Night 40: F01-F10 Hallway

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[ From here. Outside F3]Because she needed to get to Orihime and Shiki's room before either of them left, Ururu had practically run the short distance down the halls. Normally she might not, since she knew better than to run inside. Tessai-san didn't like it when Jinta-kun did that at the shop especially, since something usually ended up broken

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Ken slowed his pace to a jog, especially upon noting a tiny figure up ahead. Darkness made it difficult to tell exactly who the owner was, but the boy was confident. Not many children existed in Landel's, and given the surroundings, only one little person could be standing in front of F3. He hastened enough to catch up to the girl's side, only to come to a complete stop short of the threshold.

He set down one end of the spear with a clunk. "Any luck?" asked Ken in a slightly worried tone.

F3

[16hitmagnum]

Kagura rolled out of bed when she heard someone knocking. Who knocks at the middle of the night, anyway? But she was planning to get out to catch some animals for whatever dubious reasons this WW person had for them. All in exchange for candy, how could she resist? Granted, the woman who was guarding the kitchen might be there again, but it's not like Kagura couldn't fight. She did lose a lot of what made her different from humans, that much she could make out of from all the replies to her bulletin post. But candy was on the line here. Candy.

It's important.

She grabbed her flashlight and opened the door. "Who is it?" she asked. "If you're planning to sell us someting, we're not buying."

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Ururu shook her head, about to reply to Ken when someone she didn't know opened the door. The little girl paused for a moment, looking up at this stranger who wasn't Orihime or Shiki, and suddenly getting a very bad feeling.

"We don't want to sell anything." Ururu bowed politely, not wanting to make this person upset. She to find out for sure. Maybe she was wrong. Maybe they had just gotten moved again. It'd happened before. "But this is supposed to be my friends' room. Or it used to be."

All Ururu could do was force out the words, and hope the bad feeling wasn't true.

"Could you tell me if Orihime-san or Shiki-san is here? Is one of them your roommate?"

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The boy fell silent, not wanting to interrupt the line of questioning between the two girls. It appeared neither Shiki or Orihime was in this room, which meant one of two things. And Ken was pretty sure Ururu would remember her friends' room number. She was probably thinking along the very same lines, actually, given the expression on her face.

Suddenly, he really, really hoped she wouldn't start to cry.

[16hitmagnum]

A little girl? Kagura thought it might be a bill collector or a drunk person or a sleazy salesman or a drunk sleazy salesman but never a little girl. She was even smaller than she was, and a lot shakier. Kagura almost felt sorry for her.

Almost.

Orihime? Shiki? The name Orihime sounded a bit familiar but that was all. Kagura shook her head. "This is Kagura and Chise's room. I've never met anybody named Orihime or Shiki."

"Why? Do they owe you something?" Kagura had a feeling that her guess might be off. The boy she ate lunch with told her about how people just disappear. But she didn't want to think about that. Maybe they were somewhere else. "If they do then maybe they're just hiding."

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"No." Ururu's voice got quieter, and she kept her head bowed low as she replied. Fai-san had said that Orihime and Shiki were just sick, but Ururu knew that wasn't right now. Had he been lying to make her feel better? Had he not known?

Did it matter? More people were gone now. More and more, and Ururu couldn't stop it.

"They wouldn't be hiding. I'm sorry to have bothered you." Ururu didn't look up at Kagura, or at Ken-kun as she spoke. But it was obvious that she was close to crying again. Ururu couldn't even remember how many times she'd cried that day. All she knew was that right then, she didn't want to be where she was. She didn't want to be where Orihime and Shiki should have been, but weren't.

"I'm sorry. Please excuse us." Without thinking, Ururu grabbed Ken's hand, and holding tight, took off down the hall with the boy in tow.

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[16hitmagnum]

There was something wrong with that girl, Kagura thought. She was small and skinny and even her voice was tiny. She shivered a lot like she was about to cry.

Now, Kagura had no reason to feel sorry for the girl. All she did was wake her up in the middle of the night and look for people she never met. Still she just looked so sad. Everyone in front of me is part of my country, or something like that. Gintoki kept saying a lot of weird things when Kagura was with them, and if he were right then this girl was part of her country too.

And what kind of self-proclaimed queen/company manager would just let a part of her country cry like that?

Kagura chased after the two, hoping that she could at least do something about this.

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F3

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Chise woke up and found herself as the only occupant in the room. She must've dozed off after dinner. Yawning, she mentally checked if there was anything she needed to do tonight. That's right, she needed to test out how much power she still had (considering what happened last night's) then report it to a person named 'Lelouch' tomorrow.

She was only one step away from the door when a thought hit her, she had no flashlight! "I can't believe I lost it..." she groaned. Guess she'll have to rely on her instincts and hope that she won't run into any monsters. It shouldn't be that hard testing her powers, right? Just walk into a (hopefully) empty hallway or room, blast away at a wall, and then see what happens. Yeah...totally easy!...As long as nobody's around to see it happening.

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