Chapter Three of Can Death Keep Her Away?

A/N: Hola everyone! Rishi's doing her best with Chapter Three! Rishi's can't promise she won't get writers block again….ON WITH THE STORY!!!

Yoshino wiped her eyes and brought the bandages into the other room to find the girl gone. Yoshino gasped. "She's gone!" she exclaimed. She franticly looked through the first floor of the house, but with no avail. Yoshino then turned to the stairway. She must be upstairs…But the only things up there are Shikamaru and Keiko's rooms…….

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Shikamaru heard someone coming up the stairs. He shrugged it off and turned on his bed. "Whatever…" he mumbled.

He then heard a door opening. He turned around, but his door wasn't open. He ran to the door, opened it and ran to Keiko's room. The door was open.

That door was locked! Shikamaru thought angrily. He went into the room, something he hadn't done in years.

The room was dusty, and had many posters of ninja. Shikamaru had left it the way Keiko had it when she died.

There stood the girl, looking over the room. Her face gave no expression.

"GET OUT!" Shikamaru yelled. "GET OUT! YOU AREN'T ALLOWED IN HERE!"

The girl stepped back a little.

"Get out of this room!" Shikamaru yelled. "No one's allowed in this room!"

The girl stepped out of the room lightly. Shikamaru slammed the door behind her and locked it again. "How did you get in here?!"

The girl said nothing, but nodded towards the lock.

"You picked the lock!? How dare you! This thing is locked for a reason!" Shikamaru said angrily, storming off.

Yoshino ran up the stairs. "Shikamaru…." She said quietly. She turned to the girl. "You picked the lock? No one's been able to do that."

The girl smiled quietly. She then turned and walked off.

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"I'm home." Shikaku called, opening the door. He glanced around the kitchen. Shikamaru was nowhere to be seen. Yoshino was setting the dinner table. And the girl was sitting on one of the chairs, her knees tucked up and her arms around her knees. It was a strange position, but it seemed awfully familiar….

Shikaku gasped as he remembered. That was Keiko's favorite sitting position….!!

Dinner was unusually quiet. Shikamaru had refused to come out of his room. Yoshino just quietly ate her food and excused herself.

Shikaku sighed. He got up and retrieved a pad of paper and a pen. "Write." He commanded, handing the paper and pen to her.

Yes? She wrote.

"So you can write." Shikaku muttered. "What's your name?"

Keiko. Keiko Nara.

TO BE CONTINUED…..

I have no energy to write whatsoever. XD I'm sorry, but…..I just got whacked with a jump rope, so my brain's scrambled.

So it is Keiko! What other surprises are in store? It's far from over!

Read and review, please.