ThatDarnNinja: HEY GUYS! Been a while huh? Sorry for the wait I was busy wi—
Amu: Just give it back! *jumps for the pink and black book in Ikuto's hand reading "Amu's Diray" that he held high in the air*
Ikuto: Mm…No. *smirks.*
ThatDarnNinja: As I was saying I was busy working on—
Amu: Iku-IKUTO! Don't you dare read it! *aims a kick at him*
ThatDarnNinja: On two new sho—
Ikuto: *Amu misses and Ikuto's smirk grows* Why? Did you write something about me?
ThatDarnNinja: …*sighs and walks into another room* two new short story's, one for Inuyasha and one for OHSHC! Inuyasha's is called-
Miki: And then Su was just laughing to herself…
Ran: *gasp* you don't think she's been taken over by…*lowers voices* an evil spirit do you?
ThatDarnNinja: …*walks into another room.* called "The Big Fair Weekend." And the OHS-
Tadase: YAYA! STOP RIGHT THERE AND GIVE ME THAT CROWN OR I'LL STRIKE YOU DOWN FOR IGNORING YOUR KING!
Yaya: You gotta catch me first! *runs off towards Utau and Kukai yelling at each other.*
ThatDarnNinja: . . .! You know what, just enjoy this special TWO PART chapter done in the Strangers POV and I'll tell you how much you have got to check out my two new short story's later. Hey Rima, could you…?
Rima: ThatDarnNinja does not own Shugo Chara or the music she was listening to or OHSHC or Inuyasha, enjoy.
Chapter Seven : Nightmare at 65th and Tamaview. ^PART ONE^
} FLASH BACK |Stranger's/unknown POV| {
I saw Amu wonder down the stairs and smiled, I could tell I had shaken her pretty badly with my radio trick. Just as she was opening the kitchen door I noted the look of confusion slide onto her face as she noticed a light on in the den.
"Ik-Ikuto?" She whispered out weakly, making her way towards the room and clearing her throat for another try at words
"Ikuto? Ar-are you in there?" her voice was still weak but it was loud enough to reach the room beyond, where the light shone through the door left ajar.
I saw her shaking hand lift for the door knob and froze inches from it, her face white and I hated to see her frighten like that but I must be patient.
And with a nod to herself she pushed the open door and said a bit rushed
"Ikuto, what are you doing up so…so…"
and she lost all voice as she looked in from the open door way, I knew what she was seeing even though I stood hidden in the dark coat closet in the left hallway and just as I had planed, Amu's high pitched scream, filled the house with a seemly endless ringing and she fell to the floor in faint.
} END FLASH BACK {
For a moment I forgot where I was and what I needed to be doing as I gazed down at Amu's fainted figure on the ground at my feet, until I heard Amu's name yelled from upstairs and remembered I had only seconds to clean up before Ikuto was down here and scream for his beloved Amu to awaken.
I withdrew the hand I had been lowering to the face of the pink haired girl and moved swiftly and silently around the room grabbing, replacing, and fixing everything I had set that evening. I was just about to finish up when I heard Ikuto's feet hit the bottom step on the stairs then the floor and for a moment only his deep breathing could be heard until he must have spotted her 'cause he yelled "AMU!" and his shadow play along the walls as he ran towards the room, I swung into the storage closet and held the door a crack open to see how the rest of my plan would play out.
"Amu!...OI! AMU!" Ikuto was yelling as he shook her unconscious form. I lean out just a little to get a good look of his scared pale face, -yes…- I thought as a bitter smile crept onto my face –I like seeing him suffer…suffer for what he's done to me!- I let my mind wonder on my other plans for them until I noticed Ikuto was looking around the room and he's eyes had landed right on the room I was hiding.
I tried hard to move the door closer toward me without letting him see and I held breath silently praying I left no clues behind, -stay calm...- I reminded myself sternly –you've practice this many times when you were young yes?...- yet never before had so much been resting on not being found.
I could no longer see outside the dark room I was coop up in yet I could feel Ikuto's eyes lingering on the door I now stood frozen in complete fear. Though he couldn't see through wall I didn't move an inch and I didn't dare breathe ether for I remembered his amazing cat-like ears.
"Ik—Ikuto?" Amu's almost whisper of a voice came out from the small person being held in Ikuto's arms and I pushed the door just enough to see Ikuto turn back to her not caring about anything else in the world.
"Amu? Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?" He asked her gently, making me angry; she didn't deserve his gentle voice or him for that matter!
"Yeah I…" She started looking around and it seemed both of us forgot what she had seen until that moment. "IKUTO! You-you're not-but wh-I—"she looked like a lost little puppy struggling to explain what had happened and I began hating myself for the fright I caused her. -But I must remember my goal, I must.-
"It's okay, it was just a drea—"Ikuto tried to assure her but she cut him off with such a frighten yell that both me and Ikuto jumped
"BUT IT WASN'T! I…i-in my room! The r-radio! The bl-blood! It was all here... Just…just here!" She had started to cry and I couldn't shake the feeling of pain in my gut, so instead I pushed it away mentally telling myself it was just because I forgot to go get the radio from her room.
I stood there for another 5 minutes as Ikuto calmed Amu down enough to convince her it was all a nightmare and take her up to bed. The moment I heard them in the hallway at the top of the stairs I dashed out of the room and noticed a big mistake, I had left a small amount of fake blood on the floor and I knocked a plant off the window ledge into the desk chair facing the wall.
I was sure when Ikuto had looked around the room he HAD seen something but I didn't know if he would think Amu had knock it off or not. I just had to trust that he would not think too much on it but as for the blood, Amu wasn't hurt anywhere so if he'd seen that…
Trying hard to not to think of how much Ikuto might already know I cleaned and fixed what I could quickly then rushed towards the kitchen door. Half way to it though, I stopped and pushing in the little face of a man; it was hard to see as it blended in with the wall so well but I knew where it was, I always knew.
