Prolouge

I

"Mommy, are we there yet? Pommy wants to see my new little brother really, really bad." Yuki impatiently asked as she cuddled her worn out teddy bear with a red heart patched on its stomach.

"Don't worry sweetie," Meiko smiled at Yuki through the front mirror, "We're almost there."

Meiko returned her focus to the road. She couldn't blame Yuki for running out of patience. After all, they've been on the road for more than an hour so far. The brunette could admit that she, herself, was getting tired of seeing white lines on the road going by and by as they traveled across the interstate. She didn't expect the orphanage to be this far away.

Miku teased, "Yuki, what makes you think that our brother is going to be younger then you? You're always going to be the smallest in the house. Face it."

She ruffled Yuki's black bangs as she laughed and all that the cute little 6 year old could do was pout.

"Nuh-uh! Mommy said that if I keep on eating my veggies every day, I'll grow big and strong just like you!"

"What's going on?" Kaito yawned as he rubbed his eye.

Apparently Miku and Yuki's small bickering waked Kaito from nap where he dreamt of triumphing upon a giant hill of ice cream.

It was a very good nap.

A nap that he didn't want to end.

A nap that he knew he couldn't have again until he had peace and quiet.

And peace and quiet was something rare he could have whenever Miku and Yuki are together.

That was a downside of raising children: Lack of sleep.

Yuki accusingly pointed her finger at Miku, "Daddy, Miku-ne won't stop making fun of how short I am! She's making Pommy really mad too!"

She held up her teddy bear to show Kaito Pommy's "angry" face.

Kaito could only sigh. If he had a dime for every time he had to resolve a dispute between Miku and Yuki, he could buy all the ice cream in the world.

"Miku, leave your sister alone. You know how she is when you comment on her height."

"Oh come on, dad. I was just playing around." Said Miku jokingly.

Kaito then gave the 16 year old tealette a serious look on his face. A look that she has seen time and time again, but mostly from Meiko.

"Sorry Yuki." Miku exaggerated. Yuki stuck her tongue at her.

"And Yuki, you're height is just fine. Okay, princess?" assured Kaito.

"Yes, daddy." Yuki grinned with the satisfaction that she (and Pommy) got what she wanted. "And it's okay, Miku-ne. Pommy's not mad at you anymore, he still loves you."

Miku could only smile at her. Yuki sometimes uses Pommy as a substitute for herself in certain situations. Whether it's blaming it on him when all the apple pie "mysteriously" disappears from the fridge or him being the one to have the feelings she's too afraid to express by herself. Pommy was Yuki's most treasured friend from the day Kaito gave it to her on her 2nd birthday, so she carries him around everywhere. Yuki was that innocent and Miku loves her for that.

Although Miku does pester Yuki sometimes, Yuki would always forgive her at the end of the day. Yuki would always look up to Miku and Miku would always be there for her. They were sisters.

Even if they didn't have the same blood.

Even if they were both adopted from different orphanages.

Nothing could break that bond no matter what.

Sometimes it still surprises Miku that she and Yuki are this close, even after how she treated her years ago when she first joined the family. She tries hard to push those memories way back in her head.

"Hey Miku?" piped up Yuki.

"Hmm?"

"What do you think our new brother is gonna look like?"

The tealette could tell by the way Yuki's eyes sparkled that she was excited of getting a new member to the family.

Miku thought about it though, getting a new brother and all. But the thing was, she didn't really want one. She liked how her family was already. It was really a big shock to her when Meiko and Kaito announced that they were thinking of adopting a boy.

But Why?

Wasn't she and Yuki already enough?

Anyways, she promised to not make a big deal out of it when the time comes.

"uhh…to tell the truth Yuki," Miku scratched her head, "I honestly don't know what he's going to look like."

"Well I think…" started Yuki

Here we go… thought the tealette

"That he's gonna be really cute and small like a baby doll! And he's gonna follow me around everywhere! And he's gonna call me Yuki-ne! And I'm gonna take care of him like a good big sister! And he's gonna-

"Okay, that's enough Yuki," said Meiko.

Miku was a bit glad that Meiko came in just in time to stop the conversation or else Yuki's rambling would have never ended.

