HERE'S CHAPTER 4 FOR YOU, MY DEAR READER. TO ALL WHO REVIEWED ON THE PREVIOUS CHAPTERS, I THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELL, WITHOUT FURTER ADO, HERE'S THE STORY!

Long time no see, dearest sister.

"Are you sure we're going on the right way? Your GPS has been saying 'Wrong way' since we turned to this shortcut." Asked a bored Mikan, pushing buttons on the car's GPS, trying to make the talking stop.

"Don't worry. We won't get lost. We're not even going to the beach yet."

"Not going to the beach yet? Then we'll lose the race! Hotaru and Ruka could be there already."

"I don't care if we lose. I'll have to show you something, or rather, I have to take you someplace."

"Ok, sure!" Mikan cheerfully said.

After waiting for another 5 minutes, Natsume finally stopped the car. Are we there in his said place? I turned to him and saw him staring at me, a small smile gracing his features. I smiled too.

I got out of the car then inhaled a rather huge amount of air before letting it all out in one sigh of relief.

I scanned my surroundings then realized that we stopped on the road just beside the forest. I looked left to right, right to left, and to my back, I saw Natsume approaching me.

"So, do you remember?" he asked, pulling me close to him, in a warm embrace.

"Hmm, not really." I said, but seriously, I really don't remember anything.

There was a short pause when finally, Natsume pointed to a rather huge tree then beckoned me to follow him. And I did. He went to the back of the tree then pointed to a white stone which seems to be out of place. I raised my brow at him questioningly before squatting down the ground then lifting the stone up.

He squatted beside me then dug the soil which was covered by the stone. It wasn't long before he pulled out a small, white, treasure box.

"What's that?" I asked. He said nothing but he did gave me the box. I stared at it first, hesitating if I should open it or not. I chose the former.

Inside were many different papers, some were pictures, some letters, and others, drawings. But what caught my eye was a picture of me and Natsume, when we were small. I gasped. I remember now! Natsume and I were childhood friends! But why did I forget something so important? This picture is obviously from a long time ago because the output of the picture is black and white.

I do remember that we were childhood friends; the question now is 'How did we meet?'

"Exactly how did we meet, Natsume?" I asked while standing up and putting the picture back in to the box.

"I don't remember either. All I remember is that we were friends back when we were small, and we made a promise with each other."

Ba-dump

"Promise me we'll always be together."

"Of course! We'll always be together no matter what!"

"It's a promise!"

"MIKAN!"

"Huh? What?"

"I've been calling you for the past 30 seconds. Is something the matter?"

"Sorry, it's nothing. What were you saying?"

"I asked if you still remember that river we used to go to."

"Of course I remember that place! Let's go! I'll race you there!" and with that said, I started to run wherever my feet would take me. I just hope it'll take me to the right place.

- END OF P.O.V –

Mikan ran from here to there, trying to remember the way from the back of her mind. And she successfully did.

"This place remained the same." Mikan said then she took a long, breath intake. She sat on a large rock while she waited for Natsume to arrive.

Five minutes passed and Natsume was still not there.

'What is taking him so long?' Mikan thought. She was getting bored so she played with the water to pass time. While she was playing, the wind blew strongly, swaying the trees and playing with Mikan's hair. She suddenly felt a shiver pass her spine. All her hairs rose. Someone or something must be watching her. She turned around slowly and saw the most gruesome scene.

'Where the hell am I?!'

When Mikan turned her head, she was in a completely different place. It looks like a great hall of some sort. Blood was everywhere. Bodies scattered on the ground. The sound of a woman maniacally laughing heard from the distance, gave Mikan a very frightful expression.

She wanted to scream but no sound came from her open mouth. The laughter came closer. It's as if the woman laughing was beside her.

"Long time no see, dearest sister."

Mikan stiffened. She slowly turned her head to the one who whispered, hoping that what she heard was just her imagination.

Wrong move.

The moment she turned her head to the side, she saw someone who awfully looks like her, wearing a white kimono stained with blood, screaming malice all over her.

'She's the one who I saw at the bathroom!!'

The Mikan-look-alike had her hands outstretched, as if reaching for Mikan's neck. The latter wants to run out of the horrid place but she can't move her feet. It's as if her feet were glued to the floor.

"Why did you leave? You promised me you won't. Why?"

She kept on repeating the same sentence while she was coming closer. Only a few inches until she reaches Mikan's neck and strangle her to death.

