The Lusting
Chapter 10
Shego leapt from the back seat of the car as soon as it pulled to a stop at the house, holding on to Kim's hand pulling Kim along with her. "Let's get our man back and kick that ninja bitch's ass." She growled as she stormed over to the closed garden gate.
Grabbing the gate, Shego with a jerk pulled it wide open and would have stormed back into the property if it hadn't been for Kim still holding on her hand and pulling her back. Instead of revealing the open entrance to the garden Shego was expecting, what was revealed was a mass of dirty dark hair weaving across the entrance way. If Kim hadn't have pulled Shego back she would have blundered directly into its web.
"Oh not this crap again?!" Shego exclaimed in anger.
The Lunch Lady having climbed out of the car while this was going on looked over at the Sensei. "Again?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.
Kim still holding on to Shego to keep her from doing something impulsive felt the need to explain. "Not long ago we were fighting, well I guess you could say it was a supernatural force, and it used chains to block an exit just like this hair is doing."
Shego gently but firmly freed herself from Kim's grasp. "And this shit is getting old!" She growled as she flared her hands to full power and launched a stream of plasma at the hair in the entrance way. The acrid smell of burning hair filled the air but it appeared as quickly as the hair was being burned away it was being replaced as well. Finally panting at the exertion Shego ceased her stream of plasma. In moments the hair was so thickly choking the entrance way that not a speck of light from the other side could be seen.
Blowing a strand of her own dark hair back into place with a huff, Shego looked at her lover. "Any other ideas Princess?"
"Perhaps if you can't go through, you may go over?" Sensei in his deep serene voice intoned. A bubble of blue light surrounded him and he started to silently levitate up into the air. Reaching the height of the wall he started to drift closer to it. Suddenly several spear like strands of dirty hair lashed out over the wall and as soon as they touched the edge of his bubble, the bubble burst instantly dumping the Sensei back to the ground. He landed as light as a cat with no signs of annoyance or disappointment showing on his face. "Or perhaps not." He finished calmly as if discussing the weather.
"Come on Princess, this worked with Ron and the chains maybe it'll work with you now that you have some of my powers." Shego said as she clutched Kim's hand. "Concentrate on the fire you can feel in your body. Bring it to your hand but don't release it. Keep concentrating on bringing more and more of the flames and when you feel like you can't hold it any more release it all at once." She instructed Kim.
The women stood side by side, Shego's right hand clutching Kim's left as they raised their free hands to point at the gateway blocked by hair. The glow around them increasing until the Sensei and Lunch Lady had to look away from the glare. Finally with a massive hiss of raw power the green flames leapt from their hands to slam against the hair choked passageway. Clouds of smothering black smoke filled the air, stinging everyone's eyes and lungs with the unmistakable smell of scorching hair. Finally both women dropped to their knees in exhaustion and the streams of fire diminished, flickered and then went out.
The burnt hair in the entrance shudder a few times and then with an almost whoosh sound filled back in until the gateway was blocked as fully if not more so than before.
Shego sitting on her butt in the alleyway cursed quietly and then said. "That stuff would make one hell of a commercial for Rogaine."
"How are we going to get through that to rescue Ron?" Kim asked, her voice nearly breaking with concern for what might be happening to Ron.
Rufus curious to what was going on moved near the edge of the cement wall and risked a quick peek around the edge of the gateway at the hair. The hair immediately went wild and several long strands lashed out through the gate at him. Kim snatched the naked mole rat up before the hairs could reach him and they could all see the deep scoring in the solid cement wall that was caused when the hairs missed Rufus and hit it instead.
Rufus from the safety of Kim's hand angrily squeaked at the hair something that sounded suspiciously to all of them like, "nasty bitch." And then he blew a raspberry in the hair's direction.
Lunch Lady looking up and down the alleyway spotted a gate across the street and slightly farther down the alley open and a pale nervous woman's face peer at them from the safety of her garden. Without drawing attention to herself she gently nudged Sensei and nodded her head in the woman's direction. The Sensei without seeming to hurry or even particularly notice the woman began to walk down the alley towards their observer's direction as if a gateway with strands of hair waving about like tentacles of some monster was a normal every day event. As Kim and Shego continued to alternately fire plasma at the gateway and then switch back to concentrated simultaneous attacks, all with no results, the Sensei moved along the other side of the alley until he was standing next to the slightly open gate with its watcher.
"Perhaps you could tell us something about the hair?" He asked the woman in Japanese.
The woman jerked her head back inside the gate and slammed it shut but after a few moments the gate creaked open again and she peered out at the Sensei. "Are you a holy man?" She asked hopefully.
The Sensei shook his head no. "I am but a humble student of life." He informed her.
The woman sighed sadly. "Then leave it be. Messing with that cursed house will only get you killed."
