The Darkness inside

Chapter 2; Suspicion


It was late afternoon before Holly stumbled out of the bed, eyes still red and swollen from crying herself to sleep last night. She came down the stairs to see that Genki and fixed her something to eat.

"Hey, Holly, are you feeling better?" Genki asked, sounding deeply concerned.

She forced a smile as she sat down at the table infront of the good smelling pan cakes.

"A little....."

"The good, so eat up, before they get cold."

"Thank you...."

"No problem! I just want to make sure, your ok."

Holly blushed, looking down at her feet as Genki sat across from her at the small round little table.

' He always was able to cheer me up....'



The monsters were heading down to the lake to catch some fish for that night. They were low on food and they did not think that Holly would feel like going food shopping today.

"Poor Holly." Moochi commented suddenly.

"Yeah, at least the kid came back in time to help cheer her up." Hare sighed, thinking about how Holly had cried herself to sleep last night.

"....Just in time...." Tiger suddenly said, causing the group to stop and stare at him.

"What did you mean by that?' Suzo asked, puzzled.

"I'm saying, that don't any of you find it strange that the kid, after eight years, seven of those years in which he didn't even bother to even send us one tiny little letter, suddenly just shows up and does not even tell us why he did not bother to contact us in all that time, and not even five hours later Holly fathers dies? Not to mention, you all heard his last words 'He has come, beware.' Now who did come last night? Who else could he have been referring to, besides Genki?"

A cold wind suddenly blew, causing them all to shiver, but wasn't just because of the cold that they had shivered.

"Genki is not bad!" Moochi protested. "You know that, Genki is good like us!"

"He was as a Kid, but he's all grown up now. People change.....maybe he has to." Tiger refused to give in, even though he really did want to agree with Moochi.

"It's a lie, chi!" Moochi exclaimed darted off alone towards the lake.

"Hey, Tiger do you really think the kid is responsible?" Suzo asked slowly.

"....I don't know."

"Come on Tiger!" Hare laughed nervously. " You know Genki, he would be the last person to ever turn evil, I think you must have lost it or something."

"What was that!?"

"You heard!"

"Why you--"

"ARGHHHHH!!!!"

The group almost leapt out of their skin in surprise, it did not take them long to figure out who the screamed belonged to.

"Moochi!!" They cried together taking off towards the source of the cry.

When they reached the clearing with the lake they saw Moochi slowly backing away from two weeping willo tress which hung over the lake, his eyes drawn and face pale, little body trembling all over.

Slowly the group turned to fall his gaze and all had different reactions of horror, but all of them heard screams coming from their mouths. nailed to the weeping willo tress, was Yuffie. Her whole stomach was ripped out, by what seemed to be claws, her insides, the few which had not seemed to be devoured hung on the outside in chewed bits. Her throat was bit open, blood ran down her arms and legs, a hole was in her chest in the same place her heart use to be. The heart was gone and they did not want to look at the remains to closely. It was horrible, but the most horrible thing was her face, a face forever frozen in a look of pure terror.

I was all to much for Moochi to take, darting behind a bush she threw up.



"Genki.....?"

"Yeah?"

"How close were you and Colt?" Holly asked, shyly, keeping her eyes lowered at the ground.

"Hmmm, not to close, why you ask?"

"Oh, no reason....."

Things were uncomfortably silent for a few moments, neither of them being able to think of anything to say, until Holly finally spoke.

"Genki, can you please tell me why you didn't contact us in seven years?"

Genki frowned at the hurt in Holly's voice, and looked down at his shoes guiltily.

"I.....I......didn't want to get you involved, with.....some things....."

Holly's eyes widened startled. " What do you mean?"

Genki shook his head. " I can't tell you.....I'm putting you in enough danger just being hear....I'm sorry, but I'll have to leave, no later then tomorrow night."

"Genki! Danger? What are you talking about!?"

"I can't explain it....It's to hard."

"Genki, if your in trouble, we'll help you, you know that. We're your friends!"

".......You wouldn't be if you knew......" Genki mumbled to himself quietly, before speaking to Holly.

"I know your my friends, which is why I can't let you get involved with this. Please just trust me on this, You'll understand someday."

Holly sighed, looking down at the ground. "Ok. I know when it came to you, I never won an argument, but."

Genki blushed as Holly took his hands in hers.

"But please, just promise me, you wont forget about us again....please, Genki. Don't try and disappear on me again....I care.....I care to much about you to say goodbye to you forever."

"Holly....."

Slowly their lips moved closer to each other, they both shivered even though they weren't cold at all. Their lips were soon touching when the door to the house burst open. Startled the two humans pulled away from each other, blushing.

"Guys......." Hare breathed heavily. " Yuffie, is dead."



For the second time in two days Holly cried, this time for a young girl who had lost her life all to soon.

"Who could have done this Genki?" Holly sobbed, holding on to him that night, tears rolling down her flushed cheeks.

"I don't know......" Genki sighed, trying his best to comfort her.

"Whoever it was, it was not human." Hare said slowly.

"And from what I saw, It did not seem like a monster either." Tiger added seriously.

"Then what was it?" Suzo asked nervously.

"A half-breed?" Moochi questioned.

"An half-breed between a human and a monster?" Genki asked, cocking an eye brow. " I didn't know their was any half breeds on this world.....is that possible?"

".........Hmmm, no....I don't think so." Holly shook her head. " But then, what could have done it?"

A few hours passed with that question on everyone's minds. Holly went to bed, tired from the days stress, Moochi, Suzo, and then Hare followed closely behind.

Tiger watched Genki sip some water from a cup at the table. He seemed perfectly normal....no wait, actually, he seemed sort of sickly now that he looked closer. Yeah, hot and sweaty.
Genki drowned the rest of his water and got up from the table, however he seemed to sway, and Tiger hurriedly caught him before he hit the floor.

"Genki! You all right?" The wolf-like monster asked worriedly.

"....Y....Yeah, I just got a little dizzy, that's all....." The boy trailed off, shaking his head to clear his mind.

"Genki.....do you know anything about Yuffie?" Tiger suddenly asked, when Genki pulled himself back onto the kitchen chair.

".....No.....I don't know what happened to her, what made you think I would?" The boy asked calmly.

"I was up, when Yuffie came into the house, I heard the both of you talking. Then after a little while she left.....then.....after that, you left. I fell asleep before you returned.

Genki frowned. " Well, since you lessened in, you know that Yuffie came hear because she was worried about Holly, I left a little while after her because I was hot and I wanted to get cooled off, that's all."

"Cooled off, by the lake?"

Tiger drew back shocked by the venomous glare he received from the young man.

"I'm not a killer, if your trying to get to that, Tiger."

"I never said that you were."

"Then stop asking me about Yuffie, and if I was at the place where she got murdered."

Tiger watched as Genki left the kitchen, to enter the guest room, seemingly pissed. But he did not have time to focus on that, only one thought registered his mind.

' We never told him or Holly where we had found Yuffie's body......How, then, could he have known?'


End Chapter 2

Yeah, I know, this chapter was short and boring, but chapter three will be much better, longer and more exciting. I hope you enjoyed it!!