Title: Evil Existed

A/N: I've been lazy…. I know. *grins* school started *sniff*… so I didn't have time to upload…. Well, anyhow, ENJOY this chapter…. Oh, yeah, thanks to the three reviewers who reviewed the prolougue!

Chapter 1- Ruriko

            'RUKAWA!!' the teacher shouted, as he broke his 19th chalk.

            'Zzzzz….' Losing his temper, the teacher strode over to Rukawa's place, and pulled him, or attempted to pull him to the principle's office. Unfortunately, he didn't get any… satisfaction from it, considering the fact that his attempt was a failure. All he did receive, were bruises.

            At the end of the period, Rukawa was still slumped on his desk, fast asleep.

            Time flew pass….

Nightfall…

            'Jin,' Fujima asked in a commanding tone, looking at his watch in a frustrated manner. They were already 5 minutes behind schedule, and they had not even started on their so-called operation yet.

            Jin walked around, seemingly aimlessly, while the others just tagged along in the dark. All if a sudden, he halted, standing right in front of a double-storey house…

            'This one. There's an eight-year-old girl sleeping in the third room to the right on the second floor. She has a seventeen-year-old brother-a perfect family.' Jin reeled on, as if receiving orders from an unknown someone… or something, which was exactly what was happening.

            Fujima nodded, then looked expectantly at Rukawa, only to find him snoring away.

            'RU-KA-WA!' Fujima tried shouting softly, shaking the boy, while narrowly avoiding a fist that was swung at him by the half-awake boy.

            'Rukawa!' The boy mentioned blinked, stared at the house, and blinked again. Afraid that the boy was going to fall asleep again, Fujima reached out to shake him. However, before he managed to make contact with Rukawa's arm…

            'Mitsui-sempai? It sent you to sempai's house?' Rukawa questioned, voice out of pure surprise, and a tint of worry, which was very seldom. Jin stared back at the black-haired freshman.

            'Err… ya?'

            'So? It doesn't matter, does it? It's not like we're going to kill Mitsui or something,' Hanagata muttered, getting irritated.

            'Rukawa. Daijoubu?' why aren't you answering properly? We don't want to know whose house it is, we just want to know if there's any problems we should know about this house. You're the brain, not the receiver,' Fujima said.

            Why is everything going wrong today? Fujima asked himself. He glanced at his watch again, 2:31 AM.

            We're really behind time. Seven minutes late…

            'We've never been sent to someone we know before,' he muttered incoherently. Fujima just stared at him. Confusion, now mixed with worry and irritation clearly written over his face.

            'Err… right… anything else?'

            What the hell do you mean by anything else? Isn't it weird enough? And Mitsui-sempai is the only one I know who loves his sister as much as captain does… okay, I don't know many people, but still, it's not normal. Doesn't that disturb you? Rukawa fumed inside, at the same time he shook his head.

            'Hanagata,' Fujima ordered.

            'Hai.' Hanagata strode to the lock, and picked it. Within two minutes, the front door was wide open, and welcoming. Fujima signaled with his hands. Ordering three of them to follow him, as usual, and he walked right it.

            'Rukawa, come one,' Sendo muttered to Rukawa, who stood his ground, staring up at the house in worry. At the sound of Sendo's voice, Fujima turned, frowning.

            'Rukawa! Hey… he's not asleep. What on Earth is wrong with him?!!' Fujima walked towards Rukawa and shook him hard. Rukawa jerked so hard that Fujima let his hands drop to his side in surprise.

            Is… was he in a trance? Jin studied Rukawa's face.

            'Can Jin-sempai take my place?'

            'No he can't! If something happens in there, we'll need you to solve the problem, and if someone starts chasing us, we need Jin to lead us! Sendo is in there to subdue the child, while Hanagata is there to protect us, or chase away any obstacles blocking our paths. No, Jin will stay out here!' Fujima said firmly, his irritation suddenly peaking, taking away all his worry and curiosity. Jin nodded, watching Rukawa, focusing especially on his eyes. Cold, blue… and filled with worry.

