Connected To You | Ghost Hunt

Bloodstain Labyrinth

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"KYAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!" A piercing screamed sliced their ears, all looking around on where it could be.  It led them to the closed bathroom door of the women's quarters. 

And another fearful scream reached their ears only for it to stop in excruciating silence.

"Akemi!" The boys were quick to react, running towards the door with Bou-san getting there first.

"It's locked!" Bou-san yells as he kept turning the knob, placing his ears to the door when he heard gargling as though Akemi was screaming under water. "Akemi! The door's locked!" 'She sounds like she's drowning in there!'

Moving to the side gave Lin enough space to try and kick the door open, even using his sides to force it along with Bou-san and the others, but it was no use. "Akemi!"

Naru frowned in thought—  clenching his hands and pulling it up beside him, Lin seeing this movement hastily reached Naru and held it down, glaring at the glacial eyes of Naru. 

"It's dangerous, Naru!"  The mechanic looked disheveled, knowing the teenage boy planned on using his PK. 'She could get hurt.'  were the words left unsaid yet Naru heard it completely as though it was yelled in his ear.

Clicking his tongue in hidden annoyance, Naru backed-off.  His ability would be too strong, it could break the whole door into splinters and some could embed itself unto Akemi and hurt her further.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Naru clenched his fists at the restriction that would get the door open, Akemi's gargling scream still continuous in his thoughts . 

Looking around into anything that could help get the door to budge, Naru stepped to do it himself. "Try kicking down the door knobs instead," Naru ordered, but Lin's narrowed gaze told him to stay put as Lin did as Naru's told. 

BLAG!

"Akemi!" 
"Akemi-sempai?!"

Naru was first to get inside once they got the door open, his gaze moving around the compacted bathroom— only for it to settle on the golden retriever whimpering in front of the bath tub, just in time for Akemi to leap out of it with choking sobs, quivering like a wet puppy as she frantically tried to get out, tripping as she did so. 

"AKEMI!" Kneeling in front of her, Naru didn't know what to do, Oliver beside him continued to whimper.  Her choked screams still echoing around the room, her eyes set on staring at her drenched body with continual fear. 'Blood!'

He frowned in confusion when Akemi kept trying to wipe herself off of something he couldn't see, her tremulous voice ringing in his head. "What's wrong? What is it?"

Akemi's head shook, her eyes wandering all over with no particular destination to focus on.  Seeing how she continued to grasp straws, Naru held her head and faced it to him. "Akemi!?"

Her eyes continued to wonder yet her body reacted to the knowledge of another person somewhere around her that won't kill her.  "...Blood..." Akemi bit her shaking lips, its soft pinkish hue replaced by a bruising purple due to the cold. "I'm covered in blood..."

Naru's brow furrowed as he let his eyes wander over her drenched figure, it was only water.  

His midnight eyes lifted back with a grim expression on his face, removing one of his hands from holding her face and reaching out for a towel hanging on the side.  "Wait," Turning his head towards the others to nudge them out for the moment.