What if it Repeated? (Oumasai/Saiouma)

Chapter 4- Unseen Enemies 1/2

He was thinking as quickly as he could and it wasn't providing useable results.
"I went for a walk." Could he sound any more suspicious? The blue haired girl cocked her head to the side in obvious doubt,
"So what are you doing up?" Shuuichi cringed at his own words. He had made it worse. Tsumugi blushed and looked at her feet,
"I sort of heard your voice from my room and thought I should see what was happening." There was the first lie. He knew for a fact that the rooms were soundproof, Tsumugi shouldn't have had any idea that he had been there. How had she known then?! Had she simply guessed? He didn't think so.
"Oh sorry." He said, trying to sound apologetic, "did I wake you up?"
"Oh, no, you didn't! I was finding it hard to go to sleep anyway."

"That's good! Sorry to cut you short, but I really should be heading to bed." His fingers closed around the door knob and he swung the door open. An arm pushed past him, blocking the doorway.
"Those who know too much, might find that they don't live as long as others do. Life is a precious thing that can be taken away at any given moment, Shuuichi." Her voice was oddly hushed and made the hairs on his neck to stand up. "I know everything you've been up to and I have to say I'm quite perplexed, how could you know all this from the very beginning?" He slowly turned his head to face her. Her eyes gleamed and a frown was plastered on her face. Fear pulsed through him. This was the true Tsumugi, there was no more faking persona. And then the hand fell back to her side and she backed away, "also, I wouldn't bank on having your little friend around that much longer either, if Miu doesn't get to him, I will."

His breathing caught in his throat. Kokichi.
"Don't you dare touch him!" The words burst out of him the coldness he had been feeling replaced with red hot anger and... fear. Tsumugi gave a high cold laugh that sent chills down his spine.
"This is your fault for letting him in on this idea of yours, and now you will both face the price, night!"

As soon as he closed the door behind him he fell against it, shaking head to toe. The mastermind was onto him and now Kokichi was in the line of fire too. Kokichi, whom he felt was the only person he could truly trust this time around. The person who he truly cared for. If Kokichi suffered because of him, he would never forgive himself. He felt a hopelessness take over him, an overwhelming sadness and loss. He had felt this feeling once before. Despair.

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Time skip

"Morning! Sorry I'm late, I had to wrestle a bear to get out of there." Kokichi laughed, toddling over to him. As soon as he caught sight of Shuuichi's face though, his smile faltered and was replaced with worry, "What happened? Is this about ryo..." Shuuichi shook his head, but didn't open his mouth to say anything. He was debating whether to tell Kokichi the full truth about what Tsumugi was planning, or just keeping a close eye on Tsumugi for now. "Then what's wrong? What else happened?" He didn't have to tell Kokichi about Miu, yet. He could probably get away with telling him solely about the main issue at hand.

He took and deep breath and looked around to make sure they were entirely alone,
"The mastermind found out..." Kokichi's eyes widened. There was a small silence where he could see the cogs turning in Kokichi's head.
"so there really is a mastermind... Who is it?" Shuuichi hesitated, it was possible that Kokichi wouldn't be targeted by Tsumugi, but if Shuuichi continued to leak information to him the risk would get higher.
"I... I can't say. They've already made it clear that our lives are at stake, if you know too much they'll kill you..." Kokichi scowled and narrowed his eyes at him. Shuuichi flinched as the piercing look fell on him.

"Is that what you think of me? I can handle myself, I don't care if someone is out to kill me, I don't care." He ran a hand through his long hair exasperatedly, "I'm in this with you, you have to tell me what happened." Shuuichi shook his head, there was no way that he could jeopardise Kokichi's life over anything, even something as important as this.
"I'm not putting you in danger because of something I told you, It's bad enough that I got you into this mess, but now we are dealing with something way stronger than both of us."
"I thought you were different..." Kokichi wasn't looking at him, but rather at the floor a little to his left, "I thought we were a team. I don't know why I thought I could trust you. Obviously it's too late to back out of this, if the mastermind is already seeing me as their target then I have no choice but to see this through."

"Kokichi..."
"I'm willing to die! I know what will happen if we fail!" Kokichi moved forward grabbing the front of Shuuichi's shirt and pulled him closer til they were almost nose to nose, "I deserve to know." Shuuichi looked down into the cold expression staring back at him. Kokichi was right. He did deserve to know, Kokichi had trusted him and put everything on the line to help him. But...
"T- that may be so... but I'm not willing to lose you." He felt Kokichi's grip loosen, he took a step back and gave a dramatic sigh,
"Fine you win this time. Nihihi~ you're harder to crack than I thought."

"Huh." Kokichi's expression and stature had completely changed from what they had been a second prior. He was now smiling widely at him as if they had simply been done playing a game
"Aaaaand I tried soooo hard~ Whelp! Guess I'll have to weed it out of you some other way~" the sudden change had taken him by surprise, and it took him a few seconds to adjust. He should've expected as much from Kokichi, it wasn't normal for him to act seriously even in these types of situations.
"My lips are sealed," he said, recovering from his previous shock.

Kokichi peered at his lips in interest,
"Oh? Are they now?" His voice was low and it made the hairs on the back of Shuuichi's neck stand on end in anticipation. The familiar devilish smile flitted onto his face. "We'll see about that..." he shivered as a hand slid behind his head sliding over his upturned hair. They were very close, hardly an inch apart,
"K-koki..." lips met his own and his words were lost. He felt all his thoughts mix into one and become a multicoloured blur. He didn't know what to do, he couldn't think.

There was a loud crash and they both jumped apart. Gonta was framed in the door looking frantic.
"Shuuichi! Kokichi! Gonta's been sent to get you, Himiko isn't happy you're late." It took a second for them to realise what Gonta was talking about and then it dawned on them.
"Oh yeah, is that still on?" Kokichi scratched his head quizzically, "is it compulsory?" He whined. Gonta nodded vigorously,
"Yes! Gonta want to see the magic show and Angie said that I'm not allowed back until I bring you two." And without warning they were both lifted against their will and were tucked under each side of Gonta's arms.
"Gonta!" He wriggled, But Gonta had already started running off towards the gym with both of them swaying at his side.