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Hour Two - Camera Obscura

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Yuya walked slowly down the stairs. She was so dazed at the discovery she found while she waited for dinner. She entered the dining room and saw that Kyo was already seating still waiting for her.

"Had a rough half-hour? Hurry and sit and eat." Kyo told her to sit next to him. She did so without question.

She began to eat the pasta Kyo made non-stop and will only stop to drink when she's choked on it. "Ugh, pass me more water please…" she reached out to Kyo but he patted her back instead.

"If you drink fast, you'll end up suffocating. I don't want another dead person in my house…" Kyo gave her the water after he's finished patting. "Drink up now…"

Yuya snatched the glass from Kyo. Kyo smirked. Yuya drank it so fast she choked. "Ugh…"

"I told you…" Kyo pat her on the back again. "What happened?"

"Kyo… how did my brother actually died?" Yuya looked at her hands, they were shaking.

"Nozomu? Well, it was an accident… I told that bastard to pick him up, because… I was busy, I was very busy… my sister was very sick, my foster sister I mean… I had to go to the hospital…" Kyo looked at his hands. "She died when I got there…"

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean…" Yuya got up and bowed her head.

"Sit."

"Okay…" Yuya sat back on her seat.

"Before she died, she told me about the dreams she's been having recently, I was interested in those things… so I listened to her story. She dreamt about Nozomu being in a castle, he was walking, holding a camera-"

"Camera Obscura?" Yuya asked him. Kyo nodded.

"Yes, Camera Obscura… how did you know?" Kyo glared at her. Yuya looked away, she was terrified to look at Kyo's eyes. "Anyways… your brother wandered around aimlessly, directing the camera at something invisible, I don't get that actually… clicking the shutter, over and over again while moving around, it was like he was tailing someone."

"And then?" Yuya looked at Kyo with a concerned look.

"My sister stopped at that, who or what Nozomu was tailing is still a question mark." Kyo finished his remaining pasta and got up to wash the dishes.

"Kyo, what's your sister's name?" Yuya finished her remaining pasta and also got up to wash the dishes. Kyo was still washing his and he stopped to look at her.

"Uraha… Mibu Uraha, she was two years older than me, she suffered a chronic disease, and I didn't really know what it is actually…" Kyo continued washing and sighed. "Uraha was so nice to me even though I don't really like her family…"

"Uraha… I think I've heard… no, I've read about her name, where have I seen… oh! The notebook!" Yuya dropped the plate and it shattered. "Oh my… I'm sorry! Kyo, I'm sorry!" Yuya fell on her knees and hurried to gather the broken pieces.

Kyo finished his dish first and helped Yuya with the pieces. "You don't have to apologize, it's quite old…"

Yuya shook her head. "It must be quite valuable!" Yuya hurried but in the midst of doing so, she injured her hand. "Ow…"

"Let me see that…" Kyo took her hand in his and looked at the injury. "Blood…" unexpectedly to Yuya, he licked her hand.

"K-Kyo! W-what are y-you doing!" Yuya snatched her hand away from Kyo. "I-I'll go put some anti-septic on it, and I-I'll come by later to clean it again…" she moved away slowly from Kyo and ran to get the first-aid kit which was near to the kitchen.

Kyo was dazed. He didn't really know why he did that, it was reflex. Kyo wiped the blood from his mouth. "Why did it taste so… sweet?"

Oh Kyo…

"Huh?" Kyo looked around to study his surrounding. "What was that?"

Kyo… my blood is not your snack! Stop it or the kids will follow!

"Yu…ya?"

"Oh, what is it?" Yuya brought the kit to the kitchen. "Hehe… this is for… just incase…" Yuya kneeled down next to him and continued to clean the mess.

Kyo examined her while she was doing so. She reminded him of someone he knew but he didn't remember, it was vague. Her actions remind him of someone so dear to him, but he wasn't sure who it was.

Yuya noticed Kyo's strange behavior and coughed. "Uh, Kyo… I'm finished with this… do you want me to throw it out? Or do you want to keep it?"

