Day 10

I'm so hungry… I can't go on… I haven't eaten in almost a week. All I've had is the occasional water… sis… please help…

I don't know if I can handle this anymore. He's going to kill me…

Ruby weakly put her notebook down. Her body was too weak to do anything anymore. It had been nearly a week since she last ate, and her diet now consisted exclusively water out of necessity. She remained curled up in a ball, trying her best to hold onto whatever she had called sanity at this point.

She had been periodically been trying to write lyrics for the songs Mr. Yamada had asked her to write, but she couldn't find any motivation to do so. In fact, she started to lose hope she'd ever be saved from this situation.

She had remained chained to her wall, without much room to move. The dark thoughts began to plague her mind.

What if I'm never found? What if I'm here forever? She thought to herself. Oh god… what am I going to do? She rolled over. Maybe I should just. She silenced that thought. No I can't do that. I can't just end it… I'm too afraid to.

She battled away the thought of suicide on a few occasions. But as time went on, she realized she wanted a way out, any alternative to this hell. She has only been here for a week and it felt like months. She wanted it to stop. There were no signs of anyone coming to save her. No hope.

But she kept clinging to the thought that she'd be out of here eventually.

Ruby heard a noise come from the door, it was Yamada entering her room. He came in with a white cooler, one you'd take on a picnic.

"Hey Ruby, doing fine there?" he asked her.

Ruby hid her face in fear, not wanting to speak.

"Sorry little girl, didn't mean to scare you." He said as he approached her. He set the cooler down and looked to the book. He picked it up with no resistance from Ruby. "Let's see, what progress have you made today?" he asked looking through the notes.

Ruby kept her face well hidden. She didn't want to be seen when he finished. She moaned quietly as she cowered. It wasn't until the book landed next to her head did she look back up. He was standing on top of her, unchanging face.

"So at least you tried." He said to her. Ruby's face remained the same though. Full of terror. "I guess you deserve some sort of reward." He replied gesturing to the cooler.

Ruby looked at it. Coleman. Is what it read.

"You mean… you mean the, the, the box?" She asked.

"Yes Ruby, the cooler has food in it." He told her calmly.

Without hesitation, she rushed out and grabbed the box and opened it up. She moved faster for this than she ever had before as she took out the food in the box. A few plastic containers of what looked like Meatball Spaghetti and a couple of biscuits.

She, without hesitation, ripped the lid off of them and began shoveling it down into her mouth like dog. Yamada bent down to his knee and began petting her head as she ate.

"Tastes good don't it?" he asked her.

Ruby didn't respond, she just ate like the wind.

"I hope you like it." He said ominously as he got back up. He made his way back to the door as Ruby polished off the bowl faster than he had anticipated. He turned around as he parted ways. "Let me know how you felt tomorrow, I want to know how I did making that for the first time."

Ruby was afraid to ask, but she did anyway. "What is it?"

He smiled as his next sentence shook Ruby to the core. "A little something called Lysergic acid diethylamide, and Psilocybin."

"What?" Ruby panicked at the overly scientific explanation. She didn't know what that was, but the thought having something with a name like that in her system was terrifying her. "What the hell is that?"

Yamada had a light chuckle as he began to close the door. "I told you Ruby. You're going to learn to do what I tell you when I tell you to, and I know you don't like it when I hit you." he told her. "It's a mixture sure to leave a fun time for you." he told her as he slammed the door shut.

Ruby's heart started racing. She just got drugged and she has no idea what she should start expecting. She curled up into her fetal position, like usual at this point, and started to panic.

Okay, what the hell did he give me? She thought to herself. What Is it? She kept thinking.

She thought back to what he said. Some kinda acidic compound and some kinda other unknown chemical. Just what the fuck did he give her? Was it a drug? A bacteria? What could've been in that container of food?

A few minutes had passed and Ruby grew paranoid. She sat up quickly looking around her room. It felt more like a cage than anything. Her eyes were dilating to their max as her whole body began to sweat.

She heard a noise from above her and her gaze immediately shifted to it. She looked up and saw it was nothing, but the sound of it was enough to scare her. She quickly retreated to her mattress and grabbed the old green blanket on it. She wrapped herself in it, trying to hide from whatever was happening.

Another noise. She snapped to the sound in her bathroom, but nothing was in there. What the hell? She thought. She curled up as best as she could with her blanket. She thought there was someone in here with her, but she couldn't find it.

Her heart was going a mile a minute as her body began to react to whatever she was spiked with. She quivered at every little thing that happened. She felt a cold shiver run down her spine. The room started to warp in shape, as if the walls were melting. She started to cry at the sight of it all. "No. No no no no no." She started to mutter to herself.

