Who: Toshio Saeki and an NPC Where: Toshio's apartment. When: Two AM. What: Freaking out a kid in his own building. Rating: PG-13, creepy. Status: Narrative, Complete.
After successfully spreading the Curse to two other buildings in the city, unknown to the three people he had been working on, Toshio took the liberty to manifest within the building he was currently choosing as his home. So far, he hadn't made it out of his room, silently hoping that his mother would come home. He may have been dead and a pawn in a curse, but that didn't mean he didn't value his relationship any less than another normal six year old boy. The child heard footsteps below the stairs he was clinging to and looked down, spotting a girl a little older than him on the landing. She had been on holiday with her parents, and had just come back late, obviously running ahead of them to get inside quickly.
The girl, obviously sensing someone watching her, looked up and started at the sight of Toshio holding onto the banister with his small hands. Casting him a smile she craned her head up to watch him, her small voice carrying all the way up to the top of the stairway. "What's your name?" she asked politely, her annoying smile still attached to her features. The boy's fingers drummed against the wood and his voice was low as he responded, "Toshio."
She smiled again, making her standard, polite introductions and looked away, beginning to join him to see if he wanted to play the next day when she stopped in her tracks. Her blood ran cold, and the little ghost could have sworn he could hear her blood pumping through her veins from his seat on the stairs. Because, where he had previously been clinging to the railings, he was now halfway down the stairs and revealing his true form. The typical white appearance of a yurei and the black around his eyes. He knew that the girl wanted to scream, as he stared at her with that apathetic wide-eyed expression and tapped his fingers against his pale knees. The girl turned quickly, coming face to stomach with her father and began babbling about the ghost on the stairs.
When her father turned to look to reassure her that there was no one there, he didn't have to lie to his daughter. Toshio had already left, and would wait until the girl was sound asleep in bed before he tormented her again.