The Ghost of My Past

Hey, you guys! This is Rana Banana Thingamabob here, and since my wimpy Chinese twin sister is not here today—Is a broken collar bone that bad?—I shall be having another one of my OC's doing todays disclaimer! Seeing as Kori has barely even spoken, heeeeres NATSUKI KAGO! Natsuki here is a third year at—

Natsuki: Rana! Don't spoil anything, you pervert! *Rana looks at Natsuki strangely and sniffs her drink. Anyways, Rana Banana doesn't own Prince of Tennis, Evanescence's 'Missing', Tsubaki or me, though we don't come into this chapter. We don't even belong to anyone, actually. Except our parents... anyways, Rana doesn't own her elephant, Fungoid anymore, as her sister's Kangaroo kicked it to Japan, where she doesn't not live at.

Rana: How do you think that Sandy got that broken collar bone? Hehehe... *remembers elephant and runs away crying. Sorry the chapters so short!

Chapter 2-Missing?

All around Kori were blindingly bright lights and busy looking stands containing food and games, and next to him was a small girl. Though he didn't know why the girl looked familiar to him, with her short, childish frame, her honey brown hair that was in a loose bun, and her dark blue eyes that were opened wide in fear.

Curious, Kori watched the little girl—no older than five—and saw that she was clinging to a pretty, older looking woman's leg with a similar description, and biting her lip.

Bored, Kori decided to walk at the little girl's side, not knowing where else to go. Suddenly the little girl was thrust into a large door, with only darkness visible from the entrance. Kori was somehow thrust with her. For some reason, the little girl cursed her somebodies name, most likely her moms.

The inside was extremely dark from either direction of the hallway, and deafeningly silent. Kori gulped and the girl seemed to have convinced herself to go on, despite the strange heat emanating from ahead. They both shivered in unison and heard something stirring in the darkness in front of them.

Turning around slowly they saw a large cavern like hole with fire and volcanoes all about, and what seemed to be the source of heat. Gulping, both of the two children walked ahead, hearts in their throats. From behind they heard a small something drop. The little girl didn't dare look back, but Kori, evidently very curious, did.

His eyes widened to a point where they started to water and his open mouth's dryness seemed to spread to his throat. It was the green, decaying, decapitated head of a woman. The head looked as though it had died screaming, and it's eyes were white, as though the pupils had rolled to the back of her head.

Kori imagined that the look he made at that moment looked pretty darn close, and screamed like a little girl. Like the little girl right next to him who had finally turned in that direction and looked like a clone of the head's expression, and screamed like there was no tomorrow. Together, they both screamed all throughout the halls of where they were until they reached room, which seemed safe at the moment. Kori looked around and realized that it was a kitchen.

But not an ordinary kitchen. No! It was a kitchen with blood and knives everywhere, with a little splash of guts for decoration. Both Kori and the girl who seemed to have followed shivered involuntarily. There was a loud and high pitched creek sound behind them.

Both children cringed in fear. They reluctantly turned to find-

"A green disembodied hand?" the girl gasped and then ran, Kori following close behind. After a while, they both stopped in a place that smelled of smoke and vomit. By then the little girl was crying, in a small hunched over position.

Though it made his stomach churn, Kori knew that he could not help the little girl. To his relief, a small boy in a black cloak came in, his hood covering his face. The only reason that Kori wasn't scared was because the costume was rather dingy and was covered in patches. It couldn't have possibly been a real ghost, right?

He crouched down to help the girl up but instead she pulled him down into a hug, sobbing. Kori wondered who that boy was. Suddenly everything turned black and slowly faded away to some other place.

"- -" Kori couldn't hear anything.

The girl with brown hair looked much older now. Maybe at the age of 11 or 12.

A boy with brown hair that went over his eyes appeared to be talking to the girl. The girl appeared to be happy as she showed no sign to stop smiling.

The boy looked a lot like that grim reaper boy.

"- -" Whatever he said seemed to be bad, because the girl stopped moving as if she was shot by a paralyzer gun. Kori's heart seemed to bunch together, and become cold.

The girls eyes were closed together in tears. The grim reaper boy appeared to be crying too. He got closer to the girl and at the same time tears were closing together in the corner of Kori's eyes for some strange reason. The scene seemed to be really sad.

"I lo-e you, Ma-u-to Ka-o." the formally cloaked boy whispered, then ran away. Why did everything seem so garbled? Why could Kori hear him now? What the heck was going on? The girl yelled as she reached for the boy's retreating figure. Why was this dream so realistic? The girl seemed to disappear, still reaching out for the lost boy, and Kori fell on a his knees, wishing that the warmth in his chest would return and that the dream would just end already. Kori's wishes were granted as he woke up.

Kori sat up, his hand for some reason went to his chest and felt a rapid pounding. He glanced around, wondering where he was and why his eyes were very hard to open, and his vision blurry. He rubbed his eyes, only making them blurrier. The person tried to make a sound with their voice, instantly regretting it for the small, hoarse sound and the painful scratchy feeling in their throat. Suddenly, something popped up in his head and he used his voice anyway.

"Please, please, forgive me.

But I won't be home again.

Maybe someday you'll look up,

and barely conscience, you'll say to no one; 'Isn't something missing?'

You won't cry for my absence, I know- You forgot me long ago.

Am I that unimportant...?

Am I so insignificant...?

Isn't something missing?

Isn't someone missing me?

Even though I'm the sacrifice,

you won't try for me, not now."

'Where did that come from?' Kori asked himself, rubbing his throat. Suddenly, with a shiver, he discovered that the weird haired guy was staring at him. Kori glared, and the weird dark gray haired guy laughed.