Disclaimer: I do not own any of the following characters' in this story besides the plot, nor anything else mention. All rights go to the respectful owners.
Characters: Len and Rin (main minor chara: Miku)
Genres: Crime, Tragedy, Horror, Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Suspense and Mystery
Rated T for swears, suggestive themes and (vague) gore
Chapter Note: This chapter was supposed to be updated on the 19th, but sadly I didn't think we'd be doing last minute things for Halloween(my mom loves holidays). This was typed up during class, so, really, I wouldn't be surprised if its filled with a shiz load of grammar mistakes and such. Excuse that, really. I don't know when I'll update the last two chapters, but hopefully soon. (even my sister is throwing a small tantrum because I'm so slow)
Chapter Four:
To The Shimmering Violet
.[October 19th].
Numbness: what a joyous feeling it was. How it made one's body weightless, mind thoughtless, and feelings blank like a brand new sheet of paper. Len enjoyed this coldness in his body that spread like a virus. He enjoyed it so, so very much.
Knock, knock!
Why did people hate this feeling? Why did they insult the effects it brought to him? He felt blissful within his own little world, so very happy, and relaxed... and safe.
"...L-Len...?"
So, yeah, voices were a blur to him when he was in that state, but they should know better than to think he'd leave it. He was harmless where he was, he didn't need to move, or talk to anyone else.
He was...
Losing it; insane; thoughtless; dull and lifeless.
He wasn't safe.
He hadn't eaten for the past three days, only drank a cup of water each day, didn't keep his hygiene up, his grades were falling as so his attendance in school. Len was falling apart, and yet, he was relishing in it.
The gang tried to help him out as they all did for Gakupo and Piko (who were now slightly more healed), but he retaliated. He shouted at the girls' for their selfishness, punched the guys for their actions and shoved his sister for her very hurtful words: "Get over it, Len! She was never part of the group, and would never be!"
It was like a stack to his heart, how those words left his little sister's mouth without a second's thought.
Did she truly dislike Miku that much? So much that she felt nothing of her death, of her murder?
"L-Le -"
"What do you want, Rin?" His voice sang out dead as he stared at his bedroom door, at the unlock lock on the knob.
She gasped at the indifference she received from him, the numb hostility she heard in his tone. She didn't like her brother like this, she didn't! All she wanted was her brother back like old times, all she wanted was for him to pay attention to her just a little bit more...
True, Rin felt neglected whenever Miku came around because Len's whole focus was on her and solely her. She hated the girl for that, for taking away her loving brother, her funny brother, her...
But Miku was still in the way, even after passing through the death gates.
Did her brother love Miku that much? So much that he couldn't stop thinking of her, to an extent that he'd slowly stop his own life? So much that, if she were to die, would he be like this; devastated and traumatized?
Maybe she should...
"What is it?" Rin's eyes widen at the smell that seeped through the small crack Len had pulled his door to speak. It reeked so much that she pitched her nose to stop the smell.
Exactly what has he been doing in there?
She pushed her rude thoughts aside; they wouldn't get her anywhere. Swallowing a lump that rested in her throat, she spoke up, "I'm... I..." But her voice was breaking on her as her eyes grew blurry. The actions and words Len had uttered to her days ago finally washed over her, punching her in the gut with no remorse. And his sloppy appearance didn't help either.
His hair was let down in a messy manner, dark circle rest under his dull, plain eyes. His skin was awfully pale and unhealthy to a point that he looked far too skinny to even move.
She knew he had been beating himself up over Miku's death, both mentally and physically as she had overheard one night. He blamed Miku's death as his fault, muttering that he most likely had killed her, or got her killed.
He scared Rin, how his hushed whispers in the night echoed within his room or passed in a blur of voices through the walls into hers. Rin was... afraid of her own brother, for once in her life.
Len stared down at his twin, his bleak eyes shadowy and feeble. He wasn't thinking, nor did he really know what was uttered pass his lips. He was numb, and that was all he cared for.
"...I'm scared..." Those two solo syllables snapped Len back to life and slapped him to his senses.
