Title: I'll Be Watching You
Author: Princess Destiny
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Rating: M 15+(T on FFnet)
Summary: 'One Hour Challenge #673' : Response Fanfic. On Halloween, Usagi starts to get messages on her phone from someone who says they want to be her friend. At first it's all innocent and they talk about school and things, but then it starts to get really creepy.
Couple: Usagi And Mamoru
Chapters: 3/3
Status: Completed
Year Completed: 2012
Size: 97 KB

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Comments: Hello everyone! I'm still down really sick with the flu after six weeks of it hanging on, so I asked a friend to edit this for me. Thank you, Jen! :) Now, originally there was now third Chapter, but I thought there might be too many questions in people's minds. You're lucky, because I was going to let you all guess what Mamoru does to Usagi. Hopefully all questions in your mind will be answered after you finish the Fanfic. I really enjoyed writing this and I'll most definitely be continuing with more scary Fanfics in the future. It is also a larger Chapter than the previous two, so you get more to read.

Just a warning that although I have kept the details pretty vague, there are moments of description that could make you upset. It was hard to think about what rating this ought to be and I do have it as an M on my site, but it's for descriptions of the crime scene. Please don't read this part if you're underage! Certainly no one under fifteen should be reading this in the first place.

I'LL BE WATCHING YOU

By Princess Destiny

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Chapter Three

Rei woke up abruptly as she heard her cell phone ringing and her purple eyes blinked about in the darkness. "Huh? Who's calling me at this time of night?" She wondered, brushing the hair from her face as she sat up. The girl reached over to her bedside table, noting that it was right on midnight. Her fingers closed over the cool plastic and she brought it back to her face, seeing that it was Usagi's number. Immediately concern filled her and she quickly threw back the covers and sat up. The blonde wouldn't be calling her in the dead of night without reason, when they had just texted each other a half an hour ago.

As she hit the answer button, her heart almost stopped when she heard the most blood chilling screams, filled with pain and terror. It was accompanied by metallic sounds that she recognised as a knife hitting into something soft over and over. Rei listened in shock and horror, calling out her friend's name frantically. She fumbled for the bedside light and the room was flooded with a warm yellow glow. Her fingers had the phone in a death grip as suddenly the agonized shrieks broke off. "Usagi?" She sobbed, ears straining for the sound of her friend's voice.

There was movement and then heavy breathing on the line.

"Oh god, Usagi?" Rei whispered, feeling in her heart that her friend was dead and it was someone else listening in.

A male voice chuckled in wicked amusement and then whispered back. "No." And then the line went dead as he hung up.

The cell dropped from her hands and she covered her face, shaking her head in denial. No, no Usagi couldn't be dead. Not her gentle friend! Rei quickly dropped her hands and grabbed the phone again, calling the Tsukino's main line. It rang out and she slumped down, breathing erratically, feeling her fear choking her. The raven-haired girl screamed out in denial and horror. "Usagi!"

Grandpa and Yuchiro came running down the hall into her room, bursting through the sliding door.

"Granddaughter, what is it?" The old man said in concern, seeing the girl's tear streaked face. He shuddered at the terror in her purple eyes as he grabbed her shoulders. She was babbling and rocking herself, barely coherent. "Rei!" He said sternly.

Slowly Rei focused on his face and she gave a twisted smile. "She's dead. Usagi is dead."

"What?" Yuchiro exclaimed in horror, staring at her.

"She called me and I heard screaming. Oh god Grandpa, I've never heard such screaming in my life. He was killing her as I listened." Rei went back to rocking herself and sobbing and they could get no more from her.

Grandpa and his Apprentice looked at each other and then the phone clutched in her hand. Rei was clearly in deep shock. "I think we'd better call the police." The old man said gravely.

Rei came out of her shocked state long enough to call her friends, voice struggling to keep calm for their sakes. It almost broke her all over again to hear their disbelieving tones change to horror and then to screaming. Their poor gentle friend, who never made one enemy in her sixteen years of life, who loved everything around her, was gone forever. Despite the police warning her Grandpa that they shouldn't go to the crime scene, and that an officer would come to the Temple later that morning, the raven-haired girl would not take no for an answer. He brought out an old beat up car, barely used anymore, and he, his Granddaughter and Yuchiro headed over to the Tsukino's in a stained silence. When they arrived, Ami and Makoto were already there, with Mrs Mizuno. They lived closer to Usagi than her best friend.

