Soraru winced slightly, he took a few deep breathes to ease his headache. The raven-haired looked around the area and saw that he was by the vending machine. Well I now know where we're not going. Soraru thought sarcastically as he noticed that Urata was looking at him worriedly.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

Soraru turned to look at the light haired male that was accompanying him, only to see Luz stare at them with wide eyes. The taller male had disbelief, and what seemed to be a slight bit of happiness, flash across his face.

"U-U-Urata....?"

The brunette and raven-haired suddenly remembered about the book. I forgot that he'd get an ability now. Guess hanging around with them makes me feel like I'm normal. Urata floated towards the light haired male, who stepped back.

"Hey Luz."

Urata smiled at the light haired male, who was still hesitant towards the brunette. Luz was completely confused, the friend that he heard was dead and gone was now happily talking to him as a ghost.

"W-What?— H-How are y-you—?"

"Soraru made a wish to bring me back and here we are."

Urata looked at the raven-haired with a grin before turning his attention back on Luz and patted his head. Luz flinched at the brunette's touch, but his shock soon began to change into happiness. Tears appeared in his eyes as he stared at the brunette. He was happy to see the friend he had lost again. He would've hugged the brunette, had it not been that he was a ghost.

"Www now I can act like I'm taller than you~"

"B-But how?"

"I have the ability to reset time." Soraru said.

The raven-haired was starting to get sick and tired of having to repeat the same thing over and over after every reset. Luz was dumbstruck and stared at the two, the brunette nodded his head in confirmation.

"Yep~ his ability lets him go back in time. He got it after that day, along with me coming back, although the downside was that I became a ghost."

Luz was going to say something until he felt a burning sensation on his arm. The light haired male looked to see a tattoo had appeared on his arm. He stared in awe at the heart design with feathers around it. He then turned his gaze towards the raven-haired, who began to explain.

"The tattoo lets you use an ability, when you do it changes color to show that you're using it. My angel wing changes to white whenever I use my ability."

"Oh." Luz said as he went back to looking at the tattoo, he was amazed.

"We'll go visit Akimasa sensei to see what power you got."

"Okay." Luz said as he smiled, he looked at the two males with a bright smile. "Who would've thought that the three of us would be together again."

Soraru and Urata smiled at the light haired male's comment. They were glad to see that, in some twisted way, they were all back together as back then. Soraru was glad that the three can talk just like before.

"Oh right, just know that Amatsuki and Nqrse also have abilities so they can see me but the others can't."

"How do we get the ability?" Luz asked innocently but became confused when he saw the raven-haired and brunette tense up.

"Y-You guys die and I reset time." Soraru said as he avoided the light haired male's gaze. Luz began to feel bad for asking, Soraru already suffered seeing Urata die, and now he has to see us die.

"The others don't remember anything, only me and Soraru."

"A-Ah, sorry for asking."

Luz looked down at the ground in shame. Soraru was quiet, not knowing what to say. The silence surrounding the two males was getting on Urata's nerves.

"Eh? What's with this mopey atmosphere? You're alive now so no need to dwell on the past."

Urata grinned as he looked at the two males, Luz just chuckled at the brunette's carefree attitude.

"I see you're still the same as before."

"Rude, I'll have you know that I've matured since back then."

"You have?" Soraru said in amusement as the brunette glared at him.

"Oi!"

"We should probably get the guys their drinks." Luz said as he remembered the reason they were at the vending machine.

"Right."

Soraru then remembered that Mafu said he wanted an energy drink to 'help him study'. He choose the drink and turned to begin walking, but stopped when he saw the light haired male look at him confused.

"Eh? Why an energy drink?"

"Cause Mafu made a comment in the previous reset that he wanted one and Soraru wants him to love him~"

"Urata, shut up."

"Wwww so you do like Mafu~"

"Quit it."

Soraru glared at the two males before sighing. He then smiled faintly, it was like back then when the two males would tease him. They walked back to where the others were, Luz handed Sakata and Amatsuki their drinks.

"Thanks Luz." The two males thanked the light haired male.

Soraru lazily handed the albino his drink. Mafu stared at the raven-haired's hand, as if he was confused. Soraru gave returned the confused look, seeing that the albino hadn't taken the drink from his hand.

"What?" Soraru said as Mafu shook his head.

"Ah, it's nothing , I zoned out." Mafu said as he shook his head. How did he know I wanted an energy drink?

"Do you want the drink or not?" Soraru asked in irritation.

"Yep~" Mafu cheerfully said as he grabbed the drink.

His hand brushed over the raven-haired's and the albino quickly retracted his hand, almost dropping the drink, with a blush on his face. Luz saw the interaction and giggled to himself, that was cute~

"Well let's go now." Kashitaro said.

"Lead the way Soraru." Shima jokingly said as the raven-haired led them to his house.

When they were close to where Luz had died before, Sorary made a detour and began to walk on the long path. The others were wondering why the raven-haired was taking the longer way.

"Eh? Isn't that way quicker?" Sakata asked as he pointed to the other path, the one they went on in the previous reset. Soraru slightly tensed up as he stopped walking.

