Despite all her best efforts to save her oldest twin daughter, Miki Hiiragi felt like a complete and utter failure as a mother and as a woman. She always remembered the words of her late father-in-law, Taichi Hiiragi, and his views on the female gender. She never bought into feminism or the belief that women were truly anything special or even sacred beings, but her father-in-law and husband in Tadao made her feel like a superhero, especially when she first became a mother with Inori as her first child. Now one of her daughter's was resting in a graveyard, another was living a destructive life of drugs and prostitution, and now her youngest and purest was missing and presumed kidnapped. She couldn't help but feel that she was making her late father-in-law roll in his grave. Her entire world was falling apart before her.
As Miki sat at her still rickety kitchen table from Kagami's ax attack, she kept her face nestled in her open palms. While she sulked and pouted alone at the table, she felt the nurturing presence of an arm simply place a mug of steaming tea in front of her. She looked up and saw her husband take a seat next to her, also with a steaming mug of his own.
"You should try and drink something, dear." Tadao said softly. "I know you're scared out of your mind and so am I but we have to have faith. It's all we've got anymore."
Miki nodded slightly and took the beverage. She blew lightly on it once and took a small sip, allowing the strong liquid to relax her burning and emotionally distraught senses. "I'm sorry, Tadao."
"Sorry about what?" He replied as he placed his mug on the table and stared at his sniffling wife with concerned eyes.
"I'm sorry that I...failed our children." Miki replied and quickly took another tear away from her eyes. "All I ever wanted was to be a great mother and raise our daughters the way that your father would've wanted. Now look at us. We've lost Matsuri to a horrible accident, we've lost Kagami to a putrid and criminal existence, and now our little Tsukasa has been kidnapped. Your father must be cursing my name from the other side right now."
Tadao quickly connected his hands with his wife's and held them close. "I don't want to hear such words from you again, Miki. You are an incredible woman that I thank the gods for everyday, and so do your children. What we have facing us is a momentous test of faith and in my opinion, a test to show how truly remarkable you and our children truly are. We're going to pull out of this, honey."
Miki sniffed again and curled her soft and delicate fingers around her husbands more calloused digits. "But...Tsukasa..."
"We still don't know anything, Miki. Tsukasa is only missing and she will remain a missing person until we're given evidence to the contrary. Until then, she is only a missing person. Nothing more and nothing less." Tadao reassured his wife while also trying in vain to do the same for himself in the process. "We don't give Tsukasa enough credit. She's a lot stronger than a lot of us believe because she's been hanging around Kagami for so long. I'd be willing to bet you that she took matters into her own hands and went to find Kagami herself and try to convince her to go to rehab. Remember at breakfast the day she disappeared? She told us that Kagami was texting her and that she wanted help to get clean."
Miki tried her best to crystalize this theory as a fact in her mind but she still couldn't help but ask even more questions that made her more edgy. "But...but if that's the case...how long could it take to convince Kagami to go to rehab? Tsukasa never called, texted, anything. She just said that she was going to Konata-chan's house and then..."
The Hiiragi housewife withdrew her hands from Tadao's loving caress and she abruptly shielded her face. As her weeping once again started, Tadao scooted his chair closer to his wife and hugged her close as she cried. He now found himself playing the role of the comforter for the one who used to be the one who truly nurtured the family. As he hugged his wife close, they were oblivious to the fact that their last and oldest daughter was standing in the hallway nearby and overheard everything they said.
Inori felt her heart pound and endless tidal waves of guilt consumed her soul. She was the last one in the family to see Tsukasa before she disappeared and she felt completely responsible for it. It was she who allowed Tsukasa to undertake such a risky mission and she threw all of her support behind it without informing her parents where she was going. Inori still didn't tell her parents this and for the usual reasons including the fear of getting into trouble. She also didn't know of any good it would do. It wouldn't help find Tsukasa any faster or get to the bottom of her disappearance. Still, the guilt was endless and she needed to liberate herself from it no matter what the risk was of the impending consequences.
