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Chapter Four

Both of them sat at the edge of the house. As they both looked towards the boys that were standing not far away from the two who were sitting down.

"Tegoshi, you finally came," Massu smiled towards him, and spread open his arms. Struggling back tears, Tegoshi wanted to rush over immediately, and get embraced by Massu, but yet, Shige held onto his arm.

"Shige? Let.. let me go!" Tegoshi practically shouted at him.

"It's a fake! Wake up, first year!" Shige shouted at him, his eyes, those eyes of sterness. Tegoshi looked at him, and then he looked towards the scene once again. Gone. "Massu..?" Tegoshi practically walked into that place again, looking around frantically for Massu.
"It's a fake, first year. You saw someone you've always wanted to see right? Me too, but.. it's.. a fake." Shige's voice was trembling, fear?

"No.. NO!!" Tegoshi shouted, as he scrumbled down onto the green floor below his feet. "I came all the way here, and I can't see him? Why?!" Tegoshi shouted, as he bleeds the salt of his soul as it pours out from his eyes. Shige came over, stood beside him, and patted on his shoulder, "First year, we'll find him, or rather, them."
Tegoshi turned and looked at Shige. "Shige, you came here to find a person as well?"
"Yea, he.. he's someone very precious to me. You read the paper plane that landed the other time right? I am finding him.."

Tegoshi felt rather guilty, and nodded his head. "Anyway, let's move on. We're reaching soon." Shige replied, as he stood up, while stretching out his hand, for Tegoshi to hold onto as well. How did Shige knew all of these? Did he come here alone before? Tegoshi looked at Shige, questions and questions were coming out in his head. Shige felt Tegoshi was looking at him, and he explained, while holding onto Tegoshi's hand,"I've came here before, to look for him you know. I was alone, and went through all the obstacles alone..I gave up, and returned back." Tegoshi listened quietly, in his heart, felt with sympathy.

This was the first time Tegoshi was looking at the back of Shige's. Somehowk, Shige's back was feeling kind of lonely. Probably, probably when they find the person precious to him, Shige will be back to Shige.

Tegoshi, his hand holding onto Shige's, walked across the mellow green field. They then came towards a small village located at the end of the green mellow field. As Shige walked, his hands started to turn cold. Tegoshi felt the fear of Shige's running through his whole body. What's wrong? What's up in front?

As they entered the village, Tegoshi realised that there is nobody around. The delapitated houses were made up of straws and sticks, they were huts. Huts build by people? What kind of world is this dimension around? As they walked deeper into the village, the wind blowing got colder and colder, as it carried more and more sand together, blowing towards the vision of the two boys forward movement.  "First year, be careful.." Shige whispered, clutching tighter onto Tegoshi's hand. Tegoshi just returned the grip, as a form of understanding Shige's words. With that, the two boys walked deeper, and deeper, until the village behind them, disappeared.

Finally, the front vision was visible. The passage that was revealing in front of Tegoshi, made his heart skipped a beat. This is, a .. a castle? The castle was located just right in front of Tegoshi, and Shige of couse. It was like any ancient castle that was recorded in books, and books. Shige let go of the hand of Tegoshi, turned back and told Tegoshi, "They're inside here." Shige said, and pointed towards the castle. Tegoshi looked towards the castle, not uttering a single word. Massu, Massu are you there?

"Tesshi? Leave right now! Don't come in! Please!" The voice returned back. Tegoshi's eyes widened. It's .. it's Massu! On how Massu was able to answer him, for that, Tegoshi did not know, and did not bothered. All he knew was, he wanted to go into the castle as soon and possible, and of course, to reach to Massu, as soon as he could. Without thinking, he bowed down to Shige, and ran into the front door of castle, totally not knowing of the situations he was going to face.

Once Tegoshi entered the castle, running footsteps could be heard. There were many people running towards his direction. He turned back, but the front door of the castle automactically started closing. From the other side, he could hear Shige's shouting,"First year! This castle is called the "Mentality Castle", if your mind stay confuse, you will never be able to get out of this castle! Remember! Clear your mind, everything in front of you is nothing but illusions!" With that, the door closed, with Shige's continueing banging on the front door, trying his best to open it up, but of course, to no avail.

Tegoshi looked in, the footsteps got louder and louder. He closes his eyes, and Massu appeared in his mind."Tesshi, I'll help you." Massu's voice echoes in his mind. Tegoshi opened his eyes, and smiled. The running footsteps just then got softer and softer, until it got absorbed into the air, leaving no sound left in that alley. Tegoshi continue walking down the passageway. Although it was a castle, the surrounding was nothing, but just grand photoframes all hanged up. Some were exquiste paintings that were famous in his world. He was strucked with awe. When he came to the end of the passageway, a stairway to the basement was found. Due to his instinct, he decided to walk down the stairways.

"Turn right, Tesshi." Massu's voice echoed again. Tegoshi did as he was told, and he turned right. The room he as in, was now felt with bars and bars at the side. Is this.. Is this the ancient times of, prison.. prison cell? Tegoshi felt his body trembling with fear, Massu? Massu is prisoned? No.. No way!  Tegoshi started pacing up his footsteps, while he continue shouting,"Massu? MASSU!?"

"Who's there?!" a voice replied. It was a voice that Tegoshi have never hear before. Running towards the source of voice, he saw an older guy dressed in a rage light grey dress. He had short light brown hair, and eyes of solemn. "Who're you?" the guy asked back, every word speaking very clearly.

