I need you too

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Disclaimer - (Cause fanfiction is tricky ground and I hope not to offend the creator of the original story and get sued)

This is a fanfiction, a work of fiction. It is an unofficial, non-canon alternate story based on Riichiro Inagaki's story "Dr. Stone". Most of the media - such as the images and video's used in this fanfiction - are from the web. Thus, most of them aren't mine (because I really, really can't draw) unless mentioned. To fit the story, images are also edited by the photo editor. So they aren't mine, just edited.

Have you ever written something from the back of your head, and then realise oh sh** these were someone else's words. Yeah, that just happened to me, my disclaimer no less. Anyway, like 40% of this disclaimer belongs to KairuSui from quotev

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P.s. I also ask that you do not copy my work and publish it onto any other website If you're gonna use my idea, please ask me (I'll 99.99% say yes unless you're super duper rude). If I don't contact you within a week, then just assume I'm giving you the all clear and go for it. Just remember to credit me.

I will be writing out scenes even if my Oc isn't in them. As long as she's mentioned, or influencing the characters in some way. This may seem a bit annoying. But that's just how I write. I like to embed my characters into the story line.

Warnings: Spoilers for episode 11 and 12, Slow burn, cursing, disturbing image

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Today's Special

I wish I could show you how much I care for you, how much you mean to me, how much I love you. Above all I wish I could show you how you've changed my life and how you make me a better person. But I can't and I am so sorry about that. Because feelings are feelings... and I can't handle them.

~ L.B.

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{Third P.O.V.}

Ginro falls flat on his but, panting. His gaze following the sound of "Yay!", lands on Suika and Kaseki, celebrating another batch of successful glass beakers.

"The sorcery team's so lucky." The blond whined, "They look like they're having so much fun with shiny stuff. It's not like we're...", he then trailed off, as an idea struck him. "Hey, Kinro, what if..." he called to his brother. "What if the spear tip were super shiny? Don't you think it would help you practice, since you could get a better sense of distance with your fuzzy vision?"

Kinro turns to him, narrowing his eyes he says, "what are you talking about, Ginro."

Ginro shakes his head in denial, as if he wasn't just trying to manipulate the older man, "Huh? Hey, speaking of shiny... Don't you think we should have a golden spear and silver spear? Strictly for the Grand Bout, of course. We'll totally need them to win, won't we?"

Kinro nods, linking arms with his brother, the pair walk over to the laboratory. Where Senku, Rika, Chrome and Kohaku were working.

The group listens to the brothers request, their reactions wearying from Kohaku and Senku's deadpanned looks, to Rika's smile.

"I don't know anything about fighting." Senku whispered to Kohaku. "Is it true that a gold and silver spear will help them beat Magma?"

"Senku, to borrow your words, they ten billion percent just want gold and silver spears." She answered.

"Oh, come on. Just look at their hopeful expressions." Rika said from his other side, pointing at Ginro who had taken a couple steps into the lab.

"I mean, now that you have all this... glass, was it?" Ginro asks, hopefully. "And this amazing laboratory..." he went on, "I thought maybe you could make a silver spear, you know. And then taking down Magma will be easy-peasy."

Senku chuckled, a plan forming in his head. "That's right. Now that we have glassware, we're going to have to suck it up and go get the most difficult material to obtain." Senku said, turning around and walking to the back of the lab he went on, "All right. Let's break in this brand new laboratory by making a silver spear."

Kinro and Ginro both shouted, but their reasons were completely different from each other. "I'm sorry, Kinro." Ginro said, sounding not the least bit sincere. "I have a way of becoming everyone's favourite."

Rika raised an eyebrow, wondering where Senku was going with this. But her question was soon answered when Senku said, "You aren't the slightest bit my favourite, idiot. This could literally cost you your life, Ginro." The smile on Ginro's face dropped, "We're off on a great adventure to find chemistry's greatest treasure. You'll be putting your life on the line in a maximum danger area. You could seriously die there in an instant." Senku said evilly, scaring Ginro.

"It's times like these I wonder..." Rika said wearily, "...Are you really a good guy, Senku?"

"Rika. I need you to go get a rock from the shed. You'll know it when you see it. It looks like it has light silver roots growing from it." Senku ordered the brunette.

"All right." Rika complied, going to go get it, she had an idea what Senku was looking for. When she entered the shed, she spotted it right away. Senku was right. It was the only stone with light silver root's growing out of it.

When she came back out, Senku, Chrome and Suika had already set up a station between the lab and the shed.

When Rika's feet hit the ground, Chrome snatched it out of her hands, and held it up to his face. "So this thin hair-like stuff is going to turn into silver? Damn... I thought they were roots from some plant." He says.

Rika flicks his forehead, "Hey. A please sure would be nice!"

Ginro chuckled from the side, "That's going to become my silver spear, huh? Man, science sure is strange, isn't it? Speaking of which..." he went on, "Kinro, you already got your golden spear, ri- Oh, wait..." he cut himself off, "Sorry! I didn't notice. Who would have thought we'd only get a silver spear, and not a golden one?"

