Naegi's Pov.

"Misaki-san!"

I yelled as I saw her on the floor that is seemed to be knock out, blood stained the pavements as I assumed that it came from her. I crouched on the floor as she was in my arms.

"Misaki-san... what happened? Who attacked you? Tell me!"

"..."

"Misaki-san...." I started to get nervous so I checked her breathing—thank goodness she was still alive.

"...Junko....Mukuro..."

She mumbled, as my eyes widened. 'Junko? Does she mean Enoshima-san? And who's Mukuro...?' I shrugged the thought as I lifted her up in bridal style and walked to my room to aid her.

*Creak*

I entered my room as I placed her on my bed gently, as if she was somewhat fragile and easy to break. Then I went to the bathroom to get soaked towel to wipe the blood on her forehead.

I put aside her hat as I fringe her bangs, witnessing pink liquid on her forehead. Gently, I damped her forehead with soaked towel as it slowly started to disappear.

"Geez, what the heck happen to you?"
I mumbled as I continued to damped the towel on her forehead, afterwards I put an bandage around her head as it seemed to be she's find now.

I sat down on the chair beside my bed that is currently being occupied by Misaki-san as I stared at her while she's sleeping peacefully.

"I hope she's alright,"

I turned my head as I saw the violet book that she held earlier, it was stained with pink blood so I decided to wipe out the liquid staining the book. Somehow the book made me curious so I opened the book without Misaki-san's permission.

The pages were filled with music notes, I can't seem to understand why this book was entitled as Death Note despite its just filled with notes? Pretty odd, isn't it?

I closed the book as I didn't understand any of it, maybe that's why she chose this book... because its filled with music scores and notes.

"Ugh... that hurts," I heard someone groaned, I turned my head as I saw Misaki-san seating up while rubbing her temples that has a bandage.

"Naegi? W-Where am I?!" She asked me as she turned to my direction, surprised.

"I coincidently saw you laying on the pavements through the hallways, I was surprised that your blood spluttered on the floor... so I decided to lift you up and tend your wounds."

"I see... so your the one who put this bandages on my forehead,"

"Correct,"

"Hmm... let me tell you this: I won't say my gratitude because I don't owe you one," You can't really be honest at least once, huh?

"...But, this time is an exception, don't feel so special though!"

"Yeah, yeah."

"....Thank you, Naegi..." She smiled, causing me to blushed furiously.

"N-No, it's nothing! I just c-can't leave you laying there! B-But, your welcome though..."

Seeing her smile like this is kind of... unexpected, to me she likes to act tough and tomboyish, and to see that side of her is kind of... I don't know the right word but adorable?

"So what were you doing out there during night hours?"

"...Not telling,"

"Why? Don't you trust me?"

"I trust you—you know that! But... I can't tell you anything, sorry."

She averted her gaze with me as silence filled the room, doesn't she trust me with her secret...?

"Are you hiding something from me, Misaki-san?" I asked as furrowed my eyebrows.

"W-What? Of course none!" Your lying, I knew you have one.

"Really?"

"Yeah, really!"

"...Even though your the one who told me that we should tell everything to each other, no secrets..."

"Y-Yeah, I did but—"

"We even made a promise,"

"..."

I noticed her bitting her lower lip while looking on the ground, that's when I realised that she won't tell me the secret that she's keeping.

"I'm sorry.... but I don't think I can tell you my secret, I guess I broke the promise, huh?"

Maybe she has a reason behind it, that's the only reason I could think of.

"It's fine, I-I also have a secret too."

"I see, then why did we made the promise if were just going to break it in the first place?"

"...Your right,"

Yes, I have a one tiny secret that I'm keeping from her...

...And that secret is I have fallen in love with her.

>>The Next Day>>

All of us gathered in the cafeteria, I noticed they're were few of us inside as we waited for the others.

"Their ain't coming..." Misaki-san said groggily as her legs were on the steel table resting while her arms are folded to her chest.

