Y/n doesn't feel like getting up, everything seems like such a huge ask and she feels sick, her bones ache and the idea of even moving is hard. It's a Sunday, the trial is in 9 days, it was originally a 7 days wait and now she'd have to wait, again.

She was sleeping in Taeko's room, they both were laying down next to eachother until Taeko got up to most likely read. She heard the soft creak of a door opening, her head turned in the direction of the sound and she sees Taeko's mother (Tamami). "Good morning, honey, did you have a good night's sleep?" Taeko's mother smiles warmly, kneeling down by her side.

It's strange to be in a house with an older woman in the house, since the passing off her mother and her being left behind with her father. She can still vividly see, the plates stacked up in the sink, covered with mushed food and forks crusted with food. Her house was an entire mess, so it was refreshing to be inside a clean house for once.

She nodded, Taeko's mother looked like an older version of her with shorter hair, wearing a red cardigan and being an overall better version of her daughter. "I'm sure it will do you well, getting some fresh air. Taeko's room must get suffocating for you eventually." She spoke, standing up and looking through her daughter's closet to toss Y/n a hoodie she found.

Y/n sat at the Yamada's family table, Taeko's father (Daisuke) was sneakily feeding their dog a piece of bacon, while Hanakō pouted refusing to eat at all, since he wanted crisps for breakfast and Taeko was reading a book at the table while her mother placed Y/n's plate down. It was all so chaotic yet it felt so comforting and...Nice.

"Hanakō! Your not a baby, eat your dinner before I treat you like a baby and feed it to you!" Tamami threatens, hitting him lightly with a wooden spoon she was conveniently holding and he let out an 'ouch' while he rubbed his head.

Y/n scoffed down the food, without a second thought and it tasted absolutely amazing. "Taeko, no reading at the table and Daisuke stop feeding our dog bacon!" Tamami, was going after everyone and anyone that moved, except Y/n, only giving her warm smiles and extra bits off food making Hanakō complain and pout.

"You look so beautiful Y/n! I love your hair, I can already think of the amazing styles I can give it- Tadeo, put down that newspaper you silly boy!" Tamami, turns mum mode on and she is trying to get the newspaper out of their fluffy dogs mouth, that isn't planning on letting it go anytime soon.

Y/n can't-be bothered to style it, she'll just wear a hood over it, plus Taeko's mother is too busy and Taeko's dad can't do hair if his life depended on it, (according to Taeko). Taeko's mothed stops her to give her a bag and then Y/n walks towards the park. Y/n sat down on a swing, looking at the blades of grass pointing up to the cloudy sky, with rays of sun managing to poke through.

She was just taking in the moment and inhaling the fresh air. She has a bag of flowers in her lap, as she's heading to the graveyard after this. That strange feeling that someone is watching her, makes her stalker radar activate, she bets he is about to strike and make her his next victim

She sees someone with black hair in the distance and she gets up, getting prepared to leave till she sees someone else.

Budo.

He runs up to her, with his hair bouncing each time his foot made contact with the floor and his grin was to die for. He ran to sit next to her on the swings and he waited a bit to catch his breath before he said anything, "Y/n, I'm glad I saw you here."

She couldn't help but feel her heart beat inside her chest, she smiled back subconsciously and her face felt warm. When he spoke she felt like she was floating up to the sky's, when he waved at her in the hallways and when they walked all over town after school, he just made her feel so special...

She's positive he's the one leaving gifts at her door and she feels so childish having a crush, it seems like she's become an adult over night. Y/n has had to mature, become better and be more vigilant so it feels like she can't afford to act like a some silly teenager.

Yet, Budo makes her feel cared but he might not even feel the same way for her.

But, him being her friend is enough aswell, "Y/n? Is something on your mind." He gives her that worried glance, she hates seeing on people's faces. "I'm okay, don't worry about me." Y/n sighs, pushing her feet off the floor so she gains a bit of momentum to gently rock back and forth.