"Look, you guys," announced Meiko, "We're here."

Miku and Yuki tried to look through the front view window of the car. They were faced with an elegant black gate accompanied by a brick fence. There was a sign on top of the mail slot that said Saint Mary's Orphanage.

The gate opened by itself, allowing the car to drive in. There was so much land with such green grass that Miku could only imagine how many acres there was. As the car moved forward, everyone was in a state of awe of how big and beautiful the orphanage was. It was probably at least 6 floors high. This place could've been mistaken for a mansion, because it was definitely not like the run down orphanage from Annie.

Kaito whistled at the sight of the orphanage, "The owner of this place must be loaded."

Meiko agreed, "Yea, I've never seen an orphanage as wealthy as this."

The car parked in the round driveway with a beautiful fountain in the middle of it. Miku found this interesting to look at because the centerpiece of the fountain was a statue of the Virgin Mary praying with a peaceful expression on her face.

The Virgin Mary.

The Holy Mother of Christ.

Mother…

If only… thought Miku

Everyone got out of the car and took the sight of the whole place into memory.

"Wow Pommy!" exclaimed Yuki, "There must be a million be-zillion kids here!"

"Yuki, I doubt that there's that many orphans here," Kaito replied as he was still amaze at the sight of the orphanage, "but there should be a good amount of them."

"Hey dad, can I use your camera? I want to take some pictures of this place." asked Miku.

"Sure. It's in the back seat, but be careful with it, ok Mini-Mi? It's very expensive." answered Kaito.

Miku happily went to take the camera out of the car. Kaito was the photographer for the local newspaper, so his camera was very advanced. The tealette would be sure to take proper care of it.

She snapped pictures of the fountain first, and a few with Yuki playing with the water.

"Oh look," pointed Meiko, "There's a huge catholic church next door. How nice!"

Miku cocked her head a bit to see what Meiko was talking about. She could see a pretty chapel not too far away on the right. Miku took a quick picture of it.

That explained the Virgin Mary fountain.

Miku came to a conclusion, "There must be some nuns working here."

"Probably," Meiko agreed, "let's go knock on the door."

While The tealette continued taking pictures of the orphanage building, she noticed that someone was watching her from a window on the top floor.

No wait.

Two people were watching her from the window.

Even if they were too high up, Miku felt as if they were staring right at her soul. She didn't exactly know how to explain it. It was uncomfortable and little bit scary, that's it.

Miku thought it would be a good idea to use the camera to zoom in on their faces. But by the time she raised the camera to her eye-

"Come on, Miku!" interrupted Meiko.

The tealette looked back to her mother, "I'm coming!"

She just had to take one quick glance at who those people were. However, when she zoomed in at the window with the camera,

They were gone.

Miku lowered her camera, but she was still looking at the now empty window.

"Ok…that was weird."

"Miku-ne, hurry up! Pommy wants to go inside the building already!" Yuki's voice had pulled her head out of the strange moment.

Miku finally caught up to the rest of her family, but she didn't notice the two pair of eyes that were still watching her and Yuki from afar in the window.

"How about them?"

"The small one looks perfect, but don't you suppose the teal-haired one will give us trouble?"

"We've broken down many people before. She won't be any different."

"Alright. Then the rest is up to Gumi."

"Are you sure she's going to follow through? She is one of the nuns here."

"Gumi has seen what we're capable of. Believe me; she's more scared then faithful. She'll be easy to manipulate."

Meiko continued knocking at the double doors with the brass knocker.

"Are you sure there isn't a doorbell?" asked Kaito.

The brunette nodded her head, "Yeah, I checked."

"Pommy says maybe they all went out for pizza." Suggested Yuki as she was rubbing her teddy's stomach.

Kaito smirked. He knew what that meant.

"Pommy's hungry, isn't he?" The azure-haired Shion pointed out.

"Very much." Yuki answered with a small frown on her face.

Kaito chuckled a bit, "Don't worry princess. After we're done here, we'll all go out for ice cream."

Yuki jumped up and down with excitement, but Meiko disapproved.

"Honey, must we always go to Baskin Robins 5 times a week?" asked Meiko a bit irritated.

