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It was a normal day like any other at Kamome Academy, Nene was making her way to the third-floor girls' bathroom located in the old school building which was now used as an extension for the middle school students.
She was pretty fed up with cleaning the toilets every day surely those toilets don't get used that much every day, that she must always clean them.
Plus, her life was running short, and she didn't want to spend the rest of it just cleaning some filthy toilets with a perverted ghost supervising and with Kou helping but he had to leave sometimes due to Teru wanting him home early.
'Minamoto Senpai' Thought Nene.
'He is so dreamy, but alas I will never be in his league, so many of the older girls are all over him I can never get him to even notice me' Nene thought her mind saddened.
Currently, she is just exactly outside of the girls’ bathroom. She made her way inside and looked around but no sign of the ghost boy.
"Hanako-kun, are you here" She called out but there happened to be no answer.
She cautiously backed away from the bathroom as she knew exactly what would happen next: Hanako would try to scare her in some way just to laugh at her reaction.
As she was taking another step back, she felt arms wrap around her figure and pull her into a tight embrace, from the behind.
They felt cold but oddly comforting and caring.
Her cheeks started to show a light dust of red slowly forming as the person holding her whispered: "Well then Yashiro~ how was your day". His breath lightly blowing on her ear causing a tingly shock down her spine.
He soon let go of her and made his way in front of her.
Yashiro grabbed the closest thing to her which happened to be a Mokke, and chucked it at the ‘mysterious person’ knowing fully well who it was.
"What, Yashiro don't you like my hugs," said Hanako as the Mokke was staring deep into his soul trying to brainwash him such as that time with Nene. He glared at the Mokke and flung it off standing up again.
"No, Hanako-kun in a way you know that's sexual harassment" Yashiro huffed while crossing her arms.
"Aw," said Hanako a grin slowly forming on his face as he leaned closer to Yashiro's face a bit too close for her comfort "But don't act like you don't want more~" Hanako smirked.
Nene pushed him tightly closing her eyes with a small blush forming on her face.
"Anyways," Hanako said as if he what occurred prior was just figment of reality
"The other mysteries and I are organising a sleepover at Number 4’s boundary, and I wanted you and the Kid to come also, so what do you say," Hanako said cheerfully.
"Yeah sure," said Nene
"Great, now get cleaning. The floors ain't gonna clean themselves." Hanako stated in a joking manner.
Nene had then sighed picking up a mop next to her.
As Nene was walking home, she was excited to be going to a sleepover as for the only friend she has ever had was Aoi, sure their sleepovers where fun but they soon got boring as for it was just them two and no one else since she could never make any other friends due to her legs. Every time she would try to approach anyone, they would either turn away or turn her down on her friendship offer.
She always looked at Aoi in awe as she had people literally on their hands and knees just for her friendship, Aoi was the queen of the school as for Nene was a homeless, she took in for shelter.
But now this time was different… As she had made so many new friends and loved them all dearly, they are so nice to her and never make fun of her...... 'much' she thought as Hanako appeared in her memories, sure he was annoying, slimy and never acted serious. She never cared about those traits in all on honesty… Hanako was Hanako: Number seven of the mysteries but also someone who she is proud to call her friend.
She had arrived at her house and opened the door, her parents were gone on another trip for their work so it was only her in the house.
She then changed her uniform and then started playing with her hamster: Black Canyon.
The next day had arrived and Nene couldn't wait, it was a Saturday. She packed her things for later that day. And spent the rest of the day daydreaming about Teru as per her usual weekend timetable.
She soon got a text from Kou at around 7 pm saying:
'Senpai, I think we should head to the school now I'll arrive at your house since it’s dark and you live near to the school, ok'
She responded with 'okay' and waited for Kou
When they had arrived at the school, they headed towards the art room or otherwise known as Shijima-san's boundary.
They knocked on the door and were instantly pulled by Shijima's hands as she had then chucked them towards a painting causing them both to quickly lose consciousness.
Once they knocked on the door, they were instantly pulled by Shijima's hands and chucked them towards a painting that sucked them inside.
They soon found themselves in a room with a gigantic glass window with velvet drapes over it. The roof was high as if someone had removed a floor of a second story building and curved in an arch-like manner, it was decorated with exquisite paintings of palaces and oceans. Outside the superb window, they could see a royal garden with a gorgeous fountain in the middle surrounded by massive amounts of greenery and rose bushes as if they were inside of a castle.
Suddenly they heard a door opening, they turned their heads towards the enormous oversized double doors, and then saw a boy with jet black choppy hair enters the room, he ran towards them and abruptly glop hugged Nene.
"Wow took you to long enough," Hanako said sarcastically letting go of his grip on Nene.
"This is number 4's painting so here I am alive and have a body temperature, cool right? Number 3 and that number 1 kid in Yashiro's class is also here since they are part of the school mysteries" Hanako spoke cheerfully.
He then led them towards a giant rectangular table where all the mysteries were seated, she sat across from Hanako with Akane and Kou at her sides.
