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Fear It's Self

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Fear It's Self
Being that he now lived in Soul Society, it wasn't often that Ichigo was able to visit the living world, even less often that he could talk to his old freinds, so it was with a bit of luck that on the way back from visiting his sisters that he ran into Mizurio, "Ah Ichigo, just the person I was hoping to see," the shorter man said with a smile, Ichigo raised his eyebrows, "Oh? Why did you want to see me?" he asked curiously, "As you may or may not be aware, Halloween is next week," Ichigo nodded slowly, recounting that October 31st was in fact a week away, "I'm sure you remember that every year I have a Halloween party?" "Yeah..." "Well I just wanted to invite you, this year it's going to be quite an event," Ichigo thought back to all of the Halloween parties Mizurio had thrown before, "Aren't they always?" he mused, more to himself than to Mizurio, "Yes well, anyway, I'll give you a little time to think about it, and if you decide to come just RSVP," he said, handing Ichigo an envelope that apparently appeared right out of thin air, "And feel free to invite Rukia too, I'm sure she'll enjoy it," he mused, Ichigo just nodded a bit slowly, "Yeah... I'll think about it Mizurio," he promised, giving a small nod and smiling as he walked away

~+~

"Hey Rukia, I've got a question for you," Ichigo said as he swung into her office and walked up to her desk, the young woman looked up from her paperwork and put her pen down, leaning back in her chair and crossing her legs at the ankles, "Yes?" she asked with a thinkly raised eyebrow, "Mizurio invited me to this Halloween party he's holding, you wanna go?" she blinked, "Oh! Yes! I remember you telling me about this 'Halloween'! I believe it would be fun to go to the party!" she said excitedly, Ichigo gave a quick nod and smirked, "Cool then, we'll go, don't forget Halloween is October 31st," she nodded slowly, "I shall clear my schedule for that day, it will be fun considering that few holidays have transitioned here to the Soul Society from your world, perhaps we can begin celebrating this 'Halloween' here next year," she suggested, Ichigo laughed slightly, "Yeah, don't take too much on yourself you got that? I still remember the only time my family tried hosting a Halloween party," he shivered, "Was it that difficult?" "It was when everything kept going wrong and in the end hardly anyone came... but anyway, listen, we'll go costume shopping... how about tommorrow?" she smiled and nodded slowly, "Tommorrow sounds great," she agreed

Halloween night

"Wow! Mizurio really told us to come here?" Rukia asked in excitement, Ichigo nodded slowly as he looked at the invitation he recieved, "Yeah according to the invitation.. this is the address..." he replied, although even he had a slight sense of amazement, they were standing in front of a MANSION- an absolute, bonified, MANSION, it looked like the White House in the United States! "Mizurio LIVES here?" Rukia asked in astonishment, "Ah no... I think he just rented this place for the night," Ichigo replied as the two started down the cobblestone pathway leading up to the front porch of the house, "Then that's even more incredable," Rukia added, "I know, I told you before, Mizurio's loaded," Ichigo explained as they came to the front door and Ichigo rang the door bell, seconds later the door opened and a young maid dressed in a traditional french maid's uniform, "Good evening Sir and Madam, on behalf of Sir Koshijima we welcome you to the estate," she said with a bow, Ichigo, dressed in his steampunk clothing, stared at her in bewilderment for only a short moment before tipping his top hat slightly and grabbing Rukia's hand- who was dressed in a beautifull, black gothic gown as well as gothic jewlry and clip-in vampire fangs- and lead her inside, "Do you know where Mizurio is?" she asked, "No, but I don't think it'll be too hard to find him," he replied

"Ah Ichigo, Rukia, there you are," Mizurio noted as he turned around and smiled at them, pulling away from his conversation with a young woman in a zombie costume, "Here we are," Ichigo agreed, "I'm glad to see the two of you here," Rukia tilted her head to the side, "So what exactly are we supposed to do at this party?" she asked, "Oh there will be entertainment later, in the mean time just make yourselves at home, please feel free to explore the house," he said, "And you will be doing what in the mean time?" Ichigo asked with a frown and raised eyebrows, "Oh I'll be around," he replied with a simple smile, Rukia shrugged, "Alright then, I suppose let's just go exploring~ Come on Ichigo~" she said happily, Ichigo hesitated for only a moment before following her

