Okay, again, sorry for late update. It takes awhile to get these ideas. Anyway, I want to warn you: IF YOU ARE SQUIRMISH, OR THINK YOU MIGHT BE SQUIRMISH, I SUGGEST SKIPPING PARTS OF THIS CHAPTER. THERE ARE GRUESOME, VERY GRUESOME, PARTS IN THIS CHAPTER.

Anyway, I do hope you enjoy. ^_^ And if you get scared, just know I was scared when writing this… O_O I'll never look at this object the same way…

"Maybe we should give her a present?"

"Oh, a present sounds good… What kind of present?"

"How about that shiny thing over there?"

"That would be perfect."

Me, Yasu, and Naru, were currently in the library, looking over the multiple journals Yasu had found. Along with multiple files and books that he had found on the previous owners of the house.

It seemed that after Mihoko's supposed "assassination of her family", so I liked to call it, she allowed people to rent the rooms in her home. Multiple families rented the rooms of the house, and continued to do so until ten years ago, when the Saromi family lived here. All the families had mysteriously disappeared. Mihoko soon did as well, after the Saromi family had disappeared.

Later the police investigated the mysterious disappearance of the families, ten in total, and that's when they had found Mihoko's body. She had jumped off the balcony in her room and died when she hit the ground. Ever since then, the house hadn't been occupied.

"From what I got from the journals," Yasu said, handing a book to Naru, "Mihoko had some mental and physical health issues after the death of Yosai. The family hired a butler to keep watch over her. Then the family was killed and the beginning of the other families disappearances started."

"Wait!" I said, jumping to my feet. "You're saying that Mihoko had an accomplice when she killed all those people?!"

"Of course," Naru said, looking through the book in his hands, "she couldn't have done all those murders by herself… She must have had some help, and now we know from who." Naru looked up and at me. "Think about it, Mai, multiple bodies were the result of all this. Mihoko, being weak as she was, must have had someone dispose of the bodies and clean up the messes she made."

"You make her sound like a child who had trouble with paint," I said. Naru didn't say anything back. I knew he was right, that was the only explanation. So the butler was in on the murders… I thought.

I turned my back to Naru and Yasu, walking over to the desk. I couldn't take much more of this. There was so much information that needed to be processed and reasonably thought through, it was just so much for me to handle. On top of that, the ghosts keep trying to kill me and weren't going to stop until I was dead!

I hadn't even noticed that I was looking through the desk drawers until I noticed a pare of scissors in the top drawer. They were the only things in there; no paper, no pens, just the scissors.

"That's odd…" I muttered.

"What is, Mai?" Yasu asked.

"These scissors…" I reached forward, grabbing the pair of rusted scissors and looked the over. That's when the voices rang in my head.

"Oh…it seems you found your present already…"

I looked up to see Mihoko standing in front of me.

"Present?" my voice said. It wasn't my voice. I could tell it was a woman's voice, but it wasn't mine. I was seeing the past of a ghost that was haunting this manor, just like all the other times I touched something. Maybe I should just keep my hands to myself…

"Yes, your present," Mihoko said, smiling as she walked closer to me. "I was waiting until later this evening, but it seems there's no need to now." Mihoko took the scissors in her hands, looking them over.

"A pair of scissors is my present?"

"Not at all." Mihoko's smile went twisted as she looked the scissors over. "It's what I'm going to do with the scissors." Mihoko looked back at me, her eyes were hollow, but her smile was caring. My body began shaking in terror. "I'm going to make you so pretty."

Don't do it! I screamed in my head as Mihoko walked towards me. Next thing I knew, I was on the ground, screaming and struggling to be released, but Mihoko was sitting on me and my hands were bound above my head. She was smiling as she grasped the scissors in her hand.

"What should we do first?" Mihoko chimed. "Oh, I know. How about those lovely green eyes?"

I screamed as Mihoko brought down the scissors and stabbed my left eye, turning the edges and then pulling them out. She then repeated it once again and I screamed again. Tears ran down my face along with the blood coming from my torn eye.

"Pretty, pretty, pretty," Mihoko said as she continued with the same motion. My eye was turning to soup now, and I just wouldn't die. It was painful.

The motion stopped and I saw Mihoko smile once again, tilting her head. "Now, how about the other one?" Mihoko then brought down the scissors to my other eye, doing the same thing. I continued to scream for help or to be released, but she just continued making soup in my eye socket. This was the most horrifying experience yet, and it continued to get worse.

Why won't I die?! I screamed in my head. But that wasn't my thought, it was the woman's who was getting stabbed.