            Just what is so wrong with him?

            The clear moon shone down from the sky, casting eerie shadows on the ground, and the three-pointer suddenly felt shills racing along his back.

            'Rukawa,' Hanagata said softly, 'we're late.'

* * * * * * * *

            What's wrong with me? Rukawa couldn't answer that question, as he himself didn't have any clue what-so-ever why he was feeling so strange. He felt as if something would go wrong if they entered. Something bad would happen to them if they did. Something that would somehow…

            Somehow what? What the hell is going on? However, he was sure. The feeling was strong, and right. But… what the hell was he feeling?

            'Rukawa, come on.' This time, it was Sendo.

            Hesitating, Rukawa stepped into the house, feeling, absurdly, like he was intruding. Fujima, in front of him, hurried to the girl's room silently. Behind him, Sendo and Hanagata were walking with perfect ease, unmindful of the quiet surroundings.

* * * * * * * *

            Ruriko Mitsui was tossing on her bed, unable to sleep, something very weird-to her that is. She had never in her life found it hard to fall asleep. But today, she just couldn't sleep. Slowly, she sat up, sweeping her long hair back. The orange light from the streetlamp streamed in through the thin curtains that hung loosely from her window panes, and puddle on the bedroom floor.

            'Hi-nii…' Ruriko walked towards the secret door that separated her from her brother. This was a secret, only between the two of them.

            'Hi-nii…'

            I sound like a ghost, Ruriko told herself nervously. She slipped into his room, padded silently over to his bed, and snuggled inside comfortably. If she had to ever count the number of times she had slept in his bed, it would be more than her monthly allowance, which was about a thousand dollars.

            'Ri-chan?' Mitsui muttered groggily, shifting to make some space for her.

            'Daijoubu ka?'

            'Daijoubu, I just couldn't sleep.'

            'Huh? You couldn't what?'

            'No, it's nothing. Go back to sleep,' Ruriko said soothingly. No point waking him up and scaring him.

            'Hai, hai.' Hisashi Mitsui fell asleep almost immediately, leaving his sister alone to listen to the somnolent croaks that belonged to the crickets, and… footsteps.

            Ruriko stiffened considerably in the bed, listening hard.

* * * * * * * *

            'What?' Fujima breathe out.

            'She's not here. Did Jin really say this room?' Hanagata asked, gripping his syringe that was filled with clear liquid tightly. Fujima just nodded, and turned to Rukawa questioningly, as he normally would when they were faced with a problem.

            But this is NOT normal at all. There's something amiss. We were so delayed in the beginning, then Rukawa was, and is not acting normally, and now, for the first time, our victim is not where Jin said she was, Fujima thought bitterly.

            'Do you have any idea where she is? We were very sure that she was in here when we reached the second floor five minutes ago,' Fujima asked Rukawa.

            'Did we get the signal from Jin? Did we wait the five minutes we were supposed to for any alarms?' Sendo tried asking Fujima when Rukawa didn't answer.

            'Yes we did. And for the five minutes we waited, she did not leave the room. Rukawa?' Fujima asked.

            'Rukawa looked around the room, seemingly like he was ignoring Fujima, taking in the study table at the right side of the room that was filled with pictures of Ruriko and Mitsui-sempai. The walls were, in turn, covered with posters of basketball players. He also noted the fact that the walls that weren't covered with posters were painted in a soft-blue hue. The whole room was carpeted. That, the television, that was opposite the bed, at the very right corner of the room, her stereo, and her telephone proved just how rich they were.

            Suddenly, his eyes caught sight of a portion of the soft-blue wall that seemed out of place of that well-furnished room. That whole patch, bare of any posters and pictures seemed normal, even to him… but there was something different about it. How he knew it, he had no idea, but he felt it deep in his gut, just as he would feel whenever he found the answers to any of their problems. 

            He walked towards it slowly.