When pushed in, a secret doorway opened where two wall dividers had been oddly placed and as I stepped in the dark and creepy hallway I took out a flash light out from my coat pocket, clicked it on, and walked further in slowly, taking care not to miss the other head on this wall that would close the door behind me.
I wondered silently around the dark passageways for a while until I had reached the room I wanted. I found the lighten bolt shaped door opener and pulled it out from the wall slowly as a door to my left opened at the same speed as I pulled, leaving door connecting the dark secret passageways and this dark guest room open for my soon escape I crawled over to a vent in the guest room and opened it careful not to make a sound.
If you know where and how, there are ways to see and hear everything in the house without being to close. This vent just happened to be right above the den and if you open enough you can see around most of the room by shifting the blades and can hear any talk coming from there if it's open and turned towards them instead of the normal way, which is turned towards you.
I sat silently waiting for much longer then I had expected when finally, Ikuto walked back into the den to investigate like I knew he would. I watched, shifting the vent blades to keep a good view of him as he made his way towards the chair with the potted plant I'd knocked off the window ledge earlier. –Ahh, so he had noticed it- I thought as he lifted it towards the light to check for clues.
Once Ikuto had gone over everything in the room about ten times and lots of mumbling, he finally gave in that it really might have just been a nightmare of Amu's and started his way out the door. I smiled to myself and stood ready to make sure he was on his way back to bed when my breath caught in my throat.
"What's …is that…blood?" at Ikuto's words I flipped. Dropping like a dark silent bat from the sky, I landed back at the vent and started shifting the blades a little carelessly but I couldn't find Ikuto's form anywhere. –What had he found?- I thought desperately wishing I was in there right now. "What's that sound?" Ikuto's words drifted up to me as he walked slowly back into my view. –Crap! - I thought mentally smacking myself upside the head as I remembered what fabulous cat-like hearing he had.
He sighed and started walking back out of my view in the way of the door "The night sure does play tricks on us all." He's fading words followed by the light in the den to be turned off allowed me the freedom to breath again.
I stayed where I was for a little longer however and I wasn't sure why, but I had a really uneasy feeling even after I heard Ikuto's bedroom door shut. –What had he seen anyways?- I finally made a move back towards the Den to check although I went via 'Creepy Dark Passageways' in case.
I combed through the den but whatever he'd seen he ether cleaned, took with him or…-no way- I thought with a smile to myself –he didn't know I was there…he couldn't…have…- at this last thought I turned on my heel and dashed into the first opened door closet and pulled the door towards me waiting for the lights to be turned on and Ikuto to yell "FOUND YA!"…yet I waited for almost an hour and still nothing, no noise, no lights and defiantly no 'found ya's.
I shook myself, it was defiantly too late to be acting like this, I needed to get back before I was found missing. On my way out the secret passageway door that leads in-between the alleyway and their backyard I stopped and made a detour into the kitchen. –Damn- I thought as I paused in my action to look of the gleaming kitchen.
When I remembered myself I went to the counter near the window and pulled out the sharpest carving knife and held it with a napkin wrapped around it so there would be no finger prints, I placed it gently in my pocket and gave a small chuckle in the darkness.
"Tomorrow," I whispered as I walked through those dark passageways and felt the blade brush against me "is going to be very fun…" one more chuckle escaped me and sort of echoed in the long endless darkness which sent a shiver down my spine.
If only I had known how this would end before I exited the tunnels and started planning my next mission, then I would have never been able to live, for I would never know 'til it was to late and my beloved…how could I have known?...
how?...
TBC
ThatDarnNinja: 0.0….….….o.o…
Ikuto: Uhm, I know I will regret this but…what is she doing? *looks at ThatDarnNinja doing random ninja moves, jumping out and behind chairs and tables and trying to blend into the white wall with a pink and blue outfit.*
Miki: I think she's trying to hide.
Ikuto: Why?
Ran: Because she thinks the stranger is gonna kill her for that last line in the story…you know, about there beloved dying.
Yaya: *taps ThatDarnNinja on the shoulder*
ThatDarnNinja: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!...oh, Hi Yaya! *smiles*
Yaya: …Are you really going to kill someone? *looks worried*
ThatDarnNinja: Hmm…You'll just have to read and find out! *winks*
Yaya: *starts to cry* Oh please don't!
ThatDarnNinja: Yaya I'm sorry! Please don't cry!
Amu: *Throws Book at ThatDarnNinja* HOW COULD YOU SCARE ME LIKE THAT! AND WHY IS THAT 'Stranger' AFTER ME ANYHOW! *gives look of daggers towards ThatDarnNinja*
ThatDarnNinja: I uhh…*makes loud 'gulp' noise*
Pepe: *crying* this chapter scared me!
Tadase: HOW COULD YOU SCARE MY AMU LIKE THAT?
Ikuto: You'RE AMU?
-Everyone Starts Yelling and Fighting Loudly-
ThatDarnNinja: AHHHH! STOP IT!
Su: *flys in* . . . *clears throat*
-Everyone Stops-
Su: Please R&R and know that ThatDarnNinja does NOT own Shugo Chara, Inuyasha, OHSHC, and I hope you enjoyed part one of 'Nightmare at 65th and Tamaview.' *smiles* be sure to check out part two -coming soon- and remember, everyone who reviews gets a hug from Yoru!
Yoru: But why me? Nya.
Su: 'Because they love you! Now…who wants Ice cream?
Everyone: ME!
Su: Okay! Desu *smiles*
EVERYTHING FADES.
