As long as she could remember Sazuki Yamuna and her brother Tamaru were warned never to enter the house next door. Yet here she was on the plane heading back to Japan to attend her brothers funeral after he mysteriously died. The coroner's couldn't guess how a 22 year old healthy adult man could die of a heart attack, but Sazuki knew how she had been video calling him when he entered the house. He did it just to freak her out but as he explored things kept getting weirder and weirder. Eventually things escalated and Sazuki watched in horror as her brother was consumed by the spirit of the house, her mothers old friend Kayako.

Shortly afterward Sazuki noticed things weren't quite right even now she could feel the spirit watching her every move. Just because she wasn't there physically doesn't mean she wasn't there spiritually and that's all that mattered to Kayako. Sazuki told her mother she was going to be coming home to help her through the death but in reality Sazuki was going to stop the curse before her clock ran out.

As Sazuki stepped into her familiar home she was greeted by her mother hugging her and welcoming her home. Sazuki removed her shoes and slipped on her familiar old house slippers and went with her mother to the kitchen. The girl was greeted with a table of food.

"I wasn't sure what you would be hungry for so I made a little bit of everything" her mother said smiling, as the two sat down to eat.

That night Sazuki wandered out of the house her destination set in her mind. She opened the old gate and slipped inside walking carefully up the old path to the rickety door. Sazuki carefully pushed it open and stepped inside. A thick layer of dust covered the floor and chalk outlined the area Tamaru was found. Sazuki wandered around until she found a journal laying in the middle of the living area she opened it and began to read it shortly realizing it was Kayako's journal it detailed what had happened before her death, eventually the handwritting went from femine to masculine the writting then detailing the murder of Kayako and her son. As Sazuki looked up she saw a young boy sitting in a ball staring at her.

"Hello little one, what are y-" Sazuki began only to be cut off by the boy yeowling like a cat and running away.

That was when she heard it a frightful croaking noise from behind her. Slowly Sazuki turned to find herself face to face with her brothers killer. Sazuki took off running around the spirit and out the house. She almost made it off the porch when a vine wrapped around her ankle, no not a vine it was hair Sazuki was dragged back into the house the last thing heard was her screaming in fear. Next door the sound of rope creaking under weight was heard.