Disclaimer: I do not own Fatal Frame II.

Urg...Yep I feel bad..Bit of Itsuki bastardization at the beginning of this chapter, but then again if you had just watched him strangle his brother and then he locked the door to his room and told the only person with a key not to let anyone in then threw you into a table wouldn't you be scared sh*tless too? Also I've begun to incorperate the events of then and now into it, As the final days of the ritual, come into play, so does Mio's encounter with Danielle.

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She knew it...She was going to die.. At Itsuki's hands, the very one who's attention she craved was going to be the one to end her life. Just as he had done his brothers. She struggled and tried to run out of the room as Itsuki grabbed her wrist and threw her back she landed with a thud as the door clicked shut and several of the glasses on the table, fell as it flipped from the weight of the teenager who had just landed on it. "No! No! Itsuki! I'm sorry! Please don't! Please---please--please..." She beggeed to the now white haired boy, who said nothing from his position at the door. "Please don't what?" He asked his brown eye's narrowing coldly. "Please--please don't kill me! I won't tell anyone about Mutsuki please! Spare my life!" She begged as his eye's softened slightly and he knelt beside the girl. "Your in danger here you know?" He said softly brushing a few strands of red hair out of her face. "I know why my ritual failed, but they don't, and if they find out you were there then they'll blame you." He said softly she nodded in a confused fashion. "B-but the rituals were banned! You shouldn't even be doing them!" She almost yelled but the white haired teenager covered her mouth as she attempted to rise up. "Maybe not, but I was raised in this village and whatever the religeon states is what we do. Unless we want to end up dead." He said softly as though whispering. "Promise you won't tell anyone that you were there alright? It's best not to worry about it." Itsuki said softly releasing his hold on her mouth. "Itsuki..." Her voice cracked as she rose slowly resting on her elbows "I'm..sorry." She said softly, as suddenly she felt soft yet firm lips covering her own. Her first kiss...Was with exactly the one she wanted it to be with.. There was knock on the door of Itsuki's room. as he looked up confused "Itsuki it's me Yae!" He frowned as he rose to his feet, and walked towards the door. There was a soft click and the youngest of the Kurosawa twins walked into the room. She looked to Danielle who rose to her feet brushing off her Kimono. "Hello." she said softly, Danielle said nothing only bowed polietly. "Chitose has the key you know Yae." The black haired girl nodded softly as the door clicked shut once more. "But she ran and hid on me." She answered before looking to the the red head. "What's she doing here?"

Itsuki frowned softly looking to the red haired outsider. "I was about to tell her something..." He frowned "She saw the ritual." Yae's eye's suddenly widened as she looked to the girl in fear. He frowned at the black haired girl "Now the question is what are you doing here?" he asked the older of the twins.

"It's about your ritual. Father sent me."

Itsuki turned and looked to the girl as though she were the most vile thing on the planet. "Yes Yae what is?" Somehow she felt like he already know the answer as there was a gentle proding on the roof. "It's raining." She mouthed softly to herself, it seemed strangely appropriate. "Itsuki...It failed." Yae said softly Itsuki remained silent, before turning around and walking to his desk, picking something up and staring at Danielle for a moment. "Deliver this to Ryozo Munakata." He said firmly handing her a sealed scroll, "And don't let anyone else see you. Yae, tell him to meet her at the Kiryu house, no one's there anymore, no one will expect you to be there."

Mio walked down the path, her footsteps eerily loud, Mayu had managed to evade her again, how she had no clue. She felt rather pathetic, her sister, who was handicapped always seemed to outrun her. She stepped forewards eyeing the rubble that was the front of the Tachibana house wearily, before a loud bang sounded, several of the delapigated boards fell from their place one at the same time she assumed was a door, drawing the Camera Obscura into her line of vision she prepared for the worst. As ghost, emerged as she had expected, but it did not attack her, but instead froze in her place. As her line of vison greyed, and Mio once again saw the past in hazy black and white...

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Yeah I know short and it took me forever to get up...Forgive me!