She Makes Me Happier// Oka X Ayano

Chapter 23. I Never Died

"P-Please! D-Don't do that! Anything but that!" Mitsuki begged before letting out a scream of pain.

I cried to myself as I tried pick locking the stupid shackles.

"What are you doing, baka?" Kamoshida picked up the bent paper clip and threw it to the side.

"Where did you get that thing in the first place? Go on, tell me."

I stayed silent. Dad gave it to me and I would never rat him out.

"I found it right here." I nodded my head towards a tiny spot next to me.

"You're tied up, how did you grab it?" Kamoshida asked suspiciously.

"When you let me off of the chains. I grabbed it and put it in my pocket." I said, sounding more confident than I felt.

"Hmmph. Fine." Kamoshida walked over to Onee-chan, who was strapped down on a metal table being tortured.

After her, I'm next. And I was the last of the day since I was more "fun."

He already tortured my mom and dad earlier.

We had a routine everyday.

The first day he captured us was Monday and the things he did didn't change until Sunday.

Everyday was the same:
Dad makes breakfast and gets tortured.
Mom cleans and gets tortured.
Mitsuki... is his sex slave and then afterwards, she gets tortured.
I wash and fold his laundry then get tortured.

We were served bread and milk. "Perfect for you, peasants," as he used to say.

Then on Sunday, the cops found out because of Kamoshida's neighbors (he didn't consider having a sound proof torture room, I didn't know we could scream that loud) and he was arrested.

But on Sunday, before he was arrested, he killed Mitsuki and Mom.

He killed them in cold blood.

The police came merely seconds after he did, and he was arrested.

I cried and didn't talk to anyone for 3 months.

That's how I became "goth". And that's why I stutter. I'm scared someone might kidnap me and torture me like I have before.

That's my biggest fea-

Ding, dong.

Oka sat up in bed, breathing heavily as she looked at the bright red numbers on Ayano's alarm clock.

She got up as the door rang again.

It's 12 in the morning. Who would be up at this hour?

"Who is it?" Oka asked sleepily, rubbing her eyes to adjust to the darkness.

There was a figure at the doorway.

The figure took off their jacket hood and asked, "Do you happen to know an Oka Ruto?"

Oka looked for the light switch with her hands and switched on whichever one felt right and examined a girl that looked awfully familiar.

She had the same shade of blue as Oka and had two messy buns in her hair. She looked about 18 and had pale skin, so pale it had to be unhealthy.

Her violet eyes were gentle and generous and her smile was genuine.

She almost looked like a mirror image of Oka.

"That would be me." Oka replied to her answer.

The older girl gasped and tears spilled from her eyes.

"Oka? That can't be you! No, of course it can. You have those beautiful purple eyes, amazing blue hair. It's you!" The girl hugged Oka and kept her arms there, almost like she was scared that Oka would disappear.

"I'm sorry but... uhm... who are you?" Oka asked.

The girl hesitantly pulled away and stepped back. "Look closely." She smiled.

Oka thunk about her dream she had.

Blue hair... violet eyes... pale skin... Ringing any bells? Yes.

"O-Onee-chan?"

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"But isn't that, like, impossible? Not that I'm not glad to see you, I missed you a lot. But how are you alive?" Nemesis asked.

Everyone was awake and having tea while sitting on the couch.

"Kamoshida didn't kill me. He injured me. The doctors fixed me up but I did get a scar. Makes me look badass though." Mitsuki smiled while showing a scar on the left side of her stomach.

"I've been looking everywhere for you. Kamoshida lived in Nakano and the nearest hospital was in Shinjuku. I didn't know where I could find you. When I was out of the hospital, I looked up and down Shinjuku, then I checked Nakano just in case. I lived in an old, torn up warehouse in the woods until these dudes kicked me out. I did some training there, though. Just in case..." Mitsuki trailed off.

Info-chan was writing all of this down; probably to add it in a computer memo for her to remember.

"After they kicked me out, I looked for you some more. I was only 14 and I was scared. Alone. There was no one there. I couldn't even find Dad. I didn't have a job so I couldn't afford to eat anything. I had to eat wild berries in the forest; I'm a vegetarian. It was hard. Then, I made it to this town. Took me awhile to get through Shisuta. After that travel, I ended up at a school called Akedemi. I met the principal and asked if you, Oka, attended. Fortunately, you did. And I got ahold of Dad's house. He wasn't there, but I found his journal, which told me where you were."

"You don't happen to still have his journal, do you?" Oka asked.

"Yeah. You wanna read it?" Mitsuki grabbed it out of her backpack.

"That's what I'm intending on doing." Oka said.

Mitsuki threw it at Oka, Ayano having to catch for Oka.

"Here." Ayano muttered, giving the brown leather journal to Oka.

"Thanks." Oka said.

"Now what?" Info-chan blurted out.

"What do you mean?" Mitsuki asked.

"You don't have anywhere to go. Are you going to live with us, or are you going to live with your dad?"

"If you don't mind, I'd rather live here." Mitsuki smiled.

"You don't happen to have an extra mattress in the attic, do you, Nemesis?" Oka asked.

"Yeah. You can sleep in the attic with me. And don't worry. It's not as sketchy as most attics. I cleaned it. And I changed the light bulb." Nemesis assured Mitsuki's scared face.

"And there's no spiders."

"Phew."

And with that, the five girls raced up the stairs and fell fast asleep. Except for Oka.

Mitsuki was alive this whole time. But that doesn't mean I'll disband the Occult Club. Mom still needs to be avenged.