Insane-san says: Readers, I have no idea what the fudge happened with this chapter. Okay, stop staring with a freaked out expression, it's creeping me out a little...Nothing so shocking happened. Just read this enormous A/N. AND BE AT EASE. -headdesk-

I was all amped up and ready to write, right? (Heh...write right...) ... -COUGH- So, I opened up a fresh new document the day after I updated, ready to go. And I could. Not. Write. I was like..."Hoho, this is...Odd." Seriously. I just didn't have any idea of where I was going to start off the next chapter. That made me very confused. VERY confused. For a long time I was terrified that I had lost some kind of spark of inspiration. I started getting desperate to see and feel things that would pick me back up. The scariest thing for me to think about is one day losing my creativity, imagination, and ability to be easily inspired.

So I spent about a week brainstorming the plot and fixing it in with the ending (yes, the end is worked out. It was the first thing I did for this fic if I haven't already said that), and I kind of had an idea of what I wanted to do. It's getting harder to even out the events up to the ending. It's becoming difficult. But I'm at ease with what I want to do now. So I started writing the first paragraph. As it turned out, it didn't work for me. So on that same day, within those same minutes that I backspaced the entire start of this chapter, I sat; Perfectly still, in front of my computer, staring at the screen with a blank look on my face, for over half an hour. That's not an exaggeration.

Finally, as if some other-worldly power had possessed me, I felt my hands move around the keyboard and find their place among the many letters. They began to click and move without me even thinking about it. And I finally had a begining for chapter fourteen, which I am happy with. Thank God...

I said this chapter was going to be long. I had hoped it would be, because I planned to cover many things. But it's under the average number of words by about 100 or so. -cowers away- Firstly, because I wanted to end it so I could be on to the next segment, as I was frustrated with this chapter. Secondly, because I hadn't updated in a long while and I wanted to get it out for you guys because I know so many of you were eagerly awaiting a new chapter. Thirdly, Christmas is coming up sooner than I keep anticipating and there's so much for me to do, and I'll be busier than usual and won't have a lot of time to write the next chapter after this one, so I wanted to get this one out so I can start the next one.

-SIGH- That was a lot to type. I wish that this chapter had flowed as freely as this author's note. XD I hope you aren't too angry at the number of words I was making you read up there...And I hope you aren't too angry with my late update, shorter chapter than I said, and rather angsty words before this new chapter. o.o

I'll let you get at it, then. Thanks for reading this and sticking with me through this story. Please let me know what you thought of it...But not too much insult, please... x.x;

Shousetsu no Kowai

Page fourteen.

"There's nothing to be scared of, Kagome. It's just a spider."

Kagome swallowed and nodded. "Yes, Daddy...But...It's so creepy and big...!" She squeaked with a grimace.

"Hahaha, it looks scary, doesn't it? And it's capable of harming you. But Kagome,"

Kagome moved her large, childish eyes away from the spider on the floor to meet her father.

"When something scares you and maybe wants to hurt you, you can't just sit still, afraid, and hope things turn out okay."

"I can't...?" She answered in quiet fascination, blinking.

"No, Kagome." He smiled. "Your life is important. You want to live, right?"

Kagome nodded quickly, her short black hair flying up and down.

"So, you have to fight for your life when it might be in danger. Don't depend on other people, and don't ever give up when something's scary, understand?"

"Yes, Daddy..." She breathed, staring at her hero. She clenched her small fists and turned her burning eyes to the spider.

She raised her small, bare foot and brought it down hard.

"BACK OFF!" Kagome screamed. The man let his guard down in surprise.

Kagome rushed forward and shoved past him. "SICKO!" She yelled. She grabbed Inuyasha's sleeve and ran away as fast as she could. Her breathing went quickly through her clenched teeth and she tried to shake off the pain coming from her wounded thigh.

Inuyasha ran next to her at a quick, steady pace. Kagome glanced around and stared at him. His face was stunned, but she ignored it. "Is this the way you came?" She asked through breaths. Inuyasha seemed to blink something off and then examined where they were. He nodded, looking back at her. Kagome nodded in return.

