THE GRAVEYARD

Lighting zig zagged across the sky followed by thunder. there was no rain yet, but it was coming. laying on the dirt of a grave, the head stone just inches from his head Kuwabara looked at the night sky wandering.

"Where am I? what am I doing here in this forsaken graveyard?" Kuwabara asked out loud. then it all started coming back to him.

"...yeah that's right. that's what I'm doing here...I remember now. this is my new home...and they will never find me here. yes, they will never, never find me here because, because I'm out here and there in there and I'm out here! ah hahahahahahahahahaha...oh my head it hurts! Oh, it hurts!" Kuwabara said these words very quickly before the terrible pain took control of his head.

CHAPTER 2 BLACK HILL SANITARIUM

Kuwabara had been in there for way too long. and as he walked the halls at night, he could see the other inmates hiding from his eyes. this place was for the mentally ill, for those who had lost the ability to function in a normal society.

Kuwabara had been in there for four years and he hated every second of it. the other inmates stayed away from him after he gouged out the eyes of someone who had called him a child molester and bit the nose off of another inmate who attacked him. his friend tried to help him but Kuwabara had bit his throat out. that particular inmate died there in a pool of his own blood. ever since then other inmates stayed out of his way.

Kuwabara had seen the sickness of all mankind. in black hill sanitarium they were driving him crazy. "Gotta get outta here, gotta erase this fear. no more scientists." Kuwabara thought to himself.

There was a loud buzz indicating that it was time for the inmates to return to their padded rooms and wait for their medication. some in wheelchairs wheeled their ways to their rooms, others were escorted by men in white. Kuwabara walked to his room and laid down in his little cocoon and went down into the black of his mind. he had had enough of therapy in little white rooms. nothing here could end too soon.

The men in white came around making sure everyone was in their room. Kuwabara hated those men in white. the men in white sticking needles in his mind. yes, he had to get out of this place no more silent tears. and most importantly no more scientists. tonight, he would make his move he had been a good boy for almost a year, getting the staff to relax around him and to trust that he would not hurt anyone. it was paying off. the security was getting lax around him.

CHAPTER 3 WAITING

Just after midnight at black hill, the lights are out and they are bringing Kuwabara his pills. "but they didn't know Kuwabara, they didn't know him at all. if they did they would know that tonight pills will be chills will be kills." Kuwabara thought to himself.

Waiting in the dark Kuwabara could not take another night at this place he simply could not take it anymore. Kuwabara knew that if he didn't take his medication then they would all be on him. but he hid them in the elastic of his pants. they all seemed to be fooled. this way he would not be incapacitated and would be able to act.

"Nursie doesn't know it, but this is her last night." Kuwabara thought to himself. She has the key, the key to freedom that he needed to escape. Kuwabara pretended to be doped up so when the nurse checked on him he suddenly reached out and grabbed her by the neck with both hands and pulled her inside his room. she was unable to breath so she couldn't scream. and she was so much smaller then him so she couldn't fight him off.

Kuwabara squeezed as hard as he could with his large hands around her tiny neck until she stopped fighting and went limp. Kuwabara could see her empty eyes staring at the padded wall and he could not feel her breathing anymore. he let go and took the key from her bluish hand that she had tried to use as a weapon to fend him off with and he went out his open door.

Looking around he could not see anyone in the hallways. dead doped up eyes watched him as he ran down the hallway past other inmates' cells and opened the first door. he hurried now fearing that he could be discovered at any minute now. he ran opening doors that never opened before.

Kuwabara found his way outside and kept running through the woods. he ran six miles through the wilderness that night until he reached the cemetery gates. he climbed up the locked doors and went into a tomb that was in the cemetery and relaxed. he was home at last among the moonlit cemetery graves and tombs.

CHAPTER 4 HEADS ON THE WALL

Kuwabara was in a cold and lonely tomb. surrounded by darkness in his new-found home. he's not alone anymore, he's looking back at yesterday. he remembered his escape, and what he had to do. Kuwabara looked up at the wall and saw the heads on it. they were dead yet alive.

Kuwabara knew that if you died in a graveyard the soul couldn't escape if you lost your head. instead the soul lives on in the brain. Kuwabara liked that idea.

Last night when he climbed the cemetery gate. he saw a man digging in the ground. It was the gravedigger Jerimiah working the late shift. he had worked there for years he already had one foot in the grave. with Kuwabara's help he got in the other. Kuwabara couldn't believe that he wasn't stronger then he was. Kuwabara was tall and strong and he used that size and strength to do the gravedigger in. then decapitated him with his own shovel.

Kuwabara looked at the gravediggers' head on the wall. the look on its face was full of fear and disbelief. Kuwabara approved.

He looked at the next two heads, Mary the hooker had come to the church by the graveyard to give the reverend sexual favors in return he gave her money that belonged to the church.

