"Fanfics From Russia" presents:

The ghost

by Star Mirage

Part 3 - "The ghost's visit"

"Rukawa, are you ok?"

Rukawa opened his eyes and looked around. He was laying on the bed in a room adjacent to Hanamichi's. His excited and little surprised teammates crowded around of him. Haruko took away salammoniac, which she'd held before his face.

"Are you ok?" she repeated.
"Yes," Rukawa blinked and stood up. "It just a headache."
His face, as always, was emotionlless.
"I'll better go home."

Having run an eye over all his teammates, Rukawa turned and left.

"These past few days he's been acting strangely", he heard Miyagi's voice...

Rukawa quickly reached his home. Entering his room, he looked round perplexedly.

"I had a hallucinations", he said aloud. "Never thought that I would have them..."

He threw off his clothes and stepped under warm jets of water from the shower, calming his nerves.

" Can it be?!.. No. I'm dreaming... Seeing ghosts! And worse of all, that do-ahou's ghost..."
" Hey, you! Who do you call 'do-ahou', stupid kitsune?!"

Rukawa, frightened, screamed and looked around. Hanamichi was standing at the door. He simply looked at the naked guy, then violently flushed a few seconds later.

"Oops",  he said and went out 'through' the door.

Some time later, Rukawa was still frozen with shock, but then warm water, still washing over his body, brought him to senses. He turn off the water with a shivering hand and, slipping on a terry-cloth robe, went out into his bedroom.

Athwart his expectations, this delirium, ridinghag, hallucination - no matter what it was, had not disappeared. The Hanamichi-ghost quietly sat on the bed and, with great interest, examined Rukawa's room.

"What are you doing here?" Asked Rukawa and thought it very absurd to talk with a phantom. "Did you die?"
" No! I didn't!" Hanamichi was resentful.
"But you're a ghost..."
"I know!" The redhead exclaimed crossly. "I know that I'm a ghost! You think I like it? Like hell! But I'm not dead! I would felt if I was."
"Then why are you like this?"
"I don't know..."

Rukawa sighed and gave up. He cautiously bypassed the ghost and seated himself on the bed.
"So what are you doing here?" he asked, returning to his first question.

Sakuragi Hanamichi was confused.
"Well... You see... You are the only one who can see me... And... So... Hm..." he fell silent.

Rukawa silently examined the translucent silhouette of the redhead, who was sitting on his bed.
"And how does it feels to be a ghost?" he asked, catching 'tensai' unawares.

Hanamichi thought for awhile. Then he shrugged.

"I'm unaccustomed to it; it's unusual... I feel nothing. I don't want to eat or sleep. I pass 'through' things, but I cannot touch them... And it's nerve-racking..."

The black-haired boy suddenly rose from the bed.
" Unlike you I am hungry."

And he directed himself to the kitchen. Hanamichi frowned, but followed his enemy and, now, his only collocutor. Rukawa quickly made ocha for himself and cooked megami-yaki with yasai...

While Rukawa was eating, Hanamichi walked about the kitchen, passing through all kinds of stuff on his way as he examined the kitsune-eyes boy's residence.

"Stop it!" Rukawa caved under.
"What?" The redhead didn't understood.

He looked at dark-haired boy. Rukawa's face had a slightly greenish tinge.
"Stop walking through the things! I feel sick when you do that!.."

Hanamichi's face was illuminated by a mischievous smile.

"What, kitsune? The tensai got you?!"
"Do-ahou..."

Rukawa cleaned the plates and went to his bedroom.

End of part 3

Japan vocabulary: megami-yaki - egg; yasai - vegetables; ocha - green tea; do-ahou - idiot.

� Star Mirage