Chapter 6-Mother!

Two days later

"Kyou-kun...?" I walked into his kitchen to see him cooking something at the stove. He looked over his left shoulder at me.

"Yeah, what is it, Mi-Chan?" He turned around with 2 plates in hand. He placed them on the kitchen table, and sat down while pulling out the chair next to him. I sat down in the chair and grabbed the fork, but I didn't take a bite.

He noticed.

"Mishi?" He brushed my bangs out of my face, "Mishi, you o.k.?"

I nodded at him. "Yes, I'm o.k., but I want to go home. Just to make sure Mother and Nita are o.k." I looked at my eggs and pushed some around with the fork. "It's been 2 days. I'm worried about them, Kyou."

He hugged me quickly and stood up. "I know you are. I was gonna ask you after we got done with breakfast if you wanted to go see them." He grabbed his plate and put it on the counter. "You finish eating while I get dressed. We'll go to your house and make sure everything's o.k., along with getting your clothes and things." He smiled at me before turning the corner and walking out of the room.

After taking a few bites, what he said finally clicked inside my head. "What?" I screamed as I stood up, and ran out the room. I flew past his bedroom, seeing him not in there, continued around the hall corner.

Bam! My face, along with the rest of my body, hit wet, naked skin. Falling backwards, I felt my face turn red and the world around me blacken out. Kyou reached out to catch me as he hollered at me.

"Mishi! Hey, what the-? Are you o.k.?"

'Where am I?' I felt myself moving, but I wasn't walking. 'Am I...being carried?'

I slowly opened my eyes to see myself on Kyou's back while he walked through town. The sun was high, almost directly above our heads. The snow looked fresh on the ground. Did it snow again? I turned my head to get a better idea of where we were.

"Ah," Kyou turned his head to look at me, "you're finally awake." He smiled widely at me. "I was starting to worry. You did hit your head pretty hard."

He stopped and let me slip of his back. As my feet touched the ground, he turned around, and gently kissed my forehead. Grabbing my hand, he turned around and started pulling me along as he walked.

I realized as we came around the corner, just where we were. I looked up ahead to see my house in view. A lump in my throat grew and I wasn't able to swallow it. My hands became sticky and tense as we neared my front door. I could feel sweat run down my cheek and flow the rest of the way down my neck.

Then, my face turned bright red as I suddenly remembered what had caused me to faint in the first place. I turned my attention quickly to the ground. Finding the dirt quite interesting.

We entered the main room that was connected to the front entrance way. Everything was trashed. Furniture was broken, vases shattered, walls busted. A complete and total wreck.

And blood. It was everywhere. On the walls, floor, windows. Splattered as if it was art work made by splattering red paint on canvas. But I shuttered for a different reason.

It was so quiet. Even for our house, normally there was some noises, some kind of sound. But there was nothing. Looking around, I realized that the blood actually made a trail down the hall way. Was this where my blood had gotten on Father?

Leaving Kyou to survey the damage in the main room, I followed the path of blood down the hallway. I passed my room, door still closed. 'Why is it so quiet?' I saw my parents' room at the end of the hall. I paused a second at Nita's door. I thought about opening it and asking her about the blood. I thought about making sure she was ok, about seeing if he had hurt her, too. But I sighed and kept walking forward.

The blood went underneath the door, not quiet as much though. It had lessened down to almost nothing but drips and smears. I grabbed the door knob and turned it, thinking of the last time I saw both of my parents. My father strangling my mother, when she had only tried to save me from him.

"Ahhhh!"

Kyou heard my scream of terror from the main room. He ran down the hall as he screamed out my name, "Mishi!" He came up to me, squatting down next to where I lay on the floor. Tears formed and were set free in my eyes as I stared into the shadowy room. He looked on towards where I was looking and he himself gasped as he shuttered. There on the floor of my parents' bedroom floor laid my mother's broken, bruised, beaten body with a sword through her chest. The blood was dry and crusted around the blade and the wound. Her eyes were glazed with emptiness, staring directly at me.

There was a loud thump from the other end of the hall. I quickly turned around, thinking it might be my father. But I saw nothing. Kyou also looked confused. I heard it again. Where was it coming from? And what, or who, was causing it?

I got up off the floor with Kyou's help. Slowly I walked down the hall. I stepped gently, so I'd be able to hear the noise again.

Thump. There! Quickly, I opened the door to my sister's room. She was in a corner of her room. Gags were shoved into her mouth, and her hands and feet were bound by some rope. Bruises covered her body along with tears in her clothes. I ran over to her and quickly tried to untie the ropes. She struggled against my hands, I told her everything was ok, that I was here now and that she was safe. But she couldn't hear me. There was a cloth around her head that covered ears.

She had been in the dark, in the silence, bound and gagged for days. And it was cause of me. I grabbed her by the arms and held her close. I tried to calm her down by rubbing her back with my left hand as I used my left to untie all of the cloth and ropes and gags.