Scream (Nogitsune)

Chapter 4

It was quiet for a few days so everyone used the time to go through every single book there was that could suggest anything that would save their friend, hoping he was still in there somewhere. They had no luck so far, everything they found was already tried and disproved. It was quite suspicious that the Nogitsune wasn't seen for so long and uncomfortable waves of doubt hit them from time to time, but they tried to stay as focused as possible. They had to do everything they could, for Malia.

"We need to work with what we know." Scott tried to calm everyone down and get ahead of the situation.

"But what do we know?" Lydia opposed.

She seemed very pesimistic lately, which wasn't like her, but Scott let her be, the ability to sense death must have taken its toll in some way, he thought. It couldn't have been easy for any of them, but Lydia had it the hardest with her consuming powers and strong feelings towards Stiles.

"Let's start with what we did last time." Scott continued.

"Letharia Vulpina." Isaac mumbled, being pretty much overseen until now.

"Right. We know it weakens the Nogitsune for a while." Lydia said with her voice broken.

That didn't give them much, but at least they weren't going through the same books in a room full of nothing but silence and hopelessness.

"Good, we can use that as a first step." Scott suggested.

"Wouldn't it be a little predictable?" Isaac asked with a pinch of irony in his voice.

"Maybe, but maybe he wouldn't think we would do it again." Kira entered the conversation, getting where Scott was going.

"Maybe." Lydia noted, not sounding very convinced.

"We are going to find a solution and we will save Stiles, don't worry." Scott began to comfort her, trying to believe it himself as they were, very slowly, but finally getting further.

"I think I will go see if my mom came up with anything and help her with research." Kira offered.

"Good idea, I will go see Stiles' dad and tell him what we are up to."

"Why do you bring sheriff Stilinski into this?" Isaac asked quite uncomfortably.

"I don't think it's a good idea to keep anything from him anymore. It's his son and being a sheriff he might help us if needed."

Quiet moment came after Scott's argument, because they all knew that the 'if needed' meant danger they couldn't handle by themselves anymore.

"Okay." Isaac ruptured the silence. "Me and Lydia will stay here and wait." Waiting was the last thing they were able to do, but there was really no point in going though the books they already had and there was nothing for them to do at the moment.

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Mrs. Yukimura was still at work when Kira got home so she made herself comfortable in front of the library and started going through the books. She went on unsuccessfully for a while when she heard the door open and her mom finally got there.

"What happened here?" she asked curiously instead of a greeting.

With books and Kira's stuff laying everywhere it did look as if either someone tried to rob their house or a bomb went off.

"Hi, sorry, I was just looking if there is any book that would say something about the Nogitsune we might not know yet." Kira said apologetically.

"Dear Kira," her mom started with heavy heart, "we need to talk about this."

Kira was afraid of what was about to come and wanted to hear none of it.

"But you said you would help us. You said you would look everywhere to find another way to save him. You promised!" she started, almost yelling, as if she was trying to put those words into her's mom mouth.

"I did, Kira. I tried. I looked everywhere I could, but there was nothing. I honestly thought the katana would work. It is the only weapon that can defeat him known to me." Mrs. Yukimura defended herself.

"No." Kira expected something like this, but actually hearing it was something entirely different. "We have to do something. I can't let Scott's best friend just die." she said, putting all the fear and despair into the last word.

"I know. I really tried and I am very sorry, but there is nothing I can do now." Kira's mom said, but it sounded to Kira like there was something else and she wasn't mistaken. "Kira, you cannot let him hurt people."

Of course she would never let that happen intentionally, but she didn't know what to do. It was Stiles.

"Mom, I can't just kill him. Stiles is Scott's best friend. He's my friend too." Kira's eyes watered as this was very hard to talk about.

"I know, but promise me," Mrs. Yukimura started, as she got closer to Kira and grabed her hand, "promise me, that if you see he is about to hurt someone who can't protect themselves, you'll do something. Anything, you don't have to kill him, but you cannot let him play with innocent people. Promise me you'll stop him no matter what." she insisted.

Kira knew her mom meant well, she couldn't eliminate the threat, not when the threat was taking a form of their friend, but she also wouldn't let anyone be hurt or even worse, so she started to understand where her mom was going from.

"I promise, but you promise me you will not stop looking just yet." Kira said

"Fair enough." her mom answered and closed the discussion on this topic.

They talked about other things, the usual stuff, Mrs. Yukimura trying for Kira to forget all the nightmares coming to life at least for a moment.

Her phone rang, the screen showing Scott's name.

"Hi." she started.

"Kira, I need you to get to school as soon as possible." Scott sounded urgently.

"I am on my way, what is happening?" she asked trying to find out what she should prepare herself for.

"He is here."