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Tweak says, "Fly back to your coop."

disappear_npc (disappear_npc) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2009-05-16 00:48:00

Entry tags:

hiroshi, kanaye, kiriko, kou, maeko, shiori, toshimi, yuu

Who: Everyone
What: Something very unfortunate
Where: Second Year Classroom, Nanakamado
When: Friday morning.
Why: I'm sure everyone wants to know.

The english teacher looked like she'd seen a ghost. Two more teachers had showed up when she'd screamed, the first of them leading the trembling woman away from the classroom. The second stood in the doorway, instucting the students to keep back.

Behind him in the classroom, slumped over the desk that had previously been his, was the body of Sato Kei.

"Call an ambulance while you're there!" He shouted down the hall to his workmates. "The cops, too!"

A crowd of students was starting to develop outside. Some of them were second years trying to get into thier classroom. Others had been drawn by the scream, the shouting or the crowd. The teacher in the doorway shook his head.

"Back to your classrooms. All of you."

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daioujou
2009-05-15 07:44 pm UTC (link)

Kouchisei was behind the crowd, listening.

"Oh my God..."

"Missing? I saw him! Subako, Kigakiga, Iburi North and the kitchen back at the dorm."

There was another voice. "He lived in the dorms. There really wasn't anyone who'd notice."

The second again. "It's morning. I'd understand if it were later but," a thumb-jab down the corridor, "he's not got keys!"

Kouchisei was silent for a few moments. He shook his head, and then reached his hand to the shoulder in front and tapped gently. "Hm. What's gone on?"

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thrown_to_winds
2009-05-16 03:09 pm UTC (link)

The world had gone completely silent. All around Toshimi was chatter and clamor, but she didn't hear any of it. She'd been close to the classroom when the English teacher had let out quite a scream, so Toshimi was one of the students at the front of the crowd.

Now she stared, transfixed, at the corpse slumped over his school desk. She felt numb. Maybe she was still asleep back at the dorm. That must have been it. It was just another nightmare. She didn't feel anything, after all...

No. Someone was tapping her shoulder. She jumped with a start and turned to see another student from her class. Her sense of reality came rushing back to her, and she heard people talking. "Th-that's Sato Kei," she told him, craning her neck back to look into the classroom. "I think he's-- I think...he's dead..." Toshimi hardly believed the words she was stammering.

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daioujou
2009-05-16 03:25 pm UTC (link)

Removing his hand from Toshimi's shoulder, Kouchisei watched students in the crowd as a distraction. His mind was racing: Sato-kun was dead. He thought of his mother's illness and subsequent death. She'd died so differently... His throat was too dry: he ran a finger around his collar. Grief was a private affair for him - he stopped straining to see what had happened. This was uncomfortable. Quiet.

He looked at Toshimi herself. They knew each other in class. She seemed frozen. In shock, perhaps? She didn't seem the sort to hold morbid curiosity.

“I... I had no idea."

He stepped back some. The thought of seeing Kato's body made him feel like a voyeur.

"I think we should go.”

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thrown_to_winds
2009-05-16 03:57 pm UTC (link)

The walls around her seemed to be swaying, pulling in around the classroom door. Yes, Sato Kei was definitely dead in there. As the fact sunk in, Toshimi felt like someone was trying to pull her stomach down onto the floor. As she saw Kei's body there, the nauseating feeling was getting worse and worse.

She wanted to get away from it and go somewhere else. Somewhere where she could have a drink of water, or at least sit down before her legs gave out from under her. Kouchisei's suggestion seemed to come from her own thoughts; if he hadn't said anything, she would have probably worked her way out of the crowd herself.

Since he'd moved, Toshimi had room to slip out of the crowd. She nodded her agreement and started moving. It didn't matter where, as long as it was away. She just wanted as much distance between her and that dead body as possible. Without realizing it, she'd started running...

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My laptop switched off mid-tag >.<

daioujou
2009-05-16 04:45 pm UTC (link)

Kouchisei walked. There was a horrible taste in the air - cold, metallic and bloody - and the floor was moving oddly, with the voices of the crowd louder than normal instead of whispering softly. It was like he’d been clouted dizzy. Seeing the classroom as bone-chillingly cold and eerily quiet, he had no desire to be in that place. It didn't remind him of hospitals, where he found feelings of warmth and comfort.

He was, he saw, still behind Toshimi. He hadn't lifted his head to check till now. To think of returning to class and Kato not being there... He shivered, finding it strange. Things would be different.

"... God. I'm sorry you had to see that."

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I'm a slow poster anyway ^_^

thrown_to_winds
2009-05-16 06:10 pm UTC (link)

Toshimi blanked her mind, not allowing anything in except her legs moving. At least that way she didn't lose her composure. She could let body memory take over and, in some small way, be running the bases at a game. Or at least somewhere less...disturbing.

