C A U G H T S T A R I N G
Shii-Chan©
AN: Hi, thanks to my twenty-five reviews! This Chapter has some of the plot from Insidious in it, but that's okay because I just credited it!
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.' But then he reveals he, himself is have entity, half person. 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***
***Chapter 11: Insidious***
Place: Syaoran's House, Northern Province of Tomoeda, Japan
Time: 7:48 PM
Date: 11/2 Sakura's Birthday...and Sakuya
Year: 2011
"Don't worry. Be happy."
—Bob Marley
Tomoyo and Sakura walked to Syaoran's house after the mall, while Wei had driven home. Sakura walked in first and all the lights were off.
"Tomoyo-Chan, why does Syaoran-Kun keep avoiding me, even when I'm about to tell him how I feel!"
"Sakura-Chan, keep it down..." Tomoyo tried to keep Sakura quiet, because everyone who was in the room could probably hear her.
"And how is it you feel?" Syaoran popped up behind the couch.
"H-HOE?" Sakura screamed and ran up the stairs as all her friends stood up.
"Surprise?" They said in unison. Tomoyo made the rest of them leave other than she and Eriol, who waited in an awkward silence with Wei downstairs while Syaoran followed Sakura up the grand staircase of his mansion.
"Sakura-Chan? What was that about?" He asked.
"Look, you have no idea what's going on here. I found out about three weeks ago that my sister is back from the dead..." Sakura was about to continue, but Syaoran cut her off. "That's right, I meant to say something to you about that." Syaoran said. He was wearing a handsome tuxedo and so he fixed his tie to make what he was about to say more professional.
"Your sister has been given a birthday wish, which is GUARANTEED to come true. She must have wished something around being human for a day, but based on me being half-ghost, I can read her thoughts. She's not allowed to reveal her identity, but once I realized that her thoughts were invading my head, I knew it was your sister." Syaoran said matter of factly.
"Is that all you care about? Once my paranormal case is cleared up, are you going to go make me stay with my grandmother?" Sakura asked. Syaoran opened his mouth to ask a question, "You have a grandma? Or family, for that matter?" "Oh yeah, you wouldn't know. Well yes, I have a grandmother but she lives far away and I don't want to move in with her. Guess what me and Tomoyo were going to ask you and Eriol tonight? If we could stay longer. Because the truth is, we really, REALLY like it here..." Sakura said tearing up.
'Then what's all this about her damn feelings?' Syaoran thought to himself. He looked back at Sakura.
"Well, you're obviously welcome to stay..." Syaoran said.
"R-Really?" Sakura looked up from her palms, where she had been letting her anime tears out.
"Yes, really." Sakura hugged Syaoran and whimpered a small thank you. He blushed big time.
'Sakura-Chan is so pretty...OH GOD! What am I thinking? This relationship is a business-FRIENDSHIP deal! Oh what am I saying, she is pretty!'
Place: Syaoran's Bathroom
Time: 9:43 PM
Date: 11/2, Sakura's Birthday
Year: 2011
***C A U G H T S T A R I N G***
"Syaoran-San, could I speak to you for a moment?" Eriol asked Syaoran politely, leaving the girls alone with Wei.
When Eriol closed the door, Syaoran had to wonder what was going on.
"Yeah?"
"Tomoyo-Chan just asked me if she could stay with me and my mom for a bit longer. I accepted. She told me the story of how they just recovered a rich family member wanting to adopt the two girls. I didn't like the sound of that." Eriol said sadly.
"Sakura-Chan explained a similar story. I thought, when she was going to move into this house I would stay my business-like self. But as we bonded our relationship was more of a business-friendship...and now I find that I want it to be..." Syaoran was interrupted by Eriol, "...More." Eriol finished for Syaoran.
"So you like your Daidouji-Chan as I like my Sakura-Chan?" Syaoran asked, a blush rising to his cheeks.
"I finally comprehend the horrible works that hell itself has created...Sakuya isn't going to ever be a human again. I'll never have a chance to confess to her. It's hard to get over, but when I'm with Tomoyo-Chan, it feels like gravy itself—" Syaoran interrupted Eriol, "You mean gravity." Eriol paused. "Oh yes! Well it feels like gravity itself is being defied." Eriol finished.
