Ju San couldn't see anything. Wherever she was was pitch black; either that or her eyes were not working. Her heart hammered; something was wrong, very wrong. The servant stumbled around in the darkness, crying out for help. Suddenly, she caught a whiff of a familiar, and attractive, scent.
"Scarf Man," she said softly, and then began to blindly follow the scent.
Ju San clumsily made her way through the blackness, and she heard a faint cry coming from her right. She quickly turned to that direction and began to run, no obstacles in her way to trip on. As she ran, another scent began to mingle with the all to familiar one of her previous captor. Blood; fresh spilled blood. As she became closer to the source of the smells, agonizing screams rang in her ears.
"Scarf Man?" she called out desperately.
"Mesume," he croaked.
Ju San fell to knees onto the floor, and her small hands found the man's body. She was kneeling in warm liquid, and she knew it was blood.
"What happened to you?" Ju San cried desperately, pulling his broken form into her lap.
"The Boss," he mumbled, and then became limp.
"No!" Ju San screamed, horrified. "No, not you! You can't die!"
"He's dead!" a voice chanted. "He's dead, he's dead!"
"Heiko?" Ju San said, recognizing her brother's voice.
Suddenly, Scarf Man's body disintegrated in her arms. Ju San blinked, and she could see again. In front of her were the Cards, all looking like something out of a horror movie. They all had retained their fatal injuries, so many were in several pieces or were full of bullet holes. But they were all laughing demonically, deranged looks in their eyes.
Ju San screamed and curled up into a ball, clawing at the floor.
"No!" she screamed as her fingertips began to bleed. "No, no!"
"Does it hurt?" a familiar voice mocked.
Ju San, eyes crazy and unfocused, looked up at the person whom had spoken. Juuzou Suzuya was smiling down at her, soaked in blood.
"Does what hurt?" Ju San wheezed.
"Knowing you are responsible for the Cards, and now your precious Scarf Guy!" Suzuya laughed. "What would Naki think if he saw you cradling him like that, hmmm?"
"Shut up!" Ju San screamed. "Shut the fuck up!"
"Make me!" he giggled.
Ju San staggered to her feet, and let out a roar of rage. Her rinkaku kagune erupted from her back, and before she could strike the man in front of her, the servant's eyes shot open.
She stared at the ceiling of the servant's quarters. She was in her cot. She was safe. But that dream; it was so… real. Ju San had been having that dream ever since she had been returned to the mansion about a week ago. It haunted her, the only thing that helped was Naki's loving touch. However, he was not at the mansion that night.
Ju San quietly opened the drawers underneath her cot and pulled out a long, soft piece of fabric. She held the scarf close to her, holding it close like how a child would hug its blanket.
"I never even knew your name," she said, a tear rolling down her face.
"Did you even ask the Boss what he did with her?" a large man asked his smaller partner.
"No," the smaller man said, grimacing. "Part of me doesn't wanna know."
"What's the worst he could do?" the larger man asked.
The glare his partner shot him reminded him of just how sadistic the boss could be at times.
"What if he takes advantage of her or something?" he said, throwing his hands up in the air.
"Choke him with your scarf," the larger man said. "Where is that thing anyway?"
"Oh, I gave it to her," he blushed. "I still gotta buy a new one."
"Don't let the boss find out. Man, I hate going behind his back like this."
"Like what?"
"I know you're hot for her and stuff, and the Boss doesn't."
"I'm going to find her," the smaller man said, determined. "I can't let Boss kill her."
"Just don't drag me into it. If anyone else in the gang, or Boss, find out, you're dead you know."
"They wouldn't kill me just cause I love her."
"No, but you know what I found out?"
"Aogiri's looking for S rate Flower Crown."
"But how—."
"I don't know. All I know is that we're already chin deep in something we don't want to be in. And your feelings for her is what going to be what drags you under."
Notes:
The chapter title is the name of a song this chapter was based on's album.
The song is 'my nightmare' by get scared, and the album is the title