"Where are we going?" Rukia asked curiously, holding onto Ichigo's hand as they walked- she hadn't really noticed that all this time he hadn't let go of her, but he had steadily been knowing that she had yet to pull away from him yet, "Um, I'm not sure, let's go upstairs and look around up there for a bit," he suggested, leading her to a long, winding staircase just outside of the ballroom that they had just been in, he wasn't really one for the "party" scene and didn't like being around all those people that he didn't like, so he figured exploring the house was the best option for them, the stairs creaked beneath their feet as Rukia used her free hand to hold up the skirt of her dress and walk, "This seems to be quite an old house..." she mused quietly, Ichigo just gave her a short, slight nod, "Yeah I'm sure it's ANCIENT but Mizurio... he can get pretty much anything he wants, any time he wants, with no reservations or hesitation, that's the power of money for ya'," he mused, Rukia blinked, "Hm, fascinating, what do Mizurio's parents do to make money anyway?" she asked curiously, "You know.... I don't know, I don't think he's ever told anyone, or atleast not anyone I know," he replied wiht a shrug, arriving at the top of the stairs where he was faced with a long hallway, "Wow..." Rukia wispered as she arrived just behind him, "There are so many rooms and doors," Ichigo mused, Rukia smirked, "He DID say to just start exploring, so let's start here," she proposed, turning to the room just behind them at the top of the hall and opening the old brass handle, the door creaked and squeeked open eerily, letting out a blood chilling shreik as it opened and revealed a pitch black room, Rukia felt her heart beat speed up ever so slightly as she stepped forward, cautiously running her hand down the side of the wall until her fingers skimmed a light switch and she maneged to turn on the dull, nearly orange lighting in the room, "Woah," Ichigo said with a loud wistle as they stared at the bedroom before them, the carpet was dark burgendy and that seemed to be half of the color scheme in the room- burgendy that is, and black, the room was large, the front by the door was nearly empty and going along one side was a large black dresser with various objects lining the top from old music boxes to cobwebbed statues and even a porcelin doll, an old looking one, resembling a Cupi doll, Rukia stepped in and looked further, there was an old red velvet chair in the corner beside the dresser and not far from there was a king sized red and black bed with, what appeared to be, velvet and satin sheets and pillows, to the side of the bed was a nightstand near the chair and on the other side was another small dresser with various nick nacks along the top of it, leading around to more emptiness and then a closet by the light switch, "Should we go in?" Rukia asked quietly, "He said to explore," Ichigo replied, giving her hand a small squeeze and leading her inside, "I wonder if this is what he meant though, I mean why would he want us exploring the house on our own? Especially to closed off rooms like this one," "If it was closed off it'd be locked or have tape around it don't you think?" "I suppose... but I still feel like this is an invasion of privacy," "What kind of invasion could it be? This isn't his house remember? And I know for a fact he's not responsable for the decor, this was probbably left by the last owners," "Why would they leave so much stuff though?" she asked as they cautiously walked through the room, "No telling, maybe they left suddenly?" he suggested, 'Wishfull thinking....' she thought, pulling her hand away and looking at the dresser, she took a few steps towards it and looked down, just as she thought it was covered in coats of dust and cobwebs... "You're not really gonna touch any of that stuff are you?" he asked, she shrugged, "Why not?" she replied, slowly running her fingers along the old music box until she came to the crank, she gave it a few twists and then slowly opened the lid, springing to a dull life inside, was a ballerina, looking old and chipped and about to break at any moment, the music playing was the theme from "Summer Place" and it brought an eerie feeling to the entire room, Rukia wrinkled her nose in distaste and took a step away from it, somehow, somehow that tune made her feel incredably uncomfortable... she backed up another few steps just as Ichigo called out to her, "Hey Rukia, come over here," he demanded, she instantly took off towards the bed where Ichigo was standing and stared at him, "What are you looking at?" she asked, he yanked aside some black satin curtains that she hadn't noticed before and she inhaled sharply, there was an old window with one crack running down the side... but the frightening part was the bars seperating it from the two of them, "Why do you think there'd be bars on a window?" she asked quietly, "I don't know... maybe the house was doomed for destruction and they barred and boarded it up until someone bought it and decided to rent it out, and then they haven't gotten around to taking the bars off of everything yet," he suggested, "Boy you are REALLY scraping the bottum of the barrel with that one aren't you?" she asked in a