Thunder: If anyone has any objections against the name 'Moon' they're free to suggest any other Chinese name as long as it means the same thing or related to it or any other name you would like to suggest. I'm free to read everybody's suggestions, it only depends on if I like it, if I do I'll change it.

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Chapter 13

A Friendly Visit

The second day started with a quiet meal of breakfast, right after that Shira showed Moon around the house, Moon kept silent for a while she smiled all the time albeit tiredly, she was merely limping around behind Shira, she was still tired.

Shira finished all the important introductions then picked her up and put her back in bed, Moon looked almost like she was going to faint any moment and Shira didn't want that to happen, Moon fell asleep no sooner than her head touched the soft pillow.

"It's only now that the strain from the night's events showed on her." Said Shira softly.

Kanil appeared beside her, her calm serious visage didn't change.

"She still needs to rest." She responded calmly. Shira nodded, suddenly the phone started to ring. Shira and Sun exchanged looks, Kanil searched the area.

"I didn't see a telephone yesterday." She finally said.

"That's because it hasn't been used for years. Why would it…or how could it ring now?" replied Shira. They stood there for a minute without movement, the phone still ringing.

"Well, go answer it." Said Kanil finally. Shira nodded and headed towards the living room. She stood in front of the door Kanil and Sun hovering behind her. She stood there eying the door knob for what felt to her like a thousand years.

"Go on!" Kanil finally lost to her curiosity and wanted to find out who the caller is. Shira lifted her hand slowly to the door knob, gripped it and spun it open. The door to the dusty old cursed room, or at least that's what she liked to call it opened for the third time in twenty four hours. She entered reluctantly and looked around. Kanil couldn't wait any longer and pushed Shira in. Shira yelped as she went deeper inside the room, her body stiffened to the point that her legs couldn't move an inch.

"It's not polite to let people wait you know." Said Kanil, a rare mischievous smile plastered on her face. Shira glared back at her but that was all she could do, after all she was right.

Shira knelt in front of the furthest corner of the room and opened a trap door. Kanil was most amazed.

"You have a trap door? So you must have a basement." She concluded.

"Yes I have, where else would I store everything in this small house. But I'm not telling you where it is." She beamed back at her.

"That's not a problem. I'll simply look through the house as I please. I'm a ghost remember?" she smiled triumphantly. Shira pouted at her as she pulled out the ringing telephone and closed the trap door.

"Who told you that I'll let you? Did you forget that Sun is a spirit too and can easily stop you?" she retorted smiling.

"Just answer the phone. Its sound is irritating!" she nearly yelled and crossed her arms and pouted. Shira smiled happily and sat down on one of the dusty cushions and picked up the telephone receiver.

"Hello?" she said casually.

"Don't 'hello' me! Where have you been? It's been fifteen minutes and no one came to answer!" Answered a rather dissatisfied man from the other end.

"Um…sorry. Who are you?" she asked nervously blushing.

"Who am I? Who do you think?" the man asked playfully.

"I don't know, no one has called me for years except for my boss but that's occasional." She replied thinking to herself.

"Which leaves the only person left is..." he helped.

"Um… who else has my number?" she thought hard.

"Okay, 'you' didn't give me your number. But you do know me." He said.

"Hmm…who are the people I know…" she was trying to think but her mind stayed as blank as a white wall.

"I have yellow hair and bright green eyes. If that doesn't ring a bell I'll hang up." He threatened playfully.

"Yellow and green...Wait…" she mused.

"DOCTOR ADAM ARISAWA!" she both gasped and yelled loudly into the speaker.

There were many sounds to be heard from the other end, mostly sounding like books being thrown around, crashing and booming, and many other loud sounds, the last one to be heard was a loud 'Slam'.

"YOU NEARLY PIERCED MY EARDRUM WOMAN!" he yelled into the speaker.

Shira had to move the receiver away because of the loud voice.

"You're the one who almost pierced my eardrum! It's not my problem that you're both a scardy cat and a fat head!" she yelled back.

"What did you call me?" he yelled back.

"And I was actually happy that it was you." She snapped at him.

Kanil and Sun watched or rather listened to the conversation in front of them in amusement, the two adults were yelling at each other like five year olds, their voices were loud enough for the entire forest to hear; fortunately nothing could awake Moon from her slumber.

"I don't want to hear your stupid voice again." She said sounding more like a teenager in Kanil's opinion; she was ready to slam the phone back in place when the doctor's voice could be heard.

"WAIT WAIT!" he screamed. Shira frowned and brought it next to her ear reluctantly.

"What is it now?" she asked not very politely but rather annoyed.

"I just want to ask how you are, how you and Nataly are." He said calmly.

"Well, we're just fine." She replied still upset.

"Do you have anything to do right now?" he asked.

"No, why?" she asked back.

"I don't have much to do either and I thought maybe you would like some company." He explained.

"So now you're just simply inviting yourself?" she said sounding angry.

"No! I'm just asking for your permission…and if you might show us the way at least." He stuttered. Shira kept silent for a moment thinking it over.

"Abashira?"

"Don't call me that." She mumbled.

"Then what should I call you?" he chuckled.

