DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN OURAN OR HELL GIRL IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM
"Okay let's hurry and get back to town!" said Tamaki the next morning as the host club started gathering up their things, "The sooner we do the sooner we can try to find Miss Gureso and keep from sending that boy to Hell!"
"How long does it take for someone to send someone to Hell Haru-Chan?" asked Hunny once the group was well on their way home.
"There's doesn't seem to be any limit of time," said Haruhi, "With Ryuu it was like a day and then with Miss Sagi it only took a matter of minutes."
"Hmm," said Tamaki, "Well let's hope it still takes more then minutes for this girl to decide it she wants to banish that bully."
"Yeah," said Haruhi holding her knees in fear.
Kami lay in her bed holding the black straw doll in her hand staring at it. She pondered over the notion of sending Kuru to Hell in exchanged for her soul. Was it really worth it? Maybe she should just talk to someone about it.
"Kami are you planning on getting up today?" she heard her mother ask from the other side of the door. Kami shoved the doll under her pillow before slowly getting up and walking over to the door.
"Mom," she said timidly, "Can we talk?"
"I see and he's the one that's been ruining your books?" asked her mother sitting on her bed with her. Kami nodded. "Hmm well looks like I'm going to call that boy's mother."
"Is that going to help?" asked Kami. She couldn't help but feel a little bit nervous about the whole idea.
"Honey it's going to be okay really. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that boy doesn't harass you again," said her mother before giving her daughter a kiss on the forehead.
"Thanks Mom," said Kami softly. She pulled the doll out from under the pillow.
'Looks like I may not needs this after all,' she thought. She put it into her pocket for safe keeping though.
By the time she got downstairs she could hear her mother on the phone.
"My daughter wouldn't lie about something like that Ms. Shimeru. I know her better then that. Plus I've heard plenty of stories of this boy harassing other boys around the neighborhood!" Kami walked into the kitchen to see her mother on the phone with her father sitting at the table looking mad watching. "Yes thank you that would be nice of you. I'm sorry to have bothered you like this, have a good day."
"Well?" asked Kami's father.
"She says she's going to speak to her son and then maybe see to it that he's grounded for a while," said her mother.
"Good, because if this boy keeps this up he's going to have to answer to me!" said her father. Then he noticed Kami. "Come here honey," he said motioning her to him, "How about we go out and get you a new book to read?"
"Sure that would be nice Dad," said Kami smiling.
"I'm glad you were willingly to come to us about this honey," said her father, "You know you can tell us anything right?"
"Yeah Dad," said Kami.
"So where should we look first?" asked Hikaru and Kaoru once the club got back to town.
"Maybe try their school," said Kyoya.
"But it's Sunday, they won't be in school," said Haruhi.
"Still a lot of kids would no doubt want to go there to play or even still maybe possibly get a good idea of the surrounding areas to know where to look for her house," said Kyoya right as they pulled up to the school. Sure enough there were bunch of children playing around the courtyard and playground.
"Do you see her or the bully anywhere?" asked Hunny.
"No," said Mori looking around.
"Do we have any idea where she lives?" asked Tamaki.
"Yes here are hers and the boy's address," said Kyoya, "I don't think they're too far from here."
"Alight, Mori-Sempi, Hunny-Sempi, Hikaru, Kaoru you go to the Shimeru House and check to see if he's still there. Haruhi Kyoya and I are going to go check on the Gureso House!" said Tamaki.
"Right yes sir!" said Hunny and twins.
"Looks like no one's home," said Haruhi once the three arrived at Kami's house. Tamaki ringed the doorbell anyway, but no one answered.
"Hello?" he tried asking knocking at the door.
"What should we do now?" asked Haruhi.
"We could try walking around the different neighborhoods to see if we can find her," said Kyoya.
"Good idea," said Tamaki, "Well cover more ground if we split up. Kyoya call the twins and let them know that if they find nothing at the Shimeru house to also split up to try and find them."
