What if it Repeated? (Oumasai/Saiouma)

Chapter 27- It Begins Again

"Shuuichi!" There was a crash and a purple haired boy came rushing in. "The announcement, I thought..." His eyes fell on Shuuichi and Miu and he rushed over, throwing a glare at Miu. She recoiled with shock, nearly falling over and onto Shuuichi. Kokichi bent down and turned his attention to Shuuichi who was now laying spreadeagle on the floor. His eyes moving over his body head to toe, eventually falling on the knife causing his eyes to widen. "What did you do to him...?" His voice came out in a low growl that sent a shiver up Shuuichi's spine. Miu let go of Shuuichi and put her hands up as though she had just been pulled over by police.
"I d-didn't do that!" She shrieked pointing shakily at the knife, "I saved him for fucks sake!" Her voice gaining more feeling towards the end.

"So that was you?!" He asked. Miu nodded, a shaky grin forming on her face,
"Yup, had to use the emergency switch to get you back."
"Emergency? What happened?" Kokichi asked, suspicion laced in his words. Miu's face seemed to lose the little colour it had.
"T-the machine s-stopped working."
"Is that so." He said darkly taking a look around the room. The tension in the room seemed to escalate to an uncomfortable level and Shuuichi found himself wishing to be anywhere else.

"Why didn't you tell me you were going to do this again, I would've come." Kokichi was now speaking to him.
"Oh..." he began quietly, "I hadn't seen you the last few days ." Kokichi was the mastermind, right? The other Kokichi had been so adamant about wanting him dead. So why was Kokichi acting so protective here? He didn't have to be... It didn't add up.

"Tch. You shouldn't be doing this alone with this subhuman trash, stuff like this happens." Kokichi said, eyeing him out of the corner of his eye. Shuuichi felt something warm touch his hand and give it a small squeeze. He didn't have to look down to know it was Kokichi and he had to admit, it definitely drew some of his attention away from his shin.
"You cockroach! This wasn't my fault!" Miu retorted her hands balled into fists at her sides.

Kokichi threw a disgusted look at Miu and went to stand up, still holding Shuuchi's hand as if to guide him to stand also. It was as though they had gone back to how it had been when they had first laid eyes on each other. There was no sign of their fury to each other being any sort of joke.
"There was a body found, right?" Kokichi said through gritted teeth, still locked in a fiery staring contest with Miu, "we should get moving." Shuuichi allowed Kokichi to escort him into a semi standing position and felt the boy's arm slink under his, supporting a majority of his weight.

"A-are you alright? Miu can you..." He stammered as he felt Kokichi shake slightly under the new weight he was lifting,
"I don't need her help, I've got you don't worry." He began to move towards the door, Shuuichi beside him trying his hardest not to put any more weight than he had to on his injured leg. The stairs were the hardest part, but Kokichi still refused Miu's help. This was very confusing. He had just been stabbed by this boy in that other reality, but here he was protecting him and even disadvantage he himself to keep him safe. He shook his head, trying to clear the thoughts that had just sprung into his head. He couldn't let down his guard even if Kokichi was helping him...

When Kokichi started dragging him left instead of up to the school he frowned,
"This way?"
"Yep, The fucking bear told us to go to the dormitories." Miu replied with a wary look towards Kokichi as if her answering one of Shuuichi's questions would result in him yelling at her. When Kokichi didn't say anything, but continued walking she sighed in obvious relief. Miu ran ahead and opened the door for them and a horrible sight met his eyes.

There was a group huddled around a door he had visited often during dusk hours. There was a pool of blood crowning the head of the victim. Shuuichi wanted to rush over there to make sure that they weren't actually dead. He couldn't be dead. Kokichi must've noticed how he had been feeling because Kokichi held him closer in a sort of awkward sideways hug. He felt tears sting at the corner of his eyes. He blinked and they fell silently down his cheeks. He hadn't even noticed that they had kept moving and Kokichi was now talking fast to Kirumi who nodded shortly and glanced at his shin, her brow furrowing.