"Rin..."
"I'm scared for you, Len! I'm worried that you'll exclude yourself from the world over... over... uh –" Rin choked on a cry as she stopped herself from uttering more hurtful words to him.
Len darted his eyes between Rin's, alarm clear with his hasty orbs. He never liked seeing his sister cry, never.
She felt him embrace her; her body growing stiff against his trembling form.
"I'm sorry, Rin." he spoke with a weak voice, "God, I'm so sorry for making you feel this way!" He gripped her tighter, his uncared nails digging into her shoulder blades, "It's just... I'm frightened that the murderer might come after you, Rin..."
Her body froze at his words, how they pierced their meaning into her brain, making the gear click.
For some reason, she was... happy.
He wasn't thinking of Miku that whole time (granted a couple of days), but he was thinking of her! His little sister! He was worried for her!
"I-It won't." She shook her head brutally, her eyes pleading for more affection.
Len frown his brows, "Don't be a fool, Rin. You don't know what that killer will do ne-"
"I won't die. I promise." She cut him off, her cerulean eyes wide, pupils dilated.
He didn't know what to say to that, so with a grimace, he embraced his sister; his thoughts running wild, focused solely on his little sister's choice of words.
Her tiny hands gripped at his back, clawing at the shirt he wore whilst her fingers trembled with glee, her breathing picking up pace. She shut her eyes tight and pressed her body up against her brother, muttering a soft thank you under her breath.
Her brother was back.
.V.
"Heard Kaito's on his way over." Rin called from the hallway, her eyes glued to her cellphone.
"Yup." Len popped the 'P', his voice distant.
"Why is he coming again?" She plopped down next to her brother on the two-seater, watching him flip though channels on the television.
Len's lips twitched at the corners, "Said he," – he took out his cell, unlocked it and brought up the text message from Kaito, reading it word-for-word, "'Haz to cum 'ver too help med meh to wife'." He then showed it to Rin.
She frowned, covering up her laugh at Kaito's spelling errors, "I wonder if he really meant wife?"
He shrugged, "Probably; check out this text just seconds ago." He gave his sister his phone, the text reading:
'Y U not repyin to iz messages1!? Does thou not want to be touched?!1 o.O '
"...And he wonders why everyone thinks he's gay..." Rin muttered, opening the reply button and sending a text.
Len rolled his eyes, "I think he's bisexual, so it'll explain everything. And I mean ever-y-thing."
"Here," She handed him his phone, the text open to let him know what she sent. She smiled at his weak grin, "Hey, you're okay, right?"
Len placed his phone on his lap, "Yeah, I'm doing fine. You've really snapped me out of Rin, thanks."
She gave him a genuine smile, her right hand resting on his left shoulder, "That's what sisters are for, and I happened to be a twin sister; doesn't get better than that, huh?"
"Yeah..." Len's voice drifted off as he finally settled upon a channel to watch (though he really wasn't) with Rin.
She was blabbering to him either about the show or her other friends, he didn't really know but he tried to care and hear her out. Yet his ears were draining her out, making her voice a blur just like earlier.
Len had spoken the truth when he said that he was frightened for her if the killer decides to hunt her next; he honestly wouldn't know how he'll handle it if she were murdered under his watch.
No, he didn't want to think about it, but his mind made him; put those images into his brain and played out numerous scenes of his sister dying in his arms - one even scared him so much that he awoke screaming, drenched in sweat.
It was like the dream he had of Miki.
His hands were wrapping around his little sister's thin, pale neck because she was putting up a difficult fight; her tiny body moving and kick. There was a white cloth in that dream too, but Rin had avoid it unlike Miki did in the other nightmare.
He remembered her wide cerulean eyes that stared at him, pleading to let go and stop his actions but he had felt nothing toward those running emotions within her eyes. He was, frankly, enjoying causing his twin pain and making her cry.
He had wanted to make her scream in agony, and that feeling scared him beyond belief. How could he feel such dark emotions within a nightmare?
