Hello, hello! An update finally arriving after one month (which is a shorter period of time in compare to my usual ones)! Hope no one is too mad at me for not getting the language of flowers into the story very much yet~. I made a fucking map of the Sakamaki mansion for this damn chapter (on the computer, I'm pretty fucking proud of it), so you better be thankful!

Anyway, I'll update Raito's next week, but if there are any story you want me to update, leave a comment and I'll be right on to it.

SAKAMAKI SHUU X KAZUKA MAYU!

I wonder how long I sat in that room. I'd stopped crying since long by the time I started to get up on my feet. I didn't really know how much time had passed. I couldn't go by any feeling (like, "it felt like an eternity" or, "wow, it felt like just a minute"), because my head was just completely still and empty. Bet it would echo if something hit it.

I couldn't just sit around there against the door any longer. I was embarrassing myself and regretted ever getting into the room in the first place. Why the hell didn't I just go with the flow and act as if nothing had happened? It would've been much easier than the position I was in now. I was regretting my past choices so bad.

The room had two desks. I hadn't noticed the smaller one next to the bed until now. The bigger desk next to the window, on the opposite wall of the door, seemed to be made for studying and writing while the one next to the bed was for preparing yourself in the mornings. It had a big mirror with a shelf under where you could put combs and other necessary things.

I almost didn't dear look in the mirror. I hadn't looked at my appearance in a… very long time now. I wasn't sure I wanted to know.

Okay, I did want to know, and I was going to know. I was just a tiny bit scared of the truth.

I gasped at what I saw, taking a leap back automatically in pure horror.

The figure in the mirror did the same thing, and I started to try and calm myself down after realizing that it was only little harmless Mayu in front of me.

"Dear gosh, I knew it." The words were nearly spat out in disgust, acting out the role as poison in my mouth that I wanted to get rid off.

As expected, if not even beyond my imagination, I looked awful. Naturally easily-tangled hair filled with outstanding curls was now standing around all over the place in a huge ball of messy fluff. I'm sure that if I pressed my chin backwards into my throat, my face would disappear into all red. Some of it hanging down over and around my eyes covered some of the eyesight, and every now and then, I had to blow it or move it out of the way.

This was also the first time that I got to see all the bite marks on my neck and shoulder. I hadn't thought that they were so visible before. And my face as well. The lightly bluish grey orbs seemed to be floating in a bright scarlet sea and not the white of the eye like usual. Under the bloodshot eyes rested tired wrinkles in big amounts, one after another. I was all red and looked like one of those crazy murderers dressed in cute little costume dresses from a horror movie.

I shouldn't have looked in the mirror. I'll forever have a complex about mirrors now.

Forgetting all about the reflection and moving on with what I was doing, I started to pick up all the pink and white covers, blankets, whatever I could find, on the bed. With small huffs, I carried the huge pile that went over my head in height and made it hard to see where I put my foot over to the glass doors of the balcony.

It may come from movies where little stupid brats escape from their parents through their bedroom windows – which isn't really a reliable source for escaping -, but it was the best (and only) plan I had so far.

After tying all the covers together into a long rope, I got out on the balcony and made one last knot that connected the railing with the covers before tossing out everything over it. I nodded in approval to my work as I watched the other, free, end of the rope swaying and swinging back and forth down over the ground.

I walked quickly back into the room and over to the door to make sure it was locked. I wouldn't want them coming in there and finding out anything. I'd prefer having them fooled by the door, knocking and shouting; "Mayu-sama, please open! I am so sorry for everything we've put you through and we will release you immediately! We are disgusting creatures with sick hobbies, but if your highness allows us to, we will forever be your slaves!" and then find out that I'm not in it. Imagine the humiliation.

A scribbling sound with a slight slash reaching my left ear caught my attention and I jumped around without as much as a thought. The sound immediately switched over to a quick woodenly like thump before it turned silent – as if whatever caused the sound had been chocked with my sudden movement when it thought it was unnoticeable.

Every part of my mind had expected with a panicked vulnerability that it could be Shuu that had suddenly gotten himself into the room while I wasn't paying attention, but there was nothing there. Just the quiet breeze coming through the opening and making the curtains wobble.

Something was fishy. I had heard something. It wasn't "just my imagination" and it wasn't "just the wind", it was fucking something in the room. Fucking Shuu was hiding for sure, I bet.