She remembered the last time she had to pay for the ice cream. To this day, the amount of zeros on the receipt still amazes her.

"What? Ice cream makes everyone happy." Kaito defended.

Miku giggled a little bit. Kaito was the type of parent who believed in the philosophy that "the solution to every problem you could ever have is ice cream." Miku knew that that was kind of silly, but that was one of the special qualities that made Kaito her dad.

Finally, footsteps could be heard coming towards the door. This alerted everyone make sure they look presentable.

One of the doors cracked open revealing the head of a young woman with shoulder length lime green hair that framed her round face.

She spoke with a polite tone, "Hello, how may I help you?"

Meiko approached forward, "Hi, um, I called two days ago requesting for an adoption and I-

The young woman beamed up, "Oh, you must be Mrs. Meiko Shion! Please, come in."

She opened the door wider and politely invited the Shions to enter. "I'm sorry, I didn't expect for you all to come at this hour."

If the outside of the building didn't impress you, then you would have been blown away of how it looks on the inside. Both Miku and Yuki had their mouths gapped open as their eyes darted from one spot to the other. The place was huge. Marble floors, large windows with beautiful drapes, flower vases at every corner, an elegant stairwell, and to top it all off, a beautiful grand chandelier.

Even though Miku didn't say it, she was little jealous of all the orphans who were fortunate to live here. Her orphanage was never this good.

"Were you the one that I talked with on the phone?" Meiko asked trying to remember.

"Yes, that was me." The young lady nodded.

Meiko squinted her eyes as she replayed the phone call in her mind again trying to remember everything.

"Your name was….Gumi, right?"

"Oh. Please, call me Sister Gumi." She said with a smile on her face.

However, this caught the attention of everyone.

'Sister' Gumi?

"You're a nun?" Miku asked a little bit surprised.

Gumi didn't really look like a nun. She looked…normal. Well, her style was that of a boring librarian, but compared to the black and white habit that nuns usually wear, that would count as normal. And Miku never thought that nuns could be so young too. The ones she has always seen were the strict, old ones on television. Gumi looked like she was 24 or 25 maybe.

Gumi chuckled a little bit; this was not the first time she had seen this reaction. "Yep, I'm a nun. Hard to believe, isn't it?"

"So like…..do you carry around a ruler or something?" Miku curiously asked.

"You mean to hit children's knuckles with?" Gumi chuckled, "Good heavens, no! Stereotypes like that about nuns are almost never true. But," she pulled out a silver sterling cross necklace from her collar, "No nun would be caught dead without wearing a cross somewhere on their body."

"Hey, it turned out I was right about some nuns working here, Meiko!" Miku piped up.

Gumi looked at Miku a little bit confused.

And Miku noticed it, "Um…is something wrong Sister Gumi?"

"I'm sorry, I just thought that she was your mother."

"No, she is." Miku reassured.

"….Then, sweetie, why don't you address her as so?"

Miku then had an expression on her face where her eyes were filled with melancholy that was long forgotten ago. The silence, itself, told Gumi that she was asking something too personal.

"I'm sorry if I asked something offensive." The regret was clear in Gumi's voice. Everyone looked at Miku with deep concern. Meiko went to Miku's side to comfort her, this was not the first time these feelings were brought up. But to her surprise, Miku slowly pushed her away.

She wiped a tear from her eye, "…I'm fine."

A bit disappointed that the tealette wouldn't let her comfort her like a real mother should, Meiko backed off and went into Kaito's sympathetic arms.

Gumi wasn't sure if it was ok to leave her in that state, but she had to do what was ordered to, so, "….ok, I'll show you where the children are."

As Gumi moved towards the stairwell, the family followed behind her. Yuki walked beside Miku, making sure her elder sister was okay. In fact, she was offering to let Miku hold Pommy. That would always work for her when she's down, why not Miku?

Miku faintly smiled at Yuki's gesture of concernment, "Don't worry, I'll be fine."

Yuki nodded as she held Miku's hand and went back to 'oooh'ing and 'aaaw'ing as the sights of the orphanage.