"I wish I could but I'm afraid I can't. Several of my students maybe in that house…" The Sensei began.
"Then they are dead." The woman stated flatly. "Nothing that nears that house ever comes away living. Not even dogs or cats." The woman sighed again. "I would leave this neighborhood like everyone else but too many people haven't gotten wise that it is a cursed area. No one will buy my house and I can't afford to just abandon it like the others did." She said nodding at the empty houses on both sides of the alley.
Sensei nodded his head. "I had wondered why this area is so quiet."
The woman gave a hollow laugh. "Yes, it would be almost peaceful here, if it wasn't for the fact that every moment you wonder if the evil of that house will spread beyond its borders." The woman's face grew sad. "I can remember when this neighborhood used to be alive with the sounds of children and pets playing. When you could wave at your fellow neighbors and they would occasionally even ask you in for a cup of tea or sake. Now I'm the last one here."
"Do you know what happened in that house that caused all this?"
The woman paused for several long moments. It was not wise to talk of evil, lest you draw its attention to you but it was also nice to have someone to talk to again. It had been almost a full year since the woman had seen anyone in the neighborhood, a long time to go without conversation or gossip.
The Lunch Lady watched Sensei talking to the highly animated woman, while she alternated with tossing odd bits of alley junk over the wall to test the reflexes of the murderous hair. Shego and Kim had kept trying their powers until both women had exhausted themselves to such a point they were now leaning against the back of her car trying to keep themselves from passing out. Picking up an old heavy sake bottle she hurled it at the corner of the estate, just near the edge. Sure enough a thick strand of hair lashed out from inside the garden splitting the bottle cleanly down the middle.
She raised an eyebrow at Rufus who was now standing on her shoulder. "Amazing aim for hair, don't you agree little naked one?"
Rufus had his tiny arms folded angrily. "Nasty hair. Need barber." He said back.
The Lunch Lady careful not to disturb Rufus's perch on her shoulder reached down and picked up a fairly large chunk of old brick by the side of the road and hurled it at the gateway. The hair inside the arch snatched the brick out of midair and squeezing crushed it into gravel. "Going to need more than a simple barber I'm fear naked one."
Noticing the return of Sensei she looked over. "Find out anything?" She asked. Kim and Shego with grunts of exhaustion climbed to their feet to hear his answer.
"Indeed and all of it most disturbing." The Sensei replied. "The house ten years ago belonged to a woman with two daughters; they were twins, age sixteen, Hoshi and Asami." Sensei looked over at Kim and Shego. "The names in Japanese mean star and morning beauty. The neighbor down the street says that the names were quite appropriate as the teens were as different as night and day. Hoshi was a bright and open child, always happy. Her sister Asami was always serious and was devoted to her sister Hoshi. The neighbor suggests perhaps too much so."
"In any case the father ran off one night leaving the mother to care for the teens on her own. Having no income of her own and desperate to hold her family together the woman brought in a young American man as a boarder. The young man was an English teacher for a local Japanese high school. It was wildly popular back then to hire such, for not only could they teach English to the students but also give them some idea of the American culture of their homeland."
"Is there a point to this history lesson?" Shego asked annoyed.
"I know patience is not one of your strong suits Shego-san but even you must admit if you are to fight an enemy it is best to know them." Sensei replied in his calm manner.
Shego folded her arms angrily but didn't reply.
"The neighbor says that Hoshi became enamored with the handsome American man and followed him everywhere she could. She also says that Asami with an angry scowl would follow along after them even when her sister told her not to and tried to chase her off." The Sensei paused for a moment. "One day the police were called out by the mother. It seems the American had vanished one day while the mother wasn't home leaving all of his possessions behind. Foul play was suspected but the police found nothing. Within a couple of days they were back out again but this time it was the sister Hoshi who was missing. Her mother said the girl was deeply distraught by the American's disappearance and on the night she went missing she had gone upstairs to take a bath. The mother stated at the time that she had gone to bed and had heard nothing."
"No trace was ever found of the girl but the bathtub was half filled with water and the floor of the bathing chamber showed signs of water everywhere. The police suggested that maybe the American had come back and kidnapped the young girl for some reason or perhaps the young girl being so infatuated with the American had run off with him voluntarily? No one knew."
"What of the other daughter Asami?" Lunch Lady asked.
"The neighbor states that the mother was of course deeply concerned for her missing daughter and may have neglected the sister in favor of searching for the other." Sensei replied.
"The neighbor also says that everyone noticed a change in the girl Asami. She would spend huge amounts of time in the garden near the pond and grew where she would never speak to anyone. Not even her mother. The neighbor also tells me that the mother confided in her that Asami wouldn't go upstairs in the house anymore and insisted on sleeping in the family room."
