A/N - Spirahl'n'Kittehn: Allo dear readers! Welcome to our first fic up to post. We hope you enjoy reading this as much as we loved typing it. Please, take time to review and tell us what you like and give your opinions as to what can be improved, also, feel free to email any of us with ideas. I won't hide it, we're somewhat making this up as we go. Though that doesn't mean it won't be as good as any well thought out fanfic! Plus, thinking things through is SO not our style when it comes to fics. Blah! Anyway enough with my rambling and onto what you came for. To the fic! Oh yah, and when I, Spirahl, type the chapters some spelling errors might show through, I don't have spell check!-fly away randomly- Oh, and there is a heavy dose of Final Fantasy 7:AC and Fruits Basket in this chapter, just so you know, the curse is no longer in affect.
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"Isn't it just wonderful? What do you think of our new home for the next few months?" A joy filled voiced asked to his three traveling companions.
"You call this dreary place our home?" A flat tone sounded at his cousin's question. He was right, with the deep overcast clouding the sky it made the boarding house look quite ominous, but the large housing facility still held its dark charm nonetheless.
"Oh, come now Yuki-kun, it's not so bad," the voice of Shigure Sohma chimed in again. "Surely Kyo-kun likes this place?" He asked, looking for a supporting opinion, but found none within the orange haired teen. "This house looks like the ones you find in those horror slasher movies." The second Sohma cousin of Shigure told him blatantly. Desperate for some sort of positive comment he turned to his last guest with a nervous laugh and a smile to match. "Eh, Cay-chan, what do you think?" Though it was kind of hard to hear her reply seeing how the girl in question was running up to the entrance giving shouts and woots like an excited eight-year-old.
"Whoo-hoo! This place is perfect Shi-chan! I'll get my novel written in no time!" The girl called out while bounding up to the big black cherry oak double doors of the house.
You may be wondering whom this is, right? She goes by the name of Hiten Mouryuu, but often tells others to call her by her middle name of Caylan. Why so? For her own reasons, that's good enough. As for her knowing of the Sohmas, Shigure in particular, Caylan became acquainted with him at a book convention in uptown Kyoto. Both aspiring novelist chatted with each other for some time and when the mention of Shigure's trip to Whales England to see the spooky Blackwell manor came up Caylan was all to quick to take the other novelist's offer to accompany him and his cousins he also invited in hopes to get the inspiration for a horror novel that she's been itching to write.
Long dirty blond hair swished back and forth as the excited girl hurriedly opened the manor's doors and stepped inside with the three Sohma's still trailing after her.
"I knew she would love it," Shigure gloated.
"Oi, Mouryuu, slow down and keep it quiet, damn you could wake the dead!" Kyo said, annoyed.
"I think Mouryuu-san might scare the front desk-men..." Yuki stated, slightly worried.
"Ello, anyone in?" Caylan asked, murky blue eyes scanning the front room.
"Can I help you?" she turned to see a woman leaning against the doorway that lead into the next room. The woman could be seen with long silver hair, about mid back length, green-blue eyes looked Caylan up and down as she turned to fully face them. The younger girl notice that the dress like outfit she wore was mainly made of a rough looking leather with boots to match.
"Uh, yes, we're here for the-" Shigure started as he joined Caylan's company
"Oh, yeah, that," the woman said cutting him off and sighing irritatedly while walking past them into another hallway, beaconing them to follow. "My name is Yazoo, I'm one of the owners of this house. And no, I'm a male."
Shigure tripped.
"Yazoo-san, you said 'one of the owners'...?" Yuki asked, ignoring his cousin's surprise about Yazoo's gender. The silver haired man nodded. "Yes, my four siblings and I own this house." He explained.
"Really?" Caylan said, "who are the other four?" Yazoo opened the door that lead into the kitchen with a cutting table island in the middle. Three figures leaned against while one sat on top. The four guest noticed that all shared that same trait of silver hair and green-blue eyes, save for one. Her bloody hair partially covering shimmery slate gray eyes. She sat next to the tallest male, whose ridiculous hair length reached down all the way to his knees!
"Ah, more of them," he muttered. "This was your idea," Yazoo said.
"So, who are you?" Another asked, one whom they could tell WAS a man.
"Eh, oh, I'm Caylan." She said smiling, not bothering to tell them her first and last names, they didn't need to know, at least not now. Then she turned to her friends. "This is Shigure, Yuki, and Kyon-Kyon," she finished, not taking notice to Kyo's glare. "Who are you?" The blond asked in return.
"Sephiroth, Loz, Yazoo, Kadaj and Ember," The girl said, pointing to each individual and lastly to herself. "We're the Blackwell heirs."
"Heirs?" Caylan questioned.
"Yep, last of our family and the only owners left to watch over this ancient house and what not. Nothing too complicated." Caylan nodded, she couldn't help but frown a little. Being the last of their family obviously meant their mother and father were dead. The little novelist had yet to imagine what it would be like to loose either of her parents. Thankfully, she was happy to not have lost any yet. Caylan was soon snapped out of her reverie by a voice talking to her, asking her a question to be more precise.
