Sorry it took so long to update. The stupid site wouldn't let me log on till a little while ago…. Then I kinda forgot. So yeah here it is. Please review!!!

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Kira stared at the face in the mirror. It leered right back at her, cold lifeless eyes taunting her fear.

"R…Rei!" Kira scrambled back from the mirror. Her hand desperately searched for the doorknob. When she found it, though, it was locked…from the outside.

She jumped to her feet and started pounding on the wide mahogany door. "Someone please let me out!" Behind her the mirror still lay on the floor, broken glass shimmering in the flickering light. Even though she couldn't see the reflection from where she was standing, she still eyed it with terror. Blood from her fingertip squeezed onto the doorknob as she frantically turned it this way and that.

"Please, open!" She whispered fervently. "Someone help me!"

"No one is going to help you, Kira. Just as no one helped me."

The blond girl whirled around, pressing her back to the door. "Who's there?!"

The blood on the mirror shimmered then seeped into the depths of the surface. Cracks where it had broken disappeared.

"Come closer, Kira. Look what I have become."

"Leave me alone!" She cried. Once again she rattled the door, but to no avail.

"You'll never get out if I don't want you to. Just come look, and I'll let you out."

Kira turned slowly. "All…Alright. But you'd better let me out!"

The voice laughed. "If you're going to serve as my connection to Rei, then why would I keep you locked up in this room? I have a message for Rei."

"Message?" Kira took small steps toward the mirror. "Why would you have a message for Rei?"

"Why wouldn't I want to commune with my brother?"

"SEI?!" She screamed. She ran over and threw herself on the ground before the mirror. "But you're dead!"

The pale blond boy stared back at her once again, but she could see the familiar features clearer now that the cracks had gone. It was the face she had come to know only through the paintings on the wall, but she knew it all the same. The face whose hatred for the world was carefully concealed behind smiling blue eyes.

"It is true, I am no longer among the living; and by my own choice. However, Rei is quickly becoming the killer I wanted him to be."

"No!!" Kira grasped the mirror tightly, glaring intently at the calm, cruel eyes leering back at her. "Rei would never kill anyone!"

Sei laughed. "Foolish girl. Just how long does Rei think he can keep you in the dark?"

"Listen, you!" Kira shouted. Her own boldness surprised her, but she pressed on, determined to defend Rei. "Rei may be violent, but he would never kill anyone!"

"I can show you otherwise. Touch the bloodstain, Kira, and I will show you…everything."

Her blue eyes slowly traveled across the mirror. "I don't see any-" Then her gaze fell upon the left side of the frame. Crimson splashed the woodwork, painting it a warped, sickly brown. "What the…?" She gasped.

"Touch it. Touch it, and I'll show you who Rei really is."

Kira hesitated, then placed her hand on the stain. Then her world collapsed.

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Yeah sorry this was kinda short…R&R!!