Disclaimer: I have bought Fatal Frame, Tecmo, and all the characters.
Sae: Hi Lost Person! eating cookies, seating on my couch Your house is rea- WAAAAAAAAAH! Lost Person kicks her and Sae fells down from the window
Lost Person: u.รบ I forgot that buying Tecmo and Fatal Frame will include Sae in the package... Well, then I don't own them anymore!
Sae: from the outside YOU NEVER OWNED THEM!!!!
Lost Person: Shut up already... (mutters) I wanted to feel important...
Sae: a loud Crack! sounds I understand now how Fallen Woman felt...
Thanks a lot for the reviews!!!!!!! Made me so happy n.n. Well, welcome Crimson Nightshade and Crimson Kaoru!!!!!!!! I was confused because in Sae/Yae's diary, -Yae- mentions that Itsuki was locked. O.o But now I understand that she was talking about Itsuki being locked because the cleansing n.nU. And the diaries that Neyri made were only confusing me more, so if you have a question about the diaries/fanfic, feel free to ask me!
Chapter 4 The Repentance
When Itsuki was locked up because of his cleansing, a friend of him came. I think his name was Ryozo Munakata. He was looking for Itsuki but I couldn't tell him anything, because I was sure that Mr. Tachibana was there... But maybe it was just my imagination.
(2 weeks later)
I woke up in the middle of the night again. I thought that was over... I dreamt of the girl laughing, and about the hall with those bloody corpses... I was scared; everything was still dark when I woke up. I tried to sleep again, and succeed.
(That morning)
Today is the day. Itsuki will help Yae and Sae escape the village. I can't hide my worry... What if something bad happens?
I went to see Itsuki, he was seating in his room, thinking. I sat on my knees, and hugged him from behind. He startled a little, like if he was very focused into his thoughts.
-Hi there...
- Hitomi...
- Are you really sure?
- Yes. I won't change my decision. I want to save them. Try to distract the villagers, for I'll help Yae and Sae.
- Okay...
He stood up, gave me a kiss and then, left.
Just like that.
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Hitomi ran across the deep forest, thinking if it was too late. She was tired and her legs were more than numb. But she continued running, with the last words of Itsuki in her mind.
-Flashback-
-Itsuki... They escaped, right? You have nothing more to worry... I'll try to get you out of here, and then we'll escape, just like Yae.
Itsuki's face was across some barred little window. The villagers somehow manage to get informed of the Kurosawa twins' escape. They captured Itsuki, locked him on a storehouse while Ryokan decided what to do with him, and then left for continue looking for Yae and Sae.
-It's my fault... I couldn't distract the villagers... they saw you, and then they started shouting...
-It's okay... (Whispering) It's all my fault, everything...
- Itsuki?
- Nothing...
They both silenced. It appeared like if someone was at the other side of the door. But then everything fell quiet.
-...Hitomi! You have to run! Escape from the village!
- What? Why? Itsuki?
- Something bad will happen, I'm sure of it! You have to escape!
- But- What about you?
- Don't worry about me. I won't be here anymore. Escape now!
Hitomi walked to the door, but she stopped when Itsuki said
- I love you.
The girl looked to Itsuki, and then replied with "I love you too". And then she opened the door and left.
-End of Flashback-
"I won't be here anymore"... She was such a fool. She believed Itsuki, thinking that he would escape, but then remembered Mutsuki, and everything changed.
Hitomi was running as fast as she could, never stopping to catch her breath.
She didn't know how much she had stayed walking in that forest before realizing Itsuki's real plan. 5 hours? 10 hours? A day?
She saw the now dim Shinto gate, and a person kneed in front of another person. She hid between some trees, thinking that they could be the villagers. She began to walk closer, and when she arrived, she only saw Yae and a man, but she couldn't really tell who was.
-Yae?! What is she doing in here??????
She tried to catch up with Yae and the mysterious man, but they suddenly disappeared in the fog.
- Munakata...
She turned her head to the village, but didn't saw a thing. She ran to the stone in the middle of the hill, and thousands of butterflies began to appear. When they vanished in the middle of the black sky, the village was there.
-Itsuki...!
Thinking that maybe Ryokan had let go of Itsuki, and that Itsuki was in his house, she ran to the Tachibana house. When she passed in front of her house, she was shocked. Everything was pitch-black and deserted. Not even a person, or a villager walking outside-inside neither-. When she arrived to the said house, she didn't saw a person. Not even the servants, or Mr. Tachibana.
- Hello? Mr. Tachibana? It's Hitomi!
Hitomi was scared, everything was abandoned. But she was hoping that there was a person in that house- so she wouldn't have to search for Itsuki in the solitary village.
- The Repentance...
Hitomi turned her head to where the whispering came, but it was nothing.
A "crack" sounded behind her, in a closet.
