[FANFIC] Bamboo Blood (Chapter:1.9)
Title:The depth of it: Chapter 1.9
Pairing: Yoosu, Yunjae, Kimin
Author: BloodyRose
Length: 09/??
Genre: angst, romance, fluff, comedy, drama, smut, happy ending,
Warning/s: Yaoi, boyxboy
Summary: The old man took one deep breath and began talking again
The old man took one deep breath and began talking again:' it happened before a long time… my grandfather told me this as he was there when it happened… this forest and the village once belonged to one man, he was the only descended left from a noble family yet he was evil and dark hearted…
When the man died with no kids which anyone knew about the land became a public property and every farmer took a small field for his own. It was thirty years after that when it happened, my father was just born… a young man came claiming to be the son of that rich man and claimed back the lands…he had the family's seal to prove his cause
The farmers who suffered so much from the late man didn't want to give up their freedom, they didn't want to give up their fields and work under someone else's control once again and so they did it
A few of the angry young men gathered around at night, they sneaked up upon the man and slit his throat while he slept, the body was burnt to ashes and the ashes were thrown in the forest…
Almost no one knew about this. No one but the men's families of course and they treated their sons like heroes, heroes who reclaimed the fields from the evil man to their rightful owner, the farmers
A while passed after that, it was a harsh winter on everyone and things went to the worst, the and froze and nothing survived the snow, people had no other choice but to try and hunt in the woods for some stray animal or so
One after one people went into the forest, one after one they were tortured. When they came back they all were frightened, injured in several places and all shivering, they turned mad… the only thing people knew was that they turned insane after entering the forest. Fast, people began to believe the forest was haunted by an evil spirit or so
Years passed, it happened still, people were avoiding the forest. Everyone who entered it went insane in some way or another. Families of the men who killed the boy, those who knew what happened went into the forest together and built the shrine in the small lake, they hoped it would save them from the spirit
That same night all men who were involved in the stranger's murder died in their beds, all with their eyes and mouth wide open, it was said the horror filled their eyes wasn't swept away even by death itself
After that everything stopped, no one entered the forest and no one got hurt, the story was forgotten as people who knew it began to die. My grandfather told it to me just before he died, it was our little secret. Even my father didn't know it
Years passed after that, long years and decades till twenty years ago… it all started again'
The old man panted, he needed to breath now and yoochun was biting on his lip that it bleed, he needed to know what happened twenty years ago, he needed to know everything. He had to know it now
'Twenty years ago something weird happened; no one spoke of it because they thought it was too shameful and inappropriate to be spoken of…
She was a very young, pretty woman… everyone in the village noticed that, all men followed her, married and unmarried wanted her, rich and poor, young and old… everyone. She was the youngest daughter of the miller in the village; her father was a very strict, harsh man who never allowed her a thing. The only time she was allowed out of the house was to get water from the well
I don't know who of them did it; no one ever knew… she was never alone even when she was at home, so no one knows how they met or how it happened. But, it was one summer night that she fell ill, she was brought to the village's doctor and he confirmed her to be pregnant
You must understand my boy; she was just a kid herself, fifteen years old, so innocent and unmarried… her father went insane, he searched for the man who did this to his girl for months but no one came forward to take the blame, to offer to marry her and save her. With that, her fate was sealed
People were beginning to talk, it wasn't and still isn't acceptable for that to happen, people believed that only blood would wash the shame away and so her father decided… the night his girl gave birth he stabbed her in her heart and killed her, her kid was killed too and together they were buried in the cemetery, side by side. The family women were never seen after that, the miller still went to his work but no women were allowed to leave the house as no one was allowed to enter it'
'B…but, what does this have to do with anything?' yoochun frowned. This story was horrible, but what did it have to do with those victims… unless…
'You see my boy; it was a few months later, the war had just ended and soldiers had just came home. Everyone was happy; they all seemed to have forgotten the poor Shin Ree and her death… at one night everyone smelled a strong, weird smell was coming out of the house, the men entered the house and were all shocked to see it
The family was all dead. The man was found in the yard, killed with one slash in his chest, a perfect half circle slash…'
Yoochun's eyes widened, this was exactly what we was waiting to hear. This was exactly what was used to kill those people ten years ago and now
'The men went into the house; the daughters were all killed in their beds, the same way as their father. The wife was found last in the kitchen, she was holding a knife and she seemed to have killed herself with it
Men believed that she felt too much guilt for the murder of her daughter and grandchild that she killed her husband first and then her daughters before taking her own life and so the case was never counted as an outside murder, it was simply a woman mourning her daughter'
'But it wasn't! Was it?' yoochun hissed eyeing the man as if eyeing a treasure he always dreamed off in front of him
'I went into that house with them my boy, the knife the woman was holding was a cooking knife, short and not even sharp enough to cut the chicken she was cooking'
'Why would a woman about to kill her family and herself cook dinner?' yoochun smirked, the old man nodded
'Beside, a kitchen knife won't work; the knife must be long and somehow like a banana' yoochun frowned
The old man nodded:' it must be a wide farming billhook'
'Billhook' yoochun whispered, he wrote that down in his notebook with everything the old man said
'The bodies were buried too, but the weird thing that still puzzled me was the empty crib near the mother, it was obvious it was used recently' the old man finished
Yoochun widened his eyes; he was adding everything up in his mind and thinking hard to make sense of things
'A year after that…' the old man began ' a boy took the blame for what happened to Shin Ree, he said it was his baby she was pregnant with and that he was afraid so he kept silent and allowed her to be killed… the villagers couldn't forgive him and he was hanged for his crime'
'But he didn't do it…' yoochun whispered to the old man ' he wouldn't come out of the blue and just confess this after the girl and his baby were killed… would he?'
The old man shrugged and shook his head:' this I can't confirm'
'Did anyone see the baby's body, the girl's body before they were buried?'
The old man thought about it for a while:' we all saw the blood, we saw the girl's body and the baby was wrapped in a white cloth, we didn't see him…'
Yoochun nodded his head:' and then everything happened… the kills and then the pause and now they started again'
The old man nodded, he seemed really tired and worn out that yoochun felt sorry for him. He knew the old man needed a break, he wondered if there was anything else the old man didn't tell him yet
'Is there anything else you want to tell me, uncle?' yoochun asked
The old man shook his head; he stood up and walked out of the room. Yoochun sat there thinking, he thought about everything he heard and was trying to make sense to them. The more he thought about it the more that suspicious inside of him nagged on him. It was eating him on the inside, crawling underneath his skin. And yoochun, he had had to do something about it
Walking out of the room yoochun looked at yunho; he was dead serious now, dead serious
'I need shovels!' he demanded at the room at large
'There is a couple in the tool shack outside the cemetery' a man spoke
Yoochun looked outside, it was dark and he would look like a mad man. Still, he didn't care and looked at everyone:' I want you all to stay here together! All doors locked and all windows locked!! I'm going out for some digging'
'What?' yunho blinked ' what digging?'
'I must make sure of something important' yoochun hissed already making his way to the door
'Can't it wait till the morning?' yunho was astonished by this; the idiot man was going to get himself killed!