【ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴇᴀ ᴘᴀʀᴛʏ ❴ᴘᴀʀᴛ ᴏɴᴇ❵】

Fun Fact: Hatsume's original name was suppost to be Hanami. But then Author-chan decided that her name was gonna be Hatsune but typed everything into Hatsume! Oh well, atleast the reader-chans are okay with this little error.

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Yashiro Nene trembled and blushed as she stared at her phone. Hatsume peaked over her shoulder to see a rather attractive male singing. Looking at the title, she deadpanned.

'Idol-raising game.'

Ofcourse she would be playing that kind of games.

"Nene-chan!!." Her bestfriend, Aoi called from behind her making her scream in shock. Hatsume back away, a bit frightened at her human friend sudden scream.

"You've been summon! By a hot upper classman!" Both Yashiro and Hatsume look shock. Especially, Hatsume. She didn't ever imagine that a guy would be running after her human friend.

'I still going to ship Nene-chan with Kou-kun...' She thought, a bit sadly. 'Nothing is going to change my mind...'

"What?!" Yashiro asked excitedly.

"See, over there!" Aoi pointed to the classroom door, where her female classmates are crowding over some guy. "Oh! Nene-chan, your so popular!"

"No, I'm not!" The daikon legged girl squealed along with her violet haired friend.

Hatsume rolled her eyes and cross her arms. 'Kou-kun is still better with her, than any other guys...' She then floated after the two human girls as they went into the crowd.

"Oh.." Yashiro looked suprised at the male infront of her as Aoi pushed her towards him.

"Yo." The brunnet greeted casually. He was the one who she ran into in the hallway before. "Hello there. Your Yashiro Nene-chan, right? Would you mind on going out with me?"

The male smiled making the girls behind the white and green haired girl squealed, saying things how Yashiro was lucky and they wished that they're in her place.

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'Where is he taking her?' Hatsume thought as she followed the two humans outside the building. 'More importantly, what in the world could he want with Nene-chan?'

"Ummm..." Yashiro tried to ask, the male stopped and turn towards her. "Senpai...Who?-"

"Oh me?" The brunnet pointex towards himself. "I'm Hyuuga Natsuhiko! Call me Natsuhiko-senpai..." He started ranting.

"I'm in the highschool division, second year class-B. My hobbies include Fishing and Karaoke. And incidentally, I'm always on the hunt for a girlfriend!" The two girls blinked and stared at him. He given them too much information about himself, and they weren't even asking.

The two humans continued walking, Hatsume trailed behind them, already feeling like she was the third wheel around here.

"Hyuuga-senpai... This is the first time we've talked, isn't it?"

"No, Call me 'Natsuhiko-senpai'! Oh! Let's trade numbers!"

The two humans then took out their respective cellphones. Yashiro then decided to ask him.

"Um..What do you want to talk to me, senpai?"

"Hmm? Oh, there's someone who wants to meet you." He said. Hatsume could have sworn that she saw him glance towards her. So he can see her? Hatsume could already feel herself sweat bullets, something seems really wrong here.

"Someone wants to meet me? But why me?" Yashiro asked, oblivous to the growing tension around them.

"I dunno, maybe because...Your a very special girl?" The human girl blushed.

"Special? Oh, do go on..."

Natsuhiko then went to get something making Hatsume tense up. Yashiro look up and stared at him. "Why are you holding a goldfish bowl?"

"Hmm? Why do you think?" Natsuhiko smirked approaching the daikon legged girl, who seems a bit frightened and back away, knowing what will happen if she touch water.

Hatsume stood infront of her human assistant protectively. "G-get that thing, away from her..."

Yashiro then felt someone tapped her arm, looking behind her, she saw Hanako's younger brother, Tsukasa, holding a bucket full of water. "Oopsy Daisy!" He then splashed the water on her before she could react.

"Why?!??! What is this?! What's going on?!?!" A now fish Yashiro exclaimed as she flailed her fins on the ground.

"N-nene-chan?!" Hatsume screamed, as she turned around to face her human friend, but then froze when she saw the person laughing at the fish.

"Gotcha!" Tsukasa laughed as he picked her up by her tail. He opened his mouth as if going to eat her, making her fainted.

