SuperNatural Paradox
Volume 3 Chapter 2: Roaming Disease
The police came and took Shin's dead father away in the morning. "So you think it was some wild animal that did this?" Sheriff Gordan asked.
"Yes. I found him down stairs when it was already too late." Mrs. Rento said.
"I wonder what kind of animal could have done this? Eating only the organs and nothing else? There are so many mysterious deaths going around in this town, I'm beginning to get worried for what's going on." said Gordan.
"Oh! Is that so." she didn't know what to say.
"Well, have a nice day." Gordan said walking away. He got into his car and drove away.
"Thanks. You two." she said and waved goodbye.
Shin sat quietly on the front porch by himself, staring at his necklace thinking about the time when he had received it.
"Here! This is for you." Naomi handed a present to him.
"Huh? What's this for?" he asked.
"It's a present silly. It's for your birthday." Shin had opened it up and found a necklace inside.
"Now, I'm determined." Shin mumbled to himself after thinking about his past.
"Shin!" His mom yelled out to him from the car. "I'm going to be off now taking care of a few business things that have to do with your father's funeral! I will be back as soon as I can! Is that ok!?"
"Yea! That's fine!" he answered back.
"Ok. Please take care, Shin." His mother entered the car and drove off.
"Shin? You're still sitting there?" Surina asked as she walked up from the sidewalk. "You had a rough night. You should go and get some sleep."
"Go bug someone else for a change." he said not looking up at her. He stayed staring at his necklace.
"Hmph! You can be so annoying sometimes." she said irritated.
"Look whose talking." he said.
"What was that?" Surina picked Shin up by the collar. "Huh?" Shin looked away from her eyes. Her mood changed as soon as she saw the sorrow that filled inside him. She then let go of him. "So, you're not tired you say?"
"Yea. What of it?"
"Then how about we go watch a movie." she asked. "It'll be fun!"
"A, movie…?" he began thinking about another memory.
"Naomi!" Shin said nervously. "Do you want to go watch a movie with me later on?"
Naomi gave him a smile. "Of course I do! I know exactly what movie I want to go see."
"Really? What movie is that?" he asked curiously.
"It's that new vampire movie that's coming out. I thought I would wait on watching it until I watched it with you." She started to walk up a little closer to him.
"R-really? M-me?"
"Yes." Naomi came up close to Shin like she was about to kiss him. "Shin, I'll be ready for you by 5 o' clock."
"Ok! It's a date then. I'll be there to pick you up at five." Shin left with a smile on his face. "A movie huh?" he thought when he finished thinking of the memory. "No thank you." He tightened his grip on his necklace. Surina took notice instantly. "Go bug someone else. You're really getting on my nerves." he said rudely.
"Jerk!" Surina got irritated and hit him on the head which caused a bump to grow. "Come on! Watch the movie with me. I don't see any harm in that. It's just a movie."
"I SAID NO THANK YOU!" he yelled. "So go and leave me alone. I'm getting really tired of you stalking me all over the place."
"Sh, Shin?" Surina stood there in silence. He then started to take off towards the inside of the house. "I don't think so!" Surina grabbed his hand.
"Her hand? It's really cold?" he thought to himself. Surina began to drag him in the opposite direction. "Wh-What are you doing?" he asked. "I said I didn't want to go!"
"I've had enough of your stubbornness! You're watching the movie with me and that's that!" Surina only got to the fence with Shin before she felt his hand slip out from her's.
"STOP IGNORING ME!" he screamed. "I hate you! You know that!" Surina slapped him as hard as she could. "Wha… What was that for?"
"STOP BEING SUCH AN IDIOT!" she screamed back.
"An idiot? Don't ever call me that again! I'm not an idiot!" he got really angry.
"If you're not, then try acting a little more mature. Can't you see that I'm only trying to help you."
"Huh? You're, trying to help? You got it all wrong. I don't need any help."
"You're wrong." Surina came up close and hugged him. Shin began to blush a little. "I can see that you're still hurting somewhere inside you. The sound of your heart is crying."
"C-C-Crying!? How would you know?"
"Because I can hear it." she whispered. "The sound of your heart… b-bmp… b-bmp… b-bmp… It's the one place that never lies about one's emotions."
"Oh! I hope I wasn't interrupting something?" Madam asked. "I see that the two of you are getting along well with each other. That's good." Shin jumped away from Surina feeling embarrassed.
"N-N-N-N-N-No! You got it all wrong." he said. "Surina was just lea…" Surina's heal flew back and kicked him in the shin. "Ow!" he screamed. "What was that for!?" he jumped up and down from the pain.
"We were just about to go see a movie with each other." she said. "What are you doing here?"
"A movie? That sounds like a lot of fun. I came by to give Shin this." she held out a strange looking chain necklace that had a strange lock on it and taped to the side was the key.
"What is that?" he asked after he finally recovered from Surina's kick.
"I've been reading your fortune when I got home and I noticed that in the near future you're going to be needing this." she handed him the necklace. "Anyways… take care. And remember the fortune I told you." she walked off into the distance and then vanished.
