Story: Letters Of Love
Chapter: E Is For Eerie
Authoress: The Akuma's Sakura Violin
Rating: K+
A/N: Wow! Four reviews in one night! I feel so proud! =3 I'm glad you all liked my attempt at a song-fic so much! (It seems the length of it was alright too!) This chapter is ALSO dedicated to Lou! And I have to thank Lou for the kick-ass word they gave me! Just one request though Lou, please sign your next review so I can reply and read your stories too?
Anyway, I got inspiration pretty much as soon as I read the word, so you can thank the word for the speedy update!
Disclaimer: If I owned KWMS, I wouldn't really be working to my own deadlines would I? Or have the evil minions of my teachers called homework chase after me even during the holidays now would I?
Anyway, on with the story!
Eerie – General story
'Eerie' – Thoughts
"Eerie," – Talking
Translation notes!
Daijoubu? – Are you okay?
Kami - God
~E Is For Eerie~
"Okay, does anyone have a suggestion for what our class will do for the school festival?" Misaki turned around to face her class after writing the words 'School Festival Ideas' on the board.
There was an air of excitement as class began shouting ideas at her.
Misaki simply sighed before a look of grim determination settled on her face.
'This is gonna be a long day...'
~E Is For Eerie~
After a long debate, it was decided that it would be between a food stall and a haunted house.
To decide what they were doing, everyone voted for their favorite of the two.
"Okay, so that's... eight votes for the food stall, and eighteen for the haunted house, so we'll be doing a haunted house this year!" A cheer went up from the class, Misaki wasn't surprised at the class's choice, and there were mainly guys in the class anyway.
'At least it's not a café...' Misaki thought gladly to herself.
It was decided that they'd go to the nearby Haunted house to get inspiration for their own after school that day (which worked for Misaki because she had the day off from work), and then that they would work on designing the room the next day, and that the rest of the week would be spent making the joint-classroom into a great haunted house.
~E Is For Eerie~
Misaki looked up at the Haunted house in front of her.
It was tall and dark; the walls were covered in what appeared to be dead moss, and something dark stained the walls, she could smell something horrible, like the dang smell of rotten meat.
A shiver ran down her spine.
"Kyaaa! Takumi-kun! It's so scary! Hold me!" Misaki was snapped out of her thoughts by the sounds of screaming girls.
"Will you go inside with me?" "No me!" The girls began bickering, and Misaki sighed.
"What about he goes first, that way he'll be waiting for you on the other side?"
A moment of silence, before…
"Kyaaa! Misaki-san has such good ideas! Takumi-kun! You go!"
"Sure…" He replied monotonously, but Misaki thought she heard a bit of relief in his voice.
~E Is For Eerie~
The class had been entering one or two students at a time, so it took a few minutes before Misaki's turn.
"I hope you have fun…" The woman at the front cackled. She was dressed in a long, ripped gray robe, and her long dirty white hair covered all of her face but her grinning mouth, which were equipped with several sharp-pointy looking teeth.
Misaki nodded politely, before walking up the few steps to the door. Her hand on the door knob, Misaki hesitated, she had no idea what to expect after all!
Taking a deep breath, Misaki twisted the handle; the door swung open with a creak and the moan of wood. Taking another breath, Misaki stepped inside.
~E Is For Eerie~
The door shut with a thud behind her, Misaki jumped and spun around, before breathing a sigh of relief.
'It's okay Misaki…calm down…it's just a fake Haunted House…it's not real…' She told herself, but her heart was still beating fast in her chest.
Looking around her, she saw too grand staircases in front of, layered with dust and cobwebs, the once beautiful wood now eaten away by what she guessed to be termites.
They did not look safe at all.
'Guess I'm not going up there…but there's a door in between them…I guess it's part of the route…'
Setting her shoulders, Misaki took her first step towards, then her second, and the third.
'Something is wrong here…' She thought, but she shook the thought away and proceeded to take her fourth step. And that was when it hit her.
'It's so silent… the only thing I can hear are my footsteps and even THEY sound muffled…'
But she wasn't going to let some little thing like that get in her way. No way, not her, she wasn't scared…
Reaching the door, Misaki put her hand on the freezing cold doorknob. Another shiver wracked her spine.
'The silence…it's so eerie…' Her hand hesitated on the handle.
'Stop being so weak' she chided herself mentally, turning the handle, and opening the door.
"Little girl…little girl… won't you come play with me?" Misaki froze as she heard the raspy voice behind her.
Misaki shrieked in horror, and without even bothering to turn around, she ran through the door she'd just opened, running as fast as she could.
Was that footsteps behind her? Whatever it was was coming after her!
Putting extra strength into her legs Misaki belted forward, the wind whipping past her silently, she still couldn't hear anything but her feet belting across the floor, her labored breathing, and her heart pounding in her chest.
"…saki…" What was that?
"...isaki…" It sounded like her name! But…it how could it know her name? The voice sounded so familiar.
"Misaki!!!" Her breath caught as her wrist was captured by her pursuer; she twirled around to try get her wrist back, only to be shocked by what she saw.
"Usui!" She gasped, shocked at his disheveled appearance.
"Mi…sa…ki…" He panted, not letting go of her wrist, but using his hand to hold himself up on his knees, before straightening and looking her in the eyes.
"Daijoubu?"
"U…usui…" Relief flooded through Misaki, and she felt tears form in her eyes.
"Usui!," she cried, running into his arms and holding him tight, she'd been so scared, but with Usui there, she felt so much safer.
"Thank kami it's you…" she muttered into his shirt, clinging even tighter to him.
After a moment or two, she felt two warm hands land on her back, soothingly stroking it as he whispered quietly to her.
"Shhhhh Misaki…it's alright… I'll protect you"
END
A/N: Whoo! Another update within two days! I feel so proud! I'm going out tomorrow, and I wrote like a page yesterday and I didn't want to make you guys wait long so here it is! Completed and uploaded just for you guys, even though it's almost one thirty in the morning and I need to wake up by nine tomorrow… I mean today… anyway, I've done it! Please review! I'll try make the next one as speedy as this, I'm hoping to do all my homework today so that I'll have the rest of the week to update as much as possible!
How do you like the ending? Is it too short? Please tell me! (You know you want to ;D)
Oh! And also, a gigantic Happy Birthday to woolSmynx! Thank you so much for reading and bothering to review on your Birthday! I'm glad to give you a virtual present!
And so…this chapter is co-dedicated to woolSmynx for her awesomely-epic-birthday-review! (She was the second to review anyways!)
Until next time!
~a.k.u.r.a~