The two ran passed a couple of houses, some broken down, and others still standing. Through a path and under a bridge, they found a clearing with some stairs that led to another house and a huge gate to the side of the house. "The map says there is a bridge on the other side of that gate, and beyond the bridge is 'my house.'" Minako checked the map again to make sure.

"I hope Masumi is in there." Miyako followed Minako to the gate. Minako attempted to open the gate, but it was locked. "Seems like we need two square keys," Miyako said. For some reason, she had the urge to take a picture of the door. She lifted her camera up and with a "click," the camera flashed and the picture came out. On it were crimson butterflies.

"Why did you just waste a picture on the door?" Minako stared at Miyako as if she was stupid or something.

"Here," Miyako handed the photo to Minako.

"What is with these butterflies? Why are they the only things alive here basically?" Minako had had enough of these friggin butterflies.

"I think they will show us to where the keys are," Miyako pointed to a bunch of butterflies that lined up and went back to where the two had come from.

"Let's go then!" Minako chased after the butterflies along with Miyako. They went back under the bridge and down the path again. The butterflies split off into two ways, one going in the direction of the storehouse, and the other in the opposite direction. "You can go the storehouse way, I'll go this way," Minako ran the opposite way of the storehouse. She had to pass another twin deity statue and a house. The butterflies led her to a statue in the grass next to the side of the house. To the left was a pathway with small bridge. In the distance of that path, a shrine could be seen on a tall hill or mountain, it was hard to determine the difference. Minako looked in the grass in front of the statue "Ah, there you are," she picked up the left square key. "Get the twins," a raspy voice sounded from behind her. Minako turned around to see the ghosts of two villagers, one carried a torch, and the other had a sickle.

"Oh god. What do I do? Miyako has the camera, leaving me defenseless. I don't even have my evoker!" Minako was in a panic of what to do. The ghosts were closing in on her, they were cornering her against the house and the twin deity statue. The villagers moved apart as they approached her, leaving an opening in between them. "I'm saved," Minako yelled and ran between them "you'll never get this twin!" She ran away to where her and Miyako had split up, to wait for her. "Ah~ I think I lost them," she looked back in the direction she had run from. "Now I just have to wait for Miyako," she said joyously, but then frowned. "I just hope no more ghosts come while I wait… Although that crazy kimono lady almost killed me the last time I had said that." Minako sighed and began to wait for Miyako to return.

(Miyako's Pov)

"You can go the storehouse way, and I'll go this way," Miyako watched as Minako ran off. "I hope she doesn't get attacked by any ghosts." Miyako began to follow her own path of butterflies, in the opposite direction of Minako. The butterflies turned at the house Minako and Miyako had met in, the Osaka house, and the butterflies went up the hill and to the altar. Miyako made her way up the hill, cautious of any ghosts that might appear. She reached the top to see the butterflies stop at a twin deity statue, on the other side of the altar. "Is that where the key is?" Miyako walked over to the statue and saw something in the grass, in front of the statue. "Now we just need Minako's key," she picked the right square key up from the grass. "Miyako…" a voice hissed from behind her. It sounded familiar but something was wrong with their voice. "Masumi?" Miyako turned around to see her boyfriend. "Masumi," she yelled and went to hug him, but instead she fell through him, and fell to the ground behind him.

Miyako had just noticed that huge cuts were all over Masumi's body. He turned around to look at her, his eyes were full of hatred, it wasn't like him. Usually he was nice and kind, but he was different now. He began to walk over to Miyako with his arms stretched out, ready to grab her. "Masumi what's wrong? Stop!" Miyako flashed the camera at him as a reaction. He was stunned and he fell back in pain. Miyako got up and turned to run, but looked back really quickly to see her boyfriend one last time "I'm sorry," she said and ran off, back down the hill and to Minako.

(Normal Pov)

"Hey, what's wrong," Minako asked when she saw Miyako running at her with tears running down her face.

"Ma-Masumi!" Miyako couldn't quite say it. She was in too shocked.

"Masumi? Did you find him?" Minako was ecstatic. 'That means Minato must be here!'

"He's dead…" Miyako was finally able to say it. "Masumi is dead and he attacked me," she continued to cry. "Your brother is probably dead too."

"What? No way could he be dead! We just got here! Masumi's been here for weeks!" Minako yelled.

"But we don't know when he died! He could've died when he first got here," Miyako yelled back. She started to calm down and the number of tears flowing from her eyes decreased.

