Chapter 2 : Undead Demon

Thank you for read the first chapter for the sequel of Now and Forever.

Here is the second chapter…I hope you guys enjoy this one

Shuichi's POV

"Cosette, it's time for you to get ready for school!" I called for my daughter from down the hall.

But it seemed that no matter how many times I think I might catch her slacking off she is always one step ahead of me some kind of way.

I waited for her to come running down the stairs, but to my surprise she has already made it down stairs. "I'm already in the kitchen daddy!" She called for me. I entered the kitchen to see that she had already fixed herself a plate of the pancakes, bacon, and scrambled eggs I prepared for her. "The food is delicious daddy!" she said as she crammed food into her tiny mouth.

"How do you always get passed me in the morning? Are you coming down the back stairwell?" I asked her as I prepared my own plate.

Continuing to cram food in her mouth, "No, daddy, I walk right passed you."

It seem really strange to me. I know my daughter may seem small, but she's not that small to walk right pass me and I don't notice her. "So, you walked right passed me, you say?" She nodded her head, still eating. ", and I didn't see you…at all. Heard no footsteps or seen a glimpse of a shadow."

My daughter looked at me and swallows a gulp of food. "Well, daddy, I'm not surprised. You are getting older. Maybe your eye sight isn't what it used to be."

"Very funny young lady. I am not old, but my eyes do not deceive me." Cosette looked away from me and at her food, now only taking small bites. "Where is it?"

"…"

"Cosette, where is it?" I asked again.

"…I don't know what you are talking about father." She finished the rest of her breakfast and placed her plate into the sink.

"Cosette, you know exactly what I'm talking about!" I said with slight anger in my voice, but of course it didn't seem to faze her.

"Hehe! Daddy your face looks like your hair!" BEEP BEEP! "Oh well that's the bus. Sorry daddy but I have to go. Bye!" Cosette rushed out the front door to catch her bus ride to school.

I stood there speechless, shaking my head. "What am I going to do with at girl?"

Cosette's POV

I ran to the bus before it had a chance to leave me, like it wants to do every morning. My bus driver, Mr. Cleaver is upset with me because I make him driver half way across town just to pick me up at my front door. How I got this to happen? How else; with daddy's money.

Of course my dad didn't mind bringing me to and from school. Actually he protested against my idea to even want to ride the bus, but it would be to embarrassing to have my daddy drop me off at school to have everyone see that I wasn't old enough to ride the bus on my own.

Mr. Cleaver was an old man with a one bold spot located on the top right side of his greying head. "Good morning Mr. Cleaver." I greeted my bus driver as I stepped onto the bus, but as usual he grunted, shut the bus doors behind me, and drove off causing my body to become off balanced by the motion of the bus movement.

I took my seat right next to my best friend, Rin Tokanshi. "Mr. Cleaver is really grouchy today." My friend said.

"Why is that?" I asked.

Rin looked around the bus to see if anyone was paying any attention to us. Once she saw that everyone was busy with their own conversations amongst their friends, she leaned into me and whisper. "I hear they're thinking about firing him."

I didn't seem too surprised. I had a feeling it would come to this. I mean, he was an old man...he should retired.

Shuichi's POV

I walked into my office at Freelance Book Editing. My grey suit nice and crisp with my red tie in place.

Sitting at my desk with a pile of papers stacked a mile high. (Sigh). More papers to read.

My boss, the editor, hates wasting time reading manuscripts that doesn't interest her. So, my job is to go through all of them and pick anything that would seem of interest to her.

RING RING

As I began looking over the stacks of papers on my desk, the phone began to ring. Still engaged into my work I didn't have time to just pick up the phone to talk to some snooty writer who is looking to talking to the editor to get their book published.

So, I just simply pushed the speaker button. "Thank You for calling Freelance Book Editing! This is Shuichi Minamino, how can I help you."

"Oh Kurama cut the bull! It's Kyra, your sister-in-law." Kyra's voice filled the small room that I called an office.

