Yoru Hana

Episode Two

Ghoul Twins Part 1

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The blue haired girl crouched down right next to the berry bush. She plucked a ripe, purple berry off and brought it to her small pink lips. She slowly bit the end and felt the sour and sweet juice spreading through her mouth. So sweet and sweet and bit of sourness touched the tip of her tongue, with moist after taste. She smiled in satisfaction and bit some more of it, the taste got stronger and she loved it.

She put the rest into her mouth and plucked out some more, putting them in the small bag she brought with. She moved herself to another bush with another berries, this time they were blue. She plucked one out, it was smaller than the former so she brought the whole into her mouth. She savored the taste for a long moment, she was craving for this flavor. She loved it and few months of waiting was just worth it.

She paused for a moment and her pretty little face was in a small frown as if she was thinking something hard. She then brightened up, standing up she ran deeper into the forest. As she went deeper into the forest she started to run faster. The deeper the faster. She ran and thrust her palm out. When she put it back to its original place she was joined by someone else.

She jumped and hugged the person.

I missed you. It's been a while right? Did you miss me? How was it? Was it alright? Was it? Tell me, I want to know…. I was so lonely without you. Oh, see these berries? Pick whatever you like. I missed you so much….

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Paul grumbled about being sent to this stupid country side. He was born, or perhaps created, at Mirine City and haven't been to areas this country-like in his whole life. And the fact that he was not alone bothered him even more. It would've been better to be in this quiet area by himself so it could be relaxing but no, Professor Shinji forced him to take the rest of the Dan with him. He just made him go with his 'companions'. Could he actually imagine how annoying that is? It was one of the things that he regretted, taking that idiot who always, continuously stuffed himself with junks.

2 years. 2 fucking years and yet he only found three of 10. 4 if you include our one and only Paul Shinji, the most respected leader. He growled in low voice as the train passed through the tunnel. He was sent down here, Azena Town with the rest of the Dan just to do a small little itty bitty chore from Professor Shinji. He mentally cursed him. Paul knew that Professor could visit the old man by himself and he was being a big fat lazybug to even bother to take 11 hours trip. All he did was to call Paul and tell him to go to Azena Town to visit the old Giovanni. How rude….

"Hey Paul, how long do we have to wait to get there?" A raven haired boy asked.

"How in the hell am I supposed to know?" Paul growled at the poor boy who whimpered at the plumhead young adult's voice.

"Just wondering…." The boy said, his index fingers touching each other.

"Paul, chillax, seriously. Ash's getting scared." The grassheaded teen across Paul said while flicking his unusual green hair.

"That's our old Paul. Nothing's wrong with him at least." The girl next to the grasshead with a giggle and the grasshead patted her head with endearing smile.

Paul rolled his eyes and stared out the window, they were out of the tunnel now, wondering why he even bothered to tell them that they had to come with him. In front of him the two were making out, and next to him, was stuffing himself with random food they give out. Paul groaned and closed his eyes. He focused on the sound of the train running along the railway. When he opened his eyes he saw the sign; Azena Town-5km away.

'Great, finally close.' He thought as he pulled out his phone to look at the time; 1 p.m. He wanted to finish this chore as quickly as possible and return to Mirine City already. But never knew what a troublesome thing he was about to face.

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The blue haired girl returned from the forest while licking her fingers that were dyed in black because of berry juices. She smiled. Around time the berries in Azena Town are ripe and sweetest. She reached to her bag to have just one more but she stopped. She frowned then sighed, slowly walking down the street, empty without anyone loitering around.

It had been a while since she met him. About how long? Hmmm, a month perhaps. They were so close yet she couldn't see him very often. It made her sad to even think about that, she only wished just to see him more often. She needed him and he needed her.

She was adopted when she was younger than she could remember. She was found somewhere out of the town and then her parents brought her down to this country side for her health. She attended the small school with only 10 students in this town, she never made good friends with them. He was the only friend she had. She had been feeling well but her family never thought about leaving this town just in case she gets worse. But she took it positively, if they leave she would have lesser chance to see him. And that would be hard.

She hummed while skipping then spotted a young adult with messy purple hair. She tilted her head, living in a small town made her know everyone in there but the purple haired man was someone she had never seen in her life. Did he moved here? A newcomer? A tourist? Wait, was there anything to tour around in this town? Oh right, farms, orchard and things like that. Small town, it is a small town but that was just because of the population. The size of this town is almost as big as Mirine City.

"Excuse me, did you move here?" She asked and the man turned around to face her. His skin was rather dark, his long shaggy purple hair was in low ponytail, and his eyes were color of black nightmare and were as cold as winter blizzard. The girl whimpered slightly at the sight of his eyes. It was scary yet so attractive and made her feel like drowning into it. She was possibly imagining it.

