Episode 10 - Shine On Yagami
Chizuru is seem talking on the phone
"Oh cousin! Yes. It has been a long time, yes, yes. I'm still with Iori. Thanks for asking, yes. What? You need some help... With what exactly?" - Chizuru
"Oh I see, no no. It wouldn't be a bother, me and my band can take care of it. We will just use as a little break for some months, while you and your husband return. Don't worry." - Chizuru
"What? That happened? Yes, that sounds awful, oh I'm very sorry cousin. Don't worry, everything is going to be fine." - Chizuru
The band is seem now driving in the roads towards Asahikawa
"I can't believe you accepted the idea of your cousin Okuni to take after that hotel she and her husband own. In one of the most cold regions of Japan." - Iori
"Oh come, Iori it won't be so bad, just a couple of months, three at much." - Chizuru
"Yes, think of it as a small break from all the stress in the booth, Iori-san." - Athena
"Athena is right, besides we could use a little break apart from the city." - Terry
"On that I agree with Terry and Athena, Yagami. Let Chizuru do this small favour to her cousin." - Kyo
"Fine, fine. I understand, just shut up! All of you." - Iori
The group finally arrives to the hotel propierty of Chizuru's cousin Okuni Kagura
"This place looks like a ghost town!" - Iori
"Just a bit, keep in mind that not alot of people come to vacation to this really cold zone in this times." - Chizuru
As the band stablishes themselves Yagami and Kagura prepare things taking a look at the many rooms of the hotel, they take the principal one for themselves and Maki, being in the last floor at the top
"Is only going to be a couple of months while Okuni is out, don't worry, Iori. I know this isn't the type of rest you were especting for our aniversary." - Chizuru
"Is fine, though I don't know, this place doesn't give me a good vibe." - Iori
"Oh maybe there is a reason why, I don't want to scare the rest but." - Chizuru
Chizuru looks hesitant
"My cousin, she told me the last two workers in charge of taking care of the hotel, the man suddenly went nuts and killed his entire family." - Chizuru
"Hmph! Some people suddenly lose their sanity under pressure, was this something that happened here?" - Iori
Chizuru nods
"Please Iori, tell me you won't be saying this to the rest? Let's keep this tragedy a secret. My cousin really needs someone to look after this place. It won't be long before this three months end and we return home." - Chizuru
Yagami steps up seeing at the horizon from the big windows of the room
"Fine. What's three months anyway?" - Iori
The next day, the group are seen having fun on the snow, with Kyo and Terry having a snowball fight with Nakoruru and Athena. While Maki away from them is seeing making a snow angel
"Want some tea, Iori?" - Chizuru approaches Iori who is seen writing a new song in the couch
"No." - Iori
Yagami stays thoughtful looking at his girlfriend and manager grabing the remote control
"Not more than two days and I already wish we were back in Tokyo." - Iori
"Iori. Things are calm, don't start to get angry. Come on, let's go to the kitchen, I'll invite you something." - Chizuru
The next day Maki is seem running around the corridors of the hotel, with her arriving at the second floor
"Houston, we have arrived to unknown lands. This planet looks desolated." - Said Maki playing with this frying pan in her head pretending she is an astronaut
"Yes, proceed to explore with caution." - Maki starts walking around the place when suddenly
"Huh?" - She notices two pairs of legs walking running away when noticing she was approaching
"Hello? Anyone there?" - Asks Maki approaching
Maki in the moment arrives at this hallway where she finds herself with two red haired girls standing in the mid of the hallway
"Hello, I didn't there was more residents in this place?" - Maki stares at the serious twins
"You girls, want to play?" - Maki
The two twins nod their head
"What is your name, girls? Mine is Maki Kagura." - Maki
"I'm Yor." - Says one of the girls
"And my name is Sakura." - Says the other twin
"Good to know you, want to come to play with me?" - Maki
"We would like to but we can't..." - Say the two girls as they leave
"Wait, where are you going, girls!" - Maki follows the girls to the next hallway
"*Gasp*" - Maki is shocked to which she finds in the next hallway, the entire floor of the hallway is filled with blood
One Month Later
"Iori?" - Chizuru enters in their room where she finds the frustated Yagami stopping his writing in dry
"Perfect! Just perfect!" - Iori
"What? Are you alright?" - Chizuru
"Don't come here, you're interrupting me. I forgot the lyrics for the song I was writing now." - Iori
"I'm sorry." - Chizuru
"You're distracting me!" - Iori
