And I'm back! Can you believe we have SEVEN whole days left! Neither can I but we're here at the halfway point! Yay! To celebrate guess what we have! A new chapter! Yay! Okay enough with the celebrating time to start the disclaimer and begin the fanfic!
Disclaimer: I don't own any product of Yu-gi-oh. I only own The Eternal Family and Winter.
February 8th is the day I found out why I'm hated, it's because I look like fathers dead sister. Because I look like aunt Victoria, Aunt Victoria died when I was born from some sort of illness and because I looked like her father hates me. I think there are more reasons to hating me then just that one. I need to find that out soon maybe. After all the manor is getting dangerous.
Ryou awoke to find that the sun had risen, high into the sky by the time he woke. Looking over at his clock Ryou found that it was noon and that there was another note on the ground. Ryou sighed and sat up looking around the room, nothing had been moved since last night. His dark green bag was still at the foot of the bed and his desk was in the same place.
Sliding out of bed Ryou got dressed in a simple white shirt with a black vest and a pair of blank jeans, he decided to braid his hair off to the side that day. The braid left his bangs untouched and would let him work on the house. Picking up the note Ryou began to read aloud,
Dearest Groundskeeper,
Things that must be done are lost within time. One thing is that the manor must be restored.
~Winter.
Ryou sighed and smiled a little before realizing the note was written in blood again, this caused him to drop it and let it fall to the ground. Why did Winter write her notes to him in blood? He could feel his heart thudding in his chest as he took deep breaths, it didn't cause him to freak out like last time. Instead Ryou's heart jumped. Sighing again Ryou walked down the stairs and out the door, it was nice out almost as nice as Domino yesterday. "Oh right." Ryou said as he recalled his conversation with Yugi. Well today Ryou walked up to the foot of the fifth floor stairs. Some of the steps were missing while others had been weekend by water damage. Sighing again Ryou set to work on bringing new wood that had been delivered when he first came to the manor, to the fourth floor where he switched out each board with a new one and tossed the old ones onto a pile in the back. Maybe he could start a fire when Malik gets there, that might work, Ryou smiled as he slid another board into place, he could also have Yugi come with Tristan and Joey.
He turned around to grab another board when Ryou came face to face with Winter. "Winter!" Ryou jumped as Winter blinked Did I scare you? She asked as Ryou shook his head no "Oh uh no I was just er surprised to see you there." Ryou said hesitantly to the spirit before finishing the steps to the fifth floor. Once those steps were done Ryou began on dusting and sweeping the soot and grime off of all the surfaces on the fifth floor, all the while Winter watched him carefully as Ryou began on the steps to the sixth floor. He was almost complete when he realized the time. He turned to Winter and she nodded following him out the door right into a ring of two white vans and a black car with the words "Professional Ghost Hunters" on the sides. Winter rolled her eyes as a man with hair just like Winter's father came up to Ryou and began asking him questions "So I heard you just took a job here at Eternal Family Manor! Are you aware of the spirits that haunt this place?" The man asked as Ryou stuttered "O-of course." On and on the man asked Ryou questions of the manor, the Eternals and himself before Ryou's eyes went to Winter's and went black as she passed through him and didn't come out.
"What is your-" The man began before Winter/Ryou cut him off in a pissed manor "What is your purpose here! To make money and prove that the miserable spirits of Eternal Manor are still here! Yeah I'm still here and I will always stay here until you and your crew get out of here before we fine you for trespassing on private property!" This scared the man and his crew as they left as soon as they came, happily chatting about the possession they had all witnessed. Winter eventually gave Ryou back control over his body when the two were safely inside the groundskeeper house, the camera crew and self proclaimed 'Ghost Hunter' had left for good. Ryou doubled over out of the pain of the memories of his yami, always taking possession of his body and harming his friends. Winter was in front of him when he looked up lightly crying, I'm sorry. She said as he stood and started a fire in the small fire place before taking a seat on the couch with Winter next to him. He said nothing as she continued to say over and over again, I'm sorry like a record player. Finally there was a silence between them with just the clock ticking behind them and the crackling of the fire before them.
I'm sorry, Winter said as she sighed and looked at her hands It's just, humans don't know what it's like to be dead. They don't know what it's like to be a shadow of there own selves, to not be able to feel pain, hunger, sleep or even feel anything at all. They think that if they capture us on camera we don't matter and that we don't need to be thought of ever again. They don't know what it's like to be put down by self proclaimed physics! She shouted with each word echoing with the multiple voices mimicking hers Humans don't know what it's like to not be able to feel! Now this made Ryou look at her, the last sentence was just her, none of the voices echoed hers and made her sound like multiple people talking at once. It was just one voice, just Winters. Winter had her transparent hair in her face as she looked at her hands, trying to remember the last time she ever felt something. Ryou didn't know what he was doing but a voice in his head urged him to do it, He stood in front of her and kneeled down to cup her face in his hands. If she was alive Ryou could imagine Winter crying, tears sliding down her cheeks and down onto the black victorian dress she wore. She looked at him as Ryou's eyes became half lidded as he closed in, a light blush starting on his face. Winter eventually realized what he was doing as he stopped just centimeters away from her "Close your eyes and imagine my lips upon yours." He whispered as Winter did as she was told.
There was a long time before the ghost and the human sat back from each other a smile pulled at Ryou's face but he surprised it. "Some humans can understand what your going through." He said simply as Winter watched him walk up the steps and lay down onto his bed with her at the top of the stairs now. Something told the unbeating lifeless heart in her to go to him but, her mind told her to not get attached to living beings. Winter forced herself to take a step towards Ryou, then another and another until she was right next to the bed. Should she? Her hand ghosted over Ryou's face as he fell deeper into sleep, an unseen force made Winter slid into bed next to him where Ryou opened his eyes a little and smiled. Closing his eyes Winter knew that she did not require sleep but for once in ninety years all she wanted to do was close her eyes one last time.
Well that's the end and it's last minute. I've been planning that last part since the day I started this! Yeah! Now that I have that down I'm going to start on the next chapter for tomorrow and get some sleep! Night viewers!