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'Where do things go when they have been forgotten by everyone?

Do they fade out of existence? No those things, are still with us, even now...

Have you heard the rumors?

Of the Faeries?'

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『Recap of the other day:』

'Hatsume-san said. "We were looking for a human assistant..." It been one week, and I-'

"Hanako-san, Hatsume-san..."

"Please let me go home for the day!" Yashiro Nene begged to the ghostly duo infront of her, a bucket of cleaning tools and materials were hanging on her arm like a basket.

'I've been cleaning toilets against my will...'

"Nope!" Hanako said as he floated out of the third stall forming an 'X' with his arms.

"S-sure, g-go ahead." Hatsume appeared behind the daikon like girl, making her look up, hope filled her eyes.

"Hatsu-chan!" Hanako exclaimed feeling betrayed. "How could you?!"

"S-she's working h-hard. She d-deserved it." The (e/c) eyed girl shrugged. Hanako shook his head 'no', making the human girl whined.

"Just today! Just for today, I promise!" She begged again.

"Nope! Hatsu-chan might be merciful, but I'm not." Hanako joked as he held a mop. "Besides, I have an important task I want you to do when your done with this one. So I need you to finish up, ASAP."

"H-how about I h-help her clean then?" Hatsume offered as she reached for the mop he's holding, which he quickly didn't let her touch.

"Nope! A girl gorgeous, such as you deserves to be treated like a princess, not clean the toilets." Hanako argued. Yashiro felt offended.

"I'm a girl too! In a week of being the assistant of the two of you... I clean, clean, and clean more bathrooms from the second ends until they kick us off the school grounds! I've clean almost every bathroom in the entire school!" Yashiro then shook Hanako back and forth. "I'm in the prime of my youth! Youth is fleeting and I finally have a chance!"

Hatsume tilted her head in confusion. "C-chance?" Yashiro then approached her and squealed.

"A boy asked me out on a date! 'Fuji-kun, The hottest guy in class!" Hatsume perk up at this, making Hanako squinted. "A-a date?! So what are you going to do on this "Date?"

Yashiro blushed. "You wanna know? Well since you insisted..."

"We're going to an empty classroom to organize papers for the student council... That Fuji-kun...First he ask me out, then he disappears. He's so bashful." Yashiro sulked.

"What are exactly you gonna rendezvousing with, Yashiro? Papers?" Hanako sweatdropped as he stared on the still sulking girl on the corner. He then look towards Hatsume who was deep in thought.

"I w-wonder how a d-date feels like...." She muttered. Hanako seems to brighten up by this.

"We could go on a date if you wan-"

" I-I rather h-help Yashiro-san on o-organizing papers, t-than going on a date w-with you." She turn away as Hanako began to sulk with Yashiro on the corner.

"B-but Y-yashiro-san, I'm pretty sure h-he's just using you." Hatsume stated. Yashiro only sulk even more that dark clouds began to form around her head. "I don't care... I may just be on his doormat now, but this relationship will grow..."

"C-could you....choose us i-instead?" Hatsume asked shyly. The two stared at her. "H-hanako-kun and I will t-treat you much better...T-than that guy..."

"Yeah! Choose us instead! Yashiro~" Hanako teased. Secretly bringing the mop that he was holding to Yashiro's hand, which she noticed when it was already on her. Yashiro backed away until she reached Hatsume's side. "Like Hatsume-san, I'll choose the papers, than cleaning the toilet with you..." Hanako deadpanned and stood up.

"Yashiro must be missing breathing through gills huh? And I think Hatsu-chan might not wanted a treat, after all..." Hanako taunted as he held Yashiro's fish tank and head towards the door and began talking to one of his will-o-wisp. "Come here, Haku-Joudai. Let's go buy some fish food and let's get ice cream on the way, too..."

In a flash, the two girls was cleaning.

"Hooray! I love cleaning the bathroom!" Yashiro exclaimed as she mopped the floor.

