The Doll House
Kagome was 19, she has moved out of her torn family and into a new home, one with a couple residents looking for a roommate. It was a worn and spine-chilling home, that gave her the sense of trepidation, as if an ominous threat hid in the shadows. Lost in what seems like a bad nightmare, can Kagome find a way to wake up, or is this a boundless nightmare for all who step into...The Doll House.
Anime: InuYasha/Death Note
Couple: Kagome/Mello
Friendly: Kagome/Near/Matt
Rated: M
Genre: Horror/Romance/Supernatural (ALTERNATE UNIVERSE…A.K.A. – NO...KIRA! -.-)
The Doll House
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The Doll House...
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Mello leaned against the wall in Kagome's room sleeping. He had left to eat dinner with Matt and Near after having his little talk with 'Maggie'. Then, after their silent but tasty meal...which still took him by surprise...he went back upstairs and locked himself in Kagome's room. Matt and Near had both knock softly, in hopes of getting him to open, but still trying hard not to wake Kagome up; Mello had ignored them. He had tried to stay awake for her, so that he could keep an eye on her and the doll, but around one in the morning, he had fallen asleep.
The doll's glass eyes turned to him, then to the waking Kagome.
Kagome sat up slowly and silently, her movements seemed forced...no...they seemed lifeless.
'Will you play with me?'
Kagome's head turned to the Doll, her lifeless eyes looked into the glass dolls own blue eyes. Silently, she picked the doll up and stood, making her way to the door as it opened silently for her. She passed by the sleeping Mello and continued down the hall to the staircase where she silently descended each step without as much as a sound.
She made her way with the doll to the cellar behind the staircase and stopped. Something seemed to click in her mind and she stumbled slightly. "What...was I doing?" She looked around and frowned, "Hmm," Kagome turned around and walked back up the steps, making her way to her room she accidently woke Mello up in the process.
"Kagome, you're up!" He stood and rubbed his neck. "Where are you going?"
"Oh...Mello...why are you in my room?"
"I wanted to stay in here while you were ill." He took a seat on her bed and looked at the doll in her hands. "Where were you going?"
"Going? I just...well...I'm not sure. I think I was sleep walking, because when I came too, I was standing at the cellar behind the stairs. I didn't know how I got there, but I came back to my room because it was so late."
"...I see."
Kagome watched him rub his neck before placing her doll down and climbing onto her bed and moving behind him. He went to stop her but her hands had already found his shoulders and neck. She rubbed her thumbs in circular motions on his shoulder, while gently kneading his neck.
"Kagome, really...you don't have to do this." He moaned at the feeling of warmth her hands gave off.
"You slept in here to watch over me all because I had a little dizzy spell and felt tired, because of that, your neck and shoulders are stiff from sleeping wrong."
"Yes but..."
"It's fine." She smiled, "A massage is the least I can do for the kindness you have shown me."
"..."
Kagome pulled him to the center of her bed and wrapped her arms around his waist, grasping hold of his leather vests zipper before she pulled on it. He went to say something, his cheeks heating at the feel of her soft breath tickling his ear, but before he could ask what she was doing, he could feel her finger tips tracing up his chest along the now opened vests zipper. He shivered at the touch and chose to let her do what she wanted. Her hands took hold of the top of his vest and she pulled it down and let him remove his arms from its confines.
"Kagome?"
"You trust me, right?" Kagome asked.
He turned and looked at her, a smile placed firmly on her face. "...yeah..." Her smile brightened and she gently manipulated his body and moved him so that he was lying on his stomach. She straddled his lower back and opened the drawer to her side table, pulling out a small bottle of vanilla lotion before applying a small amount to her hand and rubbing them together, making sure to put the cap back on the tube and place it on the table next to her bed.
"It might be a little cold at first."
Mello said nothing, but nodded into the comforter he laid upon. His eyes were shut and he looked extremely calm. She placed her hands against his naturally warm skin and she heard the small intake of breath as she began to rub the lotion across his back.
She listened as a moan escaped his lips after little less than six or seven minutes later.
Kagome smiled, "Does it feel good?"
"Mm, yes."
Kagome looked at his flushed cheeks and smiled. "Mello...thank you...thank you for watching over me..." She suddenly felt something inside her mind, a pinch of sorts, as if someone or something was trying to pry at her mind. "Mm, ah..." Her hands stopped moving and Mello turned to see pain etched across her face. He turned onto his back from beneath her and pulled her into an embrace before sitting up with her still straddling him. Her body began trembling and his hold on her tightened lightly.
