C A U G H T S T A R I N G
Shii-Chan©

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Summary: Kinomoto Sakura never expected to have to play prey when her new house catches on fire and kills her father and brother. Previously in her life, while she lived in America suspicious footprints and a pool of blood had left obvious evidence for the killing of her mother and twin sister, but no DNA was ever found on the scene, nor on her family members. Her new neighbor, Hiiragizawa Eriol, gives her a box that was accidentally mailed to him, and because of strange circumstances she finds strange pictures of innocent children who had died. Then she ends up living with Li Syaoran, the owner of the business that creates devices that can harm paranormal life and protect innocent people from the evil beyond the grave. What will happen in the adventures she has with him, and meanwhile where has Hiiragizawa taken her (other/adopted) sister, Tomoyo? Was it just a date after all? Aside from that, it seems like Syaoran knows too well about this 'Certain Eye Color can mean you are a ghost.' Business. And can Sakura have secrets of her own?
Genre: Romance/Horror/Hurt-Comfort/Mystery/Adventure/Suspense

***C A U G H T S T A R I N G***

Date: 10/24
Time: 1:29
Place: Syaoran's House, Northern Tomoeda Region, Japan
Year: 2011

"What do you do when the person you love the most turns their back on you?"

***N I G H T O N E C N T D.***

"Thanks for the uhh...PJs..." Sakura looked at her self. She felt so out of ordinary wearing Syaoran's T-Shirt and comfy sweat pants.

"Sorry, I don't have any girly clothes lying around." He said in a distant voice that made Sakura feel...well a little grumpy.

"Yeah, I figured. Hey, earlier you said something about me not knowing who you were...are you like a famous guy in disguise or something?" Sakura asked, hoping he was famous.

"Well, I guess. I'm the only male heir to the Li Corp. I sort of ran away from home after there was a fire at my old mansion and later I was sent 8 Billion Yen inheritance cause everyone else died. That made me wonder how the fire started and then I got certified as a...well I guess a "ghost buster." He concluded.

"Wow, no wonder you have a mansion! It seems like I'm connected to everyone in this town. My grandfather died a while back, but his name was Amamiya Misaki. He owned an important company like your parents. Or you, now..." she said nervously. His golden eyes were looking at her every move.

He didn't respond to that comment. If I were him, I wouldn't have either... She thought.
So Sakura began again, "What kind of cases have you had before?"

"It seems like you'll be living here with me for a while, so either myself or Wei would have had to tell you sooner or later...can you keep a secret?" He asked her in a childish way.

"Sure!" She said.

"Pinky swear?" He asked.

"Pinky swear!" They crossed pinkies and he began, "Well, like I said earlier I ran away from home. That was after the fire. Well then I bought an apartment in Tokyo. It was too busy for me, but the apartment was in the only wooded, rural area there. I like to be secluded. Wei is my butler, and otherwise I've been living alone for about seven years. I'm really fifteen, but the Hiiragizawa family was close with me so they forged a birth certificate for me, claiming I was seventeen so I could be a paranormal detective. But then I started seeing things...like my teenage sisters walking around my apartment...my parents arguing...and then I became like you someday might be if you don't stay protected. I was possessed. I had an exorcism done and then I was good...But I was stained with a permanent curse of being half ghost, half human. I have these random outbreaks of where I break down and see ghosts...especially around light entities...Hiiragizawa and his friend, Sakuya, I'm guessing your sister, were able to see the specialties of paranormal activity within a person. So I was 'blessed' with this strange color of eyes."

"I'm sorry, my old neighbor Hiiragizawa Eriol?"

"Yeah, I guess so."

"Woah! So he knew there was gonna be a fire, which was why he took Tomoyo away..." Sakura's eyes shed tears, and an ominous reflection of a girl who looked just like her with silver eyes was shone in her eyes. Her eyes were clear-ish at that point; An innocent, translucent emerald locked in her eye sockets.

"SAKURA! GET DOWN!" Syaoran said. Sakura 'hoed' and ducked, while a girl who looked just like her with silver eyes stood over her, then disappeared as her silhouette banged into a wall and fell backward.

"Sakuya-Chan...?" Sakura stood up and asked the figure. It looked up and showed itself. It had silver eyes with an emerald tint and a little less than shoulder length honey-colored hair.

"Sakura-Chan! I'm sorry! I wanted to see you!" 'Sakuya' said.

"I wanted to see you too! Your eyes..." Sakura stared into them. "They don't look good with me, do they...?" Sakuya replied. Sakura looked down and didn't reply, but then she looked up at Sakuya and said, "They just...they just aren't yours." Sakuya came to Sakura and kissed her cheek, then grinned sinisterly. Her voice got deep, as if it were synthesized in a way that made everything lower. "So why not give me yours?" The figure was not Sakuya. It turned into a black silhouette...it's shape was quite scary. It was that of a human, but it had long fingernails on its hands, like claws.

"Sakura-Chan!" Syaoran exclaimed. He pushed the figure out of the way and called for Wei. When Wei arrived, he shot the figure with some sort of ray gun and it disappeared.

"Thank you, Syaoran-Senpai! Or wait, now you're just Syaoran!" She said.

Syaoran stepped back as Sakura tried to give him a small hug, but then he just let her. He stood much taller than her, but he still found her attractive and quite charmingly pretty.

Just then, her eyes flickered translucent, but then changed back to her opaque emerald orbs.

"Sakura let me inspect your eyes..." Syaoran sat down and Sakura followed his movement.

"O-Okay?" She said. Usually when a guy and a girl sat down in a movie and the guy had to like look at her face things would go wrong and in like two seconds they would be...kissing.

His eyes focused hard on hers. He knew his eyes' magic would never wear off, for he had the black magic eyes that didn't make him evil. He couldn't help but say it; He was special. Her eyes flickered translucent and then turned into the regular opaque emeralds again.

"Tell me, Sakura, were you against your sister's death? Did your heart break when it happened?" He asked suddenly, lifting her chin.

"Well, she was my best friend, and my twin, so it was like watching me die. I guess my heart did break a little? And of course I was against her death." She said, a tear coming up in her eyes. He wiped the tear away.

"Okay, just wondering. You should go to sleep, we have school tomorrow." He said, and then motioned for Wei to show her to the bedroom.

After she left, he began thinking to himself, 'Interesting, Sakura-San couldn't have possibly died and escaped with eyes of that color, because that color hasn't ever been found in a ghost or angel before...but if she had a twin with the same eye color, than there was a possibility they had a spiritually interconnected relationship...'

Chapter End: Caught Staring- Night One Continued

Next Chapter: Eyes in the Night

"You're accusing me of being dead?"

-Shii