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It was the second of April. For Yuuji, it was his first day of school.
Yuuji had made sure to get ready all on his own this morning. After all, it was a very important day. He was a fifth grader now, the top of the food chain at school.
He took a deep breath before he shouted goodbye to his grandfather and walked down the street to Sendai elementary. The building was on the older side, the bricks worn down with some vines sticking out. Grandpa had even told him stories from when he had been a student here. Yuuji had called him old after the story. He was then promptly hit on the head with a rolled up newspaper.
Needless to say Yuuji no longer commented on Grandpa’s age, that old man could pack a punch.
After stifling his giggles at the thought, he went to his classroom.
The teacher was a strict older lady with sharp black hair and a mole on her left temple. Yuuji felt like she expected too much from him. She talked a lot about potential and called the lot of them brats. Yuuji glanced at some of the other students and realized they were making faces, already taking a dislike to her.
By recess, he had already heard a rumor that she got fired at her old school. He had frowned when he heard that from Iguchi, even zoning out for a second.
“Earth to Itadori…” Iguchi said as he waved his hand in front of Yuuji’s face. Yuuji’s eyes snapped back into motion as he rapidly glanced his face around and Sasaki started to laugh at his confusion.
“What’s up?” Yuuji asked as if he wasn’t just completely zoned out.
“We want to have a club meeting during lunch, we found something super cool!” Sasaki spoke up, her voice simmering. Yuuji had a hard time saying no to her excitement. ”Okay…”
He reluctantly agreed, hoping his teacher wouldn’t get too mad at him for not sitting in the class lunch group on the first day.
Instantaneously after Yuuji agreed, the bell went off, preventing him from asking where to go for the club. He supposed he had to wonder and prayed he wouldn’t get in trouble.
When the lunch bell rang Yuuji and his class filed off into the hall behind ‘strict teacher’ who for some reason he still couldn’t remember the name of. He had positioned himself to be last in line and slipped off, deciding to check club rooms one by one.
Luckily, he found the occult club’s room on the first try. Sasaki and Iguchi were already in there, the lights blacked out as they looked at something that looked like a mangled, pink blob. Yuuji felt horrified at the sight of it.
“Where did you two get that?...”
Just when he thought it couldn’t get any weirder they both answered at once.
“The box..” Their voices were dreary and devoid of life as they looked up at Yuuji in sync.
Yuuji didn’t know what to think as his voice shook. “What box?”
“Nunya!” They shouted at him and Yuuji let out a sigh of relief as he realized his friends were in fact, not possessed. Just trying to prank him.
Yuuji grabbed Iguchi’s shoulders and then moved into a bear hug. “Please never do that again! I was so scared!” Iguchi laughed at Yuuji for that.
“Aren’t we the occult club? The occult is all about being scared!” He exclaimed. Yuuji paused at that, realizing Iguchi was right and decided not to retort.
Iguchi dragged Yuuji to sit down at the table as Sasaki death stared at the blob looking thing. “Is that a finger?” Yuuji asked hesitantly, but Sasaki interrupted before he could continue.
“I think it’s a weird bug Iguchi picked up…” Her voice was pensive.
“Hah! You don’t believe me?!” Iguchi looked genuinely offended. “You know what! If it’s a bug, why don’t we just have Yuuji eat it to get rid of it! He’s done it before!”
At the mention of that incident, Yuuji looked distressed. “That was one time when I was five!” He pleaded, not wanting to eat it.
“three-thousand yen.”
“Deal.” Yuuji easily agreed for the money, after all, that’s enough to get the dvd box set of asassination classroom. SO without a second thought, Yuuji shoved the pink blob in his mouth.
Then he promptly blacked out as Sasaki started to berate Iguchi whose jaw had dropped in shock.
When Yuuji woke, he was curled up, lying on his side in school’s courtyard. When he sat up to look around for Sasaki and Iguchi again, he noticed that the entire school was gone. Did they somehow pack it up? It was rude of those two to make him eat a weird pink blob and then leave him behind after everybody had left school. He hadn’t even gotten his three-thousand yen yet!
Yuuji he sat up and huffed in annoyance before he decided to look around to find Sasaki and Iguchi. Yuuji charged through the dark puddles without a care. They were almost everywhere, he was starting to worry about slipping. It didn’t help that the puddles had a metallic scent coming from them that made him think of wet pennies, Yuuji could never tell if he liked the smell or not. He was in a constant state of consideration for if the smell of pennies was good or bad.
Finally he spotted something, Iguchi’s human earthworm keychain. Which was weird, because Iguchi kept it on his backpack and constantly checked to make sure it was still there. Yuuji decided to just grab the prized keychain to give back when he finds Iguchi.
Then he saw Sasaki’s backpack. Iguchi losing one of his things was standard, but Sasaki’s backpack was here too! It was also completely torn apart. Like a bored toddler had taken a sharp pair of scissors and sliced it up for playtime. Yuuji rationalized that there must have really been a rush, didn’t know why though.
That’s when he finally saw something weird. Twenty fingers across the floor. They were small and bloody. One of them even had a scribble that Sasaki had drawn on herself earlier that day.
The realization hit and. Oh. They were Sasaki and Iguchi’s fingers.
Those red puddles were blood, a lot of it.