The Glass Barrier

In the doctor's office, there was the young girl, Akumu. She was unconscious and Tsuki along with Itai had to run heart procedures. Itai shivered at the thought of so much blood. "I don't have any experience in this situation."

Tsuki grabbed the tools for the operation, "Neither do I, but do I really care? The answer is no."

Itai looked down at Akumu and she lay there peacefully, unknowing of what will happen at this time. "Well I do. I don't want to accidentally kill this girl."

Tsuki looked at Itai. "Stop blabbering and start cutting." She said while holding medical knives for surgery.

She handed Itai one of the knives and she started to cut into Akumu. She was now letting blood trickle down her side. She took the other knife and examined her heart. Itai looked at the intercom, "Wait! Is there any chance we can give Akumu a vile to heal her?"

The intercom turned back on. "Only if you pick the right one! Hahahahaha!"

Itai frowned and began to help Tsuki. He waited to stitch when Tsuki was done. Everything had gone well, it had been a long period of time. Itai began stitching her open wound. He was done in a matter of thirty minutes. Akumu just needed to wake up. Tsuki grabbed the heart defibrillator and yelled, "clear!"

She shocked Akumu to get her heart beating again. After a couple of shocks, Akumu was breathing normally. Itai and Tsuki walked into the glass walled room the others had been in, waiting for hours. "Ok guys, who's gonna carry her to the next round or whatever you call these challenges." Tsuki said, looking at each of them.

Tamachi stood up from the position he had been in, sitting on the floor. "I'll carry Akumu to the next room."

Itai looked at Tamachi, "Just be careful."

Tamachi nodded with a smile. Itai led him to the hospital bed she was on and Tamachi carefully picked her up.

Kessho looked over at Tsuki. "That procedure must have been pretty hard, huh?"

Tsuki glances at him and then looked at the floor blankly. "Yeah. It was, now I would appreciate if you didn't get so friendly towards me. I can still kill you, after all."

The intercom blasted—"you losers! hahahahaha! You think that was hard?! Wait till you see the next challenge!"

Sakasu looked angrily at the speaker and Kessho glared at Tsuki, then back at the speaker. The door to the next room opened.

"Come on guys." Tamachi said while carrying Akumu.

They all rushed into the door and it quickly shut behind them loudly. The room was like all the other before the doctor's office—velvet carpet, dark oak floors, boarded up windows, and smooth black walls. The only difference was, a grand piano, a fireplace, and there was a leather couch. The intercom came on—"in this room you'll be challenged with how you can handle heat! Hahahahaha! It gets more fun every time! The fire place has multiple settings, so we can make the room 150 degrees at highest! Like always, good luck!"

They could now hear a heater turning on and knew what was about to happen. Tamachi set Akumu on the floor. Sakasu looked at him, "what are you doing? There's a couch right there."

Tamachi turned to Sakasu. "Leather gets hot easily and that's what that couch is made of."

Sakasu nodded and turned back the way she was, staring at the fireplace. "Looks like we'll just have to deal with heat until we eventually die. Why the hell are we even here?"

Itai responded, "maybe we've done something to make the owner of this mansion mad?"

Kessho glared at Itai. "Let's face it, the owner of this mansion is mentally insane. He's already gone mad."

Jace walked out of the shadowy corner, as usual. "I can assure you that you have definitely done something."

Kessho grabbed Jace by the collar like he did to Itai. "I don't know what the hell you are, but whatever it is, it's fucking disgusting."

The lights turned out and Tamachi could feel himself face-palming. When they turned back on, Kessho was on the floor, dead. Jace was smiling, "I don't like to be mistaken for a weakling."

Itai's eyes were widened with fear. Jace walked back into the shadows again. "Why did you do that?!" Tsuki yelled.

"Who knows. Maybe he doesn't like to be called disgusting." Sakasu responded.

Itai looked down at the ground. "Or maybe someone has a bad temper."