"On it," said Kyoya as he pulled out his phone.
"Can I help you?" asked Ms. Shimeru answering her door.
"Excuse us Ma'am but is your son Kuru at home?" asked the twins.
"I should hope so," said Ms. Shimeru, "He's grounded for picking on a girl from the neighborhood. Her mother called me up earlier today mad."
"This girl's mother, she wouldn't happen to be Kami Gureso's mother would it?" asked Hikaru.
"Yes as a matter of fact she was. Why are you related to her or something?" asked Ms. Shimeru.
"We're sort of friends of the family so to speak," said Kaoru.
"Oh well like I told you I'm taking care of it. My son will be in his room for a long time to come," said Ms. Shimeru.
"Good to know," said the twins as they, Mori and Hunny all walked away. As soon as they were out of sight, a window in the back of the house opened and Kuru sneaking out of the house.
"So he's grounded huh?" said Kyoya after talking to the twins.
"Yeah thanks to the girl's mother calling his mother," said Kaoru.
"Well it could be she simply resolved the issue herself and won't be sending the boy to Hell," said Kyoya as he hung up. Just then he saw car pull up in the Gureso's driveway.
"Thank you again for the new book Dad!" said a little girl happily getting out of the car followed by her parents.
"You're more then welcome Kami," said the father.
"You know what? It's such a nice day I'm going to go read this book in the park," said Kami.
"That's a good idea honey," said her mother. Kami smiled before running off with a book in her hands.
"Definitely seems to be doing better," said Kyoya as he watched the little girl run off.
Kami sat on her bench feeling happy over the notion of being able to read it without having to worry about Kuru bothering her. She was so happy getting to read it that she didn't even notice anyone coming up to her until her book was once again snatched away from her. She looked up in fear to see Kuru standing in front of her looking mad.
"So I've been bullying you huh?" he said before pushing her off the bench. Kami staggered away as fast as she could. Kuru stormed up to her with her new book.
"What's the matter?" he asked, "Am I scaring you? Am I tormenting you to the point that you have to go whining to your mommy! I got grounded because of you! I got my allowance taken away because of you, All because I ruined a few of your books!" He started ripping up the pages from the new book, "Like this, is this how I ruined them!"
"I think we've been walking around in circles Tamaki-Sempi," said Haruhi as and Tamaki found themselves near a park.
"Here let me call Kyoya and see if anyone's heard or found anything," said Tamaki pulling out his phone.
"Please Kuru leave me alone!" they suddenly heard a girl cry out. The two of them hurried off after the sound of the scream.
"Or else what? You'll tell your mom! Guess what, Mommy's not here to save you this time!" Kuru shouted before shoving Kami down a steep hill. Kami kept tumbling and tumbling getting covered in dirt and hit by all sort of rocks for what seemed like an eternity, until finally she finally found herself at the bottom. She reached up and felt it her nose. There was blood. She looked up and saw Kuru at the top.
"That's where you belong, below me!" he shouted throwing what was left of his book down her hitting her head. He then turned and walked away just leaving her there. Kami's cheeks were soon stinging with tears. She reached over and pulled out the doll in her pocket.
"And you belong in Hell!" she shouted right as she pulled the thread. A huge wind rose up around her.
"Your Grievance Shall Be Avenged,"
"Where did that scream come from?" Tamaki asked still looking around. Then he realized Haruhi wasn't following him. "Haruhi?" he said walking over to her and waving his hand in front of her. "Oh no, she did it didn't she?"
"Ai, I prepared your nagajuban,"
"All right, thank you Grandmother," said Ai as she rose up from the pond.
She walked back to the house and put it on followed by her kimono. She brushed her hair over her shoulder. She headed off, ready to do what needed to be done.
"I better get home before Mom realizes I'm gone," said Kuru as he started walking home. He stopped when he saw a book on the ground. "Where did that come from?" The book seemed to turn and towards him. Kuru gasped when he saw an eyeball seemed to open and looks at him.
