【ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ᴄʟᴏᴄᴋ ᴋᴇᴇᴘᴇʀs ❴ᴘᴀʀᴛ ᴛᴡᴏ❵】

I drew, Hatsume😆

But it's depend on you guys of what she actually look likes

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"I'm see through now, does that means-" Yashiro Nene panicked as she floated on the ceiling.

"N-nene-chan!"

"Senpai! That little....He possessed your body didn't he?!"

Yashiro look down to see Kou looking at her with disbelief. Hatsume on the other hand, floated towards her which the daikon legged girl clinged unto for support.

"Remind me later to scold Hanako for his foolishness..." Yashiro heard Hatsume muttered under her breath

"Kou-kun, you can see me?!" She screamed in hope. The young exorcist gave her a grin as he reached out his bandaged hands towards her. His injury from his brother's sword was still there, slowly healing.

"I may not be much of one, but Im still an exorcist! I'll take care of this! Driving spirits out of people is an exorcist's specialty!"

"Kou-kun!!!"

'How cute~!' Hatsum fangirled but then mentally slapped herself. 'K-knock it off! You can ship them later, There's more important things that still need to take care of!'

Hatsume then lead Yashiro towards Kou. As he then screamed, determination fires in his eyes as he turn to Hanako inside Yashiro's body. "ALL RIGHT! HERE GOES!"

"Aoi... Are you hiding something from me~? That makes me sad~" Hanako said, teasingly as he... Now she, went closer towards the violet haired girl.

"STOP IT! AOI'S GONNA THINK THAT I'M A WEIRDO!" Yashiro screamed in horror. And then turned to Kou's direction. "Kou-kun, Hurry!-"

What Yashiro saw wasn't Kou. Hatsume stood there where Kou was before, her head tilted in confusion.

"I-I'm sorry..." Kou was actually on a corner, his face was red. 'S-senpai is suducting..'

"KOU-KUN?!"

"If you insist on staying quiet." Hanako held Aoi's face closer to his... Or closer to Yashiro's face. "Then I'll just have to seal your lips, instead..~"

Both Yashiro and Hatsume look at the scene in horror. The female seventh mystery could feel herself getting light headed, but Kou managed to keep her on balance as he held her by her shoulders to keep the spirit from collapsing.

All of sudden, they all felt a murderous aura.

The orange haired boy, Akane, huffed angrily. He then grabbed and removed Hanako from Aoi, who was still inside Yashiro's body and ran off somewhere with him.

Hatsume, Kou and Yashiro quickly ran off after them.

"......It happened again.... I missed my chance, telling her..." Aoi said sadly, as she was left alone in the hallway.

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"E-even without my body, I get tired running at full speed..." Yashiro panted as her, Hatsume and Kou reached the rooftop. Hanako only stared at them. His/her hands on the uniform's pockets.

"Oh, Yashiro, Kid, Hatsume! Yohoo!" Hanako grinned and waved at them.

Hatsume shivered. It seems really disturbing to see Hanako inside Yashiro's body, let alone him controling her body like it was his.

"You idiot. Give senpai her body back, now." Kou demanded. Hanako gave him a confused look. "First, what should I do with this?"

"This?"

"This." Hanako repeated and pointed at the sulking, Orange haired boy.

The four then stared at Akane, who was creepily muttering and giggling.

"A-A-A-Aoi-chan's slender, fair, graceful wrist...cruelly twisted and pressed against the wall. As if that's wasn't enough, she had to...

.....Her....Ch-cheek....Hee-hee-hee-heee.."

"Ummm..Who's this again?" Hanako asked.

"Th-that's Aoi Akane-kun! He's my classmate, and an old friend of Aoi's... She says they live next door to each other.

Normally, he's mature and hardworking. He's friendly to everyone he meets, no exception. Everyone in class, relies on him too..." Yashiro explained, but then she sweatdropped. "But... He had a crush on Aoi-chan ever since they were little. And whenever she's involved, his screws just get a little loose."

"K-kinda reminds me of a certain, someone..." Hatsume raised an eyebrow as she started at Hanako.