"may their souls rest in hell." Kuwabara thought. one would think that Kuwabara was killing needlessly, but no it all had a purpose. no one comes to his graveyard and leaves again. nobody must find out that he is here. especially THAT man.

Kuwabara stood up and fell to his knees holding his head. he couldn't get rid of the voices. so many voices, all saying different things at different volumes and tones. they were all merging together into one large mess of incoherent gibberish.

"AAAAAHHHHHH DAMN IT HURTS!" Kuwabara screamed before collapsing into a ball on the floor half crying half screaming. this went on for a while until it finally stopped and Kuwabara climbed unto the coffin in the middle of the tomb and slowed down his breathing and closed his eyes and after a while fell asleep.

CHAPTER 5 WHISPERS

Sometime later Kuwabara was awoken from his sleep by whispers. "You've got to get his daughter, daughter. you've got to get his daughter, daughter. you've got to get his daughter." the voices kept repeating

"Yukina." Kuwabara said aloud before smiling and closing his eyes and laying his head back down on the coffin. "Yes, a perfect plan." Kuwabara thought. sometimes the voices were very helpful to him.

CHAPTER 6 I'M NOT A STRANGER

Kuwabara had been watching Yukina all week. he had been watching her at school he knew her schedule, he knew it well. He knew exactly when she was leaving.

Kuwabara had taken the gravediggers truck and clothes so that he may blend in better. thankfully he had been wearing all black so the blood on the shirt didn't show. the clothes were kinda tight but Kuwabara could make do.

"Hello Yukina." Kuwabara said approaching the little girl as she sat on the steps of the school building. "Oh, hi." Yukina replied nervously.

"It's ok." Kuwabara said "I'm not a stranger, I am a friend. I was sent here to get you. I'm going to take you home to daddy...later," Kuwabara said patting her on the shoulder. his big hand taking up all of her shoulder.

Kuwabara kneeled down in front of the little girl and looked at her. "You have such beautiful eyes and such beautiful hair. you must be at least seven years of age by now. I haven't seen you since you were two."

"AS IF I REALLY CARE! BECAUSE YOU'RE HIS DAUGHTER, HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER. THE ONE I'M SUPPOSED TO HAVE HURT. BUT I COULD NEVER, I WOULD NEVER HURT A LITTLE GIRL LIKE YOU!" Kuwabara screamed inside his own head so loud he got a slight headache from the intensity.

"Now come with me child." Kuwabara said.

"No!" yukina replied. "I don't know you. You're a stranger. SOMEBODY HEL..." Kuwabara put his hand over her mouth to stop her screams then picked her up bookbag and all and carried her to the truck.

"Come on little girl...why are you making such a fuss. come on I is time. I've got real dolls on my wall." Kuwabara said putting her in the truck "I made them myself and you can play with them and play with them AND PLAY WITH THEM! until your daddy comes to get you." Kuwabara spoke fast while shaking his head from side to side.

Kuwabara got into the truck and looked over at yukina who was crying. "Don't cry Yukina I and you will soon be home now. I and you will play and I and you are gonna have some fun yeah!"

Kuwabara pointed out the windshield and yelled "SWEET GRAVEYARD HERE WE COME!" then started the truck and drove off in the direction of Kuwabara's home.

Chapter seven digging graves

"Yukina you stay here, the tomb is warm. Why don't you play with the dolls on the wall?" Kuwabara said to the sobbing girl. who gasped at seeing the heads on the wall that Kuwabara was talking about. Kuwabara went outside with the shovel that he used to behead the gravedigger and started digging.

Kuwabara was not the man he used to be since HE put him away. he left half his brain back at that crazy place. did that mean that he was insane. did that mean that he was to blame? no not to Kuwabara it didn't.

Kuwabara looked over and saw Yukina watching him. "Is it true what they say?" he asked her as he dug. "That little girls don't cry? Yukina look at me." Kuwabara said to her "I'm going to be his misery. I'm going to be his HELL. and I wish him well in HELL!"

Kuwabara was digging graves, seven deadly tombs. below the bright moon. "McKenzie, how could you think I would forget?" Kuwabara said aloud. later that night with all seven graves dug Kuwabara thought how clever he was. all the headstones said yukina forever on them.

CHAPTER 8 MEET ME AT MIDNIGHT

Yesterday after Kuwabara finished up the last of the seven graves. he went to call McKenzie with the phone number he got from yukina. he called and woke him up in the middle of the night. "Surprise!" Kuwabara said over the phone. "Oh, revenge is sweet." Kuwabara thought.

Up and awake McKenzie knew that Kuwabara was still alive. if you asked Kuwabara who McKenzie is he would tell you that he is the mayor of this forsaken little town. and that he's yukinas father. and that he was the one who brought Kuwabara down.