She slowly entered the room and made her presence known to her parents and Miki made quick work of erasing her tears as Inori entered the kitchen. Before any of her parents could greet her, Inori beat them to it. "Mom...dad...I have something I need...to tell you..."
Because of the tone used by their oldest daughter, Miki and Tadao exchanged quick concerned glances with each other and faced Inori again. Miki cleared her throat and said, "Okay, what is it, sweetheart?"
"It's...it's about...Tsukasa." She whispered, making her parents lean in closer. "I know where she went. She went to the Aku District the other day to try and find Kagami."
"How do you know about this?" Tadao suddenly expressed, increasing the fear in Inori.
Despite her fear, she did her best to push forward. "Kagami...she was texting Tsukasa. She said she wanted to get clean just like Tsukasa told us at breakfast. She told you she was visiting that Izumi girl...but she went to talk to Kagami. I knew. I wished her luck. I'm so sorry..."
Now it was Inori's turn to shield her face from her parents and begin weeping. Her parents were so blindsided by this revelation that they didn't know how to react initially. Within seconds they felt everything from anger, to rage, to devastation, to genuine empathy. For now, empathy became the dominating emotion and Miki's maternal side glowed for Inori's sake. She scooted over to Inori and hugged her crying daughter while Tadao remained reserved.
He still didn't know how to react in light of his oldest daughter's confession. She allowed Tsukasa to disobey their rule to not speak to or even acknowledge Kagami for all that she was doing to the family and now Tsukasa was missing as a result. Still, he could hear and see genuine regret and sincerity in Inori's words and emotions. He too joined his wife in comforting Inori as she continued to weep but he still needed to vocalize his fatherly observation on this matter.
"You should've told us earlier, Inori. Did Tsukasa say exactly where she was going?" Tadao asked with a sigh.
Inori shook her head. "No...but I...I think it was...somewhere public..."
Tadao scratched his head. "If it was in public and she was abducted, I would've assumed there would've been witnesses who would've called the police. This still doesn't make any sense."
Tadao was plenty disappointed in Inori and her decision to withhold potentially valuable information from them but at the same time was happy that she decided to come clean about it. He was able to remain calm and knew that yelling and scolding Inori would make this already turbulent situation even worse and most of all it wouldn't help find Tsukasa any quicker. Tadao had no choice but to keep his own faith alive and believe that Tsukasa was safe and secure somewhere. She just had to be in his mind. Almost two days had passed since she first went missing and the police had no leads, which could be seen as a good thing. If she was kidnapped, no one had come forth with a ransom demand and if worst case scenario she was murdered, her body wasn't found so she still had to be alive somewhere. However, none of them could obviously comprehend the fact that where Tsukasa was at the current moment was a place so horrid and the treatment she was receiving was making her literally scream and pray for death to end it all.
Kagami Hiiragi looked at herself in a dirty and cloudy mirror of a dingy motel room. Her once beautiful and majestic appearance was now riddled with bruises and gashes from Ryuji's violent assault on her body last night. Black and blue marks covered her entire torso, she had a black right eye, a fattened lip, and a swollen ear. Still, she had no idea why she was so horrendously ambushed the previous night. All she could comprehend was the fact that she allowed her nerves to get the better of her and she collapsed on stage. That was the only connection she could make that resulted in the justification that allowed Ryuji to beat her mercilessly.
During the beating, Kagami couldn't figure out why after initially whipping her with his belt why he held her down by her head with one hand while remorselessly punching her stomach with the other. Neither Ryuji nor his cousin spoke to Kagami the rest of the night and the battered twin-tailed girl lost consciousness in the supply closet where she was beaten. She woke up there the next morning and realized no one came to help her once. She awoke in the same position she passed out in and when she encountered Miyakawa again, she forced Kagami back out into the streets to meet with clients all day.