slightly teasing manner, hoping to shake off some of her unease, "Psh, well it's alot better of an explination than anything I'm sure you could come up with! What's YOUR theory? That this place was once a mental institution? Hate to burst your bubble but I doubt it," she huffed, "Whatever..." she muttered, curling a fist and letting her nails scrape the inside of her palm a few times as the music kept playing, that music box should have shut off by now, it figured that the ONE time a music box lasts it's one that gives her the creeps... she slowly started back towards it in the hopes of turning it off, each stride becoming slower yet taking her farther, she was just about to reach out and close the lid when Ichigo called her away again, "What is it now?" she asked with a huff, "Come over here," he demanded, she rolled her eyes, but decided to go ahead and go to him, she bit her lip as she did and frowned as she approached, "Why are you looking under the bed?" she huffed, he turned to her and pulled a large box out from under the bed, "One of the watches on my costume fell off, I bent down to get it and saw the handle of this box shining," he said, "So naturally you pull it out, why am I not surprised?" she said with an eye roll, plopping down to her nees as her dress pooled around her, "Are you REALLY going to open that?" she asked, "Sure, what's got you so skittish all of a sudden?" he asked as he opened the box, she huffed, "That music! I can't take it anymore!" she cried, luckily the music in the box died just around then and she was able to breathe a sigh of releif, she watched him open up the box with curiosity as he pulled open drawers and doors and found nothing unusual, just some jewlry and a few nick nacks that were likely personal, such as sea shells, a small bottle of sand- or what they assumed to be sand- and other such things, only when it came to the bottum drawer were either of them surprised, "A picture of the house," Rukia pointed out, seeing the black and white color tone with bent, torn, and sepia markings all over it leant creedance to the idea that it was incredably old and when Ichigo turned it over he almost couldn't read the handwriting because it was so faded, "The city of Karakura was recently christined; I will enjoy having my new house here, such a change from Osaka -Akira" it read, "Akira must've owned this place..." he mused, "How old is Karakura?" Rukia asked, he shrugged, "I don't know for sure... um.... I'm gonna guess around a century give or take a little..." she nodded slowly and looked underneath where Ichigo had taken the photo from, raising her eyebrows, she found something sticking out of the side, 'Is this... a secret compartment?' she thought, sliding her fingernails underneath it and lifting up the bottum flap, she slowly pulled another photo in slightly better condition out of it and stared at it for a long moment, it was a picture of the staircase they had just been at with a big blur in the center... she slowly turned it over and read it, "My love is still here, though this house has forsaken me it seems that it cannot consume everything I have after all" she dropped the photo, something in here felt incredably wrong.... she stood up instantly, "What? Do you want to leave?" Ichigo asked, Rukia sighed, "No... I just ... feel very strange in this room.... what do you think those photos mean?" she asked as she started walking towards the closet, he shrugged, "Could mean just about anything really, some people are sort of dramatic you know? We'll get out of here then, just let me put all this back," he suggested, she gave a faint nod and slid open the closet door, finding that it was pitch black inside despite the dull lighting in the room, "Ichigo do you have a flashlight?" she asked, "No but I have a pen light on my wallet," he replied, "Why do you have a pen light on your wallet?" she asked as he pulled his black wallet out of his jacket pocket and took a penlight off of the chain hanging around it, a chain with a few other attatchments like his house keys and some keychains, "Mm, well after getting trapped in so many dark places I decided to be somewhat prepared, working in dark places was practically part of the job description when I worked at that Unagy place," "Ah...." she said as he tossed her the light, "Especially after I accidentally disturbed that nest of bats in that one guy's attict..." he mused, she snickered slightly and flipped on the penlight, shinning in it in the closet, "Wow... look at all these clothes," she said quietly, he raised his eyebrows as he finished putting everything back in the box, "Oh NOW you don't mind exploring," he said with a snicker, she stuck her tounge out at him but didn't say anything else regarding that, she looked all through the closet and noticed that most of the clothing was strikingly simaler to what she was wearing, "I wonder why she has all of these European dresses if she lived here so long ago..." she muttered quietly, stepping inside the closet for a moment