"I-I just noticed tonight how pretty Sakura-Chan was...her big emerald eyes, her cutely-cut auburn hair...even that little pout she does when she's scared..." Syaoran started to creak open the bathroom door to find the two girls drinking some hot chocolate at the bar counter, facing the opposite direction away from then. They 'clinged' glasses, giggled, and sipped, but then dribbled some on their chins' a bit because it was so hot.
The two boys laughed behind them. The girls turned around and blushed, which made the guys blush too.
"Tomoyo," Sakura whispered, "This is getting awkward..." Sakura finished. Tomoyo sweat dropped and nodded. Then Eriol whispered to Syaoran across the room, "I'm confessing to Tomoyo. I think you should to Sakura." Syaoran blushed and whispered back, "When the time is right."
All in all, Sakura ended having up a great birthday celebration.
However...
***C A U G H T S T A R I N G***
Place: Syaoran's House
Date: 11/11
Year: 2011
Time: 11:10 PM
"Syaoran-Kun~ It's almost 11:11 at 11/11/11! We have to get towards the clock!"
"Why? It's just a certain time."
"In America, whenever something like this happens, we must make a wish!"
Click. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Syaoran's house alarm went off. Sakura and Wei stayed upstairs, Wei with his little ray-gun thing that got ghosts away. Syaoran ran downstairs and turned the alarm off. He turned around and it set off again.
"Must be a battery shortage." But when he checked the batteries were full.
"Sakuya, are you here?" Syaoran yelled. He knew if the entity did not answer than it must be something else...sent from Sonomi to break down Sakura or something. Sonomi probably knew Sakura was an angel, and because angels had the "Tenshi Majikku" power, of course Sonomi would want that on her team.
But, he would know better than anyone about Sonomi's power.
***C A U G H T S T A R I N G***
***Syaoran's Flash Back***
Place: Tomoeda, Japan- King Penguin Park
Time: 3:48 PM
Date: 4/3
Year: 2004
An eight year old Li Syaoran swung on a blue swing in King Penguin Park. He sat alone. He had no family, other than Wei, his assistant whom he had been left by from his mother.
He could only remember that he had had a family...
A mother named Li Yelan...
A father named Li Kuron...
Four sisters named Li Sheifa, Li Fuutie, Li Fanren, and Li Fenmei...
But someone had murdered them all in attempt to steal their money.
They were one of the richest clans in all of Japan—which was a big land to Syaoran.
He had been on his way home from school, but had always wanted to come to the local park. It had been known as 'King Penguin' park because it had a large penguin slide with a crown in the center. It actually had another name, but the children never found themselves remembering it.
"No family...I'm alone...I have no friends other than Eriol-Kun." Syaoran whined to himself. A lady with short brown hair and confused red-amethyst eyes walked up to him.
"Boy-Chan, why are you all alone here? You never know who could be out here!" The woman said.
"I don't have anyone to come with. I'm alone." Syaoran said.
"Oh, so are you sad about this?" She asked.
"Yes ma'am." He replied quietly.
"I'm Nanami Sonomi. Healer of pain. Can I get you an ice cream, Syaoran-Chan?"
"How did you know my name, Sonomi-Sama...?" Syaoran asked.
"Oh...well I'm going to get right down to it." She put her hand on Syaoran's shoulder and an agonizing pain went all over his body.
"Agh! What did you do to me?" He asked. All of a sudden, strange thoughts covered his mind. He felt like he hated...everything.
Days later, Eriol and Wei noticed something was wrong and then of course acted directly on the problem. They performed and exorcism and Syaoran was cursed to a half-ghost being...somewhat phantom.
***C A U G H T S T A R I N G***
Place: Syaoran's House
Time: 11:11 PM
Date: 11/11
Year: 2011
Sakura led Wei a few doors down to the room they had been in to get her phone so she could video tape what was happening. Then a thought popped in her head...what happened to that box that was responsible for all of this?
She and Wei managed to the bedroom where she and Syaoran's beds were, and then saw a man with charcoal hair and silver eyes in her room. She screamed, picked up the box and ran for her life.
"Syaoran-Kun, there's a man in our bedroom!" She said. Wei was in protection stance over Sakura and then Syaoran came up and looked in the room. The figure was gone and the alarm was off. But then the alarm went on again. Syaoran ran downstairs to find the grand entrance open.
"This box feels heavier than when I first got it..." Sakura trailed off.
Eep! I finished this at like 1:00 AM and it freaked me out just typing it! Haha, at day I love horror but at night it's just scary! Well, have a happy Thanksgiving! I'll make that the next chapter!
-Shii(: