Kaosu

Prologue:

"Mama…Papa…" a child cried in the waiting room of a hospital. Her messy mop of red hair on her head was tangled and in need of a washing, in fact her whole body was in need of a bath. A nurse walked into the waiting room with a clipboard in hand.

"Miss Mariko? I'm sorry…your parents…and sister…" her eyes were full of grief. Mariko, the young girl in the waiting room's heart sank to the bottom, or so it felt, of her stomach. Her face was pale and her insides felt slimy, her mouth felt as if she had just eaten chalk. "I'm sorry," the nurse said again. Mariko didn't say anything. Her eyes were blank and glazed. Her whole family, everything she cherished, everything she needed was no more.

It all started way back in the winter of 2004. That is when the plague hit; it hit Japan as if someone had thrown cold water on you when you're sleeping -- by surprise. That plague, the Konrinzai Musubi plague they called it. Thousands of people were killed. It was a disaster. The rest who survived lives were ruined.

The nurse led Mariko outside to a bus that would take her home to get and pack her clothes and other belongings. Since none of her family was alive anymore, they were all victims of Konrinzai Musubi and long since dead. Mariko packed and rode the bus to the home the nurse thought would be best for Mariko. The color was gone from her face and her eyes were still vacant looking. She felt sick and wanted to vomit. A few hours later she was settled in, she had her uniform, she didn't like it, and it was itchy, her room, and all of her belongings unpacked. Mariko stared around the room, she felt sick, and not sick because of the loss of her family she just felt sick.

"C...cold." Mariko shivered, even though her body was rapidly heating up. She wrapped her arms around herself. She felt as if she was in a big freezer, and she began to tremble. Those, those were all the symptoms of the Konrinzai Musubi plague. She had caught it. Mariko became suddenly angry, angry at the plague; angry at this house she was now in, and even angry at her parents for leaving her. Her heart beat faster and faster. Her breaths were shorter and shorter, she screamed, and fell to the ground. Dead. They buried her along with her parents three days later, but no one knew that Mariko's soul had escaped her body, and that she had taken the form of a ghost, but that she herself was in some way – still alive. She swore to herself, one day, one day she would get revenge on the people who survived Konrinzai, she would destroy all of them, and 31 years later it all came into play.