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The Tenshinos were ask to evacuate the house until further notice. The family didn't seem to mind, being offer to stay just up the hill to another relatives house. Yume seem pleased to be out of the house, with Mai helping the girl with her stuff. After the family leaves, Naru, Mai, and Monk decide to do a full sweep of the house. Lin was stuck with Sayuri (who was 'forced' to stay there due to her recent injury as well as the ones she obtain while trying to protect Mai from more activity since then).
The poor twenty two year old was force to stay behind as Lin worked at the monitors. She was sitting down on one of the cot beds that the Tenshinos lent to the team to used. Her arm was stilled wrapped up from the burn, as well as the few bruises she got from being pushed, shoved, and having things thrown at her.
Mai, I'm starting to believe that you are magnet for supernatural trouble. I hope we do find something so I can have Kyo kick it's rotten little spooky ass!
"Miss Natsuma?"
Sayuri sits up, realizing that Lin had been calling her name while she was sitting there thinking.
"Huh? I'm sorry Lin! I was..."
All she gets is a bored stare as if he wasn't interested in what she was thinking.
"Never mind," Sayuri gets put to work by getting her laptop shoved into her hands, "what's this for?"
"I want you to do some research. Naru's orders." His eyes remain on the equipment after handing over her laptop.
"Wouldn't you and Naru already have-" Sayuri closes her mouth at the silent order, "yes sir."
The two work in completely silence except for the usual noise coming from the machines. Occasionally Lin would pick up the radio to get a report from Naru. Not much was happening. Sayuri look up any information she could on the Tenshino family or even on the house itself. She even went as far as looking up Eiko's maternal side to find any clue.
Everything that I'm finding was very minor or had nothing to do with a suppose cursed. And the house itself is new since five years ago. Before that, nothing here but woods! What are we missing? What is that we just can't figure out?
Lin got another report as the trio had walk into Yume's room. Sayuri feels something brush against her back. Her eyes do a double take as Kyo is now standing over Lin. Narrow gray eyes look at the radio, as if he wanted to grab it out of Lin's hands.
"Kyo?"
The samurai frowns before motioning for her to grab the radio.
"Lin?"
He turns to have the radio taken out of his hands. Sayuri stands next to him as Kyo talks to her. Lin stares at her annoyed only to have the feeling of a glare come down on him.
"Sorry to interrupt," Sayuri stares at Kyo like he's crazy, "but I think Kyo wants you to check out Yume's room more. I think he thinks something is up there."
"But we got nothing-
Kyo lets out a sigh before disappearing on her. Sayuri tosses the radio back in Lin's hand a she races up the stairs after him. She accidently stubs her toe on the way down, wincing. Lin follows close behind her, grabbing her elbow and helping the rest of the way.
"What is that your ghost wants us to check?" Naru wasn't at all pleased. His arms were crossed in front of his chest, looking annoyed.
Kyo's eyes were busy staring around until he glances at the bed. He turns into a orb of light, one that everyone in the room could see and disappearing under the bed. Monk and Lin move the bed over only to find that nothing was under the bed. Sayuri mutters about the sanity of her dead ancestor as Naru and Mai inspect the floor boards.
Mai lets out a small cry, "I found it."
The floor board was loose enough that Mai pop it out. Naru reaches inside to pull out a black box. It was decorated with small red flowers. Naru opens it to reveal some papers, a small black book, matches, and some sort of symbol on a piece of cloth.
"Interesting," Naru pulls out a small hard drive stick as well, "I wonder what Yume keeps on here."
"It's all newspaper clippings about the people who used to come here to help at the house," Mai hands the stack to Monk and Lin to look over.
"It's black book with Yume's handwritten as well as some others. They all look to be curses or something."
"Kyo...how did you know that-" Sayuri stops talking when she senses Kyo's distress. His grey eyes were glued to the piece of cloth.
"Kyo? Are you listening to me?" Sayuri turns to the ghost who remained very still.
His eyes tremble. The last time he saw that symbol it was painted in blood over the large door at the main house. The same symbol now stared at him in not blood but red ink on a piece of white cloth.
"Kyo?" Sayuri frowns, "what is it?"
"Demon," Lin speaks up, "it's the symbol for demon. Is there something wrong with Kyo?"
Sayuri turns only to find Kyo gone. Her grey eyes scan the room but nothing was picking up that he was still in the house.
Burn it! Burn it now!
Sayuri is startled by the fierce order in her mind. She silently promises Kyo that they will as soon as they question Yume about the black box under her bed.
"Oooh, I think Yume has a boyfriend," Mai holds up a picture of Yume, smiling and laughing with some boy who looked like skater.
"Hmm...you think he is the one who got her into doing this stuff?" Monk questions Naru as Mai hands him the picture.
"It's a possibility," Naru hands it over to Lin.
It didn't take long to piece together the events. The Tenshino family was notified about their findings. The true story was that the boy in the picture was a boyfriend of Yume's from their old town. When they moved, she was upset. Her parents didn't really like him much, saying that he got Yume into some weird things. So Yume tried to play it off from the spells and hexes that her boyfriend taught her to make her parents think the house is haunted and to move back. Unfortunately her plan didn't work so well as so many specialists that her parents called in ended up getting hurt by her trying to get them out.
The poor girl was left embarrassed with two very angry parents.
Yume sends the group a dirty glare, telling them that they were now cursed.
When they get back to the office, Lin and Naru are still looking over the cloth. Sayuri couldn't sense Kyo anymore, which was unnerving and starting to worry her. Mai notices her state as well.
"Sayuri, are you okay?'
"I'm fine," the novelist frowns, "but I don't think Kyo is. He doesn't like symbol."
