Chapter 1
I can't feel anything, I can't remember anything, all I remember is my name...Akito Fujii.
I hear faintly what sounds like two people arguing, one female, the other male.
"Shut up! I do not find him cute!"
Screams a high-pitched female voice.
"Oh, come on, it's so obvious Yuri!" Yells a teenage male.
I hear a loud smack and a yelp followed closely by a heavy thud.
"That's what you get, anyway let's get this guy awake" Yuri quietly mutters to herself.
I feel a slight shaking as my eyes slowly begin to open, as my vision clears I see that I'm looking right into the sea-green eyes of whoever this girl was. She had shoulder-length purple hair sporting a mint-green headband with a bow of the same colour on the right side of her head. I suddenly realise I'm staring right at her and feel an uncomfortable warmth in my cheeks, I was blushing.
She looks down at me with an inviting smile and says
"Hey there, I'm Yurripe but you can call me Yuri. That knucklehead on the floor over there is Noda, he doesn't exactly take kindly to newcomers so be careful around him okay?"
She helps me to my feet and turns to me
"So, I never asked. What's your name?" She asks while playing with her hair.
"A-Akito Fujii" I reply slightly embarrassed about stuttering over my own name.
I cast my gaze over to my right to see myself overlooking a courtyard, as I slowly spaced out all I saw was standing in it all alone was a short girl with silver hair and bright golden eyes. As I was spacing out I hear a loud click echo throughout my head, it was Yuri trying to get my attention "Hello? Earth to Akito, you still with us?" She questioned. As I slowly came back to reality in a daze
"W-what?" I exclaimed.
The next thing I knew she grabbed my arm and pulled me behind her, towards what looked like a school building.
I was being hauled through many different corridors until Yuri instantly stopped as I fell flat on my face, grazing my face on the carpet. As Yuri helped me up, she turned me round and pulled me towards her, holding me tightly. I felt my face fill with heat as I started blushing, I'd never been held this way before, not even by my own mother.
"Are you okay?" she whispered as she pulled away from the hug still holding me, I knew I was blushing and turned away to hide my face through my long black hair. She brushed my hair aside and lightly grabbed my chin, turning my head towards her.
"You know, you don't have to hide your face from me when you blush, right?" she said softly as she lead my lips towards hers and gently kissed me.
At that moment my brain melted into mush, a rush of emotions hit me like a ton of bricks, I didn't know what to think, my head was everywhere. The last thing I remember was seeing Yuri pull away from the kiss as darkness quickly consumed my vision and I found myself drifting into the void of my own thoughts.
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I came to on a brown sofa in a room filled with maybe 15 people, I wasn't quite sure. My head was thrumming and I wasn't really sure about what had happened, was it just a dream? I hoped not.
I was dressed in a school uniform which consisted of a plain white shirt paired with a cream blazer and a black pair of slacks with black shoes.
"Hey Yuri! The kid's awake!" said an unknown voice from behind me.
The quiet hum of chatter stopped so abruptly I could practically reach out and touch the tension in the air as Yuri pushed off the table she was leaning against and walked towards me slowly.
"Hey there champ! Miss me after that kiss?" she said playfully while twirling her hair in her fingers.
I felt my cheeks erupt with heat as my face went scarlet and I turned to hide my face in the back of the couch.
"Shut up" I said muffled through the fabric of the couch.
"Oh come on now, you don't want me to make you faint again do you?" she teased, giggling to herself as she ran her finger up my spine watching me flinch.
I slowly turned to her, my face a deep shade of red, the entire room was looking at me. Every set of eyes were on me, I could die from embarrassment right now.
"Awh, ain't you a cutie! I should do this more often!" the words left her mouth as a squeal and before I knew it she pulled me up by my collar and sat me on the desk she was leant against moments before.
"Anyway, let's get down to business. We want you to join our cause! The Afterlife Battlefront!"
"But where am I? Where is this place? Who are all these people?" I questioned.
"Wait, Yuri you didn't tell him?" said the same voice from before. I turned to see a tall girl in the same uniform as Yuri, a white and violet typical sailor school uniform with a violet skirt, she had long navy blue hair and seemed to be sporting a similar colour set of Gauntlets and boots.
"Well! I mean! It's not my fault!" Yuri stuttered tripping over her words as she went. She took a deep breath "I didn't exactly count on him passing out! it's not my fault!"
"It is your fault! You just had to kiss him didn't you!" screamed the girl
"Shut up Shiina! just because you didn't get too!" Yuri shouted back, spite in her voice.
The girl silenced and hid her face as she slumped into a corner. A boy walked over to attempt to comfort her and was met with a sword plunged into his chest with the force of a bullet from a gun.
I watched in horror as the boy dropped to the ground, coated in blood. I felt a sudden urge of adrenaline as I lunged towards Shiina, my arms outstretched towards her throat. What happened next was a blur, she tackled me to the ground and held a knife to my throat.
"Nice try dumbass!" she whispered as she slit my throat.
My conscience faded as the room went black.
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I awoke in a hospital room in nothing but a pair of boxers, as my eyes adjusted to the bright light of the room I grasped at my neck feeling for a wound, stitches, anything to prove to myself what had happened actually happened, but nothing was there. No mark, no wound, nothing.
I scanned around the room to find Shiina sitting in the corner, engrossed in a game she had with her. she glanced up and met my gaze with a cold stare, her face not faltering even slightly as she stood up and walked calmly towards me.
"Where am I!? What happened to me!? Shouldn't I be dea-" A hand clapped over my mouth as she leaned down and glared at me, boring a hole into my soul.
"Shut. Up. Hope you learned your lesson to not attempt to attack me again. Next time I won't make it as quick" she said, the words not even phasing her as her hand released from my mouth.
I stared up at her trying to hide the fear from my face. Her quiet chuckle told me I was failing to do so as she turned and walked back to her chair.
"Get dressed, your clothes are on the chair" she muttered as she sat down.
I turned to see my new uniform folded neatly in a pile. As I got dressed I started to question how I had woken up from having my throat slit by a girl with the mind of a murderer.
"Hey, uh, Shiina?" I said sheepishly, breaking the silence in the air.
"Yeah?" I could hear the annoyance in her voice.
"How am I not dead?" I asked.
She laughed and looked me dead in the eye.
"Don't you get it?! You are dead. This is the afterlife, you can't die when you're already dead."
I felt a shiver run down my spine as the realisation set in. I was dead.
"Then why can't I remember anything?"
"Amnesia is a common thing here" she said dismissively "Now hurry up! We've got shit to do."