The three girls came together in a rush, clinging to each other and crying as if their hearts would break. They were surrounded by police, media and two ambulances. It was clear immediately that Usagi had not been the only victim of the murderer, her whole family had been wiped out in one night.

As the three tried to cross the yellow tape that marked it a crime scene and Ami's Mother attempted to hold her hysterical Daughter back, an official looking man approached in plain clothes. "This is a crime scene, young ladies!" He said in a harsh tone, noting their tear-streaked faces. The girls all started talking at once and he held up a hand. "One at a time, please."

"We're Usagi's best friends!" Rei told him in a desperate tone, her purple eyes lost. "We want to see her."

"I see." The policeman said in a quiet, musing tone, brown eyes sharp as they raked over them, then behind to their families. "Would one of you happen to be Hino Rei?"

The raven-haired girl nodded, swallowing hard as he looked at her. "I am." She replied in little more than a whisper.

The man nodded and pulled up the tape high enough to go under it. It dropped behind him and he led the three girls a few metres away, behind one of the ambulances. Another two cops kept the media away as the cameras were focused on them. "My name is Detective Himura." He introduced himself, nodding at them politely. "Miss Hino, I understand that you were on the line with Miss Tsukino at the time of the murder."

Ami went white and her hand flew to her mouth. "Oh god!" She groaned, turning away and throwing up on the ground.

Rei watched with a tense expression as Makoto comforted their friend, rubbing her back. Yeah, she had lost the content of her stomach an hour ago too... "She called me." She told the Detective, tears welling up in her eyes as she remembered.

Himura removed a pad and pen from his pocket and flipped to a page, making a few notes. "And what time was this?" He asked her.

"Midnight." The priestess In Training whispered, knowing that she would never, ever celebrate Halloween again. And ever year it came around, she would be consumed with sorrow and horror. "Exactly midnight. I woke up when I heard the phone ringing and answered it. I heard screaming and the sound of a k-knife-" Her face lost it's colour and Rei burst into tears, turning away.

The detective watched in sympathy as her other two friends rushed over and hugged her. They seemed incredibly close and if this was the sort of friendship they had with Tsukino Usagi, then he knew they would most likely never get over the murder. People who were that close to the death of a loved one rarely recovered, even with years of therapy. Once Rei had recovered her composure, he urged her to go on. "How did you know it was a knife?"

"I just-well, I suppose from horror movies." She said helplessly, shrugging her shoulders. Rei had known exactly what she was hearing and she would hear the sound of a knife going through flesh in her nightmares. And oh god, those dreadful screams.

Himura nodded and jotted down some more notes.

"Don't you already know how she died?" Makoto demanded, arms tight about Ami's shaking body. Mrs Mizuno wanted to come close, but was urged back by a policeman.

"We know, but we need all of the details to put together what happened tonight." He soothed, tone calm. "It's very important, no matter how small."

Rei told him the rest of what she heard and then came to the killer. "I heard him." She said with a shudder.

The detective's eyes became sharp and surprised. "Excuse me?" He exclaimed, taken aback by her words. The young girl had heard the murderer. "It was definitely a man?" He asked intently.

"Yes, I heard him breathing. After U-Usagi stopped scream-" The raven-haired girl broke off with a grimace, hands clenched. "He laughed. I said Usagi's name when I heard someone on the phone and I knew she was dead, but I had to ask just in case. I was hoping so badly that it was her." Rei's eyes closed for a long moment, hearing Mamoru's voice echoing inside her mind. "He laughed and said no, it wasn't her."

Himura clenched the pad in his hands and looked at Rei solemnly. If the killer had spoken to her, then that was a very bad thing. But he couldn't tell her that and frighten her. She was only a kid. "Thank you, Miss Hino. Now all three of you please take me through the events of last evening." He ordered.

The girls went through the events of the day before, leading up till they dropped off Usagi at her home.

"So your friend said a few times that she felt she was being watched?" The man asked them, looking down at his pad. It seemed to fit the usual profile for the killer and they all knew that he followed his victims, sometimes for months before making a move.

"Yes." They all replied with a nod of their head.

Rei felt like her legs were going to give out and abruptly sat down in the road, a numbness spreading through her. She was almost grateful for her emotions to be muted in such a manner. The fear and shock and loss was too overwhelming and she almost wished that she had been killed along with Usagi. There was a huge empty space inside of her where her friend had existed and the memories of their last few years together was agonizing. "If only we had listened to her." She whispered, face crumpling.

"We offered to go up to her room and check it, but she turned us down." Ami advised him, eyes blank.

"If you had, he most likely would have killed you all." Himura said gently, squatting down by the raven-haired girl. The other two knelt next to her, their hands reaching for each other's for comfort.

The blue-haired girl suddenly looked at the Detective. "Was her family dead when Usagi came home?" She asked him, having a dreadful feeling that they were.

Himura hesitated to give out that information, but knew that they needed to know. "They were dead at an hour before you all arrived here at the Tsukino's residence." He replied.

"He must have figured out Usagi was headed home and came here by car to kill her parents, then turn off all the lights and wait in house." Makoto murmured, her green eyes becoming hard. If she ever found out who this guy was, she was going to kill him. For real. It wasn't just the vengeful words of a close friend, but a vow.

"That's right." The Detective agreed. He talked to them for forty minutes more, getting as much details as he could from them, then he rose and took his leave.

Rei quickly stood up and rushed over to him, grabbing the sleeve of his jacket. "Wait!" She said quickly. "Where was he?"

"Excuse me?" The man said with a slight frown, unsure about what she was asking.

"That murdering bastard, Mamoru. Where was he hiding when he was texting Usagi?" Rei demanded, purple eyes narrowed. She had to know.

Himura hesitated and then shook his head. "It's better that you don't know, Miss Hino. You're going to have enough trouble getting over this, with the killer still on the loose." He tried to pull away from her hand, but she stepped in front of him and her friends flanked her, all three giving him a hard cold look that seemed far beyond their years. "He was in her bedroom closet." The Detective replied sternly. He yanked his jacket away and strode off.

Rei's white face turned to her friend's and they exchanged a horrified look. "Oh god, poor Usagi. He was there the whole time." She whispered, feeling her eyes burning again.

Makoto gently wiped away the tears that spilled down her friend's face, not realizing that she too was crying. "We'll get the bastard. I don't know how or when, but we'll get him." She vowed, putting her hand out. The other two immediately covered it with their own, making a vow of vengeance.

"But first, I need to know more." Ami murmured, her blue eyes distant.

The three girls had been firmly taken away by Mrs Mizuno and Grandpa before the bodies were brought out and for that they could be grateful. There was nothing more that could be done and the friends headed home to their separate beds, feeling a lingering terror and shock. Mamoru was still out there and they wondered how the hell they could track him down and what they would do with him when they found him...

Ami let Rei and Makoto into her room and closed it firmly, locking the door. She was pale with black rings under her eyes and the expression on her face was stunned. "Please sit down." She whispered to them, stalling for a moment as she gathered her thoughts.

Makoto exchanged a look with Rei and then the girls sat about a small table on the floor, which was covered in papers and mugs of coffee and Ami's laptop. Just like them, the blue-haired girl hadn't slept the rest of the night. It was the afternoon the day after Usagi had been murdered and they had decided to meet at the Mizuno's.

"What did you find out, Ami?" The priestess In Training asked in a stained tone. Her hair was messy and she was wearing the same clothes from the night before, her eyes bloodshot from all the crying. Her two friends looked just as devastated.

"It's-it's terrible, Rei." Ami choked out, reaching for her laptop. Her hand hesitated over the screen, then she slammed the lid down. "I'm not showing you the crime scene photo's. It was dreadful enough that I had to look." She rubbed a hand across her eyes. "I will never, ever forget them."

Makoto reached out for her hand and squeezed it. "I'm sorry Ami. We had to know for some clues in tracking him down."

"We can't do it." The blue-haired girl responded in a hard tone.

"What? Why the hell not, Ami?" Rei demanded, purple eyes disbelieving and angry. Was Ami backing out now that they'd decided to track him down and kill him? They would do it for Usagi, no matter what the cost.

Ami gave a rough laugh, which turned into a hysterical one and she was slapped by Makoto sharply. Her hand went to her red cheek and she waved off the brunette's sincere apology. "It's alright." She shook her head and then fixed the two with a bleak look. "We haven't got a hope in hell of catching this guy. Usagi wasn't the first. She wasn't even the second."

Her two friends looked at her in complete horror, faces white and mouth's gaping.

"How many?" Makoto asked in shock.

