Hi! So many reviews already! I can't believe how popular this thing is! Also, about the pairings… these may change if a certain person, or certain people don't like it. Ahem! Possible Yuki/Akito parts (maybe… haven't decided… Yuki-kun will probably stop speaking to me… Akito too. If so, I blame the people who want this!), Yuki/Tohru, Kyo… someone… maybe… don't know yet, Kisa/Hiro (of course!), Shigure/Aya (it's possible! Maybe even true!), umm… Akito/owner of mansion! Bwahahaha!!!! Oh wait! Didn't I forget some people? Oh yeah… Momiji/Haru! Ritsu and Hatori? (Ooh… frightening thought!)
Well, I'm listening to scary music, so maybe it'll help! If you want to read the first draft I had (it wasn't horror at all; it was humor! Darn TV!), then you must request it and give me your e-mail address so I know where to send it!
Hmm… I know that no one has asked, but who wants to reason for writing all this? It is very simple really. I got mad at Yuki! Yuki-kun actually. Hehehe! I was talking to the lady I work with about tortures I could use, and I asked her for ideas. She came up with X-rated tortures… can't use that! Very painful! Yuki-kun would kill me for doing that to him! And you probably want me to shut up now, don't you? Well, wish me luck! Hopefully it'll be more horror-like than the first draft was…
Chapter 1: Disappearing Yuki and Remembering Akito
The letters on the wall sent shivers down their spines. Tohru ran to the door, hoping it was unlocked so that she could leave this place! "Oh no," she whispered. It was locked… of course.
"This is just like a movie, huh, Haru?" said Momiji, looking at the wall still.
"Yeah, but this is real." Haru walked over to the wall. The blood had been there for a long time. But… whose blood was it? Why was it on the wall like this?
Tohru sat on the floor in front of the door, watching Haru all the while. How could anyone be so calm and collected enough to walk up to a wall with words written in blood on it? It was insane!
Ayame gazed up at the many paintings. How odd it was. The paintings were of wealthy and happy people; most of them anyway. He couldn't find anything that would cause something like what was on the wall.
Ritsu clung onto Hatori's arm, feeling that someone, or something was watching them very closely. A gentle breeze whooshed past him, carrying the faint scent of death. "AAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!" he screamed. He ran toward the door… unfortunately running through a young gentleman in the process. Ritsu stopped, and backed up. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The others turned to see what got Ritsu all worked up. A silvery man floated in front of them. "Leave here… at once," he said to them. "Hurry! Before they find you too!"
"W-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-who are you?" asked Kisa. (AN: Finally, Kisa comes back into the story. -_-U)
"That doesn't matter now. Hurry!" He disappeared, leaving the others to think about what he said. Shigure spoke up, "If we could leave, I think we would."
Then Haru looked back at the group. His eyes widened as he noticed something wrong. "Where's Yuki?"
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"Where… where am I?" The young boy walked along the dark and dusty hallways. The wall had certainly unnerved him, but the rest of the house… uh, mansion… was perfectly normal, if not a little dusty. In fact, his asthma wasn't affecting him dangerously, at least not yet. He knew, however, that it would only get worse if he continued walking in here.
Turning around, he noticed that he was lost. Oh no… now what was he going to do? Go back the way he came, of course! He walked back through the long hall, but paused as he noticed something moving around in a room that he had recently passed going the other way. Taking a deep breathed, he went forward. He looked around once he was inside. What kind of a room was this? A terrible smell filled his nostrils, was that the smell of death? He fell to his knees; the scent was so strong in this room.
Feeling a cold hand lift up his chin, he could only imagine what it was he was seeing. Was this person really… human?
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Tohru was in a fetal position on the floor, hoping not to see the terrible horrors of this place anymore. I can't believe this is happening, Mom. I never thought that I would someday end up in a place like this. What am I going to do? And… where is Yuki? Standing up, the frightened girl swallowed back her fear as she went into a darkened hallway. She was going to find Yuki no matter what! Nothing was going to stop her! She was a girl on a mission! (AN: can't believe I'm being so nice to her…) Nothing, not even a ghost, was going to get in her way!
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Akito walked around absentmindedly, not really paying much attention as to where he was going. All he knew was that there was a painting in the entrance room that held the beautiful picture of a girl he knew once before, a long time ago… before the murders.
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(Memory)
A young girl, about ten now, laughed as she played with Ayame and Shigure in the forest outside the main house. Her heart was weak, so she couldn't really run around too often. Her eyes brightened when she saw Akito.
He walked up to her, not really knowing why he did, though. "What is it?" he asked her.
"Come on, Akito. Please play with us. We're playing checkers, and I'm winning!"
"No you are not!" argued Shigure. "I'm winning!"
Ayame just smiled. "I'm keeping score at the moment!"
Akito almost laughed at Aya's excitement of doing something as boring as score keeping. However, he had to keep his rep as someone who never laughed, at least not around his family. The girl, though, was different. They always laughed together; sometimes at something as meaningless as an old rubber band wrapped around a squirrel's tail as it scurried up a tree. It's just that, she always brought so much joy to his heart every time he saw her. How could he have known what was actually going on in her house that year?
(Chapter One… END)
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Well? I know, it's kinda short, huh? Sorry… but I didn't wanna go to R just yet… and about that… Please let me know if this is indeed rated R. Next chapter I believe is when it goes into the R range big time. Especially with poor little Yuki and who… or what… he saw! I'm sorry, Yuki-kun! I couldn't help it… but when I pictured him in the hallway alone, it just seemed natural for some reason. Huh. Well, just let me know what you think of this, okay? And for people who cannot handle rated R… sorry! Maybe I'll try typing a milder one when this is over… Well, bye everyone! Wish me luck! Now to try to finally start working on my project that is due Monday… don't count on it, though.
Hikari Rioki
The Future is in Your Hands