With her latest customer satisfied and watching TV outside in the room, Kagami remained in the bathroom with the door closed and locked. Reality was back within her and she felt endlessly repulsed by what she had done with this man. She stayed close to the toilet for fear of her stomach rejecting the contents within it and she curled into the bathtub and pulled the tattered curtain in front of her. Nestled in her protective ball of her legs and arms, Kagami rocked back and forth in the moldy and smelly tub and cried. The only thing that was on her mind was how she could possibly escape this horrid life she had created for herself. Still, every possible scenario that would result in her escaping only ended in either her death or the deaths of the ones she cared about.
What made her situation worse was not only the withdrawal, but she was beginning to remember certain things as a result of it. When she was unconscious in the supply closet of Teaser's, she started to hear voices and screams. She could hear her own violent screeches in addition to a scream that belonged to a familiar voice. Kagami couldn't be certain but as she sat and rocked herself in the putrid bathtub, she could swear that she could hear Miyuki Takara's screaming voice crying for her to stop doing something in her mind. What was it though? Whatever Miyuki was screaming about, Kagami could tell that she was scared beyond all comprehension when she was spouting it. Still, the twin-tailed girl couldn't think of anything that would scare a girl like Miyuki that badly...or worse yet...what could scare a girl like her.
As Kagami continued to bathe in her own squalor of the ramshackle motel, she felt her cell phone vibrate in her pocket and she instinctively cringed, gulped, and shivered. She knew that all her friends stopped texting and calling her completely after the failed intervention. Even Tsukasa stopped communicating with her, as her last text message to her clearly illustrated. There was only one person left in this world who still gave Kagami the time of day and it ironically was the person Kagami was scared of the most.
Still, she knew she had no choice but to open her phone and read the text message from Yuka Miyakawa. When Kagami opened the phone, she read it and gulped again.
Come back to Teasers now! It's time to redeem your dance.
Kagami took a deep breath but couldn't help but notice something was different about this setup. All the dances arranged by Miyakawa were usually held later at night and it was only five o'clock in the afternoon. This was definitely out of the ordinary and Kagami believed that there was more to this than met the eye, which was what petrified her even more. She now knew that Yuka Miyakawa was nothing short of a devil and always had an agenda for her body.
Regardless, Kagami still feared the consequences of disobeying Miyakawa since she already faced the punishment for charging her before to get her cell phone back. Another thing Kagami couldn't understand as she packed her things and readied to leave the motel room was what happened after Miyakawa gave her cell phone back to her. Kagami tried calling and texting Tsukasa again but was only met with a dead battery.
The twin-tailed girl wiped the smudged makeup off her eyes and face caused by her tears, threw her makeup in her purse, and slowly opened the bathroom door. It creaked and rattled as a result of the rusted doornails and hinges, making Kagami cringe and fear a terrifying and potentially deadly encounter with her client on her way out. She kept her money in her boot as she tiptoed out and saw the TV on a sitcom rerun and she glanced at the old bed when she rounded the corner.
To her relief, her customer was sleeping soundly under the covers and snoring loudly. Kagami wanted to gag at the sight of him. He was obese, smelled rotten, and was always sweating, even when he was sitting and breathing. It was a ghastly memory sealed in Kagami's mind as she remembered being smothered by his sweating body and she struggled for air while he did his deed on her. Kagami was able to successfully exit the motel room without waking the snoring man and wasted no time in putting more distance between herself and the rickety, dingy, decrepit structure. With each step she took, another tear fell from her eyes as she gritted her teeth and her face burned red with rising anger and anguish over the perverted deeds she was still doing. She knew she was reaching her breaking point and still considered taking a knife and driving it into Miyakawa's body until she died. Still, her old self was still beginning to glow again and she knew she would never have it in her to kill another person.
Kagami kept walking and was solicited for prostitution twice while making her way back to Teasers and declined both of them harshly, rearing her old tsundere side upon meeting the lowest and most perverted forms of life in the Aku District. Her temper was returning to normalcy when encountered by such men but knew she would unfortunately cower at the feet of Yuka Miyakawa and her cousin, Ryuji Katsumoto. What hurt her the most though was still the very thought of this becoming her life until the day she died and even then Miyakawa would still probably kill Kagami's family for fun if nothing else. As a result, Kagami believed that she had to keep enduring everything Miyakawa forced her into until she could think of something else.