The man didn't answer for a moment. He stared down at her as if he had seen a ghost. His eyes were shocked, surprised and sad. The girl, for a moment felt sorry for the man standing in front of her. He glanced at the floor for a moment and returned with the glaring eyes of his and looked at her.

"What do you want?" The man asked with a glare. But the girl could catch the shaking in the man's voice. But it was grumpy and mean, that it hid the shaking so well.

The girl pouted and put her hands on her waist, "Excuse me, as a resident of Azena Town I have rights to ask you if you moved here or not." She said and quickly mumbled something under her breath. "Besides, my mother is in charge of this whole town." She quickly added. The man raised his brow at her.

The man stuffed his hands in his cargo jacket pockets and looked down at her, "If you live here you probably know where Giovanni lives, right?" The girl tapped her chin and then nodded. Deciding that he was a visitor, and also remembering that old man that her mother often baby sat. She saw him few times and he was definitely someone she doesn't want to see again, he looked scary. And creepy.

"You mean that weird hikikomori living at the edge of the town?" He nodded, quiet surprised by the word she used to describe his boss's boss's boss.

"Yeah I know him, he rarely comes out and hardly ever talked to anyone. Except for my Mom, she takes good care of him, I don't know why." She said and the man frowned. He started to walk, "Hey, wait up!" the girl followed him.

"Do you want me to guide you there?" She asked with sparkling eyes. She loved meeting new person. The man slightly nodded, possibly thinking that she was weird.

She smiled, "Well my name is Dawn. Dawn Arun Berlitz, nice to meet you." She said as she extended her hand. He stopped and glanced down at her hand. Then looked at her face.

She raised her brow, "Aren't you going to introduce yourself?" She asked, waving her hand slightly. He sighed and grabbed her small delicate hand, "Paul Shinji." He confirmed his name and quickly shook off her hand. The warmth though didn't leave his hand quickly. That saddened him even more. She smiled in satisfaction and walked right in front of him, guiding him to the man's house. They were silent on their way to the house.

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Drew, Ash and the brown haired girl were searching for Paul who ditched them while they were using bathroom from a small drug store. Paul always ditched them while on mission, or a chore in this case. He always thought of them annoying and despite how much Drew and Professor Shinji told him they need to stay and work together because they were a team, it never stuck in his head straight.

"Where's Danjang*? Seriously? That's the way he treats us after using us as a slave for past two years?" The girl growled as she stomped right in front of them.

"Actually he slaved me around, not you two." Drew said. May and Ash frowned at the grasshead.

"You volunteered for it you grasshead." Ash said.

"Oh let me add something, he had been slaving me around for 2 years, May for a year and a half and Ash for 8 months." Drew added with fake excitement that made the other two sweatdrop.

"Where is he anyway?" The girl, May asked, looking around, but all she could see was farms, orchards, animals, stacked crops, and cattle along with few houses on every few miles. Typical scenery of a typical country town. She would have enjoyed the scenery if this wasn't such an emergency situation. May sighed as she kept on searching for the purple haired man.

Soon they saw a girl walking toward them, mumbling something under her breath. Drew raised his brow and grabbed the girl by her shoulder and she looked up. As the girl look up Drew could sense something from her deep midnight blue eyes.

"Have you seen a man with purple hair. He's really tall and-"

"Oh, I've seen him. I guided him all the way to Giovanni's house. He was really rude, he didn't even thank me after what I did for him!" The girl exclaimed, obviously frustrated.

"Well sorry about Paul. Well can you guide us there as well, we are his companions and he kind of ditched us." Ash said and pleaded. The girl sighed and nodded her head and the four started to walk.

"So, what's your name?" Drew asked.

"Dawn, Dawn Arun Berlitz." The girl answered.

"Oh, May is my name." The brunette said with a slight wave. "That's Drew Hayden and Ash Ketchum." Dawn nodded at them.

"So what's with all these 'Giovanni' thing? He rarely has visitors." Dawn said, curiosity bubbling in her voice.

"Or even family I think. I have been living in this time even before he moved here and as far as I can remember I haven't seen him having visitors this young." She added.

"Well, sweetheart, it's private so we can't tell you." May said with apology.

"No, it's fine. I was just curious, that's it." Dawn replied and although she said she was okay there were disappointment in her voice and her faked smile.

May and Dawn started to talk about random things that girls would chat about. It had been ages since May had a real chat with a girl since she was stuck with three boys, one rude, one arrogant and one stupid. May was really happy to talk with the blunette right in front of her.

After a moment they reached a white house with blue roofs, surrounded by red brick walls and two guards standing in front of the gate.

