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Chishiya Shuntarō

He thinks he's alright with kids skill wise, since he works with kids often his kid skills are a lot higher than expected. Chishiya doesn't particularly want kids but if you want kids he wouldn't deny you.

You two are out walking to a shop you like to visit holding hands and chatting when a toddler catches your attention. The kid appears to of lost her parents, crying to the point her words can barely be heard.

You walk up to her kneeling down trying to ask her what's wrong but she doesn't respond still bawling.

Chishiya kneels down next to you and calms the girl down with random noises and a game of peekaboo, he let's you speak to her, soon her parents come find her and leave after thanking you both. As you look at Chishiya you see him in a new light, a much softer one than before.

Arisu Ryōhei

He's not good with kids and he knows it. Even if you wanted a kid he'd treat it as a friend more than a son or daughter.

Arisu was strung along with you to a family event, all your cousins would be there even the ones under age 10. Arisu is visibly nervous yet still he manages to have kids near him whenever you look over. You look over once again and notice one of your cousins are crying next to him, Arisu is trying to shush him (bribing him) you have to walk over and drag your cousin back to your aunt before asking Arisu what happened.

You were just as confused as him so you decided to keep Arisu close to you from now on.

"He started crying when he heard my name apparently it was girly and he didn't like it??"

Ann

Ann doesn't mind kids but she definently isn't some prodigy with them. If you wanted kids she would give a stern no.

You and Ann are sitting on your lounge watching movies for Halloween, your cuddled up together paying all attention to the movie.

You say as you leave to the kitchen upstairs. A knock is heard, you being upstairs Ann gets up to answer the door to a teen. Honestly if it wasn't Halloween Ann would've thought it was a poorly planned robbery with the teens clothes.

"I'm going to get some more snacks"

Ann smiles at the teen and closes the door while she runs upstairs to grab a candy apple for her. Your confused about what she needs it for but figure that it's important with the way she's running. When she get back to the door she can see the kid walking to the next house already so she waddles to her and gives her the apple apologising.

"Trick or treat!"

"What happened?"

Your back on the lounge when Ann walks back and when she finishes explaining you laugh at the story then go back to cuddling.

Kuina Hikari

Kuina is good with kids, but that's only if you ask the kid. They like her so much because she's so relaxed about what they do.

Kuina is sitting at a bar when she gets a text from her friend asking her to babysit with her so of course she joins her friend. When she gets there the kid is having organised fun like colouring and drinking apple juice.

"Really? You called me here for this? I thought it'd be some hard to care for kid"

Kuina is a little sad that she isn't at the bar anymore but she gets to spend time with her friend, and some sticky kid, plus her friend needed a break after the continuous 3 hours of kid sitting.

"I called you over so I could shower, it was a hot day at work today so watch over him for me?"

Kuina nods watching her friend leave her with the kid. She decides to not speak for a bit while the kid is busy.

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She steps outside the house to call you over, her friend can take 2 hours in a shower. When you arrive you sit together watching TV and playing board games with the kid until her friend is back.

Chishiya Shuntarō

He works alot being a paediatrician so you don't see him during the day alot, when he comes home you are waiting for him watching TV with food in the oven being warmed up.

He showers without a word before he gets his food out and sits next to you his arm around you. He doesn't have alot of time before he needs to sleep so he likes cuddling with you when he can and having relaxed conversations about each other's day.

If he has a day off he spends it with you doing activities around the house, the fact that you do the bulk of the chores makes him feel guilty so free days with him are often spent cleaning.

Arisu Ryōhei

He doesn't have a job, he lives at his dads still and you work during daytime funding his game expenses. When you visit him you don't talk, your relationship is mostly physical affection while he plays games. He likes having you on his lap while he games because it let's him get close to you, he also likes it if you just have your hand on him, his leg, shoulder, arm, torso he doesn't mind if you hug is leg while you're on your phone.

His family doesn't speak to you too much his dad thinks you're encouraging him to play games all day by letting him live off your money and love, his brother doesn't care about you two and avoids being home when you're there.

Chota and Karube like having you around since Arisu looks happy with you so you often find yourself at the bar with them cracking jokes and bottles.

Ann

Ann's job takes up alot of time, (not as much as Chishiyas) working with police and all, she spends nights in labs every now and then so when she's home she likes to talk with you and spend time doing things you both enjoy. She likes to listen about your day and makes remarks about incidents at her job, she doesn't like mentioning what she was working on she likes to keep her home and work life separate.

When you two aren't talking she's probably on social media while cuddled up with you somewhere in your house. When it comes to food she doesn't mind eating packet things now and then but if she eats them too many days in a row she will cook healthy food for you both unless you insist on not wanting any. She likes being organised, she may take charge if you're not keeping house clean enough.