"Do you want to tear me up?" it asked moving its flaps.
"What?" asked Kuru.
"Come on, I've got a lot of pages just dying to be ripped up!" said the book as it started to rise up and fly towards him. Kuru stared before the book came down and seemed to bite his arm!
"Ah!" Kuru shouted as he tried to pull the book off and ran.
"Where do you think you're going!" he heard the book shout at him as he ran. Every now and then he could feel the book take a bit out of him, making him run faster. Suddenly he found himself landing hard against something. He looked up and realized he was in some sort of book. "What is this?" Kuru asked.
"Looks like you really got your nose in a book huh?" Kuru turned around to see a woman in a kimono standing behind him just beyond the pages, "Or should I say your whole body in a book?" Kuru looked up and suddenly realized the book was starting to close up on him.
"No no no!" he shouted as she tried to move but the pages seemed to fold over him keeping him from exiting. "Let go of me!" He tried desperately to rip the pages up to make it to the opening before it closed on him. He tore and shredded as fast as he could until finally he managed to make it out just in time as the book closed shut. He looked up and was horrified to see the book about to fall over and crush him. Kuru barely had time to roll out of its way before it hit the ground. It landed with such a thud it sent him rolling even more towards a hill, stopping just before the edge. Kuru looked down and saw it was covered with sharp razors. He started panting heavily relieved he hadn't fallen down it.
"So," he suddenly heard the woman's again. He turned his head to see her along with two other men standing next to him, "Have we learned out lesson yet?"
"What lesson?" asked Kuru.
"You still haven't gotten it?" asked Wanyūdō.
"Maybe you should consider reading more on why you shouldn't pick on other people," said Ren.
"Picking on whom, Kami? It was just a little fun and they were just books! She's the one that needed to learn a lesson and loosen up once and a while!" said Kuru.
"And that's all she wrote," said Wanyūdō as a book appeared in his hand. He opened it and huge scream came out making Kuru fall down the hill of razors.
"Haruhi, Haruhi please wake up!" Tamaki pleaded, hoping he was wrong about his suspicions.
"Oh pitiful shadow lost in the darkness brining torment and pain to others," Haruhi suddenly said.
"Oh no!" said Tamaki.
"Oh damn soul wallowing in your sin. Perhaps,"
"Perhaps it's time to die," Haruhi once again threw out her arm as Ai did, with bells ringing and flowers appearing.
Kuru looked up from the boat.
"It's not fair," he said, "Why can't people just learn to loosen up once and a while?" he asked.
"You think you know what is best for everyone?"
"Well forgive me for wanting to show her a good time!" said Kuru, "Last time I do anything to help her!"
"Yes, I doubt…,"
"…I doubt that you'll be much help to anyone any more," said Haruhi, "This is vengeance. So I'm to ferry you to Hell."
Haruhi suddenly shook her head in agony.
"Haruhi?" she heard Tamaki asked. She looked up at him fighting tears and nodded.
"I'm sorry," said Tamaki.
"I don't get it though," said Hikaru after Tamaki and Haruhi had met up with them.
"We thought his mother had resolved the issue," said Kaoru.
"Apparently not good enough," said Kyoya.
"Excuse me?" they all heard Ms. Shimeru walking up to the group, "But have any of you seen my son? He snuck out of his room and now I can't find him."
"No sorry Ma'am," said Kyoya calmly.
"Great, this isn't the first time he's tried running away from home after getting in trouble," said his mother before moving on.
"Should we tell her?" asked Tamaki.
"It probably won't make a difference," said Haruhi walking away sadly.
"Don't worry honey he's not going to get away with this again," said Kami's mother washing and tending to her daughter's bruises from being pushed down the hill. Kami sighed as her mother looked away for a brief second and looked down at the Mark on her chest.
"Yes, he's not," she said, "and neither am I."
A candle lit with the name Kami Gureso.
"Your grievance shall be avenged,"
