Whispers in the Dark
—Chapter 2—
'This is going to turn out bad,' Yukio thought to himself, running down the twisting streets of the Kikei-Kyoshoku compound. 'Mom's super crazy when she's mad.'
"Mom!" he shouted, "C'mon, where are you?"
He shook his head, taking a left turn, hoping to find Whisper's house. 'This has got to be the one day I get lost in my own compound?' he thought angrily.
There were loud raps on the front door that caught Whisper's attention. 'Who could that be?' she thought, reluctantly sitting up and making her way to her bedroom door to go down and answer the knocks. She glided silently down the stairs and opened the front door of the mini-mansion.
"Aunt, what is wrong?" she asked, looking the form of her distressed and thoroughly angry distant aunt.
"Where's your father?" she asked as soon as she caught her breath.
Whisper's eyes traveled over her shoulder even though she never turned her head. She bowed, revealing in her aunt's fury. "He's not available right now."
"He's passed out, isn't he Kiya—Whisper?" She corrected herself quickly.
Whisper's face was calm and expressionless as she answered. "Yes, aunt Rei, he is."
Rei pushed past Whisper, barging into the living room, screaming names at Whisper's father. "You low-life!" she screeched. "How dare you do that to a defenseless child? You out to be taken out into the woods of the Land of Fire and shot!"
Whisper's father sat up wearily and shot a glare at Rei.
"Whatever are you talking about, Rei?" he asked, putting on a confused act, but not hiding the smirk from his voice. "I have done nothing wrong."
"Done nothing wrong my butt!" she shouted. "I know what's going down here!"
"Rei, you are very confused." He shook his head, smiling. "If you're listening to Kiya"—Whisper shuddered—"then you're probably confused." He patted Whisper's arm, secretly driving his nails into her shoulder. "She has quite the active imagination."
Whisper didn't once wince in pain. She kept her emotionless act up, only showing a bit of surprise when Rei slapped her father's hands angrily away.
"Don't you lay a hand on her, Kito." she hissed. "Or I'll tear your drunken head off."
"I can take that as a threat." Kito narrowed his eyes.
"Then take it as a threat," Rei spat. "Whisper, get your things."
"Why?"
"You're coming with me," she stated. "Get your things."
"I don't have any things." Whisper said.
Rei eyed her grey kimono. "Well, then, let's go." She grabbed Whisper's hand and pulled her out the door, slamming it in her father's face.
"Rei, you shouldn't have done that," Whisper said. "He'll be so mad."
"Oh, forget it," Rei laughed. "I'm not afraid of your father."
'But I am.' Whisper thought.
"Whisper!" Yukio shouted as he saw her and his mother on the back roads of the compound. He sprinted towards her. He stopped in front of her, panting, his black hair going up and down with each pant.
'He looks so tall,' Whisper noted, seeing the difference in height between her and Yukio. Until a couple of months ago, they had been the same height. Now, he was over six foot and she was only 5' 10". How much they had both changed since he had found her that one night in July.
