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    Yashiro laughs again, and closes her locker with all her uniform inside it. She’s flattered; she’s pleased. “You know, I don’t really talk about this kind of thing with any of my other friends,” she says. “This kind of... girl stuff. Um. Personal girl stuff. About private and intimate topics! Like – like underwear, and breasts, and... all those other sorts of things you always seem to end up talking about, Hanako-chan. I feel like I have very different conversations with you than I do with any of the other girls I know!”

    “Better conversations,” says Hanako. “Sexier conversations. That’s what you meant to say, right?”

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    “What are you doing?” Amane asks her.

    “Nothing! Nice stuff! It’s nice! Just nice stuff,” Tsukasa says, reassuringly. Amane is watching her with the look of tense concentration she wears when she’s expecting the worst, but isn’t sure what the worst might be; Amane’s waiting, but she doesn’t know why. If Amane’s hoping to find out from Tsukasa then she’s out of luck: even Tsukasa has no idea what she might end up doing next or what might stir her to do it or even, really, why she’s doing anything she’s already doing – beside that it’s nice, and she likes it, and she can. Why shouldn’t Tsukasa do what she likes, if she can? Why shouldn’t anyone?

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    “Yashiro wouldn’t want you touching her,” Amane says stubbornly, splashing across the clubroom’s flooded floor with her heavy human feet, her thicker human legs. “Be careful, okay? Be gentle – be gentle. A body with no soul in it’s as vulnerable as it gets, you can mess a human up forever if you’re not—”

    Tsukasa shoves her hand straight into Nene’s ribs and gropes around inside her for the cool, ghostly core of Amane. She finds her. She digs her fingers in. She heaves, and begins pulling Amane out of Nene.

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    “Hanako-kun, I really think I might be dead. I really, um. I’m really quite worried I might be dead! I’m starting to feel quite concerned that I really might actually be dead! But... I don’t feel dead, so – I don’t think I can be. But I think I must be! But—”

    “You are,” Hanako says. “Yashiro, you are. You’re dead. You died. You’re not meant to be here.”

    “—I’m just at school,” Nene urgently continues to explain. “And I don’t think I’d do that, if I was dead. I’d do something different. Something, you know. Something... special. Something to mark the occasion! Something much more poignant and meaningful. I wouldn’t just go to school like normal.”

    “Can’t get much less poignant and meaningful than living in a toilet! Yashiro," says Hanako, "you're dead."

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    “I was thinking about you,” Amane says. “And I thought - if I don’t go for it now... then when? You know? When else was I gonna do it? I don’t have all the time in the world. No one does. I thought about what’d happen if I missed my chance. If I left it too late. And—” Whatever he thought about that doesn’t bear repeating: he shakes his head. A short sharp rejection of the very idea. “So I thought I better seize the day.”

    “Thank you for seizing the day,” Nene says happily. She sips her smoothie, also happily. She pushes it across the table, happily, to offer Amane a sip which he accepts from Nene’s own straw; happily, she takes it back. Happily is the state in which Nene will do everything she ever does in all the rest of her life.

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    Kou seizes him by the elbow and draws him aside. “We gotta get out of the city,” he says in a rapid undertone. “Teru-nii’s out on patrol tonight, and this whole city is Minamoto territory. He’s gonna hear about it if supernatural stuff starts happening. And we can’t risk running into him. We can’t. So I’ll drag you onto the train myself if I have to, and that’s the end of it.”

    A familiar hostile spark flickers to life in Mitsuba’s expression. “I am not taking a train,” he says witheringly. “Minamoto-kun, I’m not doing it. Are you insane? I mean, for real? Are you actually literally out of your extremely small mind? What if something happens?”

    “To you?” says Kou. “Or because of you?”

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    Tsukasa draws back. The brass rim of the gramophone’s horn passes straight through the ghostly back of her head; she ignores it. She’s looking down at Mitsuba curiously. “Why do you think I should trust you?”

