Okay. First off I want to apologise to my readers for taking so long to update this story. I have a good reason, I swear! holds up her Yami Bakura plushie defensively I had to deal with my GCSE mock TT three whole weeks of exams. It was torture. But I'm back now, for a while at least, and I have new ideas!
I don't know if you realized, but there was a problem with chapter five, it only decided to show half of it. So incase you didn't know, take a look now. Thanks. Many thanks to the people who reviewed ( I have a new reviewer! Yay!!):
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Now without any further ado, chapter 6 (took me long enough)…
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Chapter 6Over the next few days, the atmosphere in Funbari inn was tense and strained. Yoh was the only one who would talk to Hao, though Anna was constantly barking orders at him. The only relief was Horos teasing of Erisa and Lyserg, who temporally took over Rens position of trying to kill Horo.
Then one morning, about a week after Hao had appeared something happened. It was a cold morning, and the ground was covered in tendrils of mist. The sound of the early birds were somewhat muted, and it seemed that Funbari inn was cut off from the rest of the world. Ren was up and on the way to the kitchen fridge for milk, when he noticed that the sliding door to the garden was wide open. Frowning, he turned towards the open door and made to shut it, when he caught sight of the figure wreathed in mist, kneeling in the garden. Suddenly alert he crept forward. As he got closer, distinguishing features leapt out at him until he realized that he was looking at Erisa. She was in her nightclothes, and her wavy lavender hair was pulled into a messy bun. Droplets of moisture clung to the strands of hair, and made her clothes damp. She sat there, unmoving, except for a few shivers. He cleared his throat, "Erisa." No response, so he tried again, a little bit louder. "Erisa." Still no response. His golden eyes narrowed as he grabbed he shoulder and shook her. Her skin was cold to the touch, and he caught sight of the expression on her face before she acknowledged his presence. It was a look of terror, mixed with horror and pure fear. "i'm so sorry Ren!" she gasped, suddenly feeling the cold through her damp clothes. "I didn't realize you were there!" she apologized again, but Ren just waved it away. His mind was more focused on the look on her face. What could have made her look like that? He wondered as they entered the house. There they found Yoh, up already and sitting under the kotatsu, smiling to himself and rolling a mandarin orange across the heated top in front of him. " morning Yoh" called Ren from the doorway.
"funga fufu funga" was his only reply. Rolling his eyes, Ren left the older boy for the kitchen. Shivering, and throwing a weary glance over her shoulder at the sliding door, Erisa ran to her room to get changed into something warmer.
Throughout the rest of the day Ren kept a close watch on Erisa. She was quite the actress he observed as he watched her talking with Horo and Chocolove. It was only because he was looking for the cracks in the cheerful mask that she wore that he was able to tell she was unsettled. Before lunch, she went to her room complaining of stomach pains and " feeling like I'm gonna throw up". Faust had given her some paracetamol and sent her off. Lunch was normal enough, but Ren realized that he would have to tell the others what he had seen. Laying his chopsticks down he looked around wearily before clearing his throat. "I think you should all know what I saw this morning," he announced, his voice cutting through the other conversations. Everyone turned to look at him questioningly. " The thing is, it's about Erisa. This morning I found her sitting in the garden, most probably she'd been there all night. This in it-self is rather odd, but then I saw the expression on her face. She was scared. No, she was beyond scared. She was terrified. You know what she's like he shot at Lyserg. "Is there anything you know of that would scare her that badly?"
Lyserg frowned before replying, "I don't know." He looked up. " Why? Do you think she's in some kind of trouble?"
"I'm not sure but I do think that should talk to her about it when she comes out of her room." everyone agreed and waited for dinner that evening with anticipation.
By the time dinner rolled round, everyone was getting worried. Nobody had heard or seen Erisa since she went into her room before lunch. Yoh was walking towards his room, but was surprised to find Faust and Horo knocking on Erisas door and calling her. " What's going on?" he called down the hall to them.
"I wanted to give her this paracetamol for her stomach pains, but she won't answer the door" Faust replied.
"Maybe she's asleep," suggested Yoh. The others didn't look convinced. Lyserg joined them and after hearing the situation he visibly paled. "You don't think anything's happened to her like Ren thought do you?" he asked anxiously.
At this the others were jerked into action. At the same time they all threw their shoulders against the door. Due to the combined weight of the four the door gave way after a couple of shoves. They burst into the room, only to be confronted with a neatly made bed and a small note on the bedside table. The note was held down by a newly carved mortuary tablet. Being the first to reach the table, Lyserg snatched up the note and tablet. His eyes widened as he read what she had written. His hand shaking, he held it out to the others. It read;
Dear Everyone,
Thank you for looking after me, despite the fact that a few days before I was your enemy. But now I have to leave. Please don't try to follow me, you will only end up hurting yourselves and I don't want that to happen. I have to do this alone. I am leaving Yanagi here, I know she will be well cared for. Yours Scincerely, Erisa"She's gone…" Horo murmered. "She's really gone."
"And she's not coming back" stated Lyserg in a cold voice, before he bolted from the room.
Owari
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