A few days later, Haruto smiled to himself, looking up into the starry sky to find not a single cloud and a beautiful crescent moon, a nice breeze ruffling his short hair, and there was a nice, lovely something in the air to keep his blood flowing. He was clad in a black tracksuit with orange lines on the pants, a white muscle shirt underneath, and white sneakers. He was in the middle of a jog and enjoying the cool night air in his lungs. He stopped in a bridge that connected two parts of the city over a river, standing on one corner to punch the air for a minute before returning to his training. While doing so he got some hearty-eyed looks from schoolgirls that wanted to enjoy the night and the karaoke bars, and even a couple of older women, read "cougars".
On his way back home, he decided to pass by a certain shrine, looking up the stairs to find a certain cat that had gained some weight since he first saw it. He smiled and stopped to see the cat run off, remembering the little adventure the fur ball gave him. The odd thing about Buyo at that moment was that the feline dashed past him like it had seen a ghost, followed quickly by one little boy.
The blond yelped when he felt the weight of the kid slam into his torso, and held the child up so neither of them fell down. He set Sota straight with his hands on his shoulders and asked, "What's going on? You nearly knocked me down." He fell silent at the sight of Sota's exhausted and pale face. "Hey, are you okay?!" he was really concerned, the kid was as white as a ghost and was in a lot of shock.
After feeling the pugilist's hands shaking him, Sota shook his head to get his train of thought back on track and nodded, "Big Bro… My sister is… She…"
"What's happened to Kagome-chan?" he asked in a sterner yet caring tone. He had to be firm, and the kid was making no sense with the shock he was in.
Sota wiped his tears clean off his face and replied, "A… A m-monster attacked her, and took her down the well!"
Haruto would have questioned what did Sota mean by a monster attacking his sister, but the bit of information about the dark haired schoolgirl's fall into an old, ancient and more than likely dangerous well didn't seem irrelevant at all. "Have you called your grandfather? What about an ambulance, or—"
The kid shook his head, "Grandpa's busy getting lights and some miracle charms or something. He said the well is dangerous and yet Kagome, she was grabbed by… I don't know! Something horrible pulled her in." He looked up at the blond, his pleading face making his next request impossible to turn down, "You got to help Kagome, please!"
Haruto nodded, not like he would be cruel enough to say no. He followed Sota to the well which was inside a small temple, just going down some old wooden stairs that lead to the ground, and walking to the small wooden structure of the well over a dirt floor. However, he also noted that the little boy had stayed behind. Not like he could blame the kid considering he was young and had seen his big sister falling down a well.
Near the well was an old man with a bird and traditional Japanese clothing, a man he guessed to be the kid's and Kagome's grandfather, "Hey, any luck?" he asked the elder.
"Who're you?" the man asked, aiming a flashlight at the boxer's face.
Temporarily blinded as he was, Haruto replied, "I'm a friend of Kagome's and Sota's. I heard what happened. Any way I can help?"
The elder stared at him, "Hmm… Could I trust some punk like you?"
Haruto deadpanned, "Old man, please don't insult me when your granddaughter's in trouble."
"Who're you calling old fart, whippersnapper?!"
"I didn't call you that… exactly." Haruto added the last part in a whisper as he turned his head away from the man so he didn't read him, shook his head, and turned to the well, "Anyway, I am here to get Kagome out. Do you have a ladder or a rope to get her out?" He leaned down to see any part of the well that could be touched by light in the old man's hands, and did the one thing he considered smart, "Kagome-chan! You in there?! Answer me before I have to get down there!"
"We've tried calling her already, there's not been a response." The old man replied in a serious whisper, basically telling Haruto how bleak the situation could be.
Sota, still in the doorway, cried to the boxer, "Be careful with the monster, Big Bro! It's got a lot of arms!"
Haruto waved dismissively, "You sure it wasn't some big bug getting in your face?"
The elder groaned, "Don't dismiss such a thing, boy! This well has been the recipient of countless corpses from monsters and demons that plagued this land hundreds of years ago!"
Haruto stared at the old man, "Yeah, that's a nice detail to know." He mumbled sarcastically when he turned to the well and leaned down to see how deep it went, "Huh… Is there something inside?" he leaned down further, only for Sota, the old man and him to gasp in shock when a demonic being burst from the well.
Sota and his grandfather could only watch in horror as five long but feminine arms grabbed Haruto, dragging him into the now shining well where a dark purple light shone just like he had seen his sister. As Haruto screamed, the kid ran after him while the elder extended his hand at him, both were trying to save him. All they managed to do was reach to the well's dark depths, looking down where the blond had gone through. And just like Kagome, Haruto had disappeared, plain and simple.