    “Because I’m really scared of you,” Mitsuba says instantly. Sometimes in her imagination she knows all the right things to say to Tsukasa, all the fearless and witty responses she could make, all the impressive and interesting remarks that would show her to Tsukasa in a brand new light and advance their friendship to a brand new level, closer and stronger and more equal than ever before. But that’ll never happen in reality. It’s impossible: Mitsuba can’t pick and choose her words around Tsukasa, because around Tsukasa her terror overrides all conscious thought. “So you can trust me, you should trust me, because – I won’t do anything wrong. I wouldn’t ever lie! Or, or be bad! Because I don’t want to make you angry, because – I’m scared of what you’d do to me if I, if... if I ever—But I wouldn’t! Tsukasa-san, I wouldn’t ever!”

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    "Oh," Nene says, startled. And then, after a moment: “Oh! Gosh! Wow, um – is that, that is Amane-chan, isn’t it? Is that Amane-chan? Or...?”

    Her voice trails away. Clearly, it's either Amane or Tsukasa. Nothing within the very limited frame of the video helps to narrow it down further. They look the same with their clothes off. The only clue is that Tsukasa is the one who's watching the video: so it’s probably Amane who’s in the video. Probably, but not certainly: there is, after all, a chance that Tsukasa might be watching herself; Amane might have been the one filming. The incomprehensible mirror-maze of Tsukasa’s sex drive remains too much of a mystery to Nene for her to draw a conclusion with any confidence in either direction.

    "Gosh," Nene says faintly, again.

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    This is flirting; surely it’s flirting. Isn’t this flirting? Or is it just Amane, constantly being Amane? The greatest and most terrible dilemma of Nene’s life remains the fact that Amane is like this always, with everyone, under all imaginable circumstances: Amane is just as likely to turn on this attitude of lazily heated seduction late at night at a party as she is before morning registration at school; she’s as prone to these teasing, careless, unbearable little physical intimacies with Nene as she is with her own sister. It’s impossible! She’s impossible! Amane's flirtation is meaningless, because it’s constant!

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    "Why don't you come round my house after school today Tsukasa-kun" invited Mitsuba charmingly.

    "That would be lots of fun" cheered the delicate pinkette's best friend.

    "Okay I will see you after school" smiled Mitsuba pushing a lock of silky hair cutely from his eyes. His eyes were naturally pink (not like he had a disease they were just pink) and they always shone sparklingly like two expensive diamonds and most people were jealous of his unique innocent look, also his eyelashes were pink and fluttered softly. They were long.

    (Mitsuba has been writing self-insert RPF friendfic about the two best friends in the world. Tsukasa finds out.)

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    “Unfinished business isn’t specific,” Amane says. He’s sitting with his elbows on his knees, his head in his hands: he’s thinking so hard he needs to hold his head up manually. “So having to resolve unfinished business would work as an escape key ‘cause the victim won’t even know what the unfinished business is, unless it’s obvious. Like, maybe it's something you should have done, but you didn’t. Or something you shouldn’t have done, but you did it anyway. Or just something you haven’t got around to doing yet. Right? Like maybe the only way to move on... is moving on. You need to move on, like - personally... before you can move on literally and get the hell out of the trap. Right? Am I overthinking this?”

    “You overthink everything,” Tsukasa says affectionately. “You wanna play with my staple gun instead?”

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    “Nene-chan,” Tsukasa says to her, whispering again. He’s very close and he looks exactly like Amane and her heart, confused, gives a kick. “Nene-chan, I know a secret. About Amane! But he’d get mad if I told you.”

    Nene waits, breathless, to be told. Her expectant shining stare is as huge as his. “Oh – wait,” she says hurriedly, when her conscience catches up a moment later, “if Amane-kun wouldn’t like it then you shouldn’t, probably. Unless you want to. He might not be that mad, anyway. What if we never told him you told me?”

    Tsukasa cups his hand to her ear. His breath is hot: he’s alive. He says, “Amane’s really good at kissing.”

