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Chapter 10
Kikyou was awake, but she didn't want to open her eyes; little people were poking at them with red-hot pitchforks, and her skull had shrunk ten sizes too small to hold her brain; they were now being squished out thruogh her ears.
She felt awful.
Summoning as much strength as she could, she popped an eye open. She tried to get up.
Nope. Out of energy.
"Help?"
Stifling a groan, she glared out at the world around her through her eye.
She was in her room. At home.
How'd I get here?
An image of Sesshoumaru popped into her head and was quickly blocked.
She was not in the mood to deal with him.
Not to mention the stuff that happened at last night's party, Voice reminded her.
She groaned.
So, you can either stay up here thinking about that, or you can get out of bed and do something about it.
She thought about thatfor a second.
Maybe she had a little bit of energy left afterall.
She levered herself slowly of the bed, waited for the world to stop spinning, then shuffled out of her room. She shuffled down the hall, shuffled right up to the steps. Stopped.
She stared down.
That was an awfully long way down.
She began her descent.
Ok, slowly. One step at a time. You can do this. You're going to make it.
She paused, breathing hard, and held a hand against her head to keep it from exploding.
One step down, twenty more to to go.
When she finally made it to the kitchen, she found her grandmother, Kaede, already there, reading the paper.
Uh'oh. Forgot all about her...
Ok, calm down, act normal, and maybe she wont notice.
She made her way casually toward the table. (That is, if you can call wild-haired, red-eyed, corpse-like seventeen year old casual.)
She sat, actually, collapsed, unto a chair.
"Morning, Grandma."
Her Grandmother eyed her suspiciously for a moment, then nodded and turned back to her paper.
Kikyou released a breath she hadn't even been aware of holding.
"I hope you at least used protection. Don't want another one of you running arond."
Kikyou gaped. "I didn't...I never - "
The telephone rang.
Kikyou released another sigh of relief as Kaede headed for the phone.
Then:
"Kikyou, it's for you."
Darn it!
"Who is it?"
"Ayame."
Hmph. Her.
"Tell her I'm not here"
Kaede turned back to the phone.
"She says she's not here."
Silence.
"OK. mhmm."
"Ayame said that she's gonna keep calling 'til you pick up."
"Tell her I won't answer."
Kaede fixed her one good eye on her. "I don't want to be talking to that girl all day, so you'd bettter get your ass over here and pick up this phone."
Kikyou shuffled reluctantly over to the phone and took it from Kaede.
"Hey, Kik -"
"If you call me again, I'll shoot you." With that, she slammed the phone down.
She turned to head back toward the kitchen and saw Kaede staring at her.
"So...What's for breakfast."
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A/N: Sugar: Okay, I admit, that was an...odd chappie, but, it's mostly Spice's fault. So blame her. (Unless you like it, then it was me).
Spice: Anyways, about Kaede, we deciced to make her a bit... wicked because everyone else was awfully nice (cough cough).
Sugar: And thanks for the reviews. ( No, we're not sending them to the carnival like on "Hey Arnold" falls down laughing That's not the kind of carnival we meant )
So please review.