This is a three-part story with three different stories. It's from the point of view from the three main leads from the original Japanese version: Ryuji, Reiko and Yoichi.

What is going through Reiko's mind in the last days of her life? Finally the question that people have wondered about is answered… What did she see before her death?

Each chapter is different and special to each other characters. In this story, I will try my best to explain once and for all, the secrets behind the family and their real relationship with the murderous Sadako Yamamura.

The blood grew towards me, it was bright red and seemed as loose as wine in a cup. For a few seconds, I could her voice in my ears. It was calling my name. I can't remember what it sounded like, was it a sad cry or a happy cry?

As Mai and I looked out at the blood, it was like it was alive. Though she couldn't hear the cries of my mother calling, the blood alive to anyone who watched it crawl. For a second, I think that everyone around me thought the same thing… 'Is this woman really dead?'

At the time of her death, her face didn't show anything of fear, or any sign that she was scared. In fact her face showed peace and happiness, that she had seen something nostalgic… What did she see?

'As quoted by Yoichi'

NostalgiaShe came…

She grew…

She saw, and flew…

Every night, I woke up from a troubled sleep in which Sadako had come to me… Calling me her mother… I didn't understand what was happening to me but I always felt the darkness of Sadako, pleading with me to take her with me…

Maybe I was Shizuko in these dreams. Maybe I was imagining the one time that Shizuko had left her daughter behind with her cousin. Maybe this was so… But it wasn't, because in these dreams, I was in the well and I was holding Sadako to me, she was a skull… Crying the grudged water from sockets that would have been her eyes. I was holding her, telling her she was free now… But then she'd grab me with her arms…

I'd look down and see that Sadako wasn't a skull… but a really life girl of nineteen… She was crying and telling me, 'Reiko… be my mother…'

I'd wake up with a cold sweat and gasping for breath, every time I'd wake up… I'd be wet and soaked with well water. I knew it was well water, I knew that I must have been there. After being in there, scratching around for Sadako's remains. The smell was so clear. The smell of death and rotting flesh… I couldn't stand it…

I was really there. I was in the well with Sadako. She had taken me to the well in my sleeping form. Why?

Did she want me?

Did she want to own me?

Every time I'd wake up, I'd look over to Yoichi and make sure he was okay, that he was still with me… In my dreams, when I don't dream of the well, I dream of a better place where I did the right thing. I dreamt that Ryuji was still alive and my father was still alive. I could wake up in the morning and they'd just be a phone call away.

My darling little Yoichi, how you've suffered…

If I lost my only treasure, my little Yo-chan, I would kill myself. I couldn't go on living without my Yoichi, my little positive one. All my life, ever since I first saw him… I love him more then anyone or anything in this entire world. I'd do anything, I'd give up my own life, my own salvation to make sure that my son was safe. Words can't describe how much I love him, and will do anything to keep him safe.

If you haven't got children, or even if you're a man, you can't understand the love and desire to protect your child against everything that might threaten him or her. It's a chemical feeling, is what my father used to say. It is an emotion that only a woman can feel for her child, the feeling of motherhood.

The smell of the child, the feel of them, their voice, their laugh and their hug against their mother… Everything feels special and magic when you're a mother. We mothers are the ones who carried the special little treasure in your womb, with the greatest care and you neutered them within your body.

If the police were to find Yoichi and I, they'd take him away from me. I know they would. I couldn't bare that. They'd take him and experiment on him… Lock him away from me… Torment him day and night… Treat him like some guinea pig!

They'd treat him like people used to always treat Ryuji… They'd look on him as weird rather then wonderful, as freak rather then special and as a monster rather then a little angel. My son is magical, and despite his difference, he will one day learn to control them. If they take Yoichi, he will be treated as if he were an animal subject, just because he's different…

Not my little Yoichi… Will I be here to protect you for any longer? After all, if what Ryuji said was true, I will be dead soon anyway.

I don't want to die…

I can't leave my darling alone in the world…

Sometimes in these dreams, I'm in the well and I look up. Ryuji's there looking down on me from the moonlit well, like Ikuma has looked down on Sadako. As if he'd pushed me down the well, as if he had betrayed me in some way. I don't understand how, but there he is, looking down on me.

Last time I had that dream, he said in a distant voice… Forgive me. Forgive me, Asakawa.

What for, why don't you tell me?

"Don't worry, Ms. Asakawa" Takano said as she left, "I won't tell them where you are".

I prayed she wouldn't. All hell would break lose if she did, the police would come and put me under questioning. I know they blame me for Ryuji's death… I know that Mai thinks that way too… Everyone thinks I murdered all these people...

I'm innocent! I didn't kill anyone…

Or did I? Was it all my fault that Ryuji died? I mean he didn't need to watch the video. He did it willingly! Still… I copied the videotape and gave it to him… I did kill him! I was the one who watched the videotape in the first place, if I hadn't have watched it, then maybe Ryuji would still be alive. Maybe we never would have known about Sadako… Maybe, things would have been different…

It's me who should be saying sorry…

Ryuji was such a special and good-hearted person. He didn't deserve to die. People saw him as a freak too… They looked at him strangely and they started at him as he walked by them, just because he's different. There was nothing freakish about him and there was nothing wrong with him. I never found either Ryuji or Yoichi strange. They're special, if you ask me. Very special…

Maybe it was because I have powers too…

Ryuji… he gave me everything! He gave me the courage to leave home when I finished high school and go collage in Tokyo. He saved me, in every way a person can be saved. His friendly smile, his terrible jokes and his touching personality survived here in my memories. There must have been something, something inside Ryuji before he died that made him so dark and sad. Like Yoichi is now. If only the police weren't searching for me, if only… it only…

Why do these dreams keep coming?

Why does Sadako still come to me?

What is this feeling inside me?

Ever since Ryuji died, I've felt different. I don't understand what's happening to me… Is this death that I've been waiting for? I can feel something. There are people or things watching me. As if the Grim Reaper has me marked as next. Someone is calling me to their side. That place in heaven is waiting for me and they stand in the light, waiting for me to come down the line towards them.

I can't die! I can't leave Yoichi, not all alone in the world… It's like, when I touched Sadako in the well, something climbed inside me and buried itself down into me. So far that I couldn't even begin to think how far it is.

Sometimes, I even forget who I am… These days while I watch Yoichi playing with that Takano girl, I can feel pure darkness in Yoichi's heart. This is just what Ryuji and I tried to protect him from…

We failed…

Who am I? What's happening to me? I know my name is Reiko Asakawa, but what is happening to me? Why is the darkness spreading through me too…? Did it really come from Sadako? Is the darkness the thing that brings her to me? Is it that evil that I took from her inside me now… Growing like a virus, like bacteria…

Like a baby…

A child?

That's what Ai-sama said… When I was eighteen, I went to see her with Ryuji. When we were alone, she touched me and told me that I would end up like this. She had pleaded with me to leave it alone, but my life was already on the path that Hiroko had seen. Ai-sama then told me these words that only seem to echo with me now…

"How has your health been? I hope it has been okay. Too much water play, will bring you no good. To stare at the sea too long, it'll draw you in and you will die. Now listen to Granny. You are giving birth next year…"

"Giving birth?"

At nineteen, a year after Ai-sama said those words; I gave birth to Yoichi… I couldn't believe my love for him. I adored him more then anything else in this entire world. All ever wanted to do was be with him, to be the best mother I could be to him. But, Ai-sama had said something else about my birth…

"This child is your destiny. Hiroko had said so… This child will bring nothing but trouble to for you both. He will bring death to Ryuji, to you and to others who cross his path… He will be a cancer among us humans… Us animals…"

Was what Ai-sama said coming true? After all, it was only years after that I realised that Hiroko's prediction on me was true too. At my birth, she told my mother that…

"She will carry a part of me… Long after I am dead."

