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Danielle looked around the area tenatively as they now sat near the fireplace in the Kiryuu house. There was nothing more that bothered her than silence. It was usually the sort of hated silence that occured when people found out about her sixth sense. Or when she had just had one of her episodes from said sixth sense. Now It was simply because as she stared at Ryozo's sensei she could think of nothing to say. Her abilities already explained, and no trace of the young childs spirit in the room, everything remained silent. "I see..." Muttered Makabae silent to himself. "Your saying that one cannot simply achieve this state unless born with some power? That there is a ghost in this house, but it will not make itself present?" She nodded. "Very well then. Perhaps another time when things have calmed down, after the festival I'll talk with you again." She nodded once again softly as he finished this statement. "Yes sir." She looked to Ryozo who was sitting in the corner "Will you show me the way out? I'm afraid that I'll get lost." She said softly and the boy rose and walked out with her.

The Rain had halted. As A matter of fact the sun was now shining as she emerged from the house breathing a sigh of relief. "Tell me, Danielle." Ryozo paused "Did you ask me to "Show you the way out because,"

"Because I was afraid that girl would attack me? Yes. Wouldn't you be?" He nodded at this returned question. "Yes actually I would be....It's getting late, You'd better get home quickly." She smiled softly at the boy who seemed to be concerned with nothing but her safety and bowed waving afterwards. "Goodbye Ryozo. Perhaps I can visit you tommorow." She added but then her heart shrunk at the relization that visiting the boy would also mean entering the Kurosawa mansion. Something the red haired girl had never been keen on doing. The house was a maze, and the Servants all had an odd Aura about them. This also told her that several people had perished in that house, and that for some reason or another many more would as well.

Elsewhere in the village, Chitose eyed her brothers room contemplating wether or not the small child should open the door or not. The bells attached to the key jingled around her wrist as she rocked back and forth on the balls of her feat. It had been almost a year since Itsuki had gone off with Mutsuki and one of them had not returned. Since then her brother had isolated himself in his room. Only to start associating with that weird red haired girl that lived only a few homes down from theirs. She was an outsider, and their parents had always warned them not to get close to any outsiders. Getting close to outsiders meant that you would get hurt, because after a while they left. One way or another. Chitose frowned and then turned around stalking off. She was bored, she wanted her brother to play with her. But that probably wasn't going to happen. Itsuki never played with her, and he only spoke to her when she needed to let someone in. But she never liked letting anyone in. People scared her, for some reason. Or Perhaps she was only afraid because she couldn't truly see them and that she didn't really want anyone to come in and torment her brother. So she hid. The sound of the sliding door alerted her to an intruder in their home and she quickly darted towards the nearest closet. What if this time it really was someone that wanted to hurt her? or Itsuki?

A Shadow rounded the corner and looked through the bars into Itsuki's room alerting the boy of a precense and he quickly turned. "Danielle." He nodded in recognition.
"Itsuki. I Took Ryozo your note. " She said softly, "And it nearly killed me." The White haired boy turned to face the window curiously, "The house that Ryozo's mentor was in, it's haunted." She answered the questions asked through his confused glance. "Severly, and she's not a friendly ghost either." She muttered. "I Think I'm gonna go home...and sleep for the next two days...or at least take a nice hot bath." She said in a sigh. Then bowing she left the white haired boy behind to ponder his next move. He had to get Yae and Sae out of this place before the ritual, as well as Danielle before the repentance, otherwise the girl from Kyoto would surely be the next Kusabi.

Danielle closed her eyes as she slipped into the warm water and sighed. She had a headache, and usually the only thing she could manage to do with these kind of stress induced headaches was to simply relax until it went away. "That's the last time I go into that house...Ever." She made this vow silents as she douced her slightly tangled red hair with hot water.

PRESENT TIME

Mio looked behind to Mayu, making sure the girl was still there. She wasn't quite sure if the girl had wandered off, she should have been frustrated, her dear sister never behaved like this usually. However she wasn't, it was clear that Mayu was sick, as she got the feeling that as long as they stayed in this village that she would get even sicker. That girl, Sae, the girl had scared her beyond all means of describing it, and she prayed silently that the ghost never made her precence known in front of her sister. In the weakened state the girl remained in, that she would not escape with her sister alive. She continued walking until she heard Mayu's voice filled with fear. "MIO! LOOK!" She pointed up to the steps leading to the house next to the Kurosawa mansion. She was never really sure who had lived there in all the documents she had read about the families of the village. Standing there was a ghost, a womans ghost, but it made no move to attack them, and it did not simply vanish either. She was a short thin young woman in a red Kimono decorated with patterns of Butterflys and Dragons and various other golden designs a large gold Obi tied around her waist. A nonexistant wind blew lose strands of hair into her face as several cuts decorated the sold white "Skin" of the female, Green eye's narrowed softly and then closed as she climbed up the stairs the folds of the silk in her Kimono looking elegant until she noticed one thing. The girls bare arm was also covered with cuts, as it twitched slightly, it looked as though the woman had been beaten to death. The womans ascent stopped as she looked downwards once more. A voice seemed to ring in her ears as she looked at the woman.

'Perhaps it really is, all my fault...Poor itsuki...'

Mio watched as the spirit vanished with this, snapping a quick photo of the woman. She then noted the soft glow of a gem again the light of her flashlight. "An Emerald?" She looked puzzled and turned around to address her sister. Except Mayu wasn't there, she turned just in time to see the door that the ghost had walked through close. "MAYU! where are you going!?" She yelled towards the door but there was no reply. Sighing softly and lifting the Camera from the black bag and into her hands she walked up the steps and through the door as well.