After lunch everyone went back to their respective rooms to get properly settled in especially since they all knew that Sawamura had not unpacked yet and that they would meet up at the reception later to explore the place more.

Sawamura was still far too angry at Miyuki for touching his stuff, he had every right to be. You just don't go around looking through other people's things without permission. He also hated that Miyuki had found that manga he had been hiding especially since he had hidden it so well that Kuramochi hadn't even found it. When he brought it along with him, he had been hoping that he would get his own room or at least share a room with Haruichi. Haruichi was the only one that knew he had the book as he had consulted him that he might be gay and he had suggested that he did some research on it.

That time Haruichi had been so understanding and encouraging, he found it hard to believe that the same person had been laughing so heartedly when his secret had been exposed. Even so, it was better for Haruichi to be laughing, the look that Haruichi had on in the game room was probably nothing to worry about.

"Oi, who are you thinking about?"

The annoying voice of Miyuki woke Sawamura from his thoughts, he knew that Miyuki wouldn't let the topic go.

"No one you bastard." He shouted.

"Haha of course not."

Sawamura cursed wishing he hadn't brought it along with him but then again that manga was set in a similar place like this and he had wanted to use it at as a reference to help with his own love life.

"Did you read it?" He questioned.

"Did you want to drag me into your little world or is it that you just like me."

"There is no way I would ever like a bastard tanuki."

Miyuki was having too much fun teasing the pitcher after finding out what Sawamura was hiding that he decided not bring up the fact that he had found a journal dated a century ago in a place that had been completely ravaged with time. Well not like he needed to do anything if the dressing table was still there.

They steeped into their room and Sawamura began to shout pointing at the dressing table and the journal on it. He was sure that that wasn't there when he first entered the room. The guide's story came back to haunt him.

Miyuki smirked and walked up to the dressing table, picked up the book and tossed the book at the pitcher who dropped the book as soon as it touched him.

"Aa, I'm going to be cursed." Sawamura wailed ignoring the fact that the pages on the journal were lying on the floor everywhere. Miyuki just laughed.

"Miyuki Kazuya." An angry Sawamura stomped up to him and shook him violently as the catcher continued to laugh.

….

"Eijun-kun, what's wrong?" Haruichi noticed that his friend looked rather pale.

"Hahaha, what are you saying Harucchi, I'm fine." Eijun laughed at his friend's question, he didn't want Harucchi worrying about him especially after he was starting to seem normal again.

"You did something didn't you?"

Miyuki turned to face Kuramochi who sounded angry, at that he just smirked. "Aw, Onii-chan is worried for his little brother."

"His not my brother and I'm not worried."

"I rather have Onii-san as my brother." Sawamura shouted and Kuramochi tackled him to the ground.

Ryosuke looked amused and turned to Haruichi "I'm the best brother there is right, Haruichi?"

"Aniki, aren't we exploring the place?" Haruichi asked wanting a change of subject.

Furuya was stunned, when they had first explored the place Haruichi seemed so scared and now he wanted to go exploring. Just what was with his friend today.

They once again walked down the empty corridors and arrived at the garden. What they saw was something they couldn't imagine. There were so many flowers in bloom there that the garden was almost painted in all the different colours.

Thud

Furuya was holding onto Haruichi who had just fainted. They didn't know what had happened and just called for him but the boy didn't respond. Leaving them no choice they took him back to his room.

When they arrived at his room, Kuramochi noticed that Ryousuke was not with them and wondered what had happened. Ryousuke should have been the one who was most worried about Haruichi.

He turned to look at the bed where Haruichi lay and decided that he could leave him to the other three. Everyone knew Haruichi had been acting strange and now that he was unconscious there wouldn't be much harm in leaving him with them. On the other hand, he was the only one who knew that something was wrong with Ryousuke. He went back to the garden without telling anyone.

Furuya was panicking inside as he saw his friend start to waver and fall on his back. Now that they were back in his room, he was wondering just what was happening to Haruichi.

Sawamura wailed "I'm the one that is supposed to be cursed, not Harucchi." He didn't like that his friend was like that.

Miyuki just stared at the younger pink head, his thoughts going back to the appearance of the dressing table in his room. He didn't have time to look through the journal earlier but when the pages were sprawled on the floor, he had read a few words about an incident in the garden.

"Kuramochi and Ryousuke-san are gone." Miyuki stated, he wanted to discuss what his thoughts with them but just realized that they were not with them.

"Aa, we're all doomed."

"Shut up, baka."

….

Lying on the grass was a fresh trail of blood, the boy looked up to see the face of the devil itself, it was grinning with such lust at the blood spilled and the torture they were suffering. He wished that whoever was doing that to him and his brother would get it over quickly, but it was clearly having too much fun watching their pain.

He felt his head being lifted up and what he saw was a blood red sky and a fiery inferno burning in front of him. He would have cried out for his parents as we watched his home being burnt but no sound would leave his mouth.

Gasping was heard and both the boy and it turned to the other person with them. The boy saw that his brother was in a much worst state than him for he had protected him from the first attack. If he could he would have liked to be by his side but it would not let him. He would have wondered why it was adamant to let him go but he really couldn't think straight.

