A/N: hey… I'm back with another useless chapter. I didn't write anything for a while and I was lost. I kinda felt guilty about what I said and did to you guys. Well, this is short although not intentional. I was lost with the story after thinking very, VERY hard about where to start the romance between those two… sadly, Bun-san, it won't happen soon. Can I just spoil it all to you guys? I'm getting bored with writing this story and just want to start the prequel and sequel and bonus and the comic of it altogether. I'm also in no mood to write anymore and was planning to well… only continue it when I go to university and take an English thingy major or something… until my writing improves more. It's all crap and repetition right now. Damn it all! I didn't even read through this crappy chapter… and oh yeah, next chapter, I'm gonna bump it up a notch to sort of… more… touchy-touchy things and say hello to M-rated Curse.

Disclaimer: No, I don't own SDK and Amakura Kei and Mio belongs to Tecmo. I only own the story and some characters.

To reviewers: I'm so sorry.

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Hour Thirteen – The Antique Shop

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Arriving at the supposed-to-be antique shop, Yuya got out of the car with a worried sigh. She was getting dizzy because of blood loss. She regretted for choosing to go to the antique shop first before Akari's place. Well, they were there already so… what the hell!

Yuya stared at the building in front of her, suddenly feeling the urge to throw up as she sees the thick miasma surrounding the antique shop. She backed away from the building, her back suddenly connecting with a body. "Yuya? What's wrong?" It was Kyo. He turned her body around to face him by the shoulders. He gripped her shoulders hard and stared at her eyes that were obviously coated with haze and fear. "What's wrong?" he asked again.

Yuya, being the girl she is, shrugged him off. "I'm okay; I'm fine, let's go."

"If you say so."

Kyo led her to the entrance door, his eyes not off of her form. Yuya notices this and glares at him. "Stop looking at me, please. It makes me uncomfortable!" she snapped. Kyo smirked and then chuckled. "What?"

"Just now, I saw a hint of your brother in you."

"What?"

"Let's just leave it at that. Come, you'd love the inside of this place. It's so unique, even I love it." Kyo turned the knob of the large oaken door and gave it a push. The door creaked open and Yuya was sure she saw a hooded figure at the small opening! Yuya shook her head and closed her eyes, hoping that the figure will disappear. She opened her eyes slowly and it was… oh, still there unfortunately.

Kyo walked in but stopped to notice that Yuya was standing still outside, looking past him. He gave a small cough to snap her out of her small reverie. "Hey, are you coming or not?"

Yuya nodded and noticed that the figure disappeared. The miasma surrounding the house disappeared too. Giving out a relieved sigh she followed Kyo inside, closing the door behind her. She gasped when she saw the shop.

The shop had a musty and old look to it and had shelves everywhere and in the centre of the room, laid small pedestals with –obviously- old antiques on it. To her left was a counter with an old looking cash register. No one seemed to be here. Akira or anyone was no where in sight. Yuya reached out to touch Kyo's shoulder when something touched hers instead, making her jump with fright that came along with a piercing scream that could break everything made from glass in the shop.

"Whoa!" the thing that touched her backed away. "Hey! You could've destroyed my glass antiques! No screaming!" Yuya turned around to see that it was Akira, covering his ears. Yuya said sorry and blushed. He smiled and said sorry too, for scaring her.

"Yo, Akira! How are you? How's the shop? It seems that no one visited again this month…" Kyo made himself comfortable by sitting on the counter with a smug look on his face. Akira smiled slyly at him. "Hm? You did have customers?"

"Well, your old friend came here, Amakura Kei was it? He was looking for the Camera Obscura a few weeks ago. I told him I didn't have it and he left but not before saying something about his niece, Mio or something… do you know about his niece?" Akira shooed him off of the counter and made himself comfortable by being behind the counter, checking the cash register and smiled a little. "Hey… you didn't take any money."

"…yet." And Kyo reached out to take some but Akira smashed his fingers before he could do so. "Ow! What's the big deal?!" he shouted at him. Akira shook his head sadly.

"I earned these and I can't believe you'd still do that even in front of Yuya-san…" Akira took out a few coins and gave it to Kyo. "Here, buy yourself cola."

"Shut the fuck up."

Yuya butted in just in time before the two men embarrass themselves more. "Uh, well, Akira-san… is the camera ready by now?" she asked nervously.

"Oh, yes! I nearly forgot about that… well, come with me to the back and Kyo-san, please flip the store notice to 'Closed' please." And he led Yuya with him to the back, leaving the annoyed Kyo behind.

Behind the door where Akira called the back of the shop, was a dark yet elegant room. There was a large working desk at a corner and a cabinet of thing. Akira motioned for her to take a seat while he went to fetch the camera. Yuya obediently took a seat and stared at the nothingness in front of her, taking a deep breath.

