer.

"Happy birthday to you..." she rehearsed, trying to get her voice to work just as she wanted. Her mother would only turn 32 once, and Kusuri wanted the day to be one to remember. She kept singing, as she waited, before stopping.
"Oh right, I still have to get her present from my schoolbag." she called, as she started up the stairs, and to her room.

She rifled through her bag, looking for the necklace she had gotten her mother. A very special neckalce she had been saving her allowance for.

Unfortunately, as she finally found said necklace, a strange scent filled the air.
Moving downstairs, she was startled by a bright light where the stove was.
"Oh no, the cake!!" she called as she opened the door, a burst of flame roaring out and into her eye.

She screamed out in pain, as she backed up from the stove, the door having fallen open.
The flames started to spread, starting from the walls, and dancing around.

Kusuri was screaming in pain still, unable to keep her eye open, as she instinctively backed up from the flames.

However, as they kept getting bigger, they eventually encompassed the stairs, to the misfortune of the woman upstairs.
"Kusuri, Kusuri what's wrong?" The woman called, before having to back up from the flames.
"M-mom..." She called, a sob noteable in her voice. "It hurts....It hurts..."

"what hurts honey?" her mother's voice called out over the stairs, as Kusuri kept sobbing.
"My Eye...." she called. "It got my eye....It hurts mom....I can't see out of it...."

"Calm down honey, I'll call the hospital, you'll be fine." the mother called, as the flames roared even louder.

Eventually, Kusuri's eyes closed, as the smoke was overcoming her, along with the pain.

Before she knew it, she heard a loud, steady beeping.
"It's okay sir, she'll live." an unfamilair voice called out. "She seems to have suffered some serious burns, but she should be fine."

"Fine?!!" a much rougher voice called out. "What part of losing an Eye is Fine?!! Much less Losing her Mother!!!"

Kusuri flinched. That couldn't be true, it couldn't.

She started to prod herself mentally, wanting to wake up from this nightmare. She wanted to wake up. It was too awful, it couldn't be real.

The beeping sped up again, before the sounds of a doctor came closer, and she felt herself getting sleepy again.
Maybe that was how she'd wake up. She'd fall asleep in the nightmare world, and wake up in the real one. Yeah, she'd be up any minute to prepare her mother's birtday cake. She would......

However, her next awakening was greeted by the familair beep, and the overly clean air.
Wrestling with her eyes, she immeditely discovered it was no nightmare, it actually happened.
Her left eye opened up easily, as she took in the white walls of the hospital. However, try as she might, she couldn't open her right one. Reaching for it, she flinched at brushing it, her once soft skin now rough and coarse due to the flames.

She took her fingers, and tried to open the eye manually, despite the pain it was causing her.
She felt her eyelids part....but still saw no image coming from the eye. She could feel her eye coming into the light of the world.....but no light could come into it.

She was half blind now. Worse, if what she remembered was true, her house was burned down...
And a few days later, the worst thing that she hoped hadn't happened had been unfortunately confirmed.

Her mother had died in the fire. She had been calling to Kusuri until the very end, and had been the one to call the Ambulance and the fire truck, but by the time they had got there, it was too late for her.
The rain drenched the town that day.
At the Funeral....Of Sayako Keiraku.....

Potential Faust/Naomi Happening

A knock on the door got Faust's attention. He moved over to it, and opened it.
"Keirak...." he started, before noticing it wasn't Kusuri. Rather....it was..
"Naomi-san?" he remarked, looking at her. He hadn't seen her in a while. "How are you...."
However, he was interrupted by Naomi throwing a kick at his stomach, knocking him a fair way back. "N-Naomi-san? Wh-what....what are you doing?" Naomi moved closer to him, glaring.

"Fausty-senpai...." she called, in a sinister tone. "It's been a while, hasn't it? I'm surprised you can even remember me, with your little harem of girls around.."

Faust paused, hearing her remark.
"H-harem?" he remarked, lightly. "What are you talking about?"