"I think there's construction ahead." Mafu said as the others looked to see that further ahead there were beams.

"Huh, didn't notice that." Senra said.

The raven-haired was grateful that the albino spotted that. Guess we were too busy talking to notice it before. Luz looked at the raven-haired, he still felt bad for making Soraru have to go through that, even though he knew he couldn't do anything about that.

"Soraru it's okay." Luz said in a low voice so only the raven-haired could hear him.

"Eh?"

"It's not your fault, you can't really do anything about it but watch."

"That is true, they have to die eventually." Urata said as he joined the conversation. Soraru just sighed.

"I know, but that doesn't make me feel any better."

"Eh, come on cheer up fishcake. You can at least still see them again."

Soraru glared at the brunette before it turned to a small smile. He was beginning to feel better about it, Urata just grinned as he saw the raven-haired cheer up. Luz beamed back as they continued to walk.

They made it to the raven-haired's house, Soraru opened the door and was met with the sight of an empty house. Guess they're still working. Soraru laughed a bit to himself at how his parents seemed to always be out when the guys come over.

"So we're actually going to study?" Sakata asked as if him asking would make them change their minds.

"Yes." Kashitaro said in a tone that said there was no room for arguments.

"Fine." The redhead slumped over in defeat while Mafu sighed. The others rolled their eyes at the two male's actions.

"We can play games after we study." Senra said.

He knew that the statement would make them perk up. And he was right because Sakata and Mafu beamed upon hearing the blonde's statement. Soraru was amazed at how they seemed to cheer up quickly.

"Then let's study!" Mafu said eagerly, wanting to get it over with so he can goof around later.

They sat down in the living room and studied. Luz would occasionally ask the raven-haired questions, though Soraru would tell him to ask Nqrse, who would agree. Soraru laughed to himself as he would see the light haired male blush.

He made a small glance towards Mafu, his eyes met the albino's gaze before Mafu looked back at his book. Urata noticed the small eye contact and teased the raven-haired. They had been studying for a while when they decided that they studied enough.

"Alright let's play now!"

Mafu eagerly went to grab the controllers. He handed the other two to Sakata and Amatsuki. The three turned on the game and began to play while the others were watching. Kashitaro was staring at the screen when he noticed a book out of the corner of his eye.

"What's this?"

Soraru turned his head to see the brunette grab the book. Urata saw that it was the book given to them.

"Oh that," Soraru thought for a second, "someone gave it to me."

"Hey Mafu, didn't you have this book?" Senra asked the albino, who turned his head to look. He saw it was the book that his dad had given to the raven-haired.

"Yeah, my dad gave it to him." The albino then went back to focusing on the game.

"I wanna see~"

Shima looked over at the book as Kashitaro opened to a random page. Nqrse, Luz and Soraru just watched the brunette as he was reading the page. Kashitaro saw that one of pages showed a story of a boy trying to save his friends from being killed.

"Wow, such a bittersweet story."

Kashitaro commented as he saw how the boy pushed his friend out of the way from being impaled. He flipped to the next page, the other three were done with their game and turned their attention to the brunette.

"What's it say?" Amatsuki asked, though he gave Soraru a worried look. It'll show who's going to die next.

"Just a story about one lover crying over the death of their significant other."

"Eh?" Soraru said, the others looked at him. He didn't mean for it to be loud enough so they could hear it.

"Ah, just wondering about the story."

"But haven't you read it already?" Senra asked in confusion as the raven-haired quickly came up with a lie.

"Yeah, but that was when I was way young so I don't remember much at all."

"So how'd the story end?" Luz asked as he titled his head in curiosity.

"Just that the two are unable to be together because one of them died drowning." Shima said as he looked at the short story.

"So basically similar to Romeo and Juliet." Nqrse nonchalantly said as Kashitaro nodded.

"Yep, this book is filled with short stories and most of them involve someone dying."

Kashitaro flipped the pages to see different stories written on them. The brunette closed the book and handed it back to Soraru, who grabbed it. Mafu handed the controller to the others so they can play. Senra, Luz and Kashitaro decided to go next.

Soraru opened the book to look at it while the others watched the three play. He flipped to the page that Kashitaro was on before, only to see that it was blank. So it really does look like a normal book to them.

"Guess that means that's how they die."

Urata was a bit worried at how the next person would die from drowning. Soraru sighed, at least now I know how they die instead of it just occuring out of nowhere. The raven-haired was wondering why the page with the story was first this time. Usually it's the design first, then how they died. He tried to think of a reason why.

"Maybe it relates to the design?"

Soraru flipped the page again, Urata looked over his shoulder to see the page. They stared at the page in confusion.

"Eh?"

The two saw that the next page was different then the ones from before. Instead of it having one design to show who'll die next, it had two on them. The raven-haired and brunette were staring at the page, not knowing what it meant. Soraru was beginning to get worried as he saw the two designs.

They were a sakura and a leaf.

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A/n

Will two people die this time?

We'll learn about Luz's ability in the next chapter

Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter~