Are You Afraid?
Chapter 5 - Is the Brit dead?
-Kiku's POV-
Seeing the pale face in the window certainly was odd and the fact that is was staring at me, it made me feel uncomfortable. Ryōsuke being the only person I've been seeing the past few days, having the nun stare at me, I didn't know what to do. On instinct, my hand went for the hilt of the katana. Being alone for the past week does that to you. If the ghost was going to do anything to me, I was ready to defend myself, but IF it was going to do anything it didn't seem that it was going to be anytime soon. Deeming that it was safe, I continued eating the food, and when I finished, I made my way up to Bedroom 5, getting even more tired by the second. As I slipped into unconsciousness, I somehow knew that I would have nightmares.
-Arthur's POV-
"Hmm? What is that?" I ask myself, hearing a quiet voice.
"What's what, Artie?"
"I hear voices..." I say, glancing around, making sure that no one was whispering.
"Don't you always?"
"No," I hissed, "I think I could tell the difference between them and another voice." I shake my head.
"I think Arthur has finally lost it, aru."
"Yao, what do you mean by 'finally'?" Kaoru asked his older brother with his usual monotone voice.
"What-what do you mean by that?" I asked, my voice raising.
"Eyebrows. Eyebrows. Eyebrows." Yao and Kaoru started to chant together.
"*Because I'm a potato." Alfred said randomly. Apparently he had been searching things up on YouTube.
"What the bloody hell do you mean by that you git?" I ask
"Nothing, it means nothing, anyway, about those voices..." Alfred said, trying to change the subject.
"If you want me to figure out whose voice this is, I suggest you shut the hell up!" I say, getting annoyed.
And immediately, the room quieted waiting and waiting.
"K-Kiku..." I say in amazement. "It's Kiku!" I said a bit louder, so some of the others could hear me.
"W-what are you talking about, aru? Now really isn't the time to be joking..."
"Guys, I don't...think he's joking." Heracles said calmly.
"Thank you, Heracles."
"Mmhmm."
"Wh-What are you talking about?" I ask my full attention on the voice.
I felt everyone staring at me as I continued to talk. "I-I don't understand, tell me more." I say urgently.
"Arthur, I really don't know what you're talking about, but-"
"Shut up you bloody git!" I yelled, making the American flinch, my voice didn't have much venom in it because I was getting tired, and I don't even know why!
"Arthur, are you feeling okay? Your eyes look a bit distant..."
"I-I'm okay, just...just-Ah!" and that's when I blacked out.
"Arthur-san, wake up, wake up." Someone said, shaking me lightly.
"Hmm? Is that you Kiku?"
"Hai, it is me." [Yes, it is me.]
"Where are we?"
"Essex."
"England?"
"Hai!" [Yes!]
"Why am I here?"
"That, I don't know. But then again, you aren't really here. I mean look at your hand." Kiku said, picking my hand up. Or what I had thought was my hand.
"W-what the hell...?" I looked at my hand it was...see through.
"As I said, you aren't really here. Only a part of your conscious is here."
"How do you know that?"
"I-I don't know..." says Kiku, looking confused himself, "I don't, I truly don't know how I knew that."
"So you don't know how you knew that?"
"Oh shut up."
"Hmm, anyways, why were you talking to me?"
"When?" asks Kiku, looking confused himself.
"Okay, never mind."
"Hai. So, do you want to tour the Rectory?" [Yes. So, do you want to tour the Recotry?]
"Sure."
Meanwhile...
"Haha! I think he's dead da-ze!"
"For once, I think I agree with Yong Soo, aru."
"Artie, are you dead?" the American asked the motionless Brit lying on the couch.
"Mei, what the hell are you reading, aru?" she had been intently reading a book, and Yao was curious to what she was reading.
"Um, nothing?"
"Yao, she's reading hard-core yaoi I believe." Kaoru says, reading from above the Taiwanese' shoulder.
"Aiyaaah! Mei, how many times have I told you to NOT read these!" Yao demanded, beating her up with his Shinatty-chan doll.
-Kiku's POV-
Now that I think about it... Why am I in a kimono? I am in England, aren't I...? How come I am not using a suit or something? But then again, I don't even like suits...
It's because you aren't really in England.
"Hmm? Who is that?"
Someone sighed. How many times do I need to tell you? It's me Ryōsuke. Remember me? Or is your memory that bad?
"I beg your pardon, my memory is perfectly fine!"
Okay, okay. Can't take a joke can you?
"What do you want, Ryōsuke?"
Just came to explain a few things, such as your thought about the kimono and suit...
"Then go on with it..." I mutter boredly, having nothing to fill my time, but talk with this 'Ryōsuke.' I didn't know whether this kid really exists or not. Maybe it's all my imagination, and I'm somewhere off in dreamland. =.=. It's all in my head.
Now don't think that way, you'll end up like your friend Kirkland.
"How do you know about Arthur-san?"
I did my homework. Exactly as my boss told me, learn about the brat's family. Well, that's how he worded it, not what I'm saying.
"Kusogaki..." [little brat…] I mutter under my breath. I don't really feel bad about calling him a little brat, because it's the truth.
I really have lost your trust. Ryōsuke sighed.
"Why would I even trust you anymore, after all you've done?"
Fine, just let me explain this and I'll leave without a word.
"Get on with it."
So how this works is, we aren't really in England. On my bosses order, I was told to build this place. It wasn't that I wanted to, I'm just ordered to. So the reason why you wear a kimono and not a suit, or whatever you were thinking, is because I thought you would find it more comfortable to wear...
"Thank you for explaining that to me. You can go now."
I am terribly sorry for wasting your time, I will be going now.
I sighed irritably, just wanting Ryōsuke to leave me alone.
I'm not really the person you think I am. I really would like to be friends with you, if only you would try as well.
*Does anyone get Alfred's reference?