"You seem distant, I don't mean that you- Its not that you can't feel distant but- I, can't find the right words..." Budo stumbled over his words, his face flushed in embarrassment and butterflies where flapping about in her stomach. "Seriously, I'm fine Budo. I'm just thinking about the case I guess, I really need to stop telling people about it." Y/n says, it's not that she didn't want to tell Budo, it's just that she thinks the theory she originally had for Taeko actually applies to her.

It seems like a very self-centered thing to say, saying that someone loves you so much that they'd kill anyone you've looked at for a second.

It sounds ridiculous and she doesn't have much hope in this theory either but she has a feeling in her gut. Even with the way Ayato acts, it's so possessive and clingy, he acts as if he'd die if he wasn't in her prescense for a second. It wasn't always this way, he liked Taeko before but then he started to change and then he wanted nothing to do with her and he started wanting to talk to her instead.

"Are you there, Y/n?" Budo has appeared in front of her, knelt down clicking his finger in her face till he loses hope and lowers his hand, accidentally brushing his hand against hers. She lets out a yelp, from the sudden contact.

Budo let's out a hearty chuckle and he stands up, taking her hand in his and she looks up at him.

What's going on.

"Y/n, I-" Budo starts, she doesn't want him to finish his sentence, she already has so much on her plate and she can't- "You know I always live my life how I've always aspired it to be and no one can tell me who I can and can't...Love. I want to build a future with you because you are very special to me, and I value you deeply. I value you, alot more than a friend." Budo leans in, making that smolder men make when they are going to kiss someone.

She placed her finger on his lips, stopping their lips from connecting.

He withdraws, immediately.

"I'm so sorry, Y/n. I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable, it was never my intention to do that." Budo apologies, Y/n shakes her head, she looks into his dark brown eyes, she takes a deep breath in.

"You didn't make me uncomfortable Budo, you don't know how many times you've passed me and I've felt my heart racing. You keep me going, despite all this pressure I've been going through but-" Y/n can't bear to say it, he's the one she wants but her mind knows that it's just not the right time.

"You're the right person for me, Budo. I truly believe that, but it's not the right time... It would be wrong of me to say yes and then you'd always be my second priority, I know what it's like being second and I don't want to do that to you. You make me feel free." Y/n says, Budo nods as she spoke.

"I'm sorry, I just can't live like this." Y/n starts, a frown prevalent on her face as she gazed into his dark brown eyes.

"What?" Budo asks, confusion written all over his face, he takes a step forward and Y/n takes a step back, his heart sinks.

"My friends, people I didn't know as well, dying all around me. I just can't help but take some of the blame, this killer must hate everyone around me." Y/n pauses, seeming to be thinking about what she's going to say to Budo, "I see how people look at me, with fear and I can't fit in with anyone, anymore. I wouldn't want to put you at risk, I'd never be able to live with myself if something happened to you."

"Y/n, I can protect you, protect us." Budo holds her hand in his, pleading at this point for her to see that they can do this, he can protect her from it all, "Your not listening, Budo. This is about your safety, I just can't let anything bad happen to you."

"What about your safety? Y/n, who's going to look after you and be there for you if you're pushing me away." Budo said, he wants to say more he wants to tell her he'll save her even if it kills him.

"Y/n, I-" Budo is silenced by Y/n shaking her head, a small smile forms on her face, "Sometimes, you have to let people go Budo, we all have to learn how to eventually." Y/n smiles, with a tear running down her face, she takes her hands out of Budo's, "You'll just have to learn to let me go now, it's not your fault this is happening, it's mine. After the trial, me and you can do whatever our hearts desire but don't feel obligated to wait on me, the last thing I'd want is for you to feel trapped. Moving on is good as well. Goodbye Budo."

