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Chapter 1: Moving In
Crash! Something broke against the floor. A girl of sixteen was trying to clean it up before the owner of the house came. Too late.
"Miyu, what did you do?" A twenty-year-old girl asked.
"Break something. At least I'm trying to clean it up, Ran!" Miyu said.
Ran's cellphone rang. She answered it, and Miyu could see she was not all that happy. Ran sighed, and told Miyu she needed to pick up some crazy Kotobuki from the police. He was twelve. Miyu, sighed, finished cleaning up the broken pieces, and went up to her room. She took out a sketch pad and started drawing. Ran left the house to go pick up whoeve it was.
When Ran entered the police station, she saw an angry boy sitting in the corner. She remembered that the head did tell her that one of the cursed was a starnge boy. With a groan, Ran asked the boy, "You are a Kotobuki, right?"
"Yeah, and what do you need to know about it?" The boy said bitterly.
"Are you a relative of his?" One of the police asked.
"Yes, and I'm taking him home," Ran said firmly, grabbing the boy by the wrist and dragging him to the car, with him yelling, "Let go!"
Miyu heard the door open and slam, and heard the boy yelling. She grabbed her sketchbook, her color pencil pouch, and went downstairs. "Ran, who's that? I've seen him somehwere."
"He was at the New Year's fest, remember?" Ran said. "Now, introduce yourself."
"I'm Shadow Kotobuki," The boy said. He had messy black hair and piercing green eyes, just like Miyu.
"Shadow? I'm Ran Kotobuki," The older of the two girls said. She had blonde hair blues eyes, and wasn't liked that much by the head. Oh well.
"I'm Miyu, the artist of the family," the younger girl said. Shadow perked up when he heard artist.
"You draw?" Shadow asked. Miyu nodded, noticing how Shadow took interest. She handed over her book to Shadow and let him draw.
"Ran, where are the-" Miyu started when the bell rang. "Nevermind. A little bit is answered, anyway."
Ran answered the door, and greeted a boy with pale brown hair and eyes. He was about seventeen. Miyu screamed and ran back upstairs. The boy said, "Miyu never liked me anyway."
"Who are you?" Ran asked.
"I'm Eric Kotobuki. I think you're Ran?" he said.
"Yes. Is anyone with you?" Ran asked.
Eric stepped aside, and a girl of ten said, "There's me. I'm Brianna Kotobuki, and this is my brother, Brad Kotobuki." She pointed to a boy of nineteen that behind Eric. Both Brianna and Brad had pale blonde hair and pale blue eyes.
"More people?" Shadow looked at Brianna. "Bri-chan!"
"Shadow!" Brianna cried, tackling the boy. "Yay!"
"Brianna, I know you and Shadow are friends, but I think you should stop tackling him before he gets hurt," Brad sighed. Shadow said he was fine.
"We now have...six people in this house," Miyu called from the top of the stairs. "Are we going to visit the neighbors tomorrow?"
"Why not?" Eric said. "I think we should pay a visit."
Ran did not like the look on his face.