Since that one nightmare Len had been on the Internet; surfing the web for that serial killer and any leads on public news about it. He found hardly anything but one article that read that there was once a similar killer five years ago.
Len read that that serial killer wasn't picky about his victims; he killed whoever was closes or most vulnerable at the time. The killer's style was the same as the one present; they took the eyes of their victim whilst leaving no prints behind, the sockets clean and flawless, as if the person seemed to have never had eyes before.
With that lead, Len furthered his search within the web, coming up with the past serial killer's last kill that had ended in failure, leaving the victim alive with both eyes but had witness some features of the murderer.
The witness was, at that time, in her mid-teens and was going back home after a night out with her friends, walking down a dark alley that, in her words, knew she shouldn't had taken but it was the fastest way home.
That was when the murderer came in.
The article read that the girl said she had a paranoia feeling of being followed, but she didn't dared gaze back for fear of it. In fact, just when she was about to leave that dark, lone alley, a figure in dark clothing ran straight into her, knocking the breath out of her and slamming her into the brick wall.
Len further his reading, catching that she was grateful for knowing self-defense at that time or else she'd had been like the rest of the poor, defenseless girls - dead.
She had put up a tough fight with the person, though she had admitted that he knew his way around hand-to-hand combat himself. She was frightened that what she knew then wouldn't keep her alive.
But it did.
She had recalled a strange, muffled beeping sound that came from the person, which caused him to halt his actions, granting the girl a hit or two and took off sprinting. She didn't get far, and it had seemed the killer was in panic and in a hurry that he was fighting sloppy.
He had slammed the side of her head against the wall next to her, but she fought back by bringing her hands up to his covered face and crawling at it with her nails; she had successfully unmasked him. But the second she did, he knocked her out and left her alive.
When Len had read those parting lines, he was in a rush to find that sketching of the murderer; thoughts running amok within his head, shouting to him that maybe the murderer was the same guy who now held a strong hatred for girl's in their teen ever since that fail attempt.
Maybe, just maybe...
He had finally found a site that would allow him to see that drawing of the murderer from the girl's eyes. He clicked on it without a second's thought, but with irritation, he waited for the picture to load on his computer.
To what seemed like hours to Len, the document finally loaded and his laptop screen was filled with the serial killer's face.
.V.
"...any leads?" Len asked Kaito who swayed on his chair.
The older teen shook his head, "From what you've told me thus far, we pretty much know the same. Nothing more; nothing less."
Len cursed under his breath as he ran his left hand through his blond locks. They weren't going to get anywhere at that snail of a pace.
"Then... Then what are your thoughts on my theory?" He hated to admit it, but Len seriously wanted Kaito's thoughts on this matter. He was the only one he could trust enough to freely talk about those murders''.
"'Bout it being the same dude?" Len nodded, his eyes pleading the other to go on, to enlighten him of his opinions, "Well... it could be possible."
That's all Len needed to hear for his fear to rise to a whole new level.
"But you know something, there seems to be something fishy about this all... killer works." Kaito twirled his index finger as he circled around in Len's chair, "If I recall, that serial killer would murder anyone, right? And for a full six months, right? Isn't that strange? Len?"
The blond wasn't picking up what the other was putting out. Six months? How was that strange? Wasn't that - what? - normal for a serial killer? They all had patterns one way or another, what made this one different? Or, in Kaito's words, strange?
"What do you -?"
"Get this," Kaito stopped his spinning and rolled over to Len, leaned forward toward the boy on the bed and spoke in a hush tone, "That past killer started murdering July 1st. After that first kill, every six days, another person died that same way. This continued for six solid months, no one picking up on that pattern at the time. Then, on that fail kill, it was exactly six days after his last: October 31st, Hallow's Eve."
Len's brain clicked as the information was filling in. He understood what Kaito was telling him, and yet, it frightened him that Kaito could figure that all out when Len couldn't.
"But, that's nothing to gloat about. What I'm trying to say is, remember when we discussed that the past serial killers murders in October all seemed to put up a fight? Maybe that was him, feeling remorse from those kills. Or, maybe, just maybe, he was showing someone else how to kill."
