Chapter One

Unfinished Case

"Thank you so much, Shibuya-san. It seems that ever since you have exorcised the ghost, there were no paranormal activities that happened in the house." The man deeply bowed to SPR's leader as his daughter and wife followed his actions too.

Shibuya Kazuya (AKA Naru the Narcissist) and his team received a case from the Miyamura family that they had a ghost that had been tormenting them for months, threatening them to give up a certain girl named Sakamoto Aki. The family didn't know any girl named Sakamoto Aki, so the ghost just kept harming them and said that he won't stop until he is given back his beloved Aki, saying that she is in danger. Desperate, the family came to SPR'S building and asked Naru if he could accept the case and help them with their ghost problem.

It didn't take long for his team to make the ghost go away. They did a simple exorcism and the ghost went away. Just as simple as that.

Naru returned the bow, but not as deep as theirs.

"My team and I did a thorough search all over the place, and I can assure you that the spirit won't be bothering you and your family anymore, Miyamura-san. But even if I tell you that all is fine now, please feel free to call us again if the spirit came back."

The family bowed once again as Naru turned around to face his two assistants. "Mai, go tell the others that we are to leave this afternoon. After that, you'll be helping Lin pack the equipment to the van."

Mai, being her childish self, saluted to Naru as she gave a big "Yes, boss!" while Lin just nodded to him. Both of them left with Mai skipping happily ahead of Lin to the rooms of the members of SPR.

Naru was about to follow his assistants, but was stopped when he felt his right arm being pulled. He turned around to see the daughter of the Miyamura family, smiling with her pearl-white teeth gleaming behind her rosy lips.

"Shibuya-san! Now that the case is over, would you have the honor of going out with me tonight? I know this gorgeous restaurant that just opened up a few days ago, and it's the best place to have dinner underneath beautiful Sakura trees in the middle of spring. So, what do you say?"

He frowned and gave a cold glare to the girl, but she does not seem affected by the glare. "My apologies, but I'm afraid that I'll have to decline your offer."

The girl gave a pout, sticking out those really red lips of hers. "But... you promised me! After the case, you would take the time to hang out with me. You promised!"

Naru sighed. He remembered yesterday when the girl came to him, pestering non-stop when he was so busy telling Bou-san to prepare himself to exorcise the ghost. She kept telling Naru that she was interested of him ever since she laid eyes on him and would want to have a date with him when everything is over. But he didn't remember agreeing to her offer.

"Hana-san," Naru said, trying to hide the annoyance in his voice. "I know how much you like to waste your time trying to get me to go with you, but I have no interest to entertain you at all. So, would you excuse me, I will need to help with packing up things for our departure later."

He forcefully, but in a gentle way, removed Hana's hands from his arm and walked briskly away from her with long strides. Hana didn't follow after him but was fuming with anger at her spot, her first time to not making a man fall for her charms.

What is with women whenever they see a good-looking man? Whenever they see a man that catches their eye, they do whatever they can to make the man fall for them with their charms. Sure, he was born with God-like features that would make a girl drool, but he just sometimes finds it really annoying that girls would try forcing him to share the same feelings with them. His looks is his pride, asides from his brains, but he would see it as a curse as soon as he sees girls crowding over him to just make him notice them.

Shaking his head to rid off the thoughts, he reached the base and saw Mai trying to hold a heavy box of monitors, her arms shaking from the weight. She turned to see Naru looking at her and she gave a strained smile, getting really exhausted from carrying the box. "Ah, Naru! Could you help me carry the monitors, please? I feel like I'm about to faint if I keep on with this much longer..."

Naru just stared at her. He then looked at the box a long while, before looking back at her sweaty face.

His answer was simple.

"No."

"Eh...?" Mai was doing her best to not drop from exhaustion as she frowned at Naru, but Naru just shook his head.

"Who is the boss here, Mai?"

Mai was silent, knowing where this is going.

"Mai." He called out.

"You're the boss." She finally answered, not happy at all.

Naru nodded. "Yes, and you are my assistant. So if your boss tells you to carry the things, then what do you do?"

"Carry the stuff..." Mai gave her answer.

Another nod. "Exactly."

Mai grunted as she tried readjusting the box in her arms, with her muttering under her breath. "Jerk... No wonder you weren't able to get any girlfriend ever in your life."

Naru just stayed silent, but gave a small shrug that can't be seen easily.

Well, girls normally worship Naru for his glorious beauty, and would do anything to have him, but Mai isn't like them. He recalled the day when they first met, her classmates ran over to his side to be near him and make him notice them. They talked to him and asked him things to know more about him, not having any suspicion of when he lied to them that he was a student in the school, too. The only one who didn't believe his lies, and didn't fall for his looks at first glance, was the girl who was named Taniyama Mai. Sure, she did mention later on that he was quite handsome, but she didn't let his looks control her thoughts.

Mai isn't your average girl. She's an honest girl who does not like lying. (She even argued with him after he returned from England that he should not keep any secrets from his friends anymore, ever since he kept from telling them that he was the Oliver Davis.) She was also a happy and optimistic girl who was so selfless and loyal to the people dear to her. She would not have any second thoughts of stepping in front of danger if that meant to protect people from getting harmed. Which is why she would always attract trouble like a magnet.

He watched as Mai grumpily walked away, and he called out to her, "Careful there! You know what happens if you drop those equipment."