"Oh l-look at that... Th-there's a raven on the t-tree..." Hatsume smiled while looking through the window that she was wiping.

《The next day》

Yashiro Nene sighed as she look into her testbook. She was in the middle of her science class, but wasn't paying attention on the audio that the teacher was playing for the whole class. Something about a documentary of the moon.

'Another day of toilet cleaning.... But I don't wanna....' She cried mentally. She then glance at her classmate who asked her out.

'It's not like I really think things are going to work out with Fuji-kun..... But if it's anybody's using me, It's Hanako-san.' She then glance at the floating figure besides her, who was listening eagerly to the class discussion, next to her was her own wisp. But unlike Hanako who has two, she only have one. 'She have a wisp like Hanako-san, what did she called it? Haru-joudai? Hanako-san called his, Haku-joudai...'

'That guy.... He even made ordered Hatsume-san to guard me. The nerve of him, isn't he a bit protective of her?' Yashiro puts her chin on her desk, looking on the doodles she made on her notebook. 'He wants me to clean everyday? I'm not Cinderella...

Surely, Hatsume-san wanted me to take a break, once in a while, But He wouldn't let me...She's kinder than Hanako...

But still, I want to go to my club and hang out with my friends....

Well, Now that I think of it, It was my fault that everything turns out this way...

If Hanako-san works me like a dog, I have only myself to blame...

I do still have Hatsume-san on my side, she's waay more better than him...

But still, I don't wanna!!!.....'

Yashiro layed her head on the table, mentally crying. Hatsume noticed this and look at her worried, wondering what's wrong with her human assistant.

Little did they know, an eye was watching them from underneat a student's chair and disappeared from one of the cracks on the floor.

"Yashiro-san! Read the first paragraph on page 15." The teacher called, making the daikon like girl startled and stood up.

"Y-yes, sir!" She exclaimed as she reached for her book, but felt nothing. She then look at her desk.

'It's all gone! My notebook, my textbook, and even my pencil case!'

"Y-yashiro-san?!" Hatsume then gestured towards her chest when the said girl looked at her. Yashiro then felt hers. Her skull brooch was missing too! This made her panicked.

"Yashiro-san?" The teacher asked.

Soon the class ended. Yashiro sulked at her desk. Hatsume floated besides her, patting her back gently.

All of sudden, a violet haired girl approached the two, holding a can sprinkler. Her name is Akane Aoi, Yashiro Nene's bestfriend. "Maybe... The faeries, showed up?" She asked happily. The two girls stared at her.

"The Faeries?" Yashiro asked.

Hatsume then recognised them. 'O-ofcourse, Those tr-troublemakers are b-behind this...' She sighed. Since she's a ghost Aoi didn't noticed her and began to tell the rumor.

"Have you ever lost something you were keeping a close eye on?

Or had some thing that was always there vanish right when you needed it?

Then you have been a victim of the faeries.

But you must never look upon them...

Because if you do......... They will even take...... Your life...."

"Or so they say! ofcourse, it's just a rumor." Aoi finished, her once scary tone revert back to the gentle one she had.

Yashiro was scared. "I-is that all?"

Hatsume was a bit sadden at the rumor, The faeries would never even hurt a single life. They were completely harmless.

'I n-need to tell, Hanako-kun a-about this... S-someone must h-have been changing the r-rumors...' She thought, mentally making a reminder to report everything back to her superior counterpart.

"But lately, Things have been going missing an awful lot." Aoi said. The two girls and the seventh apparition stared at the students around. Most are looking restlessly on either their backpack or surroundings for some of their things.

"Hey, Have you seen my lunch box?"

"What? You lost your lunch?"

"Oh no! The sports towel, Senpai lent me is gone!"

"WHO TOOK MY HANITARO!!!???"

"What's a hanitaro?"

"A haniwa clay figure!"

Aoi then turned to her friend. "What if they really do exist? The Faeries, I mean~" She asked.

"T-they a-are!" Hatsume shouted, forgeting that no one other than Yashiro could see her since she's a ghost. Yashiro sweatdropped.

