Ju-on Syndrome II

Please Read: This is loosely based off of the Ju-on movies from Japan. I do not own nor have I worked on it. The characters, except one, are copyright of me however and most of the story is part of my own ideas for making the Ju-on series a little more interesting. Note there has also been a change in the rating for some of the material. Again this is mostly an original story so please don’t complain that it doesn’t follow the real series.

Thank you.

Vector:

Espio looked worriedly in on her friend then walked toward the stairs. Ever since she’d come back from the hospital with Espio she’d been silent. Vector didn’t say so much as a word even when Espio did ask. Espio was a little worried considering it was over a month ago.

Kirara mewed softly and sat at her pink cat dish as Espio dug through the refrigerator. Kirara then blinked as Espio set a few items on the table.

“What can we do for her anyways? She’s kinda been stuck like that Takeda woman was.” Espio sighed.

Kirara meowed and stretched before she looked back down the hallway. Something was approaching them slowly.

“Are you alright?” Espio asked without turning around.

Kirara meowed then growled and sharply hissed before she darted behind Espio’s feet. Espio turned and gasped seeing a boy with black hair standing at the other end of the table. Espio felt her throat tighten before she shook her head and screamed.

Vector blinked and looked up from her knees as it fell silent again. She then hugged her knees tightly and sighed. She then sat back and stretched out her legs before looking toward the large window nearby. She’d been thinking the whole time after her brother died.

Espio shivered then slowly lowered her hands seeing she and Kirara were alone. Espio let out a relieved sigh and sat down at one of the nearby chairs.

“You saw it too right Kirara?” She asked with the kitten mewing and nodding in reply.

“I guess we’re all kinda jumpy. But I recognized him somehow.” She murmured as she thought.

Kirara mewed questioningly then hopped into Espio’s lap and sat there.

“This would be easier if she’d get out of her damn bed. I know it must’ve been devastating but it was an accident.” Espio said.

Kirara mewed softly then looked down.

“It was an accident right?” Espio looked at the kitten.

Kirara meowed and looked blankly at her.

“They said the road was slick from the rain and his bike slid when he tried to stop but the car also slid and…well…squish.” Espio gulped.

Kirara meowed flatly and lowered her ears. Espio sighed and looked up at the ceiling before closing her eyes. The kitten purred then curled up in her lap and fell asleep.

Vector looked outside quietly then placed her hand against the glass. She’d actually forgotten what it was like to leave the house as ridiculous as that sounded. She turned away and walked to her suitcase before hearing a faint scratching sound. She looked toward her bed then up to the ceiling above it slowly as it continued. She felt numb.

Espio slowly opened her eyes and lowered her head toward the kitten that was sleeping in her lap. She lightly pulled at the kitten’s ears then looked back as she heard footsteps. The front door then closed after a few more footsteps.

“She lives again.” Espio joked.

Vector ran from the front step then stopped, seeing a milk-like fog surrounded her. It wasn’t like this when she was upstairs. She shook her head then ran to her left down the hidden pathway. She couldn’t see anything clearly. She stopped and looked around again. She only saw the fog nothing else. She turned to run back then stopped seeing she couldn’t even see the house now. Vector then decided to keep running regardless of if she was truly lost in this.

……

Espio yawned tiredly then looked at the white-rimmed clock on the wall.

“Only one o’clock?” She muttered.

Your friend’s going to get lost out there.

“Hm?” Espio looked around.

Kirara meowed as she yawned and looked up at Espio sleepily. She then looked around and curled back up as Espio kept scanning around. She shrugged and figured she was tired. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes once more.

The black cat meowed from the windowsill and pawed at the glass now as it surfaced outside. Espio didn’t notice him.

“This is nuts. Where the hell’s the house? The path even!” Vector stopped and panted.

Vector looked around then bit her lower lip as she decided what to do next. She then kept running ahead.

“What’s going on? Why can’t I see anything?!” She hissed as she ran.

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Espio blinked slowly then lowered her head before yawning then looking toward the loudly ticking clock.

“Three-thirty…” She mumbled.

She closed her eyes then jumped as she heard the door slam shut. She closed her eyes calmly then yawned as Vector ran back in.

“Wake up, there’s something wrong! Wake up!” Vector shook her violently.

“Aah! I’m up! I’m up!” Espio yelled.

“There’s something seriously strange going on around here.” Vector rasped.

“You mean other than getting whiplash as a wake up call?” Espio snorted tiredly.

“No, I mean we can’t leave the house.” Vector said.

“Sure we can.” Espio yawned.

“No. We can’t.” Vector said slowly.

“You’ve been in your room too long.” Espio yawned loudly.

“No! I mean it!” Vector insisted.

Espio was then quietly snoring after her head drooped again.

“Wake up goddamn it!” Vector shook her hard once.