"Wait, Kaito. Do you hear what's coming out of your mouth?" Len backed up on his bed, sitting up straight, "If he was truly showing someone else how to murder like him... do you mean to tell me that it was all..."
"A brand new, but old tactic serial killer reveals themselves to the public by killing Gumi in board day light, on what? October 1st, the same day, five years ago, a young girl was murdered at the park... during the day."
Len didn't like the tone Kaito was beginning to speak in. It was low and hushed then before; like if he only wanted Len to know and hear. Like if... everything he spoke of was a secret only he knew. As if... he shouldn't be speaking those words out loud.
"Kaito..." Len mumbled, his heart throbbing within his chest.
"Six days later, a girl dies outside her house, at night. October 7th, Miki died that same way."
"Kaito... please..."
"Another six days pass when a college girl is found in a public restroom, head banged up, hair messed up and eyes gone... Miku -"
"Stop it, for fuck sakes!" Len snapped, his voice cutting off abruptly. He stumbled to his feet and padded his way to his room door; he swung it open, "Leave."
Kaito leaned back into the chair with a nasty smirk in place, "Not yet, Len. There's sti- "
"Leave." He stomped over to Kaito and jerked at the teen's biceps as he tried to prey him out of the chair; Kaito wouldn't budge. "Damn it, Kaito!"
"...Today's the 19th, correct?" Kaito spoke softly, also to the point that Len couldn't hear him clearly.
"Yeah, so?"
Kaito shook his head in disappointment, "Len, Len. You're supposed to be the smart one here."
"Kai-"
"Six days after the bathroom girl," Kaito interrupted, "A young girl just in her beginning teens is murdered in her school uniform on her way home."
Kaito's voice... it was starting to make Len's head hurt like Hell. The room felt like it was going round and round, never seeming to end and someone else's voice ringing in his ears didn't help.
"Another six days on October 25th... a women dies on a date when the guy turns away for a second..." Why did he sound so sorrowful?
"...Then the last..."
"Will be on Hallow's Eve. Somewhere dark, might not be an ally, but could be." Kaito rose from the chair and walked over to the sitting boy who cradled his head within his arms. Kneeling down to his height, Kaito patted his left shoulder, "I forgot to tell you, but that girl who came out alive... her appearance... she's blonde... with cerulean eyes."
Len whimpered. He knew Kaito was going to say that; he knew what his friend was starting the minute he uttered his first words. Kaito was just trying to warn him, to help him out. But... but...
"News." Len jolted his head up at the far away voice of Kaito.
"Wah-"
"The news... Look." Kaito turned the laptop to Len, the boy's eyes landing and taking in the bold letters on the screen:
'TEENAGE GIRL KILLED ON HER WAY HOME FROM PRIVITVE SCHOOL! WORK OF THE SERIAL KILLER?'
"Dear Go-" Len croaked.
.V.
Thirty minutes had passed since Kaito left, declining the twin's Mother for staying for dinner and leaving in a slow, but rushed fashion. But Len didn't blame him. They both had just digested a great amount of news and leads that could either help or, maybe, kill them.
They had nothing else on their minds but the serial killers pattern.
And apparently, when Len had been taking his rest for an hour or so, was roughly around the time that girl was murdered. But the police, or whoever reported it, had found her body two hours later and not at the time of her true death.
Len had watched the short news video on the Internet, seeing an old (or recent) picture of the young fifteen year old named Yukari Yuzuki with flowing light purple hair and bright, vivid violet eyes... that were no more.
After watching that video, and reading what other's had comments, Len decide to take a shower and cool off.
Upon coming back from his shower, Len had bumped into Rin from coming out of his room.
"Rin?" he called, a bit surprised.
She gave a jolt at his voice, "Jezz Len! You scared me!"
"What are you doing in my room?"
Rin blink and hissed at him, "Getting your clothes you moron. Since you were taking your sweet time in the shower, Mom told me to get them." She then bent down behind his door frame and came out with a load of clothes in a basket. "See?"