When Kagami arrived back at the sordid strip club, she used the back entrance as she was instructed to do from now on. She used a key that was given to her by Miyakawa and Kagami wiped more tears away as she turned the key and opened the door. No sooner did she step in, a muscular pair of hands grabbed her by her top and reeled her in, making her shriek in fright and she yelped when she was thrown to the hard and dusty wooden floor. She looked up quickly and saw Ryuji slam the door shut and she was once again imprisoned in the evil building.
"Where's the money?" Ryuji snapped at her.
"It's...it's right here..." Kagami whimpered and she quickly removed her black leather high-heel boot and allowed the large sum of cash to fall out and it scattered all around her.
"Pick it up and give it to me." He added callously with a glare.
Kagami once again complied meekly and started crawling across the dirty floor on her hands and knees collecting the money as Ryuji stood above her. As his own source of entertainment, Ryuji began tapping his foot on the ground impatiently, prompting Kagami to start panicking and she feared another beating was approaching if she didn't hurry up. Kagami quickly pulled in all the money and held the messy wad up with trembling hands.
Ryuji snatched it maliciously, making Kagami whimper again and Ryuji started counting all the bills as the twin-tailed Hiiragi pulled herself to her feet. She rubbed her arms and made several weak sounds that resembled a scared puppy, catching Ryuji's attention.
He looked up with a glare and snapped, "Problem?"
Kagami shook her head and couldn't bear to make eye contact with the truculent woman beater. Still, she had a simple request for him. "No...not really. I was just...I was just wondering what my cut would be. It is my body being trashed here after all. I want...I want my commission."
Ryuji huffed. "You get your cut when I say you get your cut. You haven't worked hard enough for it yet."
Feeling uncomfortable being near him, Kagami slowly looked around. The club was quiet. Too quiet. It was always open for the most part and even though the most activity came later at night, there were always a few sleazeballs that came in off the street during the day. "Yu...Yuka said I...I had to...dance..." Kagami tried to hold her tears in upon saying it.
Ryuji nodded. "Yep, that's right. Tonight...you'll be dancing for one customer since we closed the club just for you tonight so don't worry. You won't have to duck any bottles or shot glasses tonight. Now get undressed."
Still looking away in shame, Kagami slowly nodded with her eyes full of water. She started to walk away with the intent of going to the private dressing rooms until Ryuji's voice stopped her.
"Hold it. Where do you think you're going?" He snarled.
Kagami turned her head and looked at him with frightened confusion. "I was...I was going to...change."
"I have your outfit right here." Ryuji countered and pointed to a chair nearby that only held a very short leather skirt that barely covered the groin and a black lacy bra. Her boots would also complete the look but Kagami still didn't understand what his innuendo was.
She suddenly put it together and she blushed heavily and started crying. "You mean...in front...of you...?"
"It's nothing I haven't seen already, Kagami. Now take off your clothes!" He thundered, making Kagami shiver and her knees knocked while she hugged her shoulders.
She sniffed and uttered, "Why...are you doing this...to me...?"
"You're a commodity, Kagami. A piece of merchandise. An object with a price tag. You mean nothing more and nothing less to us." Ryuji retorted harshly as he tucked Kagami's money away in his jacket pocket and folded his arms across his chest. "If I have to ask you one more time, I will rip it all off myself and I guarantee you that will result in broken bones."
Kagami's eyes watered with fear. "But...but I'm sleeping with these disgusting animals. And I just...I just want to buy something special...for Konata. Her birthday is coming up soon."
Ryuji started laughing at Kagami, making her tremble with more fear. "Yeah, that's a good one, Kagami. I'm sure Konata would just love to get a birthday present from you of all people, especially when she finds out you fucked some guy for the money to get it."
