Hello everyone! C:
Much to my liking, this idea came to me while reading two stories. One is by Selandora and is called "Never ending Rainfall" (which I insist that all ItachixSakura lovers read), and the other is by Blackbelt called "Dark Desires (Praise and love this author and all her works before I sic an intoxicated Kyoko on you!)." Credit goes to them and I have no idea why the hell I'm still babbling. On with my newest story! C:
Summary: Aki sings in the choir of her grandpa's church. Unknown to her and her grandparents, their church is a sleeping place for those who are unholy.
Profile (You all must be used to this by now)
Name: Masaki Aki
Age: 16
Eye color: Silver
Hair color: Black
Family relations: mother (deceased), father (deceased), sister (deceased), brother (declared a criminal and is on the top most wanted list)
Current Location: City of Tokyo
Currently living with: Grandfather and grandmother
Current occupation: Waitress at a diner, high school student, dancer in training, medical and mythology/legends college night classes, and choir member in her grandfather's church
Hymns of Heaven
Chapter One: Haunted Churches
"Grandpa, I'm going to be a little late for practice today! I have to stay after for dance practice!" I yelled loudly as I rushed out the door afraid of being late to school.
Hello there, my name is Masaki Aki, and I'm sixteen years old. I currently attend a mediocre high school in Tokyo, and I live with my grandparents. About a year or two ago, my parents and little sister died in a car crash when a drunk driver hit them. My older brother, who is I think twenty-four right now, is a murderer and was declared on the top fifty most wanted list when he bombed a whole neighborhood. It actually isn't his fault. My brother just a little…umm…unbalanced? I guess that's where I got my quirkiness from. Sadly, my life is just weird. My grandparents own a church and my grandfather's the preacher. I sing in the choir because I want to. I loved helping them. They've been so kind to me.
I ran to school taking a short cut and jumping over one of our neighbor's fences. Of course, they were quite used to this. Just because I was a good girl didn't mean I was always punctual. To be quite honest, I was never early or on time; always late or exceptionally late. I ran across the yard and jumped the fence again and headed towards the school. I ran into my classroom ten seconds late. Luckily, the teacher was late. Like usual.
I ran to my seat and quickly sat down next to my friends Ino, Sakura, TenTen, Temari, and Hinata.
I smiled and said, "Hey!" They responded with their usual responses. The classroom went quiet as our teacher, Kakashi-sensei, walked in. He gave us his usual cheery smile and then Sakura and I stood up and yelled, "You're late!"
He gave us a cheesy smile and put his hand behind his head sheepishly and answered, "Ah, well you see, I was making my way he-."
"LIAR!" we cut in. He chuckled and said, "Alright ladies, be seated, you've contradicted your poor sensei long enough."
We glared at him and huffed. Sakura and I took our seats and Ino grinned madly. Temari turned around and poked her. "What are you so happy about porky?"
She glared at Temari and then said, "Sensei is earlier that usual. This must mean we've got something good coming."
Hinata smiled shyly and nodded in agreement. Sometimes, I thought that girl was just too shy for her own good.
"Alright children," Kakashi teased, "As you know, I'm your homeroom teacher and your history teacher, so since I need a day to myself I'm assigning you a project."
A lot of groans and moans were heard through out the room.
I sunk into my chair and reached for my neck. On my neck laid a silver chain with a key dangling on it. I fingered the lovely and shiny thing.
"Awe, don't be like that Kakashi-sensei!"
"Now, I never said you have to do it alone. You can do it in groups of two." Everyone let out sighs of relief. As usual, when we were forced to work in groups of two TenTen and Temari would work together, Ino and Sakura, and Hinata and me.
Normally though, Temari and TenTen would just end up with a really good but somehow very gruesome and 'intimidating' project. Ino and Sakura would argue all the time, but somehow manage to throw together something at the last minute. Hinata and I were good. We were smart and we worked hard. It didn't really matter what number of people we had in our groups anyways. We all ended up in my grandfather's church or someone's house doing the projects together.
"Alright class, now let me explain the project. You'll be researching something that has to do with the legends and myths of Japan. Doesn't matter which one you do, but you must have a visual and a well written report because this is an oral report kiddies!" after Kakashi-sensei finished talking he gave us a cheesy smile and locked himself in his own world with his Come Come Paradise books.
We got to work immediately.
After School
I walked home tiredly from dance practice and nearly screamed when a motorcycle skidded to a stopped in front of me. When the rider removed the helmet I squealed and hugged him.
"Shikamaru, you actually remembered to come and pick me up!"