"Are you gonna tell me what's goin' on, or what?" Inuyasha asked in quiet annoyance. Kagome pushed hair out of her face and glanced behind her to see if the man was following them. "When I woke up," She began, darting around a broken-down cottage. She narrowed her eyes in concentration and tried to collect her memories. "I was on that couch wrapped in a warm towel. But all my clothes were on and my legs were cold."

She slowed for a moment to wipe the blood away that was dripping from her thigh. The air was freezing cold and stung her wound. Her nose was numb to the icy wind and she wet her dry lips. "That guy was sitting on his stairs," She said in a quieter voice. "Just looking at me. So I sat up, but my head was really light...Then a few seconds later, the guy walked over to me and sat down in a chair next to the couch. He was holding something...It took me a few minutes to realize that it was a frame."

Inuyasha groaned loudly in agitation and glared at her. "Just get to the point!" He yelled. He kept eying Kagome's bleeding leg, and Kagome knew it was because of her wound, but the fact that the wound was rather far up her thigh made her extremely uncomfortable. She focused on what he had just yelled at her and glared back at him. "I am, but there's a lot to tell, okay?" She shouted. "So be quiet until I'm finished!" Inuyasha's mouth closed and his eyes burned with frustration. "As I was saying," Kagome stopped and placed a gentle hand on her burning thigh, once again trying to ignore Inuyasha's stares.

"He was holding a frame. There are all those stories about young girls who get abducted by evil guys and everything, so I was already really nervous and thinking that he might have drugged me." She was speaking quickly in her semi-panicked memories and tried to quiet herself. It didn't work very much. "But I really didn't know, so I started asking questions." She moved behind one of the small, diminished houses and leaned her back against it with a hand over her heart to catch her breath.

"'Who are you?' I said. And he sort of gave me this weird smile and didn't say anything. But then he said, 'I'd like to be your friend.'" Inuyasha was constantly checking the sides of the house to see if the man was there, but she knew he was listening. "Things just got weirder." She blurted out. She tried to understand why she was speaking so quickly; in a rush to tell him what had happened. Her cheeks reddened and she avoided looking at him in her inner-confusion. "I tried to stand up, but he put a cloth over my mouth really fast. Right away, I got light-headed and fell back onto the couch." Inuyasha turned to look at her, earning the opposite from Kagome. She turned away from him and pretended to be examining something on her shoe.

"You haven't seen any, but people do that in movies, so I was seriously freaking out." Kagome raked her fingers through her hair at the memory. "He put the frame in front of my head and said something strange. It was like...'Once you've been cleaned I'll put you in my art gallery.'" She smeared the back of her hand over her forehead.

"He started walking up the stairs. And then I passed out. That's all I remember." She mumbled. "So when I woke up, I was scared. And you weren't there, and I didn't know what the heck had happened to you, and I thought for a second that you died, and so I started feeling really sad, but I pushed that away, and that weird guy was no where to be seen, and then you came and you were bleeding, and I was bandaged up obviously by the psycho guy, and then--"

Kagome looked at his eyes and saw the blank, un-readable expression on his face and felt a rush of embarrassment. She had been rambling even more than when she had started. Her heart pounded in her chest and her head grew hot. "S...Sorry." She whispered. She cleared her throat quietly and flicked her eyes around their surroundings. 'Way to go, Kagome, now he REALLY regrets coming to get you from that crazy house.'

"That guy is close." Inuyasha said in carelessness.

Kagome broke away from her embarrassment and looked at him. "Okay, lead the way." She commanded readily. "Don't say that like we're good friends." Inuyasha scoffed in annoyance. Kagome could tell he was bothered by something but she didn't inquire on it. She shrugged it off and picked up speed to follow him. They began running towards the direction Inuyasha said he had come from.

Inuyasha jumped over a fallen log and landed in a noticeably unsure way on the ground. Kagome stopped in confusion and a strange pulse of worry sped through her. She stopped breathing and stared.