"One day the mother covered in dirt had rushed out into the alley screaming that her child was evil, that the house was cursed and that everyone should flee. The police were called out and when they investigated they found Asami was nowhere to be found. The garden had recently been completely dug up and replanted and for a time the police suspected the mother might have gone insane and killed her daughter and buried the body somewhere in the garden. Search dogs were brought in to check but their handlers couldn't force the dogs to step foot on the property. The police tried to search without the help of the dogs but the neighbor says it was a half hearted attempt in any case."
"What of the mother? What did she tell the police?" Kim asked.
"The mother couldn't or wouldn't tell the police anything. All she did, according to the neighbor that talked to me was ramble about hair, eyes and dripping water. She was taken into custody and eventually placed into a mental asylum. The neighbor says she visited her a few times but the woman wouldn't acknowledge her but kept staring at a water stain on the wall and eventually the neighbor stopped going."
The Lunch Lady nodded at the archway that leads to the garden that was blocked by moving hair. "And when did things like this start happening?"
"The neighbor says it was slow at first. Cats that would venture into the garden wouldn't come back. Children that went in there to explore or looking for their pets would come out in hysterics talking about hair and staring eyes. The people living on either side of this property would hear noises at night. Noises like giggling girls or weeping sounds. General bad luck started falling on the neighborhood, people getting laid off of jobs, poor health, children having nightmares in the night. Eventually those who could afford it moved off. Finally those who couldn't afford it just abandoned their homes and moved anyway."
Shego pointed at the gateway. "Are you trying to tell me that… Whatever that is, is one of the sisters?"
"It was the Lunch Lady that answered Shego. "Japanese culture is big on the concept of angry ghosts. It is believed those that die in pain or in anger may come back seeking revenge. That spirits with unfinished agendas linger seeking to finish their goals."
"Great! So what you are telling me is we have a child throwing a temper tantrum?" Shego yelled. Pacing in annoyance she moved a little closer to the hair covered gateway. "So what are we suppose to do? Get this kid a shrink to help her work through her problems." Throwing her hand up she pointed at the gate. A thick strand of hair lashed out and wrapping around her arm suddenly jerked her off her feet into the archway.
"SHEGO!" Kim screamed.
Shego found herself suspended in the archway by the hair but instead of trying to crush her, the hair seemed to just hold her there. Shego's eyes grew large however when she felt several of the dirty strands start to caress up her legs and start their journey up under her skirt while the strands around her chest started to tug at her blouse trying to get it open.
"Get me out of here!" Shego shouted. "The hair is… The hair is trying to feel me up!"
Kim leapt to try and release her lover but as soon as she neared the strands of hair not busy trying to molest Shego reached out eagerly for her too causing Shego to yell again. "Stay back Kimmie. I don't want this horny hair to get its grip on you too!"
"Asami!" The Lunch Lady startled everyone by suddenly bellowing. "Release that girl this moment! Mother is very angry with you for acting like this!"
The hair paused in its attack on Shego and even went as far as to loosen its hold on her. That was all the opening Shego needed. With her glow covering her body and helping to burn the loosely holding hair she managed to pull away and put distance between her and the gateway.
Kim rushed to Shego's side and began to help her pull off the severed burned ends of hair still clinging to her. Kneeling down Kim ran her hands up Shego's legs pulling off the strands she found there.
Shego's eyes grew large once again. "Um, Kimmie that's okay." She stated as Kim's hands went up higher on her legs.
"Not till I get every disgusting strand of that dirty hair off of you."
Shego began to blush as realized she was standing in an alley somewhere in Japan while Kim had her hands up her skirt and was dangerously close to touching her panties while searching for strands of perverted hair. "Um Princess? You got all of the hair okay? I mean this might make a decent fantasy someday but not now."
Kim with her hands way up under Shego's skirt and her face nearly pressing into her crotch realized suddenly how this might look to someone watching and turned bright red herself. Standing up hastily she turned to look in gratitude at the woman with Sensei.
"Thank you for helping to save Shego. How did you know it was Asami and not the other daughter?" Kim asked as she pulled a long twitching severed strand of dirty hair out of Shego's cleavage.
Shego shuddered in revulsion.
"Remember what Sensei told us? Asami was the one that was obsessed with her sister. Hoshi was interested in a man."
The hair in the gateway twitched in agitation at hearing the names.
"Does this mean somewhere in there is Hoshi?" Kim blinked. "Wait, do you mean that Asami lusted after her own sister?!"
The Lunch Lady made her way to stand in front of the gate but far enough away to prevent the hair from reaching her and nodded at Kim. "Yes. She was deeply in love with her sister." Lunch Lady looked at the mass of dirty hair in the archway. "Weren't you Asami. And she started falling for an American man that was why you killed the man and hid his body somewhere. Wasn't it Asami?"