Kuina Hikari

Her job at the Boutique near by doesn't take up alot of time leaving alot of spare time for you two to bond doing fun things like fake sword fights or building forts. Your job goes on for a while longer than hers so she uses that time to visit her mum, not every day because she has to do chores too but often you come home to an empty house free to plan something to make her mood lighten.

Kuina likes going out sometimes so you may be dragged to a social hangout, you usually stand next to her and add onto conversations she's having.

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The setting sun reflected off her long hair as she rushed through the forest, in her hurry her foot got caught on her long dress causing her to almost fall on top of the bread cradled to her chest. Quickly stabilising herself she continued with her escape until she reached her cottage, fumbling a little before being let in. Placing the bread on the counter she rested on her chair to think about all that had happened, the baker talking to her that she bought from, the men calling out to her as she walked, the sound of animals and people whispering as they walked past her, it was all too much for her of course she ran away, who wouldn’t if they thought they were being attacked or laughed at? Deciding it was dark enough to sleep she pushed thoughts aside to settle into sleep.

***

A loud noise sounded from her roof waking her up startling her into a panicked state. After putting her day dress on she hid in the closet waiting for a safe sign, instead she got an alarming thump in a room across from hers. She got up slowly and tiptoed to the front door before escaping to the woods, she ran until her intuition said she'd found a suitable tree to sit behind and catch her breath. After catching her breath she was finally able to relax, now aware of her surroundings she could hear the lack of animal sounds, it was eerily silent, she wished it stayed that way.

A twig crunched from behind the tree making her alert once again, she turned to step around the tree stick in hand, when she did however nothing was there. It was completely empty as she stood there dumbfounded. Deciding it was safe to go back home she started her long journey back home. 

It had been almost an hour of her walking, she was sure it would only take half an hour to get back home yet here she was walking until her legs would eventually give out. After weighing the odds she chose to sit by a tree and sleep until the sun was up, which would be in two hours or so. It wasn’t the safest option to sleep in the woods where normally animals can attack when they please but the lack of noises said it might be.

Slumped against a tree comfortably and fell into a deep sleep.

***

She woke up after what felt like hours yet there was no sun like there should’ve been, instead she saw a black sky and silhouettes of trees. She got up and started walking around being aware of the silence, careful to keep it that way. After walking for a few minutes she saw the moon shining through the trees giving her a better view of the forest, she saw trees, as usual, but there was this singular spot where it was cleared of any trees and foliage. It felt as if the spot was calling out to her, telling her to come closer, walking closer to the spot she doubted that there was anything special about the spot, she was wrong about that of course, when her full body was in the spot everything brightened up as if the sun was up. Shocked, she jumped out of the area back into her dark life. She tested it to see if it was real and she wasn’t hallucinating, surely she would be right? As always she was wrong and the spot seemed to have some sort of spell casted upon it. Who would want to get involved with witches at the moment? No-one. She ran from the spot hoping to get away from this witch's territory, she thought she had gotten away but she was wrong, again, somehow she ended up in front of the spot again. How did she get here?

Was this a curse? It better be and not something supernatural like a wendigo. 

Having one last go at escaping she ran until she hit something sturdy and textured, it didn’t feel like a house or an animal, maybe it’s a sign? It moved. It was definitely an animal. A panic took over her causing her to attack it. Obviously it wasn’t the good thing to do, she thought when she felt herself falling like a massive pit opened under her. She was feeling light headed as she fell for what seemed like forever, the wind rushing past her mixed with the adrenaline pumping through her took away her hearing, not that there would've been anything to hear, until she saw a bright yellow flash fill her vision before falling unconscious. 

***

She jumped awake in her bed sweating and confused, wasn’t she just falling to her eventual death?

“Just a dream”

She assures herself, the sun was finally up which means she could eat and look after her moon garden. She tried brushing her thoughts of the dream aside while making her breakfast but it was a lot harder to do than her other nightmares, they weren’t supernatural they were normally about going to loud places like towns, bars and sometimes a loud forest, never have they been based on silence, the one thing she found comfort in.

After making her breakfast she walked to her moon garden to eat like she would every day. After her stroll was finished and she was sat in her spot she paid more attention towards the flowers surrounding her, cupping some in her hand to look at their petals. A few plants were withering.

“I'll have to goto the florist today for more seeds”

She started conversation with herself asking questions that weren’t meant to be answered, a sign of loneliness to most people, to her it was a sign of contentment. She walked back inside her house to change then proceeded to walk on the path of the florist. After finding her way to the familiar florist she felt uneasy walking closer and closer to the door, her brain wandered to last night's dream putting her current worries on the backburner to weigh the options. Get more seeds for her garden or walk back home and wait for her blooming flowers to wither. After pondering, she decided on the former; she walked cautiously to the florist's shop, aware her feet won't catch on her long skirt, possibly alerting something.