"What?! I'm not like him, Hatsu-chan!" He/she pouted.

"Oh. I've heard of him from my brother." Kou said. "Nii-chan's the student body president... And so he's the vice president. Aoi-san, right? If I remember, right....

When Aoi-san fell inlove with a brainy guy, he started studying like a madman. When she admired the student council, he joined up. When he saw her swooning over the big buff guys on the sports teams... He started body-building until he vomit blood.

It's a constant cycle of recreating himself based on the words and actions of his childhood friend, confessing his love, and getting rejected. Currently the ratio of successful confession to rejection is zero to 3,624.."

'So many confessions....Reminds me of how many times, Hanako-kun would flirt with me...' Hatsume thought, sweatdropping.

"You know a lot about this, Kou-kun..." Yashiro commented making the young exorcist blushed in embarassment.

"Nii-chan, told me..."

A bat with nails hit the wall next to Hanako making him jolt up in suprised.

"What exactly are you doing back there, Yashiro-san?" Akane said, his voice dripping with venom.

"N-nothing..." Hanako sweated bullets." Uhm... I was just, you know..."

"Come to think of it, I happened to cop a feel a few minutes ago." Hanako thought for a moment then, gestured with his/her hands. "And she's actually pretty flat, Like there's this much... Hatsume has bigger ones than her..."

Hatsume turned red in embarrasment as she then hid her chest from Yashiro's view, who was staring at it in disbelief.

Akane stood there, proceeding this knew found information...Until...

"GIRL OR NOT, YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT! GRIT YOUR TEETH!" He slapped him hard.

"But why?!"

"YOU EVEN HAVE TO ASK?!" Kou and Yashiro yelled at him.

The slapped managed to make him leave, Yashiro's body, much to the daikon legged girl's gladness

"I'm back!" Yashiro beamed as she hugged her body.

"He legit knocked me out of her..." Hanako said as he rubbed his cheek, where Akane slapped him. "That four eyes isn't half bad."

"Why the heck did you say that?" Kou sighed.

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"You want to know Ao-chan's secret? Why?" Akane asked, confused

"Because...."

'Because maybe Aoi-chan might be one of the school mysteries...' Yashiro thought, sweatdropping. 'But I can't just tell him that!'

"I've just been feeling like Aoi-chan has been hiding hiding from me lately... It's been bothering me so, so much, I can only sleep at night now..." The human girl lied.

"Is that normal?" Hanako asked, but then flinched when Hatsume send him a menacing smile.

"Shut up... You've done enough trouble for to day."

"......Yes, ma'am...."

"Well, alright." Akane finally said. "If that's all wht this is about, then I'll help you."

"What?!" The four look at him in disbelief. "You will?"

"Yeah. You're right. Ao-chan definitely seems to be worrying about something lately. But she won't tell me." The orange haired boy sobbed dramatically. "She doesn't want to worry her long-time friend.... She's really noble!"

The four sweatdropped at his statement, Akane then beamed.

"Anyway. If it's anything like that... Then I'll eliminate the offender as soon as possible!" But he's face darkened making them moved away from him. "Because as her childhood friend.. I have to support her, you know..."

"A bat-" Yashiro suddenly slapped her hand on Kou's mouth,preventing him from saying anything about Akane's little weapon.

"That's true! You're exactly right!" Yashiro exclaimed.

"Scary..." The two seventh mystery hugged each other for support as they hif behind Yashiro.

'And so...We've formed a temporary alliance...

In order to discover Aoi's secret!'

"I always knew......But she really is relentlessly popular with the boys.." Yashiro cried clinged unto Hatsume as she rubbed her back, comfortingly. "A true boy magnet!"

The four and Akane spied on her for almost a whole day, and the only thing they ever saw was Aoi getting confessed at whatever she does, making Akane eliminate every boy that does it.

Kou blushed as he decided to speak up. "Uh, Yashiro-senpai, I think you're more-"

"Huh?" Yashiro then noticed Aoi entering a room, completely cutting Kou off. "She went into the auditorium."

Yashiro and Akane went after her. Hatsume send Kou a sly and understanding look and ran after them.