It had come from right behind me, and the only things located right behind me were the balcony and bigger desk. It had been too close for it to be something outside, and it had sounded like quick lines forming on paper with a pencil. Biting my lip, I decided to check things out before leaving. The steps toward the desk was hesitating at first, then turning into more secure stomps before I was close enough for them to go back to insecure taps on the floor.

There was definitely something white on the desk. A paper. And there was definitely something black on that paper. Letters.

My heart stopped violently as I began to read what certainly hadn't been there when I first got into the room. But I was already hanging onto my bed-covers-rope before I had finished.

"Help me, Mayu-san."

I'm not up for that shit. Not up at all. The blood inside me had turned to ice and yet it still seemed to manage to boil in some kind of strange way. What had I just seen? Someone had written that while I was in the room. Something supernatural that I hadn't turned around in time to get a glimpse of. Maybe it was just Shuu trying to scare me? But would Shuu really write my name like Mayu-san? Did he even remember my name at all?

I cursed my trembling and unsteady hands as I tried to let the covers slide through them at a slow pace, to safely and slowly get down without falling.

I reached a window, and I didn't need to look inside for a very long time until I saw that there was someone inside. This had been one of my biggest worries from the start, since it was a risk passing windows and it wouldn't be the first time you'd get caught by someone inside seeing you.

And I had bad luck that day. The window I passed belonged to Raito's room, and the brunet sitting on the bed's end with some sort of crossword puzzle in his lap was no one other than, you guessed it, Raito.

At first he didn't notice me frozen and dangling around outside with a look of complete despair on my face. I knew that I had made a choking sound when I spotted him, but luckily, he hadn't heard me with any sort of super-vampire-hearing. However, it didn't take long for his head to suddenly twitch as he caught something in the corner of his eye. He raised it from the puzzle and turned it to face me.

"Ahahaha, good evening…" I chuckled out the words nervously even though I knew he couldn't hear me and waved with the hopeless smile of someone getting caught in action.

His surprise turned to amusement as he saw whom it was hanging onto covers out in the night. I saw his eyes close and his body began shaking in the laugh he let out and how he slowly calmed himself down. There were movements on his lips as he got up on both feet, but I had no idea what he said.

The thoughts spun around in my head as he began walking in my direction, and I began waving and shaking my hands in a gesture for him to stop.

"Oh, go back to your crossword puzzle, sir! Don't mind me!"

He must have heard that because his smile grew a lot bigger. Or he was just simply enjoying my panicked gestures and babbling lips without really knowing what they were trying to tell him. As if they would even matter to him anyway.

As he never stopped, I understood that I would be forced to just hurry myself down before he could grab me. Wiggling like a worm downwards, I could hear the creak of Raito's window open.

"My, my, if it isn't Bitch-chan~!" The voice had that where-did-you-pop-up-from tone in it. "Fufu, where are you going?"

"Fucking home! I'm done with you and your brother's shit!"

"Eh~? And here I thought you wanted to pay me a nightly visit~!"

I choked on his words, realizing the small misunderstanding. I hurried down even more with the annoying and stressing feeling of his eyes still burning into me.

He pouted as he saw me climbing down faster. "What a tease…"

I was happy to finally have gotten a good distance between the two of us and for the simple fact that he hadn't gotten a grip on the "rope" and started to climb down after me. He was still watching me, but I'm pretty sure that it was out of curiosity.

When I had climbed down maybe half of the building and was really getting the hang of getting down fast and smoothly, I almost dropped my grip to fall down against a certain death when my feet and legs no longer had anything to cling to.

I really didn't want to believe it. I swallowed hard and cursed the past 50 meters that I'd climbed down when I realized that the covers tied together wasn't a rope long enough to reach down to the ground, or maybe even within a range safe enough to jump from.

"Oh!" Raito had noticed the reason why I wasn't moving. "Really, you. You didn't even check if it was long enough before getting onto it? You even went all this way without noticing?"

"Okay, you shut the fuck up! This is not my fault!"

He raised an eyebrow at me, not even feeling like my words were worthy of a proper reply. His head went further out the window before he turned around to look upwards from where I came from. He looked back at me and smiled.

"What are you going to do now, Bitch-chan?"

I looked upwards as well to gaze at the balcony of where I'd come from. I bit my lip instead of clawing my eyes and pulling my hair – which I seriously had an urge to do.

"Are you going to go back?"

I couldn't contain the yelled and frustrated sound of misery that leapt through my lunges. "THAT PLACE IS HAUNTED! I'M NEVER GOING BACK THERE EVEN IF I HAVE TO JUMP FROM HERE AND BREAK MY NECK!"