I quickly removed her from speaker phone before she can do any harm. "Kyra what are you doing calling my job and calling me by that name so carelessly?"

"You call that a job? Kurama you work as an assistant for an editor!" Kyra voice showed a sign of annoyance. "Plus, you have cash saved up. I don't why you're working at that stupid job. Any who, I just called because I need to talk to you about something important"

Slightly ignoring her, I continued with my work. "Can this please wait? I'm very busy. And just to remind you, you're not my sister-in-law."

"Oh Kurama! Put those stupid manuscripts down and give that ass of a boss of yours something to do!"

Still slightly ignoring her, "Uh-huh that's nice Kyra. Look, I'm going to have to get back with you later when I don't have a ton of papers to read."

"But Kuram-"

"Thanks for calling!"

"Kurama, you better not hung up on m-" CLICK! I just didn't have time for her nonsense.

I went back to reading the ton of papers on my desk. Every now and then I would get a paper cut on my fingers. It didn't really bother me. I just simply healed myself quite quickly before anyone could notice.

As I read some of the manuscripts and tossing some of them in the trash, I came a across one the caught my eye. It seemed so old and wrinkled. There were also dirty pages. It was title Wake the Dead by an anonymous author. Interested, I opened it and began to read, or should I say tried to read. It seemed that it wasn't in a language I understood. It didn't seem to be a language at all, more like symbols. The more I tried to decipher the code I began to feel an evil presence over me. When I looked up from the mysterious manuscript I notice that everything around me became dark and gloomy. Objects gave off evil shadows on the walls and the room became freezing cold. What the heck is going on?

"Kurama…" A faint whisper called out to me. It was a voice that I knew. A female voice. My heart began to race. A strange wind came out of nowhere blowing all the papers on my desk everywhere around the room. "Kurama…." My head whipped around searching for her. The sound of laughter filled the room as the wind began to pick up. The room began to rumble and shake. I had to hold on to the desk to be secure. My head became dizzy as I started to lose my mind. "I'm coming Kurama…" My eyes filled with tears. I never wanted this to happen. All thoughts of her rushed to my head. How much I loved her and wanted to be with her. My heart ached from the thought.

I throw my hands over my ears so I couldn't hear her anymore. "Leave me alone!"

"Hehehe…I'm coming for you Kurama." Her voice was still in my head. It grew louder and louder. She was in my head. "I. Will. Get. You!"

"Kitarra!" I screamed.

"Shuichi, what is the matter with you?" I heard a voice, but this time it had a heavy British accent. It was my boss. Ms. Elizabeth Jones. I opened my eyes and saw that everything was back to normal. All the papers were back and stacked neatly on my desk. The sun was shining through the window. Everything was exactly how it should have been. "Are you ok, love?" I simply just nodded my head not wanting to look up at her to show her the fear that were in my eyes. "Well, how's the reading?"

"…Fine…just fine." I said still refusing to look at her.

I was trying my best to ignore her, but she just sat on my desk and cross her lacy legs with her purple ankle boots. She was an attractive woman. She was a curly brunette and her eyes were seaweed green. She was around my age group if not a little older. "Shuichi, darling," Her voice had a sound of seduction to it. Still I tried to ignore her. Keyword: tried. "Shuichi, you seemed so worked up about all this." I could feel her eyes piercing through me. I couldn't help but glance at her. I only meant to glance once but it seemed to turn into a full blown stare. I notice that a few buttons on her purple blouse were undone, showing a little bit of her cleavage. I was trying my best to not keep my gaze at her chest but more towards her eyes. She saw my struggle and giggled at my distress. "It's ok Shuichi. I don't mind if you look."

She began to grab my hand and place it lightly on her chest, but I had to stop it. I had gained control of myself and removed my hand from her grip, but not in a way to hurt her feelings. "I'm sorry Ms. Jones. As tempting as it is, I have to remember that I am a taken man and I love her dearly."

"But you're not married yet, Shuichi. You can still have a little fun." She still pressed on.

