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A warm light hits her in the face. With a groan, Sayuri flops an arm over her arms. That's when she takes a peek. It was daylight shining through her bedroom windows. She could barely recall how she got there or even how she manage to fall asleep last night. Her arm moves back to her side, closing her eyes again to see if she was still tired. When she opens them again, Lin's face is inches away from hers. His dark eyes stare into her own, making it very uncomfortable.
With a startled scream, she finds herself rolling off the bed. That's when a pair of arms catch her. Sayuri falls off the bed, taking whoever it was with her. Sayuri tries to regain her thoughts. A rustle of clothing, a curse that sounded like 'holy mother' made her realize who she took out.
"Father John! I am so sorry!" Sayuri wiggles away from the priest, "are you okay?"
"I'm fine," John rubs his head before taking a good look at her. Her color returned with wide grey eyes looking concern.
"How are you feeling?" John helps her up.
"I'm okay," Sayuri rubs the back of her head, "though I feel like I just had the best sleep in a long time."
"We had to give you a sleeping pill," Mai gets up from the other chair next to John's. The poor girl looks like she didn't sleep at all last night.
"Mai, you didn't-" Sayuri stops, "none of you had to."
"I was told you had a frightening experience last night, Miss Natsuma," Lin speaks.
The thoughts go back to the daydream she had yesterday evening. Goosebumps form across her skin, thinking about those eyes and how scared she was. A moment forms when the image of the eyes is replaced by the face of the samurai that stepped in the way of the monster attacking her.
"Sayuri," Lin had taking her head in his hands, touching his forehead to hers, "don't think about it."
"But-"
"Don't go back to that," Lin frowns.
"Ok..." Sayuri thinks about the others that were with her, "Sho! Sho? Where is Sho? Is he okay? Did anything happen to him?"
"He's fine," John puts a hand on her arm, "Mai calmed him down and assured him that his story wasn't what made you scared."
"Yeah," Mai nods, "but this morning, he came back saying that he doesn't feel bad and that the monster somehow got into your head last night but-"
"Kyo saved me," Sayuri finishes.
All three stare at her.
"I need to go see Sho," Sayuri walks out of the room. She ignores that the three are following her down the stairs. "Sho?" Sayuri walks into the living room.
She makes a face when she sees equipment in the corner, "what the hell?"
"Good morning," Ayako waves to her from the kitchen.
"Uh yeah," Sayuri points to the corner, "what is all of this?"
"What does it look like?" Naru appears from out of nowhere, causing Sayuri to jump. She falls back onto the couch. Monk sits up, staring at her with messy hair and sleepy eyes at the brunette in his lap.
"Hmm...good morning sunshine," he groggily greets her.
"Holy," She gets up, "all of you are here?"
"Everyone except Miss Hara," Naru sips on the coffee that Ayako had made, "I was contacted last night after you had your...incident."
Flashing grey eyes turn on Monk, "You called him?"
"Woah woah, don't yell at me!" Monk sits up, brushing hair out of his face, "you were one who dozed off and woke up screaming!"
Sayuri lets out a frustrated groan, "I can't believe it...I understand to worry but you brought your gear in here because I had some apparent nightmare-"
"Vision," Naru corrects her.
"Vision of a monster going to eat me!" She sits back down hanging her head, "why do you all care so much?"
"Because whether you like it or not, you're displaying signs that fall under what could only be paranormal phenonmenom."
"Oh so I'm a case, is that it Naru?" Sayuri looks back up, angry, "I'm one of your cases of the unexplained. Explain this one! How do you people like do something like this with a straight face and not use people with something that's make believe huh? Answer that one!"
Naru simply glanced at Lin and Monk, "Restrain her, please, before she breaks something."
"Break what?" Sayuri felt the vein in her head throbbing. "The most I'm probably going to break is your jaw!"
"Sayuri!"
She freezes, turning to see Sho standing in the doorway with wide, fearful eyes.
Sho simply shakes his head, taking a fearful step back before shrinking behind Mai. His small fists clutch the girls' hoodie, him burying his face into her back.
Sayuri sits down, covering her face with her hands.
Nothing was making sense anymore.
She was losing her damn mind.
"Do I need to make you take a vacation?" Katsuro glares from across the small café table where Sayuri was trying to avoid it by hiding behind her laptop.
She just now told him about the incident that had occured at her home a few days ago. Sho was just now barely speaking to her. At least they were talking now. At the moment, she had left him for a long weekend over a family friend's house who had two boys around the same age.