After some distance, she heard Kouchisei speak and came to a gradual stop.
"Oh, no, I..." she responded vaguely. She wasn't going to bring it up, but it wasn't the first time she'd seen a dead body. Still, the experience didn't make it any easier--if anything, it made it even more upsetting. "I just...can't believe...I mean...Sato-san..." There were no words for it. Shock, fear, grief, anxiety...Toshimi knew these words, but they weren't enough. Hadn't she helped Sato Kei cook a fish in the dorm kitchen just a couple weeks ago? Well, he wouldn't be cooking fish anymore... "It just...didn't seem like it was his time," she voiced.

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No worries. I'm in the UK so I'll tag when I have to sleep~

daioujou
2009-05-16 06:52 pm UTC (link)

It wasn’t the first time in his life Kouchisheu had felt his heart tighten, and he stopped at the wall. He looked round the corridor, at its clean and sunlit windows, the second-year classrooms and mixed students, and realised how much this place would change. The time since his mother's passing, and the unending stagnation and loss was something he was finding it difficult to come to terms with. It might have dulled his senses.

"Time. Regardless of whether the school remains open or not, I just... I never expected to see that." He hadn't. Neither had anyone else, it seemed. "... Are you all right?"

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Re: No worries. I'm in the UK so I'll tag when I have to sleep~

thrown_to_winds
2009-05-16 09:52 pm UTC (link)

"I-I'll be fine," replied Toshimi. To reinforce this, she tried to force a smile. The result was a little bit jarring: she was so used to smiling when she didn't want to that she was almost convincing, but the situation still proved a bit much for her. "How about you?"

"You think they'll close the school?" wondered Toshimi. She was still getting used to the way expensive private schools ran things, but then, she wasn't sure whether or not her old high school would have remained open either, if a student was found murdered there. Murdered... it occurred to her that she hadn't confirmed this to be a fact, and that she hadn't thought of it until now. But it wasn't like people just died sitting at their school desks in the middle of the night. "Who do you think put him there?" she wondered, not really expecting an answer. "I don't think that there was anyone who hated Sato-san enough to..." she trailed off, not wanting to say the next two words.

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daioujou
2009-05-17 06:21 am UTC (link)

“... Fine.” Kouchisei turned his head, looking at the floor. “The school…”

Her smile was uncomfortable. All it showed was awkwardness; the situation hadn't a reason to be good. For the briefest of moments, he thought about leaving – his classmates would not notice him walking away from them and he would feel better somehow, by going to the library or the cafeteria.

Or maybe not.

"I'm assuming the head or somebody will do something to keep it open for the foreseeable future. Regardless of whether it does or not... it certainly won't stop midterms."

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thrown_to_winds
2009-05-17 11:43 am UTC (link)

Toshimi nodded at this. No matter what happened, exams were still exams. There was no doubt about that. "Yes," she said, "it's best if we just focus on them, I guess." Already, she was starting to bury this in her mind under practical things, and perhaps it was better that way. "The school is a pretty large organization, and this probably isn't enough to shut it down permanently," she reasoned. As messed-up as it was, one person's death wasn't really going to change anything. This was a fact she could accept, for the most part.

She turned her head back in the direction of the classroom. "But...depending on what's determined, we might not be able to use our classroom for a while." Perhaps this, too, was for the best. She might have been able to keep from thinking about ~~Sato Kei~~ that person out here, but sitting there in the classroom and seeing that desk would be a whole different story.

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daioujou
2009-05-17 12:41 pm UTC (link)

Kouchisei looked to the classroom when Toshimi did, and fingered the straps of his bag. Reading. It would get his mind off what had happened. But his classmate was right in mentioning how it was best to focus on the midterms. He flicked the strap back and forth half a minute before he was forced to listen to the tannoy system.

Tipping his head back, Kou looked around. Who could he go home with? Not Toshimi. He'd have liked to [she seemed pleasant enough], but she lived in the dorms. He just wanted to get out. The air was too stifling: tense and dry.

“Toshimi-san, I understand if you want to get to the assembly hall."

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thrown_to_winds
2009-05-17 01:42 pm UTC (link)

She looked up at the nearest speaker as the announcement came on, listening silently as she tried to piece everything together. She hadn't thought of it, but the dorms would probably face some issues, too--although when was the last time Sato Kei had even been in the dorm?

"I probably should," she agreed. "There's safety in numbers, as they say." Being able to walk away from this situation was really the best thing she could have asked for. Even if she was just going to end up back at the dorm where he'd lived, it was better than staying at the school.

"Then, I'll see you later, Kouchisei-san." She waved a little as she turned and headed for the assembly hall, still trying to paste a smile on her face.

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