and shinning a light in the back, everything seemed normal, clothes, shoes, various small items, except..... there was a strange crack running down the back of the closet... biting her lip for a second, she walked further into the closet, towards the back where she saw the crack forming, she pressed her hand up against it and narrowed her eyes, frowning at the fact that she could easily push on the wall, she tilted her head and jiggled the wall, finding that it seemed to slide open, she took a deep breath to calm and steady herself before sliding the door out of place and seeing a lightbulb on the ceiling, she followed the chain attatched to it down and yanked on it, then turned out the penlight, gasping at what she saw, inside was a ... a SHRINE.... not an alter like what most people had dedicated to their loved ones, but ... it was more like an obsession, what teenage girls had, it was full of melted candles and inscence sticks, there was a circle of what seemed like salt surrounding what looked like a voodoo doll and a red smear on a large picture of a man in front of it all, the red smear looked like dead blood... and most concerning of all was that there was an oujia board to the side, she made a resolution right then and there- she wanted to get out of there! "I-Ichigo! Let's go!" she cried out, rushing out of the closet

The two of them went down the hall slowly and quietly, Rukia had told Ichigo about what she saw in the closet and he seemed creeped out by it, yet not enough to want to stop exploring apparently, "I never knew you were such a curious person," she mused as they came to another room, Ichigo sighed as he opened the door, "Yeah well... it's sort of just one of my perks I guess," he mused, opening the door and turning the lights on, "I suppose," she replied quietly, looking around the room, it seemed to be a child's play room, toys and various other things were scattered about in various places, a small bed with white bedding and a small dresser, the design of the room resembled the previous one, only with a lighter color pallet and everything shrunk, "It doesn't look like there's much of anything of interest here," he mused, leaning against the door frame, "Why is this room such a mess? You would think that at the very least the child would have cleaned up their toys before moving or if they didn't one would believe that the new owner of the house would pick them up,  this is all very strange..." she noted as she walked inside, looking around at anything and everything, she picked up a few of the toys, looked around the bed, opened the closet, nothing else seemed too out of place.... except.... for one thing in the corner of the room, sitting on a tiny version of the velvet chair in the other room was a marionette, dressed in gothic lolita fashion with a small top hat, a black corset and a red skirt, the doll had big white eyes with small pupils and slightly clownish make up as well as dark, black curly hair going down her shoulders and back, black and white nee-high socks and red high heels, sitting in the chair, appearing to be staring at the two of them, Rukia stared at it for a moment and all of a sudden the jaw to the doll dropped open out of no were, she jerked back and Ichigo lightly put his arm out behind her so she wouldn't back up too far and trip, "Next room?" he guessed, the fast bobbing of her head provided him with the answer he needed and they left as quickly as they came

The hallway was long and the doors were evenly spaced out so arriving  at the next one took a bit of time, not that either truly minded that much, as time passed on things were only getting creepier... as they came to the next door they exchanged looks before Ichigo bravely opened it up and turned on the light, these lights were much brighter than the dull, almost orange ones in the previous rooms and were quite average, a bit of a yellow shade, "I bet they used to be even brighter than this," Ichigo mused, Rukia stepped into the room for a moment and instantly regretted it, the room was.... odd.... it was a study of some sort, there was a large table on one side with drawings and scimatics and pens and pencils littering the desk, a lamp next to it, pappers and books scattered all over the floor and the shelves and... everywhere... "Whoever owned this room sure wasn't good at keeping things clean huh?" Ichigo mused as he looked around, Rukia's discomfort only grew worse as she looked up at the wall and saw tiny animal skeletons displayed in picture frames, and on one shelf beside it jars of fermeldihide and small animal bodies... and body PARTS.... though she couldn't say for certain that those weren't human... this place reminded her far too much of a tiny version of Kurtosutchi's work, a mad scientist's place although she knew that many humans studied animals in their forms after life, she still felt incredably uncofmortable and twirled away from the sickening images in her flowing black gown, 'I don't like this... I don't like this at all...' she