His eyes beamed open when he heard that. Even though I was pretty far away from him, the strange glint was shining bright in the corner of your emerald orbs. He looked so unbelievably chocked with what I said, but there was also some uncomfortable tint in his expression that made it seem as if he'd liked it too.

It was weird. Since the guys are all mythological creatures, I had automatically assumed that they knew about that ghost in the room. And even that there surely were thousands of others in the mansion, maybe.

I wanted to change the subject. I wanted to wipe that eerie expression off his face. "Besides, I bet you would just drag me into your room if I were to pass it again."

I succeeded. He'd snapped back to it and had the grin back to his face.

"Woops~. You saw right through me," he replied.

"Leave me alone. I'm trying to-" I corrected myself. "I'm going to escape."

"What's this? Did Shuu do something to you? Where did that sudden determination come from?"

"Shut up. It was here all along, of course."

My worry for Raito's weird face was now gone, and I turned away from him to see if there were any way that I could get myself out of the situation without having to fight Raito and most definitely fail. The thought kept coming back and tempted me with a small promise that "you'll make it!", but I repeatedly reminded myself that I really just can't jump from there after all.

But maybe I could jump to something else than the ground? There was a tree pretty close. I'm pretty sure that I could make it if I put some effort into it. And with a little bit of luck, the branches would be steady and not break.

Collecting the courage took a long time. When I started counting down from five as I swung heavily back and forth on the end of the white blanket, every second seemed to go too quickly. Before I knew it, I'd reached zero and forced my shaky hands to let go. I gave out a paralyzed scream as I flew through the air with hands reaching out for the closest branch they could get. The blood rushed through my body quickly as I got a hold and clung to it, making yellow and brown leaves crunch and fall to the ground.

Without letting any time pass to calm down the rapidly beating heart, I started to climb down the branch to get to its thicker parts before it would break.

I breathed against the stem of the tree and felt my head throbbing as I started to feel dizzy. But that didn't matter, and I couldn't help but scream out so loud of victory that it was hard to believe that I was trying to sneak my way out from my kidnappers house.

"FUCKING YES! I DID IT! I'M FUCKING ALIVE! YOU SEE THIS, RAITO!?" I held up my arms and twisted and turned against Raito, whom I'd noticed was still gazing at me. "NOT A SINGLE WOUND OR BROKEN BONE!"

He tilted his head to the side, so that his cheek was resting on his palm. He smiled, and it somehow made him look like a proud parent. If I didn't know him better, I'd think he was looking at me with admiration.

That would've been sweet if it hadn't been from one of the men that kidnapped me two weeks ago.

I got my ass down from the tree with a painful, but necessary, jump from the branch closest to the ground that I could find and brushed off all the pieces of crumbled leaves on my skirt.

"Bitch-chan." Raito's voice came just as I was about to dart off. I turned around, looking at his smile with a troubled and impatient response. At least he didn't hunt after me. He probably didn't care much if I disappeared, as it wouldn't really matter to him.

"Good luck."

My eyebrows rose at his encouragement. When he didn't give me an explanation for those uncalled-for words, I just brushed them off and turned around to run. I couldn't trust that Raito wouldn't go and tell anyone about my attempts to run away, so I had to hurry as much as I could.

Outside of Raito's and that pink room was a really big courtyard. It seems like the mansion is U-shaped and I was finding myself in the middle of it. The bottom of the U was what pointed toward the exit, so my best way out and I had a whole building between us.

Two fields in the middle of the courtyard had some sort of very short-cut hedges in weird patterns in them that didn't even reach up to my stomach. In the middle of the path leading between the two green fields was a big and tall stone statue. It seemed to be the center of the courtyard, but I had no idea what it was suppose to represent. It wasn't a person or an animal or anything with that weird circle as the icing on the cake, and I didn't spend much time looking at it while I ran. Fields of red roses planted against the walls rushed past in the corner of my eyes.

When the wall ended, I stopped. I was thinking about whether or not to turn left or right to round the corners of the house and get myself to the gates or if I just should go straight ahead. If I chose to return to the main entrance, I can maybe get myself to follow the road, but I can get caught easier.