I barely remember Hiroko. She killed herself when I was three. I remember feeling her die, and I remember hanging objects that Ryuji blocked me from seeing. That hanging object was Hiroko. She was dead. She has been long dead now… But what she's said is true. I have carried around a part of her years after her death. It wasn't an illness, powers or any object of any kind. It was a baby. It was Yoichi whom she was talking about. After all, Hiroko was Ryuji's mother, and Ryuji is Yoichi's father. They carry the same genes inside them. I carried around a part of Ryuji, and any part of him is also a part of Hiroko.

But have I really given birth to a monster…?

They called Shizuko a monster and it drove her mad. They called Sadako a monster and she's become the true cancer of this world, not Yoichi. She kills everyone who crosses her path. I've crossed that line to far and all I can do is hide now. But she'll find me. She'll always find me in the end. Someone will sell me out to Sadako. Then I'll die.

Cancer, smallpox, viruses… All of those things fight for survival when they are in our bodies, they have the desire to live and they cling onto our bodies and they won't let go, until they have destroyed you, made you weak and then they move on to the next person. Ryuji used to say that people like us were the true cancer of the Earth.

But if I'm a cancer, why do I have a secret wish to join him in death?

I want to live for Yoichi but living has become a painful task of mine. One I don't want to live me out. I want to die, but I don't want to die. It's driving me mad.

What's happening to me really? It's like my energy is starting to fade away, and my powers are leaving my body, leaving and going towards the darkness… Still, Yoichi's power is turning him into another Sadako, other people who have seen the video and lived have gone mad and Takano developed powers of her own…

What's happening to me? Why is it different for me then everyone? I saw the video. I've seen the bodies of those who have died from the virus. Yet I haven't gone mad, nor have I been effected like others who have seen the dead. What's happening to me? Is it that Sadako didn't infect me with darkness but rather I impregnated Sadako's curse in a different way?

I was the one who wanted to help her. I was the one who showed her love in that well… Sadako appeared to me because I wanted to find her. I wanted to help her and she knew that. Of course! I remember now. When I touched Sadako, I felt something from her force it's way into my body…

It wasn't a virus, but it was alive. It crawled inside me and hid in the safest place in my body.

My uterus…

My womb was carrying around the darkness and Sadako was growing inside me… Playing with my mind and my feelings. She's tapping into Yoichi and Takano and myself… She's here, inside me! I'm her second birth mother… I'm carrying the evil Sadako…

Sadako knows that I'm already a mother. She knew that when Ryuji felt her coming three years ago. She knew that I was a capable body to carry her evil inside. The womb is the safest place inside a woman. It carries the child for nine months, nurtures it and keeps it safe and warm. Sadako is sharing the same part of my body that I nurtured Yoichi in.

But aren't the people who watch the tape and copy it saved? It did save Yoichi… But rather then dying, he's falling into darkness. It's saved me, but Sadako is growing inside me. Rather then going to the mind like with Tomoko, Masami, Takano and… Yoichi, it was inside me all along, in my uterus. Sadako appeared behind me and only me after the video ended. Her eyes were burning into me, waiting for me to conceive her…

Why not Takano?

Why not another woman… Tomoko, all of them who could have carried Sadako in their bodies...

But wait…

I'm different from them. I've created life in my body before. I've given birth to a child. I gave life to someone else. Takano hasn't. Tomoko hadn't. That girl hadn't. None of the other high school girls have who died from the tape had. It's only me who has ever completed the full task of womanhood…

To join herself with a man, and to bare a child…

That's why Sadako wants to use me as her home. She wants me because she knows my body can create children. Just like her mother, I am a safe body for her to stay in. To live in until she had taken over me and killed me…

As I sit in this room, thinking about everything that's happened, I wonder if I'll ever be able live on, forget about the power of Sadako and feel free of my mind. I know it'll never happen now. Not with Sadako living inside me, waiting to break free.