"Why aren't the others coming?" I asked as the only people here are me, Misaki-san, Kirigiri-san, Asahina-san, and Ohgami-san.

"--Hagakure-kun and Celes-chan haven't missed breakfast once since we've been here... and Yamada-kun and Ishimaru-kun are missing, too!"

"--Perhaps something has happened,"

"--We should go look for them,"

We split up to find our missing friends as Misaki-san was about to leave when I grabbed her wrist and insisted for her to come with me, she's bad with directions, remember?

"I can go alone y'know, I don't need your help Naegi." She irked.

"What if you got lost while finding them? It will be more troublesome to find you, Misaki-san."

"Shut up! Talk back and your dead!"

"Don't go killing me now—"

"SOMEONE, GET OVER HERE!"

We heard someone yelled, judging from the voice it's a girl, could be the one screaming is Asahina-san? Then Misaki-san began to run as she left me, I started to run as well.

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"I was careless..." Celes-san said.

We reached the 3rd floor in where we heard Asahina-san screamed for help, all of the people were at the cafeteria earlier gathered there excluding Kirigiri-san.

"--Who attacked you?"

"It was strange... I suppose I should call it a suspicious character,"

"--Suspicious character, you say? Stop beating the bush already!"

"Believe me, Misaki-san... He struck me with that hammer."

Celes pointed at the floor as we saw a hammer, imprinted into it was Justice Hammer #1... what does that mean?

"Yamada-kun is in danger! The suspicious character took him!"

"--What?"

"He took a left as he made his exit!"

"--That leads to the classrooms and the stairwell to the 2nd floor,"

"Kirigiri-san is on the 2nd floor!" I said as we hurriedly ran lower staircase, while running through the hallways, we saw Togami-kun.

"Togami-kun! Have you seen Kirigiri-san or Yamada-kun?" I asked him as the girls ran ahead of us.

"--Nope, nope! Haven't seen 'em!"

"--What happened?"

"Hey, you guys! Over here!" Misaki-san yelled as we rushed over to he Library, running hurriedly.

When we reached that place, we saw Yamada-kun's forehead bleeding, he seems to be in pain.

"--Yamada-kun!"

"My head hurts," Yamada-kun said.

"Hey Naegi, isn't that the same type of hammer that used on Celes?"

I turned to where Misaki-san was pointing at as my eyes landed on the hammer on the ground that was stained with blood, she was right—it was the same. There was this Justice Hammer #2 imprinted on it.

"--Are you okay?!"

"Justice Robot got me bad!"

"--What?"

"--Is this some sort of joke?"

"This is hardly a joke,"

"--Digital Camera?"

Celes-san showed us a picture of Yamada-kun who was held captive by the Justice Robot.

"--You got a picture of him?"

"That's the one who attacked us,"

"--We should go and get him!"

"I'm going to rest in the nurse's office for a bit—my head's killing me,"

"Now then, we should split up and search for the culprit."

As what Celes-san said, we split off and started searching for the culprit, me and Misaki-san reached the gate that was locked until...

*Screech*

All of us gathered to where the scream came from, it was from Celes-san who was sitting on the ground.

"--Are you okay?"

"--Celes-san!"

"I am fine, the suspicious character raced toward the physics lab."

"--Then he has nowhere left to run,"

*Achoo*

Fukawa-san sneezed as she changed back to normal, now we were confused in who is the culprit.

*Screech*

Someone yelled as we turned to the direction where the voice came, it was oddly familiar.

"--Apprehending the suspicious character comes first!"

"--Don't leave without me!"

"--For now, we should split into 2 groups!"

"--We should check on Yamada-kun,"

Misaki-san, Togami-kun, Fukawa-san, and Ohagami-san went the other way. As me, Asahina-san, and Celes-san went the other way...

Ahead of us we saw the corpse of our deceased friends who were laying on the pool of their own pink blood.