Summary: Ryou was a simple teen with a simple life. He had a nice boyfriend and kept up good grades. But when he met up with a weird fortune teller in the middle of the night, his life falls into a downward spiral and only one thing that can cure such a curse.
Disclaimer: Don't own Yugioh or the manga that inspired this little October Halloween story, Uzumaki.
Note to new and old readers: going to adjust some dialogue here and clean up some dumb grammatical of this time. should look and sound a bit better from the old version.
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Uzumaki
Chapter 1
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Ryou smiled as he walked out of school, arm in arm with his loving boyfriend, Hitoru. "Hey, Hitoru, want to spend the night studying for the big test tomorrow?" Ryou asked. "Sure. We can head over to my place. You know my mom loves having you over." he answered with a smile. Ryou smiled as well and nodded. "Alright. Let's get going then." Hitoru nodded in agreement and together, they headed over to Hitoru's home to study. Once night fell, Ryou said his goodbyes and left for home. Hitoru's mom offered to give him a ride home but he declined, telling her that he'll be fine. As he walked, the roads covered with an eerie fog, causing him to shiver a little as he looked around. On various occasions during the fall did Domino get a little foggy but not this bad. The sound of a chime rung through the stagnant air along the silent streets. It made the boy just a little scared and jumped as he heard a soft laugh from an alleyway.
"Well there. You're a cute boy. Why are you out alone?" The male whispered, a shawl covering his face but russet eyes glanced at Ryou from underneath. Before him sat a table and on the surface sat a crystal ball. "W-well, I was walking home. It was a nice night but it just got scary..." Ryou whispered as he moved over to the table. "What are you doing out here so late?"
"Why, it is midnight, the bewitching hour. That's when I show to give some advice to wayward folk out this late." Ryou gasped before looking at his watch. "Wow. I didn't know it was so late. Maybe I should've stayed over with Hitoru." Russet eyes gleamed with malicious intent but Ryou missed it. "Hitoru? Who is Hitoru if I may ask?" Ryou smiled. "He's the most wonderful guy I ever met. When I first moved here, I had no friends. But on the first day I went to school, he was there and we talked and became friends. Afterward, we started to feel something for each other and now we're going steady." The male's eyes narrowed before he chuckled as he gazed into the swirling mist of the crystal ball.
"It won't last."
Ryou looked to him. "It won't? Why not?" The male smirked as he looked up to Ryou. "Because, events will happen and once those events happen, you'll never see him again." he murmured and Ryou shook his head. "No, that won't happen. It can't..." he whispered. But the male nodded and it felt like a cold weight settled in his stomach. "But..."
"But what?"
"But I can save you. All you have to do is take this." he murmured as he held up a black rose to Ryou. The stem was covered in nasty looking thorns to surely cut into his delicate skin and Ryou stepped back. "I...I don't want to..." But the male gave him a skeptical look, just asking if he really wanted to prevent the only thing that could save Hitoru. After much contemplating, the boy stepped forward tentatively and reached out for the rose. Ryou took it in hand but winced, dropping it as he pricked his palm on the thorns. "Thank you." he said as he took the rose and looked to the thorn covered in blood and dropped it onto the ball. The ball glowed faintly before the swirling mist inside turned red. "Cause now you sealed your fate. With this rose, I claim you as mine. With your blood, you are bound to me. Try to resist and the curse of the spiral will engulf you. In this month of October, you have until the day of Halloween to make the right decision to save yourself and those closest to you. Fail, and you will suffer the consequences. Know that I'll be watching you and every move you make." he said and laughed. Ryou stepped back, horrified, before watching as fog filled the entire alley. Once it dispersed, the mysterious fortune teller was gone. Ryou couldn't take much more before running home, trying to chant in his mind that it was nothing but his imagination but nothing could make an explanation of the mark on his hand from the rose thorn.
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The next day, Ryou headed to school, looking about just in case something seemed wrong. Seeing nothing, he relaxed and continued to school with a skip in his step and smiled as he saw Hitoru hanging by the front gate waiting for him. Very happy to see his boyfriend, he didn't hear the menacing laughter floating over the breeze. "Hey, Hitoru. How are you?" he asked as he leaned up to kiss his cheek lightly. He smiled down to Ryou and patted his head lightly. "Just great. Ready for the test today?" Ryou nodded and they both headed into the school for their classes.
