Chapter 1
"Ok. Does anyone know where we are?" the spirit detective, Yusuke Urameshi, asked the others. He was with his friends, Kurama, Hiei, Kuwabara, Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Sango's pet cat demon, Kilala, Kenshin, Yahiko, Sanosuke, Karou and Megumi. Everyone shook their head.
"There's a house up there," Hiei pointed out. And there was. It was painted a dark grey, with two broken shutters on the third story. The door was red and it had hundreds of fir trees in front of it. The rose bushes had overgrown and the vine around the door had begun coiling around the door knob. It looked rather old and unkempt. It seemed as though no one had lived there in years.
"Uh... are you sure it's a good idea to go up there? I mean, it's old and the floor may break into pieces, and it may be locked," Kuwabara said. Shippo, who had been walking next to Kagome the whole time, was now cowering behind Inuyasha. Sanosuke started laughing at him.
"Your just afraid of old houses that you don't trust. I'm sure it's fine. And plus we have no idea where we are, so we can't just go home. We're probably in the next city by now," he said. And it was true. They were in the next city. They had been walking for about three hours. And by now, none of them remembered the way back.
"And it probably has a phone in it so we can call our parents to come get us. All we need to know is the street and the number of the house," Kagome said. The others nodded. They began their walk to the house. The grass was short for not having any one been there for years. The groups decided someone lived there, but hadn't had time to trim the vines and rose bushes and trim some branches off the trees and cut down a few.
Kenshin knocked on the door. It creaked open. The inside of the house was dimly lit.
"Hello?" they called. Their answer was a woman coming down the stairs from the second floor. The woman had light blonde hair and wore a long black gown with cuffed sleeves. Her hair was a little beyond her shoulders, and she had crystal blue eyes. Miroku seemed drawn to her. He walked over to her, only to get hit on the head by Sango's boomerang.
"OWW! What was that for?" he asked. Sango explained. Let's just leave it at that.
"Why have you come here?" the woman seemed to ask, though she didn't move her lips.
"We were wondering if you had a phone so we could call our parents to come get us." Kagome said. The woman shook her head. She went back up the stairs, returning with 7 other girls, each wearing a black gown with cuff sleeves. One though, had a diamond necklace round her neck, and the others had an emerald. The one with the diamond had shoulder length black hair and eyes like a cat's.
Who is she, and why does she look so familiar? Kurama wondered to himself.
"Would you mind telling us your names?" Kurama asked. He was determined to find out who the girl in the diamond necklace was. "My name is Shera Kirai Aresha." Said the first girl they saw.
"My name is Miyu Aresha, sister of Shera." Answered the girl in the diamond necklace.
"My name is Cochira Aisha Aresha." Replied a girl with long dark brown hair, pulled back in a braid and red eyes.
"My name is Dosana Aresha." Answered another girl, this one looking a bit like Miyu, but with shorter hair and brown eyes. Another girl answered,
"My name is Aiko Aresha." This one had dark, dark brown hair and emerald green eyes. The one next to her, who looked identical to her, said
"My name is Rei Aresha, twin of Aiko and sister of Cochira, Shera, Miyu, Aiko, Dosana, Mie and Rikiya."
Then a blonde girl with blue eyes, much like Shera, but with hair to her waist, looking like Miyu and Shera combined said
"My name is Mie Aresha" And then the final one, who was the only one there with red and red eyes, answered that her name was Rikiya.
"Might you tell us where we are?" Karou asked Cochira. Cochira shook her head.
"Why should you know when you aren't leaving and aren't getting out. You'll be staying here for a long time, all your life as a matter of fact. Ask my sisters." She answered, motioning to the other seven.
"What do you mean?" Yusuke asked. Miyu began to laugh evilly. She explained that once you entered the haunted house, you never left it. Everyone got huge eyed. Except the sisters. Shippo was clinging to Inuyasha's head, and Inuyasha was swiping at the little fox. The sisters and Inuyasha were the only ones without huge eyes. Kurama's eyes narrowed down. Now he knew why she seemed familiar.
The Aresha sisters. The ones from the palace. They met Yohko, he thought. He looked over to where she was. She had vanished. There were only two still there. Shera and Cochira.
Two days later, they were still stuck in the house. Sanosuke was running around looking for a way out, since Yusuke forced him to by saying he would use his spirit gun on him if he didn't. Everyday it seemed a different sister would check on them. The first day it was Shera, then Cochira and today it was Dosana. They thought they would never get out. Kurama had been disappearing a lot lately too. He kept going to the third floor, to find Trionte, as she was known to him from before. He never succeeded though. All he ever found was a book, each day a new page filled. He had read one, and some words from it still flowed in his mind.
"And when the light in my room burns out, the trees around the house fall, and the vine burst to flames, it will be the day for my death, as said in the legends. That is why I stay in this house. That is why I don't leave." They read. He wasn't quite sure why they haunted him. Whenever he came back, he got evil looks from the watcher. But this day he didn't leave. He waited for her to come from her room. But she never came down when he was awake. Though today was awkward. Maybe she would come down.
"Dosana. Go upstairs. Everything down here will be fine." Came Miyu's voice. Kurama looked to the top of the stairs. He saw her there, and she motioned for him to follow her. He nodded and obeyed.