"Yuya…"

Yuya turned around, expecting to see Kyo but lost her breath immediately to see the 'Kyo' from the house. The bloody kimono clothed Kyo with long hair that she didn't notice before… with bloodier eyes than the Kyo she knew. She wanted to scream, she really did but she couldn't and 'Kyo' was approaching her slowly. She shook her head in fear and her face paled as 'Kyo' reached out his hand as if to touch her. She closed her eyes shut as he stroked her cheeks softly. She didn't want to face him. She was scared.

"Yuya? What's wrong?"

Yuya opened her eyes to see the Kyo she knew. She sighed in relief and buried her face in her hands, laughing nervously. "Kyo… I'm glad to see you…" she whispered. Kyo looked at her confused.

"Well, where's Akira?" he took a seat next to her and placed his chin on his palm as he rested his elbow on the desk. "I'm getting quite bored… and the coins he gave me is not enough to buy me a cola."

Yuya laughed at his attempt in humor. She settled down after a while, staring at her pale hands resting on her lap. She decided to start a conversation and lifted her gaze from her hands only to find herself face to face with 'Kyo' yet again. She was getting annoyed, really. She was losing her supposed-to-be-there fear every time she sees him. She rolled her eyes before narrowing her eyes at him. "Okay, what do you want?" she asked annoyed.

"I didn't say anything… are you okay?" it was Kyo yet again.

Yuya shook her head, giving up. "Oh, I'm fine."

Just then, Akira came in with the camera in his hands. "Sorry it took a long time. I was kinda fixing it a bit more." He passed the two of them and took a seat behind the table separating them, facing the two. He shoved the camera to Yuya. "Here you go! I made some changes with it."

Yuya paled immediately. 'What if it lost its ability to capture ghosts on film?!' her mind screamed. "Uh… what exactly did you do?" she asked him, trying to mask the trouble in her words.

Akira, as if sensing her troubled state about the camera, reassured her. "Oh, don't worry. It still has its 'powers' if that's what you're afraid of. I just replaced the broken lens with another lens from a broken Camera Obscura I have here in the shop. I also… well, made some changes to make the camera more… automatic…" his voice faded and muted completely as Yuya's eyes were fixed at the thing behind Akira. The thing… it was holding a katana… and…

Yuya lifted the camera up automatically and pressed the shutter, earning a brighter flash than before. The thing… which was obviously a ghost, was shot back, flying away from Akira and melted from view. Akira was stunned. Kyo was too. "Uh… oh yeah, I also upgraded the flash…" Akira blurted out.

"…did you see something?" Kyo asked her quietly. Yuya just nodded. "Alright," he turned to Akira. "Thanks for the help, we better be going. There are 'things' in this shop of yours that is bothering Yuya so if you please excuse us…"

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The two of them reached home at 6.00 p.m. sharp. They dropped by at Akari's to get her tablets and were forced to stay for tea. Yuya was clutching the camera all the time, muttering things about ghosts being everywhere. Kyo was worried but was clearly annoyed by her weird… disturbing behavior. Upon parking the car, Yuya rushed out from the car, leaving her medicine and a surprised Kyo behind.

"What the hell is wrong with her?!"

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Yuya took a shower later that night, skipping dinner and all and it pissed Kyo off. She only took a shower when she was sure Kyo wouldn't come bothering her, which could only mean: 1) he's asleep or 2) he's in the study. She got into the bathroom and locked it shut. Sighing heavily to herself, she began to undo the buttons on her blouse when she suddenly felt eyes watching her action. She stopped immediately, glaring at her own reflection in the mirror. She was shocked to see her reflection being replaced by someone else: the jade-eyed woman. Yes, she feared her and she won't deny that she didn't. To her bewilderment, her hand shot up to touch the image in the mirror, connecting both her hand and the jade-eyed woman's together. Yuya tried to pull back her hand but it was sort of glued to the mirror and she panicked.

"Let me go!" she screamed at the reflection that didn't seem to be fazed. This ticked Yuya off. "Let me go or I'll break you!" she threatened.

"You'll only be getting more of me haunting you…" the reflection mouthed and Yuya's mouth moved, copying the reflection. "You see…? I am you…" the reflection smirked and Yuya could feel her lips forming one too.

"Whatever! I just wanna take a shower!" she shouted at the reflection, feeling her blood boil in anger.

"Be bathed in blood…" the reflection said before her hands passed through the mirror and grabbed a hold of Yuya's wrist, pulling her into the mirror.

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A/N: when I wrote this, I was uninspired, bored, annoyed (after playing FF3 again) and confused (played KH2 again…) and was damn infected by Fatal Frame parody. I would be better off DDR-ing. The dumb humor doesn't work in this fic anymore… ah! Let me spoil the story! Characters, yes, SDK characters will DIE, DIE as the story progresses. I'm more than happy to kill them, tearing off their limbs apart and throwing them randomly into my other fics… ah. Well, I WILL kill them off and nothing will change my mind. This story will be longer than I expected by the way… see you when I'm in university (if I do anyway…)!!! Next year's 'O'-level for me and I have no idea what to do!

P.S: I finally sketched Kyo and he looks gay.