"I can't. If she ever find out, not only will I be a single man, but I'll be a dead one as well. Then who will you toy with?"

She chuckled. "You have a good point there. But that girl of yours is such a space case that she wouldn't even catch on, darling." She went to undo my shirt but I had to stop her. If this went any further it could end badly for me.

"I can't do this, I'm sorry! I love her too much to even think about being unfaithful." I could feel my blood boiling. "And don't even say that she's a space case! She's the smartest and the most amazing woman I have ever known. She is beautiful and strong-willed, and best of all the mother of my child! So please, don't talk badly about her."

At first she seemed speechless but that didn't last long. "I thought Brittney wasn't Cosette's mother." Huh? "You told me that Cosette's mom died when she was born."

Oh crap! Did I say that? "I meant….she's… like a mother to my child. I'm sorry I got heated in the moment." I looked away from her. I can't believe I said that!

"It's fine. Look, why don't you take the rest of the day off. You really seemed worked up."

I couldn't help but feel like I offended her. "I so sorry about everything. I-"

She cut me off. "It's alright. If nothing else, I respect you for your faithfulness." She then playfully slapped my fore arm. "Now go on and get some rest before I change my mind."

I thanked her for the day off and finally understanding how I feel. All I needed was some rest, but first I needed to talk to someone.

I got into my crimson red viper gts and started the engine. As I began to drive off, I pulled out my cell phone and press the redial button. Only one person really calls my personal line. "Hello" I heard her voice.

"Kyra, It's Kurama." I said, till a little shaky from earlier.

"What do you want? I'm still mad at you for hanging up on me."

"Ok I'm sorry, but I really need to talk to you." I didn't want to waste time on telling her over and over why I'm sorry for hanging up on her. To be honest, I wasn't.

"What is it?" annoyance was heard in her voice.

I could feel the emotion of everything I went through in my office before my boss waked in. It was coming up like vomit. I couldn't control it. Tears started to form. "I can't stop thinking about her. And by her I mean-"

"Kitarra. I know."

"No you don't!" My body slightly became shaky from the images that ran through my mind. "I'm thinking about her almost all the time now! I almost mistook Brittney for her!"

She tried to comfort me, "That's normal, Kurama." but it wasn't working. She didn't see what I saw or felt how I feel.

"But that's not the worst part." I said. I was scared of what I was about to say. I didn't even want to think about it. "…I can hear her in my head." I finally said. The sounds of sinister laughter played itself over in my mind.

I could hear the sound of surprise on the other end of the phone. "Dammit. She's smart. I almost forgot about that."

"What? What is it?" Kyra was making me feel weary and concern.

She paused for a moment but then finally answered me. "…She's haunting you."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "Haunting me? So what, like she came back from the dead and she's trying to scare me?"

"Well…something like that. It's a little bit more complicated."

"What do you mean? What can be worse than being haunted by you're dead girlfriend's ghost?"

"Well…"she hesitated. It was killing me a little on the inside.

"Come on tell me!" I edged on.

"…Yes, she can be a ghost… at times."

"At times? What is that supposed to mean?" I was getting annoyed with Kyra beating around the bush with me. I just wanted her to be straight forward.

"…She's more than just a ghost that's haunting you. All a ghost can do is scare you. They can't produce any real damage other than throw a few items across the room. But…Kitarra is more than just a ghost."

"If she is more than just a ghost than what is she?"

"…She's an undead demon. Scaring you is just the beginning. She…can actually physically harm you. But in your case I know she doesn't want to harm you."

"Well that's good news." I said sounding relieved

"Actually not... She wants to kill you."

I tried to process everything Kyra has been telling me. The love of my life has come back from the dead and is now haunting me. Worst of all she wants me dead! "I don't understand." Why would she want this?

"Listen Kurama. You have to see for yourself. Come to cemetery tonight to see her grave."

Ok everyone. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm trying my best to make it seem creepy and mysterious, so, please let me know if I'm doing a good job or not. Also if you have any pointers that would be helpful as well.

Well until next time! ^_^