"Goodbye, Y/n." Budo watches as she walks away, with a plastic bag, filled of flowers. It reminds him off the time he first saw her in the hallway, running and somehow crashing into her friend Kokona and Saki. The way she laughed and smiled with them, made him want to share moments like that with her, it made him happy that she joined his club. She always knew how to light up a room and now, her light was leaving as quickly as it came.

He will wait for her, I love you, Y/n.

She feels much more glum and empty, than she was before she left Taeko's parents house, Taeko's mother had been kind enough to give her a bag of flowers to place on the victims graves. When she had originally walked out the door, to head to the park, Taeko's mother had finally gotten the newspaper away from the dog and she gave Y/n a bag.

"Here are some marigolds I planted, I'm sorry for the loss of your sister. Take these and lay them at her grave and the other victim's." She holds the bunch of flowers out to Y/n, in a bag and Y/n takes it and thanks her profusely. Y/n entered the graveyard and walks along the grassy path.

She's goes to Amao's grave first, she pulls the necklace out of her shirt and it has a plastic ring attached to it. She receives a rush of nostalgia, the times where she'd sneak over to Amao's house and she had a huge crush on him. This ring symbolizes their friendship and how much she loved him, even if he didn't feel the same way for her. She misses him dearly.

She places a marigold on top of his grave and she smiles sadly down at him, he was taken too soon.

She walks down the path, passing many gravestones and tons of history that many people brought with them to the grave till she came across her sister's grave. She only has one marigold left, as she's already placed one at each of the victim's graves. She sits beside her sister's grave, and gently places the flower down.

"I don't know how long I can keep this up." Y/n begins, looking at her grave stone, "The trial will start soon and I hope I can get justice for not just you but everyone that died, I miss you so much Mus." Y/n tries not to cry as she speaks, she feels so lost, trapped in a maze with no exit.

"I'll make things right, Musume." She whispers, she lifts her gaze and she sees them. Everyone who died, staring at her and as usual they don't say anything. They're hallucinations after all. She looks away, and notices her mothers grave next to her sister, she gives them both one last glance before she walks in the direction of the graveyards exit.

Honk.

Honk.

She spotted a Toyota's Yaris and Tamami poking her head out of the car's window waving at her to get her attention. Y/n jogs over to the car and pulls the door open, sitting next to Tamami, she begins to drive off and they are left in a comfortable silence. Y/n looks into the rear view mirror, noticing the limousine behind them.

"Do you see that limousine, it's really close to your car." Y/n speaks. Tamami looks at the rear view mirror and she makes a turn, seeing that the limousine is stuck to on their trial. "I'm surprised they haven't crashed into my trunk yet this is a new car too!" Tamami complains, staring at the rear view mirror before taking another turn.

Why are we being followed?

Is this a kidnapper or something?

"Take this right." Y/n states, she's directing Tamami to Ayato's house, purely because if this is some kidnapper following them hopefully Ayato hears the commotion and comes out then gets kidnapped instead. "Is this the direction to the police station?" Tamami questions, gripping the steering wheel, Y/n mhms in response.

Yes, Ayato lives near the police station so it works both ways, either he gets kidnapped or we can get to the police station in time. After lots of turns and wrong directions, Tamami stops in front off Ayato's house to check if the cars still there.

Great, it's gone.

All that nervousness left Y/n's body, now she just stared out off the window, gazing at Ayato's house. She hasn't talked to him for a while so hopefully he doesn't decide to go outside at this particular moment. "When did this car get in front of us?" Tamami asks, starting her car up again till women in suits, step out of the car two on each side.

They stand with their arms by their side, and their chins held up high, one of them stepped out of this odd formation they were doing to open the front door. Out stepped a boy with, neatly cut silver hair, silver eyes as well and he wore a black gakuran and matching slacks with black shoes. He wears the armband of leadership, he must go to her school and he has black gloves on.

His posture is ridiculously straight and he walks with a shining confidence and empowerment, as he walks the guards surround him, while he approached the car window. Tamami looks paralyzed with a combination of shock and fear since her mouth is so wide open, she barely utters out, "He's a S-Saikou."