"How upset did he appear to be?" Mai sits down on the couch across from Sayuri.
"At first he look terrified of it. The last thing he said to me was to burn it. It wasn't a request. It sounded like more like an order. I think it triggered a memory. I think something really bad happened. I mean the whole 'he couldn't saved them' and trapped souls and curses. I starting to think something really bad happen to Kyo in the past that never really went away."
"Well that explains why he's still here," Mai muses, "I mean at least that's what I'm starting to think happened. He's stuck here until he undoes whatever it is that happened."
"He told me once that he felt bad that he couldn't save them. He never told me who they were. I ask if it was his wife and kids. He said no. He said his wife lived a full life and crossover as soon as she died. And you can imagine what happen to his kids. They all grew up, married, had children of their own, yada yada. Who else that Kyo really cared about...probably died a horrible death and he was the only one who could have stop it."
"And he didn't...because he-" Mai gets interrupted as the door flies open.
Sho stands at the doorway, breathing heavily as Ritsuke finally catches up to him.
"Sayuri!" Sho runs into his cousin's arms, "there is something wrong with Kyo. He won't calm down. Something made him upset!"
"Wait? Where is he?" Sayuri asks as Sho tells her that he's back at their home.
"He scared the crap out of both us when a whirlwind just comes flying in from the front door," Ritsuke walks in, "when Sho told me it was Kyo and he was upset, I figure we come over and ask what happen to make the guardian samurai angel so pissed off?"
"Kyo is angry?" Naru asks the question but both him and Lin give her a dull stare.
"Upset," Sayuri sighs, "I was going to say something. Usually he just pouts around the house but this isn't like him."
"What set him off?" Monk asks.
"That," Sayuri points to the cloth in Lin's hands, "he got scared then starting to scream at me about burning it. Whatever it is, it brought up some bad memories."
"You should have told us," Lin spoke up, glaring at her, "he should never get this upset. Now we have to go over there and calm him down. The last thing we need is someone else getting hurt tonight."
"He doesn't do on purpose!" Sayuri was out of her seat with flashing grey eyes, "it just triggered it, alright? I was going to ask him anyways when I was going to go home! I don't need you guys to do every little ghost thing with me!"
"The anger could consume him and he could hurt either you or Sho which is something that we are not about to let happen!"
Naru just stands where he is at while Monk and Mai dart behind the couch with Sho and Ritsuke staring Lin and Sayuri arguing.
"He's my family. My problem!"
"Our problem only because he's a spirit!"
"Don't you dare tell me what to do!"
Naru steps in between them, facing Sayuri, "both of you grow up and shut up. We're not going to get anywhere if he won't talk about it. We'll make a copy of the symbol and burn the cloth. Hopefully that we'll get us somewhere."
Sayuri huffs, walking away from them as she storms out of the office. Sho follows after her as Ritsuke just stares at Lin.
"Either you are very brave or very stupid. Either way, congrats Koujo, you pissed her off." Ritsuke walks out to follow the cousins.
"Uh..." Mai and Monk stare at each other before staring at Naru.
"Just go ahead. We'll be there shortly," Naru watches as the two take off out of the office.
When Mai and Monk finally get to the Nasdeshiko Manor, they find Ritsuke and Sho in the living room. The back sliding door to the backyard is open. Sayuri sits on the porch with her knees up to her chin.
"So," Monk looks down at the two on the couch, "what happen to Kyo?"
"He's pouting," Sho answers, "he went outside with Sayuri following him. She lost sight of him and couldn't get to talk."
"I tried to tell him to get over it but," Ritsuke sighs, "I got a huge rock thrown at my head."
Sayuri continues to sit outside in the cool air, waiting for Kyo to appear. She tried to tell that the others were going to burn the cloth, and that they could help. All he did was scream how she and the gang were going to end up like the others. She tried to ask who and what but Kyo just disappear from her sight.
Now she waited for the temperamental samurai to come back and talk to her.
Sayuri mentally laughs how they were so much alike at getting angry.
So that's who I get my temper from...it figures. He is my great-great-great grandfather.
She could hear activity going on in the house. Sayuri didn't want to deal with any one from Shibuya. Lin had already gone and pissed her off. Since when he just turn around and cared about if her own ghost problem? The guy rarely had a conversation with her, unless it had to do with a case. She knew he had a thing about the Japanese which she could care less about. If that was his problem, then let him deal with it.
"Did he show up?" Naru and Lin arrived.
"No," Mai frowns, "Sho says he went off somewhere in the backyard, pouting. Sayuri tried to get him to talk but nothing."
Both men stare at the young woman sitting on the porch.
"She's not budging until he comes back," Ritsuke warns them, "and she's still plenty pissed off still so I wouldn't go and try to talk to her just yet."
"She sure has a temper," Mai sweatdrops.
"Yeah, she's a fighter," Ritsuke hands Sho his drink, "I think because she grew up having to fight to do things herself since that's all she knows. Her parents never did much to raise her. They gave her everything but one thing. Love."
"To her," Ritsuke frowns, "they're like strangers. They barely care about what she does as long as it benefits them. If it doesn't, they don't. They wanted her to go to law school and marry me. Both which never happen. I'm glad it didn't. I wouldn't want Sayuri to turn out like her mother."
"Yeah," Sho speaks up, "Aunt Noriko is mean to Sayuri. She's not even proud of her for wanting to raise me. She thinks she can do a better job. I didn't want to live with Aunt Noriko and Uncle Seito. They didn't care about Sayuri when she was growing up. I doubt that they could care about me."
There was nothing but silence that followed after hearing that.
The novelist remained on the porch until Sho made her come inside.
Whatever it was that was bothering Kyo would have to wait for another day.