"Ten families over the last three years." Ami whispered back, feeling rather faint. She was a brilliant hacker and had gone through several servers, bouncing back about the world and covering her tracks as best she could, before hacking into the police database. What she had found was utterly appalling, going over all the reports and the photos. She had been sick many times, unable to hold her stomach contents. The most painful file to look at had been Usagi's. "Chiba Mamoru is a serial killer. His main target is the young girl of the family and he stalks her for weeks or months before making a move. He murders the parents and conceals them, then contacts the girl either by disposable phone or chat on the computer using a fake account. He pretends to be a friend of her age, having researched everything about her and after speaking to her for a while, gradually scaring her and raising the tension and fear, he kills her."

Rei bit back a sob, her hand to her mouth, but then she pushed back her horror. "How do they know what happens to the girl?"

Ami gave her a mirthless smile. "He makes absolutely no move to cover his tracks, leaving behind the record of his conversations with the girls." She went on to describe some of the previous murders and then they came to Usagi. "Are you sure you want to know what happened that night?" She asked them seriously. "You don't need to know this."

Makoto smashed her fist into the table, green eyes furious. "I want to know! And I don't care how much of a ghost this guy is; I'll find him." She swore.

Rei nodded in agreement when Ami looked at her, but she had misgivings. Whatever her friend was about to tell them would never leave their heads for as long as they lived, but she felt an overwhelming need to know what had happened to Usagi.

The blue-haired girl nodded and started speaking, her voice quiet and steady. The other two listened in growing horror as Ami told them about that night. Mamoru had followed them about and then gone to the house, knocking on the door and using some excuse to be invited inside. Sometime during that hour, he waited till the Mother went into the kitchen and killed the other two. Kenji had been first, a deep gash across his throat. His body had fallen back onto the couch, bloody spraying all over the upholstery. Shingo had attempted to run towards the front door, but had been stabbed in the back from behind, partially severing his spine. Ikuko, obviously hearing their fate, had attempted to run out the kitchen door into the back garden. She had been caught and dragged by the hair back into the room and then stabbed twenty times over her chest and stomach in a horrific manner. She had not been sexually assaulted. Mamoru had then taken them upstairs one by one and put them in their beds.

"Oh god." Rei whispered, face rather grey. Ami gestured towards a bucket near the bed and they watched as the girl crawled over to it and vomited, holding her dark hair back from her face. When she was done, she rolled onto her back and lay there limply.

The blue-haired girl left the room to fetch a wet cloth and came back inside, locking the door again. She went to Rei and knelt down, wiping her face gently.

"Thank you." The Priestess In Training croaked, her throat raw from all the throwing up since the night before.

Makoto stood at the window with her fists clenched, face enraged, but her green eyes glittering with helpless tears.

Once the girls had composed themselves, Ami went on, looking haunted as she described Usagi's death. She told them that after Mamoru had staged the bodies, he turned off all the lights in the house but for the front porch and Usagi's room, then had gone upstairs to remove the clothing from the closet, throwing the pile onto the floor of the parent's room. According to the reports, after the four of them arrived home and their friend went inside, she hadn't turned on the lights as she headed through the room covered in the blood of her family. They had found a dried patch of the liquid on the heel of one of the pink slippers inside the costume bag, from where the blonde had walked through a drying patch.

"If only Usagi had noticed that." Rei sobbed, wishing with all her heart that her friend had turned over the slipper and seen the blood. She might still be alive now if she had notice it! And if only she had turned on the lights in the living room, her gentle friend could have run out of the house. She mentioned that to Ami and the girl shook her head.

"No, he thought of that already and removed all the bulbs in the living room area and the kitchen. He was taking no chances that Usagi might notice the blood." Oh god, Ami felt so revolted talking about the horrific death of her dear friend this way. They all needed to know what happened, but they had very little chance to tracking down a serial killer that the police had been after for three years now. This Chiba Mamoru was extremely intelligent...but then again, so was she.

Makoto gritted her teeth and listened in fury as Ami went on to describe what had happened next.

Ami told them that the police had mapped out what occurred in Usagi's room once she got there. The blonde had removed her costume and gotten into her pyjama's and then had started to receive texts. She outlined what had been said, as well as Rei's conversation.

"Why didn't I listen?" The raven-haired girl shouted in self recrimination. "She told me he was giving her the creeps and that he knew that her hair was down. It was all so calculated. He knew exactly what he was doing and even had a picture ready!"