“Okay! Okay! I’m up!” Espio howled as she looked angrily at Vector once more.

“There’s something going on and I really have a bad feeling about it.” Vector stepped back.

“You get a bad feeling if you forget to put the cap back on your toothpaste, which I suggest you use right about now.” Espio murmured.

“Eh? Oh, shut up.” Vector hissed.

Espio yawned then snorted before she set Kirara on the floor and got up.

“Where are you going?” Vector demanded.

“You told me to shut up so I’m not saying.” Espio replied over her shoulder as she walked down the hallway.

“I hate her sometimes…” Vector sighed.

Kirara looked up at Vector then mewed and fell back asleep.

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Vector tore several books off the shelf in her room before flipping through them then tossing them aside. Kirara let out a few shrill meows as the books landed closely to her before she’d calm down and try to go back to sleep. Vector kept muttering as she dug through the books then heard a yelp. She looked back seeing Espio holding her head with a book at her feet.

“Sorry.” Vector grinned sheepishly.

“What the hell are you doing anyway you maniac?!” Espio hissed.

“Why?” Vector asked.

“All I keep hearing is your books hitting the floor, I thought it was something else at first though.” Espio held the bump on her head.

She looked down and kicked the book over to read the title.

“What’re you looking for at two in the morning anyways?” She asked after bending down and picking up the book.

“A book.”

“Well duh. What one?”

“It’s…umm…it’s just a book.” Vector couldn’t think of something to say.

“You’ve got enough books lying around here, you’re looking for a specific one.” Espio said.

“I know.”

“Well, what one?”

“It’s…it’s…none of your concern.”

Espio sighed then began picking up the other books and reading the covers. Pretty much just scientific journals and novels she’d read in high school practically. Espio sighed again. Didn’t she read anything interesting?!

“This is kinda boring stuff. You really read this? Actually, you felt you needed to bring it?” Espio snorted as she set the pile on Vector’s bed.

Vector didn’t reply but kept rummaging for whatever she wanted to look at. Espio sat on her bed then picked up Kirara as she mewed at her feet. Vector pulled a book off the shelf and flipped through several pages before possibly finding what she wanted to read.

“Find it?” Espio looked up.

Vector was engrossed in reading now.

“Get a concussion, she doesn’t care. Get attacked and she blames me for doing it. Find things knocked over and…well, that gets blamed on you Kirara, but still—“ Espio muttered.

Vector kept reading.

“Get woke up at two in the goddamn morning and she’s engrossed in books. Things are just getting worse.” Espio got up with Kirara in her arms.

Espio walked out of the room with her cat friend then slammed her door as Vector kept reading.

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Espio stared at her breakfast dully then yawned.

“An exorcism? Isn’t that kinda stupid?” She looked up at Vector who had been pacing since Espio had come downstairs.

“Not from what I read, if I’m right then we need to do one right away before things get worse.” Vector replied.

“Thing is…we’re not priestesses.” Espio yawned.

“I know…” Vector sighed as she kept pacing hurriedly.

Espio looked at Kirara then poked at her food with her fork.

“A little blood, a woman goes missing suddenly, you get caught in a thick fog, I get attacked…it’s not really grounds for something that drastic.” Espio said.

“Plus my brother was killed, those murders, the black cat, the boy—“ Vector listed on her fingers.

“Boy? What boy?” Espio looked awake.

“That one with the black hair.” Vector hissed.

“Maybe…that wouldn’t work…” Espio sighed.

“What?”

“What if that kid works for her or something?”

“I found him just standing there then he wasn’t here like he vanished, explain that.”

“Umm…track team?” Espio grinned.

“You’re not helping.” Vector snorted.

“Okay, so it was one kid. One. If there were others I’d be worried but I haven’t seen anyone.” Espio said.

“Hm.” Vector looked toward the window.

“What now?” Espio sighed.

“Can you help me? I was wondering if I can leave the house now.” Vector asked.

Espio blinked.

“How?”

Espio rolled her eyes as she leaned against one side of the open doorway as Vector walked down the path.

“Nothing so far.” She yelled.

“I can see that.” Espio muttered.

Kirara mewed and darted after Vector. Espio watched the kitten run after her before walking back in and closing the door. Vector looked back then watched Kirara run alongside her. The kitten meowed as Vector looked around carefully.

“Nothing’s happening.” She murmured.

Kirara mewed then darted ahead as the fog appeared suddenly. Vector looked around then watched Kirara walk back with it clearing once again.

“Huh? Kirara, what are you doing?” Vector looked slightly puzzled as the kitten darted past her.

The fog started to close in again then dissolved as Kirara came back.

“You’re burning off the fog?” Vector asked.

Kirara mewed.

“I knew you were a strange cat.” Vector muttered.

She watched the kitten trot alongside her.

“But how strange are we talking?” Vector looked ahead.