"Ino would have killed me if I didn't. She hit me when I told her it was too troublesome."
"Oh Shika-kun you think everything is troublesome."
"That's because it's true."
"Well, at least we know you love me and Ino enough to come and pick me up."
"Yeah, get on and hold tight."
Shikamaru took me home where Ino and everyone else met me. Kiba, Shino, Chouji, Hinata, Sakura, Ino, Lee, Temari, and TenTen came from around the corner with her bag in hand. I smiled at everyone and said, "Hey!"
We all walked into my house and went upstairs. We all started talking about random things. Somehow it led to schools and we found out that Kiba was suspended for starting another fight, and Shino was in ISS for skipping. Chouji, well he was just normal; an adorable person in my opinion. I loved all my friends. They made my weird life all better. I made food like usual since TenTen and Sakura were cooking impaired, Chouji would probably eat everything, Hinata wasn't very good with fire, Shino and Kiba would probably blow up the kitchen, Lee would probably try and juggle the dishes to impress Sakura, and Temari and Ino would probably poison someone or something with their tempers.
We ended up eating and started a game of truth, dare, double dare, deal, electric chair, or kiss.
Most of the time it was just fun, well until I pissed Ino off and made her kiss Kiba.
"Aki, truth, dare, double dare, deal, electric chair, or kiss?"
"Deal…bring it you donkey."
She put her pointer finger to her chin and thought for a second, and then grinning madly she said, "Aki, you have too spend one whole week sleeping in that church your grandpa owns. Like you can leave and go, but from 11 p.m. to 9 a.m. you have to sleep in that church."
I frown and asked, "What's so bad about that?"
"I don't know. I just remembered you hated the dark and stuff so yeah. Oh and if you don't you have to make"
She grinned madly and I sighed.
"Plus, I heard your church is built on cursed lands."
I froze.
"What?"
Ino smirked and told us all a very creepy story.
"I heard that the church actually used to be a place where these vampires used to live. They're all creepy and stuff. Like, there's no way to kill them. No garlic, holy water, crosses, and stuff like that. It's totally creepy."
Now if you knew me like Ino did, you would know I'm very superstitious and I believed in things like those.
"INO! You can't make me sleep in the church! That's really mean and creepy."
She laughed and said, "Don't worry! I was just kidding. I only heard it from this one weird kid. Haha, he thinks he's psychic. It was freakin' hilarious."
The rest of the time was filled with laughter and jokes.
Later that night, after everyone left, and I ate dinner with my grandparents, I went to my room and found a comfy pillow and a sleeping back of some sort. I took a flashlight, food, lighters (a Zippo), water, and a knife. Hey, I was really superstitious!
I shoved it all in a bag and climbed out my window into the tree and climbed down to the ground. I ran over to the church and unlocked it, walked inside, turned on the flashlight, and locked the doors.
I was totally schizophrenic when it came to the dark. I was totally unpredictable. I absolutely hated the dark. I walked up to the altar and lit the candles. The dim lighting shone through the chapel. I stared at full moon's light casting through the stained glass windows. It was beautiful yes, if only I could stop thinking about Ino's stupid story. I made a bed for me near the candles and the podium.
I laid there for about an hour before I heard my watch beep alerting me that it was officially midnight. I didn't know why, but I always prayed when it was midnight. I got into my 'praying position' and whisper,
"Oh lord, on this night, hear me. I pray that you'll watch over my family, friends, and me. I pray that you'll protect us, watch us, and guide us in the right direction. Amen." I got back to my bed and prepared to go to sleep, if not for a loud bang that alerted me and nearly made me scream.
I hid under my blankets and tried to calm my breathing. Every so often, the banging noise happened. It scared me to no end. I wanted to cry. Finally, the banging stopped. I listened for it, but it didn't come. I crawled out from under my covers and grabbed my flashlight and knife. I walked around the room making sure nothing was there. I was trembling with fear. I walked over one of the floor boards and stopped. I stepped on it again. It sounded hollow. I pulled off the carpet covering it and found a trapped door.
I freaked. I started hyperventilating like crazy and my heart was practically pounding against my rib cage. I couldn't help but let my curiosity get the better of me.
Then again, "curiosity killed the cat," and in this case…I was the cat. I took slow deep breaths and lifted the trap door.
WHOOSH!
Air was pulled into the floor and all the candles went out. I tried to calm my heartbeat, but it was too much. I was so freaking scared. I used my flashlight to look around. A took the little ladder down and followed some weird passage. Each step I took echoed in the dark and creepy passage. A walked for about five minutes and came to a door. Etch on the door were the words:
Ceux-là qui traversent cette porte seront maudits pour toute éternité.