"I just wanted to ask, have you seen Maki?" - Chizuru
"No, but knowing that annoying sister of yours, she must be with Kusanagi and Asamiya." - Iori gives Chizuru this creepy smile answering
"I see, I'll go to see them then. I'm going to leave you so you can focus on the next song." - Chizuru closes the door as Iori gives this creepy smile before envolving the paper throwing it to the trashcan
Later Iori is seem staring firmly at Chizuru and the rest of the band members talking on the outside, sporting this eerie face
Maki returns moments later to the room she was staying with her sister and Iori, only for find Iori sitting in a couch looking at the walls and the turned off TV
"Hello, Iori." - Maki approaches Iori
"Maki, Chizuru has been looking for you all day. Where have you been?" - Iori
Maki sits next to Iori
"I don't like this place." - Maki
"I don't like it either." - Iori
"Can I ask you something?" - Maki
"What?" - Iori
"..." - Maki
"You're not going to kill us, aren't you? Right?" - Maki
Iori stares looking at Maki with a blank face surprised by this question, though he breaths sighing with him approaching Maki's ear
"What?" - Iori
"You wouldn't hurt Chizuru and I, right?" - Maki
"No, I would never." - Iori
That night, Iori is seem having a nightmare in the bed with Chizuru
"Grr! No!" - Iori wakes up in the middle of the night sitting, realizing his girlfriend is profoundly sleeping and didn't realized his screams and growls
"(What the fuck was that nightmare? I was killing Chizuru, Maki and the rest... But why? Why would I do that?)" - Iori sits reflecting on the awful nightmare he had
"No, mom! No please! I promise I won't smoke ever again, don't hit me with your shoe! I'll be a good girl." - Says Chizuru in her sleep catching the attention of Iori
"(Looks like I'm not the only one having a nightmare. I don't like this place.)" - By this point Iori felt something was wrong around here
The next day Yagami is seem walking around the various rooms of the hotel again, until he finds a strange room he hadn't entered before for his surprise
"What is this place?" - Iori
"Welcome, Mr. Yagami. Please, sit down." - Says a strange man of brown hair sporting elegant clothes being the bartender of this room full of drinks
"A drink?" - Says the bartender
"Sure." - Iori
"You know, Mr. Yagami. Things are marching quite well lately, but I notice alot of stress and concer from your face. Is something wrong?" - Says the man
"Nothing." - Iori
"Everthing is fine!" - Iori
"Are you sure? You don't look like a person who is having everything under control." - The man walks around the bar
"Tell me, Mr. Yagami. Have you have some sort of nightmare lately?" - Bartender
"Something like that, I have this dream where I killed everyone." - Iori
"I am going nuts?" - Iori
"No, Mr. Yagami but think about this, perhaps is some sort of celestial sign." - Bartender
"You want to be free, Mr. Yagami?" - The Bartender serves Iori another drink
"Free? Yes, I want that." - Iori
"Get rid of your burdens and you will be free..." - Says the Bartender while passing his finger through his neck
"Iori!" - The voice of Chizuru makes Yagami turn around
"Ah, Kagura! I was talking with this man and-" - Iori
"What man?" - Chizuru
"The bartender! Don't tell me you don't see-huh!" - Iori turns to look back at the strange man only to see nobody there
"..." - The couple becomes silent for a moment as Chizuru puts her hand on his shoulder
"We have been looking for you. Is nice to see you're fine, please come with me." - Iori is taken by Chizuru
That day the band has dinner in the main room, with Iori staring at Kyo, Athena, Terry, Nakoruru and lastly Maki and Chizuru with this murderous blank eyes
"(Get rid of your burdens and you will be free...)" - The voice of the man hits Yagami's mind
"(Kil them!)" - The voice repeats in Yagami's head over and over
"No!" - Iori hits the table shocking the group
"Hey, Yagami, are you alright?" - Kyo
"Yes, you have been acting strange lately, Iori." - Athena
"I'm fine!" - Iori
"Are you sure, Iori? You look kinda stressed." - Nakoruru
"Yes, Yagami, this isn't good man. We are becoming kinda worried about you." - Terry
"Don't be worried, I'm fine. I'm just going to take a breath." - Iori
The third mont finally arrives
"Iori! Oh Iori!" - Chizuru is seem entering in their room, only to find the writing machine left with a page there of what was Iori's song he was composing
"What?" - Chizuru takes a look at the paper reading this
"All work and no blood makes Iori a dull boy!"
"All work and no blood makes Iori a dull boy!"
"All work and no blood makes Iori a dull boy!"
"All work and no blood makes Iori a dull boy!"
"All work and no blood makes Iori a dull boy!"