"Has he already forgotten that with his silver spear, comes danger?" Rika asks, as she watches Kohaku kick the boy in a tree.

"Hang on, though. Why are you only making a silver spear?" Chrome asks.

"Because we need it to get the maximum danger materials." Senku answers, getting ready to dip the spear into the solution they created.

When it comes out, it cools instantly.

"Yes!" Ginro shouts, jumping up, he snatches the spear from the science team. "I finally have a silver spear." He says, with hearts in his eyes. "Yay! Thanks, Senku."

"Yippee! Yippee!" Suika starts chanting along with him for no reason.

Kinro turns around, huffing.

Senku chuckles as he watches Ginro kiss the spear. "You don't owe me one millimeter of thanks." He says, picking up a bag of empty jars. "I didn't make it for you. Come on, let's get moving. Ginro, your job is to be the team's bodyguard."

Ginro gets starry eyed as he imagines holding Rika or Kohaku in his arms like a hero.

After that, he begins chanting "Bodyguard! Bodyguard! Bodyguard!" The entire way there.

"Now look what you've done." Rika sighs.

"Hey, this is the hot spring area that I draw hot water from all the time." Kohaku says after a while, noticing the area they've travelled to.

Chrome looks around, "I came all prepared because you said it was going to be 'maximum danger'."

Rika's eyes widen as a thought strikes her, "Don't tell me the hot spring water is bad for Ruri!" She exclaims.

Senku chuckles, shaking his head, he says, "The exact opposite actually. But we're not here for that. It gets dangerous up ahead. Ginro, quit messing around and hold your spear forward." He orders the boy who had been spinning it around in circles above his head.

"Huh?" Ginro asks, as Senku directs the spear forward.

"This silver spear is a sensor." Senku explains, "That's what I made it for. Take a good look at the tip. If that silver spear turns black..."

"If it turns black...?" The blond repeats, gulping.

Narrowing his eyes, Senku answers, "A few seconds later, you'll be dead. You need to get away within 0.1 seconds. We'll all run, too. The enemy we're about to go up against will send us to the afterlife with just one mistake. This is the greatest hurdle in making sulfa drugs."

The group walks in silence after Senku's statement. That is, until Chrome notices something in the water, or more like a lack of. "There isn't a single fish in this river." He says, kneeling down to get a closer look at the water.

"I know." Senku answers. "Nothing but emerald green liverwort. This is it for sure. Our goal is upstream from here."

Kohaku Followed his gaze. "So the greatest hurdle is up ahead..."

"It's okay." Ginro said shakily, from a little further than them. The blond has his arms extended, gripping the very edge of the spear. "It's okay." He kept repeating to himself. "It's not black yet."

Rika's eyebrows twitched, "I'm all for taking precautions. But that's just sad." She turned her head to look at Senku, "You created that."

Senku chuckles, shrugging his shoulders, he says, "Well I was just being honest. But that's not the problem. Senku spins around and shouts at Ginro, "What the hell is the sensor doing walking at the back, Ginro?!"

"Well, you said I was gonna die! I'm scared!" The boy yelled back, crying a bit.

Kohaku huffed, "Want to switch places with me, then? Hand over the silver spear." She says blandly.

"Never!" Ginro said, pulling it closer to his body. "I'll do it! I'll do it, all right?!"

"Makeup your mind!" Rika shouted at him.

Ginro began his chant all over again, but at least this time he walks in the front.

"You all right?" Rika asks Senku, who looks like he is barely able to keep his body standing upright.

Senku was about to answer, when they were called by Ginro. "Chrome, Senku, Rika, Kohaku-chan..."

"Where here, Senku." Chrome said, following Ginro's gaze.

"I knew it." Senku panted, collapsing against a rock. "We've found the source of the materials that were our greatest hurdle."

"I don't even know what we're here to gather, but I at least appreciate this is our goal." Kohaku says, staring at the view. "It's so divine and beautiful... An entire spring of emerald green."

Rika nods in agreement, "It's breathtaking....", she says, taking in the view of the majestic clear blue lake. It's water sparkling like a gem under the sun.

Ginro was so entranced by it, that he started seeing a gorgeous turquoise haired beauty beckoning him. He began walking forward, in a trance.

Senku's eyes narrowed, as he thought of something.

"What's up, Senku!" Chrome asked, noticing the serious look on his face. "Is this not our goal?" He asks.

"No, it is." Senku answered. "This is perfect."

Rika's eye's widen as she remembers something, "Didn't you say this was dangerous?!"

Senku turns to the brunette, "Your right. It's this green water that we're here to collect. But the geography bugs me. The poison gases that form here, hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide, are heavier than air. They settle in dips like this one."

"Is that what the silver spear's supposed to warn us about?" Chrome asked.

"Yeah." Senku affirmed, "Silver reacts with hydrogen sulfide and turns black instantly..."

Rika's eyes instantly darted to the tip of Ginro's spear. "GINRO! Get back here!" She shouted.

But the blond couldn't hear her, if he did, his brain failed to process it, entranced by the beauty he was imagining. He continued to walk forward, and that's when his spear turned a dark black.

Luckily for him though, Kohaku pulled him backward within that instant, jumping backwards as she did so.