* * * * * * * *

            They're in my ROOM! Oh, Kami-sama, what would have happened if I was still in there? Goodness!!

            Ruriko strained her ears, listening.

            'What?

            'She's… Jin say…'

            '… any idea… she was… five minutes…'

            '… signal? … supposed to… alarms?'

            'Yes we did… waited…'

            They were so soft that she could hardly catch snatches of their conversation. And for the past minute, they had been totally silent. So silent, unnerving Ruriko.

            Then she heard it-footsteps, coming her way.

            They've found the door! She screamed in her head, holding her breath in apprehension. The tension-not fear, at least not yet- was so strong that her muscles locked together. Her mind screamed again and again for her to wake her brother up, but she couldn't transmit that order into action. She just lay there, holding her breath.

            She could hear it, coming closer and closer, until it suddenly stopped. It sounded so near… Now panic and fear did rise in her.

            The door swung open, and to Ruriko, it seemed to happen in slow motions. Her mind seemed to see the door opening inch by inch, slowly. After a second, which felt like five minutes, the door was opened slightly, and…

            Ruriko gasped, hardly aware that she did.

            GOD!! What the hell?!!

            Her eyes were fixed on a face floating about 185-190 centimeters above ground. A face that had just somehow, poked itself into her brother's room. It was too much for her, an eight-year-old. Her baseless fears overtook her sanity, making her just stare at the face with weird eight-year-old thoughts streaming endlessly through her brain. There were thousands of possibilities what this face might be, each as bad as the last.

            Her eyes traveled over the messy hair that fell over the face. Hair so black that it seemed invisible to her. Then, they traveled to its eyes, blue and cold…

            Wait a minute! Hair so black that it seemed invisible… that is it… right? Ruriko quickly let her eyes pass to towards where she assumed was the body of the 'floating face', and realized that she could see a body. It was just coated in black. So black that it seemed invisible.

            Thank God!

            Relief came sweeping through her, and she let out her long-held breath. A smile even twitched at the corners of her lips. However, the fact that a certain someone-a tall one with prominent blue eyes-was in her room came back to her soon enough, and she froze yet again, hoping that her gasps and breaths had not attracted his attention.

            That was a stupid thing to hope for.

* * * * * * * *

            Fujima, Sendo and Hanagata stared in wonder as Rukawa pushed a portion of the wall, and it swung open.

            'Wow!' Sendo murmured softly, struck in wonder and the simplicity of the answer to the problem they had been facing. They continued watching as Rukawa peeped through a small opening. He stood there for about three minutes drawing a gasp, and something that sounded mysteriously like a breath of relief from the someone, or someones from the other side.

            'She's there?' Fujima questioned after Rukawa had closed the 'door' and turned to face them.

            'Yeah, with Mitsui-sempai, and we better get out of here. It won't be long before her paralysis of fear and shock breaks and she starts screaming… or at least wake her brother up.'

            Fujima looked a trifle disappointed.

            'Okay, let's go. We've missed this one,' Fujima ordered in an unenthusiastic tone of voice. And after a few seconds of consideration, he added, 'That's the second operation we've failed in this month.'

            'Yeah, we've broken our own record,' Hanagata added.

* * * * * * * *

            'What happened?'

            'She had a secret door leading into her brother's room.' Jin was struck, not with wonder, but more with shock, and curiosity. There was no way the whatever-that-was-giving him the orders would overlook such a thing.

            'Unless it didn't know about it as well,' a bitterly cold voice whispered in his head.

            'It didn't know…' Jin jerked, hard. He looked over at Rukawa, who had his eyes closed, and seemed to be in a trace, just like he was just now.

            In the cold light of the moon, Jin shivered, sensing that something big was about to happen. Something that might change their lives forever.

* * * * * * * *

            I wonder how the other three sempai(s) stay awake in school, Rukawa thought as he lay his head on his desk and fell asleep immediately.

30 minutes later….

            'RUKAWA!! WAKE UP!!!!'

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