The hair in the archway heaved in Lunch Lady's direction but only managed to get about two feet through the gate before stopping and pulling back in again.
"And your sister? Did you finally tell her what you had done for her? Told her how much you lusted after her and wanted her? And she rejected you didn't she? She was horrified you had killed the man she wanted and she rejected you."
The mass of hair heaved at the gateway again and everyone could hear cracking noises as the wall around the gateway started cracking from the strain.
The Lunch Lady didn't flinch at all but stood staring at the hair impassively. "You killed her that night in the bathtub didn't you? What did you do? Wait till she was naked in the bath and then slip in behind her and try to seduce her? Tell her how much you wanted her but she didn't want you did she? She wanted the American. Did she laugh at you or threaten to call your mother? You drowned your own precious sister in a rage that she would reject you for a man and then you hid the body somewhere. Perhaps right with the man she had loved?"
The very air was snapping with the sounds the tendrils of hair were making as they lashed out trying to stop the condemning words of the Lunch Lady.
"And what happened next Asami? Did mother finally figure out what must have happened? Did she find the bodies of the American and your sister? Did she tell you how ashamed and disgusted by you she was? The reason you disappeared that day was because your own mother in disgust and horror at you, killed you and buried you somewhere in the garden? Isn't that what happened Asami? Well? Isn't it?"
There was a mighty rushing noise as if a hurricane wind blowing through trees or water rushing down a canyon and as the group watched the hair flowed back into the gateway till the entry was cleared. Revealed standing in the center of the garden was the dirty form of a teen. A teen with a scowl on her face and eyes glowing like twin pits of hell.
"Now that she has her full attention on me, run around through to the front of the house and see to big ears." Lunch Lady in a low voice said to Shego and Kim. "Sensei and I will take care of this evil child."
The ground began to tremble as the child Asami with hair whipping around her face like some maddened Medusa started walking towards the gate, towards the woman who had tormented her with memories of her foul deeds. Towards the woman Asami planned to destroy in the most painful way she could. Towards the Lunch Lady.
Kim hesitated. She couldn't in good conscious leave this brave woman to face that monster alone.
"Come on Princess, we have to take this opportunity while we can." Shego whispered into her ear. "She's not alone. The old guy is with her and didn't you say he was the head guy at the ninja school? They'll be fine. We need to find Ron!"
Finally Kim nodded her head. Shego noted as they ran to the gate of the house next to the cursed one that Rufus had rejoined them and was clinging to her shoulder as she ran pulling Kim along with her.
Ron in his dazed condition could barely feel as his body finally started to respond to what was being done to him.
Hoshi had finally figured out how to get a rise out of the American lying beneath her. While nibbling on his chest she had her slime covered hair slowly stroke up and down the shaft of Ron's manhood. It was a trick that Yori could never duplicate and the creature once known as Hoshi allowed a smile to cross her dead face.
Soon she would have what she always wanted and it would be from an American too. Hoshi had died an innocent but even she could figure out what went where and as soon as Ron was fully erect she planned on acting on it.
Hanging on the wall Yori allowed a horrified moan to escape her as her mind completely cleared from Hoshi's hold on her and she fully realized for the first time what she had done. Refusing to give up she continued to struggle against the wet hair holding her, but nothing could stop the tears that were flowing from her eyes. "Forgive me Ron-san, I never meant for this to happen!"
Reaching the front of the house, it had been Kim using her new comet power blasted the front door off its hinges. Racing into the family room both her and Shego started calling out for Ron.
Yori upstairs paused in her struggles. For just a moment she thought she could hear Kim-san calling for Ron. Opening her mouth wide Yori planned to yell for help, if not for her then at least to stop Hoshi from violating Ron.
A long wet strand of hair lashed out viciously slapping Yori across her face causing her cry to be muffled.
Shego and Kim racing up the stairs heard the wet sounding smack and Yori's muffled cry and raced towards the room at the end of the corridor. Slamming open the door both women would never forget as long as they lived the sight that met their eyes. On one wall a moving mass of wet hair covered Yori, the only portion of her uncovered were her eyes. And in the middle of the floor was a spread eagle naked unconscious Ron, his little Ronnie pointing skyward as a wet strands of hair continued to stroke it while a decaying corpse of a teen girl prepared to lower herself onto him.
"OH HELL NO!" Shego roared as both her and Kim at the same time hurled green fireballs at Hoshi.
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Author's note:
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Yeah, I'm ending this chapter here. Yes, I am evil. Thank you for noticing.
Seriously though the upcoming battle royal with Shego, Kim and Hoshi would take too long to put it with this chapter. (hmm I should write a Battle Royale or for those that know Japanese movies. BatoruRowaiarucrossover with Kim Possible. Might be fun.) Anyway, I plan to write the next chapter very soon so don't hate me too much for the cliffhanger.