A body guard knocks on the car window and Tamami flinches hard, making Y/n flinch ; Y/n reluctantly reels down the window, looking at Tamami for some assistance, which she doesn't provide. The silver haired boy steps forward and the guards take a sideways step to give him some space.

"I am Megamo Saikou, heir to the Saikou corp and it is my utmost duty to ensure the person who is stalking you is exterminated." He announced, placing a hand on his chest as he spoke. Y/n doesn't know what's going on and all she's hearing is a bunch of nonsense, she gives Tamami a nudge to start the car and drive off but Tamami is too frozen in fear to react.

"I have reason to believe that you are involved in a growing threat at Akademi and I vow to protect and keep you safe at all times. Do not be alarmed, I won't let him harm you." Megamo clicks his finger and turns to walk back to the car when two of his guards grab Y/n through the open car window and pull her out as she kicks and screams.

Two guards are on either side of Megamo, while the other two are picking up Y/n and stopping her from escaping. "Help- Tamami, call the- Police!" Y/n squirms in their grasp, definitely aiming at giving them a difficult task, she stops momentarily when she spots a hooded figure with a face mask on watching from a far.

"Hey! Help me! If they kill me my blood will be on your hands!" She shouts, probably disturbing the whole neighborhood, she puts her feet on either side of the car door trying not to get pushed into the limo.

Tamami finally rushes out her car, she pulls at the guard's arm trying to make them let go off Y/n but to no avail.

During this fiasco Megamo, was sitting in his car, watching the men wrangle with you. His expression was blank, not showing any signs of emotion whatsoever. The men were walking around to the car, carrying you like a damn sack of potatoes in their hands.

He'd open the door and he'd motion for the men to place you in the back of the car, and he'd close the door, but not before looking back at you. His gaze was cold as he stared at you.

Y/n gives up and hits her head on the top of the car as she's pushed through the door and into a sitting down position.

Two guards sandwich her into the middle as they sit either side of her and Y/n is fuming, "I thought you said you were protecting me, not kidnapping me in broad daylight you bit-" Y/n gets cut of by a guard slamming her mouth shut with their hand, "Do not disrespect the future heir of the Saikou corp or we will use force." The guard spoke in a monotone voice like he was reading off a script.

Y/n rolls her eyes and crosses her arms.

Ayato saw the whole thing, he wore a hoodie and mask and watched as they pushed Y/n into that car. Hm, apart of the Saikou family? Saying they want to protect Y/n? He's been looking after Y/n just fine, there are always people interfering but soon he'll get to tell their children about how many people tried to stop him from getting to her.

He walked over to Tamami, taking down his mask, "Ayato! I can't believe they did that to Y/n, will the police even do anything since they are the richest family in Japan?" Tamami starts to sob, "I've lost Y/n! What am I going to do!" She sniffles, she's standing beside her car and wiping her tears. Ayato opens the car door and sits in the driver's seat, she sits in the passenger seat, way to conflicted with emotions to be driving.

He drives behind their car, keeping a safe distance as he watches to see if Y/n is okay. He saw their whole 'conversation' and now Y/n is in his car. Just great. He grips the steering wheel tighter, he can still hear Tamami's sobs, he guesses normal people would attempt to comfort her, "We will get Y/n back, she'll be fine, okay?" Ayato tells her, she stops crying for a moment and bursts out into an ear piercing bawl, making Ayato flinch and almost hitting the car on his left as he begins to drive.

It begins to rain, hard, and the pitter patters of the rain are the only thing keeping him sane in this car.

It's getting quite tiring hearing this woman's crying.

He wants her to never make another sound again.

Each second that goes by, is making him more aware of the objects he could use in her car to silence her for ever.

His eyes twitch, at the thought of that Saikou boy even touching her, the urge to ram this car into his is killing him. He remembered Y/n is in that car, he'd definitely do more damage to her than him if he choose to do that.

