Ganko heard someone shuffling pass her room. She hadn't really fallen asleep since she was still worried about Fuuko. Her nee-chan NEVER turned down food. So why didn't she turn up for supper? They had waited for a long time for her. 10 minutes was a new record in the Hokage monkey horde for waiting before eating.
Curious as she was, Ganko walked over slowly towards the door and slowly opened it. No one was out there. Feeling braver, Ganko stepped out to see a slim, petite girl in a rather ancient looking dress, walking into the darkness of the hallway.
'Was that purple hair or brown hair?'
Ganko marched over to the room opposite hers. Bursting in, she grabbed the collar of the sleeping person and shook hard. When the sleeper moaned and shifted back to sleep, Ganko tried another tactic.
"KAORU WAKE UP, YOU LAZY PIG!"
Kaoru shot up in shock, hitting Ganko's forehead. His ears still ringing from the extremely loud wake-up call that Ganko had nicely given him. He gave her a glare after the ringing stopped.
"What?"
"I need you to follow me."
"Why?"
"I thought I saw somebody."
"Who?"
"Fuuko-neechan."
"Where?"
"Outside my bedroom."
"When?"
"Just now."
"Oh."
He went back to sleep. Ganko turned to a lovely shade of red. Focusing her anger on just one part, her voice box, she pulled Kaoru's ear hard, took a deep breath, and yelled again.
For the second time in less than 5 minutes, his ears were ringing again. Louder this time. Deciding not to risk going deaf, he humbly followed Ganko out the room and down the hallway.
Tokiya sat up in bed. He had a funny feeling in his chest. Something was wrong and he knew it. He felt it. 'And it probably has to do with that monkey...'
He walked out of his room and into Fuuko's room to check on her. Only after making sure his hair was absolutely perfect.
Fuuko was lost and frustrated. However, her frustration was driven away by another emotion. Fear. She had been walking around in the dark for the past half-an-hour. After deciding to take an unexpected turn, she found herself walking down empty hallways.
"Damn this darkness!"
Fuuko yelled in exasperation and anger. She didn't like feeling scared. 'Fear' was not a word used to describe Fuuko Kirisawa. Fearless, yes. Fearful, no.
She wasn't always scared of the dark. In fact, she used to love running around in the dark when she was younger. Yet ever since that blasted incident, where she had been stuck in that dark void of Magensha, she didn't dare go into the dark.
Especially alone.
She shuddered inwardly at the thought of being in the void again, seeing the skeletons and pieces of flesh floating around her. Sure, she freaked out at first, and pushed out the feeling. But eventually, she realized that she was truly afraid when she couldn't even stay in her house during a blackout.
However, this time was an exception, she was hungry. As if reading her thoughts, her stomach growled instinctively. Fuuko patted her stomach sympathetically.
"Yes, yes. I'll feed you. Just wait, alright?"
She turned around another corridor to find herself face-to-face with herself. A strangled cry left her throat.
Throughout the mansion, a shriek could be heard echoing of the walls. Kaoru and Ganko quickly tried to decipher where it had come from before running off into the darkness. Tokiya fastened his pace.
Yanagi looked up from the toilet bowl, where she had been busy puking out everything she had eaten earlier that day. She felt another wave of nausea hit her and bend her head over again.
Meanwhile, Recca and Domon were in dream worlds of their own, where girls were throwing themselves at them and where there were mounds of food and sake that seemed to be endless.