That policeman, he thinks I did it. He thinks I did all of this, the deaths of all these people… But it wasn't me. It was there own minds that drew them towards the video. Like it drew me. I was so tempted to watch the videotape. You're given a video. You always watch it. You can't fight the temptation, can you? You can't help it. You have to know what's on the tape! Sadako yarns you to watch her videotape…

But why…

Why does she do this?

Killing innocent lives, and destroying them…

My life isn't as pure and beautiful as some may think it to be. I've been called many names in my hometown. I married Ryuji when I was seventeen. Became pregnant with Yoichi at nineteen. I automatically became the town whore. No man with a wife was allowed near me. When I walked passed people in the streets, feeling the lump of my belly, they'd turn and whisper painful rumours about me. Saying that the child was a product of pure nothingness that Ryuji only ever really wanted to be with me was because I was a younger then other girls.

He used to date my sister, Shizuka (whom we all called Shizu), but he dumped her a few weeks after we started seeing each other. Back then of course, Ryuji was my tutor for maths. The teacher I had wouldn't move me down a class and made joy of picking on me in class. It used to make me so sad. My father and Ryuji's father wanted to push Ryuji and my sister together, and to make Ryuji stay at our house more and more, they decided that he should tutor me. It wasn't only because he was good maths.

I found myself falling for him quite quickly. I'd liked him before then, but only in the way a girl does for her older brother's friend. I never for one minute thought of stealing Ryuji away from my sister. After all, back then I noticed the age difference. I knew that Ryuji wouldn't give me a second look, or would he? I tried to fight temptations to find out. Still, loads of boys asked me out, and I found myself going with them, just to see if my feelings for Ryuji would just go away.

I forgot about them very quickly when I realised there was no change in my feelings, and besides, Ryuji was acting very strangely, especially after my sixteenth birthday. Whenever my mum asked if I had a boyfriend, and Ryuji and my sister were present, I'd see Ryuji scowl and frown whenever I answered.

When we finally admitted our feelings, we knew we couldn't tell our families. After all, I was ten years younger then him and my mother frowned on young girls and older boys. Shizu knew that he had to be seeing someone else and wouldn't quit till she found out who. It was never safe to be together any more around her as every woman was a suspect with her.

Those were the most worrying moments of my life…

Now I look back on these memories within memories. All of these moments were remembered when I was younger, as I felt Yoichi growing slowly in my womb. I suffered from many memories that were not wonderful. However, when I felt happy, I'd remember the good times. Despite the fact that it was a hard time of my life, I always remembered how happy I was and how much I felt it was worth it…

If I had never been through all of that, the child growing inside me wouldn't be there…

I even thought about getting rid of it, cause that's what he was to be once, it. It was an alien that had invaded my body, like a virus, it had passed from him to me. I seriously did think of getting rid of him. I'm disgusted with that fact, but it's true. I thought I could get rid of the baby, so quickly, he'd be gone, and Ryuji would never need to know I did it. I was such a silly kid then… But I did do everything I could to try not to get pregnant. Everything I could… But yet it still happened…

I was devastated…

I couldn't believe that someone was alive inside my body. I didn't look at him as life to start off with. He was just 'it'. It was an alien inside my body. I was scared. I was only nineteen! I was still just a kid myself and I didn't want a child yet! One day in the future when I was older, at least twenty-four! Not while I was still a kid…

I went as far as going to the clinic…

That way, it would be gone and Ryuji would never know it had happened… would he?

At the last moment however, I watched as a woman who I was to follow came out. Her face was pale and her eyes were swollen and red. I looked at her and I knew that the death of her baby, the fact that the child was dead had done that to her. For a second, I remembered how much trouble I went to not being pregnant, and then still, there I was. A child inside my womb…

Was this destiny…?