"She died." The younger twin brother casually threw Yashiro in the fish bowl, making Natsuhiko sweatdropped. "No she's not dead.."

Tsukasa turned to Hatsume, who was now trembling at the sight of him. "(N/N)-CHAN!!! I MISSED YOU!!" He tackled her and hugged her tightly. The poor female seventh mystery felt like crying in fear as he rubbed his cheek against her. "It's a miracle that I didn't see you with Amane! It must be fate! I could play with you, right now!"

All of sudden he felt her going limp in his arms. Looking at the female spirit, like the fish, she fainted too. "Eh? She died too? But isn't she already dead?"

'She fainted... Probably because of fear, since she seems terrified of this runt, here...' Natsuhiko facepalmed as he watched Tsukasa shook her awake, saying things like. 'The fun didn't even started yet!'

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'huh?...Where am I?' Hatsume thought as she regain conciousness. She then look at her surroundings.

She was now sitting on a chair with pastries infront of her, inside a fancy looking room that she doesn't even know where. 'Is this a boundary?'

She then noticed the strange red and black gothic lolita outfit she was wearing. She then felt her head, her usual red flower hairclip was still there making her sigh in relief. 'I don't even know what I'm going to do if I lost it... it was Hanako-kun's gift for me, when I first became a mystery with him.'

"Hatsume-chan!" She turned to see Yashiro besides her, she was wearing a similar dress like hers.

"I see, your both awake.." A calm monotone voice said, a figure stood infront of them. It was the girl with green hair, she was holding a box of tea. Yashiro already seems to recognise her from the library. "I told them, not to be rough with you two.. But those boys never listen.."

"You're! Back from then!-" Yashiro quickly stood up and pointed towards the green haired girl, accusingly. "HANAKO-KUN'S GIRLFRIEND!"

After she said that she could have sworn she heard something cracked and shattered.

"N-nene-chan...." Yashiro froze. The thing she heard shattered was actually Hatsume's non existing heart. She quickly turned to her ghost friend and waved her hands frantically as she saw the tears falling from her (e/c) eyes, staring back at her with betrayal.

"Wah! Hatsume-chan! I didn't mean to say it!! It was just my theory!!! I'm sure Hanako-kun doesn't even have a girlfriend!!"

The green haired girl tilted her head confused at the two, all of sudden, she heard loud footsteps and someone tackling her. Making her annoyed.

"SAKURA! YOU'VE BEEN DATING, AMANE?! FOR REAL?!" Tsukasa asked shocked, Natsuhiko was behind them, his face screams in disbelief.

"IT'S NOT TRUE, ISN'T IT?! SAY IT AIN'T SO!!"

Tsukasa shook her back and fort as Natsuhiko crumbled into the ground, sobbing dramatically. Yashiro was too busy assuring Hatsume that it was all a lie, to notice their little scene.

"W-why di-did you s-say th-that?...." Hatsume sobbed. "Y-you kn-know I-I l-like him.."

"I'm sorry, Hatsume-chan!!!" The human girl hugged the female seventh mystery tightly. "You know how my Fantasies and Theories are!! I jumped into conclusions! I didn't mean it!"

"I'm not dating him..." The two heard the green haired girl said, darkly as she glared on the two boys kneeling on the ground, a big bump on their head as they look at her appologetically. This statement made Hatsume sighed in relief.

"Yes, Ma'am..."

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"Let's start over... Please to meet you, Yashiro Nene-san, Hatsume-san... I'm very sorry for not paying my respects sooner." The girl said as she poured them tea.

"I am Nanamine Sakura. I'm a third year in the highschool division. And just like you, Yashiro-san. I am a human who have been bound to a supernatural as the price for a wish."

'Just like me?' Yashiro asked in disbelief, remembering how she ate the mermaid scale and how Hanako and Hatsume split the other one into two. They ate the half scales in unison, making her their human assistant that she is now.

"My fate have been tied to this boy's, unlike you, who have been bound to two, I'm only bound to one." Sakura said, looking at Tsukasa who was eating half of the pastries.

"He's a bit childish, but he's surprisingly reliable.." Tsukasa look at her confused.

"Huh?"

"What about Natsuhiko-senpai?" Yashiro asked, glancing at the male who was making himself a drink.

