Wow…sorry guys. Been FOREVER since I last updated… School and various after-school activities have prohibited me from working on this story. I haven't had a full weekend yet since school started due to various forms of flooding and cancelling football games, postponing them until Saturdays. But I promise I will have this done in the next few chapters…I know it kind of goes all over the place with the storyline, and since I haven't worked on it for a while, I kind of lost track of the plot. So I'll try to wrap it up. But I promise I will do my best in this next chapter!
Mai: Chii owns nothing related to Ghost Hunt.
Chii: That gets more and more depressing each time you say that… V_V
I opened my eyes slowly, adjusting to the brightness of the room. I noticed that I was back in my bed, and Naru was no where to be seen, neither was Jun. I sat up, got to my feet, and slowly made my way out of the room to the kitchen. I made it to the staircase and decided to go much slower.
I took it one step at a time, making sure to keep good hold of the railing. I was almost halfway down, when my foot slipped from underneath me, and I dropped a bit. I didn't fall down the stairs though. I immediately caught hold of the railing and pulled myself up slowly. I finally reached the bottom of the staircase and left out a relieving sigh. I felt a bit better, and was able to walk normally towards the kitchen. I heard voices and quickened my step.
"Good morning everybody!" I said cheerfully. Everyone stopped their chatting and smiled widely at me as I entered the room. I noticed that everyone but one was here. "Huh? Where's Jun?" I asked. Everyone's smiles quickly faded.
"We haven't seen her all morning." Ayako stated. I looked around and several people shook their heads.
"That's strange…" I said. "She was sleeping on the window sill last night. That's the last time I saw her." We sat in silence for a bit. I decided to break it. "Well, I'm going outside to get some fresh air. I think it will do me a world of good. Be careful…" I said with a sad expression. I walked to the main hall and opened the door slowly before walking cheerfully outside. It was bright and sunny, and a perfect day for being outside.
"Hey! Mai!" I heard a voice call. I whipped around to see Jun in the same spot she was when we first met her. "How are you feeling?" She asked, before grabbing a branch and flipping over it, landing on the ground lazily on her feet, like it was nothing. I smiled.
"Fine. How about you? The others said they haven't seen you all morning. Were you out here since dawn?" I asked. She nodded.
"Yeah. I woke up in the middle of the night last night, and noticed you asleep in Shibuya's arms, so I decided to leave you two alone." She smirked at this. I just blushed. "Anyway, I went to bed last night, but could sleep. I stayed up then, and came out here when the sun finally decided to show itself. Are they worried about me?" She asked. I nodded but motioned to not worry about it.
"Don't worry. I'll just let them know later." I said. Just then, we noticed a small figure walking by the pond. "Hey, is that Tsukiki?" I asked, pointing in that direction. We both stared at the girl, who was now staggering back and forth. Jun turned completely white, and started rushing over towards her young sibling. I followed closely behind.
"Tsukiki!" Jun shouted. Just then, the small girl completely stopped walking right near the pond's edge. Jun picked up her pace and started shouting,
"Tsukiki! Get back from the pond!" Then, Tsukiki just looked at us and smiled sadly. Jun stopped dead in her tracks. The small girl turned so that her back was facing the pond, and let herself fall backwards. We couldn't believe our eyes. It seemed like it all happened so slowly. We watched in horror until we heard the horrible splash of the girl's body hitting the water. Jun then snapped back into reality, and started rushing towards the pond.
"Tsukiki!" She screamed as she dived right into the pond. I rushed over to the edge to help them both out when she emerged. But only Jun emerged. She was frantically searching for her sister. She submerged several times trying to find the poor child's body, but had no luck. She came up the last time and made her way over to the pond's shore. I held out a hand to help her up, and she sadly took it. When she was up and out, she immediately fell to her knees and started sobbing. I embraced her and consoled her quietly. We stayed like that for what seemed like forever.
We sat in the base, everyone a nervous wreck, waiting for Monk, John, Lin, and Naru to come back in from searching the pond. (A/N. Ok, I know that I've been saying pond, but it's more of a lake now that I think about it…you can't exactly lose a body in a pond…So, from now on, it's a lake lol.) When a few hours went by, we started to think they'd never find her….we were wrong. Monk came in with a sad expression on his face. Jun jumped out of her seat and just stood there looking at her former younger sister. Monk just shook his head at us, and took the body into another room, away from Jun. She dropped to her knees and started crying hysterically.
"NOOO!" She cried hard, for a long time too. I eventually helped her to her feet and offered her some tea. She accepted it without expression, and sat on the window seat, staring out at her sister's watery grave. She just sat at the window with her tea, expressionless. I felt so useless. I eventually walked over to her and sat on the window seat beside her. She didn't acknowledge the fact, so I decided to try and comfort her.