I traced them with my finger wondering what they meant. (A/N: means 'those that cross this door will be cursed for all eternity.' Of course, Aki doesn't know that. She isn't French.)
I slowly touched the door knob and gave it a little tug. The door easily opened and I shone my flashlight in. I nearly dropped my flashlight.
Inside the room lay six coffins. I walked in and the moment all of me made it into the room, the door slammed shut. I jumped and let out a small strangled scream. I tugged and pushed at the door, but it wouldn't open. My breathing started going up again and my heart was beating so fast it felt like one long heart beat. That was not for me.
I took my flashlight and shone it on the coffins. Each of the coffins had some kind of lock on it and there were names engraved on the top lids. I walked over to the first one and looked at the name.
Sasuke
I frowned and said it out loud, "Sasuke…" I did the same thing with each coffin. "Itachi, Gaara, Neji, Sai, and Naruto, who the hell are these people?" I frowned and looked at each of the locks. Judging from the designs, there was only one key for all the locks. After a while of thinking where the hell the key could be, it hit me.
'My necklace is a key.' I thought to myself. I walked over to the Sasuke's coffin and put the flashlight on the floor. I held the knife in between my pale lips. Was it just me, or was it getting colder in here? Then I unclasped the chain and slid the key into my hand. I examined the key and then the lock.
Slowly, I slipped the key into the key hole, twisted it, and…
Click.
The locked opened. I pulled the padded lock off and lifted the coffin lid. I gasped.
Inside laid one of the most gorgeous men I had ever seen. His skin was porcelain white and looked like silk. His onyx hair had a taint of blue and fell across his face. His clothes were all black and red. Through the thin fabric of his shirt, I could see well built muscles.
I ran over to the other coffins unlocking them and observing what was inside.
Itachi had long lovely midnight black hair and his skin was a bit darker than Sasuke's, Gaara had messy blood red hair and a kanji tattoo of some sort that read 'love' on his forehead, Neji had chocolate brown long hair and on his forehead was a tattoo or something I couldn't really tell, Sai looked remotely like Sasuke but his hair was shorter for a fact, and Naruto…his unusual spiked blonde hair stood in disarray and on both his cheeks were three whisker like marks.
Each of them was well built and wore red or black of some sort. Mainly dark colors consisted of their outfits. I stared in awe at all of them. They were gorgeous, but strangely they didn't breathe. Were they dead?
I walked over to Sasuke's coffin. I looked over him and found that there was some kind of engraving on the underside of the coffin lid.
Once again it was in that same language as the engraving on the door. I couldn't understand it, but I could read it. I touched his face softly and whispered the engraving.
"Sasuke éveiller." (A/N: éveiller means 'awaken.' It's French, by the way and any words I used that are foreign to you are either French or Japanese.)
I immediately jumped back when I felt something pulse through my finger tips. His skin was a first cold, but the moment I said those words, warmth caressed my skin. I watched in pure horror and fear as the once 'dead' figure moved. His chest moved up and down as if breathing and his eyes fluttered open. I took some steps back until I hit the door. I grabbed for the handle and found it open. I was about to leave when Sasuke sat up. His gaze landed on me. I froze. My blood ran cold and I felt all my energy leave me.
His eyes were the darkest black I had ever seen. His gaze tore from me and looked around the room. He opened his mouth and said,
"Itachi, Gaara, Neji, Sai, Naruto…éveiller."
One by one each of them sat up to my horror. My energy suddenly returning to me, I yanked the door open, slammed it shut, sprinted down the corridor, ran up the stairs, shut the trap door, and threw the carpet over it.
I ran to my bed behind the podium and hid under the covers. My chest was heaving and I was freaked out.
'What the hell is going on?' I thought frantically. I was so scared. I wanted to cry. I closed my eyes hoping that sleep would claim me.
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How do you like it? I tried to make this long. I have no idea how I'm going to do this. If I get a lot of reviews and stuff, I'll keep this one up.
At the moment, my story Returning is on hold. I need time to figure out how the hell I'm going to put my thoughts together for that story.
Ingredients to Your Living Hell is being brainstormed on. Hehe, I need plain weird funniness for this story. I guess I have a plot for it.
Mercenary's Life …well chapter four is about 10 complete.
Haha, well I'm going to focus on this story and on Hymns of Heaven for a little bit before I start doing Returning again.
Read and review please!
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