Hey, sorry it's been so long, I actually thought I already posted this chapter :P. oh well. Here you go, I hope it's not too much like the movie...

Kyoko looked at the big house in awe. Could someone actually live in a house this big or was it a castle? She stood gaping at the house and Yashiro chuckled in the front seat.

"Wait until you see inside." he said.

Kyoko didn't really hear him. She was still amazed and she wondered what kind of fairies would live in a place like this. When Yashiro opened the door for her, Kyoko stepped in. Immediatly she was spinning in circles from looking at everything there was to see. Carpets, statues, paintings, the walls, the furniture. Everything was beautiful.

Yashiro chuckled seeing the girl spinning around the room, but quickly recovered his 'butler mask'. "Kyoko," Kyoko looked at him. "Do you see that door." Yashiro asked gesturing to a door on the side.

Kyoko nodded and took a step towards it. "Yes,"

Yashiro stepped closer, blocking her from it. "This door? Right here." he said pointing to it again.

Kyoko raised an eyebrow. "I see it."

"You must never, never enter this room. Do you understand?" Kyoko nodded and Yashiro leaned forward. "I can't hear you."

"I understand." Kyoko responded.

"Good. Follow me and I'll show you what you'll be doing." Yashiro started walking and Kyoko looked at the door. Yashiro looked back. "Kyoko." Yashiro gently scolded.

"What will happen if I go in?" Kyoko asked.

Yashiro sighed. "Have you ever heard the saying 'curiosity killed the cat?'"

Kyoko nodded.

"Good. Let's go." Yashiro turned.

"So what will happen?"

Yashiro sighed heavily. "The master practically lives in that room. He desires his privacy more than anything else. If you invade that privacy you risk his anger. His anger can be terrible. Do you understand now?"

"What will he do?"

Yashiro rolled his eyes. "Promise you you'll never go into the room, I'll see that you get any dessert you want while you are here."

"Taiaki?" Kyoko's eyes lit up.

"Sure."

"Deal." Kyoko skipped to Yashiro's side.

Yashiro started walking down the hall. Kyoko looked at the room. She felt drawn to it, but didn't get past one step before Yashiro called her back.

Up in the balcony, the shadow of Tsuruga Ren watched the young woman enter his house. She seemed so innocent. So childlike. So free. So... unlike himself.

Meanwhile in the town, more peoples homes were being taken away from them. Even in Kyoto. People stopped by Shou's store and talked about it.

"Who is doing this to us?" a widow sobbed.

"It's hard to say." Shou said.

"Not for me." a lonely farmer said. "I live between here and the next town. It all started when a man bought the old mansion."

"You don't know for sure that it's him." Shou said.

"Who else has the money for buying houses cash? Does he think he needs more so decides to make a us pay everything we have to him and lose our homes atop of that?"

"I heard he is a monster." a man in the corner said. "He only comes out at night. He's as ugly as only your imagination can see."

"I never believed stuff like that." the widow said. "But I may begin to now. He is a monster, whether he's ugly or not." she huffed and walked out.

Kyoko never saw Tsuruga Ren and she had not entered the room, just as Yashiro told her to. But she was so curious! The silent room, the wooden door, it all had a magic around it.

Even when she had worked for a week, she had seen no one except Yashiro. But one morning, while upstairs cleaning, she heard a voice. It was soft, beautiful.

Entranced by the sound she followed it to the forbidden door. Kyoko stood outside and closed her eyes listening to the beautiful sound. After a verse, curiosity overwhelmed Kyoko and she reached out and touched the door and opened it slightly.

She could almost see the person who was singing. She leaned in a tiny bit. She could almost see...then her heart leaped in her throat when she was pulled into the room.

"What are you doing here?" the man hissed.

Kyoko was spun around the room and was terribly scared. It was rather dark, the music had stopped, Kyoko felt her head would stop as well.

"Stop it! Can't you see you have frightened her?"

Kyoko felt three warm hands on her shoulders. Three? She risked opening her eyes and saw a beautiful woman and a tall man beside her, almost protecting her from the man who hurled her into the room.

"This is my house." Tsuruga growled.

"If you cannot speak normally to this young woman than go into the corner and pout." the woman said.

