Hearing Luz call out his name made the brunette finally snap out of his frozen state and stare at them with wide eyes. Urata was visibly shaking in fear as they could see tears in the brunette's eyes.

"I-I-I...."

"Are you okay?" Nqrse asked, though the brunette kept repeating the same words like a broken record.

"Urata, were you here the whole time?" Soraru's question made the brunette blink and come back to reality.

".....I-I was....."

"You don't have to force yourself to talk, we know you would've done anything to help Sakata." Nqrse stated but the brunette shook his head.

"I-I tried to s-stopped them but...."

The three just stayed silent, Luz was still holding the redhead's limp body in his arms. Urata glanced at the redhead before beginning to shake again, Soraru had never seen the brunette look so traumatized. He looks just like me, just like how I was when I first saw him die.

"So I-I tried to stopped them but when I touched Sakata....I-I felt like I was dying."

The three stared at him in shock and confusion. Soraru felt bad for the brunette, after all Urata had already experienced death before.

"I-I-It was as if I-I was d-drowning too a-and..."

"Urata calm down." Soraru tried to reassure the brunette but that just made him snap.

"C-calm down?! How do you expect me to calm down?! You don't know what it's like to experience death!!"

Soraru flinched at the brunette's harsh tone before Urata looked down. The brunette couldn't meet the raven-haired's gaze.

"S-Sorry."

"It's fine." Soraru said as Nqrse nodded.

"You just experienced an almost death again, it's only natural that you'd be hysteric."

"So what are we going to tell the others?"

Luz's question made them widen their eyes in realization. That's right, they couldn't just say that they didn't find Sakata. The others would eventually check here and find the dead redhead.

"Just tell them the truth." Nqrse said, but Urata screeched at them.

"You don't have to tell them at all! Just reset time already!"

Soraru was about to do what the brunette said until Nqrse's voice stopped him.

"We probably shouldn't right now."

"Why?!?"

"If Soraru does that then we'll be sent back to before this happened right?"

"Yeah," the raven-haired replied as Nqrse continued.

"But you don't know exactly how far it'll send us back."

"Huh? It always been a couple of minutes before someone dies."

"And how are we going to find him?"

"Just come here first!"

"And what if we come here but Sakata isn't here because he's somewhere else?"

"Nqrse I swear I'll—"

Urata stopped talking as he stared at the pink haired male. His eyes widened in fear before it changed to a glare.

"D-Don't do that!"

"Then calm down."

"What happened?" Luz asked in confusion.

"This asshole turned into Sakata! Don't play with my feelings!"

"I did it so you'd quiet down a bit."

"You—!"

"OI! Quit it." Soraru said in a cold tone, the two stopped bickering.

The raven-haired rubbed his temples to ease the headache he was starting to get. Urata was crossing his arms in irritation.

"Just reset right now!"

"Urata we get that you're angry at the idea of waiting but do you want to see Sakata die over and over again while you can't do anything?"

"....." Urata was silent after Luz's question.

"I just want to know exactly what happened," Nqrse said as he looked at the brunette, "when did you even get here?"

"Like five minutes before you guys arrived, I saw them holding his head underwater."

Urata began to shiver as the memory played back into his mind. The three looked at him in pity. Sorry but it would help us know where to look for him. Nqrse thought as he looked at the brunette to continue.

"He left a classroom on the first floor and ran outside. But he wasn't able to run that far."

"Why didn't you tell us?"

"I was worried that if I left then we'd lose sight of him again so I decided to follow him."

"So he was on the first floor." Soraru mumbled to himself.

"So you'll immediately go find Sakata once you're done helping the teacher?" Luz asked for clarification, the raven-haired nodded his head.

"Yeah, or else we'll just keep going on a loop." Soraru said tiredly. Urata had enough of all the talking and took control of Soraru.

"O-Oi, what are you—"

The raven-haired then felt the pain in his head as he fell on his knees.

"Eh? What's Urata doing?" Luz asked in concern and confusion as the raven-haired began to lose conscious.

The next thing Soraru saw was Urata leave his body before everything went black.

~☆~☆~☆~☆~☆~

The raven-haired clenched his head as he stared at the ground. His head was throbbing in pain, this was the first time Urata took control of him to reset time so it was even more painful than usual. Soraru eventually eased the pain and looked back up. He glared at the brunette next to him, who mumbled.

"Sorry."

Soraru gave him a exasperated stare before looking around his surroundings and saw that he was outside the faculty room. Soraru headed down the first floor to see if he could find the redhead. He was walking around when he felt someone bump into him.

"A-Ah! P-Please don't—"

Soraru sighed in relief knowing that the redhead was okay. Sakata stopped himself once he realized that it was just Soraru. The redhead immediately hugged the raven-haired, Soraru could see that tears were beginning to appear in the redhead's eyes.

"I saw them so I ran, but I was worried they'd find me since I think they noticed I was here."

"Well now I'm here."

"Don't you think you're forgetting someone?"

Sakata widened his eyes as he heard another voice. He broke up the hug and stared at the brunette that was floating next to the raven-haired.

"E-E-Eh?!" Sakata backed up as he stared at Urata, who chuckled at the redhead's terrified expression.

"Did I scare you~ www."

"S-Soraru y-you see that?!" Sakata pointed at the brunette.

"Oi! Don't talk as if I'm an object!"

Urata became irritated and pinched the redhead's cheeks. Sakata let out a whine in pain while Soraru just stared at them in amusement.

"Urata, quit it."

The brunette let go of Sakata's face as he pouted. The redhead rubbed his cheeks as he still stared at the brunette in disbelief.

