Aichi kicked her feet as Makila did the "Be Myself" dance while singing and wearing the Angel Mort dress. Shion held out the camcorder to her twin sister and Mion began to laugh maniacally as she recorded it. Makila smiled as the song finished. She fell to one knee and panted.

"Done?" Ishtar Makila asked as she stood up.

"Yep," Mion replied and tossed Makila her clothing back. Makila smiled and pulled her Angel Mort uniform off. Keiichi had blood running down his nose.

"I hate you guys when you make me change in front of Keiichi-kun." Makila pouted but turned her back and screamed as Ari Bakura ran up behind her as the door opened. Ari grabbed Makila by the breasts and proceeded to grope her.

"ARI-CHAN!" Bakura Arianna and Ishtal Makira cried and ran to poor Makila's rescue. Makila laughed.

"What-"Marik and Malik began.

"The-"Atemu, Ryou and Yuugi started.

"Hel-"Bakura, Honda, and Jou started.

"Hihihihihihi~ lookie," a high pitched girly voice said and then someone tackled Yuugi, straddling him. "It's THEM. Ake-Chan, check it out." She said and Yuugi looked at her. She had long curly black hair with magenta tips and blonde bangs that were sticking out. She was wearing a maid outfit with her amethyst eyes standing out. "Hi, there, Mutou-san!" She said.

"Do I know you?" Yuugi asked.

"Should. Mutou Yuuki at your service." She held her hand out and Yuugi stared at it. "I don't bite." She assured but flashed him a fanged tooth grin.

"Yuu-Chan, you'll scare them." A taller girl said and pulled the girl off Yuugi, who Atemu and he both gasped. She looked very much like Atemu but her hair, like Yuuki's, was long and curly. Yuugi's puzzle began to glow and Yuuki's did as well.

"What the-"They began but were soon silenced because their puzzles pulled them together and their lips connected. Atemu and Akemi (Ake-Chan) looked at each other and pulled their Hikari's apart. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR YOU FREAK!?" Yuugi and Yuuki screamed at each other and then put their hands to their mouths. "STOP MIMICING ME!!" They screamed. And then both lunged at each other but were interrupted by four equally horrifying laughs. They turned and saw Marik and Malik laughing.

But they weren't the only ones laughing. Makila and Makira laughed along with them.

"What's so funny!?" They yelled.

"Ha, ha, ha!" Makira laughed falsely through closed lips.

"But… do you not get it?" Makila asked. The puzzle holders shook their heads no.

"You four are mirrors of one another." Marik explained.

"Huh?" The four asked.

"Yeah, I met Makira earlier, like how long ago?" He asked his Yami's mirrored self.

"Seven years ago. We were nine." Makira said.

"Marik and I are only six years old. I was created from Makira losing her mother and having the secrets carved into her back. Marik was created from hatred and anger while I created from loneliness and sorrow. We're opposites, but we're closer than Malik and I should be, because we are lights." Makila smiled brightly.

"Uh-huh, like Arianna and I. Except that I am a san sennen year old spirit inhabiting the body of a sixteen year old girl!" Ari said.

"But you're out of my head, finally!" Arianna replied.

"Oh, you liked me snooping around in your mind." Ari rubbed against her Hikari. "You liked to have me inside your…" She leant in towards her friend's neck. "Your…fantasies…" She purred and kissed her friend's jugular vein. Arianna blushed and pulled away, blood rushing up the inside of her cheeks.

"Ar…Ari-Chan, don't be idiotic." Arianna scoffed.

"Ew, Rika and I are only eleven." Satoko closed her eyes while making the cross with her index fingers.

"I think that Ari-Chan and Anna-Chan are in love!" Rena said while rubbing her cheek against Ryou's. "He's too cute! Iwannatakehimhome!" She cried.

"I don't think Chibi-Chan would like that." Rika smiled.

"MY CHIBI-KUN!" Aichi cried and she and Rena began to have one of their usual arguments about who gets the cute Ryou-kun.

Ryou backed away and crashed into the blonde girl.