Akane greeted Yashiro with a smile saying, "Oh Yashiro san I didn't know you will be here, after this can we both have a long conversation about Ao-chan and how amazing and pretty she is and how her hair flows with every step she takes...." Akane blabbered on, Hanako just stared at Akane with wide eyes.
A waiter arrived and took orders from everyone on what they would like to eat. Once their food arrived, they all started eating with no second to waste.
Nene bites down on her strawberry rice cake and gasped in awe of how amazing it tasted.
Once they had eaten, the went back to the room they arrived in to claim the spots they will be sleeping. Yashiro picked a place in the corner of the room and laid out her sleeping bag. Hanako placed his to the right of her (which was next to a wall) and Kou to the left of her.
After placing down their sleeping bags the mysteries split up into age groups.
Shinigami (no.6), Yako (no.2), Kako (no.1 past) and Tsuchigomori (no.5) formed the adult group.
Whilst the people left which are Yashiro, Hanako (no.7), Kou, Mitsuba (no.3), Akane (no.1 present), Mirai (no.1 future) and Shijima's clone (as she was busy painting this temporary world within the real-world.) formed the younger group.
"Hey, I have an idea how about we do a full castle hide and seek so we know the layout of this place" suggested Shijima.
"Okay fine, but you better have made a spa room in this place, glass-face!" whined Mitsuba as he was busy looking at how 'cute' he is in a significantly large mirror.
The rest of the group agreed to the game, to decide the counter they all rolled 3 dice and the highest number was the counter in which this case was Kou.
As Kou was counting Hanako grabbed Yashiro's hand and started leading her to another part of the castle.
"Hanko-kun what are you doing?" Yashiro asked confused as she was now being dragged by him.
"Before you and the Kid arrived, I did some exploring around this place," Hanako said cheerfully whilst pulling on a torch that was on the wall revealing a secret corridor.
Hanako then led her through the passage into a concealed room not connecting to any other part of the castle itself. The room contained a large number of different pillows and stuffed animal plushies. The room was covered in the scent of honey and milk.
"I knew you would like this room," said Hanako smiling.
Yashiro didn't answer, she instantly fell to the floor that was covered in pillows and started to roll around in them.
Hanako just stared at her both confused and somewhat amused at the radish girl's reaction.
"Thank you for allowing me to come to this sleepover," said Yashiro yawning.
Hanako sighed and said, “Are you planning to stay awake all night, so you're sleeping now huh?" said Hanako in a mocking tone.
"Such a naughty daikon~" he finished whilst smirking.
Yashiro suddenly threw a pillow at Hanako causing him to fall over and land on more of the same object.
"Serves you right for that mean comment Hanako-kun" Yashiro huffed
Suddenly Hanako grabbed a pillow and chucked it at Yashiro.
"Oh, so you're challenging me to a pillow fight, huh? Hanako Kun!" Yashiro said as she gathered pillows near her ready for battle.
"Hm, what are you gonna do? Radish~" Hanako smirked.
A pillow fight had now started it was team Doughnuts vs team Radish.
After the battle team Doughnuts had become victorious by making team radish fall into a pit of blushing from calling her a 'Cute-radish-tsundere'
At this point Hanako had Yashiro pinned down to the floor as he was on top of her, to anyone that would walk in at that point in time would get the wrong idea immediately.
And to their luck not-so luck, Mitsuba happened to stumble into the room to now land his eyes on the two…
"NUMBER SEVEN IS A PERVERT, AHHHHHH!"
"PERVERT NUMBER SEVEN AND THE EROTIC DAIKON!"
As if on call Kou, Akane and Shijima's clone appeared to see why Mitsuba was yelling.
They all stared at them with their mouths wide open, soon Yashiro and Hanako realised the position they were in and their faces became erupt with blush
"IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!!!" they both yelled trying to explain the situation, but alas no one believed them.
As midnight dawned the adults had moved their sleeping locations elsewhere, stating that the others were annoying, and they needed peace.
Yashiro had changed into her panda nightwear and headed towards her sleeping bag, next to her she saw Hanako who was wearing a black and red hoodie and pants stare at her whist blushing a deep red.
'Why does she have to be so damn cute?' Hanako thought.
Yashiro just ignored his antics and just settled herself in her sleeping bag and started joining in on Kou, Mitsuba and Akane's conversation.
After near to an hour of talking everyone had fallen asleep except for Hanako, he was busy thinking about how the only girl that makes him happy and is the light to his dark soul, will soon be gone and will disappear from him soon. Whenever he thought about this, he felt helpless that he can do nothing to save her, she was destined to this awful fate since the day she was born, but why did it have to be her the most important person to him, his best friend, his assistant and the one he loved.
Suddenly he felt hands wrap around him pulling him towards a force, a figure had then crawled into his sleeping bag and cuddled his figure, entwining their and his fingers together.
He soon had noticed that it was Nene and his face had become a deep red and his heart began to throb.
'She will be in for a surprise in the morning' He thought smiley softly as he too let sleep take over him.