-Is anybody here...?
Suddenly, a silhouette came out from the closet, and hugged Hitomi.
- My brother... I want Itsuki... Where is he? Where is my brother?
"Where is my brother"? Hitomi realized that Itsuki wasn't in here... he was still at the storehouse...
- Chitose! Are you okay? Where is everybody?
- There were voices! Outside! Everywhere! And everything is dark! I'm afraid...
Chitose cried, and hugged Hitomi tighter. Hitomi kneed and hugged her too, trying to console her. Voices? No... The Repentance?! It couldn't be!
Chitose fell asleep after some minutes; Hitomi put her on the floor, and after thinking for several minutes, decided to go to the storehouse to look for Itsuki. She'll find a way to open the door, and then she and Itsuki will come back with Chitose.
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She found the key to the storehouse in front of the door, and unlocked it. She opened the door, but everything was pitch-black. A low noise, like something pulling could be heard.
-...Itsuki?
Hitomi opened the door so the moonlight could enter, and then she'd see better.
-Itsu-
Hitomi screamed as hard as she could. Itsuki was hanging from the ceiling, without life. She fell down crying, but still she crawled to the little door of the cell. She opened it, and tried to get Itsuki down. Every time she wanted to pull Itsuki, she heard the sound of the rope, and stopped pulling, as if the rope sound was reminding her that she shouldn't have left. She climbed a little desk, cut the rope and screamed when Itsuki's body hit the floor. She got down, and hugged the dead body of Itsuki. A small note came out from Itsuki's kimono. It read:
I'm so sorry Hitomi...
I couldn't accept the fault of didn't make Mutsuki a butterfly...
If you're reading this, you're obviously back on the village.
I'm sorry... I'm ashamed that you found me in this situation...
Search... for another person and be happy with him...
Forget me and forgive me...
She cried for more than an hour, then decided to bury the body.
She looked for something that she could use as a shovel, and saw the same little desk she climbed. She picked it up, and threw it at the wall. The desk broke into big pieces, perfect for the use she will take them.
She took Itsuki's body at the back of the storehouse, thinking that it was the only place that she could take the body.
Still crying, she made the dirty work, and then placed the piece of wood on top of the improvised tomb. Her kimono ended very dirty, but she didn't care at all. She sat beside the tomb, and cried.
She cried until she couldn't cry more, and wiped her tears. She realized that if there was a person that could know what happened, it was Ryokan Kurosawa.
Giving a last glance to the tomb, she left the backyard of the store house. Hitomi locked the storehouse; she was truly broken, and didn't want to see the inside of the storehouse again. She walked to the Kurosawa house, and passed the Whisper Bridge, until she arrived to the entrance of the mansion. She looked for Ryokan in every room of the house, except the Great Hall. The house was completely empty and in darkness.
She walked in the corridor that lead to the Great Hall, until she saw a course of blood.
She screamed, and looked to the way the course ended; bloody handprints were on the walls.
She ran to the Great Hall, don't wanting to see the room next to the handprints.
She opened the door, but didn't enter. Her dream-her premonition- was at the hall.
Dozens of ravaged corpses were on the floor, some of them still alive, shrieking...
She screamed as hard as she could, she couldn't stand that. She turned back to try to run, but a face smiling ear to ear welcomed her.
- Yae... she left me...
- Sae...!
-Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!
Hitomi fell on a corpse, leaving her kimono with a stain of blood.
Sae walked slowly, getting closer and closer at every step.
When Hitomi raised her head to see Sae, she wasn't there. Standing up carefully, she walked to the exit, avoiding all the corpses that were lying on the floor.
She then heard again the insane laugh, and turned her head. Sae was in the middle of the Great Hall, the only place where there weren't any bodies.
Sae was laughing like in Hitomi's dream; deciding not to stay and watch what happened next, she ran towards the exit of the mansion.
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Catching her breath at the inside entrance of the Tachibana house, she began thinking.
Were they insane enough to have done the ritual without Yae? It was obvious that they didn't perform the ritual correctly, as Sae didn't turned into a butterfly...
Maybe Sae was captured? Then Yae noticed it minutes later, and came back but saw the village in the miserable state it is?
She was abruptly interrupted as a loud scream sounded upstairs, thinking that it was Chitose, she ran where Chitose was.
Chitose was screaming and crying in the corner of the room, and a hazy silhouette was in front of her.
Hitomi took Chitose by her hand, and ran to another room with her.
- Chitose? Are you okay? What was that?
- I don't know...! I want Itsuki! Where is he?!
- ... Chitose... He's- he's still at the storehouse. But the villagers locked the window and the door, and it can't be opened.
- We have to get him out! I want to see him!
- Chitose, just wait, and he'll get out by himself, OK?
- OK...
Chapter ends here.
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