AiShi: My friends were bugging me to get this one out and it's almost October anyway...(Get candy, IT'S FREE!) so I thought I'd get it over with. This one's just...wait...why do I have to explain myself? I'm the authoress! BWAHAHAHA BOW DOWN TO MY SUPERIORITY!...Or don't, I guess it's your choice...
AiShi84 DOES NOT OWN PRINGLES!
Aki Seithr gazed out her window into the gray as raindrops lightly tapped onto the windowsill. She watched as two of the drops seemed to race each other to the bottom of the glass, then sighing, leaned back into her bed pillows. Absentmindedly, she started to finger-comb her brown blonde-streaked hair. Grabbing and flipping through her notebook, Aki's bright green eyes skimmed the pages full of writing and sketches. Coming to a blank sheet, she folded the other pages back and poised her pencil above it, waiting for inspiration. After waiting for a couple minutes with nothing coming to her, she rubbed her eyes behind her glasses and looked outside again. It was gorgeous weather in her opinion, a gray autumn weekend afternoon complete with a heavy downpour. Suddenly the phone rang, snapping the fourteen-year old out of her thoughts. Leaning back, Aki snatched the phone from the receiver and brought it to her ear.
"Hello?"
"Hey, you know what really sucks?"
Aki grinned hearing her friend Moriko Takimi's voice from the other end of the phone.
"Well, I know a lot of things that suck, what exactly did you have in mind?" she asked Moriko.
"Amy got her duct tape taken away," replied Moriko.
"You're kidding!"
"I kid you not."
Amaya Shomori, shortened to Amy, was one of Aki's best friends. However, she was gothic, and being gothic meant that she was watched by adults like hawks.
"What happened?" Aki asked.
"I dunno, the principal's seen her with it a hundred times, he must've just decided to ruin someone's day and VIP! Confiscated it."
"Dude, that sucks."
"Tell me about it…I have Pringles!" Moriko exclaimed.
Aki laughed.
"The same ones from yesterday?"
"No, new ones."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, they have the little paper thingy on top."
"Stupid paper thingy."
"Yeah…hey, you know what?"
"What?"
"We should get Amy to wear a pentacle to school and see if they take it away."
"You mean a five point star?"
"Yep."
"I bet they would."
"I know…uh oh, my mom's telling me to get off the phone." Moriko told Aki, annoyance in her voice.
Aki sighed.
"Your turn or my turn to hang up?
"I think it's yours."
"Okay, poe."
"Poe."
Hanging up the phone in a better mood, Aki went back to the blank piece of paper. However, after ten minutes with a blank paper still before her, Aki gave up. She looked at the alarm clock on her beside table, it read 2:09. Leaning back into her pillow, Aki closed her eyes and breathed deeply. She loved the smell of rain. Turning on her side, she relaxed and her breathing became slower and calmer as she fell asleep.
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#CRACK#
Aki awoke from her nap; blinking she reached blindly for her beside lamp. Finding the knob she turned it and a soft light filled the room. Squinting in the light with her eyes used to the dark, she saw that her clock said it was now 7:43.
"Oh god," she said stretching. "Must've fallen asleep."
#BOOM#
The noise vibrated through the house, shaking Aki fully awake.
"The lightning woke me up, how bad did the storm get…?"
Looking outside, it was impossible to see with the reflection of the light in the windowpanes. Turning off her lamp so she could see better, she was just in time to witness a huge bolt of lightning come down from the sky a couple miles away.
"Geez…" Aki muttered, fascinated by the storm. A couple more flashes of lightning lit up the sky, always followed by a boom of thunder that shook Aki to her bones. Now watching the storm intently, she was surprised to see a bolt of lightning strike right in the center of her back yard.
"Holy shit!" she yelled, running to her bedroom door and yanking it open. Running down her upstairs hallway, she sprinted down the stairs and ran through her kitchen to get to the back door. She didn't know what she would do if something was on fire, Aki figured that she should confirm that something was ablaze before she called the fire department. Grabbing the door handle and forcing it down, she swung the door open and ran out into the rain. Seeing a small crater in the middle of her back yard she groaned…until she saw that something was in it. Through the wall of water Aki could only see three dark shapes.