Kagami gulped and finally complied. Despite the fact that she was crying in front of this young man whom she thought she could trust at one point, his eyes replied with no empathy or emotion for the distraught girl. He simply stood and watched the crying girl with his narrowed hawk-like eyes as Kagami dropped her clothes in front of him. To keep the mental torture alive, he made her stand before him for awhile as she started to beg for the dancing wardrobe to cover herself. He finally threw the items at her and Kagami struggled to pull the tight clothes over her body until she was wrapped up like a itemized artifact again, making Kagami drip more tears.
"Hey Ryuji! The guest of honor is ready for the show so bring on the shrine maiden!" Miyakawa's voice called from behind the curtains where the main room was.
Ryuji turned back to the still weeping Kagami. "Well...get going."
Still holding herself around her chest to keep herself covered, Kagami slowly walked towards the curtains as her boots echoed across the wooden floor. Kagami parted the curtains and kept her face cast downward at the glistening hardwood floor shining in the multicolored lights above her. She finally stood next to the shining silver pole and held it, still unable to look at her customer.
"I'm...I'm ready..." Kagami whispered in a voice that portrayed nothing but utter defeat.
"Glad to hear it!" Miyakawa's happy ear-piercing voice echoed and Kagami looked up.
The twin-tailed girl was presented with a setup that blindsided her completely. She saw Miyakawa sitting in the lap of the customer, but what surprised Kagami was when she saw a burlap bag covering the customer's head. The customer's hands were also bound to the chair's arms with duct tape and what caught Kagami's attention the most was the fact that this person who supposedly paid good money to see her strip was very short. Shorter than Miyakawa and it appeared to be a female customer. A large TV also sat on a stand with a glowing fuzzy screen, further adding confusion to this setting.
"Yu...Yuka...?" Kagami squeaked. "What's going on?"
"Wanna see a magic trick, Kagami?" Miyakawa asked and placed her hand on the top of the burlap bag covering the bounded customer's head. "I'm going to make a familiar face magically reappear. Ta-da!"
Miyakawa ripped the bag off and Kagami's world exploded and burned to ashes forever when she saw who was in the chair. The one person she could identify with the most more than anyone else in this world. The one she used to confide in when her emotional troubles were beginning before she graduated high school. The person who was the yin to her yang. The person who's love and innocence charmed and made everyone envy her, even Kagami.
Tsukasa Hiiragi.
The sole being who was able to claim the entire definition to words like innocence and purity was sitting before Kagami but she was no more. Her face was colored white with red swirling patterns on her cheeks and her whimpers and cries were muffled by the red gag ball fastened around her mouth. Her eyes were two endless waterfalls of tears flowing over the pitch-black eye shadow and when she saw Miyakawa sitting in her lap, Tsukasa struggled and panicked even more. This devil was the reason why Tsukasa was bound and gagged in the chair. An ominous white bandage was wrapped around Tsukasa's left arm with a patch of dried blood staining the center of it, indicating Tsukasa had an old and even infected wound.
The mental torture Tsukasa was forced to endure for two days and two nights was nothing short of animalistic. When Tsukasa naively walked into Teasers, Miyakawa jumped her and already had a rag soaked in chloroform in her pocket that she used to knock her unconscious. When Tsukasa awoke, she was bound and gagged in the same chair where the gangbanger was murdered by Miyakawa when she poured boiling water down his throat. She had the burlap bag over her head and she remained alone and locked in the room of darkness for hours. When she was first visited by Miyakawa, the torture began. She did everything from playing death metal on a powerful CD player for hours, to vrooming a chainsaw in her face. Miyakawa was even able to bring another gangbanger she lured in with her promiscuity and went to work on him with the same chainsaw in front of Tsukasa, hence why she reappeared to Kagami drenched in blood the other night. Miyakawa also painted Tsukasa's face to only screw with her mind but to Tsukasa, the worst was when Miyakawa forced her to watch a certain movie for hours and hours nonstop.
"Tsukasa!" Kagami cried at the top of her lungs and was about to dash for her sister but Ryuji was there behind her and latched onto her long hair. Kagami still struggled until she knew she was trapped and feeling sick to her stomach, she fell to her knees and cried loudly and uncontrollably as Tsukasa also cried in her chair.
