Đọc truyện 10 Days With my Devil: Mysteries [ON HOLD]

The next morning. The new information was swirling through my mind. Mi is a...reaper? What the heck happened to my life?? Why's everything paranormal now?

Now what's gonna pop up outta nowhere? A vampire?

I unconsciously stomped my mug onto the counter, hard. Making a sound. Everyone else, who're at the dining table, turned to me.

"Saki? Is something wrong?" Takara asked with concern leaking from her voice.

"Do demons work with reapers often?" I asked before I would second guess myself again.

All of them looked surprised.

"How'd you know..?" Meguru questions. I didn't bother to reply to that.

"Sometimes it's more efficient with a reaper's help." Kakeru responded, "When a human craves to live too much or has way too much life regrets, the soul will be harder to take out. We call it 'jammed'."

Toast and jam, much? What're demons? A breakfast team? Now something else has gotta be called 'milk'.

"A reaper has much stronger powers on cutting the soul out of a human." Satoru continued.

"We've recently have a lot of jammed ones on our list, so we need Mi!" Haruhito concludes ever so cheerfully.

[I made this whole jam thing up xP none of it exists in the original app]

"How did you know about-" before Kakeru could ask, there was a series of banging on the door.

"Satoru! I know you're home!" A female voice shouted from outside.

"It's Akane." Satoru seemed to know who it was.

"Sakura." Kakeru didn't have to tell me twice. I rolled my eyes as I got in a closet again.

I heard the sound of the front door opening.

"Akane! How are you?" I heard Satoru greet as if they were really close. I peek out through the door. They were hugging. Is this his girlfriend? His proper girlfriend?

They exchanged small talk. I narrow my eyes at Akane.

Wow nothing.

Why am I not even surprised.

Akane had milk chocolatey brown curly hair that goes about to her chest. She was wearing a black dress. She was pretty.

Satoru had his hand on her waist, they seemed really close. And if she keeps going for ten more minutes I'll be late for work.

Her hand rested on his arm. They walked out. Two minutes after they've gone, Meguru opened the closet door for me.

"Who was that?" I asked as I straightened out my outfit and flung my purse over my shoulder.

"Ah...that's Akane. She's a demon. She comes often, for Satoru, that is." Meguru answered.

"Oh, well, I'm going to work." As I step out of the main door, Haruhito came flying from behind me. Apparently Kakeru chose Haruhito to follow me today. His cheerfulness sometimes annoy me, but it's better to be with someone who likes to smile.

He kept chatting on as we walked, with me being silent most of the times. But I don't find him irritating. He keeps the walk interesting.

"You can take care of yourself, right?" he suddenly asked as we approached the office building. I turned to him, confusion written in my eyes.

"It'll be boring flowing around an office building all day! I wanna go play, or paint...." He says, rather childishly. I nod at him. He beamed.

"Great! So I'll just see you this evening back at the house!"

And with that, he set a barrier and took off.

When I entered the building, Mi was already there. She was sitting in the corner, looking into the distance, with a bottle of green tea in her hands. Her black hood was over her head, now she really looked like a grim reaper. With those icy turquoise eyes and blood red hair. I wonder where she keeps her scythe.

"Mi isn't exactly sociable, is she?" Minato commented from behind me, Shusei nodded in agreement.

"She hardly talked yesterday."

Even to a person as sunny and nice as Shusei? Well I don't expect a grim reaper to be all rainbows and unicorns with candy land in background either.

During the everyday morning meeting, Akiyoshi announced something that I shot up at: "Sachiko will have to work on Shusei's article now, and Shusei will transfer to the Kotonami Suzu interviews and serial stories.

"What? Why?" I questioned without thinking.

"I figured since your schedule is more open, you could take on a harder issue now." Akiyoshi explained, but he's hiding something. I narrow my eyes at him. But he made extra sure that his guard was up tight. I'm no professional mind reader, I don't know how to break walls.

"Fine." I reluctantly say. Even if I don't, the chief's decision was final. That's too bad, I really liked Akaru and Akira.

But another part of that is, I need to work with Mi.

We walked in silence through the streets. I haven't asked what the article was about yet, I'll ask when we're there. We weren't going to an interview or anything, it should be fine.

But...when she stopped right in front of where Tsubasa usually does his shots, my heartrate increased a bit for some reason.

When the door opened, I just saw Tsubasa doing a finishing sexy pose with a beautiful woman. I've seen her on magazines before, she's an actress and model, and at the young age of twenty. I think her name was Eimko Harumi.

"Good job, everyone! Take ten!" some person shouted as he slapped a roll of some sort of script on his hand with the other.

When I turned to Mi, she was scanning through her camera. When did she take pictures, as well? I peeked at her camera. Wow, how professional photographing.

"The serial issue is on Eimko Harumi, the first article should be her background info." Mi explained briefly.

"Saki? What're you doing here?" Tsubasa walked over to me.

"A job on Eimko Harumi." I shook hands with the bubbly female. She was about the same height as me. My mind started doing its job. Eimko Harumi; angel; Harvard honour; actress and model; a pet wolf, Thunder.

"I'm just gonna take a quick bathroom break." Mi says, suddenly vanished.

"Hey...Saki..?" Tsubasa cautiously looked around before continuing, "Eimko here, is an angel." He then chuckled, "but you probably already knew that."