"Don't worry about Aichi. She's from our universe and very sweet. She's Rika's older brother, Hantachou's, mirrored self. Hantachou died when Rika's father went insane and killed him. He was the first to go by Oyashiro-Sama's curse. In our universe, Aichi was sent to Rika by Shira-Chan so that she would protect her in the other worlds." Makila smiled and explained to Ryou.

"Oh, really? I didn't say that I wanted to know." Ryou did want to know though.

"The Kagami Millennium Rod reads minds."

"Really?"

"Uh-huh,"

"Cool-"

"RYOU!!!!!!!!!" Aichi pounced on Ryou and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Chi-Chan, release your hold on Chibi-Chan." Rika held a knife up. It was blood red from earlier this morning.

"Did you do what we asked?" Shion asked and Mion locked the door.

"Ry-Ryou-chan, help Arianna." Aichi whispered into Ryou's shoulder and hopped off him.

"Did you?" The twins asked again. Ari and Aichi grabbed Arianna and held her firmly. Ryou and Bakura backed away from their counterparts, along with everyone else.

"Y…yes," Arianna closed her eyes, tears staining her cheeks.

"She's dead?"

"Yes,"

"Tortured?"

"No," Shion and Mion shot each other a look. Arianna's emerald eyes shot open and widened. They turned to Ari and Aichi.

"Don't… please, I'll make it up. I swear it!"

"We asked you to do something simple. Aichi did it instead of you. Now you have to pay the price." Shion said.

"PLEASE! DON'T MAKE ME!" Arianna cried out hysterically. Yuuki and Akemi pushed Atemu and Yuugi down and tied them to the chairs. Satoko and Rika pushed Keiichi down and tied him to chairs. Rena forced Jou and Honda to the chairs and proceeded to tie them up. Everyone was tied down, except Rena, Rika, Aichi, Ari, Arianna and the Sonozaki twins. Rena, Rika, Aichi, and the twins sat down in chairs and looked at Ari and Arianna. Arianna looked at the old finger nail ripping machine before nodding.

(5) Ari closed the three clasps around Arianna's left arm. Arianna looked at Ari.

"How…how many?" Arianna asked.

"Three," Ari replied. Arianna began to pant as flashes of people crossed her mind. Ryou and Bakura…and… Takano-San… she panted faster and then raised her fisted hand over her head. She screamed and brought her hand down on the end of the machine. She bit back a scream and opened her eyes. Her eyes found her pinky finger and her ripped off fingernail.

"You, you know…this really hurts…really, really hurts…" Arianna said.

"Do you want to stop?" Ari asked her, a blank expression on her pale face.

"No, this…this is nothing…" Arianna quickly assured but she actually wanted to cry. She couldn't, she needed to save Ryou and Bakura… from death…. Arianna raised her hand over her head and with another scream brought down her hand. She choked back another scream and opened her eyes.

"Heh, she missed," Rena said.

"Then I have to…" She looked at Ari. "No!" She cried and shook her head. "No!"

"Arianna," Ari said and came over, grabbing her friend by the shoulders.

"No! No more! It hurts! It hurts! Wah!" Arianna cried before burying her face in Ari's chest. She began to cry. At that moment, Marik and Atemu watched as Makira and Akemi walked over and pulled Arianna away from Ari. "ARI-CHAN! DON'T!" She screamed as Makira held her wrist and slipped her ring finger into the machine. Akemi pulled a bag over Arianna's head. Arianna screamed as both girls got her arm over her head.

"STOP IT!!!!!!" Ryou screamed but his scream was useless as Akemi brought Arianna's hand down. Arianna's screams echoed through Hinamizawa as the cicadas began to cry out, echoing her screams all the way to Tokyo.

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San- Three

Sennen- Thousand

Hantachou- I think it means Hunter (Hanta) and Butterfly (Chou), so Hunter Butterfly.

Kagami- Mirror

(5) I tried to describe the scene in Higurashi where Shion takes off three of her fingernails. So, I tried. Go to Youtube if you must and type in Shion torture scene if you've never seen Higurashi.