Kneeling behind the blast shield, Sousuke watched the smoke billow up and considered what may or may not have been placed inside his footlocker. His analysis was interrupted by the impact of Kaname's harisen over the side of his head.
"What the hell are you doing you maniac?" she demanded bitterly.
"Someone had tampered with my shoe locker," Sousuke said calmly.
"Well," Kaname said. "Obviously that explains everything."
"I'm glad you understand, Miss Chidori," Sousuke continued, moving to stand up.
Then he was flattened by the harisen again.
"It doesn't explain anything!" Kaname snapped angrily.
Sousuke looked up from his position on the ground more than a little confused at the situation. He kept quiet a moment, blinking, as he tried to figure out how to best explain what to him was a given fact.
"It was possibly a bomb or other such trap," Sousuke said. "Detonation was the only option."
"And what if it was gas?" Kaname asked in a tone that would have read to a normal person as "you expect me to believe that?"
"I made sure to use an explosive that would burn hot enough to eliminate any biological or chemical waepons," Sousuke assured her.
"Wait a minute," Kaname said, taking her turn to be confused. "You thought I was serious?!!"
"AAHHH!" Kyouko shrieked. "What's that?"
Whatever Sousuke's response would have been was interrupted as a blackened wraith radiating fear and woe stumbled out of the area of the explosion and moved in a zig zag towards Kaname and the others mouth open-wide to reveal sharp, pearly white teeth...
"Shoes go boom," the shape said dizzily.
...and collapsed in front of them.
"Oh crap," Kaname said. "I think that's Eija."
"Hmm," Sousuke said. "I thought for sure I checked for any civilians before I detonated that."
"Hey!" a voice called out from behind them. Turning back, they saw Deimosu heading their direction looking concerned.
Immediately Kaname scooped up Eija and hid the small girl in a little crevice behind some of the debris.
"What's going on over here?" Deimosu demanded urgently.
"There has been a serious acci..." Sousuke started urgently.
"The military maniac here just blew up the lockers because he thought someone planted a bomb in it," Kaname said, cutting off Sousuke. "We got this handled."
"But..." Sousuke started.
"Don't try to deny it, you idiot," Kaname said somewhat crazily.
"But..." Sousuke tried to say again.
"We'll just have to clean this up," Kaname said.
"Kaname, what about..." Kyouko started to say, sort of pointing.
"We'll take care of it, Kyouko," Kaname assured her.
Deimosu looked from Sousuke to Kyouko, both looking worried and confused, and back to Kaname, who seemed more than a little on edge, and shrugged.
"Whatever," he said. "At least I'm not involved in this." Putting his hands up behind his head, he started to walk off.
"Okay," Kaname said, grabbing up the unconscious Satomi. "To the nurse's office."
"Miss Chidori," Sousuke started to inquire as they started moving for the nurse's office. "Why did we not tell Satomi about his sister?"
"Yeah, Kaname," Kyouko said. "What if she's really hurt?"
"Why did the shoes go boom?" Eija asked again, muttering from on Kyouko's back.
"Because then he would have killed us," Kaname said. "Have you seen what that family can do?"
"I am more than capable of taking care of my...urk," Sagara found his forward motion cut off as Kaname pulled him back around the corner they had just been about to turn.
Peeking around the corner, they stared at Naiki Satomi sniffing the air and turning about in confusion. She started to look back at them, and the three ducked around the corner. She looked away and thye looked back around the corner.
Carefully, at Kaname's insistence, the three carrying a fourth crept forward cautiously, watching Naiki all the way. The green-haired girl sniffed the air again and whipped her head about, just missing it as the other three teenagers past her around the other direction with nary a sound.
Scratching her head, Naiki sniffed again and, twisting about, she barely missed the three people carrying her sister disappearing around another corner.
"Eija forgot her sunscreen again," Naiki said. "Wonder how bad the sunburn is this time?"
"I'm really not understanding the point behind this, Miss Chidori," Sousuke said, nevertheless moving as quietly as he could. "The Satomis would certainly not react badly to us trying to help their sister."
He was somewhat embarrassed that this untrained civilian had apparently been paying more attention to their route than he was, but, then again she seemed to be more worried about encounters with other students than he was.
"Whew," Kaname said as they came to a stop in front of the nurse's station. "Made it. Now, listen, Sousuke. I'm not sure what you saw this morning, but I saw a near-monster take apart three people."
"She was very skilled," Sousuke admitted. "But she could have ended that much sooner and without whatever weapon she used at the end if she had been less reckless."
"Huh? Weapon?" Kyouko asked confused. "Sorry, I couldn't see anything, I was too busy listening to Kaname mutter about hybrid theory."
"I've been telling you all day," Kaname said. "I never said anything like that, look, school's almost out, let's just get Eija to the nurse's office patched up and out of here before her brother or sister show up."
"Or mother."
"Or mother," Kaname agreed.
All three teenagers froze and turned around to see the red-headed thirty-something standing behind them.
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