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    “We look like each other, don’t we? We look exactly the same,” Tsukasa says with pride. “Everywhere. All over! I’ve checked! I’ve checked lots of times, just to make sure. Just in case Amane changed when I wasn’t looking! But Amane never changed, and I was always looking.”

    (Or: five times Tsukasa shared way too much information about Amane, and one time he didn't share enough.)

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    Hanako's here to talk. He’s being decisive. This is purely a business call, and he won’t be distracted. “You’ve been talking to Yashiro,” he says brusquely, ignoring Tsukasa’s tight grip on the front of his uniform jacket. “You’ve been... telling her things. Things she doesn’t need to know.”

    Tsukasa shakes his head vigorously. “We just talk about normal stuff, we talk about tomatoes and burying things. Seeds and other things. Different things! Putting them in the ground forever till they die.”

    Hanako says, “You've been talking about – us.”

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    Tsukasa lives all on her own in an apartment with no one else in it. When she looks into a mirror the face which looks back belongs to her and has never belonged to anyone else. In the apartment where she lives there’s one bedroom and in the bedroom is one futon and that’s where Tsukasa sleeps, alone.

    “I said I’m sorry,” says Amane. “Aren’t you even going to say good night to me?”

    Tonight is a normal night, like every night. Tsukasa turns off the light and rolls over to sleep, alone.

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    He holds Amane’s forearm with comfortable possessiveness while he eats, kneading it like a cat with its claws stuck in fabric. Amane’s going to have four small fingers and a thumb printed into his arm for the next few days, he can tell already, but it’s different like this, when Tsukasa doesn’t mean it – he’s just careless, full of affection and free of inhibitions and forgetting that sometimes it’s better to be gentle when you touch the things you love. Tsukasa likes him too much to remember to be kind with him: that’s how it is. That's all it is.

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    “Can you take back a confession...?”

    I can,” Ritsu says obstinately. “I do. I take it back, I didn’t mean it. I did mean it but I shouldn’t have said it so I take it back, it didn’t happen. Now you can’t talk about it anymore, because it didn’t happen.”

    “I think it did,” Mob says, doubtfully. “I still remember it, so... I think it did happen. I think – maybe you can’t take it back. Sorry.”

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    “We can go to festivals,” Ritsu says, once they’re alone again. “We can do that in the future, too. I know we always go anyway, but...”

    “But on a date,” Mob says confidently. “Yes – yes, I get it. I understand.” People always go on dates to festivals: he sees them every year, boys and girls always hand in hand, always paying for more turns at the games to try to win prizes for their date who always stands waiting and giggling by the stall. Mob never wins any prizes and Ritsu never giggles and neither of them is a girl but they can still have a date at a festival, if they want – everyone else does it, after all. They can be as normal as they want, in the future.

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    Silence. Is it strange to speak to a cat? But this cat is his brother, and even as a human his brother was never the talkative type: speaking to Shigeo with no response is nothing unusual for Ritsu. So he should speak to him, Ritsu resolves; he should talk a lot, to make Shigeo feel comfortable at home again, to help him not feel self-conscious about being a cat now, just in case that’s how Shigeo’s feeling, in case self-consciousness is something which cats in general are capable of feeling.

    It's no one's fault; it's just the way life is. You find love before your timer runs out, or you turn into an animal - birth, death, taxes, animal transformation as a consequence of failure to find requited romance: life's four constants.

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    “So when I see you two getting along so well, I think—good for you. Good for you,” Ritsu's father says again, strongly, looking at him straight. He’s serious. He rarely looks so serious. A murky feeling of shame stirs sludgily in Ritsu’s gut, long ignored, long dormant. Because Shigeo isn’t here, he thinks uneasily – if his brother was here then Ritsu would be able to ignore it better, to focus better on his more important priority. But his brother isn’t here. His brother is somewhere Ritsu doesn’t know about. He could be anywhere. Anything could be happening to him. Anyone could be—

    “I know you two love each other,” their father says. “Of course you do. But – you’re getting older. That’s the thing. And sometimes what’s okay for little kids to do isn’t okay for bigger kids to do.”

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