"Him? He deserves about much attention as the air." Hatsume tilted her head, innocently.

"B-but y-you look c-cute together.." This made Sakura shudder at the thought.

"Is that so?" Natsuhiko seems pretty happy as he winked towards the female supernatural, satisfied with her statement.

Sakura decided to change the subject. "I always wanted to meet you." she said looking at Yashiro."You see. You and I are in the same position."

She then smiled. "I think we could be good friends."

Yashiro stared at her in amazement. 'Now that I see her up close, she's really beautiful...' Yashiro then shook her head, furiously. 'Calm down, Nene! You can't let your guard down, just because she's a total babe! You have to think!

She's bound to a supernatural... Even if that's true that she's like me..

What are these people doing here.. And they seemed to know that I turn into a fish when I get wet. That's definitely suspicious!

She then glanced at the female supernatural besides her, who was happily eating a piece of strawberry cupcake. 'They even manage to take Hatsume-chan! That boy, She's really afraid of him...'

She then put on her best determined look. 'I won't let them fool me!"

《30 Minutes later》

"It's true! Hanako-kun is like that all the time, And I just don't know what to do with it!" Yashiro ranted. The two girls only listened as they drank their tea, calmly

"T-this tea is d-delicious, Nanamine-san.." Hatsume complemented. Sakura nodded in return.

"Thank you, Hatsume-san... It's white peach scented green tea, make sure to have plenty..."

"Like his attitude will suddenly flip for the most unpredictable reasons! I can't make sense of him!" Yashiro continued. "Hatsume-chan is always there to calm him down, but it's so unbelievable! That nerve of him!"

"That's sounds rough..." Sakura commented.

"And what's more, he keeps saying this weird cryptic things... Plus he forgets about everything around him once he started flirting with Hatsume-chan, he even have the nerve to sexually harrass her! That pervert!"

Hatsume sweat bullets when the green haired girl look towards her, her usual emotionless face looks concerned.

"AND I'M NOT A DAIKON!!" Yashiro yelled making the two girls sweatdropped.

"D-daikon?" Sakura asked the female supernatural who gave her a shaky smile. "Hanako-kun tends to tease and call her that..."

The green haired girl nodded and sigh, drinking her tea. "I can't say that I don't know how you feel." She told the human girl. "I have it pretty hard too. He never listens to me, and his actions make no sense. And he had no sense of personal space."

"Aww... You think so?" Tsukasa asked, hugging Sakura from behind while currently sitting on her shoulders.

"Most people would.... So get off.." Sakura said annoyed.

"But there's nothing I can do about it. So I decided to think of him more as cat than a person." Sakura added, more annoyed than before as Tsukasa licked her cheek.

Hatsume look a little disturbed at the scene infront of her, as she hugged Yashiro's side who was now trying to calm her down.

"Um..That boy.." Yashiro started as she manage to pry Hatsume off of her.

"You mean me?" Tsukasa asked grinning, getting off of Sakura and floated around their table. "I'm Tsukasa! I'm Amane's younger twin brother!"

"Brother?!" Yashiro exclaimed, remembering what Hanako told her before.

'You know, I....Have a younger brother....

But I killed him...'

"So..." The human girl then glanced at Hatsume who was twiddling her fingers on her seat as she avoided Tsukasa's gaze. 'The boy that Hanako-kun says he killed... And the one who also murdered Hatsume-chan...'

"Hey, (N/n)-chan!" Tsukasa called the female spirit who yelp and stared at him in fear.

'(N/n).....Is that....Hatsume-chan's real name?...' Yashiro thought as she stared at the two.

Hatsume sweated as Tsukasa went near her, with an innocent questioning look. "Have you and Amane kissed, yet?"

"W-what....?"

"Have you kissed yet?..."

"EHHH?!" The female Seventh Mystery quickly turned red, Yashiro squealed at this as she look at her ghost friend excitedly.

"W-WHA?! No! We-we h-haven't... W-why?" Hatsume furiously sweated as everyone in the room stared at her.

"Well You're dating, aren't you? You've known each other for a long time, I'm not suprised if Amane manage to man up, and ask you out." Tsukasa shrugged as if it was normal. Hatsume shook her head furiously, her face still red.