All the notes read the same message over and over for the shock of Chizuru gasping of shock
"Were you looking for me, dear?" - Iori appears behind Kagura
"Iori! Are you alright, my love?" - Chizuru
"Oh, I'm fine. Just a bit stressed, nothing more. I mean, you know how things are. We make music, we get payed in tons of dollars, rinse and repeat. Hehehehe!" - Iori
starts laughing like a maniac grabing his head
"Hahahahaha! Is funny, because I was thinking I was going nuts, Kagura. But the truth is that I'm pretty sane actually. Nothing is wrong with me. Nothing at all." - Iori
approaches Chizuru with this psychotic face
"Iori! Stay back!" - Starting to fear for her life, Chizuru takes Maki's bat to defend herself
"Come on, don't be like that! You're just making things harder for me." - Iori
"I don't want to do this, but you know only of the two of us will be leaving this place." - Iori
"Iori! What happened to you!" - Chizuru
"Nothing that it matters to you, the voices have been annoying me. They want you and the rest of the band gone, that's the only way I'll be free!" - Iori launches to attack Chizuru but this one hits him with the bat
"ARGH!" - Iori
"Iori! Back off!" - Chizuru
"Hehehe! I always liked your dominant attitude. Want to play your way, fine! Let's play your way!" - Iori runs again trying to take the bat from Kagura's hands but this one kicks him out of the stairs making Yagami fall hitting his back
"ARGH!" - Iori grabs his back as Kagura takes advantage of this to run
Iori chases after Chizuru through the hotel, with Kagura taking him to the kitchen
"Kagura! Huh." - Iori enters in the fridge thinking Chizuru was there, only to find the door behind him close
"Kagura! You damn bitch! Open this door! Open this damn door!" - Iori slams on the door
"I'm sorry, Iori. I don't know what has gotten into you but I won't let you kill us." - Chizuru does her best to close the door firmly as she leaves
Kagura doesn't lose time telling the band what Iori tried to do to her
"Are you serious, he has finally go nuts?" - Kyo
"Oh this is bad, we need to get out of here." - Athena
"That's what we are doing." - Chizuru
Kagura takes the band to the garage of the hotel, only for her to find their vehicle having been dismantled and broken
"Do you guys think Iori did this!" - Nakoruru
"That Yagami!" - Kyo
"Quick stay here, I'm going to take a look at the radio of the hotel." - Chizuru and Maki go to where the radio is, only to see that Yagami already dismantled it too, she takes the small pocket radio with her frustated
Yagami is seem sitting in the corner of the fridge accepting his fate to be trapped when suddenly
"Rise and shine, Mr. Yagami, rise and shine!" - Says the same bartender from days ago appearing opening the door of the fridge for Yagami's surprise
"You!" - Iori gets up finding himself with this man again
"Why are you helping me?" - Iori
"You still have a work to do, don't let them get away! Is the only way to obtain your freedom!" - The Bartender touches Yagami's shoulders
Yagami silently leaves him with him taking a nearby katana of decoration
"Honey! I'm home!" - Chizuru and Maki heard the voice of Yagami around the hallways again, they start shivering hearing this footsteps
"Quick! Over here!" - Chizuru and Maki hide in the bathroom trying to lose Yagami as Chizuru signals her sister to stay silent
*Crunch* - But suddenly the door starts being hit by this katana with both Chizuru and Maki screaming in the bathroom as a hole makes act of presence in the door
"Go Maki! Reunite with the rest and escape!" - Chizuru manages to get Maki out of the hotel through the window with her staying behind as Maki nods sad hugging her sister one last time
"Here's Iori!" - Iori
Yagami finally breaks the door for Chizuru's terror holding this knife, grabing some courage Chizuru cuts Iori's arm before launching herself through the window
"ARGH! You bitch!" - Iori grabs his bleeding hand taking down the door with his foot
Yagami quickly goes outside seeing the little Maki running away in the distance, he decides to get her first
"You want to play hide and seek, Kagura. Then let's play!" - Iori
Iori chases Maki up to a snowy hill with her falling on the snow being at the mercy of Iori who rises his katana ready to slice her
"..." - But staring at her eyes, Iori starts trembling throwing the Katana away
"I can't do it!" - Iori falls to his knees panting in front of Maki, he then decides to hug the confused and terrified Maki in his arms
"Is alright, Iori. Is alright! Is over!" - Maki
"Iori." - The rest of the Band appears behind with them being confused to see Yagami having throwed away the Katana now hugging Maki
"Chizuru." - Iori turns to look at Chizuru at the rest with a face of happiness
"We did it, we are finally free!" - Iori realizes they aren't in the hotel anymore as Chizuru also crouches to hug her man
And so the band joins sharing this group hug between them in the middle of the night as the extreme cold envolves them
15 hours later the entire band is seem now frozen to their eventual death next to each other buried in the big snow hills
"Don't worry guys, someone will have to appear and find us. We are going to be fine!" - Says Chizuru trying to cheer on her band
"Chizuru I don't feel my legs anymore." - Athena
"I don't feel anything anymore." - Kyo
"Perhaps staying here in the outside wasn't the best idea." - Terry
"Oh not again!" - Nakoruru
"Iori?" - Maki
"Yes?" - Iori
"You're such an idiot!" - Maki
The End