"Maybe we can track him through the school website?" Makoto asked her, feeling just as angry. It wasn't fair. It just wasn't fair to hunt down someone so beautiful and kind and take away her life. Was it for that very reason that the bastard had picked her?

Her friend shook her head, trying to keep a hold on her emotions for the sake of the other two. "No, Makoto. He's brilliant at computing. I hacked into the site and I lost his trail almost immediately. Mamoru knew exactly what he was doing. But I'll keep an eye on the police database and maybe their computer forensics section can find something."

Rei closed her eyes and breathed deeply, feeling the helpless rage, fear and sorrow threatening to consume her.

Ami explained the rest of the night in a solemn tone and then came to Luna. "She was killed and hung in the tree right outside of Usagi's open window. But it was so dark she couldn't even see her." Her friend would have looked for the cat and had to have been staring right at her eviscerated body only inches away from the light of the room. It was a mixed blessing, because she wouldn't have wanted the blonde to see what happened to her beloved pet, but if she had, she would have run out of the house before she was killed.

They spoke for another two hours, speaking of revenge and making plans and desperate for each other's comfort to try and heal the wound in their hearts. They had never been afraid of the dark before, but now they were. There was a killer out there and he didn't seem to have a particular type, apart from the age of the victims, which were between fourteen and seventeen. He liked blondes, red-heads and brunettes, of any height and build, from any school around Japan, using both the phone and computer to contact the girls. The man romances the girls and then killed them shortly after, as if he got off on it. He probably did. The police had been struggling to find a pattern, but every time they thought they had Mamoru pinned, he changed his moves. One thing remained constant and that was the name. Chiba Mamoru didn't exist, according to records, but that was the name the murderer always used.

As Rei was walking out the front door, Ami took her arm in a tight hold, her face concerned. "Rei, please be careful. This guy knows what you look like and he spoke to you." He had also met Rei in person at school, though the raven-haired girl had struggled to remember his face, she couldn't.

"I know." The Priestess In Training whispered back. "But I don't exactly fit his type. I know about him and he likes strangers that he can stalk for months. He also only picks girls that have at least a sibling and two parents. I've got Grandpa and Yuchiro." Rei hugged her and Makoto and headed off to the bus stop, unable to stop herself from looking hard at any guy that came near her. The police had absolutely no idea what Mamoru looked like or what age.

It was a week later and Rei was a wreck. She had been interviewed by Detective Himura and a few other policeman a couple of times now and just wanted to be left alone. Ami had done her best with her friend's help to try and track down Mamoru and the police didn't have any leads either. Another girl would die in a couple of months and they had no idea who she was, though they suspected the murderer already had her picked out.

She stood up from her bed and stretched, brushing her unwashed hair from her face. Rei knew that she should have a bath and wash herself, and even eat something, but she didn't have any energy. She was getting thinner and more pale, huge black marks under her eyes. Without Usagi in her life, she was wasting away. Her best friend's face haunted her day and night, as did their last texted conversation. And the screams. Oh god, those terrified, agonised shrieks would never leave her head. They played over and over like a broken track inside of her mind.

Rei walked to her door and slid it open, staring out into the quiet hall. She hadn't heard from Grandpa since that morning, or Yuchiro since he brought her a plate of food. She glanced down at the untouched meal outside of her door on the floor and sighed, wishing she had the stomach for it. The Priestess In Training sighed and closed it again, going back to her bed and laying curled into a ball on her side under the covers, eyes blank.

She dozed for a couple of hours till night fell and quickly went to the window to close the curtains, fear starting to fill her when she thought about someone staring inside at her. The raven-haired girl raced for the light-switch, feet loud on the wooden floor, and she felt relieved when a warm yellow glow spread through the room. She paced back and forth for a while, lost in thought and feeling the usual terror that night brought now flooding her. Rei barely slept anymore and when she did, the lights were always on.

A noise from the hall made her heart jump and she froze for a moment, then thought that it might only be her Grandpa or Yuchiro. She rose to her feet, trying not to freak out and carefully put her head to the door. There was another small noise, but then nothing but silence. She swallowed and reached for the door, finally gaining the courage to slide it open. She hesitated and poked her head out, swiftly looking left and right down the dark hall. Rei saw that there was no one there and quickly slammed it shut, wishing that she had a lock. But it was a temple and all the doors were made of rice paper and slid open. She returned to her bed and lay there, a fist pressed to her mouth in apprehension and wishing the night was already over.