He is such a sick little puny man. Kuwabara would say that he is sicker than he was. and Kuwabara knew that he was sick.

"Meet me at midnight by the cemetery gates or else your little yukina will be dead!" Kuwabara said viciously over the phone.

Call Kuwabara sick in the head, but you can't call him a liar. in fact, he used to work for the mayor. until one night he caught the mayor molesting his own little child. who do you think they all believed when McKenzie put the blame on Kuwabara. this caused Kuwabara to be placed in black hill sanitarium for the criminally insane and Kuwabara's father who had put up with his mental problems all these years disowned him in the courtroom and later committed suicide out of shame leaving Kuwabara completely alone and hated by all.

"McKenzie, did you hear me?" Kuwabara said coldly. "...no yukina, she's fine. she's sleeping in the coffin...CAN'T WAIT TO MEET YOUR FACE AGAIN!" Kuwabara yelled out of impulse then hung up the phone.

CHAPTER 9 SLEEP TIGHT LITTLE BABY

"Yukina, it's time for bed and you need your rest." Kuwabara said placing the little girl in a coffin that was in one of the graves he dug. "So, lie down in your coffin dear. ill wake you when daddy's here alright." he said with a smile. suddenly yukina started crying when Kuwabara put the lid on the coffin.

"no, no, no. Don't cry. do...little girl from head to toe deep into the ground you go. Down. DOWN" Kuwabara said holding his head. standing up and grabbing the same shovel he decapitated the gravedigger with Kuwabara began singing as he shoveled dirt on top of her.

"Sleep tight little baby. Sleep tight below the ground. sleep tight little baby nowhere to run around...oh the worms...oh the worms. after a while Kuwabara could not hear the cries anymore and when he was finished, he went to the cemetery gates and waited for the mayor. but as he was waiting, he could feel something pounding at his head. it was almost as if he could still hear her screaming.

"oh, yukina I'm doing all this for you. I didn't mean to, I didn't want to but you've got to sleep tight little baby." Kuwabara said as he held his head in his hands.

Looking up Kuwabara saw the mayor standing in front of him it had started to rain. "So, you came at last." Kuwabara said with a smirk. "Let me see your face, let me see your heart you son of a bitch!"

Kuwabara looked at the mayor and to him he saw a little baby, a little tear. Kuwabara knew he was trying but he also knew that he couldn't stop the fear.

"if you ever want to see your little girl again you better do as I say!" Kuwabara demanded "dear Mr. mayor welcome to my humble tomb. come inside...you know you have to. hahahahahahaahahah uh Kuwabara breathed then slammed the door behind them.

Inside the tomb that read Kuwabara, Kuwabara began to weep. "Oh, daddy...I'm so alone, oh daddy...come home he cried over his father's burial site. "Oh, daddy tell me what to do."

"Daddy don't look at me like that." Kuwabara said pushing himself away from the center of the tomb on the floor holding an outstretched hand as if protecting himself. I didn't do it...HE did...it was HIM. Kuwabara said pointing at the mayor. "i could never, I could never. I wasn't even there."

"Daddy tell me what to do...Daddy wait...don't go. Daddy please stay Daddy...no you're fading away. Oh, daddy please stay. you're going down McKenzie." Kuwabara said in anger toward the mayor.

"What am I to do with you?" Kuwabara said rising to his feet in anger "Sit down you creep. you degenerate son of a sheep.

CHAPTER 11 TRICK OR TREAT

The only light in the tomb was coming from so high above. watching from so high above the moon was looking at them through a tiny window.

"Down on your knees." Kuwabara demanded and wrapped a blindfold around his eyes. "the two of us are going to play a little game. I think I will call it trick or treat." Kuwabara said picking him up and walking him outside the tomb a way then threw him to the ground.

Grabbing the mayor by the back of the neck Kuwabara spoke. "Yukina is sleeping in one of seven graves. now you decide which ones are trick or treat!" Kuwabara threw the shovel down in front of the mayor who fumbled around until he found it.

"I can only let you fail this twice the third time you must be right." Kuwabara smiled. "you better start digging, she could be dying as we speak. the worms could be feasting on her."

The mayor felt for a gravestone and began frantically digging. All the while Kuwabara was enjoying himself. "How does it feel to be digging for someone you love. to be digging for love." Kuwabara mused.

The mayor found a coffin and opened it up and put his hands in the decomposing rot of someone else he jumped back in horror.

"Wrong one try again hahahahahah." Kuwabara taunted. the mayor climbed out of the hole and found another gravestone and started digging. he was desperate, frantic.

He reached the coffin inside and opened it hoping to feel the warm face of his daughter but instead felt a cold live less skeleton. "Oh, you failed again!" Kuwabara mocked. "that's someone else you've got there you blind folded creep. I'm beginning to get the feeling that your, your digging your own grave ahahahahahahaha." Kuwabara made a shoveling motion in the air as he said it. "only one chance left to save your daughter now."