"Kagome...what is it?"
"...I...I don't know...it hurts..." Unshed tears were being held captive by her closed eyes and lashes.
"..."
"Mello, it feels like something is inside...telling my body to move...and do something horrible..."
"Kagome, what is it telling you to do?"
'Tick Tock Tick Tock Come And Play With Me...'
Mello's head snapped up and turned to the doll that now stared at him and Kagome.
'Tick Tock Tick Tock I'll Kill Your Family...'
"..." Kagome's head fell into the crook of his neck and sleep took her.
"MATT!" He screamed loudly; moments later Matt and Near were at his door, Matt faster than Near.
"What is it!?" Matt asked, worried something horrible might have happened. "And where is your shirt?"
Near looked at the position Mello and Kagome were in and he too would have commented, had he not first noticed the look of fear on Mello's face. "Something...happened to Kagome?"
"..." He looked at the doll then back to Near and Matt. "I don't care how you do it...but...get rid of that doll!"
"..." Matt frowned. "What happened?"
"It talked! It sang that shit we heard earlier!" He glared at the doll. "It's playing with her life as if she was nothing but a puppet!"
"Oh...she forced Kagome to seduce you!"
"...no...Kagome was giving me a back massage and that was on her own accord...no, what that doll was doing was prying into her mind! Trying to get her to do something...I-I don't know what though. She passed out before she could tell me. She just said that something inside was telling her to do something horrible."
"...what do we do? If it's a possessed doll...shouldn't we call and exorcist?" Matt asked.
"Break the damn thing!"
Matt took the doll and nodded.
'Hehe...I wouldn't do that...Hehe...'
Matt dropped the doll in surprise the boys watched as it suddenly sat up in a slow puppet like motion.
'Now that wasn't very nice...Hehe...'
Matt took Near by the arm and pulled him back a few steps.
"What the hell is up with this doll!?" Matt kicked it into the wall and they watched it hit hard. It fell to the floor face forward.
'Hehe...you aren't a very smart boy, are you...'
Near stepped forward and picked up the doll, moving it's hair from its face, Mello and Matt watched as he showed a frown for what seemed like the first time since they were in the orphanage.
"...This doll...has black hair..." Near took a streak of black hair between his fingers.
"No it doesn't...its brown." Matt corrected. "I just kicked the ugly thing."
"..." Near turned and showed him the doll.
'Hehe...Tick Tock Tick Tock It Will Soon Be Time...'
Mello, Matt and Near looked at the little doll as it looked up and opened it's baby blue eyes.
'Tick Tock Tick Tock And Soon She Will Be Mine...'
Matt took the doll from Near while Mello stood up and made his way with Kagome in his arms out of the room and down the stairs. He turned a sharp corner and Matt's eyes widened. He jumped over the railing of the stairs and stopped Mello from continuing. "...Move out of my way Matt."
"Over my dead body!"
"LOOK! Something is down there...and I'm going to find out what!"
Matt stared for a moment before standing down. He stepped aside and made his way to the hall closet. He grabbed his coat and headed to the door. Mello closed his eyes and listened to Matt's retreating footsteps, the opening of the door and the slam that followed shortly after.
"...Mello..."
"What is it Near..." Mello asked, not even bothering to call him by his frequently used nick-name Sheep Boy.
"...nothing...we should hurry if we want to help Kagome..."
"..." Mello stepped forward and pulled the latch. He stared in shock when the once locked and sealed cellar door opened with ease. "Why is it open..."
"..."
Mello pushed his nervousness to the back of his mind and descended the cellar steps with Near close behind. Near got the light for Mello and the two looked around at the nightmare before them.
"Mello...I don't think we should be down here..."
"...Near, get out of here."
"...I'll stay if you-"
"Go!" His tone left no room for argument and Near stared for a moment before nodding his head and returning up the steps. The second he was out the cellar door slammed shut, locking below the house floors, both Mello and Near. "Shit!"
"Mello...!" Near's voice could be heard on the other side of the cellar door. "I'm calling for help!"
"...damn...I shouldn't have stopped calling him Sheep Boy...he's gotten attached."
Mello let his eyes wander around the room and took in the objects littering the wall and tables. This cellar...was by no means a torture chamber, regardless of how many blood covered utensils he could see. Despite the smell of decayed flesh, the rustic scent of blood and other nauseating unmentionables; it was clear to see that this cellar...was in fact...a toymaker's workshop.