"Mm-Hmm." I set my gaze back on her. She seemed like a bubbly and funny person. And pure enough to be an angel. Usually people have better first-glance impressions on angels than demons. She just pulled off the blonde wig, revealing her natural pink with blue and red highlights hair.

After Tsubasa got called away by the director for who knows what, and Mi still hasn't come back, Eimko and I are left alone.

"Well I'll see ya soon!" Tsubasa parted before he went.

"Say...Saki?" her expression was gentle as she asked, "I'm an honour graduate for my advanced mental thinking and social status; the mental thinking is because my angel power is that I can look into a person for their problems and fears, therefore finding ways to fix them. But it doesn't seem to work on you."

I frowned a little, not knowing what she's trying to imply.

"My power only doesn't work when the opponent is either a very powerful angel, or...a demon." She added, which made more sense now. "And...you smell like a bit of both."

Oh no...the scent must've rubbed off from the demons.

"That's understandable, since I'm with Tsubasa often." I shrugged it off.

She has a strong sense of smell, doesn't she. This could mean trouble for me.

"Yeah, that's true...but just be careful, okay? If there are demons near you, you should be cautious about them." She gave me a friendly warning. I wonder what her relationship with demons are like? Does she hate them too?

"Hey Eimko! Time's up!" someone shouted. She had black hair, hazel eyes. Dani Asuka, human, Eimko Harumi's manager. Human?

"Coming, Dani!" Eimko replied quickly before turning to me for a farewell, "See you around, Saki. That's my manager."

Almost just on cue, Mi appears from my side. How does she do that..?!

"I already finished the photographing, we can head back to the office now." she said, then turning on her heels. Okay....

After work, when I finished half of the article and Mi already chose medias for it. She said she had things to do after she's done her work so she left early today.

As I was on my way back to the demon house, I suddenly spotted something at the back of a building.

I squinted for I didn't have perfect vision. Isn't that...Mi?

[media]

Wow...her usually chest-length red hair was now to her mid-thighs. Why did reapers have to look good when they're killing people? It's not always a good thing that I can see through barriers. Her sharp scythe was pointed directly at a man's chest. I looked away. How could I witness such a thing..?

When I muster enough courage to look back, the man's body was just tossed into the river...I guess his incident was that he accidently slipped, then drowned? When I spotted Mi, she was just back to the normal, human self. And...Kakeru, Satoru and Shiki were with her...they were all on this candidate, then....Shiki probably mind controlled the man to not fight back. And Satoru predicted that this man cannot swim, therefore drowning was the best cover-up.

"Great work, Hayashi. This is the last one for today, pleasure working with you." Kakeru shook hands formally.

"Likewise, I'll see you guys tomorrow."

I didn't stay for the rest of their conversation, I just sprinted all the way back to the house.

When I burst in through the door, Haruhito sleeping peacefully on the living room sofa came into view first. He probably got tired waiting.

"Haruhito." I say, not exactly meaning to wake him up, but he can't just sleep here.

"Hey." I leaned down closer, poking him by the arm. Then, he reached out, grabbed my arm and pulled me down with him. His arms wrapped around me, he seems to continue sleeping.

"Oi!" I pushed onto his chest. I wiggled around, trying to get out.

"Mmm...Cerby...stop wiggling around...." He muttered. What the heck!?! Does he think I'm that big dog of his?!

"Haruhito!!!" I yelled, that finally managed to make him shake. His eyes snapped open, he seemed shocked at my face inches away from his-which was entirely his fault.

"Huh? Saki? What're you doing?" He let go, when I sprinted up.

"Me? It was you." I straighten down my shirt.

"Well, well, well." Rang a voice from the front door, there stood Satoru, leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed. How long has that bastard been there..?

"What? And how long have you been there?" I asked, impatiently.

"Long enough to see you straightening down your shirt in front of innocent Haru, here." Satoru commented with a nasty smirk.

I rolled my eyes at him, not even bothering to bicker. He's just trying to get me riled up. And I'm not giving him that satisfaction. I jump two at a time on the steps, shutting the door behind me in my room.

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After dinner, when everyone else was still around the dining table, discussing their own business, I was on the living room sofa. Reading a book, with my reading glasses. My long hair was in a braid, that's resting down my left shoulder to the front. The soft evening sunlight shone on me.

"Whoa. You look even hotter in glasses like this." I didn't need to look up to know that Satoru made that remark. I glanced up only to see everyone in the living room now. Sigh. Is a bit of silence too much to ask?

"Why're you out here?" Kakeru asked as a passing question.

"The living room window is faced to the west, therefore it has more sunshine in the evenings, my room is faced east, it's only bright in the mornings. I don't want to read in the dark or under strong unnatural lamp light." I push up my glasses as I explained. None of them made any comment after that. Shiki just stared, surprisingly not sleeping yet. Haruhito was doodling on a sketchbook. Takara was looking a bit self-conscious while she sat next to Kakeru, who was discussing something with Meguru. They are brothers, it's probably about Meguru's training. Satoru was looking at my exposed legs shamelessly. I'm never wearing shorts in front of him ever again.

"Well. Night." I say without making eye contact with any of them as I shut my book and went to my room, preparing to call it a day.

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Ahh...I completely forgot what Haruhito's main story was like.... Since I don't really like him...[no offence to fans out there who do] I haven't read anything else except the main story. Maybe he'll have an extra day sometime later ^_^

You can say who's spending the day with her next if you wanna. Also, I'm open for other requests for special stories as well.

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