The stabbing motion continued and I could feel the warm blood run down my face. The motion stopped, and Mihoko spoke once again. "Aw, you look so pretty now. What should we do next?" Even if I couldn't see anything, I could hear the smile in her voice. She was happy about this.

"P-P-Please…stop…." my voice cried.

"Oh! I know!" I felt a breeze on my stomach and chest, as if my clothes were ripped away. "Why don't we get rid of this skin, huh? It's not much use anyway."

My screams continued to grow louder and louder as the scissors tore at my flesh, along with Mihoko's finger nails. This feeling was dreadful. How could someone still be alive after this experience?

"Please stop!"

"Aw," Mihoko said, "why would I stop? You want to become beautiful, right? Every girl wants to become beautiful." Mihoko's scrapping motions at my stomach stopped, leaving the trickling of blood run down the skin that was left.

"I'm getting annoyed with all your crying!" Mihoko screamed, sounding angry. "So, I'm going to get rid of that pesky tongue on yours. Does that sound nice?"

I continued to scream and cry as Mihoko's hand reached into my mouth and pulled out my tongue. I felt the cold scissors against it and then…

Snip.

"Mai."

I looked up to see Yasu standing in front of me and Naru sitting on the same velvet couch he had minutes ago.

"Something wrong, Mai?" Yasu asked.

My hands were shaking and they dropped the scissors back into the desk. I couldn't believe I had just seen that. It was horrible, terrifying, and it left me speechless.

"M-M-M-Mih-h-hoko…s-s-she…" I couldn't finished my sentence.

"What happened, Mai?" Naru said, standing to his feet and walking over.

I didn't finish my sentence, because something else occupied my mind. Another vision. It was of a butler walking over to the shelf and putting a book away. Something told me that the book was important, and it might be able to help us on this case. So, I walked over to the shelf and fetched the book.

"Mai, what are you-"

Before Yasu could finish, I slammed the album onto the table and looked at them. They both looked down to the album and were surprised, as was I.

What I had placed on the table wasn't really an album, but a notebook keeping the records of ever person who had died here.

"The butler kept a record of everyone who was killed by Mihoko," I said. My hands had stopped trembling. But I didn't know why I was so calm now, I had just seen a horrifying picture, along with having it happen to myself. But now I was calm and composed. "The butler kept it as ordered by Mihoko. She collected souvenirs from all her victims and hid them throughout the mansion."

"Mai," Naru said, looking at me calmly like usual, "how do you know this?"

I looked down to the album. Where did I know this from? I hadn't had any vision giving me these answers. It was like someone was whispering them in my ear.

"I…I don't know," I answered, shrugging. I placed a hand on the book and opened it. The first picture I saw I recognized. It was the woman I had seen in the bathroom. "She"-I pointed to the picture-"was drowned in the sink." I turned the page, the next was a man from the same family. "He was poisoned." I turned the page again, wondering how I knew these things without reading the summary given. "This woman had her throat cut. Her child was burned in the fireplace upstairs. Her husband was tortured in the downstairs room."

"That's…" Yasu began, but he couldn't continue. He was thinking the same thing I was, 'this is horrible'.

I shut the book, not taking much more of looking at it. Naru picked up the book and handed it to Yasu.

"Yasu, I want you to go back to base and give this to Lin," he ordered. Yasu nodded and ran off. Naru then looked back at me, giving me one of his 'I know you're hiding something' looks.

I looked to ground, not knowing what exactly I should say.

"What happened, Mai?" Naru said. His voice didn't have the usual monotone manner, or the calm interior. He was gently asking me what happened.

"I…" I roamed off for a moment, but soon closed my eyes and explained everything to Naru. I explained how I saw Mihoko kill a woman brutally, how I had felt everything, and how I knew it ended. When I was finished, I looked up and to Naru, seeing his arms crossed and his eyes narrowly looking at me.

"Why didn't you say this before?" he said.

I shrugged and looked back to the ground. I heard Naru give a displeasing sigh, but then, I felt his hand rest gently on top of my head. My face had flushed and I could bare to look up.

"Don't think to much about it, alright?" Naru said.

I slowly nodded. His hand soon left my head and I looked up to see him smirking at me, that narcissistic smirk too! But before I could yell at him to wipe the smirk off his face, he had grabbed my wrist and began pulling me along with him.

"Come on," Naru said. "We need to get back to base and explain something to the others."

I nodded and followed, really hoping Naru hadn't noticed how red my face had gotten.

Hey everyone, I'm sorry if it was confusing. I got lazy after the scissors…. -_- I do apologize though. I hope the next chapter is better though. Anyway, thanks for reading. Leave a comment if you like.