thought, her fingernails scraping her palms once again as she started to the other side of the room, Ichigo was right behind her, turned around and flipping through some books, "What on earth...?" he muttered quietly, she distractedly turned back around to him and raised her eyebrows, "What?" she asked, he turned to her and shook his head, "This book is kind of weird... it looks like a records journal but the notes are all over the place... and they're obviously in code, I can't make out much of it," "Read some of it," she prompted, he shrugged and did as he was told for once, ""Experiment 626 run on 9/16/1892- Failed. Subject showed signs of madness, hystaria, and internal dysfunction before slipping into a catatonic state- Subject was later put down mercifully. Subject exhibited no sign of regneration." Ichigo read, "Regerneration?" Rukia muttered, "What do you think it means?" "I don't know.... some lizzards can regenerate lost body parts, just naturally grow them back, maybe this guy was trying to replicate that? Like in Spiderman?" "Spiderman wasn't around in the early 1800s Ichigo," "No, but mad science still was," Rukia hesitantly picked up another journal and stared at the cover for a moment, in a gold plate was written "Subject Journal: Vivian- Experiment Subject 666", she stared for a long moment and then turned to a random page where a clipped photograph was of a young woman with long dark hair wearing what seemed to be a European white nightgown, she was smiling into the camera and Rukia read the caption underneath the photo, ""Subject Vivian shows progress in experiment 418- mental state is good and no stresses on the brain have appeared, serum lacks side effects and subject appears healthy with intended effects at work- signs are good, hopefull", she bit her lip, "Ichigo... I think whoever this is... was experimenting on HUMANS...." she wispered, he shook his head, "No no, that .. that can't be right, turn another page," he urged, she did as she was told and flipped to the middle of the book, "Experiment 418- Remains stellar performances, I have true hope for this, however, Subject 800 failed the experiment, showing signs of disease in both the mind and the body- Subject Vivian is the only one to be a success thus far, perhaps it is a matter of nationality" she turned a few more pages, "Subject 815- Failed. Nationality is not a factor", another few pages, "Subject Vivian is doing extraordinairily well, however, she seems to be experiencing mood changes, I will have to monitor this", towards the back of the book now, "Subject Vivian has become violent- she is under lock down until a cure is found", the last page... "Vivian has recently escaped, I cannot find her, I feel sorry for the unsuspecting public", Rukia nearly dropped the book, "He WAS experimenting on humans! I gurantee it!" she shouted, "Calm down, even if that were the case this was DECADES ago, what do you expect to do now?" Ichigo replied, though he was equally as chilled, he drew another book from the shelf and started flipping through it, "This Vivian person must've been special, I don't think he called any of his other experiments by name," he mused as he flipped through more books, Rukia turned on her heel and started towards the other side of the room, wrinkling her nose at the "decor" lining the walls as she went, various skulls, jaws, and necklaces made of teeth were hung up on the walls and it was creeping her out, to make it worse, every inch of unshelved wall was covered in some sort of strange picture of a strange creature, sea monsters, giant fish, huge snakes, monsterous wolves and bears... humanoids that didn't look human at all.... she was becoming more than just creeped out now- she was becoming SCARED, she arrived at another desk in the back of the room and found an old camcorder on it as well as a microscope and a box full of slides, the front of the box marked "VIVIAN" in black marker, she looked through the various samples, most of wich were likely blood given the red coloring, and then at the box behind it, listed "HIROSHI", "Hiroshi...?" she muttered, hearing the drop of a book, she turned around and saw Ichigo with a horrified expression, "What?" she asked, "This guy was a lunatic..." he wispered, Rukia strode over to him and picked up the book from the floor, a journal simaler to Vivian's with the word "HIROSHI" on the gold plate, she flipped through the pages and began seeing why Ichigo was horrified, any photos were.... gruesome.... bloody, gorey, pained, the man in them was young and often seen writhing in pain, covered in blood, and sometimes in pain, the first few pages were simple enough, but before long she reached a section marked "Lyncanthropy", she swallowed hard, "Ichigo.... isn't lycanthropy-" "Werewolves," "H-He can't be serious! This has to be a mistake!" she cried out frantically, flipping through more pages, skimming over them constantly marked "Failure", "Failure", "Failure", until she reached one... "Success".... she flipped a few more