"Just walk down straight from the hospital down the forest and you'll see a small house." She huffed.

"Thanks, I'll be there in half an hour or so, Yura is coming too, do you mind?" he asked.

"No, not at all, maybe Moon wakes up and likes to play with him." She replied softly with a smile, the thought of that energetic kid erased all of what was left from her anger.

"Who's Moon? You have a lot to explain Abashira!" he taunted.

"Stop calling me Abashira! Just get here and you'll know everything there is to know." She ended and closed the phone.

"She hung up on me!" he said surprised.

"You like her dad right?" Yura was picking the books up from the ground and flashed him a cheeky smile.

"No I don't!" he snapped back.

"Then why are you blushing?" he teased.

"Boy you're just asking to be grounded." H warned. Yura shrugged.

"It's not like I'm going out anywhere." He said simply picking up another book.

"That means no games, no TV, and no books." He continued with a smug smile on his face as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"No problem, I've read most of the books, nothing to watch on TV and I finished all the games." He shrugged.

"Starting now." Yura whipped his head at him eyes wide in surprise.

"That means you stay here while I go visit Abashira and Nataly." He said turning away, his smile turned into a grin.

"No! Dad come on, don't be so mean. I really wanted to go!" he ran after his father after putting the pile of books on the desk.

"Then don't act so cheeky in front of your father, Yura." He said his smile fading slightly.

"I promise, it was only a joke." He replied.

"Well I hate jokes like these; you should know I would never like anyone over your mother." He said in a low voice, he looked far away; a sad painful expression was on his face. Yura stopped in his tracks.

"Mom?" he whispered. Adam looked at his son.

"Where is mom?" he slowly asked. Adam turned around and walked away.

"She's not coming back." He answered simply. Yura felt something coming up his throat but had no idea what this feeling meant. He slowly walked after his dad outside the huge white house. The rest of the walk was filled with an unbearable silence.

"So that was the doctor?" asked Kanil after Shira put back the telephone on the table.

"Yes, he's coming to visit." She replied with a smile.

"Shira?"

"Yes?'

"How old are you?" Shira looked at her confused.

"Why that all of a sudden?" she laughed.

"I just want to know…how long you've lived here on your own." She stuttered.

"Oh." Was her reply. She stood up and brushed the dust away then thought for a moment.

"Dr. Arisawa will surely ask the same question." She simply said and left the room. Sun and Kanil followed shortly after.

"So what will you do now?" asked Kanil leaning on the kitchen wall as she watched Shira stand in the middle of the kitchen doing nothing.

"What do you mean?" she looked at her confused.

"Where will you two sit? In the kitchen? I don't think so. When was the last time you cleaned that room?" she asked amiably.

"I'm not going in there again!" she stuttered.

"You need to get over whatever it is that's keeping you out of there." She said crossing her arms over her chest. Shira couldn't argue with that.

"Fine, I'll go and clean it up." She sighed defeated. She went back inside the room and searched on one of the walls.

'What are you doing?" Kanil asked confused.

"Opening the closet." She replied as she finally found a tiny circle in the wall, she pressed it and opened a door that leads to multiple cleaning equipments. Kanil couldn't help but gape at the site.

"What else do you have hidden?" she finally broke from her surprised gaze.

"You'll find out eventually." She said smiling as she pulled out an apron and put it on, she rolled up her lime green sleeves and pulled out a bucket then went to the kitchen and came back with it full of water and a towel in her other hand, she dipped it into the water-filled bucket, twisted it to get rid of excess water and started mopping the floor with on her knees.

Kanil smiled at the site, "It's almost like I have two daughters now."

Half an hour later…

When someone suddenly knocked on the door Shira had just finished cleaning every inch of the room. She took off the apron and quickly put back everything in place, the filthy water in the bucked was already thrown out, and the bucket was cleaned and had just dried. Shira quickly rearranged her hair and clothes and opened the door.

"Hi!" she greeted happily with a smile.

"Hi!" replied a high happy voice that came from below. She looked down at Yura with a wide grin.

"Hello." Said the tall doctor beside him with a wide smile.

"Come on in." she stepped aside and gestured for them to come in. They both did and she closed the door behind them.

"It's nice!" exclaimed Yura.

"I'm glad you liked it. This is the kitchen; the living room is this way." She pointed to the door on their right. She opened the door and let them in.

"This room is really nice, very clean too." Remarked the doctor as he looked around.

"Thanks. I just finished cleaning it." She said looking proudly at her work.

The room was sparkling clean, the cushions shone a bright red, and the table was a dark brown color instead of beige. The sun's rays shone through the window making the room look very beautiful. Shira gasped an inaudible gasp as she felt tears roll down her cheeks, she quickly wiped them away.

"I-I…will go and make something to drink. What would you like?" she stuttered. The doctor noticed her odd behavior but didn't point it out.

"Coffee would be nice." He replied. Shira nodded and with a swift move left the room. Kanil was leaning on the wall beside the door her arms crossed over her chest.

"I would give almost anything to know what happened to her in this particular room." She thought to herself.

Thunder: Did everyone enjoy? I'm sure I did. Writing this chapter was fun, don't ask me why cuz I don't know.

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