But that's when the curse decided to start.
When he sat down, ready to take his test, he felt a chill and shook it off, thinking nothing of it. As he was given the test paper, things went fine up until the words seemed to spiral over the paper, making it illegible. He rubbed his eyes and looked back at the paper, seeing the words still spiraled over the paper. Ryou blinked before looking around. Everyone around him was taking their tests as if nothing was wrong. He gulped slightly as he looked up to the clock. The ticking of seconds were loud to his ears and soon, right before his eyes, the hands of the clock froze and started shifting. The boy yelped, falling out from his seat and Hitoru looked over to him. "Are you alright?" he asked as the teacher moved over to him.
"Ryou, do you need to step outside for a bit?"
Ryou looked to them both before reassuring Hitoru and nodded to the teacher as he stood and went to step outside the classroom. Tapping his foot slightly, Ryou tried to get rid of the feeling he felt sitting in the room. 'Get it together, Ryou. Whatever happened the night before with that creepy fortune teller was just your imagination. There's no such thing as a curse about spirals. If I don't get over it, they'll send me to the loony bin for this...' he thought as he sighed, leaning back against the wall, gaze down to the floor. When he looked back up, he nearly screamed when he saw the very same fortune teller standing before him.
"Bet you weren't expecting to see me again, huh?"
"What are you doing here?!" he squeaked and the male chuckled. "Nothing at all. Just checking up on you. Seems you didn't want to heed my warning." he whispered and Ryou tried to move away from him. "W-what! I thought that was just my mind playing tricks with me!" The male laughed as he watched him. "Do you really think I would joke." he whispered as he moved towards Ryou. "You don't know what I'm capable of, little angel. What happened in there was just fooling around. But if you think it was just a trick of the mind, then I guess I'll have to step my game up a notch." Pearly fangs gleamed from underneath the shawl as russet eyes glanced to Ryou once more.
"I'll just say this. All of this can end in a snap if you dump the dead weight and come with me. I can treat you better. I wouldn't want to lose such a precious little angel while I'm here." Ryou shook his head and stepped back more. The eyes narrowed before the male smirked. "So, that's your answer? Too bad." The fortune teller mumbled as he raised a hand. Ryou gasped as things started to swirl before him and yelped as he fell into a hole but he manage to grab onto the edge. He looked down into the swirling darkness below him then back up to the male standing there. "I'll make you mine. Willingly or not. Just know things will be much easier on you if you didn't fight. But until then, you have till the end of the month. But my wrath won't stop. Each day, something will happen and it will always be something related to the spiral curse, Uzumaki. Stop it if you wish but don't think it will be so easy." he said with a laugh before disappearing right before Ryou's eyes. The shock caused him to let go and he cried out as he fell into the abyss.
"...you...Ryou...Ryou!" A voice call and he screamed as he woke up to see Hitoru standing there. "What happened? You never came back in and I had to wait til the end of class to see if you were alright. When I came out here, I saw you passed out in the middle of the hallway." Hitoru whispered, worried for his partner. Ryou rested a hand on his head as he looked about. There was nothing wrong and everything looked completely fine, as if he never encountered the man earlier. He nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine. Must've gotten dizzy." he replied as he moved to stand with some help from Hitoru. "Should I take you to the nurse?"
"No, I'll be fine. Guess I missed out this period. Let me get my things and you can walk with me to my next class." Hitoru nodded and watched as Ryou stepped back into the class to gather his books and bag. When he reached his desk though, his eyes widened as he looked to the black rose laden with thorns, one still holding a bit of his blood on it.
And from there on, the days would only get worse.
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Zypher: Whew. Done with that. Hope you readers like it for there's more to come as the month goes on. I would definitely recommend reading Uzumaki. Very nice and scary manga, just beware for gore, scary situations and many spirals await you. I wouldn't blame you if you somehow got dizzy from it. -chuckles- Anyway, cue the beginning of this horror story. Enjoy the read and I shall be back with more.