pages and began seeing photos of the man in the front going through some drastic, sickening metapmorhpisis, she only got to the photo of his jaw extending and his hair growing, teeth jutting out like fangs from his mouth before she too dropped the book, with shaking hands, she turned back to the bookshelf and started pulling out anything and everything that was a leather bound journal like Vivian's and Hiroshi's, there weren't many, but there were some, one was marked "SAKURA", and upon flipping through pages she found that this Sakura girl resembled a living doll, a living marionette, full of sttitches and pale and bruised bodies, headlines in the journal such as "Necromancy", and "Living dead", "Animated corpse", and "Experiment 326- Sakura- A success", she grabbed another, "Kato", flipping through it with trembling hands and seeing picture after picture of a man with blood running down his jaws and elongated teeth with a type of burning eyes, "Vampiric feeding", "Nocturnal Blood Feeder", "Human Vampire Bat", "Living Dracula", she started ripping books from the shelf, finding hideous experiments, people with wings, people with fangs, claws, tails, cat ears... all sorts of strange looking mutations, she began to shake and turned to him frightfully, "I want to go Ichigo- NOW!" he nodded slowly and took her hand, pulling her out of the horrifying room

"I don't understand! How could we be lost!? The hallway is so simple!" Rukia screamed, she was becoming incredably shaken now, all of this was too much for her, "I know I know," he said, squeezing her hand as he looked for a way out, "Ah! Look! Stairs!" he cried, they didn't look like the same kind of stairs that they had been up before and these had a door swung open beside them but he just wanted out of there by this point! "Ichigo.... how do you.... I mean...do you think any of this is real?" "I don't see how it wouldn't be, this place is ancient, I don't think all of this could've been staged, it's too detailed and WAY too good for Mizurio, you gotta understand, Mizurio is like.. the king of cheesy stuff," he explained as they went down the stairs, Rukia stepped a bit closer to him as they went down the stairs, "I-I suppose... listen, I don't mean to sound like a scardey cat, but I want to go home," she said as they arrived at the bottum of the stairs, "Yeah, no problum," he replied, seeing that they had arrived in a shockingly well lit library, 'These lamps look new...' he thought as he walked over to the desk that a small lamp was sitting on, Rukia stood in the middle of the room for a moment before slowly walking over to one of the bookshelves, she started looking at the spines of various books and reading them with interest, trying to take her mind off of her fears, she came across one that read "Mad Science" and slowly, with great hesitance, tipped it forward to take it out, instantly the old shelf creaked and turned like a door, making her gasp, "I-Ichigo," she wispered, he turned towards her and felt this heart plummet into his stomach, walking towards her, "Woah..." he wispered, looking into the room, they both trailed inside and suddenly the shelf behind them slammed shut, Rukia let out a small cry and Ichigo ran towards it, desperate to find any way out... but it seemed to be closed for good... he let out a loud curse and hit the wall with his fist, "Now what do we do!? I don't even have any soul candy so we can't just use our zanpokto!" she cried, he sighed, "You could use Kido right?" "But that would draw too much attention," she explained, he sighed, "And a zanpokto wouldn't?" she was silent, plopping down in a pile on the carpet of the room, it was a simple, lounge-like room with a fireplace and a roaring fire going- wich was odd for an abandonded house- and a few comfortable looking chairs, but it was also quite small, "Hey..." he said quietly, sitting down beside her and putting his hand on her back, "Rukia it's gonna be alright, we're going to get out of here," he said reassuringly, she sighed and burried her face in her hands, "I know... I know logically that somehow, someway, we'll get out.. but... I'm afraid Ichigo, I don't know why but .... something... somehow... the idea of a mad scientist creating monsters- REAL. MONSTERS. ...It terrifies me... it shouldn't bu-" "It should, that's what monsters ARE Rukia, they're what terrify you," she clenched her eyes shut, "But I'm a Soul Reaper! I shouldn't be afraid!" "It's a scary thing-" "So why aren't YOU more afraid?" "...Shock, you know it takes forever for anything to sink in with me," she sighed and leaned forward a bit, her head tapping agianst his chest as his other arm wrapped around her and both hands rested on her back, "It's gonna be ok.... we're going to figure out what's going on here, I swear it," she looked up into his reassuring brown eyes and let out a sigh, "Monsters Ichigo... real monsters... a mad scientist and a haunted house, what a thing to exist," she wispered, leaning forward a little more, "I know..." he wispered, she