"I won't stop until I either find his body or his ghost!" Minako stormed off, down the stairs.

"W-wait! You can't go without the camera," Miyako yelled as she ran after Minako.

"Then come with me," Minako demanded and Miyako followed her under the bridge and back to the huge gate. The two put their square keys in and opened the gate together. "Wow… that's a long bridge," Minako stared out at the wooden bridge in front of them. "Ugh! There's another gate at the end of the bridge…" She became annoyed 'I swear, if we have to look for anymore keys…'

"The Kurosawa house is right behind that gate though," Miyako tried to reassure her.

"I guess that's true… What are we waiting for then? My brother is waiting for me, dead or alive!" Minako began to run across the long bridge with Miyako following close behind, with the camera ready just in case. There were many holes in the bridge and Minako ended up jumping over them and making even more holes from the force of her landing onto the fragile wood.

"Miyako! Help I'm drowning… again!" Minako panicked when she fell through the bridge yet again.

"Maybe if you would just stop jumping on the bridge this wouldn't happen." Miyako pulled her back up for the umpteenth time. "Honestly, we've barely reached halfway of the bridge."

Minako got back to her feet, she was dripping with freezing cold water. "I'm wet and cold," Minako complained "and we still have to go all the way over there?" Minako glared at the body of water "To need a bridge this long…" Something in the water suddenly caught Minako's eye. It was shining under the water.

"Hey don't reach your hand in there. What if you fall in again?" Miyako saw Minako reach her whole arm into a crack in the bridge… one of the cracks that she made anyway… Minako began to lean forward a bit to reach further, in doing so, she began to lose her balance. "Ahh!" Minako screamed when she lost her balance completely and fell face first towards the water. She closed her eyes for the impact with the icy water.

"Crazy kid!" Miyako grabbed the back of Minako's school uniform and pulled her back up. When Minako got her balance back, she stood on the bridge, staring at an object, shining in her hands. "Hey, what's that?" Miyako tried to look over Minako's shoulder for a better look. In Minako's hands was a silver watch, it shined from the water that coated it. "A watch? Do you know who's it is?"

Minako nodded in response "Yeah… it's my dad's, but why is it here?" Minako stared at the watch, trying to think of a reason for something of her father's to be here. 'Did he happen to come here before?' The watch said that it was midnight "I don't think that's right," Minako took her phone out of her pocket and turned it on to see that it was only 5:37p.m. "It's not even supposed to get dark until around 8:00p.m. or so. Why did it turn so dark all of a sudden? I know I've been in this village for at least an hour…and I'm surrounded by trees, but that doesn't mean it should be this dark."

Her phone beeped, signaling that she had a text message. Minako opened her phone and her message, it was from Mitsuru.

'Why don't you two answer your phones? Yours is off and your brother just won't answer his. All I want to tell you is, you two have to be home by 7:30p.m., no later. Call me back or send me a text when you get this.'

"Crap! I barely have two hours to find my brother before Mitsuru sempai executes us for being late!" Minako forgot about the watch and began to panic.

"Hey, calm down," Miyako said and grabbed Minako to hold her still. Minako already started to shake the whole bridge from her panicking. The last thing they needed was to break the entire thing and be stranded there. Minako calmed down after a couple of seconds of deep breathing. "Are you okay now?" Minako nodded. Minako turned to stare at Miyako's bag that she carried around. A static noise suddenly started to come from inside the bag.

"What's that?" Minako pointed to the bag, wondering what was making the static noise.

"I'm not sure," Miyako said and sat her bag down. Inside was some food and water, spirit orbs for the camera, film, and a radio with instructions next to it.

"What the heck is this thing?" Minako took the radio out and set it on the bridge carefully, making sure it didn't make any holes of it's own. "Oh great instructions, because everyone reads those." Minako said sarcastically and brought her arm up to throw the instructions away, but Miyako grabbed her arm and took the instructions with her free hand.

"You really are crazy aren't you." Miyako let go of her arm and began to summarize the instructions aloud. "It says that it's a spirit stone radio. To use it, we have to put in a stone that a spirit has and then you can hear their thoughts… or something like that."

"Why is it making that static noise though?"

"I'm not too sure," Miyako examined it, trying to figure out what was wrong with it. "Maybe there's a stone nearby or something. That could be why it's making a static noise.

"I don't see any stones though," Minako said and looked around. There didn't seem to be any on the bridge. While Minako was looking around, the static got louder when she was in a certain position.