Mello's arms were getting tired, but he refused to place Kagome on the blood covered cellar floor, no matter if the blood was dry or not. Instead, he pulled the only clean thing in the room, which happened to be a white sheet, from whatever it was covering. He let it fall to the floor and looked in surprise at what had been hidden beneath the white sheet.
"...A...Doll House?" He frowned while looking at the Doll House...he thought how it looked similar to the house they were in. "Is this a minuscule version of the house we live in?" He opened it up and stared in shock, horror...fear...
The house was accurate in every way. All the way down to the crosses in his room...what worried him the most was the mini dolls that had their heads panted red. All of them were lying in the cellar. The other thing that perturbed him was the five mini dolls that lay in a line in the living room. Each looked like them...except the fifth...that one looked like a little girl.
'The doll?' He shook his head after looking the doll over. "No...It isn't the doll. Maybe...a spirit?"
'You must be the bright one of the group, little boy...'
Mello turned in surprise and saw in the corner of the room, a glowing child, with blonde wavy hair that fell over her shoulders in ringlets and waves. Her eyes were a crystal like light green and she wore a white dress...similar to that of the fifth doll laying the living room. "Who are you? Are you doing this?"
'...I am Yuri-Chama.'
"I will not call you by that suffix...you are no lady/lord/deity or otherwise."
'That is what papa called me...Yuri-Chama...'
"You never answered."
'I am only doing what is necessary...to survive...'
"What...?"
'I was born within the child of a toymaker who built that doll house. I however...built this house. He believed it to be a miracle...but with my generosity...comes a price. I took the soul of his daughter. This appearance is mine. I am Goshinboku, the Deity Spirit Yuri-Chama.'
Mello frowned, 'What...?'
'I tried hard not to laugh when you thought that a cross would stop me...when I don't need to touch her to accomplish my ends.'
"What are you trying to do?"
'Take her body as mine...like I did the daughter of the toymaker. I placed her soul within a toy doll he made from my branch. In a way, he carved his child within my body and I helped him bring the wooden child to life, by placing his child's soul inside the doll he made for her.'
"Explain to me this...what about the other dolls and this Room...the little girl and the doll?"
'What do you want to know about them?'
"What are the other dolls?"
'Hmm...I asked 'papa' to make me dolls for those I befriended. They are all names and faces I have long since forgotten. All of them, I had 'papa' kill for me.'
"WHAT!?"
'Oh...don't worry, he wasn't even aware that he was doing it. Making the dolls...killing the village children...and of course, burying them in his cellar beneath the hardwood floors of his workshop.'
"No one found out?"
'They suspected foul play...but with a loving little girl and such a kind father...who was always bring toys to the children...no one expected him. And if someone did confront him...' She tapped her foot silently on the floor and Mello looked down, finally realizing...the blood wasn't from falling on top of the floor boards...it was soaked in...from beneath them.
'It was so easy to get the children here too...with a toymaker as my 'papa'...they came flocking.'
"That explains the other dolls in the cellar...and this room...what about the little girl that was originally the daughter."
'...that one is a difficult one to answer. You see...originally I sealed her soul inside of that doll your girlfriend carries...but she's been acting even weirder than I have for the last past few days...actually...she started acting killer weird around the time you guys moved in...no...around the time that your girlfriend moved in.'
Mello frowned, 'She's not...' He sighed... "That doesn't matter right now." He muttered, "So you have been...in here?"
'Hmm? Oh...yeah. I mean, I've known about everything going on above me, but you see...before that old toymaker died...he had a special doll made and took it and me to some freak old woman who wrote some weird stuff on my dolls body. My soul was and has been trapped within that doll since then. I think that nut that lived near my home a while back...was related to the freak hag who did this to me. Probably explains her deep obsession with causing harm to dolls...'
At this point, the child seemed to just be rambling. Mello didn't know how long it had been, but he sat on the white sheet and decided he might as well wait it out.
"Did you lock us in?"
'Nope. If I get too close to the door...it slams shut. I can't leave...so when I try...'
"...then...I see..."
'What do you see?'
Mello smirked, "Nothing...nothing at all..."
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Me: I would update quicker, but I'm sure you all noticed how FanFiction is being a B!&#$. It's not letting me upload stories to my Document Manager, so I have to copy and paste them to the chapters already there which is just F%$&!#% Annoying! Well...^_^'' Please Regard Me Kindly, Read and Review! SANKYU!
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