"N-no way! H-he don't like me that way!"

Tsukasa's expression then went darker as he neared his face to Hatsume's. Making her face changed into scared as he touch her sealed cheek.

"Oh really? Even after, you separated us? This is why I hated you, (N/n)-chan..." The boy seems to notice how terrified she is now, he then grabbed both of her cheeks and squished them. He's expression becoming happy.

"But since he likes you so much, I do too! Look at those adorable teary eyes!" Natsuhiko took him off of the trembling female.

"Stop that..." Sakura facepalmed, not before sending Hatsume an apologetic look.

Yashiro tried her best to comfort her, but then realized something. 'Wait...Noo! I let myself get wrapped up in girl talk! Just after I told myself to be on guard! Stupid! Stupid!

But come on! Besides Hatsume-chan, I've never been able to talk to another girl about Hanako-kun! Let alone, tease Hatsume-chan about it!'

She then glanced to the two humans who are currently scolding Tsukasa, who seems not really paying attention. 'But they're so much normal than I expected... I mean, they don't really look like bad people...

They dragged Hatsume-chan and I, here against our will. Was it because they wanted to talk?

In that case, I wished they would've just brought us here like normal.'

"Nene-chan?" Hatsume asked worriedly, she stopped crying a minute ago. She watched her human assistant leaned on the table with a depressed aura.

But they didn't noticed how Tsukasa glanced at their direction and back to meet the green haired girl's gaze.

"Sakura..." He send her a innocent but dark look, smiling at her making her look down in defeat.

"We both have our hardship." Sakura said as she approached the two girls, who look up to her as she spoke. "As long as we're bound to them, we can't disobey our masters, No matter how much we hate their orders.

"I know right?! Guess what! When I disobey Hanako-kun, he immediately threatens to turn me into a fish!" Yashiro exclaimed. Making Hatsume stared at her with a weirded look. 'Didn't she forget that she's bound to me too?' She sweatdropped.

"I know the feeling.." Sakura said as she held the girl's hands."

"You, too? Nanamine-senpai?"

"Yes. So I'm sure, You'll understand."

Chains suddenly appeared around the two girl's now monsterous seats as it held them tightly to prevent them from escaping.

"NO! WHAT IS THIS CHAIR?! WHAT'S GOING ON?!" Yashiro screamed.

"Let us go!" Hatsume screamed, struggling from the chair's grip. She even tried to use her ghostly powers, but it has no effect.

"That chair is ghost proof, it's enchanted." Sakura said. "I really didn't want to do this. I would save you two if I could."

She then gestured to Tsukasa who was besides her. "But I can't disobey him. I'm sorry."

"Amane and I are like polar opposites, y'know?" Tsukasa said. "In other words, I guess we're rivals? Arch-nemesis? Well, whatever anyways..."

"We gonna need you to disappear now..." The two girls look horrified. As the room began to sink into some mysterious substances.

"I'm glad I could talk to you two once before the end." Sakura said as she began to leave.

"Bye, Bye!" Tsukasa waved. "And maybe when you're gone, (N/n). Amane can finally give me all the attention that he usually gives to you!"

"WAIT!" Yashiro and Natsuhiko yelled. Hatsume, who was in the middle of the two, look at Natsuhiko in disbelief. Yashiro did the same.

"Huh?"

"Hiya.."

"...."

"Natsuhiko-senpai?! Why?! You're on their side, aren't you?!" Yashiro asked.

"Yeaah.. She's like this sometimes. She's oddly hard on me, I guess? Like....She's especially rough with me..." He then send the two girls, a lovestruck grin. "Special treatment... Just for me..."

"That doesn't make sense at all.." Hatsume sweatdropped.

"Anyways, Are you two one of those people who're okay with dying? Because if you're not, I'm sure this is not an idea situation."

"I-I'm already dead!" Hatsume screamed as she began to sink along with the two humans.

'I can't move... I can't even use my own abilities that well...'

She then heard Yashiro screamed. "Someone! Help!"

'Am I always going to keep relying on Hanako for help?... When will I learn to become independed?...

...Who am I kidding... I always need him, no matter what the situation is... He's always there ready to save me...

But...Is he even going to save, here right now?'

"Hanako-kun!!"