Snow Flower (Yuki no Hana)

Hanako meets Hana

"Bullshit!"
The two girls attention turned to the ghost boy cursing.
"You really didn't just cursed in front of girls, did you?"
Kizuna asked in disbelief, but she couldn't miss the shock in his face.
"I mean, I'm not buying this prank?
I'm the 7th Mystery, so where the hell did 8th Mystery comes-I mean, YOU.
Where would you come from suddenly?"

Kizuna or now known as Hana,
blinked her eyes in confusion.
"That's weird,
I thought you'll be the one to at least welcome me?
Tsuchigomori never told you?"
Kizuna looks at him quietly.

Hanako is bewildered by the thought of 8th Mystery existence.
How could he believe it when the mysteries were known to be 7 and he's the 7th Mystery.
Where the hell does 8th mystery came from?
He sighed,
"Well, even if you're real,
it's unpredictable.."

"Well, sorry..."
The light purple hair muttered, her expression show a tint of sadness.
Hanako suddenly feel flustered,
he didn't know how to handle this
kind of situation especially when it come to a girl.

He turned to look at the petite daikon girl.

Something suddenly clicked in Yashiro's mind.
"Aoi-chan told me, The 8th Mystery is indeed a mystery.
And no one know a thing about her."
Her eyes fixed on the said mystery.

Hanako's eyebrows twitched, he look at the rather cheerful purple headed girl.
'She does eats a lot of sugar.'
He thought.
"That's the rumour we're talking about."
She chirped as she makes her way to the Mokke.
"Anyways, Mokke-chhaann, don't you guys have something to say to Nene-chan?"
She pats one of them.
"We're sorry. We couldn't help but to follow our rumours."

Yashiro blinked,
"Is it the one that Aoi-chan said? "
Kizuna nodded.
"I thought that someone might've change the rumour.
Most of the supernaturals can't go against their rumours,
if supernaturals do something out of sync with their rumours they will eventually disappear from the near shore. "
She said as she sits next to Yashiro.

"Yashiro!"
The said girl turned to look at boy calling her.

"Would you change the Mokke rumour for us?"

He said smiling.
The 8th Mystery saw this and sighed,
"Jeez, that's unfair.
You could go all smiley towards Nene-chan but not me."

Her comment got Hanako off guard .
Yashiro snorted when she saw Hanako's deep red face.
"N-no! It's not l-like I mean it!"
Kizuna let out a small 'hmph' as she turned to Yashiro.
"I understand if you don't want to help us, you literally almost get killed.
We, supernatural can't help them.
But, Yashiro-chan, a human."
The pair of violet eyes shine as she looks into Yashiro's.
Her hands holding Yashiro's gentle ones.

She took a glance at the Mokke before saying,
"I'll do it, I'll change the rumour!"
Hanako looks at her, shocked.
"You sure?"
Yashiro nodded happily.
Kizuna clasped her hands together,
"I'm glad!"

"They did scare me but then.. Both of you saved me."
She claimed.
"Like you did saved me Hanako-san,
from the mermaid."
Hanako stays silence.

"Well, is this the important job you wanted me to do after I've done cleaning the bathroom?"
Yashiro asked, curious.
"Wait-"
The other female suddenly interrupted,
"Hanako-kun, you let Nene-chan clean the bathroom again?"
Hanako look at her and nodded,
"You're no gentleman at all."
The light purple haired girl scoffed jokingly.

Hanako gritted his teeth,
"Seriously, what kind of mystery are you?! You keep on annoying me!!"
The girl laughs,
"Ohmy Hanako-kun, you look very cute!"
Yashiro chuckled next to the other girl.
"Shut up you no.8." he claimed.

"Anyway, it's for fun.
Doing things with someone after school. Talking about whatever.
It's like having friend."
Yashiro eyes soften as he saw the boy before her leaned towards the fence.
As his eyes immersed
towards the sky,
a hand suddenly hold onto his shoulder.
He looks to the side to see a
pair of violet eyes, gazing softly into his.
"I already called you Hanako-kun,
wasn't that enough to show how I'm actually comfortable in
making friend with you?"

Hanako's eyes widened,
"If then, I will also call you Hanako-kun.
It's more like were friends right?"
Yashiro claimed happily to him.
The only reply that the both females get was a wide grin from the ghost boy.

"Have you decided on a rumour?"
Ayase asked the human girl.
"Yup!"

~

"Did you lost something again?"

"That's happening a lot lately.
If it's the faeries, we could get killed."

A pair of hands suddenly appeared between them,
including some candies upon the palms of them.
"Here,I heard that if you bring along candies with you,
the faeries won't kill you and will stop stealing your thing."
The greyish haired with green tip told the two persons.

"I have no idea."
"Me too."
She could only smile as she gave out the candies.
"I have to meet my friends!"
Yashiro exclaimed as she ran into the girls' bathroom.

.
.
.

"Friends.... In the girls' bathroom?"