Chapter 8

-Hanako's POV-Yashiro is dead. I wish I could say it wasn't true but it is. She was in an accident walking to school, I'm not sure how it happened or what exactly happened and I want it to stay that way.It's the day after Yashiro's death, she is still pretty shaken by it, no surprise to that of course. We sat on the windowsill together her resting her head on my shoulder sleeping with my arm around her, we were waiting for lunch to see Kou but he never came, we waited the second lunch break, still no sign of him. I could tell Yashiro was getting worried about him."He hasn't been here all day! Did something happen to him?" I sighed, "I'm not sure.. maybe we should wait until after school?""I guess so..""I'm sure he's okay, no need to worry.." I say not sure if what I was saying was truthful. I gave her a kiss of reassurance to calm her nerves and then we waited.Waited,Waited, No sign of the kid."M-maybe we should go see if Tsuchigomori Sensai knows what happened since he knows the future from the books and what not." Yashiro says worried."Sure, why not."We start walking to the library and find Tsuchigomori sitting on a single sofa. "Honourable no.7, what are you doing here?""We need Minamoto Kou's book, something happened and we need to figure out what happened." Tsuchigomori laughs, "sure you can look through it but I'm not sure why you are so concerned.." I roll my eyes and look through the shelves, running my hands on the dusty old books and making it too far to the newer, fresher books. I finally find the book and Yashiro eagerly grabs the book and looks through it. First smiling eagerly then her face growing to concern. I saw tears in her eyes."What is it?" I ask. "Kou.. Kou is dead.""What?!?!" I say angered. "How did he die?!?""I-it says after my death he found someone and wished for his death to be with us.."I got annoyed at that moment, "God dammit! It must have been stupid Tsukasa!" I say balling my fists."The kid won't be able to see us! What was he thinking!" I have no clue what was going through that kids mind, the greif of her death must have really messed him up. I zoned out of my thoughts and saw that Yashiro was crying."He was one of my best friends... he can't be dead!"I hugged her, "I know.. we will get him back.."Tsuchigomori sighed, "I'm afraid the only way to do that is speaking to.. you know.."Tsukasa.I definitely did not want to talk to him, I know if I did I would flash out at him but I hate seeing Yashiro so upset. I guess this was a risk I had to take.