"Isn't this nice? Sisters reunited for the first time in awhile after one falls from grace? How lovely." Miyakawa cackled and turned her face back to the petrified Tsukasa. She cuddled her closely as the youngest Hiiragi girl kept balling and screaming through the rubber ball over her mouth for her sister to rescue her while Miyakawa added, "You were right, Kagami. You do have the cutest little fraternal twin sister in the world. It makes me want to eat her up..."
Tsukasa started screaming again as Miyakawa opened her mouth and dragged her tongue across the frightened girl's cheek. Kagami's rage and fear boiled within her and she wanted to slaughter Miyakawa for not only the act on Tsukasa, but for everything else she had done. "What did you do to her, Yuka?!" Kagami shouted as more tears fell from her eyes.
"Nothing...we were just bonding over the past two days and nights." Miyakawa replied with a smirk as she played with Tsukasa's hair. "We just loved our little sleepovers, didn't we, Tsukasa? Now you know everything you're sister has been doing...like me for example."
Kagami felt her breath go shallow as Ryuji still held her. "What the fuck are you talking about, Yuka?!"
Miyakawa smiled and reached into her bosom and quickly pulled out a TV remote control. "We were having a forty-eight hour sleepover, Kagami, and we bonded over some really good movies. This one was our favorite."
She pressed the PLAY button on the remote and the TV set on the stand next to them projected the DVD disc inside it. When Kagami saw it, she was ready to vomit and started crying harder. It was a massive sex tape of her first time in the downstairs prostitution dungeon the day Miyakawa slipped Kagami ecstasy. Kagami watched in horror as the screen projected the video of her on the mattress with Miyakawa on top of her and a man having sex with Kagami. Nearly every encounter Kagami had in the basement of Teasers was filmed by Miyakawa secretly as the depraved psychopath knew she would one day need it as a tool against Kagami. The film suddenly cut to another scene of her being used by four different men at once and it went on and on to different customers on different days. It would eventually finish with Kagami and Miyakawa stripping together while singing the song "Daughters of Darkness" by Halestorm.
"You should've seen her, Kagami. She was so entertained by your performances that she simply couldn't turn away. It might have had something to do with the fact that I said I would slit her eyelids off if she did but that's besides the point." Miyakawa laughed as she kept playing with Tsukasa's hair. "Regardless, she just kept watching it over and over for eighteen hours straight. I made sure of it."
Knowing that Miyakawa forced Tsukasa to watch this tape prompted her to cover her mouth as the contents of her stomach boiled and churned. Now she couldn't even look her little sister in the eyes. Miyakawa turned the TV off and stood up from Tsukasa's lap and Kagami finally forced herself to look up though she felt even dirtier than before.
Desperate to take the focus away from her scandalous tape, Kagami eyed the bloody wound on Tsukasa's arm. "What is that on her arm?!"
Miyakawa kneeled down to Tsukasa's arm and began to untie it with a smile. She took the bandage away and Kagami once again couldn't contain herself. Miyakawa tattooed an image of a misshaped heart with a banner wrapped around it that said "Kagami's whore." The tattoo was real with ink and needles and it looked horribly infected. It was clear Miyakawa just callously took a tattoo gun and dragged the needle through Tsukasa's skin while injecting the ink. The pain and fear Tsukasa must've felt was incomprehensible to Kagami.
"Well, what do you think, Kagami?! It was my first time using one of those tattoo guns so it might look a little fucked up but in my defense, I did tell her I would kill her if she wouldn't hold still but it only made her cry louder!" Miyakawa proclaimed happily and with zero regret in her voice.
As Kagami cried while remaining restrained by Ryuji, the broken twin-tailed girl whispered, "...Why...? Why would you...do that...to my baby sister...? Tsukasa...she never hurt anyone or anything in her life. Why, Yuka...why?"