"Guys! Come quick!" One of Yashiro's classmate shouted outside of the classroom. Aoi and Yashiro run outside, with Hatsume floating behind them. As they reached the crowding students, they were shocked at what they saw.

"The locker doors are all gone!"

"Who would do that?!"

"I don't know! I just passed by and this is what I saw!"

Hatsume became serious. 'T-they have g-gone too far... I k-know they're only d-doing this b-because their rumors c-changed, but this is t-too much!'

All of sudden, something knocked over Aoi making her spilled the content of her watering can all over Yashiro. "N-nene-chan?! Something just bumped into my hand...I'm sorry! I'll get something to dry you off!" Aoi panicked.

Yashiro was about to respond, when she felt her skin turning into scales. She then screamed and sprinted off, leaving Hatsume and Aoi behind.

"Nene-chan?!"

'I-I need to f-find Hanako-kun. Sorry, Yashiro-san but I need to report to him first. After that we'll both find you.' Hatsume then tried to sense her other half then disappeared when she finally felt his current location.

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The two seventh mystery finally found the daikon like girl, who was on the old school building near their boundary.

Yashiro was screaming as a giant hand was pulling her to the reference room. The thing on the door finally revealed itself, it was a hideous monster with many eyes drewing near towards the human girl.

"Scatter 'em, Haku-joudai!" Hanako ordered his green centered wisp, who then attacked the creature. With only one hit, the monster exploded.

"Yashiro-san!" Hatsume then ran towards the white haired girl on the ground and kneeled to her level, holding both of her shoulders. "I'm glad your okay!"

"You're easily drawn to pretty boys and supernaturals, aren't you Yashiro?" Hanako said, walking to the two girls and kneeled down. "You really need to be careful, you know."

The trio looked towards the little pink creatures that used to be the hideous 'Faeries'.

"This guys are mokkes, currently called "The Faeries." They're supernaturals that have been with the humans since Ancient times, performing small acts of theif and other mischeif." Hanako said.

"They look a lot different than they did a few minutes ago..." Yashiro pointed out, feeling a bit light headed.

"Mokkes are weak, timid supernaturals. So when they attack, they have to get together like that to change form. They're not the usually type of supernatural that attack people but...."

"Y-yashiro-san........your injured..." Hatsume interupted quietly, worry filled her (e/c) eyes. Yashiro has a bit of blood dripping from her forehead into the ground. "D-did they hurt y-you?"

"No. I hit my head, when they held my ankles earlier..."

"L-let me heal you.." Hatsume said. "......H-haru-joudai...." Her (f/c) wisped floated around Yashiro's head, letting out some (f/c) light.

After the wisp finished, Hatsume wiped the remaining blood on human girl's forehead with her kimono sleeve. Yashiro didn't have a cut anymore.

"Woah...."

"Mokkes.... Apologise... Now....." Hatsume demanded. Her once kind and soft features changed, shadow covered her now darken eyes as she glared towards the mokke. Her other half flinch, knowing well what was happening.

Yashiro was shocked, then turned toward the ghost boy who gave her a nervious smile. 'You need to get used to this side of her...' Yashiro seems to get the hint.

"W-we're sorry... We didn't want to kill her." One of the mokke said looking down, the others were still trembling on the female seventh mystery's glare. "But our story got changed. So we didn't have a choice."

"Story?" Yashiro asked.

"T-the rumors..." Hatsume sighed, her anger slowly fading. She can't stay mad at someone, especially to the mokkes. She then gave the little pink bunny supernaturals a bag of candy, who happily opened it.

"Most supernatural can't go against their rumors. Because any supernatural that goes something out of sync with their rumors, will eventually disappear from the near shore." Hanako explained.

"Disappear?" Yashiro muttered. Staring at the mokkes who were eating the candy, Hatsume gave them. One of the mokke then reached out for one, offering it to the human girl.

"Want one?"

"Y-yashiro-san...Would you p-please change t-the rumors f-for us?" Hatsume plead. Hanako nodded.