Feeling like I was running out of time, I pushed my thoughts away and just focused on going for it. I thought that every way I took was a way out. It wasn't like we were in the middle of nothing, right? I couldn't risk being captured right outside the entrance of the mansion, so I went straight. Haha, and then what? ;)

After the courtyard came stairs of grey stone leading downwards to a garden of red and white. I took my first step down on it successfully, but went falling forwards by the second. Edges of the steps cut into all kinds of parts of my body, changing into all kinds of positions all the time as I rolled, and I cried and whimpered every time. I wrapped my arms around my head in an attempt to protect it from damage, and I should have tried to contain my furious scream better as I rolled down the 14 other steps as well. Because as soon as I painfully hit ground with my back, I had to remind myself that someone might come.

I groaned as I changed my uncomfortable neck-almost-breaking position and rubbed all the agonized spots I had gotten. Bruises all over, I bet.

What had even gotten in the way of my foot, making me fall?

I looked back up, expecting to see maybe a box. I had even expected to see a corpse on those stairs in this exact moment sooner than I would see Shuu. But the one sitting there (half-sitting-half-lying actually), horizontally with his legs along one single step with his back resting against the stone railing, was no other than the very same blond I never in my life thought I could have the horrible luck of meeting right now.

My body absolutely refused to move an inch, but when he slowly opened his eyelids from sleeping, it still had the guts to flinch. And shudder, shudder it could.

Shuu's interest didn't at all rise when his pupils found their way to me.

"Ah…" he said and blinked slowly. "It's you…"

My panic came to life and made me crawl backwards so quickly that I stumbled over my own limbs.

"I-I'm going to escape! Nothing you can do can stop me!"

I couldn't even tell if his eyelids were open or not. You couldn't really call it half-lidded anymore, they had sunken way too much. Even though he looked as if he wasn't paying attention to anything I said, he had heard it.

"Do whatever you want… It's none of my business…"

The rest of the words Shuu spoke weren't even put together in a sentence. They just hung around in the air, playing the role as muttered sighs. "Sleepy… Tired… Bothersome…"

Shuu's eyes were closed for real now, and maybe he'd even gone back to sleeping. I swallowed an annoying lump to make it disappear and bit down hard on my lower lip as I got up from the dirt.

Shuu was acting just as usual. He didn't seem to have anything on his mind at all. I hated the way he was completely fine and just as laidback as usual while I had tons of problems on my mind and had barely recovered from a mass of salty weeping in less than an hour ago.

Turning around with an expression intended to hide its underneath, I continued past blooming roses and even a fountain in the middle of everything.

I never stopped wondering if Shuu cast an eye on me that time, or if I just ran away without him noticing.

The paved surfaces ended after the rose garden and lead me to run along a wide dirt road going through thick woods. The road was firm and strong so there wasn't much difference except for that clacking sound of my little heels disappearing.

I eventually arrived at the same lake where Shuu and I had celebrated his birthday. My eyes travelled over the glistering water, holding on to the hope of seeing some signs of humans on the other side. But the dense forest only continued on every side of the lake and there was no sign of a house or a road. I listened after sounds of cars, trains, or any sounds from the city I'd been abducted from. There was just complete silence.

So I went onwards to the right. Wherever I walked, I would have to eventually find something, someone. I didn't think for one second that I was just in the middle of nowhere in a forest. I would find something.

A bad sign came. The deeper I went in among all the trees and bushes, the thicker they became. The distance between every tree shortened. The only sounds I could pick up were the swirling of tall trees and small echoes of birds staying hidden among the branches. They were slowly driving me insane as I wandered for one hour, two hours, and three hours. Still nothing but trees and trees and moss and trees.

It had been so unbearably dark and hard to see up until this point, but the rising sun had now began striking thin rays of red, yellow and orange through the small spaces of all the trees.

What time was it even? How long time had passed since I started to walk? How deep was this forest? Had I maybe chosen the wrong direction? Should I have gone left by the lake instead? Was I walking in circles? The many questions sent shivers of doubt through me. I had no idea where I was anymore. I had walked by the waterside of the lake until it ended and I was forced to continue on without any path to follow.

It was beginning to get eerie out there, and I was sure that I wouldn't even be able to find back to the mansion even if I tried.

Wehoooo~! Who might that girl in the pink room be? What does she want Mayu? So many questions, so many questions (questions intensifies)!

THANK YOU FOR READING AND FOR ALL THOSE REALLY NICE COMMENTS UP UNTIL NOW! ESPECIALLY YOU WITHOUT A USER THAT I CAN'T REPLY!

I'LL UPDATE RAITO'S NEXT!