The mayor was filled with adrenaline and fear as he dug on the next grave he found. Yukina had to be in this grave she just had to be. He felt the shovel hit a coffin lid but before he could open it Kuwabara hit him in the back of the head with a big rock and he went face down on the coffin. Yukinas coffin.

"Oh, Yukina your daddy won but I'm winning now." Kuwabara said aloud. then dragged the mayor out of the hole and back to the tomb and tied him down.

CHAPTER 12 UP FROM THE GRAVE

As Kuwabara looks the mayor deep in the eyes he sees only darkness. "i must have knocked him out good...I kinda like that." Kuwabara thought to himself. "i, I must go."

Here we go again digging into Kuwabara's twisted brain. he thought he was losing it again. "lalalalalalalala." he said aloud as he went to Yukinas grave. he reached down and removed the rest of the dirt. "lalalala." he continued.

"Yukina, Yukina don't you fear I will get you out of there so you can breathe again. you can't sleep forever dear. Lalalalala" the tune wouldn't leave his head. Kuwabara lifted up the lid of the coffin and pulled her out. "Come to daddy." Kuwabara said.

"lalalala tell me how it makes you feel when I sing so nicely to y-ou LALALALALALALALA!" Kuwabara's singing became loud and erratic. "YU kina Yukina aaaahahahaahaha!" Kuwabara started punching himself in the head as the pain in it got worse and worse.

CHAPTER 13 I AM

Back in the tomb Yukina is sitting in the floor. Kuwabara was standing by the door...the door to freedom. the door that Kuwabara closed so shut. and as he took another look at his mind, he seemed to think that the sun had come, but it hadn't. there was only darkness.

"McKenzie you better realize it's just you and I now." Kuwabara said coldly as he looked at the mayor. who had his back against the wall on the stone-cold floor. hands tied with nowhere to go.

"This court is now in session!" Kuwabara exclaimed. "you stand accused of stealing a child's innocence and freedom too. I am the only judge and I am the only jury. I'm also your lawyer too. so, tell me what to do." Kuwabara was told that last bit by his own lawyer when he was put on trial for the mayor's crime. McKenzie looked terrified he begged for mercy but Kuwabara was in no mood to hear his pleas they reminded him of his own pleas that fell on deaf ears in court.

"What's it gonna be?" Kuwabara asked. "are you guilty or are you GUILTY! Yes, you just go ahead and cry!" Kuwabara said feeling the retribution for the way the mayor made him feel in court he wept just like Kuwabara had and like his father had before he took his own life later that night out of shame. even his own father had believed the mayors lies. Kuwabara was getting the justice he so rightfully deserved and he was enjoying every minute of it.

"I, the judge and the jury find you guilty of stealing the innocence of a child. and therefore, we sentence you to die, slowly yes. die, die, die, die, die, die, die, DIE!" Kuwabara sung in a deranged melody.

CHAPTER 14 YUKINA FOREVER

"leave it up to me girl." Kuwabara said to yukina. "you tell me when and ill act. by the first light of dawn, daddy will be on his way. by the first light of dawn, no more daddy I say." Kuwabara said looking over at yukina. "you tell me when and I'll make him disappear." Kuwabara said with a smile.

Kuwabara could feel that the sun would be here soon...looking back at yukina who was crying Kuwabara could see her messing with a string.

"what are you doing yukina don't touch that string! what do you think you're doing, girl?"

Too late Kuwabara should have seen it coming his way. glass from the broken window so high above heading straight for his neck. by the first light of dawn, Kuwabara lost his head. by the first light of dawn he realized. "Oh, God...I'm dead!"

Kuwabara could feel his soul creeping...up into his brain. Kuwabara guessed he would be scared, if he weren't already dead. but his blackened heart had told him no one really cares anyway.

"Yukina, what are you doing now?" Kuwabara said inside his head. "Do not set him free, girl! Yukina what are you doing? you better take a listen to my head. did you hear what it said?"

The view was strange from where Kuwabara's head was laying on the cold floor. it was hard when you're only a ball. "How could the mayor win?" Kuwabara thought. "and I become one of THEM." he thought referencing the living yet dead heads on his wall. "I'm just a head on the floor. my body is over there, but I am still right here!" Kuwabara cursed.

"Yukina, come back here. Yukina you can't leave me like this!" Kuwabara pleaded.

"Yukina, I hear your little feet coming my way. pick me up and lets head for home. but not a word to daddy." so, the little girl put Kuwabara's head in her back pack and left the tomb with her daddy.

"Yes, I'll be with Yukina forever, Yukina forever..." Kuwabara mused as they left the cemetery.