Inuyasha took in a hissing breath of realization just as the ground gave out underneath him. "SON OF A--!" Kagome rushed forward as he tried to jump off of the ground and away from the trap. He had responded too late; there wasn't enough momentum to jump.

Inuyasha's hair flew upwards as he began falling. He spun around full-circle in the air to grab the earth on the edge of the trap. His claws sunk through and the dirt gave way beneath the weight of his hand. Kagome threw herself onto the hollow log and the wind was knocked out of her. Her pupils dilated from the shock and pain, but she ignored it and pushed herself forward to grab Inuyasha's hand. She had just managed to grab most of his fingers.

He was slipping quickly and Kagome couldn't see a bottom in the trap hole he was falling into. She tried to grab his hand with her other one, but the log rolled underneath her and was slowly bringing her towards the hole the more she tried. She planted the tips of her shoes in the dirt and clenched her teeth in a rush of strength. "Grab my hand...!" She commanded through her teeth.

The fingers of Inuyasha's free hand twitched and he narrowed his eyes in thought. Kagome stared in shock, her mouth opening. He wasn't bringing his hand up. "Inuyasha, please!" She shouted with a reasoning glare. "You'll fall!" His fingers were slowly slipping from her shaking hand and she tensed her grip as much as she could. A bead of sweat rolled down her neck and the weight of how heavy he felt came over her as it had when she had carried him home.

The cold of the winter air disappeared in the heat of her struggle. "I can't." Inuyasha said with a hint of a smirk. Kagome blinked sweat out of her eyes and tried to plant her feet into the ground better. "What do you mean, you can't? Why?" She asked loudly. Inuyasha remained silent as he stared at her in thought. "Tell me why!" She yelled in frustration.

"Because if you take my other hand, you'll fall, too." He said plainly. Kagome heard quiet footsteps behind her and her heart sped up. "For crying out loud..." She whispered. "It's because of the seal, isn't it?" She asked quietly. Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Oh, ya think?" He scoffed. There was a pause; hesitation. Kagome stared at him in silence and tried desperately to keep her grip. "Listen," Inuyasha said suddenly, his voice snappish. "If there's a place to fall into, then there's a place to fall out. Get it? I can jump out easily."

Kagome only tightened her grip and stared down into the black pit. Inuyasha's claws began cutting her flesh at how tightly she was holding onto his fingers. His eyes winced into a glare at her blood that trickled down his wrist. "What if you can't get out?" She hissed. The footsteps increased in volume. Inuyasha narrowed an eye in insult to her question. "A man-made hole can't be that deep. Just because you can't see a bottom doesn't mean it ain't there, so just let go already!" He snapped.

"You didn't just let me go when I went down that waterfall!" She shouted resonantly. Inuyasha's ground his teeth. "SO?" He yelled. "So, I'm going to help you!" She said through her teeth as she struggled. Inuyasha bared his fangs in frustration. "Stupid!" He barked, his eyes flashing deep gold. "It was the curse, nothing else! Get it through your head!" His hand slipped more from hers and Kagome's heart leapt to her throat. "I can get out of here easily if you just let go and run! Worry about yourself, dammit!" He snapped.

Kagome barely had a hold on his fingertips. The blood from her hand dripped down onto his and made it almost impossible to keep her grip. Tears threatened to come to her eyes and she fought them back as much as her strength would allow. She didn't care if he was a royal jerk and murderer. She didn't want him to fall. She didn't want him to leave her alone with the man again. It was too scary without Inuyasha around; far too scary. And she admitted to herself openly that without him, she felt weak. She had become so used to having him around to protect her whenever there was a threat to her life that if he wasn't there, her paranoia levels would shoot up.

It hurt something in her emotions to admit that she felt weak without him. And he wouldn't care even if she told him, she knew that much, even if it was painful. He hated her and wanted her to die; he said so himself. Nothing he did gave her the slightest impression that he liked her even in the least bit. He wouldn't ever think she was nice, or a good person, or that she was pretty even for a human. She was plain and in many ways un-lady-like. She had made up her mind that she would try her best to treat him as a friend, and even release him from the seal. She wasn't going to give up there and let him drop down into that pit where she couldn't see.

