Disclaimer: Don't own InuYasha, never have, never will. I own Kay, Michelle and Charlie, and any other character that doesn't appear in the series.
Prologue
Exactly a year before, September 22, Kay and her best friend Michelle had gone on amazing journey, but they didn't know if it was real or not. After a few days, they decided it was.
Kay had changed a lot in one year. Her personality was basically the same, but her physical features had changed a lot. She started looking like an adult, rather than an adolescent still going through puberty. She was still skinny, and was now kinda lanky. She had to become stronger and had to fend for herself lately, so she cut her fingernails to a point, and they were very good for tearing flesh... She didn't use her nails often, but every so often something would happen where she needed them. Her hair looked the same, except her ponytail reached the top of her legs now, having grown a lot in a year. It was always tied up with a piece of fabric that she had gotten from Rin during their adventure. She looked quite nice for a fifteen year old, but she still wore the baggy sweatshirt all the time. Her eyes were a bit darker, some of the green gone now, seeing as her eyes liked to change color.
Michelle had grown quite a bit too, hight-wise, and she looked like an adolescent still going through puberty. Her hair was still the same length, and she still had her super dark brown eyes. Michelle's nails were more flimsy than Kay's, but she still kept her nails grown out. Not like Kay's though. Since she didn't change much at all, she doesn't get a big paragraph explaining herself. Ha ha.
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Kay sat in front of her locker during lunch. She had finished her lunch after five minutes of eating, and Michelle was going to the bathroom. How fun.
Kay thought about InuYasha and the others in all of her free time, wishing that she could go back there and see all of those people again. She was thinking about them when she saw someone trip a little bit. She looked up to see a girl stumbling a bit, but the girl kept balance. But then she was pushed aside and her books slid all over the floor.
The girl who pushed her was a horrible girl by the name of Barbara. Kay instantly went over to help the girl, getting her books piled up, but fuming at Barbara on the inside. Barbara looked at the girl on the floor with a face that said 'You aren't even worthy enough to touch me. Ew.'
Kay stopped picking up the books and held up a pointy finger to the girl, meaning that she would come back and help. Kay stood up from the floor and walked over to Barbara and grabbed her arm. She tried to walk away but Kay tightened her grip. "Let go!" Barbara muttered, almost inaudible.
"No. Not until you apologize to Charlotte," Kay said, venom in her voice. She had never once seen Barbara apologize to anyone, except for her own friends... No, not even then. She had never seen Barbara apologize.
"I'm not going to apologize to a stupid geek. Now let go of my arm you loser," Barbara said, turning towards Kay's face. "I don't need some goth girl to tell me what to do.
Kay dug her nails into Barbara's arm and saw her flinch a little bit in pain. "Don't you know I hate stereotypes? And you should really apologize, Barbara, or else you'll be sporting five brand new scars on your arm," Kay said, smirking.
"I don't listen to freaks," Barbara said.
"Thanks for the complement," Kay said, pushing her nails deeper into Barbara's arm. Blood started to ooze out at the tips from her nails and Barbara clenched her teeth in pain. Kay pulled on Barbara's arm and she came, not wanting to get deep gouges in her arm from the nails.
Barbara looked down at the girl on the floor and sneered. "Sorry," she said quickly, obviously not even trying to make it sound authentic.
Kay leaned up to Barbara and whispered in her ear, "I'll thank you in advance for not telling about my nails. Remember Brent's broken leg?"
Kay took her nails out of Barbara's arm and blood started to drip on the floor from Barbara's arm and Kay's hand. Kay smirked as the blood dripped from her right hand and Barbara ran off to fix her arm.
Kay knelt down, not touching anything with her right hand and said to Charlotte, "Sorry, I'm not going to be able to help you anymore. I don't want to get your stuff bloodied up."
Charlotte grinned and said, "You helped me enough. Thanks..."
Kay got up and went over to her locker to get some 'All-Purpose Wipes,' or as most people knew them as, 'Baby Wipes.' She had bought some so she didn't have to go wash her hands in the bathroom. Usually her victim was in there too.
Michelle ran up to Kay just as Kay was opening her locker. "I saw Barbara's arm in the bathroom! She was muttering something about gothic freaks. Did you do that?" Michelle asked excitedly.
Brining up her bloody nails for Michelle to see she said, "I thought I told her that I didn't like stereotypes." Kay smirked and got a baby wipe from her locker and wiped her hands off. After she was satisfied that they were clean she threw the baby wipe in a nearby trash can.
"What did she do, Kay?" Michelle asked.
"She pushed down that new girl, Charlotte, so I taught her a new word, 'sorry,'" Kay answered.
"You're a deadly weapon. First you accidentally shove Jamie's face into a wall, then you stab me with a pencil on accident... Then you purposely cut up someone's arm for calling you gay... Now Barbara!" Michelle said, smirking. "You're getting good at this!"
Kay smiled and nodded, grabbing her folder for her next subject. "What can I say? I guess hoping to get to Feudal Japan again has fueled me to get stronger. I've been training..." Kay slammed her locker shut.
Michelle got her stuff and they walked to English together.
English passed without a hitch, though Kay did well and whenever she got an answer right Michelle would mutter either 'Teacher's pet' or 'Smart ass.' Kay just ignored it after a while.