Hanako pat Kou's shoulder comfortingly. "I feel you, kid..."

"I think this is where the drama club and the school band have their performances." Yashiro said as her, Hatsume and Akane crouched down. Hiding behind some of the seats from Aoi's visions, Kou and Hanako joined them. "Aoi's in the gardening club, so what would she be doing here?"

"I bet it's a confession of love..." Akane muttered angrily as he peaked over the chairs, his nails dugging deep into the cushions. "Someone called her out to th-this e-empty space..."

"Please calm down, Akane-senpai..." Kou said, a bit frightened. The orange haired boy suddenly clamped his hands on his shoulders.

"You think I can be calm, under-classman?!" He asked. "This stuff has been happening to her ever since we were kids... Ao-chan is very cute and nice, so boys from the wrong crowd would often call her out somewhere with no one else around."

"They'd threaten her, trying to force her to go out with them... But I just happened to be there very time, so I've been keeping Ao-chan safe."

'Scary...' Kou thought, scooting away from him.

'That's so scary!' Yashiro thought, sweating.

'That's so cute!' Hatsume thought, blushing and fangirling.

'So strong!' Hanako thought as he admired him.

"Anyway...I decided I would to protect Ao-chan...Even if she'll never look into my way..." Akane finished as he stared at the violet haired girl, longingly.

"....Akane-kun..." Yashiro muttered, a bit sadden at her classmate.

'He had some really crazy qualities... But his love for Aoi is the real thing...

Hanako-kun felt the same way towards Hatsume-chan... But he's more overprotective than crazy...

I think I'm a little jealous...'

"Hey, Hanako-kun, Hatsume-chan... We've been watching Aoi for a long time now, And she haven't done anything suspicous. Are guys sure that the school mystery isn't someone else after all?" Yashiro asked as she turned to face the two supernaturals.

But they weren't there at the exact spot she thought they hid. Turns out, they were now infront of Akane.

'What?! Their over there?!

"Hmm..." Hatsume whispered something to Hanako as she pointed towards Akane, He then nodded and waved his hand on the orange haired boy's face. "Yeah, I see...."

"I guess we can't get a supernatural to show it's true colors by going about business as usual..." Hanako chuckled as he floated over Kou and Yashiro. "Maybe it's about time we approached it."

"Approached? Hanako, you don't mean-" Hatsume got alarmed as the male supernatural transformed.

"Sorry, Hatsu-chan. But just go with it." Hanako smiled, mischeivously. He then turned towards Yashiro. "So, Yashiro. Let's say you had a power, you were hiding from people. When do you think you would use it?"

"When would I? I'm sure there are all kind of situations.. But I think mostly you'd use it when there was a pressing need."

"For example, something like this..." Hanako then raised his hand, his wisp floated around him.

"Huh?!" Yashiro look confused.

"Hanako don't!" Hatsume look horrified.

"Haku-joudai!" The wisp sprang into action as it hit the chandelier of the theater's stage. Right below Aoi.

"Stop it!" The daikon legged girl feels like crying as the chandelier began to fall on top of her friend."Hanako-kun! Aoi!!"

"Ao-chan!!" Akane screamed. Kou quickly stood on the chair, his expression showing panic.

Hanako smirked.

The clock suddenly stops as time itself does too...

"Hanako-kun, stop it! Please!" Yashiro cried as she closed her eyes.Hatsume quickly floated towards her and hugged her from behind.

"Nene-chan...Look..." Hatsume muttered.

"Everything is fine..." Hanako assured her. "The important thing is, we've finally lured him out of hiding."

"W-what?" Yashiro opened her eyes in confusion.

"Take a look.."

Their surroundings was frozen in time, The chandelier was frozen in mid air from it's falling state.

A caped figure stood on the stage his back was turn towards them, holding an unconcious Aoi bridal style.

"We've finally found you." Hanako smirked, his hands behind his back. Hatsume stood infront of Yashiro who cowered behind her. "School Mystery No. 1"

The figure turned his head around, a mask was placed on his face. Removing his mask, He then fully turned around to face them.

It was Akane...

"The Clock Keeper."