Back from Maine a 3 day hell vacation! Don't feel bad for me no one does just feel bad that I couldn't write for you. :) Any who while in hell, which is off season so it's cold as well hell in the off season, I had a horrible Au idea and decided to subject you all to it. Reincarnation in effect Ooo and can you all say Tsuki Matsuri? It's fun to say. --- Mio.. Yae? Who ever she was or had become was staring into a pond looking at her own reflection obstructed only by the golden fish, which occasionally swam to the service to sallow up her tears. "Why you try and wash you sorrow away? Always spend every day in bath. Think it will go away? You can not clean you self from pain, see how you cry everyone cry no matter how clean." Mio looked at the servant's reflection in the water as if that was where the voice had come from. The old lady seemed to know Mio, well not Mio but Yae, seemed to know Yae. "Why not you go in and have a meal with your father? It seem like he loose both of you that night."

"He's not my father."

"You don't mean that." The old lady left Mio's pool.

Six days till the festival everyone hurried about in the streets by now crops were sprouting. The Women had cleaned every spot in every room the Sakura tree's had blossomed and now breathed petals upon anyone who passed. Any passerby could see just how beautiful this village was. Not that anyone passed by during this time but if they had would they of thought it was really a ghost village?

Mutsuki after hearing about two girls getting lost in the woods that surrounded the haunted village of his dreams had immediately ran out to his car and was now driving to the closest point of the village that anyone knew of. The still water river at the center of the woods was said 'to lead you to the point of no return' or something like that. He wanted to see the village with his own eyes but he was very afraid. All Gods was threat a parent said 'If you are not good the demons will snatch you away to All Gods.' All Gods was used to lighten situations 'You think we're lost? Well we aren't in all gods yet check the map.' Since birth All Gods Village was the worst possible destination yet why was he driving to it? It was a simple answer.

Ghosts, it was a word Mutsuki was very familiar with. He had based his whole life on ghosts and demons. At the age of 7 Mutsuki had rid 32 of his relatives and neighbors of ghosts and other forms of bad luck. At age 16 he broke it to his parents that he would not be a lawyer but a paranormal investigator. Now at 18 he was searching for All Gods Village with a picture of two girls.

"Mio and Mayu" He spoke aloud. Mio was the confidant looking one on the right, while Mayu was the timid looking on the left. He actually went to the same high school as them and he hadn't ever seen them. That wasn't all too strange but he lived rather close to them as well. Mutsuki wasn't one to be oblivious of his surroundings the twins were perplexing.

The Doctor had given Mio a check up and had noticed some key things changing such as her birth marks. Yae had birth marks on her right shoulder and thigh, while Mio had no birthmarks just a couple of scars she had accumulated shaving. The Doctor noticed after taking blood that her type had changed from O to A. The maids brought up how she had been spending so much time 'bathing'. The Doctor said she had 'washed away her blood and birth marks' that she must 'be prohibited from over bathing or she would loose herself entirely to the water' This suited the little old Chinese lady. Now Mio was only aloud a half of an hour to bathe and her safe haven was gone.

Five days until the moon festival Ryokan's head servant told Mio she had to pick out fabric for a new Kimono. The kimono would be worn to show off the wealth of Kurosawa. The head servant offered her the old Chinese lady from the pond as an aid. Mio knew she couldn't go alone but tried to avoid having this particular servant accompany her by saying "I wouldn't want to trouble such an important person." "Oh no Trouble" the little old lady said after popping out behind on of the screens tightly grabbing Mio's hand and pulling her off.

That was now why she was here staring at cloth on bamboo racks. That was why everyone in town had stopped what they were doing to stare at the head family's eldest daughter. That was why she was buying some useless wooden sandals off of a merchant offering her a son for a cow. "You should maybe consider marry him poor husband always be grateful to you rub you feet." Mio shook he head no to the little Chinese lady and the merchant. No one was looking at her anymore though she noticed, they all faced the path that lead outside of the village.
Some one was coming? It looked like some one from 2004 some one who knew that this village was crazy. They might even be looking for her? She and Mayu had been lost only a couple of weeks. No one noticed when she slipped out of site and walked away. She crept into Tachibana House revamped with fresh wall scrolls and a shining floor. A bell was jingling towards her.

"Oka-san is that you?" Chitose squinted trying to adjust the blur that was her vision. Itsuki ran in after her smiling they seemed to be playing some game Mio thought. Itsuki immediately stopped smiling in shock and began trying to make conversation. "Oh, Yae I didn't think.. err expect you to" and he was blushing. He didn't know what he was saying.

"Aren't you not aloud here? Why'd you come?" Chitose asked. Mio wasn't sure of that herself her feet had just lead her here she was just trying to escape. Why did she come to Itsuki's house she would be in trouble with Yae's father? Itsuki pat Chitose's head as a sign for her to leave. Chitose huffed up like a puffer fish and left, the bell sang distantly.

"She always seems so sad to see me." Mio commented looking off at the screen Chitose had dashed threw. Itsuki thought Chitose was more mad to see her. Yae was blamed for imprisoning him over night in the cell by Chitose she would not forgive her.

"Some times when people look sad it means they are happy" He guided his hand threw Mio's hair. "I'm looking forward to Thursday. What I will then say maybe I'll be able to form those two syllables." Mio perked up he said he'd meet her between the houses on the bridge over looking the village to tell her some thing.

"What do you want to tell me?" She was curious not knowing of anything that Itsuki'd have to tell her, not her Mio, her Yae. Yet there was no answer but Itsuki's face was getting closer to hers for some reason! She could feel his breath on her cheeks and soon his lips on hers, a soft warm presence that fled almost immediately.

"Sorry! I wasn't thinking." Itsuki couldn't control himself. He'd touched lips with Yae she didn't even return his feelings. His feelings he was going to confess to her under the full moon. Kissed her in the entrance hall for anyone to see, he kissed the head of Kurosawa's daughter!

"Well I should be going" Mio quickly backed up and began backing out of the entrance room. "Wait Yae! Why did you come?" Itsuki said good question but Mio didn't know why she came or why Yae came, she did know why she left. Mitsuki had seen it all her son kissing that Kurosawa girl and her son was in love with her.

Mutsuki faced the Village it was beautiful he didn't sense any spirits. The fact that the spirits were staring at him did make him acknowledge their existence he just didn't sense them. He walked down the path watching the staring ghosts gawk at him but they weren't ghosts were they? They were all alive, the village that was once in habited by the dead was alive.

"He looks like him..... But that is defiantly a foreigner by the way he stares with mouth open." Spoke the little Chinese lady to the poor Kiryu merchant. Mutsuki turned to them not really sure of what to do with this village full of live ghost people. He held up his hand forgetting that the picture was there. The people gasped seeing what they thought were the Kurosawa twins in a foreigner's photograph.

"Oh yes, them do any of you know these two girls?"

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There I hope that was ugh cliffhanger-ish anyways time to read the story like 3 times and correct all the grammatical errors! Wee! Third chapter kind of cool.. Yes I made Itsuki kiss Mio! And I made a reincarnation character. On a funnier note: Who out of my dear reviewers does the panty shots with Mayu? You know walk up the stairs walk down the stairs and wait with the camera facing up to catch some panties? On my game I have a whole gallery of panty shots! Yes I am a girl and pathetic but blame the game designers.