"The static got louder when you were looking around. Do all of the positions you were in again," Miyako commanded and Minako did so. She went through each of her positions slowly until the static became louder again. She stood with her back to the radio, staring at the water. "I think it's reacting with your watch," Miyako pointed to the watch in Minako's hand. She was holding it behind her back, near the radio.

"Well I did just get it, and the radio didn't start making noises until now…" Minako said as she turned around to face Miyako and the radio. In turning around, Minako moved her hand with the watch behind her, making the static softer. "How can it be the watch though? There isn't a stone in it…"

"Maybe there is," Miyako said with slight excitement in her tone. "Here, let me see the watch," she held her hand out to Minako for the watch.

"But…" Minako was hesitant to give the watch up. It was the only thing of her father's she had after all, and she had just gotten it. "Make sure not to break it even more though," Minako reluctantly gave the watch to Miyako.

"It's not broken at all actually." Miyako took the watch and opened the glass in front of the clock with a hair pin. Minako was in awe when she saw that the glass wasn't really glass at all, instead it was a clear sapphire stone in place of the glass. 'I wonder when that got replaced' Minako thought to herself. When the stone came out, the clock began to move again, to 12:01a.m. "Now all we have to do is put this stone into the radio and we will be able to hear the owner's thoughts."

"You mean my dad?"

"Whoever had it for a long period of time last," Miyako explained and inserted the stone into the radio. She hit the play button, and a voice began to sound from the speakers.

"…I'm sorry…Itsuki…I have to save you for what you did for us…"

The voice spoke roughly, making it hard to understand what it said completely.

"That didn't sound like my dad. That was Minato! What's he talking about? Who is Itsuki?" Minako exclaimed. "That means he's alive right? It has to. My brother can't be dead." Minako started to panic again at the thought of her brother possibly being dead.

"Well, it is a spirit stone radio. I think it only works with possessions of spirits," Miyako stated "we should still check the village to make sure though. It might be that we can hear him on the radio because of the many spirits that inhabit this village." Miyako tried to calm her down.

"Yeah… we should continue looking." Minako calmed down and the two went to the gate. Luckily it was open, Minako was thrilled, and they went right into the Kurosawa's front yard.

There were statues lined up in two rows with a stone pathway in between them. The path led to the front door. The two cautiously walked over to the front door. Miyako was ready with the camera obscura, while Minako led her to the door and also scanned the area for ghosts just in case Miyako missed some. Minako opened the two main doors and Miyako kept look out. "C'mon, it's open." Minako waved Miyako to follow her into the house. When they got in Minako's flashlight started to flicker. "Oh no. Don't die, you stupid flashlight." Minako smacked the flashlight with her free hand, but it didn't help. The flashlight went out and they were left there in the dark.

"I can barely see now." Minako complained.

"Maybe we can use the flash from the camera." Miyako suggested. She didn't like being in the dark either. Although she wasn't too upset about not being able to see where she was going like Minako, instead Miyako worried about not being able to see the ghosts.

"No, we need all the film we can get. We'll just have to go in the dark." Minako walked out of the entryway and into a small corridor. There was a window at the end of the corridor that let in some light, and a door to each side of it. Minako grabbed the doorknob to the door on the right "please open." she chanted and turned the knob, it was locked. "Of course!" Minako kicked the door in frustration. She drew her foot back and held it in her hands. She hopped around, repeating "ow" over and over. "Ow, what a stupid idea…ow…" Miyako watched Minako hop around in pain. It was rather amusing, but it wasn't right to enjoy other's pain.

"Are you okay?" Miyako asked.

"Yeah… I'm fine." Minako replied. "Just see if that door opens. If it doesn't, then we will just have to break it down because I think the front door locked when it closed."

"Okay…" It was odd for a door to lock on its own, but this was a village crawling with ghosts, so it could happen.

Miyako tried her door and it opened with no force needed.

"I hate you." Minako finally stopped hopping around. The pain had subsided enough for her to walk again.

As the two entered the room, they could hear a man saying something about a failed ritual and the repentance. It didn't make much sense to them. The man sounded terrified though. In front of them was a screen with a silhouette of a man quivering in fear. "Are you okay?" Minako asked but then remembered what had happened the last time she had asked that to a random person that was talking nonsense. Yep, just like last time. Although this time the person just disappeared without the shrill scream. Minako was relieved that there was no annoying scream this time.

"Just another ghost…" Miyako was disappointed that they have yet to find anymore living people or anything that's living really.