I found myself screaming and running out of the centre… Ai-sama's words came to my mind. I would give birth to a child next year. Hiroko's words were ringing in my head. ESP, sixth sense, foresight… All of it was something that we all had in common. This child was a product of destiny and it was staying where it belonged…

Inside my body…

No innocent life would be ripped away from me and nothing in the world would take the child away from me…

My little Yoichi… I'm walking in a world that will no longer include you. My death is so close and yet I can't see it's coming for me. My want to always protect you till the end will end soon… Soon you will have to rely on the kindness of the people around you. But remember this from me…

Never allow them to destroy you… There is nothing wrong with you're fighting and I want you to do everything in your power to keep living. Your life is the thing that dad and I died for. What your grandfather died for. It was all for you, Yoichi. Don't forget what we did for you, and what others will die to do for you.

You are the chosen one…

You're not a monster…

But one day you will be a God on Earth…

You will destroy Sadako…

And in result… Avenge the deaths of those whom you loved…

No! I don't want to die… But I know it's coming… I want to live! But it's my death. My father is here with me, so I must be on my way to death. I feel like there is a burning light, grasping into my body. I feel so much pain…

She's come…

She's seen it all…

She's grown…

And she's flown… I feel a ripping coming from my body. Something in pulling it's way out of my skin. Sadako's ghost, body or image is pulling her way out of me. She's breaking free from me. As if I were a cocoon and she was the butterfly. I was the shell and she was the core. It felt a little like when I gave birth to Yoichi. For a second, I even thought the 'thing' that was ripping away from me was Yoichi…

But I knew it wasn't…

A sudden realise from the pressure from the lower part of my body leaves, and a child, rips away from me. I'm not sure if the child was physically there, but something tells me that Sadako has moved away from me, and I was free.

I free so light…

Like there is something holding me down…

Not even the gravity…

There's a light…

The light is coming towards me, and getting brighter and brighter. As I look into it, I see myself, in a place where I know. The smell of blood was sweet, not terrible and I was in a great deal of pain. The most pain I've ever been in.

The day I had Yoichi…

The pains that went so quickly and the cries of him are still there in the back of my head. I can hear them. I created another life. No matter what others thought, he was my child. I knew that from the moment I saw you, I loved you more then anything else in this entire world. My darling son and my Yo-chan…

Yoichi…

That's what we both agreed to call you. It was a favourite name of ours for such along time. Still, even now, you're still our little Yo-chan. My dearest son…

I have to save Yoichi…

This is the only image I see in my head, but my eyes see the light still. The figure of someone I know very well is there. I can feel them calling my name. Holding out their hand for mine. Waiting for me at that gate that we'll all cross one day. Suddenly… Dying isn't as scary anymore… I feel happy, dying knowing that the person I see is there. I'm happy my final thoughts are of my first thoughts of Yoichi…

Then, I remember the other person in my life that I love dearly…

Who means the world to me…

You promised me… Didn't you? I made you promise not that long ago…

I made you promise that you'd stay with me when I died… You kept your word… You waited for me… And you're waiting right now. I can feel my eyes closing as something seems to hit me. My limp body has been destroyed, cast away like a cocoon. While my mind is still alive, my body is destroyed from under me. The body that had kept both Yoichi and Sadako so warm and safe. My physical self was dead.

I feel no pain though…

Someone's hand takes mine… And takes me into the light… The voice whispers these words to me. Nostalgia is a strange thing… But I love it, if it kept you with me. As your voice whispers that we'll never have to worry again, I know everything will be fine.

But don't forget about the other promise you made to me… Don't forget, even though our physical powers are gone. Promise me that you'll keep your word…

Stay with Yoichi… You'll be okay, Ryuji.

Stay with Yoichi and save him!

Thank you for reading. I was updating these chapters to make them better cause I wasn't happy with the original story. I think I might replace Confessions again. It's still not perfect. Anyway, please review this. Hope you like it. If you don't like it then go away cause I'm not in the mood for the grumpy today. It's bad enough I have the web site to deal with, let alone asking for a cup of tea every ten minutes…

Anyway, like I said, review! Thanks!