closed her eyes for a moment, "Perhaps it's the fear... but... I just ..." she didn't even finish her sentence, her lips reached his in a soft brush and he closed his eyes, resting one gloved hand under her chin to keep her there wile he placed a kiss on her lips as well, chaste and innocent, simple and sweet, but also full of love and boiling passion for eachother, as the kiss deepened ever so slightly he could feel her fake fangs brush against his bottum lip and he felt a chill, she pulled back a moment later and looked away with a blush, "I'm sorry... when I'm afraid I seek comfort and ... I don't know... I just-" "I do the same thing, and as an FYI, never apologize for kissing me," she raised her eyebrows, "You're ok with it?" he leaned down and kissed her as well, leaning up moments later, "That answer your question," she sighed and stood up, lifting the skirt of her dress slightly as she walked over to one of the walls, "It figures, being scared half to death is what forces me to make a move on you," she mused, "What? Have you been plotting this?" he asked with a small smile as he rose to his feet as well, "Well no.... but.... I have felt for you for a very long time, longer than I can even remember realizing this feeling," "This feeling? What would the feeling be?" he asked, resting one arm around her waist and one hand on her bare shoulder, she looked behind her and closed her eyes for a moment before staring straight into his, "Love," he smiled, "It does figure, the only time you really think it's important to admit you love someone is when you're afraid, afraid of losing them or afraid of losing yourself.. or afraid of something else entirely, it makes sense," she waited for a moment, "And you? What is your fear making you feel?" "My fear makes me feel nothing except fear, you're misunderstanding, I mean that fear makes you want to CONFESS- I already feel love for you Rukia, my fear just makes me want to confess it," she turned around in his arms and wrapped her arms around his neck, "It's alright, if we die now atleast we'll have this moment," she teased, "Oh PLEASE- like a WEREWOLF or a MERMAID is gonna kill us after all that we've been through already!" he said with a laugh, they both closed their eyes and leaned forward when suddenly the sound of static overwelmed the room and they broke apart, looking up at the ceiling, "Hello ghouls and mansters, it's your party host Mizurio Kushijima speaking, I hope you've all enjoyed your frightfull experiences, I vowed that this year's haunted house would be better than any party I've ever thrown in the past and I do so believe that- if your screams are any note- I've succeeded, all the traps have unlocked themselves by the way, feel free to come up to the ballroom and have a party, I'll be waiting," the door/shelf suddenly slid open and Rukia and Ichigo exchanged amazed stares, "Let's go kill him," "After you,"
Happy birthday :iconfallenpharaoh: !! I'm sorry it's a day late ;_____; I hope you like it :tighthug: I had about a million ideas for this and it took me forever to decide on one, but ultimately after watching this stunning video here [link] for "The Ballad Of Mona Lisa" I decided on this, originally it was going to be a murder mystery party but I decided to make it a tiny bit more like "The Cabin In The Woods" where everyone experienced a different terror, originally I was going to include other experiences- for example another room in the house was a "crypto-zoo" full of monsters like Chupacabra, a "Snake Room" (for the obvious) a maze, a shark in the swimming pool, a few dead bodies/skeletons/mummies, and some other stuff but I decided that that might push it a bit and make it too complicated, I liked the flow of this and thought it'd ruin it if I went back and added anything that didn't fit, originally, also, Ichigo and Rukia's terror was going to be ghosts/hauntings wile someone else had the mad scientist, I was also originally going to have them find old jail cells and video footage of some of the monsters killing people, but again, it didn't fit so I didn't add it, but- here's the great news- I will be doing an extremely extended version of this premiss where everyone will encounter something different and frightening and REAL- in the future, not the near future but the future xD Anyway so yeah I really hope you guys like this! X3 And also, for those wondering, the music box's music is this song [link] I love how this otherwise lovely song was made so creepy in Rose Red and I wanted a little homage to that because one of the ideas I had before this was Ichigo and Rukia being trapped in the Winchester Mansion, other ideas included Ballerina!Rukia/Vampire!Ichigo, and self!destructing!Rukia/saviour!Ichigo, they may all come around later, but still I hope everyone liked this one X3
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Hehe clip in fangs sounds familiar :p Really like this one though. Of sure of I would be acting as cool as Ichigo but I guess shock does do funny things.