It's not Massu. Who's this? Suddenly, the image of Shige appeared in his mind. Tegoshi looked at the "prisoner" and muttered,"Keii.. Keii-chan?" The head that was bowing down suddenly looked up towards Tegoshi. He ran towards the bars of the cell, and clutched tightly onto the bars. " How.. How did you know my name!?". Tegoshi sighed,"Ah, it's really you." Keii-chan glanced towards Tegoshi, realising that he have not told him about Shige, Tegoshi then started explaining,"It's not like I'm finding you. It's Shige. Shige is here for you, Keii-chan."

"Don't call me Keii-chan! Keii-chan.. that name.. is only for Shige. Call me Koyama." Keii-chan, no , Koyama sneered. Tegoshi immediately covered his mouth, and said,"Oh, sorry. I only knew your name because Shige called you that in his letter." Koyama then nodded his head. "I recieved them," he paused, looked around and said,"Just, i am in no position to reply," Tegoshi looked at Koyama. Just then, he realised that the lock of the prison cell were lose. The lock was not secured at all! With that, Tegoshi unplucked the lock, and opened the gate. Koyama looked at Tegoshi. "How.. How on earth did you opened that!?" Tegoshi looked at him in surprise. "Huh? How on earth? The lock wasn't even locked? You could have escaped like, long ago?" Koyama then shooked his head. He closed his eyes, and opened again. He realised that something left his body. "Screw him, he used illusion on me!" Koyama shouted, banging his fist directly towards the wall. Tegoshi did not get anything, hurriedly, he grabbed onto the wrist of Koyama's, and said, "Let's go!". With that, they ran out of the basement.

They both arrived at the level where Tegoshi had initially came from. With that, they noticed a spiral staircase leading to the second floor. Without thinking twice, they ran up the staircase. While on it, the spiral staircase started to spin around and around, making both of them dizzy. Tegoshi suddenly shut his eyes, and Massu's voice echoed inside his head. "Tesshi, go back down! Don't come up, don't find me!" Tegoshi opened his eyes, and he suddenly ran up, as he held onto Koyama's wrist, both of them made it to the second level. Without awaiting for the reply of Koyama's, Tegoshi dragged him. His instinct told him that Massu is nearby.

Tegoshi's instinct brought him to a room door. It was different from the others. The others were brown, while this door is white. Slowly, he grabbed onto the door handle, and pressed it down. He slowly opened it up. Sitting right inside was a figure. The figure was by the desk, his hands chained up. He covered his mouth, it's Massu. Massu turned, and his voice, deep and low, "Tesshi.. why, why did you come?" His eyes wer filled with tears. Tegoshi, without thinking twice, ran over to Massu, and hugged him tightly. Massu was sobbing slightly. "Massu!! I.. I miss you!". Massu patted Tegoshi's back, and muttered,"Me too, Tesshi.." They both hugged each other for quite awhile before Koyama's coughing sound break both of them apart. Massu then stood up, and walked over to the cupboard, he took out a set of clothing and passed it to Koyama. "Here, change into this, you look awful." Koyama took it over and went into the toilet to get change.

"Massu, let's go back together!" Tesshi replied, as he spread out his hands, and danced around the room, of course, glad that he finally met up with Massu. "Tesshi, I can't..this chain, it's unbreakable.." Tegoshi looked at the chain, indeed, it was like hard metal. As Tegoshi touched the metal, he felt like he was touching something soft. The surface of it was like rubber band. Taking the scissors from the table, he tried to snap it apart, it worked. The chain was broken. Massu's eyes widened in shockness. He tried so many time to break it, but it was useless. Massu's eyes brimmed in delight as he finally embraced Tesshi, as his hands were free now.

"Tesshi! We.. We can leave together now!" Massu exclaimed. Tegoshi blushed slightly, and nodded his head. When Koyama got dressed up properly, with the guidance of Massu, three of them managed to get out of the castle. As they got out from the entrance, the castle behind them suddenly started shaking. Moments later, the castle crumbled down into pieces, and disappear. "Shige!" Tegoshi shouted, as he waved his hands towards Shige, who he noticed that was sitting under a tree. Koyama turned, and saw Shige. Shige slowly walked towards Tegoshi, unable to believe that Koyama was right in front of him.

"Keii..Keii-chan.." Shige's voice was indeed trembling, but it was happiness. "Shige!" Koyama shouted, as they ran towards each other, like a couple being seperated for ages. Tegoshi and Massu stood at a side, as their hands were tightening each other, as they looked upon the touching scene playing right in front of their eyes. Four of them were reunited once again.

With that, Massu and Koyama was able to return to their world. As they got back, Shige suddenly felt his whole body weakening, and he lost all of his strength. Tegoshi, crumbled to the floor. Shocked, but fast reacting, Koyama held onto Shige, while Massu held onto Tegoshi. Footsteps were nearing, but Massu and Koyama could not bother who was it, all they knew was, Tegoshi and Shige needed help immediately. Te two figure that came forward was Ryo and Yamapi. They were worried as Shige and Tegoshi have being gone for quite awhile, and intended to wait for them right at the entrance of the gateway. When they approached the basement, what they saw made them shocked. Hurriedly, each carry the fainted students, and they ran directly into their clubroom, of course, with Massu and Koyama directly behind them.

"They're fine, just fainted," Ryo explained as he laid Tegoshi and Shige onto the sofa. "Phew, that was close!" Yamapi sighed in relieve. Massu and Koyama then kneeled beside both of them, and looked at them, waiting for them to regain conscious. Ryo then turned around, and looked at the both of them, and asked,"And then, who are both of you?" Koyama and Massu looked at each other, not sure of what to reply.

Yamapi then turned towards Ryo, and with a questioned look on his face, he asked Ryo,"Ne, Ryo-chan, who are you talking to?"
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YAYS! THIS IS LONG! DEDICATED TO RIKO-KOI! :DD