I am in no way in ownership of Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly, and if I did ..

Let's not go there.

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It's been so long, since .. Since the family broke apart.

Though I could look back at it as only yesterday, but I'd only blame myself.

I was so young ..

Mother lost it, she couldn't bare seeing me, so she went to Yoshitatsu's and I was taken to the

Tsuchihara household.

I can still remember the look on her face, her screaming, the streaming of tears as she tried to reach out for me, not

wanting to lose me aswell.

Why couldn't you dare to look at me while you had me, mother? Why? I felt so alone, I just wanted to...

It was afew years untill I went to live with my mother and Yoshitatsu, we didn't go to our old home.

Yoshitatsu had two children, Azami and Akane, but they were still young, I never saw them much.

But .. That day I saw my mother ..

She looked old. She looked tired, strands of her hair was out of place, and ..

She didn't look my mother.

But, she was. When she saw me, she just stood there, looking blankly, and then ..

She hugged me.

I wanted to hug her, I wanted to ask her why we had to be apart. I wanted to push myself closely to her,

try to smell that fragrance which lingered around her, to know that this woman WAS my mother.

But ..

I couldn't.

I couldn't bring myself to, and ..

I regret it.

That night, as I rested in my room, which still is my room, she ..

She threw herself off the top of the staircase.

The same one my sisters did.

I normally blame myself, I feel it was my fault. Apart of me always has.

I feel that she probably thought that I had forgotten who she was .. But .. I never did.

I just wanted to know why she didn't dare to look at me when I was so young .. I was so afraid ..

I was alone.

I've always been alone, though. Even if I feel like I'm not, I am.

Yoshitatsu .. Akane .. Azami .. Gone.

Sisters .. Mother .. They're all gone.

I just want to .. Fly to them .. Like .. My sisters did.

She placed down the writing tensil against the dust diary and sighed deeply.

She knew she shouldn't force herself to think, let alone write, those kinds of things, but she just needed to get it out.

Especially today.

She picked herself off of the ground, dusting off her red kimono as she did soon. It hung against her body, drooping down

off of her body, but she didn't bother to do it up properly, it never worked.

Opening up the sliding door, she shut it up behind her, then started to walk along the corridor.

' It's like .. I only have to walk along here now, and I can remember the times we were a family ..

When we felt joy .. When .. Reality felt too real. ' She lifted up a hand and brushed the tears forming a her eyes

and kept walking on, untill she reached the door to the Staircase.

" Come on .. Only .. "

Her eyes widened as she heard voices behind the door, and then footsteps.

" Sis .. Sisters?! " She opened up the door and ran through it, but as soon as the door slammed behind her, the

footsteps ceased.

' Is it just me...? I haven't been in here .. For so long. ' She walked over to the staircase, and felt the banister.

It was engulfed in dust and coldness, being left for so long to no use, the whole room kicked off dust everywhere.

She moved her hand against it as she placed a bare foot onto the first step.

' I remember, when I was young .. My legs were so weak, every step seemed like a another twenty. But .. Huh? ' She

had started her gaze down, when she had then seem them.

Tiny feet stood out of the dust, going upwards, totally obvious to anyone who looked.

She never left the doors out open, so she knew it couldn't of been any of the villagers' children. She started to

go up the steps, following them footsteps to the top of the next floor, to which they stopped.

" What's going on here? " Muttering, she turned herself back to look back down the floor of the steps, but the

only footsteps she saw could of been her own.

She shook her head, the strands of her raven black hair slapping gently against her face. " I'm losing it.. "

But, even so, she started to walk around the floor, hoping to get to the door out of the place. It still gave her

the creeps afer all this time.

She couldn't exactly remember where the door led to, but either way, she opened it up, but as soon as she did, the

ground seemed to rumble.

Unable to react quickly, a blast of darkness swept all around her, knocking her straight onto the floor.

" Oh no, NO! " She scrambled back onto her feet, picking up a side of her kimon which had flopped totally off of her

shoulder, and started heading back to the staircase, but even when she reached there, she could hear it ..

The Malice had come for her.

" No! I don't want to die now! " She could hear laughter all around her, all directed at her, agonizing screams, the

sound of pain. She tried to block it out with her own screaming, but even as it didn't help, it seemed to help herself.

' I don't want to die! NOT YET! Not like this! Not like them! I want to die NORMALLY! NORMALLY! I WANT TO FLY WITH

P-PROPER WINGS! ' She screamed within her mind everything that she held back, as if confessing to the darkness, but all it

did was feed itself inside her, growing louder and louder as the tears spilt from her eyes.

' If .. I am to .. Die .. By .. The d-dark .. I want.... To fly... Away... ' She could feel the darkness finally grasping

upon her body, and she screamed out, opening her eyes up and suddenly jumping down.

" Save me.... "

She could only see a faint image of her family, smiling, together .. Leaving her, again.

" Heheheh .. Hahahaha....! "

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Well, that's it. Hope you enjoyed it!