Author's Note: First of all happy holidays! Because you have been such good girls and boys (sorry if you are offended by this because of your religion or you don't like religions [IDK I just don't want to offend anyone]) anyway you have all been good readers this year so your present is two new amuto fanfic series!!!! YAY!!!! :D

Ok, I am working on the sequel to Amuto Island, just so you all know, and this was something I wrote when listening to a really emo song while trying to do math homework, DX math makes me emo. Anyway I'm publishing this now to show you all that I'm not being lazy! (Also please forgive me if I don't update a lot, I'm still working on chapter 2 plus I'm doing practically fifty other fanfics. But I really hope you like this one; I know I do. Oh yeah, and I MIGHT update once everyday like I did with Amuto Island so please stay tuned!! :D

Preface: Black Candlelight

The darkness had always been a frightening place: ghosts and scary stories were locked away in a deep dark corner of my brain to never be seen again. I shied away from holidays like Halloween and I had slept with a nightlight until I was ten.

When I turned eleven something happened so strange that I tell it to you now. I am Amu Hinamori, and I had just transferred to Seiyo Elementary School. A lot of guys like me and all the girls wished they could be me. I was idolized, but being idolized is an ugly thing. So I dared to wish for something different. Something I claimed to be better.

Little did I know that I could achieve that wish. With the price of others' lives that is.

Chapter 1: A Haunting

The tears wouldn't stop flowing. I hid in my room like a coward. My heart had been ripped to millions of shreds. Not only had my older sister died in a car accident, but now we had moved too. I sobbed again. My day at school had been the worst of my life. I had only been there a week and already I hated it more than anything in the whole entire world.

Again, I made another sob. It had been a year exactly since Dia had died. I sobbed again. Dia had been a lot older than me, but she had been the greatest sister ever. I hadn't eaten or slept for weeks after I found out she was gone. I started shivering all over. The hole in my heart had not filled in the least, merely numbed.

But today the numbness had warn off almost completely. I had been on the edge of tears the entire day. Instead of being sad and mopey I allowed myself to be agitated. One poor girl had gotten in my way and I had sworn really bad at her, and then a teacher gave me more homework than I wanted and I had just stormed out of the classroom and in the hall I gave a hall monitor the finger.

"Why did she have to die? Why!? DIA! COME BACK TO LIFE!!! PLEASE!!! I CAN'T WIN WITHOUT YOU!!! W-w-what about your dream? What about MINE!" There was a crack of lightning outside. The power suddenly went out. I sat in the darkness, buried under pillows.

I woke up strewn across my bed. My face was stiff from the dried tears on my cheeks. I yawned and allowed tears to pool onto my pillow. Then I wiped my eyes and sat up. But when I sat up and saw my room I screamed bloody Mary.

Bloodstains were everywhere. It reminded me of an anime I had watched. Since when did my life rip off animes? I hid my face in my pillow. Then I looked up when I heard my mother open my door,

"Amu-chan are you okay? Oh, another nightmare?" Mama had been crying too. I could tell. I glanced around my room fearfully, but the blood was gone. I turned back to my mom and nodded shakily. Mama left.

I slowly got ready for school. Suddenly a vision flashed behind my eyes.

It was night. I could see stars in the sky, but there was no moon. There was a girl running. She was a fast runner, but the person chasing her was faster. The girl screamed. Then the vision faded away. I shook my head.

"Just a nightmare..." I muttered. I tried to convince myself I had only dreamed that, but I knew I had not had a dream that night.

As I walked downstairs I saw another vision of blood. I closed my eyes and shook my head furtively. Stop this! I yelled at my brain. But my mind was not cooperative. In the back of my head I heard another scream.

By the time I finished breakfast I'd heard the scream nine more times and seen blood four more times. I was really shaky and I could feel how the blood had drained from my face. I shook my head again and ran out the door.

I took a short cut to school through an alley. While I walked I suddenly saw the vision of the girl again.

She ran, the chaser almost caught her, she ran fast, and then she screamed. But the apparition didn't stop there. I also saw what looked like falling. There were bright moving lights below. Was this girl falling off a building?

By school I was really super freaked out. It was just before lunch when I saw the end of the mental picture.

The lights got closer and closer until I could make out the people in the dark metal monsters. Then the classroom was filled with blood. Everyone else became demonic shadows. I could feel the blood on my hands too. I couldn't stop my tears as I saw the blood on my hand. I screamed and ran out of the classroom.

I didn't need to be a genius to understand what the blood meant. That girl had died, and whether this was real or not it was still a horrific scene that I could not handle. I hid behind a crop of trees and cried. I was still seeing blood: the awful, awful blood. I could smell it, I could feel it, and I could see it. It was horrible.

"Why!? Why!? Why!?" I screamed.

"The world needed its balance, that's why." a voice whispered. I shuddered, more tears escaped. I suddenly saw the girl lying in the middle of a street. Some of her limbs had been torn off and her entire body seemed to be broken. She was drowning in a pool of her own blood. At this sight I sobbed mutely.

"Pretty grim isn't it?" I looked up. The girl was standing in front of me, kind of. I could see through her, partially, to the tree behind her. I looked at the girl's ghostly white eyes and screamed. The girl had pink hair and wore a tennis outfit. She shook her head sadly,

"Death is never fun... I take it... that you don't like ghosts." She floated in the air with her legs crossed and her hands gripping her knees. She didn't look any older than me. I sobbed silently again.

"Who are you?" I demanded, "Why are you haunting me?"

"My name is Ran. I was told to haunt you so I have to."

"Who told you to haunt me?" I question frightfully.

"The Embryo."

Author's Note: What did you think? A little bit of darkness right? I hope you liked it and please tell me what you think. This story is still going through the editing process, just warning you. It is Amuto, and I know what you're thinking "Okay, wait, if everyone's dead and/or a ghost, DOES THAT MEAN IKUTO'S A GHOST!!!! *Dies *" no don't worry, Ikuto is not dead.