She knocked softly on the door and stood waiting for a sign she could come in. After a few minutes of waiting she knocked again in time with the loud crashing of what sounded like boxes coming from inside. Normally she'd mind her own business, this time she felt that was impossible. She barged the door open to run towards the old lady's room, poking her head through the door left ajar, there was a lump of blankets on the floor surrounded by untidy boxes.

"Ms are you OK?"

She ran to the woman's side lifting the blankets hurriedly alarmed at the lack of response.

"Can you speak to me please?"

Then she could see it clearly. This wasn’t a real person, it was a doll made to look like the old lady. She jumped back knocking into a box making it fall beside her, her eyes flashed to find a freshly skinned and amputated arm poking out of the fallen box. She wanted to scream but something held her back, she ran out of the house and, in her confusion, into a random path that branched off from the path she came from. The sounds around her were amplified by the adrenaline coursing through her making her even more uncoordinated. As she ran she felt herself trip over something, what she thought was her skirt, into the mud below her, as she looked back to check what she slipped on she saw the old lady on her side facing her except she had all her parts, still something felt eerily wrong with the way the skin wasn’t fitting onto the bones as if it was someone else.

“Hey ma’am what are you running so fast for?”

She shoved her worries down and answered politely.

“Just trying to find some berries in this area”

The old lady sat up making her stand up as well.

“Yeah? I know a place, I can show you. The berries are always good there”

She wiped her dirtied hands together before turning around. The warning bells were going off in her head every time she spoke to the woman, they were convincing enough to make her believe them and even come up with terrifying reasons as to why she feels so alarmed.  

‘’I’m good, thanks for the offer though”

She ran with less franticness to not give anything away to the woman. She had to hurry away before the lady finds her door open and floors dirty, she’d know for sure that it was her when she sees it. After a while of running less frantic she hurried up after thinking about getting caught, what would she do to her? Take off her arm like she did to whoever that arm belonged to, dismember all of her? She didn’t want to find out so she took a detour that went behind the lady's house and to her normal path, lucky the woods were thicker here than the rest of the forest or the risk of being caught would be far higher than  she’s willing to take. 

After getting back on her path she focused back on her thoughts trying to decipher what was happening.

Wait.

Is that.. A skinned deer?

She felt her stomach twist in knots at the vile scene before her, what irked her even more is that she didn’t see it on her way here. She decided to once again put her worries aside and walk over the poor animal and continue on her path so she walked with the horrible feeling in her stomach with all the things she’d seen. As she walked her thoughts lessened along with her worries, at point she felt what could only be described as depersonalization, she felt like this was another nightmare, like she was floating and she could see herself in third person walking through these cursed woods.

A crunching sound was heard from her left making her jump back into reality. Her head turned to the sound to observe a deer staring at her with human eyes, its bones looked too long for its being the deer wasn’t acting right either. Deers should run after seeing a potential predator, not stare them down with eyes that stare into your soul like it wants to eat. It’s probably here because of the other deer from earlier right? It wouldn’t think she killed the other would it? Oh no, it’s backing up. Why would it ever need to back up? 

The deer stood on its hind legs like a human then made a bellow that sounded fake, she took off running down the path away from this being. She got close to her house, hope filled her when her fingers touched the handle, the door was finally open and she was safe from the forest in her home. The effects of running from place to place all day made her hungry and too tired to think about anything else but food. She trudged toward the counter to grab something to eat, as the bread was opened she heard a dangerously close deer bellow from the outside. Her whole body stilled, waiting for a sign that she was hearing things, a part of her wished she went straight to her room to hide instead of exposing herself through the window to the outside world. After a minute of standing completely still she decided to hide in her room away from the terrifying deer outside her cottage. In her room was a matchbox and a candle she used for light at night, she took both then hid in her dresser, matchbox in hand candle on ground. Her body curled in on itself like a scared child. She was trapped, no escape. The possibility of the old lady being a shapeshifter is high, either way the only way to break the supposed curse is to burn her.  

Her scared mind tired itself out eventually through the animal sound filled night finally resting after that eventful day.

***

Her body jumped awake, sweaty and heavy breathing. What her mind dreamt was an obvious reflection of the trapped feeling last night, she wiped her face of the sweat then pushed the dresser door open to see if there was sunlight yet. When the sun peaking through the curtain blinded her she was sure it was near 9 AM. Today's job is to go into town to find out what's in the forest. She got out of the dresser taking the matchbox and candle with her, her walking was very cautious as all the memories came flooding back from last night, there's the probability of an intruder in her house waiting to ambush her or maybe there's someone watching her through the window that she can't look through fully, not a sound could be heard in her house right now not even her breathing, it was that shallow. She put her garden shoes on so she could tread quietly then grabbed a small bag of money before opening her front door, turning her head from left to right before walking a few metres away from the path hidden in the bushes from any passerbys. 