The man in the shadows was rather startled. The shadowy figure stood still for a moment.

"Go." the woman pointed to a chair in the corner. Kyoko noticed that the shadows conveniently hid his face when he sat in the chair.

Kyoko was shaking. She couldn't see the man's face, but his eyes glared down at her. She was frightened. Kyoko looked up at the woman who was smiling down at her, then at the man.

"Hello, Kyoko." the woman said.

"You know my name?"

The woman's smile brightened.

"You are famous in this house." the man said.

"I would never have guessed." Kyoko said glancing at the shadow in the chair.

"Oh he speaks of you often." the woman replied.

"Really?"

"You're special. Every girl is special, aren't they, fairy boy?" the woman asked toward Tsuruga, though did not look for a response.

"Fairy boy?" Kyoko raised an eyebrow and the woman smiled.

"He used to look like a fairy. As a child he looked so fragile, so delicate." the man explained and glanced over to the corner. "But that was before the accident."

"Accident?"

"Never mind." the woman stood and walked over to the corner and reached a hand out to touch the man's face, but he shied away from her. "Your lessons are refreshing as well as frustrating." she said to him.

"Then why do you keep coming back?" The man hissed. "Why don't you stay in your world of princes with dainty faces and white knights full of grace and pleasantries?" he glared at the man while saying this, then at the woman when he finished.

The woman turned and took a step away. Immediately the bit of the man's face that Kyoko could see softened.

"Eemma..." he started.

The woman paused at turned back to the man with sad eyes. She leaned over to kiss his forehead, but Tsuruga turned out of her reach.

"Do not touch me." he whispered.

But the angel reached out her hand and turned his face to her and kissed his forehead gently.

"I will always come back. Even though we are now worlds apart."

"Our departure is nigh." the man said.

The woman looked sad, much to Kyoko's surprise. "Of course, Lori." she stood and started to leave. "Goodbye, Kyoko. It was a pleasure to meet you. Be brave."

When they left, Kyoko stared at the door she exited. "She's so beautiful." she said, her eyes shining.

Tsuruga looked at Kyoko, without the harshness he had before. "You were told not to enter this room." he said from the shadows.

"I heard the music. That woman, who is she?" Kyoko asked taking a step towards Tsuruga, her curiosity of the woman outweighing her fear of the man.

The man smiled gently. "Her name is Julie. Julie is a queen."

"A real queen?"

"I never tell a lie." Tsuruga stood and Kyoko became aware that he was very much taller than her. "A lie is a black hole that grows deeper and deeper until it consumes you and you cannot get out." he leaned down to her face and examined her.

From this position, Kyoko could clearly see a hideous scar and misshapen face. She was almost frightened.

"I never lie either." Kyoko said.

Tsuruga smirked, much to Kyoko's relief, backed away from her. "That is good to know. Trust is the best way to begin a relationship." he paused. "Now, tell me the truth. Did you like what you heard from Julie?"

"It was beautiful."

"Yes it was. If fact you have never heard anything so beautiful."

"No, I haven't." Kyoko agreed. 'Maybe this man isn't so bad.'

"Do you know why Julie is the best?"

"She was born that way?"

"What? Born tha way? Yes... and no." Tsuruga moved to a harp and began plucking the strings randomly. Making such a beautiful sound, Kyoko almost couldn't believe it. "She did have a great voice, but I formed her into the best. Though she is older than I am, I formed her from something good, to something perfect. She is my trophy that I show."

"You're not very humble." Kyoko said.

Tsuruga paused in his music and raised his left eyebrow... which Kyoko now noticed he only had one. Odd. And he stared at her. He soon continued plucking at the harp strings.

"Humble? Humble? No. Should I be?"

"Humility is a virtue, Tsuruga-san. I should think you would have a lot... a lot to be humble about."

At this Tsuruga stopped playing and tightened his lips a moment. "You are an honest brute, aren't you?" he stared at her and Kyoko looked away. Again Tsuruga began to pluck the strings of the harp. "So what are you saying really?"

"Nothing." Kyoko said quickly. She had dug a big enough hole for herself.

Tsuruga smiled as if amused. "That I am... ugly." he said, the music becoming a little darker.

"No," Kyoko said. "Well, you're not... ugly ugly. Just.."