"Uh-hem! You can go home now Surina." Shin said.
"Excuse me!" she kicked him to the ground.
"Ow! What was that for? That hurt…" he said laying there.
"I told you what we're doing. Don't tell me you forgot." she grinned at him. "Now come on." She grabbed his collar and dragged him along. "I'm sorry Shin." Surina began thinking. "I'm only doing this for your own good." She began visioning all the times she's been stalking him. "I have a reason to do what I have been doing. It's either this, or something much worse." She bit her lip. "Please hang in there a little while longer for me. Please."
"That Surina is such a sweet girl." Madam mumbled to herself. "Even though she's a little brutal she has a way of handling things, but what would you expect from someone like her. You won't meet many people like her that are this kind."
"I'm sorry." said Doctor Ross. Sophia stood silent over her dead brother. "He didn't make it like we had hoped, but we honestly don't know what happened. There have been many cases like this so we don't know if we should call it an epidemic yet or not."
"I see." her voice sounded cold. "I understand. Could you leave me alone with my brother for a few minutes?"
"Certainly." He bowed his head and left the room.
"T-Toshio…" she began crying and beginning to remember a memory.
"Hey Sophia! Why are you crying?" Toshio asked.
"Aren't you sad even a little? Mom and dad died."
"Of course I am, but that's no reason to sit down and mope around all day long. Cheer up. Everything will be fine." he gave her a hug.
"T-Toshio…" Sophia cried going through her memories of him.
"Here! I got you these." Toshio handed her earrings.
"Wha-What are these for?" she asked.
"For your big dance tonight. What else? Try them on. I want to see how nice they look on you." Sophia looked in the mirror as she placed them in her ears. "There." he said. "They really look great on you."
"Tha-thanks…" she blushed.
"Why, Why did you have to die now?" Sophia asked while staring at his corpse.
"Toshio! What are you doing!?" she asked.
"I'm doing all the chores. You looked really tired today so I thought I would do it for you." he answered.
"Sophia, I'm thirsty." Tykato asked while pulling on her dress.
"I got you." Toshio handed him a glass of water. "Here you go."
"Thanks Toshio." Tykato walked off smiling.
"You promised me!" Sophia said. "You promised me that you would always be there to help me. You lied to me!" Sophia rested her head against his chest. "Ever since our parents died, you promised me that we would always be there for each other." She couldn't hold in the tears anymore. "Why did this have to happen? You can't leave me alone taking care of seven other kids. TOSHIO!"
"Why did you tell her that?" Sophia heard nurse Renge talking outside the door.
"Oops. I guess it must have slipped out of my mouth. I didn't mean to say anything." said Doctor Ross.
"What if word gets out of this." she said. "We don't even know if it's an epidemic yet. We don't even know what we're dealing with; even after two months. And people's deaths have been increasing without signs of slowing down since then."
"Don't worry." Sophia said walking out of the door. "You don't have to worry about a thing. I won't tell anyone." she took off down the halls.
"Uh? I hope she's alright." Renge said.
"She looks depressed, but that's to be expected from someone who just lost someone very close to them." Ross said.
"Toshio. I'm going to find out what caused your death." Sophia thought to herself as she walked out the door.
Shin walked into his classroom. "It's about time you got here!" Surina jumped up to him and gave him another hug. "I have a great idea on what we could do."
"Whatever you're planning," he slipped his way out of her arms and started to walk past her. "I'm not interested in it." He then sat down in his seat.
"Don't give me that! You know exactly what I will do if you try to deny Me." she said.
"Oh yea. How could I forget when you've been forcing me to do stuff against my will all weekend."
"This time it'll be different. It's something that'll be an interest for you. We're starting our own club."
"A club? What kind of club?" he asked curiously.
"A club where we go around finding any supernatural phenomenon that occurs, and we try to fix the problem."
"I'm not interested in joining any club." he said.
"We have two club members; now all we have to do is find three more." she said ignoring him.
"Didn't you hear me!? I said I'm not joining any club." Shin yelled. "Huh?" he noticed Sophia walking by him. "Sophia, is everything ok?" he asked.
"No it isn't." she said lightly. "My brother, died last night." Her eyes began to water up again. "The doctors don't even know what killed him. I… I…" her hands rested on her shoulder.
"I understand." he said. "You miss him. Don't you?"
"Y-Yes, I miss him a lot!" she said as her hands slipped over her eyes and she began crying.
"I know exactly what would cheer you up. Why don't you join our club?" Surina asked.
"A club?" her hands moved away from her eyes. "What sort of club?"
"It's a club where we will solve all sorts of mysteries. Any mystery you can think of that's going on in this town, we will be there to solve it. So far there's only me and Shin, but I was wondering if you would like to join to."
"Hey!" Shin yelled. "I told you I'm not…" Surina threw her heal back into Shin's shin. "OW!"
"So, how about it?" Surina held out her hand. "Will you join our club?"