Just as she did that, the group watched as a flock of crows, that were flying too close to the lake, collapsed into it.

Ginro began shaking, he panicked as he struggled to get away from something. The beautiful woman he was imaging, turned hideous, as parts of her skin began to melt off of her. "Go away!" He shouted, waving his arms in front of him.

"Calm down! There's no one there!" Kohaku tried to reason with him. "There's no one there Ginro!"

"He's hallucinating." Rika diagnosed. "But why? Is it something in the water?" She asked Senku, who nodded.

"It's melting." Kohaku said, watching as a wing, of a crow, that was still above the water. "The bird's wing..."

"That could have been us." Rika shuddered at the image.

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On their way back, Chrome asks the dual haired man, "What's the deal with this spring's water, Senku?!"

Senku forward as he spoke, "It was discovered around the 8th century, in the midst of alchemy research. In my time, it was a chemical that served as the foundation for all kinds of chemical industries... Sulfuric Acid."

"And we can't make the cure-all drug for Ruri without this sulfuric acid stuff?" Chrome asked.

"Nope." Senku answers. "We need to secure a source of sulfuric acid anyway, or chemistry won't develops any further.

Rika face shifted into one of worry, "Then how exactly are we supposed to get the sulfuric acid. I mean, just look at what it did to that bird."

At this point, they've made it back to home base, and Ginro wastes no time in collapsing against a tree, burning his head in his knees.

"We'll have to push our way through to gather some." Kohaku says, getting ready to leave again. "I'll risk my life as many times as it takes to save Ruri-nee. With my speed..."

"Wait! Kohaku, didn't you see how quickly it killed that bird?" Rika says, grabbing the blonds wrist. "Don't be reckless."

Kohaku looks like she's about to argue but Senku stops her, "Rika's right." He says. "Back in my age, there was a group that went to do research around an area of sulfuric acid like this one. The man in front knelt for a moment, maybe to tie his shoelaces. He was dead. There was hydrogen sulfide at his head's height when he knelt. This is an accident that actually happened." He told them. Suika was shaking, well Chrome and Rika could only stare at him, open mouth. "Human's don't stand a chance when Mother Nature wants us dead." He told them honestly. "It doesn't matter how stupidly fast you are, Kohaku."

"Then what are we supposed to do, Senku?" The blond haired young woman, asked. "I have to save Ruri-nee, no matter what!"

Senku smiled, "What else? We're going to make gas masks."

"Gas masks?" Rika released, confused.

Senku continues, "The only way to fight a chemical enemy is with chemistry."

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They spent the rest of the day making the gas masks. They use leather to make the cover, and the pipe. And bamboo to make the face pipes. They then cover the leather pipe in lacquer.

Senku chuckled, "We'll have to see how much poison we can breathe through this. We can't rely on trial and error this time. An error would mean our death." He says, holding the mask up.

"Isn't that a little too risky?" Rika asks, a worried expression on her face.

"All right, my mask's next." Chrome says, looking at the blue prints.

"You won't need one." Senku says, he see's Rika about to open her mouth to protest, and cuts her off as well, "that goes for you too."

"What do you mean?!" Rika asks, appalled.

"Chrome. Rika. You aren't coming with us to get sulfuric acid anymore. Stay here." Senku orders.

"What? Where's this coming fr-" Chrome begins.

"Shut up and listen." Senku interrupts. "These gas masks aren't guaranteed to work. Who's going to save Ruri if all the scientists go down?" He asks, his gaze the. Turns to meet Rika, "and I doubt the village would be able to survive even a winter without their medic."

Rika looks at the ground in dismay, 'I never even considered that.'

Senku took a step toward them, "All humans die eventually. But knowledge doesn't. It's been passed down for two million years. Listen up you two. I'm going to pass down all the science I know, all two million years of human civilisation, to the both of you, right now."

"Wait, wait, hang in! It's too soon!" Chrome says, waving his arms around. "Quit talking like we're going to replace you or something! Jazz, that's so ominous!"

Rika nods along with him, "There's no way we're ready. If that's the case, then that's more of a reason for us to go instead of you!" She argues.

"We, aren't you kind?" Senku says, raising his arms. "What are you, my girlfriend?"

'Girlfriend!' Rika blushes at the thought. 'Wait!' She shakes her head, 'That's not the important thing right now!'

"I don't have one millimetre of interest in dying, so relax." Senku tells them. "But the only way to cure Ruri's disease is to charge into the poison gas and get some sulfuric acid. If the three of us do go down to gather, in that instant, all science will disappear from the face of the Earth."

"So we're staying behind in case you did." Chrome summarized.

"Yeah." Senku nods. "After I pass down all my knowledge of science."

Chrome and Rika look at each other, nod, and say to gather, "We're not taking it, if that's the case!"

Senku looks at them, surprised. "What are you two, kids?" He asks, eye twitching. "Don't get so fussy about staying home-"

"You don't get it, do you?" Rika asks, frowning.

"She's right. That's not the point! We have no intention of helping you with a plan that makes it okay for our friend to die!" Chrome shouts. "Sorry to