The older brother stretched his hands as if trying to grab whoever or whatever was holding his brother only to find a sharp pain shot through his body, he had just grabbed the very knife that had been used to cut and torture them. The torture it had put him through had left him barely able to see. He cried out in pain.

"You can still talk I see."

He looked up to see a dark shadow looming over him and in a further distance a tiny blob which could have been his younger brother.

"My brother, let him go." He said in a weak voice. It was all his fault, if he didn't drag his brother out to the garden, this wouldn't have happened. He was a failure as a big brother.

A sinister smile formed on the dark shadows face, he couldn't see it but from the atmosphere he could tell that something horrible was going to happen. "No don't." He shouted suddenly renewed with a loud voice when he heard the dark shadow walking away. He was sure that he knew what the it wanted to do.

The boy who was watching the interaction of their captor and his brother was in fact not as far as the older brother had thought. He was close enough to have seen and heard everything they had to say. Tears were falling endlessly from his eyes; this wasn't how it was supposed to be.

Even in the horrible state he was in, his older brother was trying to protect him but he didn't want that, he loved his brother and wanted him to live. In his young mind he knew that his brother wanted that monster to let him go free by sacrificing himself. There was no way he was going to let his older brother do that.

"No don't." Was the last thing he heard when the monster walked up to him with the sinister smile intact.

…..

Kuramochi felt like he was walking in an endless maze of corridors, getting to the garden just seemed to take forever. There was just so much tension in the air. They had only been here a few hours and so many weird things had happened. Maybe what the guide had told them really was true.

But even if that was true why were only ones affected the Kominato's. Maybe the Kominato's were involved in this somehow. It was the most logical reason he could come up with but he couldn't see how this was related. So far no one had experienced much weird stuff.

Suddenly, he remembered how Sawamura had acted when they first met up to go to the gardens. He was strangely fidgety but that could have been something else entirely. He was observant enough to notice that Sawamura would get every flustered whenever Miyuki was around and the fact that Sawamura was reading BL manga was reason enough for him to suspect a different reason for him acting the way he was just now so he couldn't take that as a basis.

The sound of bells were ringing. As if suddenly reminded, he wondered what had happened to the staff in the resort as his hands reached into his phone in his pocket. They had to tell the staff what had happened and call a doctor just in case. But when he tried to reach the reception or a doctor his call wouldn't get through. He found it strange and just hoped for the best.

Without realising it he had arrived at the garden and noticed that Ryousuke was standing in the garden as if in a daydream. A cold chill ran down his spine making him shudder, this was clearly not normal especially since it was so hot outside.

"Ryo-san." He called out but there was no response.

Cautiously he walked towards Ryo-san's side, he wasn't sure why but something just felt off about Ryo-san now. It was like what he felt when he first entered their room.

Ryosuke just turned suddenly shocking him "Who are you?" He asked. The person who was looking at him looked like Ryo-san but wasn't the Ryo-san he knew.

The person looked into his eyes and the glare that he sent him was much more intense than the previous one. All that gaze contained was a sense of anger and hate even though he seemed quite disorientated.

"Ryo-san." Kuramochi tried again, stretching his hands out to shake him. The tension in the air disappeared as quickly as it had come.

"Yoichi, where's everyone?" Ryousuke asked, he was wondering why Kuramochi looked like he had just seen a ghost. He was rather pale and looked scared. He frowned, that feeling he had about another him was defiantly not his own or Kuramochi's imagination.

Suddenly he remembered what happened to his brother. "Where's Haruichi?" He asked, his voice sounded calm but Kuramochi could tell that Ryo-san was worried. Ryo-san was back to normal again.

They found themselves walking to Haruichi's room in silence, no one wanted to bring up the topic of what happened just now in the garden. Ryousuke was too preoccupied about Haruichi to think about what had happened while Kuramochi just kept quite because he just didn't know how to bring that topic up.

…

Haruichi shot up from the bed, crying and shivering. Furuya who didn't leave his side was there to comfort him.

"Harucchi." Sawamura ran to his friend's side as well.

Just than the door opened to reveal Kuramochi and Ryosuke. Noticing his brother trembling, Ryousuke went to Haruichi's side. Kuramochi on the other hand walked up to Sawamura "Where's Miyuki?"

"He just left to get something."

After Haruichi had calmed down, he still refused to tell them what was wrong with him. Ryosuke was going to start forcing Haruichi to talk when the door opened again revealing Miyuki.

Sawamura started screaming again when he noticed the journal in Miyuki's hand. That book was nothing but a curse.

All eyes were focused on the journal as it looked really ancient.

"Miyuki, what is that?" Kuramochi asked.

"A journal from a century ago." Miyuki said in an all too serious voice.

"There's no way."

Miyuki passed the journal to him "See for yourself."

No way, is this place really haunted?

Intrigued and curious Ryousuke took the book from Kuramochi's hand, if that book really was from a century ago, maybe he could find out more about what was happening with Haruichi and himself.

A/N: Feels like i'm getting ready for Oktoberfest.