Mai looked back to stick her tongue out before leaving him to smirk at her.

He wiped off his smirk once Mai was gone and walked into base to help carry equipment. There were only few monitors to carry, so he knows that Mai will have to endure a bit more of heavy-duty, making Naru almost laugh. Almost. His face just stayed indifferent as usual.

He just picked up a monitor when the lights flicker out, making the room too dark to see, except for the light that shined a bit from behind the closed curtains of the only window there.

Naru frowned, putting the monitor gently back down at the table, then walking over to the light switch. He flipped the switch up and down, but no light came out from the two lightbulbs of the room. It was at that very moment that Naru felt the temperature of the room dropped down, the kind of coldness that felt like he was in a freezer.

Naru groaned. It seems that the exorcism didn't work and that the spirit really didn't leave after all. That means they would be staying here a few more days until the spirit moves on.

"Aki..."

Naru shivered as he felt a presence just right behind him.

"Sousuke..." Naru called out the name of the ghost of the house.

"Aki... Help..."

He felt hands grab his shoulders. They were cold. Not a speck of warmth came from the contact.

"Aki... Urgent... Need help..."

Naru tried to grab the arm of whoever was touching, but his hands felt no contact to any arm at all. All he felt was colder air behind him. What was happening?

"Help... Aki... She... Danger..."

Naru felt the hands start squeezing his shoulders. It felt like there was no intent of harming him; it felt like that the ghost was panicking. From what, he doesn't know. One thing for sure is that whatever is scaring the ghost, it means trouble.

"Aki. Aki. Aki. Aki."

Naru felt the hands start shaking him, voice sounding so desperate already. There was pain in it, too. It was the kind that sounded like a kid seeing his dead pet, and begging that the pet should wake up.

"Aki. Aki. Aki. Aki. Aki. Aki."

"Sousuke-"

"AKI. AKI. AKI. AKI. AKI! AKI! AKI! AKI! AKI!"

There was strong knocking on the walls around Naru, and he knew that if he didn't calm Sousuke fast...

With a painful cry, the spirit gave a ear-splitting scream.

"AAAAAAAKIIIIIIIIIIII!"

The knocking stopped. The hands on his shoulders disappeared. Nothing happened.

Silence. Silence was the new music that echoed throughout the room. Silence was Naru's new friend. And nothing disturbed it.

Just silence.

"Sousuke..."

Silence...

Tap. Tap. Tap.

He spun around when he heard the noise, trying to see in the dark as much as possible.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Where was the noise coming from? He searched around the room for the location of the sound.

Tap. Tap. SCREEEEEEECH. Tap. SCREEEEEEECH.

The noise sounded horrible, like claws scratching on the glass, slowly. Really sharp nails making its markings on the smooth glass.

Tap. SCREEEEEEECH. SCREEEEEEECH. Tap. TAP. TAP. TAP. TAP.

The tapping was getting louder, the scratchings growing in number, but no clue of where they are coming from.

TAP. SCREEEEEEECH. SCREEEEEEECH. TAP. SCREEEEEEECH. TAP. TAP.

Naru finally found the source of all the sounds and turned to see the window.

TAP. TAP. TAP. Tap. Tap. Tap...

There was a long pause, but in that long pause, Naru thought he could hear a whisper in the sea of darkness, but he can't understand the words.

After the tapping, he then heard loud banging, as if someone was trying to shake the handles of the window in their attempts to enter through the windows. He can even see the doors of the window shaking violently from behind the curtains. The whispers definitely growing to volume, but Naru still can not understand any of the words.

It didn't take long for the banging to disappear, leaving the room back into its peaceful silence, but Naru could feel it becoming colder by the seconds passing by. For some reason, he felt wind passing by the back of his neck, giving him chills making him shudder.

He has this urge... the urge to open the windows. But where did that thought come from? Does he want to open the windows?

It was not a far distance for him to walk over to the windows. Reaching out his hands, he grabbed the two curtains and opened them, letting light shower into the wind and giving the place back its color for him to see again. He stared at the window, motionless.

There was the click of the door opening, and Naru turned to see a girl in a pretty kimono with short black hair and doll features enter in the room, worried. Hara Masako. She shivered when she entered the room, the cold that never left the room.

"Naru," she called out in her soft voice that was tainted with worry. "I suddenly felt a presence with overwhelming feelings just now. It felt like it came from this-"

But she didn't finish her sentence.

Both Masako and Naru stare at the window. The window that now had something on it... A message written on the foggy glass by unknown fingers.

TROUBLE. MEMORY. LOST. REMEMBER. TRAITOR.

Then there were more words right below those on the foggy glass. And it was those words that was carved on the glass by those unknown claws.

HELP AKI!

Then the spirit left, making the temperature become warm again.


A/N: Okay, so this is the first chapter of Who You Are To Me. This is my first time making a fanfiction, so I have nooooooooooooo idea what I'm doing. But I saw that there are people who has fun making fanfictions, so I thought, "Why not try it out?"

Also, I never wrote a horror story before (but I do love horror stories.) So I don't know if I wrote the story right...

Anyways! Please, review and tell me if my writing sucks xD

The next update might come... maybe next week Sunday if I haven't chicken out from posting stories in. But if I'm able to finish the update early, I'll post it as soon as possible.