NOBUYUKI
At Keisei Jr. High, five students remained in Mr. Yubari's math class, cleaning up. One of these students was Nobuyuki Suzuki. The others, two boys and two girls, were buzzing about the room. Nobuyuki was staring out into the courtyard and torrential rain. The noise inside the room stopped, and Nobuyuki looked over his shoulder to see…an empty room. Everyone had disappeared. He looked back towards the courtyard and there was someone in the rain: a pale woman with long, black hair.
A thump on the window distracted his thoughts. Its origin: a pale, milky hand scratching to open the window. Eventually it was successful, and the pale woman with black hair cracked and crumbled into the room. It lunged for Nobuyuki, a hungry look on her face.
"Kayako." A voice rang in Nobuyuki's thoughts.
He found himself at the door of the classroom. With a burst of action, he flung open the door and ran out into the inky black hall. He turned behind him and saw the woman—Kayako—crawling fast for his feet. He resumed running towards the exit. As he ran down the stairs, he saw an impossible image: it was the woman, crawling toward him with her hair over her face. She made a horrible croaking sound—like a death rattle. Another croak joined the other, and Nobuyuki looked towards the ascending stairs. It was the same woman. There were two of them. He gasped one more time and exhaled as a strange new power took over him. Then, his entire world went black.
There were now two figures inside the art room, and about a thousand outside. One was Nobuyuki, now succumbed to the Ju-on. The other 1,001 were duplicates of Kayako Saeki.
Outside the school in the courtyard, it was still raining heavily. Along with the sound of rain on the concrete, 1,000 more croaks rung out in the air. Kayako Saeki and her many multiples stood on the concrete, croaking into the fading sky.