"Jun…" I started. "You can guarantee, without a doubt, that we will get rid of this…"thing"…that's in your house. We'll do it for Tsukiki." I gave her a sad, but confident smile. She seemed to cringe at the mention of her sister's name, but turned her head slowly to look at me. I continued to give her a confident look of reassurance. She looked around at the others in the room, who were showing similar expressions. She stared blankly for a while before turning her head back to me. She then smiled sadly, but confidently, and nodded her head. Then, without warning, we heard the familiar sound of Jun's mother coming up the driveway. She shuddered at the thought of explaining things to her.
"What are we going to tell her…?" She asked, her voice shaking. I just placed my hand on hers. I smiled lightly and said,"We can just tell her what happened together." She nodded slowly, and we both went out to tell Takara-san what had happened.
The next day was more depressing than usual. Lin was busy typing away on his computer, going over the data we've collected over the past few days. Ayako and Masako were out looking for any other spirits (if any) and exorcising them, as were Monk and John. Naru was off conducting his own investigation and gathering any more data we might need. I was, once again, left in the room, bored to death and feeling useless as usual. I had my head rested on the table and let out a huge sigh.
"Ugh…" I said. "Here I am, useless as usual, just sitting around doing nothing…" I finished. Jun just looked over from the window seat with a confused look on her face. I just chuckled and shook my head. "Nevermind." She just nodded and went over to the corner of the room and pulled out a bag behind a small shelf. She brought it back over with her and sat on the window seat. She opened it, pulling out a small laptop, and started typing away on it. I chuckled at the sight, as it felt like there were now two Lins in the room. They both just looked at me, confused. I shook my head again, and laid my head on the table again. I suddenly got quite drowsy, and decided that maybe, if I went to sleep, I'd have one of my dreams. And I did exactly that. I let myself relax to the point of falling asleep. Everything went black at that point.
I looked around and noticed everything was pitch black. I was expecting to see Gene right then and there, and sure enough, I noticed him walking in my direction. I smiled at him and started walking the rest of the way to him. When I reached him, I noticed that he wasn't smiling. He pointed in a direction that looked like a room. So I followed the direction and went into the room to find that I was in Tsukiki's room. Miyami was there too. I just sat back and watched.
"You're neglecting your responsibilities, Tsukiki." Miyami stated. "If you don't continue to make dolls, you are no further use to me, which means you must be eliminated." She finished. Tsukiki remained expressionless. Miyami was a bit shocked to see she wasn't even flinching, but kept her composure. She backed away from Tsukiki a bit before saying, "Fine. If you do not want to serve me anymore, I'll just kill everyone here in this house." She finished with an evil smirk, which made Tskukiki flinch back a bit.
"No. Please, don't hurt anyone else." She said, monotonically. "I wish not for any harm to come to anyone else. But, may I ask, if you are able to make dolls, why do you need me to make them?" She asked. Miyami just smirked and said,
"I do not need you. In fact, I don't want you around. Either you die, or I kill everyone. Your choice." She finished with an evil laugh which made the whole room shake. Tsukiki dropped to the ground covering her head. When the room stopped shaking, she got up and said,
"Please! I beg of you! There must be a way I can prove my worth so that I may live! Please!" She was becoming hysterical. Miyami, however, just shook her head, and was now becoming angry.
"No! Either you kill yourself, vermin, or I kill you AND everyone else! Now CHOOSE!" She yelled, making the room shake once again. Tsukiki cringed again and fell to the floor. I stood there watching in horror, feeling so helpless.
Tsukiki rose from the ground after a period of thinking things over. She got up with a confident look on her face. Miyami stared at her, a smirk on her face.
"So?" Miyami started. "Your answer?" She said, glaring at Tsukiki. Tsukiki just glared at her and said plainly,
"You win. I will kill myself. But you must promise not to hurt anyone else." She stated. Miyami just grinned.
"Of course. You have my word." Miyami said with a smirk. Then, I noticed her hand go behind her back. She then, selfishly crossed her fingers. I tried to call out to Tsukiki.
"Tsukiki! No!" I yelled. But, as soon as I said that, light flooded my vision.
I shot up from the table, sweat dripping off my forehead. The only other people in the room were Naru and Lin. They both looked at me, concern written on their foreheads. Naru got up and walked over to me quickly, sitting down next to me.
"What was it this time?" Naru asked, concern filling his voice. I sighed deeply and began explaining the scenes that were just played before me.
"So…Miyami pressured Tsukiki into making the dolls, and forced her to kill herself…" Naru said. Everyone filed into the room in the middle of explaining the dream, so I had to start over multiple times so the others could catch up.
"I have a feeling that Miyami is targeting someone else now." I stated. "She double-crossed Tsukiki, we know that. So, we need to make sure that we're never alone in this house anymore…NO ONE can be alone." I finished. Things were getting more and more dangerous by the minute, and we can't have any more casualties this case… She could kill anyone. She won't stop at anyone….no one.
Well, there ya guys go. Again, sorry for the late update. I promise that this will end within the next chapter or two. I promise.
Mai: Geeze…this child's like the Devil's Child! Oh, and R&R and comment!
Chii: This needs to end soon…I want to start another story! ." Lol Ciao! ^_^