"I swear..." She said in a shaky, low voice. "If you don't take my hand right now," Her arm trembled violently at what it was being put through, and tears spilled down over her cheeks. She glared at him in all of her anger and seriousness. "Then I'll jump down there, too." Something inside of Inuyasha's eyes seemed to flicker until his face became unreadable. Kagome ground her teeth together as she tried to carefully move backwards and lift him out of the pit. An arm wrapped around her waist from behind and the hairs shot up on her arms. Her eyes widened and she opened her mouth in surprise. The arm jerked her backwards and her bloody hand slipped from Inuyasha's.

"Inuyasha!" She gasped. In an instant, Inuyasha grabbed dirt surrounding him and pushed his feet against the earth wall. He jumped back and forth of the sides of the trap quickly until he was out. He landed in front of Kagome in a single bolt.

Kagome's breath got stuck in her throat and her face turned a deep shade of red. "Told you so." Inuyasha said arrogantly. He crossed his arms with a smirk. Kagome's lips trembled in unspoken words and she blinked. Even though relief flushed through her, a sense of awkwardness overpowered it.

'I got into that weird serious-mode only to have him prove me wrong, and jump right out of the trap like it was the easiest thing in the world?' Inuyasha seemed to tower over her shrinking form and he raised an eyebrow. Kagome's face reddened more until it burned hotly and she stared. 'More over, that was...Kind of...' She swallowed. '...Cool.'

Inuyasha narrowed an eye and glanced around her face in well-masked confusion. Something was dawning on him slowly and he blinked. Her heart was making the strangest fluttering sound, and he was pretty sure that it wasn't a trick of the moonlight that her face was, he thought, red. It was an impossible thought, but she almost looked as if she was...

"There are many more traps like that one...I set them up myself." The man said quietly, interrupting Inuyasha's thoughts. The sound of Kagome's heart jumping reached his ears and he glared in annoyance and the silent pulsing it was causing his head. Kagome jerked away from the man and began running. She glanced back at Inuyasha and he knew, of course, that she meant for him to follow her. But the man ran after her first. Inuyasha shoved all of his body weight into the man and knocked him right into the trap hole. The man gasped in shock as he fell and Inuyasha laughed out loud cruelly in his vengeance. He stuck his middle finger in the air before jumping after Kagome.

He caught up to Kagome within a few bounds. She most likely didn't see him push the man into the trap hole. After a few moments, Inuyasha realized that they were running next to each other instead of one of them leading. He chose not to question it. He had other things to question within the silence of his mind. He pushed aside her expression when he had jumped out of the hole and thought on other things. Somehow, very strangely, Kagome had grown loyal towards him. Maybe not a strong, un-breakable loyalty, but a loyalty none-the-less. It was bizarre; almost eerie.

How could she have become that way? The look of complete seriousness on her crying face when she was trying to pull him from the trap hole had stunned him. It was so shocking that it had caused his mind to temporarily shut down. If he were to fall, then she was willing to fall with him. If he hadn't been able to get out, and if there had been something deadly at the bottom, that would mean her dying with him.

But at what price? What was her gain?

He searched her face through the corner of his eye as they ran. She was almost wincing and seemed to be in a deep argument with herself. They reached the rickety bridge and crossed it together. There was something oddly comforting about it, he realized. He had never had someone be loyal to him before. On many occasions he had thought that maybe she thought of him as her friend.

And sometimes it was the other way around, and he thought that maybe in some rare moments he could think of her as a friend figure. He had never spoken with someone long enough for them to get to know him even in the slightest bit, either. Other than knowing how cruel he could be, they'd end up knowing nothing but their downfall. Anyone else who had known of him would have let his hand go easily even if he could have gotten out or not.

Back when he had been shot and Kagome cared for him, she had wanted him to live then, too. That impossible sense of wanting him to live had grown. It had grown so much that she was willing to die with him; to throw herself down into what looked like a bottomless pit, and not even care. Somehow she had that much loyalty towards him. But you couldn't have loyalty without likeness. It just didn't work. And if that was really the case...

