Heavensblackcat: Okay! So I'm back from the dead. This chapter is shorter than I intended it. The reason is that both of my family's computer and laptop died, and we just got the laptop back all shiny and fixed, but the chapter I had type was on the never-to-return-from-the-dead-computer. so well yeah....I'm sorry!

Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt. Only this plot and my OCs


Chapter 11: Sad Songs

"When I was younger my parents inherited this house and land from a long lost relative of mine. That long lost relative told us that if we or rather I stayed at the house then she would name their child her successor. My mother died of an illness soon after I opened the door to the room upstairs and discovered the book, but I didn't think the book did it. My mother was always sick."

"Hello Grandmother!" Umiko chimed bowing to the elderly lady standing in the drawing room. The elderly lady smiled.

"Hello young lady," The lady said her black eyes smiling. "Please call me Granny."

Umiko lit up. "Okay Granny!"

"Umiko, how about you explore your new home, while Mommy and I have a talk with Granny?" Umiko's father said as he entered the room holding hands with his wife.

"Yes sir!" Umiko mocked before running out of the room.

"Be careful!" Umiko's mother yelled.

The elderly lady laughed. "She's quite a handful isn't she?"

The couple chuckled. "She's just like her father." Umiko's mother said.

"But looks like her mother." Umiko's father replied.

"I wouldn't have it any other way." Umiko's mother said, taking a strand of black hair and putting it behind her ear.

Granny chuckled, "I wouldn't either. Please if you sign these papers, you can be on your way. Little Umiko will stay with me. Her education will be all taken care of."

"Would we get to see our little angel?"

"Of course, you will get to visit Umiko on holidays and birthdays, except Halloween."

"But that's Umiko's birthday!" Her mother protested.

"I'm dreadfully sorry about that, but you want your daughter to have a better life than you had. She'll have a better education, more food, and money. Then after I die she'll have all this land and money. She'll have a much better life then you could ever give her."

"Will she be happy? Will she be loved? There's much more to raising a child than education and money."

Granny let out a tired sighed. "I assure you she will have everything she ever wanted then some. She will be loved and happy."

"If there is anything wrong, please call us." Umiko's mother said, watching her husband sign the paper and hand it over to her.

"I will." The elderly lady said, her wrinkled lips smiled grimly as her greedy eyes watched the worried mother slowly sign the paper. "Umiko will be happy here." She continued her eyes turned soft as did her smile.

"Will that be all?" Her father said.

"Yes please it would be better if you left without her noticing. I'll have my assistant show you the back way out." The elderly lady took the document and gestured to the blond haired lady standing in the shadows.

"If you will," The emotionless servant said as she led the couple out the door.

The servant came back.

"Everything went well." The elderly woman's voice changing from feeble and gravelly to strong and feminine as did her appearance.

"Yes my mistress."

"Say Kyoko,"

"Yes my mistress."

"Do you think Umiko will have a knack for the craft like Grandmother?"

"I do not know my mistress."

"But if she did, do you think that she could free the spirits trapped here."

"That maybe," Kyoko said.

"That will be all Kyoko."

"Yes my mistress."

Little did the pair know that two pairs of eyes, one a faded pink and one a deep violet, watched from the shadows.

"What did I say kid? I suggest you watch out for the old lady and the cat. We don't want you to get burned now, do we?"

"I lived at the house learning the craft from my master and when I heard of my mother's death. I was saddened but I was never really close to my parents. I went to the funeral and all but I never really cried, not until Master died from old age. That was when I was shipped to the orphanage and the house boarded up.

The elders not bothering with the will that said I inherited everything in this house. This place isn't cursed the idiots just made the book mad, by ignoring the rightful heir, but if they don't detect their mistake in time. This whole town will be buried in spiritual activity. And what brings spirits will also bring demons and what brings demons brings stronger non-touchable demons."