"Miss Caylan? Is something wrong?" She looked up, it was the oldest one talking to her. The one who must not really be familiar with scissors.
"Ah, uh, no...I just kinda have the habit of drifting of into day dreams...haha, yeah, it's just something I do!" She told him with a toothy grin while rubbing the back of her head. The other just laughed at this.
"Careful, daydream to much and you might trip and fall to your death down a flight of stairs." Sephiroth told the little novelist with a sly grin, but then was soon nudged hard in the side by his younger sister. "Didn't I say to try and NOT scare the customers?!" she hissed in his ear then looked back to the group with gritted teeth behind a slightly nervous, forced smile. "Don't mind my DEAR BROTHER, he just likes to joke around. But now that you're here let me get someone to show you to the rooms you rented for the next few months."
Ember walked to the door that lead out of the kitchen and called down the hall way. "HENRY! Come in here! You have some new guest to show around!" A few minutes after the girl made her command, someone entered the room. He was a shy looking man, not unattractive, but nothing in looks he possessed stood out particularly. He was about 6' 0", not that tall, but not short. He wore simple jeans, a white button down and work shoes while showing a demure but happy smile.
"Nice to meet you, I'm glad you've come to stay. Please, follow me and I'll show you your rooms. They're up on the northern side of the house," The young man motioned with his hand to follow him. And they did, well most off them. Caylen hesitated for a moment, still wrapped up in thought.
'Too much daydreaming can make you fall to your death down stairs...that's happened to me before...except without the death part...' This time she was dragged out of her head by Shigure tugging on her shoulder and pulling her away toward where Henry was leading them.
"Come on Cay-chan. No more daydreaming for the day, wouldn't want you to trip!" Shigure teased. "What, like you did?" Yuki retorted from behind Henry. "Ah-hah, yes, let's all avoid that, shall we?" The older novelist said while still pulling Caylan away. She couldn't help it, turning her head back toward the five siblings her own eyes slightly widened as she saw Sephiroth looking right at her. Shaking her head and quickly whipping back around she followed the Sohma's up a flight of stairs, carefully watching her step with each stair.
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"Well, that was interesting. I can't wait to talk with our new patrons tomorrow." The eldest smiled and leaned against the counter more languidly only to recoil and clutch his head in pain.
"You idiot! Be careful of what you say to others! I don't need my host freaking out the boarders and making them run away. I don't care how much your good looks keep most girl customers around, some have brains and will leave at first sight of you! And you know just as well as I do if we want to keep this place open every penny counts!" Ember fumed. Her brother just smiled an laughed. "I'm sorry little one, it's just too fun. I promise I'll be nice...at least when you're around." He rubbed his shoulder from the well aimed punch he received from Ember after finishing his last sentence.
"I'm going out to the garden!" she yelled to him while exiting the room.
"Did you have to get her angry?" Yazoo asked.
"No, but it makes her have more energy and with four new boarders, she's going to need it." Sephiroth told him.
"Yeah, but big brother got hit twice in under thirty seconds, doesn't that go to the list of 'bad day'?" The second youngest, Kadaj, asked him.
"Maybe so, but if it gets her up and moving, what does it matter?" Sephiroth stated.
Loz chimed in, "You in the hospital?" It was really an honest to god question, but Sephiroth just eyed Loz and turned to Yazoo. "Well, let's worry less about my arguments with Ember and more on our guests. Yazoo, please go write down our guest's information and check them into the log book." He told his younger brother then turned to his other siblings. "You two...go be useful somewhere." Sephiroth finished his orders and went to leave the room, thinking.
'I don't think things will continue to go as smoothly as they have so far for much longer...'
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Caylan looked around her room in awe. It wasn't like a hotel suite or anything but it looked pretty damn good and comfortable. She wondered if Yuki and Kyo would be able to share a room with each other, not to mention Shigure. She dropped her bags and collapsed on the bed, crawling up to where the fluffy pillow was and nuzzling it contently. 'Ahh, this is such a nice place...I know I'm going to have the best time writing my Novel here...' The blond yawned and stretched. She felt so tired, it couldn't been the jetlag from the plane. She looked over to the clock, it was only 7:00 A.M.! But then again...different time zones and all. And a nice nap wouldn't hurt anything. Shrugging of her coat and kicking of her shoes and laid out on the bed in a comfortable position, ready to sleep.
'Nhm, I'm really going to like this place...a lot...ZzZzzZzZZz' And with that, she went to sleep not at all worried of what events might happen at her stay.
Spirahl'n'Kittehn - Oh Dear Good it's 1:30 in the morning! Ahh! My brain is fried and I need sleep! Make my effort worth my pain and enjoy this story and the chapters to follow! Review! Talk to us, tell us what you think! Tell me if you like the OC's, I want to avoid accidentally making a Mary-Sue, oni-chama does too! Ignore my shouts and loud voice in your head and question marks but follow their orders! Peace out to all fools!!!
Oh, and Henry is not an OC. He's from Silent Hill 4. I just couldn't resist! He's so..so...well he's just him and he has his own charm. And Silent Hill 2 fans, don't worry, James will make a few appearances now and then!