"For your assignment I want you to find out the meaning behind your name, or the origin, and write a short story using the meaning of your name. It has to be one page to two pages, and use originality. My name is Michelle, and my name means 'close to God', so I might write a story about dying or an angel," said the teacher, who's name was also Michelle.
At the end of this speech, Michelle and Kay started to crack up, along with a few of their other friends.
"What is so funny?" the English teacher asked. And that made Michelle and Kay laugh harder, because it reminded them of the time they were watching a movie and the guy's father died. Kay had said that he forgot to say a long and high pitched 'NOOOoooo!' and then he said it, which made the two girls crack up laughing. Their other English teacher had said the 'what's so funny' line to them too when they were disrupting the movie.
Kay just managed to point and say, "I'm pretty sure that this Michelle sitting next to me isn't 'close to God!'"
Tears started to roll down Kay's cheeks and her ears turned red, and Michelle's weird sounding laugh made her face slightly red.
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Study hall was last hour and Kay and Michelle decided to work on their name assignments at home. They worked on Algebra II and some other work that they had to do. And then they talked and everyone could hear Michelle's really loud and annoying laugh throughout the room.
Kay smirked at a joke Michelle made and someone walked up to her. It was a boy that was about the same height as she and had hair that made him look like he was from the Brady Bunch. He smirked and was wearing baggy pants that was half way down his butt, showing his boxers. His sweatshirt was dark blue and he had chains on his clothes.
"Hey, Kay. Wanna go to a movie then stop at my place afterwards?" asked the boy, who's name was Chris.
"Maybe I will after you get a belt for your pants and learn that I'm not a slut," Kay said with a wide smile on her face. Michelle howled with laughter and Kay pushed Chris away.
The school day ended soon enough and the two went home to their families.
Kay got home earlier than normal that day and Charlie greeted her happily. He was full of anticipation, and eagerness, seeing as he had to go to the bathroom. He and Kay had a bond ever since they went through the well, and they now could tell what each other were thinking. Kay walked to the door and let him out into the fenced backyard. She then went over to the computer and went on the internet to figure out the origin of her name.
She waited a little bit for the dial-up get ready and then searched 'Name Meanings' on the internet. She found a site, and she looked up her own name.
"BARK!" said her dog, and she sighed. She went over to the door and opened it letting him inside. She went back to the computer, angry for the interruption and then went back to the computer. Charlie followed her, making sure not to bug her, since she seemed to be angry.
She walked over to the computer and sat down and looked at what her name said.
Kay
English : Female - Keeper of the Keys, Sir Kay was one of the Knights of the Round Table.
Scottish: Male - Fire
Kay looked at the computer with an odd expression and sighed.
Keeper of the Keys? What is that supposed to mean? Kay asked herself. Bored, she logged onto Yahoo Messenger, seeing Michelle was on. And who would name themselves anime2inuyasha?
Ping
anime2inuyasha: hi
bulldog: Hi, Michelle.
anime2inuyasha : Whats up?
bulldog: Nothing.
anime2inuyasha: oh. r u going to jump in the chest again?
bulldog : Yes...
anime2inuyasha: ... what does ur mom say?
bulldog: She just thinks I'm weird.
anime2inuyasha: oO; gotta go chew my brother out for not doing the dishes. and I got to do laundry.
bulldog: Fun. Bye.
After her oh, so interesting conversation with Michelle, Kay thought about what she was supposed to write about for her name. She couldn't figure it out by the time her mother came home.
Kay walked out of the computer room and into the kitchen to meet her mom and she smiled when she saw her. "Hey mom," Kay said with a small smile. Her mom smiled too and she said hi.
Kay said she finished her homework and went upstairs to get the book she was reading recently, Psychic Academy.
Kay went into the living room and looked up to see the chest that she and Michelle had both fallen into chasing her dog. She sighed and started to read, and then noticed something weird...
The chest in front of her was glowing.
Kay put down her book and walked over to the chest. She opened it up and looked inside, and started to push the blankets kept in there aside. On the bottom was a hand with a paw print in the middle of it branded into the wood and she touched it. It glowed at her touch and she smiled.
Kay quickly ran upstairs and got a bag from her closet that she had always packed and ready to go in case this ever happened. Kay ran downstairs and grinned before getting ready to jump inside the chest.
Kay's mom, Dawn, walked into the room just as Kay had jumped into the chest, like she had done many, many times before, but this time she disappeared instead of just standing there with an angry and stupid look on her face. Her mom ran to the chest and looked around, fright plastered on her face.
"KAY!" she yelled before going to the phone and calling the only person she knew who could help her at a time like this. Michelle.
Next time: Kay returns to the world of InuYasha, but this time Michelle and Charlie aren't there to help her. How will she react to seeing her friends again?
Michelle: What the hell? You didn't bring me with you?
Kay: You weren't there.
Michelle: Jerk.
Kay: Heh. Just shut up.
Michelle: How come you're always working on some sort of assignment when you go there?
Kay: I dunno...
Michelle: Well, whatever. Just all of you reading this make sure to read the next chapter, OK? Or else I'll beat you up. Next time: Return of the Psychic Freak! I like that name.