~Night 1 : Denial~
"Kei, Slow down!" Rei yelled after her fiancee's friend, almost tripping on logs in the forest.
"Hurry, Rei!" Kei called behind him, running faster. He ran past a field of trees to see the place he was searching so hard to find.
Himuro Mansion.
The manor sat in ruins from the calamity being sealed with the Malice behind the gates. There are only two souls left there... Kirie Himuro, The Rope Shrine Maiden...
and Mafuyu Hinasaki, Kei and Yuu's best friend. Kei was in denial that Mafuyu was really 'spirited away' like Yuu told him. He thought they were just fooling with him, That Mafuyu didn't show up at work just to scare Kei, and Yuu kept telling him Mafuyu was gone to help Mafuyu trick him...
But its been 3 years. 3 years after Mafuyu 'disappeared', and Kei was going to find him. Kei never knew that Mafuyu wanted to stay with Kirie, he thought Kirie held him back, stopping him from escaping.
Kei knew he would save Mafuyu if his life depended on it.
"Dont worry, Mafuyu, I'm coming." Kei said as he opened the doors to the ruined Manor. Inside was collapsed, dusty and old.
Rei finally got to the door after Kei was already up the strangely perfectly fine steps and forced a door open. "Mafuyu?"
Kei called inside, hoping to hear his friend's voice call back to him. Kei felt like bursting to tears when only the wind whistled in response to his call. He closed the door behind him, signaling to Rei that he wanted to be alone.
Kei fell to his knees and burst into tears, covering his eyes. He looked up to see a young male in front of him.
"Huh?" Kei croaked softly, wiping his tears and standing up. The male was walking toward him.
The male had soft looking black hair that looked a lot like Yuu's, he wore a Kimono that was way too big for him.
The kimono was loose on his shoulders, and it was stained with red blood. He had a dark blue jacket on top of the Kimono.
He had brown sandals the clicked softly against the hard wood beneath him. Kei's heart pounded against his chest.
The young man passed by him and disappeared. "What the?" Kei said, looking beside him to see diary entries.
A pale hand grabbed them before Kei could even blink.
Kei looked up to see Mafuyu reading the papers, focusing hard. "Mafuyu?" Kei said, getting up. Mafuyu didn't flinch, or react in that matter. Kei reached up to touch Mafuyu's hand, when Mafuyu looked up and walked, stuffing the papers in his bag.
'W...What?' Kei thought, quickly standing up to follow Mafuyu. Kei followed Mafuyu out the door that Kei came in from, and saw Rei looking up with a man, her face pale. "Rei?" Kei whispered and saw Mafuyu snap a picture of the man, he disappeared.
Rei was pale as she kept looking at the ceiling, Mafuyu disappeared. Kei got up and looked up to be horrified by the site before his eyes.
-Flashback-
A young man, wearing a bloodied blue Kimono, was looking up, in front of him, was a woman. Her hair was brown as it reached her mid-back. Aoichi noticed the woman was wearing a pink traditional Kimono. "Mr. Aoichi Himuro?" The woman said as she bowed, her hair pulled back into a pony-tail. "Yes...What do you want from me?" Aoichi replied, his voice cold and dark.
"Please...You must stop this...Dont let yourself get killed so brutally so easily..." The woman replied. "..." Aoichi stared, and pointed to a tree. "Please...go sit...make yourself at home." Aoichi said, and the woman bowed and walked to the tree and sat down. Aoichi grabbed a rope and a knife and hid them in the overcoat of his kimono. The woman watched as he sat down beside her. "Tell me...would you be willing...to stop me?" Aoichi asked. "I dont know...I guess." The woman answered. "Wrong choice." Aoichi said, pulling out the rope and wrapped it around the woman's neck. The woman struggled.
She tried to pry the piece of rope off of her neck, but couldn't fight against Aoichi's tough grasp.
In the corner of the room, The Himuro Master watched at Aoichi killed the woman. He laughed when the woman dropped to the ground. "Excellent, Aoichi..." Aoichi crawled next to her and carved his name into her back. He picked her up and tied the rope to the tree, and hung the woman there. It looked at though she had hung herself. "Aoichi...Excellent work." The Himuro Master laughed, walking away. He knew he had nothing to worry about if Aoichi was so committed to do his job.
Aoichi looked behind him. "Yeah...just wait..." Aoichi growled, and followed The Himuro Master back into the house.
-End flashback-
Kei gasped as the scene stopped from his view, and he was back in the manor, looking at the ceiling. He looked beside him and freaked out. Rei was gone. He ran through the rope hallway to see the man in the bloodied Kimono again. "Where is she?"
Kei called out to the male. The young teen stared at Kei, and turned to walk away. "Your not getting away from me!" Kei called after him, running toward the man. When Kei reached out to grab a hold of the sleeve...
The man was gone, and in his place was a familiar man.
"Mafuyu?" Kei said, looking at the sad look on his best friend's face.
"Why did you follow me..." Mafuyu said, before disappearing.
"Mafuyu..." Kei said, falling to his knees.
He denied that Mafuyu ever disappeared for 3 years and got up again, continuing his journey to find his best friend.