"No," Sayuri groans, "what is wrong with me?"
"You want my personal opinion or my semi-realistic opinion?"
"Either I'm experiencing something paranormal," Sayuri twitches, "or I'm losing my mind."
Katsuro nods, "pretty much what I'm thinking."
"I don't know what to think anymore," Sayuri closes the monitor on her laptop, "I think maybe I should take a break from horror novels."
His eyes lock on her, giving her a stern look that tells her flat out that was not an option. Sweatdropping, she glares.
"Well, what the hell else am I supposed to do?"
"Here," Katsuro slides a envelope over, "since I knew you were letting Sho away for the weekend. It will give you a chance to get out of the house for a bit."
Sayuri reads the brochure, "But it's off season. Why would I want to go to some hotel off season next to the beach? Heck, it doesn't even have a indoor swimming pool!"
"It's said by the locals that its haunted. Even the new oweners say that it is."
"So your idea of me trying to get away from all the ghost hunting is to shove me into a supposed ghost haunted hotel?" Sayuri could get Katsuro to wipe the grin from his face.
He simply looks away, picks up his cup of coffee, and drains the contents.
It wasn't long when Sayuri was packing for a four day weekend out to a hotel by the beach. She tried to call up some of her girlfriends to come with her but no one wanted to. She plots for her editors death in many ways and forms which she plots for the main character in her book to have her boss die. Yep, she was going to base the boss off of Katsuro and make him die a horrible way cause by a possessed member of the ghost hunting team.
Sayuri cackles as she pulls up into a empty parking spot right next to a pale blue hotel. It reminded her of the beach resort she use to go to as a child with her grandparents. It looked very old yet had a homey feeling to it. Katsuro did get her a suite, so which she didn't have to worry about getting a crappy single. The receptionist was young, and very polite. She didn't even ask her for a autograph on the book she happen to be reading. Sayuri chuckles as she heads for her suite. The first thing she does is jump on the bed before getting clean up for the night.
The rest of the evening was her writing some more of her notes and chapters. The night was peaceful except for the hotel settling. That was normal for old places to do so. Sayuri knew that.
But that didn't let her to turn out the light at night.
The next day was relatively peaceful.
Sayuri couldn't believe just how peaceful everything was around her. After a nice breakfast, she left to do some window shopping. She didn't even check to ask the natives if the hotel was indeed haunted or not. She knew the only way to make Katsuro happy was to show him the five chapters she plotted out.
Chapter six was currently a work in progress. After spending time shopping (she bought Sho something so he wouldn't feel like she neglected him) and she bought several items as well. When she got back, Sayuri stares into the bag. She didn't just buy something for Sho but also for the members of SPR.
I'm starting to think that fate really wants me to go with them or someone up in heaven just loves to screw with my life.
Muffled voices from the door catch her attention. Sayuri places the souveners back into the bag and stuffs it into her suitcase. Sayuri opens her door to hear people moving what look like equipment.
"Hmm...odd," Sayuri turns in the opposite direction.
Her grey eyes come across a little girl about six to seven years old wearing a long sleeve shirt with a jumper. Her eyes stare ahead, as if she was spying on what was going on.
Her eyes then look up at Sayuri.
"Hey there sweetie," Sayuri smiles, "what's your name?"
The little girl makes a face before continuing on staring down the hallway.
"What's wrong? You looking for someone?"
The little girl nods, "my mommy. I got lost from her. I can't find the room. Will you help me find her room?"
"Sure I can," Sayuri takes the little girl's hands, "what room number is it?"
"It's upstairs," The little girl lets Sayuri lead her up to the sixth floor, "it's that one!"
The little girl is pointing to the room with the numbers 669. Sayuri goes to knock on the door when the little girl tugs on her sleeve. The 'do-not-disturb' sign is hanging on the front knob.
"Oh, sorry," Sayuri whispers, "you'll be okay?"
"I have a key," the little girl looks down before looking up, "thank you miss."
"No problem,"
Sayuri turns and leaves back downstairs to the lobby. That made her feel good inside. She helped a little girl out today. Now all she had to do was help a old lady cross the street and save a kitten. Sayuri chuckles silently at her own jokes before she starts to walk to the main desk.
All she wanted was to know a good place for dinner out.
She finds herself frozen to the spot, staring ahead at the people lined up at the main desk area. Naru turns around, stops, spotting Sayuri. The rest of the group all see her too.
"Hey Sayuri!" Monk waves at her, with Mai.
She closes her eyes before waving back.
Her mini vacation just got a lot more interesting.