"Just… leave it, I'll do it myself. You go rest…" Kyo looked at her one last time before turning to clean the heap.

"Okay, if you need something else, don't be reluctant to do so…" Yuya told him as she got up on her feet.

Kyo smirked. "Alright, can I have you in my room, on my bed, tonight?"

Yuya blushed and ran away. "You pervert!" she yelled.

Kyo… you pervert!

"Again… that was her voice…" Kyo sighed and finished cleaning up. After that, he went upstairs to go to his room.

As Kyo was passing Yuya's room, he heard her talking to herself. "Huh? Talking alone?" Kyo opened her door just a bit to check.

"Camera Obscura… the camera that captures spirits… a camera that focuses our spirit energy, to… help or kill ghosts?" Yuya was reading something on the study table. "Sadness that consumes the spirits… will be directed at someone who is happy… for eternity… free the spirit's pain, life and death… free the spirit's pain…"

"You okay?"

"Ah! When did you come in! Care to knock!" Yuya turned to look at Kyo. She closed the book she was reading.

"What were you mumbling about?" Kyo approached Yuya slowly.

Yuya got up from the chair. She stopped Kyo from looking at what she was reading. "I didn't mumble, I didn't mumble at all!"

"You are hiding something it seems…" Kyo folded his hands. "Tell me, c'mon now…"

Yuya huffed. "Alright already! I… I was talking to myself! I was just reminiscing about nii-sama…" Yuya closed the book she was reading as if it was not the subject. "I miss him so…"

Kyo stood very still. "So… you miss him…? Do you want a hug or something?"

Yuya shook her head violently. "Oh… god, no! Just leave me… I need to be alone…" Yuya hugged herself, pretending to be crying.

Kyo looked at her and left without question. He didn't close the door; he left a small opening, big enough for him to see from across his room. "If… you're scared or something… just come to my room."

Yuya's eyes widened. She turned her back to the door. 'Now, what should I do!' her mind said frantically.

Yuya sadly sat on her bed, pulling the blanket as she did so, covering her small body. She brought her brother's chest to her chest. She opened the chest to look at the camera and the pictures.

She looked through the pictures. She noticed writing at the back of each picture. One of the pictures shows a figure with silver hair, tied into a ponytail with a red ribbon. She couldn't see the face. Yuya turned to look at the writing and read it out aloud. "Man with ponytail, holding a bloodied candle."

Yuya scanned the picture for a bloodied candle. There was none. "Weird…"

'The camera shows traces of blood that cannot be seen with the naked eye'

Yuya remembered what she had read from the notebook and took out the camera from the chest. The second her hand touched the camera, she felt a tingling sensation coursing through her. "What?" she blurted out.

She steadied the camera in her hands. The camera was really old fashioned. Using bellows still… a little crack on the big lens. She brought the camera to look at the photo. "Ah-" she gasped.

The man in the picture looked back at her, and yes, he WAS holding a bloodied candle. His startling gold eyes looking menacingly at Yuya. Now, Yuya could see that he was wearing blue ceremonial-looking attire, also very bloody.

"Oh my god…" she threw the picture back into the chest. She took out another one. This time, showing a man with sunglasses on, holding a fan. He was smiling. She read the writing, saying "Man that appears zoomed in".

She brought the camera to the photo. Her eyes widened and she shrieked. The said man in the picture had his face covering the whole photo, his eyes that were covered before had no protection and his eyes were SO bloody.

Her shriek made Kyo bust into her room, wearing nothing else but his boxers. "What the hell happened!"

Yuya turned to look at him and blushed furiously red. "PERVERT!" she shrieked. She threw the camera by reflex at Kyo who caught it just as it neared his handsome face.

"This…" he said as he looked at the camera.

Yuya gasped out, "Oh… my…"

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A/N: How's that? Can you guys guess who those ghosts are? Easy right? If you guys can guess my age, chapter 3 will commence as soon as I have the time… (clues: check all my other fanfics) or maybe, I told you guys already? I'm so forgetful! Review! Thanks to you who reviewed, I LOVE you!