I'M ALIVE!
I finally got up off my lazy ass and wrote this chapter! I apologise for everyone who was looking forward to this chapter and had to wait so long. I was practically hospitalized from writers block! It was horrible. I feel so f-in bad...

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Chapter 9, Whats that gun for? Not my beautiful hair!

Rachel

We walked all the way to the local mall near Kagome's house and I was amazed...It was huge!Way bigger than the one back home, needless to say, Tobias had to wipe the drool from my mouth as we got closer. Kagome's friends seemed excited to come, the girl, Eri seemed to be almost wetting herself with excitement whereareas the guy, Hojo seemed to not be able to take his eyes off of Kagome the entire time. Other than that little fact, I would have thought he was gay. He walked like a gay guy,
dressed way too good to be straight, and kept talking to the us girls like he was one as well. ( I dont mean to offend anyone by this. I really am sorry if you feel hurt. I honestly don't have anything against you, btw)
As soon as we walked through the doors...I knew I was in heaven, this was truly where I belonged. All the stores all looked like my favorites and it seemed like they kept going on forever, it was like the Mall of America in Minnesota. We decided that we were gonna split up and meet up in 2 hours in front of Kentucky Fried Chicken in the food court. Hojo and Eri were gonna go into The Buckle while The rest of us went everywhere else. Tobias, Marco, and I all needed new clothes. The guys were still wearing morphing outfits and I needed to change out of my old clothes because they were dirty and slightly torn. We definetly didn't fit in.
We stopped at Target and got the guys clothes. We decided to dress way more different than normal because, well, we didn't want to be recognised and we wanted to fit in with the Tokyo style as well. Tobias got baggy black cargo jeans with red stiching and a plain red shirt to match. Marco got baggy jeans with a black pyramid belt and a black t-shirt with Fall Out Boy on the front. We also bought some pitch black hair dye and some deep red hair dye and went into the bathroom and dyed they're hair. Tobias's hair went pitch black and I combed his bangs over his right eye to give him an emo look. Marco in the other hand didn't have enough hair to be emo so we we made his pitch black as well with deep red streaks and we spiked it up.
We were about to walk out when Marco said "Wait a second, if we have to change the whole way, so does princess here! The yeerks would totally recognise her especially if we're in Japan, I mean seriously! She's gotta be the only blonde within a hundred miles!" I sent Marco the most venomous glare I could muster, I hadn't thought of that. He had a point, but I wasn't about to let him know that. "He's right, Rachel. You do stand out. Especially amongst us. You gotta change your hair" Kagome said quietly. Tobias nodded in agreement, "Come on, Rachel. Its only your hair, and once we get back you can dye your hair back to normal. I'll even pay for it if I have to. Besides You might look pretty hot as a punk rocker type" I back up against a wall holding my hands infront of me going "wait a second here, guys! Come on, this is crazy! Not my beautiful hair!" In the end, I walked out of that Target Bathroom defeated. I gave up but only if I could get it dyed and styled at the salon across from target. Kagome walked me in and as the lady was washing my hair, they looked through maganzines to see what I should get. Tobias finally stood up and walked to the lady doing my hair and pointed to a page. She nodded in agreement and set to work. I realised that nobody was gonna tell me what they were doing to me and as they started I closed my eyes tightly, preparing for the worst.

An hour later in the same salon

"Ok, we're done, honey, you can open your eyes now" the lady said. I opened them fearing everything from a shaved head to a mullet. It wasn't as bad as I'd thought it was going to be. I actually looked way hotter! I still had blonde hair, but it was lighter and heavily layered with thick black low-lights and bangs down to my nose. I recognisedthe hair style to be one of Christina Aguilaras older ones. I hugged Tobias for having such good taste and he smiled at me.

Feeling rebelious and slightly over-confident as we left, I led everyone over to a small shop not far from Target called Fire and Ice (its an actual store in Spencer.
Kagome's eyes widened as she realised where I was going. This was something I've always wanted to do, get my nose pierced. It would defenitly go well with the hair. I looked over at Marco and he was already asking the guy to peirce his ear, the man agreed and him and Tobias started filling out an information sheet. I realised that they were both gonna get they're ears pierced, only one earing each. As I filled out my paper, I looked over at Kagome and noticed that she was eyeing the navel rings. I already had mine done without my parents permission and knew that she obviously wanted one as well so I started to fill out a form for her as well and filled in all the information needed except her signature. I handed it to her and her eyes widened and she started out stammering excuses "Mm my mom w wont let me, if sh she were ttto findd out, I'd be in so much trouble. And and, will it hurt?" I shook my head knowingly and lifted my shirt to show her my silver barbell. "Just don't tell your mom," I said.

She took a deep breath and quickly signed her name on the dotted line. As I patted her on the back, I heard Marco yelling "Hey! Whats that gun for!" click "OOOOWWWWWWW! Tobias, you asshole! You said it wouldn't hurt!" They walked out the door a few minutes later, both they're ears bright red. Tobias got a fake ruby stud while Marco got a plain silver hoop. "Ok, miss. We're ready for you now." A young woman with her whole arm covered in tattoos said to me. I grinned at everyone and followed her into a room. "Wish me luck'
Cliffie!

I had a hell of a time writing this one. I hope u like it. REVIEW! I'm not writing another chapter until I get at least 5 reviews for this chapter.
Alisha, dude, its febuary, i still have your CHRISTMAS present. ...Christmas is in DECEMBER. Call me when u read this. PLEASE?