Naomi stomped her foot, angrily.
"Don't you play stupid with me!!" she called, sharply. "The way you just rifle through girls, like they're just your little playthings. Like you can just switch between them day in and day out. You had me fooled the first time, but I've long since learned how you truly are. And I'm sick of it!!"
She stomped her foot down even more, as flames started to erupt around her, catching fire quickly.

Faust flinched, pausing.
"You....you think I'm actually like that?" he replied, quivering. Given, he did tend to have girl troubles, but he had no intentions of trying to hook up with more than one.
"I...I could never do th-"

"SHUT UP!!!" Naomi called, as the flames got bigger. "JUST SHUT UP!!! I'M NOT FALLING FOR ANY OF YOUR TRICKS!!!"

Faust flinched, as he leaned back further.
"So get up, and be a man." she called, sharply. "Fight me, if you plan on living. Otherwise, you're completely doomed."

Faust paused, and got to his feet.
"N-no!!" he called, loudly. "I'm not going to fight you. I could never hurt you Naomi-san!! Just like what you said you could never do to me!"

Naomi paused, remembering when she said that. No, No! That couldn't be true.
"Fine by Me!!" she called, punching the green haired she-male in the face, knocking him out.

He didn't get up, assuring her that he was unconcious.
She turned, sharply as she started back out of the building, the flames starting to spread. She moved out of the house, moving a distance away, before turning around, watching as the house started to go up in flames.

As she did, however, someone moved forward, looking at the building.
A girl with long purple hair.
"Kusuri...." She called, her smile turning upwards again.

The girl hesitated, before starting into the building, as the flames started to spread.
Naomi moved closer, waiting for the girl to come back out of the house with Faust, just so she could push them back in. She stood, at the ready as the flames kept burning. Getting wider and wider.

Why wasn't she getting out? Wasn't Faust going to be killed if she didn't?
Wouldn't she die too?
Why wasn't the girl coming out.

The flames got bigger, as Naomi's mind started to remind her of things she'd thought she'd forgotten.
Of when she had sat with Faust for lunch. Of when he had come to her house.

After a bit, she started closer to the building, opening the door as she looked inside it.
Faust was there, but the girl wasn't. A short while later, the girl came down, holding a picture frame, and grabbed Faust, as she started to drag him out.

'This is it.' she told herself, as she moved out of sight, watching and waiting.
As the girl came out of the house, Naomi heard a thump, and moved back around to see the two now both laying down in the doorway.
It was too easy. She would just have to lift them up, and toss them back in, and she'd be done.

As she reach for Faust's hair, picking him up by it, the frame came crashing down to the ground, the sound of glass breaking.

Naomi looked down at it, expecting to see a picture of Faust's family, or his friends. As most people would have in a frame.

She dropped Faust as she saw what it was.

It was.....the drawing she had made for him a while back. He had kept it....and framed it?

Not only that, but apparently had told Kusuri to go up to recover it before the fire got to it.

Mixed feelings started to come over Naomi, as she started to question what Kazuma had told her.

If Faust didn't feel anything for her, then why would he have framed the picture she drew for him? Why did he want it so badly, even if it would have cost him and Kusuri their lives?

Her head started to hurt, as she tossed the two aside, before staggering off, clutching her head.

Could he.....could he actually care about her?
No....it couldn't be....Kazuma said so.....
But......the picture....

Another memory came back to Naomi, before she had changed.
"I'd never do anything to hurt you Fausty-senpai" her voice rang out. Had she actually said that?
But...she couldn't have.....
She fell to her knees, as she started to cry.
"What have I done?!!" she called out, loudly as she moved back to where Faust and Kusuri were, before pulling out her phone.

"Hello? Hospital? We have two people in dire need of medical attention!!" she sobbed out, before telling them the address.
"Hang on Fausty-senpai..." she called, hugging his currently limp body. "Hang on.."

As written by Necromonium for curiousities sake of what others think