Miyakawa's only response was to laugh at the crying Hiiragi twins. "Hey, you're the one that kept bitching that you wanted to see your sister again...so I brought her over to you. I just took the opportunity to get to know Tsukasa on a more...intimate level."
Kagami's heart bounced into her throat. "Yuka...you didn't..."
"What? Fuck your sister? Or let someone else deflower her? No, I didn't. She's still a good girl."
Kagami breathed a blunt sight of relief.
"But as with anything in life, Kagami, there's a catch. I don't think Tsukasa has ever had the pleasure of witnessing a striptease before...so that's where you come in, my dear." She added with a sinister smile. "You're going to dance and strip for your little sister tonight. You two maybe twins...but I think tonight we should make a real comparison between you two."
Kagami quickly shook her head. "Eat shit and die, Yuka! You're a sick, twisted, horrible creature! You devil! You cunt! You evil, conniving, disgusting, sordid monster!"
As Kagami vocalized her emotionally angry rant, Miyakawa's grin only grew wider and wider with each word. When Kagami finished and panted for breath, Miyakawa's response was, "Oh stop it, Kagami. You're going to make me blush. But hey, if you don't want to dance that's fine with me...although I will be forced to do something."
Miyakawa reached behind her back and withdrew her infamous serpent dagger and walked behind Tsukasa and grabbed her hair. Tsukasa started screaming and thrashing in her chair again as Miyakawa brandished the blade for Kagami to see.
The twin-tailed Hiiragi joined her sister in a panic attack but Ryuji still held her down and looked on while Kagami screamed, "No, Yuka, don't do it! Don't kill my sister! Don't hurt Tsukasa! Let her go! She has no part in this!"
"Oh my precious little Kagami...don't worry...I won't kill your sister. But if you don't dance..." Miyakawa started softly but suddenly pulled Tsukasa's hair up and put the blade at the base of her follicles just above her forehead and shrieked, "I'm going to scalp her!"
"No don't do it!" Kagami screamed. "Okay, okay! Okay...I'll do it...I'll dance."
"That's my girl. I expect a real dance this time or you'll have to buy your sister a new hat to stitch onto her head." Miyakawa laughed and sheathed her knife. She left the crying Tsukasa in her chair and waltzed to the bar to get the music ready. She called from the bar, "Since you fucked up the last dance...I told you that you would have to do it all over again and to my favorite song of all time and it just happens to be a song from my favorite movie of all time so I hope you make me proud! Your sister's scalp depends on it!"
Ryuji abruptly released Kagami and stepped off stage. As Kagami slowly climbed to her feet and felt her makeup running down her face again from her tears, she looked at her bounded sister. The two were together again and this was the hand they were dealt. Kagami never felt as horrible and guilty as she did now. She knew that she was responsible for this now as the drugs continued to flow out of her system though the withdrawal was still terrible. Kagami allowed these two devils not only into her life, but her family's lives as well. The two siblings cried for each other though Kagami could still see nothing but utter disgust in addition to horror in Tsukasa's eyes.
Miyakawa watched Kagami slowly climb off the stage and approach Tsukasa with open arms. Tsukasa was afraid of her own sister's embrace but still longed for it and she allowed Kagami to remove the red ball over her mouth and she wailed her sister's name immediately.
"Kagami! Get me out of here! I want to go home!" Tsukasa screamed as she cried.
Kagami sniffed with her runny face and nodded. "I know, sis, I know. I'm so sorry..."
Miyakawa watched with drooling eyes and she held her smile firm. Even though she had completely destroyed Kagami by doing this to Tsukasa, she giggled and put the final phase of her plan into effect. "I'll tell you what, Kagami. If you do this dance and I enjoy it...I'll let you both go. You're no longer my property. You'll be free again and you and little Tsukasa can walk out of here and never come back."
Kagami pulled her sister closer. "You're lying to me, Yuka. I now know the kind of girl you are. You're never going to leave us alone. You're always going to haunt us and terrorize us..."
Miyakawa shook her head. "You're wrong, Kagami. Do this dance...and you'll be free."