Miku couldn't shake the feeling off though. It wasn't that she didn't like Meiko. Miku loved Meiko to death. But the last person she called "mom", she had a very bad history with her.

A history that the tealette doesn't like to talk about nor remember.

A lot of bad things came into mind when ever the word "mother" comes up and Miku didn't ever want to associate those things with Meiko, hence calling her by her first name. That's the only way she knew how to avoid the memories.

Gumi led the family to a hallway filled with many doors and began to speak as if anybody would do to inform tourists. "Here at St. Mary's Orphanage, we have more than 500 orphans being cared for by nuns. We make sure that our little angles are growing in a way that our heavenly Lord Father sees fit so that when some lucky parents come to adopt them as their own, they would already be filled heavenly good standards and morals. So I assure you, ANY orphan that you get from St. Mary's is bound to be a heavenly good child! A loving child of God!"

Miku was amazed of how 'heavenly' Gumi's little speech was. She must have practiced it in front of a mirror.

Each door in the hallway had a window to look through it. There were rooms that consisted of children being taught by a nun, a room with children reading together, a room with children learning how to play instruments, or a room with children playing with toys and game.

The family was pretty much impressed of how peaceful and orderly the orphanage was being run.

"So tell me, Sister," Kaito spoke up, "How exactly did this orphanage get to-

"Have all of this money?" Gumi finished the sentence for him, "Well, believe it or not, St. Mary's didn't use to be this luxurious."

"Really?" Kaito was getting more interested.

Gumi explained, "Yes. This orphanage is the way it is now because of a former orphan that use to be here. When he became an adult, he created a very popular product that many people wanted to buy...I think it's called the PoPiPo Vegetable Juice?"

That triggered Yuki to start singing the catchy song of the commercial. She always thought that the poster girl looked eerily a whole lot like Miku.

"Thus making him a millionaire." Gumi continued, " He sends us a lot of money each year as a way to say thanks for caring for him."

"How impressive." Meiko said, astonished by the orphanage.

It seemed as if the orphans were dismissed from the class because soon the hallway was flooded with them. As soon as they saw Meiko and Kaito, they crowded towards them hoping that they would become their new parents. The whole family was bombarded with orphans trying to politely introduce themselves.

"Hi, my name's Ella. I think you're pretty!"

Meiko was a bit flattered, "Oh, why thank you."

"Hello, I'm Victor. Why are you wearing a scarf when it's not cold outside?"

Kaito was little bit overwhelmed by how many orphans there were, "Well, it my favorite scarf. So I like to wear it a lot."

"Hi, I'm Davis. Are you a princess? Because your hair is really long like Rapunzel's."

Miku blushed a bit, "uhh..sorry, no. But thanks for the compliment."

"Hi there, I'm Sakura. You wanna come play with me and Sonny?" She held up her own teddy bear.

"Sure! Pommy and me would love to!" exclaimed Yuki.

The chatter of children was then silenced by a whistle blow from Gumi. "Everyone, this is not how we treat our guest. Now what do you say?"

The children all said in unison, "Sorry for how we acted, we are very glad that you have come here today."

Gumi was satisfied that her directions were followed, "Good. These kind people will get a chance to see all of you, so don't worry. Now please go back to where you are supposed to be."

And just like that, the orphan's disperse on to their various locations. Meiko was impressed of how disciplined the children were. "Wow. Are they always this well-behaved and obedient?"

"Actually, yes. Most of the time, we don't have a problem with any of the orphans here and if there are problems, we handle it very well." Gumi happily replied. She then mumbled, "But this time, I'll handle the main problem for good."

Meiko thought she had misheard something, "I'm sorry, what was that last part?"

"Oh, n-nothing! I was just saying a little prayer." Gumi quickly changed the subject, "So, are there any specifics you have for the child you want to adopt?"

"Well, we want a boy. We don't really care what he looks like, but he needs to be like 7 or 8 years old." Meiko answered.

Yuki tugged at Kaito's scarf, "Hey daddy, could me and Pommy go play with some of the kids here?"

Kaito immediately turned to his wife for her approval and so did Yuki with her puppy dog brown eyes.

"….Fine." The brunette reluctantly gave in to her daughter's cuteness.