"This is kidnapping you psycho! You're not protecting me by forcing me in your car, what are you gonna do to me anyway!" Y/n interrogates. Y/n fixed her crumpled up uniform from the earlier scuffle.

Megamo remains stoic and cold throughout it all surprisingly, he notices the car behind them in the rear view mirror.

An Aishi, in the flesh, silver eyes meet black as the both seemingly notice eachother in the mirror. Aishi's, are vile and retched creatures that would be exterminated at the flick of his wrist if he had anything to say about it. They are parasitic and feed off their 'lover' which in this case is seemingly Y/n.

"I assure you, this is not kidnapping." _ He'd say that in the same uncaring tone. He didn't have any reason to explain anything to you as to why you were here, so he just won't. Megamo kept his gaze on you as he said that.

"This is for your own safety." He states, feeling no reason to clarify.

The men in suits buckled her in with her seat belt, as this conversation continues. She said thank you instinctively, but she quickly glared showing she was not pleased at all. "Safety? From what exactly?"

"If you must know, my family have a history with your 'pursuer', I plan on getting rid of him for good." Megamo responds calmly, Y/n thinks about his words, 'him' could Megamo possibly know it's Ayato?

"Who exactly is this pursuer?" She asked.

"Questions will be necessary later on." He replied in a tone that suggested I should stop talking.

This would be his final warning, no talking and absolutely no eye contact from you whatsoever. His tone was stern and cold as he finished. The fact that he had to be so strict about something like this was irritating him.

"Can I at least go to a convenience store? I'm not your prisoner and I'm going to be comfortable wherever you're taking me. I at least want a snack or two." Y/n states, she glared at him ignoring his threats.

He'd notice you giving him the glare before you went silent, he didn't say anything about it though. He was done arguing with you. The car started moving, the ride to wherever you were going was going to be a silent one. He couldn't care less about your feelings at this moment. As long as you were doing what he told you to do, everything would be fine.

Megamo thinks deeply at the proposal, that Aishi will most likely stop at the same store as her to talk to her. This could be a chance to observe their interactions and get as much information as possible from a safe distance.

Megamo looks in her direction and whispers something to the woman driving the car, she nods and the car changes directions.

"Ten minutes."

"What?"

"You will have ten minutes to get what you need and come straight back to the car." Megamo replied, Y/n rolled her eyes and scoffed slightly, mumbling under her breath, "Yoo think your so high and mighty." Y/n knows it's a childish thing to say but this whole situation feels dehumanizing.

"Indeed I am, you are under my protection and I am the future heir to the Saikou corp. Everything you own is branded by my family's name, including your phone that you dropped, during your impudent scuffle with my body guard's." Megamo with a tone that implied he knew he was above her in many ways.

He then holds up her phone with two fingers and drops it carelessly into her hands.

She notices the gloves on his hands and tries to hold back a snarky comment, she fails, "Wow, are you wearing gloves because you don't want to touch my phone? Or are you just a germaphobe?" Y/n questions, Megamo must be getting sick off her.

"Smartphones can have as many as 17,000 bacterial gene copies on it but if you must know that is not the reason I'm wearing gloves, it's none of your concern."Megamo spoke.

The car comes to a halt, his bodyguards hastily rush to open the door for him before unbuckling me and manhandling me out the car.

"Now, do not try to run off."

He'd say that to you as the bodyguards took you out of the car.

"I can't really run if I really wanted to." I remark quietly

He ignores her snarky reply and lets her walk off with the body guards behind her of course.

She picks up basic necessities and thinks about calling the police and then proceeding to remember how powerful the Saikou family is.

The rainfall is awfully heavy and now she's drenched from running into the store, in rain. Her clothes feel heavy and she's staring at two bags of crisp, thinking which one is the best one to pick.

Ayato also steps out the car, with an umbrella, he closes it once he's in the store and he gets a basket filling it with random items he passes.

He wants this to look as coincidental as possible, he knows exactly which isle she's in, he follows her everywhere so he knows these things.

