Hiya, I've come up with the idea that my fics need to be brought up to seven chapters each so that the number of chapters for each of my fics is equal so I'll be starting with this one I think.

The Escape

The girls were now approaching Shade with hasty and nervous expressions, where as the blond had a somewhat agitated face. The brunette however, seemed to be satisfied with the recent events that had taken place.

"Okay now that you're up why don't you tell us how much you really know?" the blue-eyed boy asked with a stern voice. Shade felt surrounded by the group. Surely they were insane to some degree. The girl in yellow was practically bouncing off the walls with energy.

"How about you tell me what I'm supposed to know?" she asked adding a scowl for more effect. He was tough she'd give him that. Not many humans were brave enough to stand in Shade's face and to impose on her personal space. Either the kid had guts or he was a complete idiot.

"Ryou I'm not sure that getting in her bubble-space is going to get us answers! Let me talk to her, please?" the hyper girl in yellow wined whist tugging on Ryou's shirtsleeve.

He sighed and turned to look down on her with a frown. Shade could almost smell the tension between the two. She stepped back and the maid in pink and white stepped in front of his eyesight. Sparing the yellow dressed child, Ryou switched his death glare to the bold girl in pink.

"Ichigo get our guest something to eat and drink." Ryou said dejectedly. He had just spent the last two days on his computers in the basement trying to find information on their mysterious friend. After all Ryou's hard work however, he found no birth certificate, pictures or even an address for the girl. He was tired and irritable.

Ichigo took a deep breath to stay calm and nodded to Ryou. Now was not the best time to have a fight with him and she knew it. The tension he was creating in the room could be cut with the bread knife in the kitchen.

Shade watched Ichigo leave from her vision as, she left through one of the doors. Still backing into a close corner, Shade kept glancing from one person to another when they would move towards her. The purple haired girl on Shade's right was a little too close for comfort already. Edging away from her was difficult because, Shade would just end up closer to the green haired girl on her left side.

The atmosphere of the once bright and cheerful room had transformed into one of misery. The lighthearted mood from the many teenaged girls that had previously been around had altered to an awkward tension that almost caused Shade to cringe and shudder with desolation.

"Look you two have got this under control right?" asked the girl with black hair and a blue maid outfit. She turned from Shade and addressed the brown-eyed gentleman, "Well can we go because I have a ballet performance in three hours and I have to practice." Her tone was harsh yet polite all the same. Ichigo the girl with the short temper returned with something that Shade could not identify. There was a tray with cups, but of what she didn't know. Steam was rising from a pot kettle that Ichigo placed upon a table close by.

"Mint! You can't just leave us with this girl! We're a team and you've got to remember that your not the only one that had plans today!" she shouted at the girl that Shade believed was called Mint.

"Oh what's the matter Ichigo? Did your boyfriend ask you out and now you can't go? Well don't take it out on me and my talents, your probably just jealous!" Mint shouted at Ichigo. Her fists were clenched together and Ichigo's rising rage wasn't helping.

No matter who these crackpots were Shade need to get away from them regardless of their help. She couldn't afford to stay in one place too long and obviously her being there wasn't helping the human's… animals, whatever they really were. She must have been making funny faces because the girl in green started to apologise for the trouble and noise that Ichigo and Mint were making.

Her attention was so rapped up with the faltering buffoon that she didn't see the other three people were walking closer to her. The girl in yellow was attempting to make peace between Ichigo and Mint, though it did not seem like they would be stopping for a while. The man not much older than the girls was tiptoeing nearer along with the well-mannered gentleman and the purple-eyed waitress.

As the hesitant girl was finishing up her speech of apologies, the three of them pounced on Shade like cheetahs fighting over their evening meal. She screamed out of shock and panicked when they all landed on the floor. She couldn't get up. She was trapped and they were humans! Humans had never been very subtle with her. She had made mistakes in the past that were coming to get her. Eat her up just like this big family of predators.

'Yes, this family of whacked out humans.' She thought irritably as, Ryou pinned her to the tiled flooring. The brooding girl tried to stop her from shifting. The polite guy was attempting to calm Shade by talking to her with soft words, things that she had given up on. Shade had seen through the hollow promises that the people at the institute fed her daily. This was no different. They were just like the rest. They were humans and all humans were bad news. They were going to hurt her like the others did. She needed to get away!

With solitude, confusion and rushed thoughts, Shade kicked a fuming Ryou in the stomach and leaped up from the floor with the other two following. She kicked out at the gentleman. Scratched at the other girl's face. She hadn't thought this escape plan through. Mint and Ichigo halted their argument and stared open mouthed at the turn of events. Ducking from the Ryou's tight grip, Shade ran for the double doors that the offended crowds of supposed customers had left through earlier.

The doors pushed open from her grasp. The sunlight hit her troubled face and the birds, humans and traffic drowned out the shouts from within the building. She was free again…

But no who said she'd get rid of them that easily. I'll write the next chapter next week and if its not up by Friday then I'll have it up on Sunday, bye x.

P.S. I know this chapter seems pretty rubbish. I couldn't really come up with much right now, I think I may be getting that disease. You know – writers block – I haven't had it for ages, but I think its coming back!