2 inches

1 inch

1 centimeter

Then she stopped.

"With this, we could finally be together." She said before giving out a freaky, sly smile. And at that time, Mikan really just wants to scream.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" she screamed out loud which could shook the whole place up, but didn't. But it did shake Mikan's world.

"MIKAN! MIKAN! WAKE UP!" Natsume said, for the umpteenth time, while shaking Mikan awake.

"WHAT THE HELL, MIKAN?! I'VE BEEN TRYING TO WAKE YOU UP 10 MINUTES AGO! SOMETHING IS DEFINITELY…" he wasn't able to continue his sentence because Mikan started crying. He raised one brow before sighing then hugging her close to his chest.

"Sshh. Stop crying, you'll look ugly. Now, what happened?"

"Th-there was…s-someone. S-she…m-me." Another sigh escaped from Natsume.

" Okay, let's just get out of here." He held Mikan close to him, then they started to walk back to the car.

It's been very quiet inside Natsume's car. No one was speaking. Mikan was still crying, but not as hysterical as before. Natsume had his eyes on the road all the time. He will never take Mikan back to that place. What happened there with Mikan? He has no idea. But he won't ask her about it, she might break down to hysterical cries again.

As Natsume was driving, he spotted a little girl waving her small arms frantically as if trying to get help.

"Oh my God." He heard Mikan mumble. He was about to stop the car when Mikan shouted. "Don't stop the car! Please don't!" she started to cry again. She kept on mumbling 'Don't stop' so he didn't. He continued to drive, passing the small girl. When he looked at his rear-view mirror to see the girl, she was gone.

"Who the hell was that girl?" he asked. Mikan wiped all her tears first before answering.

"She was the girl I saw in the comfort room in the gas station." She simply stated. "She's the one who told me… who told me that I would die soon."

"…"

"Creepy, I know. She even called me Chou-sama (Chou means butterfly)." She finished then her phone started ringing. She quickly fished it out of her bag then looked at the caller id first. It says 'Hotaru'.

"Hello, Hotaru!"

"Hey baka. What is taking you guys so long?"

"Oh, you mean you're already there? Aw, we lost."

"Obviously. Now where are you?"

"I don't know myself. But the GPS says we're on Butterfly Hills."

"Butterfly Hills? Hmm, sounds familiar. Well, whatever, just arrive here before nightfall or else."

"But the sun is already setting over here! How are we supposed to arrive there then?"

"What? But it's only 4 here. What time is it on your watch?"

"Huh? Oh, it's half past six."

"Oh no. I think I know Butterfly Hills now. Mikan, tell Natsume to turn the car right now!"

"What? But we're almost there!"

"No buts! Just listen to me Mikan! Butterfly Hills…deserted…sun sets… go back…"

"Hello? Hotaru! I don't understand what you're saying!"

"Turn back…dangerous! Ksssssshhhhhhh." The line suddenly went dead, and Mikan could no longer hear anything."

"Hotaru? Hello? Hotaru!"

"Ksssshhhhh…. Everyone…" now she heard an awfully familiar and creepy voice that doesn't belong to Hotaru

"Hotaru?"

"DIE!!" an ear-splitting scream was heard and as a reflex, Mikan threw the phone away.

"Hey, what happened?" the oblivious Natsume asked the now pale Mikan.

"Natsume…turn the car around." she stated robotically, still staring at her phone now on the car floor.

"Huh? Why?"

"Just do it!" the two were bickering and no one noticed someone walking across the road. But good thing Natsume saw it at the corner of his eye and before that person gets hurt, he quickly steered the car to the right which earned them a hit on a tree, and both of them, unconscious.

In the background, you could here a soft giggle of a small girl, and the person walking across the street, is nowhere to be seen.

I am so gonna die. If you want you can kill me now for a very late update. I didn't mean for this story to be late! It's just that our classes started last last last week and we already had so many assignments. Don't ask how many because it's too many to mention.

Anyway, I'm so sorry again, please don't get really angry. But you, my dear reader has a right to be angry, just not really angry. Did you get that?

Okay, whatever. Next chapter will be about the two being lost in a village, and could be trapped there forever. Maybe one will be left behind while the other… WAIT! I'M GIVING TOO MUCH INFO! SORRY TO THOSE WHO DOESN'T WANT SPOILERS! I HATE THEM MYSELF, WHICH MEANS I HATE ME!!

-Kurenai Chou