Title: Haunted (1/?)
Pairing: Ohmiya
Summary: Ohno inherits a big and ramshackle mansion from a distant relative, but there is much more in his new house than it seems at first sight.
Rating: PG.
Disclaimer: Not mineeeee.
AN: Un-betaed and english isn't my mother tongue... so be prepared for some big misspellings.

CHAPTER 1

The sun was setting down behind the near mountains when he heard a car turning into the drive. He slowly moved  toward the room's window and looked through its dirty panes at the elegant black car that was parking in front of the manor's entrance. He frowned with suspicion.

When the vehicle came to a halt, a tall skinny man with a dark grey suit and a clear expression of displeasure got out of it. A moment later, the passenger's door opened and a sloppy casual-street-clothed young man appeared. He was slim and short, perhaps as tall as him, thought Nino. He had spiked light brown hair and a lightly vague expression on his face, visible even from the first floor window.

' The old man never learns,' Nino mumbled with a displeased snort. 'Again, he has made his lawyer find another buyer for MY house. Doesn't he grow bored of trying?'. He glanced at the young man for a second time. He was examining absently the manor while the lawyer was explaining him something, pointing at the old house. 'Well, it doesn't matter... ' Nino smiled lightly, 'I'll deal with him the same way I did with the others' . Nino observed the short man who was taking out some rickety suitcases of the car's boot. 'They usually give up after the first or the second fright... and this man, with such a naive face, seems to be really easy to scare off,' his smile turned broader, eviler and definitely more menacing.

'Ah! They seem to have finished the talk already'. From the window, Nino saw the lawyer quickly getting into the car and disappearing at full speed through the big wrought-iron gates of the fence that enclosed the manor and its gardens. The young man kept staring at the gravel road where the car had left for a few minutes. Then, he shrugged his shoulders and entered in the house dragging his old suitcases with him.

'The game begins...' Nino laughed out loud, left the window and went towards the door. The echo of his evil howl kept sounding a long time after he left the room.

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Ohno looked through the car's window at the lonely road that led up to the hill across the gloomy forest. Right at the end of the path, on top of the hill, the old manor his great-grandfather had left him was settled.

He couldn't believe his good luck when his great-grandfather's lawyer found him in his old little flat, looking for a new job in the newspaper after he was made redundant about three weeks ago. He told him that his great-grandfather from his mother side, whom he had never met due the big rift between his and the main family branch, had died a week ago. The old man had been famous for his eccentric ways all his life, and many of his relatives truly believed that he had finally gone senile because in his will, he imposed a series of restrictive conditions nearly impossible to fulfil. To everybody's surprise, those conditions finally made possible for Ohno to be the only heir of his great-grandfather fortune. As a result, he had inherited an old manor and enough money to live without concerns all his life.

The elegant car crossed the wrought-iron fence enclosing the manor lands and slowly stopped in front of the house's big wooden gate. The lawyer got out of the car while Ohno calmly unhooked his belt. A moment later, he joined the lawyer and looked at the big grey stone house in front of him. A wooden window banged somewhere and a sudden cold gust made him shudder.

'The manor doesn't seem to be in bad condition...' Ohno thought inspecting carefully the house under the red sunset light, 'Although with this light is difficult to see its real state. Tomorrow I'll inspect it better.'

"... village's people don't want to come near because they're really afraid of the manor.", the other man was saying and Ohno realized that he hadn't been paying attention to the lawyer's words while he was examining the house.

"Hmmmm..." he answered after noticing that the lawyer was waiting for his reply. "Please don't worry. I don't get scared easily.", he reassured him with a little smile. Then he moved towards the car to take his suitcases out of the boot.

The lawyer looked sceptically at him and seemed to reach to a conclusion. He carefully opened his black leather briefcase and took out some keys. "If you are sure..." he put the key ring in Ohno's hand, "These are the house's keys. The biggest one opens the entrance's door and the rest belongs to some closed rooms like the greenhouse or the storeroom. If you have any problem, please call me."

With another doubtful glance, the lawyer said farewell to him and got into the elegant black car, leaving shortly after. Ohno kept staring at the wrought-iron gates where the lawyer's car had disappeared until the last sunbeams dropped out of sight behind the near mountains. Then, he shrugged his shoulders and moved towards the manor's door bringing his suitcases along.

After a bit of persuasion and a loud creaking, the heavy wooden door opened to reveal an enormous hall in darkness. The scarce light of the dawn let glimpse some pieces of furniture covered with sheets to prevent them from getting dusty.

He set his suitcases aside and searched for the switch in the dark, smelling the stale air. "It seems nobody has been here for a long time," he mumbled looking around when the lights turned on. 

Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16