"Shuichi! I'm so glad you are alright!" I gasped rushing over to his side after the others started making their way over to me and Shuichi. Shuichi slowly opened his eyes and looked at me for a moment before he blushed.

Before me or him could say anything to me the others came over to embrace him. He hugged Maki and Himiko before giving a handshake to Tenko. I smiled at this and walked up to grab his hand. I watched them with a smile on my face, but I felt a little ping of sadness in the back of my mind...because he went to the others first...and he didn't even come towards me...

I felt more thoughts come to my mind, making the others blocked out from my mind. Leaving me alone with the toxic self-loathing thoughts. Before I even noticed that Shuichi moved towards me, he quickly moved towards me and kissed me.

"Mmph!" My eyes widened and I tried to say something, but he just grabbed my cheeks with one of his hands and made me open my mouth. I blushed at this but decided I wasn't going to let him get the upper hand on me. So, I bit his tongue making him pull back reflexively.

"What the fuck Kokichi?!" He yelled at me, making me laugh. He must have figured it out~ Oh poor Shuichi~ So innocent and kind~ that must have been his way of trying to get me back~ I thought to myself making me want to laugh harder.

"Are you mad that you didn't get poisoned~? Or are you mad about what you drank instead?" I asked, putting a hand to my chin. Shuichi slowly moved closer to me and pulled me into a hug making me blush a bit. I didn't expect him to hug me so suddenly...but he is my boyfriend and he did just make it out of a pretty intense situation where one of us could have died...

"I-I'm glad you are ok." He said with a blush on his face. He didn't meet my eyes out of embarrassment and it made me frown. So I just put my head against his chest, letting my body relax a bit knowing that he was alive. His heartbeat and his scent are here with him, and he is here with me, he is mine and I am his till the end of time.

"We should find a way out of here," Maki said looking over to the slightly opened book shelf in the back of the room. Maybe that leads out of here...or even just out of this room. There was silence in the room other than our own breathing. I flinched a bit at the sudden remark, but decided it would be good if we all started making our way out of here.

"Yes you are right, we should get out of here while we have the chance," I said before grabbing Shuichi's hand and moving towards the bookshelf. There was a small light coming out of the secret door and I was a little nervous about what we would find on the other side.

"Here, you go first," Maki said to Tenko and Himiko. They looked back at the two of us with a smile.

"See you on the other side." Himiko said, giving me and Shuichi brief hugs before she left into the door.

"See you soon," I whispered before they were consumed by the light and it came to when me and Shuichi had to go. I gave his hand a supportive squeeze before we slowly moved towards the door. I looked back over my shoulder for a moment and saw Maki with a troubled expression on her face.

"Hey Maki you don't have to be alone...I know how much it must hurt to not have him here." I paused pulling my hand away from Shuichi. I could tell he was confused by this action but regardless he let me go.

Maki stepped away from me and I slowly kept my distance. "You are with us now, we all care about you and want you to make it out of here alive." I whispered gently, taking her hand in my own. She looked over to one of the fallen robots and was eyeing the knife. I could tell she was on the verge of crying...I know I would be the same way if it was Shuichi...and I know for a fact they would all be here to help me and care for me, showing me that he wouldn't want me to just let myself waste away...

"You can come with us, I'm sure Kaito wants you to be able to live on for the both of you," I said slowly wrapping my arms around her shoulders. She took a few moments of shaking before she broke down into tears.

"I-I just finally told him...and then he had to be taken from me!" She yelled into my shoulder as Shuichi joined me and wrapped his arms around the both of us. I let some tears fall from my eyes onto her sleeve.

"We all miss him...but we need to not let his death be in vain." I whispered again keeping my voice hushed. Maki seemed to calm down a bit from this and slowly backed out of the embrace. She looked at me and then to Shuichi before a small smile came to her tear stained face.

"You're right, that damn idiot would want me to never give up," She said with a blush now on her cheeks. I smiled back at her before hearing a loud crash. The ceiling at the other far end of the room was starting to fall down onto the floor, making the floor crack and break beneath it.

"We should really get going! Himiko and Tenko are waiting for us!" Shuichi exclaimed before taking Maki's hand in his left hand and my hand in his right. He started running towards the door and the both of us followed close behind. And soon enough we all went into the light of the door.

The light was blinding and it made me flinch. The three of us groaned as we got up off the floor and saw the other two waiting for us. Tenko was tapping her foot impatiently as Himiko was rocking back and forth on her heels.