"Do not insult me. You think I am not ugly?" Tsuruga stopped playing and faced the girl so much shorter than himself. "Where is honesty now?"

"No! I mean, yes. No wait. I meant..." Kyoko was at a loss for words. So much for not digging a deeper hole.

"So you think I am ugly." Tsuruga said. "Say it." Kyoko hesitated. "Say it!" Tsuruga commanded.

Kyoko's lip trembled and she burst out. "Yes! You have an ugly heart which is worse than having an ugly face! You're so cruel to others. You cannot help your face, but you can at least control the way you act!"

Tsuruga stared coldly into Kyoko's gold eyes and began playing the harp slowly.

"Yes," he said after a while. "I am mean and I am ugly. Now you may go."

Kyoko took one last look at Tsuruga's face, then turned to leave. As se reached the door she thought. 'If I could sing...'

"Tsuruga-san?" she asked not turning around. "Did you really teach Julie-san how to sing?"

"I did. Now go."

Taisho was upset at Kyoko's report. "A beast?" he growled.

"Yes. He acted just like you described. He was cold and mean." Kyoko pouted.

"Kyoko, I don't want you going back there. We'll find another way out of this mess."

"I can't give up now. Besides, how can someone who make such beautiful music, be so bad?"

Taisho paused and cut meat of his cutting board. "Maybe there is more to this Tsuruga Ren than meets the eye."

Kyoko walked out to the mansion late at night. She was going to light a curse on the house.

Demon 1. Heh heh heh. This will show him!

Demon 2. He'll never scare us again.

Just as she was lighting the candle a voice came up behind her.

"What are you doing out this late?" a voice asked.

Kyoko turned quickly to see Kanae standing behind her. Kyoko blinked.

"I was taking a walk. What are you doing?"

"Just got my siblings to bed and needed to wind down. I hear you're working for the monster?"

"He's not a monster, he's human." 'Why am I standing up for him? Wasn't I just going to put a curse on him?'

Kanae smirked. "I'm glad you're not into this monster thing." a bell rang in the distance and Kanae groaned. "I have to go. Goodnight."

As Kanae left Kyoko saw a little boy running towards the mansion with a little girl limping quickly behind him.

"Where are they going at such an hour?" Kyoko wondered.

To Kyoko's surprise, the kids walked up to Tsuruga's mansion gate.

"Look, the bloodsucker's going to work." the boy said.

"You mean sucking blood?" the little girl asked.

"Yeah,"

Then a shadow came up behind them.

"Bwahahaha!"

"AAAHHH! It's the bloodsucker!"

"We're gonna die!"

Kyoko started laughing and came out of the shadow.

"What are you guys doing all the way out here?" she asked.

The kids breathed in relief.

"We're here to spy on the bloodsucker."

"There's no bloodsucker here." Kyoko said. "Come back tomorrow and you can meet him. It's too late tonight."

"Tomorrow he'll be a man again." a boy protested.

"We wanna see him before he... you know."

"No I don't." Kyoko said.

"We're gonna go look inside. Are you coming or not?"

"No." Kyoko turned her back. "I'm going home, and you should too."

Kyoko walked away leaving the two kids behind.

When Kyoko was gone the kids went to the front porch and peaked in the window. It was dark and hard to see.

"Move over, Hio!"

"Hold on a minute, Maria."

Maria rolled her eyes. He always made her wait because she had a limp and couldn't fight him back. She moved to the door and looked inside. To her surprise the door opened. She looked inside and saw a figure sitting on a chair, alone with a single candle lit.

"Hio, there's someone in here..."

"Shh! I'm trying to listen."

Maria saw the man look at her. She smiled and walked inside.

Hio jumped when the door shut. "Maria?" he looked around. "Maria!"

Kyoko ran outside when she heard shouting in the streets. It was two in the morning. There was a mob in the town square.

"What's going on?" she asked sleepily.

"A little girl has disappeared into the Tsuruga mansion." A man answered. "We're goin in and gettin her back!"

ooo, interesting. Maria has walked into the mansion alone. I wonder what will happen to her? Well, I don't, I'm the writer, it's just a figure of spee... oh never mind. I hope you liked it at least. G2 signing off for now. *Salute*