Two hours later at about ten o'clock, she suddenly thought of the doors and quickly left her room, wide purple eyes going over each and every room she passed, jumping at the smallest noise and scared of the shadows. Rei stopped outside of Grandpa's door and carefully slid it opened, peering into the dark room. She saw his hair above the covers and sighed in relief as she thought she heard him breathing deeply. The next room had Yuchiro, who was also asleep by that hour, like clock work. The poor guy, he was worked into the ground as an apprentice of the Temple!

After checking the house was secure, she returned to her brightly-lit room and grabbed her phone, texting Makoto and then Ami. All three of them checked in with each other now, several times during the night. It might have been considered paranoid by others, but to the three, it was just being smart. Their dear friend was dead, murdered by a stranger during the night, and they loved each other enough to take certain precautions. Besides, if they wanted to catch the bastard, they had to keep close.

[Makoto, are you in bed yet?] She asked her friend.

The response came immediately, Makoto having expected the text. [Yeah, girl. I don't sleep much anymore. You?]

[An hour here and there. Has Ami been back to school?]

[No. She tried to, but couldn't concentrate. Her Mother is so worried.] The brunette reported in concern.

Rei bit her lip and sighed, sitting back against her pillows. She looked about her room vaguely, not really taking anything in. The three of them had taken the week off, mostly at the request of their teachers. Sometimes the Priestess In Training had gotten so lost in the memory of that night that she started to scream without warning, scaring the hell out of the other students in her Private School. She was too traumatised by it all to even care when she was stared at like she was crazy.

[I'm just going to text Ami.]

Makoto texted back an okay and waited.

The raven-haired girl sent a message to Ami and waited. A few seconds later, her other friend responded.

[Are you as tired as I am, Rei? I can't remember how many hours I've slept this week.] Ami asked her.

Rei grimaced in worry, wishing that her friends could get some rest, but knowing they were as much of a wreck as she was. [I'm so tired that I'm seeing things.] She admitted wryly. Running on so little sleep meant that she was seeing white things floating over her vision, had become faint in some stages, had lost her appetite and was feeling weak. Not to mention her mental state, jumping at every noise, unable to be in a room without lights, feeling a dread once night fell, wary of every phone-call and text. Would she ever get over this?

The girls spoke for a while and then Ami said that she was going to try and study for a test that was coming up. They would return to school soon and would be behind on things. Makoto said she was not going to study and that TV sounded really good right about now, as there was an old movie marathon on.

Rei really wished that she could go to school with them, but her Father, who never even spoke to her, had insisted that she attend a posh all-girl's school. She sighed and searched the web on her phone for a while, then flopped down onto her back on the covers. She started at the ceiling for so long, her vision started to fade. The girl grabbed a book from her nightstand and for a couple of hours was able to loose herself in the plot.

A noise from outside her window made the girl flinch and sit up quickly, dropping the book. She silently lowered her feet to the floor and padded over to the window, keeping low so her shadow wasn't cast on it. Rei's heart started to go uncomfortably fast and she felt a fear threatening to choke her. She crouched at one corner and carefully lifted the edge of the curtain, anxious purple eyes looking out into the darkness. It took a few seconds for her eyes to adjust and then she saw the familiar gleam of the moonlight on feathers. It was her crows in the tree.

The raven-haired girl sighed in relief, eyes hunting about the area and then she lowered it and stood up. "Oh god, will it always be like this?" She whispered, covering her eyes and feeling tears seeping through her fingers. Rei walked back to her bed and rolled onto her side facing the door, sobbing for long moments. "Usagi. I miss you so much." She sobbed. She was lost in her heartbreak for about an hour, then she just stared at the far wall numbly, wishing she could close her eyes. She was so tired, but afraid to sleep at night.

Rei's phone abruptly sounded and she flinched, then fumbled about on her covers for the cell. She glanced at the text and opened it, not checking the sender and thinking it was one of her friends.

[Hello Rei.] The person said.

The girl blinked her wet lashes at the screen and her eyes flew to the phone number, not recognizing it. The Priestess' heartbeat sped up and she swallowed hard, feeling the fear rising again. Oh god, she couldn't help but think of what had happened to Usagi, but it could just be a friend from school. She tried to force back her immediate panic, palms becoming sweaty on the plastic of the phone as she typed back. [Who is this?]

[A secret admirer.]