"Hatsume and I are one of the seven mysteries of this school. We can't let dangerous supernatural killers stay here. I have to exterminate them. Hatsume supervise all the supernaturals in this school and maintains the relationships between us and the humans. It is our duty as one of the mysteries."

"But you, Yashiro, is a human. You can help them by changing the rumors."

The mokkes approached Yashiro and begged with their adorable, beady eyes.

"Please.."

"We're sorry about before..."

"We'll give you candy.."

"We've lived happily here for hundreds of years... We want to stay."

"Candy. We'll give you candy.."

"Y-Yashiro-san... I a-apologise on t-their behalf. T-they did almost k-kill you. S-so, if you don't want to, we won't p-push it!" Hatsume hugged a mokke closed to her chest and bowed appologetically. Hanako put his hands on his pocket waiting for the girl's respond.

"No! It's fine, I'll do it." Hatsume look towards the girl, who was hugging three mokkes together. "I'll change the rumor."

The mokke cheered. Hatsume smiled gratefully, she sniffles to holding her tears.

"You sure?" Hanako asked.

"Yeah. These little mokkes reminds me of my little white inferno." Yashiro shed a few tears smiling nostalically.

"Sorry what?" Hanako asked again.

"White Inferno. A pet hamster I used to have.."

"That's some name..."

"They did scare me... But then you two saved me..." Yashiro admitted. The two ghostly duo stared at dumbfolded. " Thank you, Hanako-san, Hatsume-san. I don't really think that I'll ever learn to love cleaning bathrooms, But I appreciate what you two done for me."

The two remained speechless.

"I'll change the rumors for your sake too, Hatsume-san. You're always been looking out for me ever since I met the two of you, so I want to return the favor. I can already tell that the mokkes are too important for you."

And with that, Hatsume began to cry, hugging her tightly. Yashiro only smiled kindly as she pulled the female spirit close to her.

"Oh, I might be wrong, but... Is this the important task you said you had for me when I was done cleaning?" Yashiro asked follow Hanako to the stairs to the rooftop, still holding Hatsume, who was now calming down after shedding her stocked tears.

"Yeah... But I wasn't planning to ask until even later." Hanako admitted. "First, I wanted Hatsume to investigate, but again, your already facing them alone."

"I knew it! Does it means I graduated from toilet duty?!" Yashiro asked hopefully.

"Nope.."

"Aww..."

"Your almost done, but why do you hate it that much? Very few women in the world actually enjoy scrubbing the toilet. Why can't you be like Hatsu-chan loves to beg for me to let her clean it~"

"W-who said I-I love it? Y-you rarely l-let me clean the t-toilets when I-I only w-wanted to h-help the sc-school janitor, who does it."

The trio finally reached the door to the roof. Hanako opened the door,walked towards the railings and leaned against it, watching the the ground below. Hatsume and Yashiro copied him, Hatsume being in the middle of the two.

"I always look forward it..." Hanako began. "Doing things with someone, other than Hatsu-chan after school. Talking about random stuff... It's like having more than one friend...."

He then stared at the sky, nostically "And...I don't know... It just takes me back, I only have Hatsu-chan with me since forever..."

Hatsume smiled.

"Hanako-kun...."

"That's what I'll call you." Yashiro said turnung from Hanako to Hatsume. " It's more like we're friends right, Hatsume-chan?"

The ghost girl smiled brightly. " Yeah! Can I call you, Nene-chan, from now on? Your friend with the violet hair, calls you that. Can I?"

"Sure! We're friends after all!" The two girls giggled, Making Hanako grin. It's been a while since He saw her smile this bright. He missed this side of her, ever since that day happened...

A young girl aged more that six, with (h/c) hair ran towards her bestfriend, who was waiting for her under a tree on top of a hill. Next to a telescope, he brought for them to use.

It was nightfall, The two decided to spend the night stargazing together, The girl lives in an orphanage, with very strict nuns, who wouldn't even allow her to make and meet friends, The children there were too rude towards her to hang out with.