Len frowned at her attitude, "Yes, sorry. And thank you to taking them down for me..."
"Whatever." Rin rolled her eyes as she turned on her heel and walked away from him to their Mother.
Len gave a tired sigh as he walked into his room, shutting the door with his foot. Upon entering, he gave his room a quick look over to see if anything was amiss.
Nothing was.
With a shrug, he dragged himself to his bed, ready to take a trip to dreamland but his right foot caught on something right at his door. Kicking it again, he looked down to find that it was the bag Kaito had brought over with him.
"Seems he forgot it... again." Lazily, Len bent down to pick it up but whilst doing so, objects came dropping out; the bag was left open.
With a frustrated sigh, Len picked up the materials and placed them inside. Once he was nearly done, he lifted the last container which was a blackish box.
Curious, and tired, Len took a peek inside it.
"- !" Len stumbled backward, his back slamming against his closed door as he tried to distance his-self, his eyes widen with terror as his breathing became reckless.
There, spread out on the his white carpet floor were four pairs of eyes, literally staring back at him; the colors going from emerald green, to cherry-red, teal and then... purple.
A/N: Chapter is rushed, but hey, at least I got something out, right? To be honest, I like how I went about this. Really. In makes you... second think in a way, no?
Anyways, I don't know if I can update within this month with all the stuff that my mom's pulling and my friends(I've been going to Six Flags: Fright Fest with my friends for at least two hours a day - dressed up). So I just wanna say you all have a great Halloween~! 'Cause I have a feeling I might not update on Halloween like I had planned. But stay with me, there are only two more chapters to go.
The Gang Includes: Len, Piko, Gakupo, Kaito, Yuuma, Rin, Miki, Luka, Meiko, Gumi and Miku.
Soo... Who do you think the killer is? {LOL I don't who I want as the killer yet~~...but then I do~} Here's a hint of the last hint: The killer does not know of the said reason.
R&R? Pretty please? Feed me your thoughts of this idea, your view point, who you suspect...
Reviews are greatly appreciated and so is constructive criticism!
{8 review for chapter three! Oh gosh maan, I'm so happy~!}
Cartoon-Slash-fangirl: LOL I'll admit that I'm making this predicable in a sense because I want to. I mean with this chapter, it should be pretty darn clear. Now all that's left is to unravel it all. Thank you for dropping a review!
Misa Kagekatsu: Well, I'm glad you've decided to review! And thank you for those compliments(which I'll take as such). Oh-ho-ho! I have much, much more up my sleeve. But that's for the next two chapters. Just don't read too much in between the lines. Thank you for leaving a review!
Chocolatesaregood: Hah, you're probably the only one who took that hint in. Which I'm totally glad that someone noticed it. But, ehh, keep 'dem guesses coming 'cause the story isn't done just yet~ Thank you leaving a review!
Yandere Yangire Lover: I knew there was a song that could be mistaken for this(or the other way around)! I now know it. Thank you for favoriting and reviewing!
WhatGoesUpGoesDown: I don't mean to frighten you... maybe... But I'm glad you liked the last chapter, here hoping this one is as good as the last. *taps knife* I, erm, updated as quick as I could... Thank you for reviewing(twice)!
DAA: It's fine, even one review is great! Ah, ah! You can never be too sure. Thank you for leaving a review!
Paru Cafe: You're probably the only one with that theory! And that's pretty interesting(nospoilers). That's one way to look at it~ Thank you for leaving a review, following and favoriting!
MizuneMinamiki(Mizucchi): asdfghjk Mizucchi! Thank you for reviewing all three chapters! Seriously, it means so much coming from you! And thank for pointing those errors out, I can always count on you for that. When this FF is finish, I'll make sure to credit you for helping with 'dem errors. LOL I knew you'd react that way for each chapter, especially chapter two. But I gotta kill them off - they're the best character's to kill! Best reactions to look for! And your guesses! LOL You make me laugh so much. But hey, keep them coming! Thank you leaving these lovely reviews!