Yuki giddily ran to join up with Sakura and the other orphans.

"Follow me," Gumi insisted, "I think I know the perfect boy that you're looking for."

Gumi and the Shions left Yuki to play with her new friends and went to the stairwell. The more floors that they went up, the less people they began to see. Apparently, they were going to the top floor. When they arrived there, the feeling that Miku had before when someone was watching her hit her like a brick wall. She almost stumbled due to the impact. Luckily, Kaito held her in place.

"You okay, Mini-Mi?"

"….I'm fine, dad. Thanks."

"I can't wait for you all meet these two! They're practically angels! You're bound to take one of them home!" Gumi bragged.

"We'll be the judge of that." Meiko firmly said.

There was a hallway on the top floor, but at the very end of it was only a double door entrance…..and it had a lock and chain on it. Miku was hoping that she wasn't the only one finding this strange. Why in the world would some children be locked in a room?

On the top floor?

All by themselves?

But to the tealette's demise, her parents were pretty much oblivious to anything strange in this place.

Another weird thing that Miku noticed was that Gumi did not look like that happy and kind lady she met before…it almost looked like she was scared, but the tealette only saw that expression for a split second. Somehow, Gumi managed to cover it quickly with her warm smiling face when she noticed Miku was staring at her.

Gumi reached for her pocket and pulled out some keys. She almost looked hesitant to open the lock, however, she still followed through.

The moment Gumi touched the lock, her cross necklace instantly fell to the floor as if it was in opposition to whatever was inside the room.

"Let me get that for you." Kaito reached down to pick the necklace.

Gumi picked it up first though, "It's ok. I've had this necklace for some time, so maybe the chain is beginning to break." She put the necklace in her pocket and proceeded to opening the lock. Now all she needed to do was to open the door.

Just open the door.

Just do what she was told and open the door.

Even though everything in her spirit told her not to, she has to open it.

Open the door, Gumi.

Gumi instantly had an overwhelming feeling of fear inside of her.

Gumi, open the door.

Why couldn't she just turn the door knob?

Why did she still feel that doing this would be a big mistake?

Gumi, you're doing this orphanage a favor, remember?

But wouldn't this be a favor that she would heavily regret afterwards?

Don't worry. Once this is over, everyone can finally be happy.

That's right. If they're gone, no one in the orphanage will have to be scared anymore.

It'll all be because of you.

Yea, it'll all be because of her.

You'll be praised for what you have done.

Yea, everyone will be happy that she saved them.

You'll be loved.

That's right. People will love her for what she did.

You'll be the envy of all the nuns here.

The nuns will finally see that she's just as holy as they are, maybe even more.

You might even be worshiped.

Yes...she'll be looked upon as the most righteous and put as the Mother Superior on the nuns here instead of Sister Clearance.

You are righteous.

She is righteous.

And all you have to do is open the door…

As if subconsciously, Gumi opened the door for the Shions to enter.

To readers of my 1st fanfic "Re_Cycle":

I know it has been about 3 months that I haven't updated, but I was going through a HUGE writer's block on that story so I've been writing this one in the meanwhile to take my mind of Re_cycle. but don't worry, I will finish it! that I promise!

To everyone else:

This is my 2nd fanfic and i'm excited to write this! This story is one big horror story that i've been motivated to write one day. I'm a big fan of Yanderes so expect to see some good scary scenes! I hope you'll enjoy reading it as much I do writing it. Nothing happened in this chapter, but the next one should have a lil something something, so bare with with me!

a few notes about this fanfic:

1. The setting is in America. One of the themes in this story is Christianity/Catholicism and I'm pretty sure that's not really a huge thing in Japan. However, there will be a lot of references to Japan.

2. Pommy is derived from pomme which means apple in French. (You know, because Yuki loves apples!)

3. Just to make sure no one is confused, Mini-Mi is a nickname that Kaito gave to Miku.

4. It is true that nuns don't necessarily wear a black and white habit on a daily basis like they do on tv. They only wear it on special occasions. None of the stereotypes are true! You don't even have to be a virgin to be a nun! Get with the times people!

Anyways, review, review, REVIEW! If you want to critique or just say hi, go ahead!