"I'm just glad it didn't scream like the last one, well actually it was the first ghost I saw. She looked just like the woman wearing the white kimono that I saw in the Osaka house." Minako stated. "Except she didn't laugh like a maniac, instead she was just apologizing."

"Maybe that ghost has two different personalities, but she could also be a twin." Miyako explained. Miyako and Minako then began to explore the room, looking in drawers and boxes for extra film or something useful. When they had checked everything and everywhere, they managed to get some more film and some medicine. They then made their way to the next room.

The next room was a hallway. It was pretty normal except for the random blood that was dried and smeared along the walls and floor. "How welcoming." Minako said sarcastically when they finished examining the hallway. As they progressed down the hallway, ghosts started to appear out of thin air and they ran towards Miyako and Minako in terror. They ran right through the two and disappeared. "What the heck was that?" Minako asked and Miyako shrugged in response. The two decided to ignore it and they began down the hallway again.

There was another hallway connected to the one they were in now. It wasn't as long and you could see the end. There was blood splattered all over the wall at the end of the smaller hallway. "I know which way we aren't going." Minako shuddered and picked up the pace of her walking to get away from the smaller hallway as quickly as possible. Miyako followed close behind, scanning for any ghosts. Luckily with no ghost encounters, they were able to make it to the end of the hallway and turn right to see a small corridor with a door. "We can finally get out of this bloody hall!" Minako cheered and reached to open the door, but was stopped by Miyako. "Wha-?" Miyako shh'd Minako before she could finish her question.

Miyako pressed her ear against the door and listened to what was going on inside. She gasped at what she had heard and covered her mouth to prevent herself from making any noise. She backed away from the door with her hands over her mouth. She looked terrified.

"What? What's in there?" Minako pressed her ear against the door now. Her jaw dropped in shock when she heard the kimono woman's maniacal laughter along with the screams of men and women being slaughtered. What shocked her the most, however, was a second set of laughter. It sounded maniacal as well but it was a boy instead. "Minato?" Minako hesitated but then slammed the sliding door open to reveal a grand hall with a sunken fireplace in the middle and her brother standing in front of the fireplace, laughing as if he were insane. "Minato!" Minako screamed and ran into the room, after her brother.

Minato continued to laugh slightly as he turned to see his sister running towards him. The image of the woman in the white kimono overshadowed him slightly. They both laughed as they approached Minako. "Wha-what are you doing?" Minako screamed and tried to run away but tripped over something and fell to the hard wood floor. A flash of lightning showed what she had tripped on, it was a dead body. Minako screamed and started to crawl away from her brother and the woman. There were dead bodies everywhere now and blood coated the walls and floor. Blood stuck to Minako as she tried to maneuver through the dead bodies. However, one of the bodies reached for her and grabbed her leg. "No!" she screamed and tried to kick him off, but he continued to hang on tight. He was trying to use her to pull himself away from the woman and Minato. "Let go!" She continued to kick at him "Miyako help!" Miyako sent no type of response and stood paralyzed in fear in the hallway. The dying man continued to hold onto her until an even more terrifying ghost with ropes and cuts all over it appeared behind the dying man, killing him instantly by just touching him. The ghost had white hair and malice behind him. Minato and the kimono woman came closer as well. Soon enough, the three cornered Minako. The kimono woman and Minato commanded the white haired ghost with a motion of their hands and the white haired ghost moaned as it closed in, ready to kill Minako. It moaned as if it were in tremendous pain. 'No I can't let him kill me! Not when I just found my brother!' "Miyako!" Minako cried.

"Ah, Minako!" Miyako snapped out of her trance and grabbed a broken piece of wood that was on the ground in the hallway and rushed into the room. She ran in dodging all of the dead bodies and made her way as quickly as she could to Minako. Miyako finally got there and the white haired ghost's fingertips were almost touching Minako's face and the other two were just watching in amusement, not noticing Miyako behind them. Miyako rose the wooden plank up and yelled "Leave her alone!" She brought the plank down and hit Minato on the back of his head. At the impact, the kimono woman and the white haired ghost had disappeared and Minato fell to the ground, unconscious. Miyako cautiously stepped over Minato and went over to Minako. "Hey, are you alright? C'mon, the ghosts are gone now." She reached her hand out to the crying girl in the corner to help her up.