Pure horror filled Rei and her purple eyes dilated in terror, her heartbeat in her ears. She sat up swiftly, her eyes going about the room and falling on her closet. The door was slightly open and she knew that she hadn't left it that way. Not after what had happened with Usagi. She hadn't even noticed when it had not longer been shut. "No." She moaned, eyes filing with tears. It was Mamoru on the phone, which meant he was in her house and her Grandpa and Yuchiro were already dead. He must have been in her room for hours! The fear was absolutely choking her and she froze like a petrified rabbit, eyes locked on the closet.

Was he staring back at her, waiting for her to move so he could kill her? Rei couldn't see a think in the dark of the closet and she said a prayer to her god and her friends. Move! Oh god, why wouldn't her body move? She couldn't seem to take her eyes from the other side of the room, or move her trembling legs.

As tears spilled down her face, eyes huge, the girl suddenly felt panic fill her and she started to dial the police. But her terror overcame her, the need to escape becoming overwhelming. "Not me! Oh god, please not me." Rei sobbed out, her voice hoarse. She made a frightened noise as she leapt up from the bed and threw herself to the floor, going for the door with her eyes on the closet.

Something suddenly grabbed her ankle and she screamed as she fell hard onto the ground. Her nails bit into the wooden floors, as a hand wrapped about her leg and she was yanked under her bed, screaming in terror.

In her room, Makoto grabbed her phone for her usual check in with her friends and she texted Rei first. She waited for two minutes and then frowned, becoming concerned. The brunette told herself that the girl might have gone to the toilet and she waited another three minutes before sending again. [Rei? Are you alright?]

Once again there was no reply and the brunette was getting really scared. Rei wasn't answering her texts and it wasn't like her to not do so when they knew a killer was on the loose and knew what the Priestess In Training looked like. [Rei?] She asked anxiously and waited, but there was nothing. Oh god! She quickly sent one to Ami. [Ami! Rei isn't answering my texts.]

[What? Maybe she went to the toilet?] The blue-haired girl suggested. But they were both getting very concerned.

[No, I waited five minutes and you know we've agreed to text each other every three hours!] The brunette's hands were shaking as Ami suggested that she call Rei. She quickly went to her address book and hit the number for her friend. The phone rang for a long time and then as it was about to go to voicemail, it picked up. "Rei, thank god! I thought something was wrong." Makoto blurted out, feeling relief flooding her. That feeling lasted only a few seconds as she listened to breathing on the other end and it didn't sound like the Priestess.

"I remember you." A male voice said in soft tone. "You have pretty green eyes." And then the call abruptly ended.

Makoto's eyes widened in horror and shock. "No. No, Rei." She shook her head, backing up into the wall and her hand almost crushing her phone. It suddenly hit her hard that she had just spoken to the killer on Rei's phone and he had known who she was, which could only mean one thing.

The cell phone fell limply from her cold hands, her green eyes terrified.

She was next...

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The End

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Comments:No, there will not be a Sequel. It's funner to leave it open like that at the end and wonder what Mamoru was going to do to Makoto. I could keep going and show you how he killed the last two Senshi, but there isn't really anywhere else for him to hide in the room. LOL. Maybe when I'm over the flu, I might consider writing another Chapter or so, with him murdering Ami and Makoto, but I'll have go get inventive and he won't do it at their homes. It was wonderful to hear that you liked my creepy little tale so much and were as scared by it as I was hoping. I'm trying to expand my writing into other areas than romance. I will be sure to write more like it soon. I'm sorry about Luna being killed, but it's scary to think that Usagi was looking right at her when she got home, hanging right outside of the window just beyond the light. I have four cats and I love them a lot, but I felt that this bit had to be added to the plot. Serial killers, after all, start with small animals and then make their way up to humans. There was no way in hell he was killing all the family and leaving the pet!

I have actually come up with two new plots, where Mamoru isn't the killer. One is a bus trip for Usagi's class, where he is the same age as the girls, where they are going to a hot-spring resort. On the three day trip, where the bus isn't stopping at all at night, several students start to go missing when everyone is asleep. There's blood found and they're in the middle of nowhere and start to suspect each other.

The second one is about Usagi and her sister Minako (Alternate Reality of course!) and a creepy little scenario where there's someone in the house, only the Odango doesn't realize it at first. I can't tell you two much or it will give away the plot of the Oneshot. :)

Oh and more of Fright Night will be out shortly, as I have been inspired to write the last Four Chapters for that Fanfic.