A few footsteps came from the bathroom as she seized up in a fetal position. She shot her fully dilated eyes to the source of the noise. She picked up her pillow in fear of what was there.

"Go away!" She screamed. No response as the shadow figure before her stood there. "I said go away!"

The figure began to walk into her dimly lit room. Her footsteps revealed a small woman, roughly Ruby's height. Her yellow cardigan wrapped around her school uniform, highlighting her finer points of interest.

It was her old friend Hanamaru.

"M-m-m-maru-chan?" She stuttered out. "Oh my god." was all Ruby could say anymore. "What. What, what're you doing here?" She asked.

Hanamaru opened her mouth as blood began pouring out like a demonic fountain. "Zuuuuuuura…" she moaned out as she raised her hand out like a zombie from Night of the Living Dead.

Ruby panicked as she backed herself up as far as her chain would allow her to. She suddenly got caught as the chain didn't allow her any more room to move. The demonic looking Hanamaru got closer to her by the second. Ruby threw her pillow at it in an attempt to stop her from killing her.

"NO!" Ruby panicked as she tugged on the chains, trying to free herself. As Hanamaru's decaying hands grabbed Ruby's, she jumped up in terror. The force of her jumping was enough for her to suddenly break the chain.

As Ruby fell back she scooted as far away from Hanamaru as she could. She hit the wall and realized something was very wrong. She looked at her hand that was trapped on the chain and saw it was missing completely. The gory parts were covered in maggots and flies.

Ruby screamed in terror as she unconsciously flung herself into the wall. Before she could react, hands began to extend from the wall and pulled her into the bricks. She screeched in fear as the walls became a gelatin like structure, feeling like liquids pulling her under.

She extended her hand out to try and grab anything in reach, but to no avail. As she slowly started to drown in the liquid wall, she heard her captors voice echoing through her head. "You're going to learn to do what I tell you when I tell you to…" over and over again.

"NO! I don't…" she tried calling out. "I don't…" she felt hands suddenly begin groping her. She flailed around in the gel and saw more of those dark figures pulling her deeper, taking pleasure in touching Ruby.

She continued to flinch and move, resisting with all her might to break free. Unfortunately this wild continue for what felt like days.

As Yamada sat in the couch in his living room, her watched with slight dismay over Ruby. An IR video was playing on his phone. He watched his hostage suffer from the drugs her gave her. Ruby was in the corner, shaking uncontrollably. Her head twitched in every direction, trying to find out what the fuck was going on.

Her sighed. "It's only been a half hour." He grumbled to himself. "Maybe I gave her too much?" he asked himself. He turned his phone off and set it down on the coffee table before him. He sat forward and began to rub his temples in irritation. "Just do it Ruby, please."

He sat back in his couch and turned on his TV. It was the afternoon news, talking about all the recent events in the world and local area. He turned it on to find the newsman talking about something North Korea doing some crazy assed shit (again.)

"... as the leaders of the nation continued onto say, and I quote 'f* you mister Trump, I will use MY nuclear button just for the hell of it.' end quote."

Yamada groaned at the news. "So stupid."

The man from before continued on with the news. "And a follow up to the story of the missing idol, we take you live to Uchiura with Correspondent Akihisa Yoshii"

A young brown haired man appeared on the screen in front of Uranohoshi. "A sad day in the small town of Uchiura, just outside of Numazu. The town was graced with a small idol group, named Aqours."

A video of the group performing began to play as he continued.

"This group started as a way to keep their school from shutting down, much like another idol group from downtownTokyo's Otonokizaka High, muse before them." he returned to screen. "a few weeks ago one of their members had gone missing in an apparent kidnapping."

An image of Ruby appeared on screen.

"15 year old Ruby Kurosawa was the victim in question. Disappearing after a man assaulted her older sister and took her away. She has since been missing."

Yamada rolled his eyes at the broadcaster, but continued watching.

"The chief of Police has been alerting all citizens to be on the lookout for the girl."

The footage then changed to an interview with the police chief in his office. "... I urge everyone to keep an eye out for her. We cannot stand to let something like this happen in our town, especially one so small… if you find her, contact the police immediately. If you have any info as to her current whereabouts, don't hesitate to call or contact the family. Thank you."

The TV cutback to the reporter. "No word yet on how to family is coping with losing their daughter yet, but donations to the family are always welcome."

The screen then returned to the original reporter. "Up next the weather for the rest of your work week."

Yamada stretched his arms for moment as they continued on about the weather and various sports updates. He checked his phone again and saw Ruby was still tweaking the hell out.

He set his phone back down before returning to the TV. He'd have to talk to Ruby in the morning and tell her she'd been drugged, that's a conversation that he was looking forward to.

In the meantime, he would continue on with his day like normal.

A/N. How long it been?Fuck. Well, at least you get something before I disappear again.