"What took you guys so long?!" Tenko yelled at the three of us. Shuichi laughed nervously as I just smiled. We made it out of that godforsaken place...sure we are technically not out of the school yet...but I'm sure if we work together we can find a way out of here.

"Sorry, we needed to do something first," Maki said with a smile. Tenko sighed and Himiko just held onto her hand.

"We found a tunnel out of this place! We wanted to wait for you to make it through the door before we went down it!" Himiko exclaimed. Tenko pointed over to where the tunnel started. The room we were in was a small room, there was a table, a couple of chairs, and a waste bin. There were a couple of monitors on the wall but they were all turned off while some of the others were smashed and broken. The tunnel started where a part of the wall was missing. It seemed like a tunnel in the older movies where they went treasure hunting or something like that.

"That's great! Let's get a move on then!" I said before we started making our way through the tunnel. It was about to get darker to the point where we couldn't see, but before I could say anything about it a pendant Himiko was wearing started glowing and it was bright enough so we could see fairly far ahead of us.

"Wow Himiko how did you-" I started to ask before she interrupted me.

"It's Maggiiicc~," She said with a smile, it reminded me of when I was a young child and I would always look forward to watching my friends do the small magic tricks at recess, when they were still my friends of course, and how it would always make me so confused how they were able to do it. I laughed to myself before getting a playful glare from Himiko.

"Anyway, Kokichi serious question." Himiko said, changing her tone from a child filled with wonder, to a curious teenager. I smiled and soon replied,

"Yes~ What do you want to ask~," I said with a smirk making her blush a bit.

"Well, I'm sure I'm not the only one that is curious, but what did you replace the poison with?" She asked me, making me and Shuichi blush. I turned to face the others.

"Didn't I tell you it was a se-" I started before Shuichi cut me off. I glared at him a bit while he spoke.

"Even I'm curious what you switched it with," He said with a teasing glint in his eyes. I smirked and tried to keep my composure. So that's how you want to play Shuichi~ Fine~

"Yeah, how did you do it?" Maki asked. The others all looked over to me with a curious look in their eyes. Well, everyone except for Shuichi that little-

"Just tell us, you liar! It better be the damn truth because I'm curious!" Tenko shouted with a whine.

"Fine~ If you all want to know what I made Shuichi drink instead of the poison~ Then I'll tell you. Shuichi put his hand over his mouth to cover his blush. I smirked again and gently wrapped my arm around his waist as we all walked down the tunnel.

"I made my beloved Shui~ drink my very own saliva~!" I exclaimed, making Tenko gasp before she covered Himiko's ears.

"You did WHAT?!" Tenko screamed, making even Himiko flinch. I smirked at her and nudged Shuichi.

"Tell them why you blushed Shu~ wasn't it because you knew what you tasted~ the sweet taste of my mo-" He cut me off by putting a hand over my lips. I grunted against his hand and glared at him.

"I think they all know enough Kokichi," He said sternly with an embarrassed expression on his face. I wanted so badly to tease him more...but I already knew that I took far enough for one day.

"Fine I get it jeez don't be such a party pooper Shu~" I said in a teasing tone. But the look on Shuichi's face told me that he was going to give me hell for this. All I could do is smirk at him telling him with my eyes that this competition is on!

"You know I love you to the ends of the earth....But I swear to god if you do something like that again I will-" He said cutting himself off. He whispered this into my ear as the other girls started having a conversation of their own.

"Oh yeah~ and what are you going to do~?" I asked with a teasing smirk. Shuichi seemed to give into my teasing and he stayed silent for a long moment before he took my hand in his own.

"Love you because you are absolutely perfect that you make all the stars in the sky look like loose change, you are so beautiful to me you make an even new definition to the word with your name right under it~ because no matter how many ways I say it I can't describe how special you are to me~," He said in his unfairly attractive voice. He cooed this into my ear making me shutter as my heart beat quickened. Damn that was smooth.

I was speechless, there is nothing I could have said back to him where he wouldn't have something to one up me with. This man knows me way too well...

-So basically~ trying to write this without laughing was hard...because jesus christ while I was writing out what he switched the poison with it reminded me of something that I imagined Kokichi doing to Shuichi and the idea was way too great to toss out~ so here you all go! Thank you so much for reading!-

-ShuichiOuma010-