"Y/n what's going on?" He asks, pretending to be oblivious and motioning to the guards only a few feet behind her.

Once they get to the till, he stacks his basket on top of the other baskets, Y/n raises her eyebrows (she's definitely suspicious) but she says nothing. "I can pay for you." Ayato gives the cashier his card and Y/n doesn't even thank him, she gives him a cold shoulder and picks up her bag, "I'll carry that." He takes the opportunity to touch her hand, making her hand recoil from his since his hand is quite cold in comparison to hers.

He takes the bag from her and pulls his umbrella out, moving closer to her.

He was about to snap right then and there when Y/n placed a hand on his shoulder, "Look now is just not the time." Y/n says flatly, clearly wanting him to go.

When will she understand that he needs her.

His life serves no purpose without her.

He wants to kill Budo so badly, even the thought of him makes him wish he was dead.

Ayato unlocked his phone and stared down at the picture he took off Y/n while she slept, she is his remedy. He feels less insane already, just by looking at her photo, originally Yua was also in the picture but he cut her out of it. Y/n is so perfect, so vulnerable and weak when she's asleep.

It just makes him want to snatch her up and take her away from everyone else, one day she'd understand he was doing it for them, their children will be a symbol of their undying love.

His mind drifts to the thought of all these rivals he's been up against, he will do anything to save his and Y/n's future together. People who like or even dare to utter a word of hate towards her must pay the price.

They walk in an uncomfortable silence, Y/n is walking to the car he sees in the distance but both of their eyes are pulled to the missing person sign on the store's window.

A boy with blonde hair and blue eyes was shown in a picture above letters in bold, 'Have you seen Frueddo Jonzu?'

Oh, Ayato has seen him alright.

"Frueddo's gone missing? I hope he hasn't been harmed in anyway." Y/n says her thoughts aloud not really talking to him.

"I'm sure he's alive. He'll turn up eventually, I'm sure off it." Ayato says, Y/n nods in response, a body guard steps out the limousine and opens the door for her and lets her in. He knows, Megamo is watching him, the car drives off and he heads back to Tamami's car.

He gets home, making his way down to the basement.

He does have company down there at the moment.

"You're a sick psychopath!" Frueddo shouts, wriggling in his restraints, he's been tied to a pole for two days straight and he's been very open about the pain his aching bones are going through.

Why should he care about the pain Frueddo's going through when he put Y/n through so much and he didn't care?

Frueddo's hair is greasy and messy, snot dripping down his face, going over the dried crusted blood under his nose. The snot fell into the creases off his mouth and some onto his plain white shirt, already stained with a blood splat and tears.

A clump of his hair had blood ingrained into its fibres from the time Ayato snuck quietly into his house and hit him with a bat to knock him out. He also had a lovely, fresh and bruised black eye around his right eye.

Frueddo can't even fight back so Ayato just punched him in the face for the fun of it.

Ayato stares down him, he has a plain black t-shirt on with some shorts on, he has his arms crossed as he looks down at the pitiful waste off space, "How pathetic. It was shocking that Y/n felt an ounce of sadness that you 'unfortunately' disappeared. I wonder how much she'd care about you after seeing your decapitated head?" Ayato laughs, it echoed slightly in the basement.

"When I get out of here...I'll kill you!" Frueddo yelled, only to freeze when Ayato raises a finger to his lip, shushing him.

"Indoor voices, have a bit of courtesy, Y/n might hear you." Ayato spoke, a spark off hope glimmers in his eyes and he starts screaming at the top of his lungs,"HELP!!"

"I won't kill you yet you are apart of my plan." Ayato whispers, Frueddo doesn't hear him over his own shouting.

Ayato just chuckles, going back up the steps and closing the door.

He can scream all he wants.

Y/n isn't here.

No one is, but him.

He lied, giving him some false hope.

He can't wait for him to realize this is place that he'll die in.