Kagami pulled back and looked at Miyakawa at the bar. "Do you...do you mean that?"
"I have a sister, too." Miyakawa used her sister's existence to further her own agenda. "I know how powerful of a force sisterhood is. But you still owe me one dance. Now get on with it."
Kagami started crying as she slowly backed up on stage. She placed her back against the pole and raised her arms above her head and rested them against it. Still dripping tears from her eyes, the waterworks increased when the eerie thumping of the song began. It was a slow and haunting introduction and Kagami felt her body becoming synched with the song and knew the worst was about to come. Seconds before the meat of the song began, Kagami whispered one more thing.
"Tsukasa...please forgive me..."
Rob Zombie's song "Pussy Liquor" from the film "House of 1000 Corpses" tore through the club and Kagami's hips began swinging back and forth to the song and she looked away from Tsukasa as Miyakawa took a seat next to Tsukasa. Tsukasa closed her eyes and looked away as she cried but Miyakawa caught on. She brutally back-handed Tsukasa, making her yelp in pain.
"Hey, your sister is trying to entertain us so quit being such a stuckup bitch about it." Miyakawa snapped. "And you're in a hot club with plenty of lights, dancing, and music for fuck's sake. Try to live a little! Christ I've had more fun on my period than I've had with you since you came here!"
Tsukasa barely heard Miyakawa as she reluctantly watch Kagami swing from the pole for her and it only made her cry even more when Kagami reached behind her back and unhooked the black bra as she sniffed. She dropped the article and continued her scarring and degrading show that would permanently drive a wedge between the Hiiragi twins until the song ended. Kagami's performance in the eyes of Yuka Miyakawa was flawless and to everyone's surprise, Miyakawa remained true to her word. She let Kagami take Tsukasa home. Better yet, Miyakawa warned Kagami to never come back to Teasers. In the back of Kagami's mind, she knew this had to be a ploy of some kind but for now all she wanted to do was get her scarred sister home.
When the Hiiragi twins disappeared down the street, Miyakawa and her cousin remained at Teasers to continue their drug lives in sordid pleasure. As Ryuji exhaled a puff of crack cocaine smoke, he turned to his cousin, who was reveling in all that she had done.
"You sure you want to let Kagami go like that? What if she calls the cops?" Ryuji asked.
"She won't. She knows I know everything about her and she knows what'll happen to the ones she loves if she does." Miyakawa replied. "Besides...I'm tired of her. She's a used model now with way too many miles on her and I think it's about time I traded up for a new make and model."
Ryuji glanced away. "So you're just gonna cut her loose just like that?"
"Well that depends. Did you get rid of that repugnant growth inside her uterus?" Miyakawa asked still with no remorse.
Ryuji shrugged. "I beat her ass pretty well so I guess we'll see."
Miyakawa huffed. "Either way...I have a hard time believing Kagami's family will take her back now after she made it so easy to take her sister from her like that. She's now going to waste away in the streets and maybe I'll take her back. Still...I smelled something...bad...around Kagami when she was dancing. I blame you and your little girly arms."
Ryuji glared at her and rolled his eyes. "So if you kick Kagami to the curb, who will be her replacement? Who do you want me to romanticize and get addicted to the drugs next?"
His cousin smiled. "I already have a girl in mind. I think Kagami's little sister will do just fine."
"Good luck with that one. You think bringing her chocolates, flowers, and crack will make her forget all about what you did to her and she'll join us?" Ryuji huffed.
Miyakawa smiled once again and started laughing. She reached into her pocket and slowly retracted a syringe with a cap covering the needle. The depraved girl stared at it with a smile and sighed happily.
"Oh poor little Ryuji. You still underestimate me. Just like Kagami always did. Tsukasa Hiiragi is already a part of us. She just doesn't know it yet."
(Well, that's it for now until someone turns up any further chapters. If anyone's got questions as to how the story continues, go talk to bloodscorpion4ever; I only vaguely recall what happened when I read all subsequent chapters the one time before his first account was hacked. Will be back later to put Blood's other works back up.)