Minako looked up at the sound of Miyako's voice. When she heard that the ghosts were gone, she decided to look around the room and make sure. Miyako was right, the corpses, the woman, and the white haired ghost were gone. All that was left was the dried blood all over the walls and floor and her brother who lay unconscious on the floor. "Mi-Minato!" Minako cried and crawled over to her brother, ignoring Miyako's help to get up. The back of his head was bleeding which stained his dark blue hair and slid down the back of his neck, adding more blood to the room. "Please don't be dead!" Minako grabbed her brother and held him in her arms. She cried into his uniform and repeated "wake up! Please wake up!"

Miyako was shocked to see Minako so worried about the boy that had just tried to kill her. 'Wait was this the brother that she had lost? She did say "Minato", I'm pretty sure that was his name. Why did he try to kill her though? He isn't a ghost because I could physically touch him.' Miyako thought and thought until it became too hard from Minako's crying. "I'm sure he's okay," Miyako tried to reassure her "he's just unconscious."

"How do you know?" Minako yelled at Miyako with tears running down her face and onto Minato.

Miyako moved towards Minato and laid her head on his chest. "Thump. Thump." "His heart is beating and he's still breathing too." Miyako got up and sat back down next to Minako. "Just let him rest and he'll be okay."

"We can't just stay here. What if a ghost comes. We need to find some place safe." Minako demanded for the sake of her brother. "We also need to find something to clean and wrap up his wound."

"Let's go back to the Osaka house then." Miyako stood up along with Minako. "The upstairs there seemed safe."

"But wait, wasn't the front door for here locked?" Minako said sadly at the remembrance of being trapped in this house. "Maybe there's another way out."

"Well we can look, but if it gets too late and we get tired, we'll have to find a safe place here to rest. If there is one anyway." Minako nodded in agreement and the two picked Minato up and headed to the door on the opposite side of the room, behind some screens. Through the next door, they found themselves outside, in the rain. A garden with a tree, lay in front of them and to the left was a staircase. They decided to go up the two sets of stairs. A door with another hallway was at the top of the stairs. There was also a balcony, but that wasn't too important. There was a door at the side of the hallway that was stuck fast, which irritated Minako, and then there was a turn at the end of the hallway with a door at the end of the new shorter hallway. In the room, there was a study with bookshelves filled with books. There were even books on the ground. Next to one of the bookshelves was a window with flowers decorating it. Across from that was another door. Beside the door was a small desk with a cushion for a chair. The door was unlocked and the three went into the small room with flickering lights. Not much was in there except for some film and medicine, this place sure had a lot of film and medicine laying around.

"This room is making me nauseas…" Minako groaned and they quickly made their way to the next door. Inside was a huge stand, full of dolls, some of the heads were missing too. "This is creepy, but I feel safe here."

"Good, because there isn't another way after this except for back." Miyako was growing tired from carrying Minato, as was Minako. He wasn't the lightest person in the world, so they laid him down on a mat, behind a screen at the side of the room. Minako and Miyako sat down beside Minato and watched over him as he slept.

"I'm getting tired." Minako yawned. She took out her phone and looked at the time. It was almost 6:30p.m. They only had until 8:00p.m. before Mitsuru comes looking to execute them. "I don't think it will hurt if I take a short nap." Minako laid beside her brother and instantly fell asleep.

"I guess I'll keep look out then." Miyako forced herself to stay awake until the twins reawaken. She wasn't as tired as Minako but just being in this village seemed to make her tired, but she has gotten used to staying up for long periods of time and barely sleeping. She hadn't remembered when the last time she had slept was though.

Author's notes

Well, this was a kind of long chapter compared to the others and it also took a while to write too… Oh well at least it's done! But Hooray Minato is back… sort of, and it is closing in on the time when Mitsuru comes and executes them, well if they aren't dead already and if she can find them. Next chapter is already started but I don't know when it will be finished and posted because I have another story to write and I also have exams coming up so must study to get my academics up.

CA: Minato your turn for discl- Mitsuru? Wh-what are you doing here?

Mitsuru: Where are the twins? I have to execute them.

CA: Isn't it a bit early for that?

Mitsuru: I know they will disobey me and not come back on time. That's just the way they are. So I'm going to punish them early.

CA: Well…can you do the disclaimers first and then I might tell you where they are.

Mitsuru: Fine. CA184 does not own anything from Pesona3/P3p or Fatal Frame 2. Now tell me where they are.

CA: *Gone in hiding with the twins*

Mitsuru: YOU'RE ALL EXECUTED WHEN I FIND YOU!

CA: *whispers* Please remember to review. I am sad with no reviews. So with that ciao…if I make it out alive that is…