"W-What is happening?"

"Well idiot—"

"Hey! Don't call me an idiot!"

"But you are one."

"H-Hey!"

"This annoying ghost is Urata." Soraru said, interrupting their banter. He gestured towards the brunette, who glared at the raven-haired for calling him annoying. Urata then smiled innocently at the redhead.

"I was the one that kept poking you."

Urata smirked in satisfaction as he saw Sakata widen his eyes. Sakata stared at the brunette in shock.

"E-Eh?! That was you?!"

"Yep~"

Sakata's face began to pale as he started to realize that a ghost had been around him and he didn't even know. Soraru rolled his eyes as he mumbled to himself.

"He was also the one that kept petting and playing with your hair, trying to make you feel safe and happy."

"What was that Soraru?"

"Nothing."

"So why can I see the ghost now?" Sakata asked, the raven-haired wasn't looking at him, which scared the redhead.

"You died in a previous reset."

"Eh?" Sakata couldn't believe what he heard, "I-I died?"

"Yep, Soraru here can reset time and go back to a certain point. Whenever he does the person that died gets an ability. Well only his friends that die."

"The angel wing tattoo lets me use my ability, which is reseting time."

"So you didn't have the tattoo just because you wanted to." Sakata said as he tried to process the information given to him.

"And now you get one~"

Sakata felt a slight burning sensation right after hearing the brunette's words. A pink sakura appeared on the redhead's neck. Urata found the flower fitting for the redhead.

"That hurt." Sakata said as he winced at the pain caused by the tattoo.

"Man up." Urata said as the redhead became irritated at the brunette's comment.

"Hey! You're not human so you wouldn't know the—"

Sakata stopped his retort as he stared at Urata, particularly at the brunette's neck. Urata noticed the redhead's gaze and titled his head in confusion.

"What?"

"Did you also have a tattoo?"

Urata and Soraru were confused by the redhead's words. Soraru looked at the brunette and widened his eyes as he saw a leaf tattoo on his neck, the exact same spot that Sakata had his.

"You got one too Urata."

"Huh?"

The brunette was confused on why he suddenly had one. Soraru remembered about the book showing a sakura and leaf. But Urata didn't die, so how?

"Why now all of the sudden?"

"I don't know. We'll just ask sensei."

"You guys mentioned that I'd get a power right?" Sakata said as he looked between the two males. Soraru nodded his head.

"Yeah, but we don't know what it is until we visit Akimasa sensei."

"Okay."

"Well the others are probably waiting for you so let's go~"

Sakata was intrigued by the brunette, after all he had never seen a ghost before. The redhead was curious to see if his hand would go through the brunette.

"Don't bother trying, you'll just go through." Soraru said as Sakata poked the brunette. Just like the raven-haired said, his finger went through the brunette's side.

"How come he could poke me but I can't?" Sakata titled his head, he was still curious and continued to poke the brunette.

"O-Oi! Stop that!"

Urata started to laugh, he felt like he was getting tickled. Soraru just watched as Sakata kept poking the brunette. The redhead managed to touch the leaf tattoo of Urata's neck. He then widened his eyes and backed up slightly.

"I said quit it!"

Soraru widened his eyes as they both stared at Urata in shock. The brunette was confused by their sudden quietness.

"What?"

"U-Urata y-you—"

"E-Eh? He's a human?!" Sakata shouted as Urata stared at them as if they had lost their minds.

"What do you mean? Idiot, I'm obviously a ghost—"

Urata waved his hands to prove a point but stopped once he took a look at his hands.

"Eh?"

The brunette did a double-take and stared at his hands in front of him. They were no longer transparent. The brunette then began to check his body and saw that he was standing on the floor now.

"Oi! What did you do?!"

Urata grabbed Sakata by the collar and shook the redhead in annoyance and irritation.

"I-I don't know!"

Sakata tried to escape the brunette's wrath as Soraru just stared at them. After a few more minutes of hearing Urata yell at the redhead he decided to stop him.

"Oi. Cut that out."

Soraru smacked the brunette on his head. Urata let go of Sakata and grabbed his head in pain.

"Ow. Oi! Don't hit me!"

Soraru ignored the brunette, he then chuckled a bit. When Urata was a ghost, the brunette was floating so they were at the same eye length, but now the raven-haired had to look down a bit to look at the brunette.

"Look who's short again."

"Oi!"

"I'm still confused on this." Sakata announced as Urata glared at him.

"Yeah, tell me what you did!"

"I-I don't know what I did!"

Urata was about to grab the redhead's collar again but Soraru stopped him. The brunette crossed his arm in irritation, Soraru then looked at the redhead.

"Hey Sakata, try poking his tattoo again."

"Eh? Why?" The redhead was confused by the raven-haired's command.

"I wanna see something."

"Oi! Don't poke me—"

Sakata poked the brunette's leaf tattoo. The redhead and Soraru saw that the brunette was now a ghost again.

"Quit poking me!"

Urata shouted before noticed that he was floating again. The brunette just stared at himself in confusion. The other two males were just staring at the brunette in astonishment.

"What is happening?"

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A/n

Am I forgiven for killing Sakata now wwww

I̶'̶m̶ ̶h̶a̶p̶p̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶k̶i̶l̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶S̶a̶k̶a̶t̶a̶ ̶(̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶w̶r̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶w̶w̶w̶)̶ ̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶I̶'̶v̶e̶ ̶b̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶w̶r̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶s̶e̶ ̶t̶w̶o̶ ̶d̶o̶r̶k̶s̶ ̶s̶i̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶a̶g̶o̶

Hope you enjoyed the mixture of slight angst and fluff~