"We are here to meet Sir Giovanni requested by Professor Shinji." Drew said showing a plastic card. The guards grabbed it, examined and then let them in. Dawn waved a little and stood right next to one of the guards, eating berries. She offered some to them.

"Sir, I really need to know why father sent us down here where we least expect." Paul said to the brown haired man.

"I've been keeping an eye on the people here, and by some luck one of them are here, I presume." Paul narrowed his eyes, demanding further explanation.

"Mrs. Berlitz takes care of me a lot and sometimes her daughter comes by to visit as well. I get this feeling that she looks familiar and strange. She is hiding something that I am sure of. I want you to find that out and if she is the one get her back to Mirine and have Shinji take care of her." Giovanni said in a low and husky voice as he looked straight into Paul's cold eyes. His eyes equally cold as Paul's.

Paul hesitated for a moment and bowed a little, "Yes sir. I would do it." He said and straightened himself then walked out of his room. On the hallway he saw his companions standing there, arms crossed with frown spread across their face.

"Danjang, you know that you should've waited for us." May said with the biggest frown.

"No time to talk." Paul said as he walked past them and without any complaints they followed Paul.

"We need to find someone." He said, stuffing his hands into his jacket pockets.

"Who?" Drew asked, already ready to take orders. They were exiting from the front door and now the gate.

"This girl named-" Paul stopped as he saw the blunette chatting with the guards.

Paul walked toward her and looked down, she looked back up, tilted her head to the side a little. "Is there anything I can help you with?" She asked frowning a little, still bit angry about Paul not thanking her.

"Who are you?" Paul asked as he narrowed his eyes. Dawn rolled her eyes, put her hands on her slim waist and huffed, "I am Dawn. We met before? Ring any bells? I guided you here." Dawn said annoyed.

"Um, Danchou**?" Drew called and the said man turned around.

"Care to explain first?" Drew asked with a frown. Paul closed his eyes a bit and asked Dawn if there was any isolated place where they could talk without interruption.

"There's a place w- I mean I know near the lake, and hardly anyone comes there. It's too deep in the forest. Would that be fine?" Dawn asked and the others nodded. Drew, Ash and May were still wondering but with their sense they could already know the question Paul was going to ask when they arrive at their destination.

Dawn guided them through the forest and got deeper and deeper until even Paul lost the track of where they were. Now the only thing they could rely on was Dawn who didn't seem to have a problem tracking down.

"Here we are!" Dawn announced and the fantastic view of crystal clear lake and a small island in the middle greeted the group.

"Don't tell me we have to cross the lake." May said.

"No we don't. Folks don't really like it here. I don't know why. So it is, my favorite spot." Paul noticed that there was a pause before 'my' and frowned at this. She was hiding something that was for sure.

"Anyway, what was it that you want to talk about?" Dawn said spinning toward them and gave them a wide smile.

"Dawn, do you have any secrets you hide from everyone?" Paul asked without hesitation. Drew, May, and Ash all heard this so they just gave Dawn a 'good luck' look. Dawn flinched at this.

"What do you mean?" She asked, stuttering a little.

"You know what we are talking about." Paul said but Dawn refused to talk.

"I don't know what you are talking about. I have nothing to hide." Dawn said stubbornly.

"Really?" Paul asked, raising his eye brow.

"Really." Dawn said as she bit her bottom lip.

Paul glanced at Ash, who sighed and grabbed Dawn.

"What- What are you? Let go of me!" The small girl shrieked but unfortunately for her she was too small compared to Ash, Drew and Paul. Especially Paul.

Paul snapped his fingers and suddenly the group were on a small island, surrounded by wide open ocean.

"I know who you are, you are one of us. Test subjects that escaped before." Dawn stared at Paul. Her eyes were mixed with confusion and relief? Paul couldn't believe the latter.

"You mean the reason I have that power is because I was a test subject." Dawn said, calmly as possible.

"Yes. We all are. We will help you." May said. Drew nodded with his arms crossed.

"I am Paul Shinji, the leader of Yoru Hana Dan and I am on the mission to find the rest of us. We will tell you the rest of the story later on if you join." Paul said and they were back on the spot next to the lake.

Dawn looked down, she was quietly mumbling something, which had been bothering Paul. It was seriously annoying.

"What are you mumbling about?" He asked. Dawn gulped and shook her head.

"I will tell you later. Your power is illusion?" Dawn asked. Paul nodded.

"What's your ability?" Drew asked.

"I can turn invisible." She said and suddenly she disappeared. Paul smirked. While Ash freaked out about hanging onto something that he could feel but cannot see, Paul took out a list and scratched out 'invisibility'. He stuffed the old note back into his pocket and told Dawn to show herself back. She did as she was told to and looked at the ground with worried look on her face.