The walk to town was relatively calm; the only disturbances were her paranoia and some bugs flying by. Once she got to town the sounds were amplified , she could hear everything as she walked through the area, her palms were sweating all she could think about was that everyone was staring at her, that she's walking weirdly, breathing too loudly, stepping heavily or they think she's a mumbling cove for running away last time, she kept her eyes low apologising if she caused a disturbance until she got to the local green witch's store.

The small bell rings upon her arrival, sending the witch into a fumbling muddle at her front desk.

"Hi there, what would you like help with today?"

The witch stood straight waiting for an answer as she walked to the desk, responding in a quiet voice.

"I think there's a, um, demonic shapeshifter targeting me"

The witch freezes, they just stare at eachother one staring with disbelief the other with desperateness.

"Oh so.. Uh, sorry this isn't something we could talk about too openly, my apologies for the awkward tone. The only way to get rid of them is to burn them. I could give you a protection spell bottle to weaken their magick abilities?"

She nodded her head at the suggestion. The witch walked to a room behind her before coming back out with a spell bottle necklace.

"This is a pre-made one so it will bring general protection"

She took the necklace from the desk holding it carefully.

"So how much is it?"

"Eight greenbacks"

She pulled out the money and handed it to her before the witch helped her with the necklace.

"Thank you so much for this" She said with a timid smile. 

Now walking back down the path she was more confident with the little charm, walking in clear view not afraid of the old lady anymore. Something was hanging in the corner of her eye. Her head automatically turned to look at it, is that a person? How could it be, it's missing an arm and has no skin. She was too shocked to muster up a reaction just standing there staring at this hanging meat chunk.

"You know who it is"

A raspy feminine voice came from behind her, she spun on her foot staring at the new face.

"Another hint? Okay, that arm you saw wasn't some random persons"

The person had a smug look on their face meanwhile hers had a horrified look, this is the shapeshifter she wasn't prepared to see it this early. The old lady was skinned alive? So she wasn’t the murderer

"What? You're the shapeshifter?"

The person nodded their head taking a step forward.

"Listen, now that you've seen me I have to kill you. I'll let you try to run away so, you have 5 minutes to get home and try to protect yourself"

She didn't waste any time, she took off immediately running faster than she ever had before. Her brain was panicking only thinking about what to do when she got home. She ran through the front door running to get the match box then back outside to find some soft bark. The garden isn't a safe place to be, outside isn't safe so only her room right? That's where she scurried to hide behind the open door awaiting her end.

A howl came from the forest, the howl meant she was being hunted now her time to spare was fading the closer the skinwalker got.

Feet padding against the outside ground slowed as it neared her house then started running again to the back of the house. A snarl was heard with scratching at the back door progressively getting harsher, she started breathing and sweating heavily thinking what she’s supposed to do when the shapeshifter gets to her room. A realisation hits her, she has to face the shapeshifter to kill it, her nails dig into her skin accompanied by her teeth in her arm. The door to her house is broken through welcoming the wolf into her home, paws hitting the wood come towards her bedroom, she grabs a match out of the box and gets ready to light it with her shaky hands.

The wolf's paw steps into her room, lowering its head to sniff under the door. She lights a match and shoves it into the wolf’s nose but it’s quickly put out by the predator's breath. The wolf growls in annoyance then rounds the door to stand in front of her, her panicking self starts grabbing another match out and lighting it in front of the exasperated wolf; she throws the lit match at the wolf and it doesn’t stay lit once it reaches the wolf. She pulls another match out and lights it, throwing it at the wolf successfully lighting it on fire, the wolf starts yelping and running around the house setting her house on fire as well.

What was she going to do? She panics, breathing heavily as the flames continue to close in around her, the spell bottle is heating up, starting to burn her plender gap severely. She passes out from the searing pain destined to burn.

The shapeshifter runs around the forest in its wolf form setting trees on fire while being cooked alive by its own fur. The town had to be evacuated due to the forest fire and the cottage wasn't investigated until a group of explorers investigated the are in which they stumbled upon half buried human remains. One set. The shapeshifter is stilk lurking, looking for its victims.

The teenagers run out of the forest after being hit with a feeling of dread that even the thought of telling someone of the human corpse made them all agree to investigate on their own terms.

Thanks for reading! This story is very boring to me with the current ending so if anyone asks I may make a second part to it :)

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