The Curse by Do As Infinity (SailorSakura9
A/N: sorry for the long wait. I've finally decided to update :p anyway, when I started writing this story my computer died on me and I kinda lost interest . So I had to get a new computer. . .then I started playing RO and watching Naruto. . .so yeah :p I also kind of lost a little interest in this fic (not to mention I've stopped watching YYH, so I forgot lots of stuff), but I feel bad for making people wait :/ I'll try to continue the story to the best of my ability.
As always: [thought] {something important that needs to be mentioned}
WARNING: this next chapter is going to be a bit . . .gory in the descriptions, so don't say I didn't warn you . . . oh yeah, Ring and Ring 2 spoilers . (sorry about that, but. . . I couldn't help it ;;)
---- Random story separator thing ----Kurama entered Koenma's bustling office. Ogres were running around frantically trying to sort and file papers. Yuuske, Hiei, Kuwabara, along with Botan were already situated by Koenma's paper stacked desk.
"It's a MESS! A big giant mess! With all these deaths SOMETHING must be behind it!" yelled a sleep deprived Koenma "Honestly, all this work has turned me into an involuntary insomniac!"
Botan nodded sleepily; she too was overworked, looking for the "lost" souls of the dead and carrying back to the spirit world.
"Just get to the point," snapped Yuuske.
Koenma cleared his throat and began to explain, "Well, as you can tell from all the paperwork on my desk, there have been a lot of deaths lately. However. . ."
"Their souls have gone missing!" finished Botan. Everyone turned their attention to her. "I've been running around day and night, to all the different death scenes, and there hasn't been a soul in sight! I mean, the victim is obviously DEAD, but their soul is just. . .gone, like it never existed in the first place!"
Koenma nodded, then pushed a red button on his desk. A screen dropped down and a picture showed the corpse of a dead boy: Hayakawa Eikichi. Around his eyes were bloody scratch marks, as if he tried to claw his eyes out. His hands were clutching his the side of his face, also trying to claw their way in. There were small spots of blood and little bits of skin inside his nails. But the most awkward thing about the picture was the look of immense fear on his face. Obviously, before his death, he was about to scream, but. . .what could have scared him so bad that his face was stuck that way in death?
"Hayakawa Eikichi, age 12," Koenma provided a small commentary, "Died on Aug 12, at around 3:50 p.m. and found by his older cousin in the living room."
Koenma pushed the red button again and another picture showed. This time, it was a middle-aged woman.
"Adachi Fumiko, age 41. Died on Aug 24 at 7:37 a.m., found by her husband and daughter in her bedroom closet."
The woman also held the same immense look of fear as Eikichi, except she didn't go to such extremes as clawing out her eyes. Instead, it looked as if she tried to pull her hair out.
"Her daughter, Adachi Tadako, supposedly saw the murder, however, she was sent to an insane asylum. I suppose the shock of seeing her mother's murder must have caused her to go crazy. Then, after spending half a day in the asylum, she somehow escaped and ran into the nearest apartment complex."
"Why would she do that?" asked Kuwabara.
"To commit suicide," replied Koenma, "Once inside the complex, she ran up 30 flights of stairs, went on the roof, and jumped off before the authorities could arrive."
Koenma was about to push the button to show Tadako's picture, however Kuwabara grabbed his arm, "I don't want to see it. I think we already get the idea."
"The most recent death was Suzuki Chise-" began Koenma.
"The girl from my class," said Kurama. Everyone stared at him in shock.
"She was my classmate, and possibly the last person I talked to before her death," explained Kurama, "Before she died, I remember she gave me this video tape, and she told me to watch it, but I never did."
"And then she died," said Hiei bluntly, "Honestly, if you still feel guilty about her death, you should just stop."
"Hmm. . .maybe. . ." muttered Koenma, he looked up, "Kurama, do you still have that tape your classmate gave you."
"Yes, it's somewhere in my backpack, or I probably took it out and put it on my desk," replied Kurama.
"Wait a sec!" interrupted Kuwabara, "What does this tape have to do with the murders?"
"Well, you see. . ." Botan rubbed her hands together nervously, "From the looks of it, it seems as if everyone that's seen this 'tape' or was associated to it in any way has . . .died, and it's usually those people who's souls are missing."
Kurama's eyes widened, perhaps. . .just maybe that tape. . . then, he just remembered, "I think I know what's going on, or the 'myth' of it anyway. There's been a rumor floating around that if you watched this cursed video, you would die in seven days. I saw some reporter. . .Asakawa Reiko, if I remember correctly, was talking about it on some sort of TV special."
"Asakawa. . .Reiko. . ." Koenma began thumbing furiously through all the stacks of papers on his desk, "Ah! I found her. Asakawa Reiko! Was married to Takayama Ryuji and later divorced him. They had one son, Asakawa Yoichi. Reiko mysteriously disappeared for some time, and was found by the police. Later, during her interrogation, both she and her son ran out. Unfortunately for her she was run over by a truck . . .and her soul was never found."
Koenma thumbed through some more papers.
"Takayama Ryuji died of some unknown cause in his house. His soul was gone as well. The person who found him was Takano Mai."
"So whatever happened to Yoichi and Mai?" asked Yuuske. Koenma began shuffling through papers again.
"Both are still alive, but they've been missing for some time. Perhaps. . .perhaps they know something, maybe not everything and maybe not a lot, but just SOMETHING, that can help us. So for your next mission, find Asakawa Yoichi and Takano Mai!"
---testing out separators, because hates me---
{Back in the human world. . .in Kurama's bedroom}
"Oh what's this?" Kurama's mother picked up a label-less video tape off her son's desk. She was cleaning the house when she stopped and found this tape.
[There's no label on it. . .] she thought as she inspected the tape, [Perhaps I should watch it to find out . . .?]
---this works...i think ---
hope you guys are happy w/ this chapter! I really got into it with all that. . .mystery solving "the melodies of logic must be solved truthfully" (haha, Spiral reference Xp) type thing XD