"Oh my god! Did people get hit?" she yelped, running toward the indent. As she drew closer, however, she slowed down when she heard voices.
"Great! Just where are we now?"
"I don't know, but getting angry isn't going to solve anything."
"Shut up Miroku!"
"INUYASHA!"
#WHACK#
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?"
"WE NEED TO SEE WHERE WE ARE AND ARGUEING IS NOT GOING TO HELP!"
Aki stopped. How the hell if they were hit could they still be alive? Shaking her head quickly, she realized that these people could still be hurt. Jogging closer to the crater she yelled out,
"Are you guys okay? Do you need help?"
The voices ceased as Aki's voice was heard.
"Hello?" one of the shapes called, sounding like a female. "Can you help us?"
"Yeah, what do you-?" she cut herself off as she had finally drawn close enough to see the shapes clearly. Her eyes grew wide as she saw a small child with orange hair on the shoulder of a guy who was dressed in some kind of robes. To the right of them was a teenage girl with straight black hair in a school uniform holding a cream-colored cat. Looking left, she saw another guy who was dressed in what looked like a red kimono and he had pure white hair, even though he looked no older than sixteen. This was not what shocked her though, the fact that he had some kind of animal ears did.
"Uh um I uh…" Aki stuttered, clearly amazed.
"Sorry to bother you," the schoolgirl started, bowing her head, "but could you tell us where we are and what year it is?"
Aki managed to gather that bit of information,
"We're in Nagoya, Japan and it's 2006."
"…"
"Something wrong?" Aki asked.
"Yeah something's wrong! We went through hell only to be thrown into the future!" the guy with animal ears said.
As you can now imagine, poor Aki was confused beyond belief. Unfortunately for her, things would only get less understandable.
"What?" she questioned, her head pounding.
The schoolgirl gave Aki a pitying look.
"This might be a little unbelievable, but we're from the past…and we died about 500 years ago I suppose."
"So you're…ghosts?" Aki asked her, still confused and majorly freaked out, "But how can I see you then?"
The girl frowned.
"I'm not sure, maybe you are a bit psychic? After all I've seen I wouldn't be surprised…"
"What?" Aki's head was spinning, she hadn't felt this pressured since she missed school for a week and then walked into English class.
"My name's Kagome," the girl said, trying to add some normal information, "and that's Inuyasha, Miroku, and Shippo," she added, gesturing to the others.
"And that's Kilala," the little boy said, pointing to the cat.
Shippo's small motion revealed his fluffy tail, which only caused Aki to become more confused then ever.
Kagome looked worried as if Aki might collapse any minute.
"My…my name's Aki," she managed to tell them, "…and sorry if I'm rude…but why does he have animal ears?" she asked, pointing to Inuyasha.
The guy Kagome called Miroku spoke up this time,
"Inuyasha's dog ears are one of his demon traits, and forgive me for asking but would you be willing to-"
"Miroku!" Kagome hissed.
"Ummm," Aki started, "would you guys like to come inside?" Thanking god that her parents were away for the weekend, she gestured towards her house.
Kagome smiled.
"Thank you Aki."
A few minutes later they were all in Aki's kitchen. Just now realizing that she was waterlogged, Aki stood over a carpet so a puddle wouldn't form on the wooden floors.
"Hey, um, why aren't you guys wet at all?"
"Since we're ghosts I guess we didn't feel the rain, but you must be freezing," Shippo observed.
"Nah, I'm not affected by temperature," Aki explained. "Hey, will you guys excuse me for a minute?"
"Whatever," Inuyasha said, looking around at the shiny appliances.
Running into her room, Aki grabbed the phone and punched in Moriko's number. She waited as the phone rang on the other end until,
"Hullo?"
"Moriko?"
"Aki? What's up?"
"I see dead people."
"And I see dust particles but that doesn't change much now does it?"
"And one of them has dog ears."
"……………………………………I'm really feeling that water now…"
AiShi: Well, second chapter done and out. Review pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaasse? With sprinkles ontop? XD
FLUFFY HAS SPRINKLES ONTOP