"Sorry for being late! I waited for everyone to go to bed." She said panting slightly and sat next to the the young raven black haired boy near her age, who was staring intensely at her with his sunset yellow eyes.

"They hurt you again, didn't they?" The boy gestured to her bruised and tattered body. The girl only shook her head 'no' and smiled at him.

"It doesn't matter. I'm already used to it, I already forgave them. They're were only doing this for me to be obedient."

"It does matter to me!" The boy shouted, making the girl flinched. "They're hurting you, I can't stand seeing you bleed infront of me." Tears were forming in his eyes. He then sighed when he saw his bestfriend's (e/c) eyes widened in fear.

"S-sorry...."

"It's okay! Your just worried for me." The girl said, smiling again at him. He squinted in worry. Why is she being okay with this? She forgives people so easily when they only hurt and use her. They took her kindness for granted. He hated it.

"Can you promise me something?" He asked. The girl tilted her head, questioning.

"I want to try and protect you with all my might! All I wanted from you is to never leave my side!" The boy confessed holding his right pinky. "Your too important to me, I hate seeing you upset. I want to make you happy with everything I can!"

The girl sat there besides him quietly. The boy began to feel nervious, thinking that she would leave him now.

But she only smiled. Not a fake ones that she use whenever the nuns were around, or not the usual ones she shows everyone around...

This one was genuine, He could see all the happiness inside of her. Something a rare expression that she doesn't usually shows, and he was so lucky to see it right now.

"Okay! I promise." The girl too brought out her right pinky and connected it with her bestfriend. "Please take care of me, from now on!"

"Don't worry, I will! I promise!"

Hanako put his chin on his hand and stared dreamingly at the (h/c) beauty beside him, who was chatting with Yashiro.

She was smiling genuinely, the same one he always saw whenever she's with him before the incident, years ago. She's so beautiful when she's smile, it always brighten his day, but this one makes him feel that he can do anything as long as he can see it.

She was finally recovering....

He was slowly getting his bestfriend back...

His happiness was returning back to him...

'I haven't forgotten my promise...'

"Have you decided a rumor yet?" Hanako asked his human assistant. The girls stopped their conversation and look at him.

"Yup! Hatsume-chan and I were talking about it just now. She helped me come up with the idea."

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"Huh? You lost something again?" A girl asked her friend who was busy searching her bag.

"That's been happening a lot lately. If it's The Faeries, you could get yourself killed.

'When your things keeps mysteriously disappearing...

It might be the work of The Faeries...

They say that once you see one of them, it's all over.'

"Here." The girls turned to see Yashiro Nene, holding some candies for them. "I heard that it helps to carry one around incase if you run into a faerie, then they won't kill you and they've stop taking your things." She explained.

" Huh?"

"I have no idea..."

"I have to go now." Yashiro said to her classmates.

"Is it your club? You've been awfully busy lately..."

Yashiro turned to the two and grinned. "Umm..I'm going to see two of my friends, I guess?" She then ran to a room.

"A friend?"

"In the girl's bathroom?"

As the two girls was still looking at the room Yashiro went into, The mokke all lined up, happily holding the candies from one of the girls. They already returned the things they stolen from her, just like as Yashiro said.

The little pink supernatural bunnies marched to the stairs, not caring where they were passing until they bumped into someone's foot.

"Hey, Pipsqueaks. Do you know a Hanako?" A boy with blonde hair and sky blue eyes asked. He look like a younger version of Minamoto Teru, the only difference is that he had a percing that held a talisman charm and sharp canine teeth. He was also holding a weird looking umbrella.

The mokkes began to tremble. "Don't know 'em!" The all sprinted away from him in fear.

"Ah, Hey! Fine I'll find him myself." He then stood on the stair's handle and began to shout making students began to whisper around him as he laughed like maniac. " JUST TO WAIT, HANAKO! I'M ON MY WAY TO EXORCISE YOU!"

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