"So, what am I supposed to do now?" She asked.

"Follow us to Mirine City. My father will help you." Paul said and the members gulped.

Dawn held out her index finger, "First explain something about this Yoru Hana Dan. I need to know where I am going."

"It's not a place. It's a team. Paul here is our Danchou and we are the members." Ash said.

"Danchou?"

"That's what we call him. Boys do though, I, being the only girl, is the only one currently to call that grumpy Danjang." May said.

"What does that mean?"

"Team leader. Now about this Dan, it is a team I made to recruit back the members. I will explain the details if you are going to join though. It's too private." Paul said.

Dawn crossed her arms in front of her chest, "I am not going to join something that I don't even know about. You need to explain about this first. I was adopted when I was around three or four. I don't know where I am from and even my mother doesn't know about it either. She said she just 'found' me.

"Is joining going to explain a lot about this as well?"

Paul, Drew, May and Ash looked at each other.

"It can be, but I'm not sure. Even ourselves doesn't know where we are from originally, except for Paul." Drew said, earning a glare that could have killed him if it was a dagger.

"How come?"

"That damn professor in charge is my father." Paul answered while glaring down at the girl who was lot shorter than he was.

Dawn put her hands on her waist, "Well excuse me, I didn't know. And besides, you could've just told me without glaring. It's not my fault that your father put his own son into the mess." The only thing she got was even more deadlier glare than the previous one.

Dawn blinked for a moment and gasped, "Your father made his own son a test subject?" Paul groaned, "Yes he did. Now can we please not talk about him?" Dawn shut her mouth.

She turned to Drew, "Would I be able to figure out my parents? My biological parents?" Drew shook his head.

"Unfortunately no. Except for few we were from an orphanage." Drew said sadly that made Dawn down.

"Anyway, we need you Dawn, to join us. You need to, you were made to." May said. Dawn stepped back slightly away from them. She had to leave? But what about him? Would she able to see him? And what about Mom? And Dad? Would she be able to meet them to? But she's going into a lab. She can't leave there freely. She can't.

She felt like her brain was swimming. She had to make a choice that was very unnecessary to herself but important to others and she had to do it quick. She felt so much pressure pressing down on her shoulder. She hated it. She hated that feeling so much.

"What about my Mom?" Dawn finally opened her mouth.

"We will take care of it. Don't worry." Ash said, trying to convince her.

"….." Dawn bit her bottom lips and looked down. Paul examined her closely, she was moving her lips but without any sound. Her expression changed frequently, as if she was talking to someone else. He looked around but there was no one else but them near the lake. He went back to examining her, she wasn't moving her lips but was frowning.

"Is there anything wrong?" May asked her, obviously she noticed this as well.

"No, nothing's wrong." Dawn said as she shook her hand, still looking down. Paul stepped forward and pushed Dawn's chin up. She shrieked but didn't back away.

"What are you hiding from us?" Paul asked in a fierce voice that would make anyone shudder. Dawn felt her legs shaking a bit but she was brave enough to push Paul's hand away from her face. "Don't touch me." She said, her voice was shaking as well.

Paul snapped his fingers and she was standing alone in a dark room. Well, it was dark, and it was pitch black. She pulled her hand up and shook it in front of her face but she couldn't even see it.

"Still not going to tell us?" Paul's voice said. She fell down to her knee, shaking hard. What had she done to go through such a thing? What had she done wrong? Suddenly the illusion faded out and Dawn looked up only to see May kicking Paul. That broke his focus.

"Stop it Maple." Paul growled as he rubbed the part where he got kicked. Dawn gave the look of gratitude to May.

"Danjang, I don't know what she's hiding, I know she is. But I don't think we should just force it out of her mouth, I think we need to wait." May said as calmly as possible. Paul didn't say anything but it was seemingly that Paul agreed. Dawn sighed in relief.

"So, where are we going now?" Ash asked, pulling a biscuit from his pocket and munching it down.

"To her house, duh." Drew said as he grabbed May's hand.

"Wait, you need my guidance, its quiet a big forest and you can get lost easily." Dawn stopped the couple and went in front of them to take the lead. The couple followed, then Ash, and lastly Paul. Paul examined the others while walking, Dawn was murmuring something and it also made her look like a crazy girl. Drew and May were talking while smiling and laughing, and Ash was stuffing himself with various junk food that even Paul doesn't know where Ash got it. He looked up at the sky and sighed.

*Danjang/Danchou means 'Team/Dan Leader' in Korean/Japanese. The female members call Paul Danjang and male members call him Danchou.

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