'Kagome likes me.' The thought came bluntly into his head. A burning emotion flooded his body and rushed to his head. His heart pounded in his ears and his face contorted strangely. His feet got twisted in a root of a tree and he fell forward onto his hands and knees. He stared at the ground in pure shock and silence for a moment before he heard Kagome laugh. It was obvious that he had startled her out of her inner-argument, but that didn't make him feel better. "You okay?" She asked loudly with a grin, walking over to him.

Inuyasha looked up at her. "What?" He yelled in a hoarse monotone. There was a thick pause. Kagome tilted her head and smiled with a raise of her eyebrows. "I asked if you were okay..." She said, staring. Inuyasha blinked at her and nodded in a stupor. Kagome stifled a laugh and shook her head. "Yeesh," She bent down and put a thin hand on his back, and the other to reach for his hand to help him up. Inuyasha's eyes widened slowly. "What's wrong with you?" She asked in a way that seemed like she was asking herself.

Inuyasha remained mostly dumbfounded in the time she helped him up to his feet. "I'm not sure if he's still following us, but we need to keep going. I want to avoid a fight if possible, okay?" She said, staring at his face. Inuyasha blinked. She moved her hand away from his back and stepped away. She stood in front of him with a smooth eyebrow raised at something. Inuyasha twitched his ears and didn't respond. For a split second he forgot where he was and what he was supposed to be doing. Kagome stared down at the hand that had held his to help him up, and cleared her throat. He was still holding it. Inuyasha looked down at his hand and swallowed a strange gurgle of a sound that almost succeeded in making its way out. He ripped his hand away from hers and moved himself away from her swiftly.

"I think the fall into that trap scared you a little more than you want to admit, because you're acting pretty weird..." She turned around with a shake of her head. She said something under her breath, but Inuyasha couldn't hear it over the pounding of hot blood in his head. He walked after her unsurely and stared at the icy grass under his feet.

It really did all make sense the longer he thought about it. It wasn't the seal that was making her comfortable around him, it was just her. He knew that it was easy to intimidate anyone even under the seal, but not her. The realization of everything came over him quickly and his head spun. He was finally accepting everything that had gone on between them, as well as her strangeness towards him. Even if they were somehow still together after the curse was lifted, she would still act the same way. She wasn't afraid. She had just willingly helped him up without fear of touching him. She wasn't intimidated. She didn't have a fear of him at all. Nothing he did scared her.

Even if he had never done anything wrong in his entire life and had lived differently, his appearance alone would make anyone frightened. Because in Kagome's time, there was no one even remotely like him. Yet she didn't care about that anymore. He didn't even think she had cared when he first came out of the book in the well house. Like he had been doing many times in those past few days, he thought of everything she had done for and with him.

Then the memory of what had happened a few minutes prior flooded his head and the image of Kagome's red face came up. She was staring at him in the weirdest way with an entirely red face. Plus, her heart beat was odd. He had trained himself to read people's emotions through their heart beat. He knew well what each one meant. But he had never in his life heard the one she was giving off. No one's pulse ever sounded like that around him. Everything pointed to the same conclusion.

She liked him.

"Inuyasha!" She hissed, slamming them both back against a tree. Inuyasha gasped sharply at the impact of the tree and stared at the arm she spread across his chest. His face shone with a look of horror and he whipped his head to the right to stare at her. "Wha--" She cut him off immediately. "Shhh!" She hissed, her face close to his.

Inuyasha blinked quickly and kept his eyes fixed on the arm that was pressing hard against his chest. His face flushed oddly and the things he had been thinking came into his head abruptly. The back of her body was pressed mostly against his in an effort to keep them both behind the tree. Inuyasha's hands clenched to fists and he swallowed loudly. He felt much worse than when she had been examining his wounded head. She stared to her right and tried to keep her breathing quiet. She felt the need to hide from something, but what she was hiding from didn't occur to Inuyasha. His head was wrapped around other matters.

She glanced at him and nodded her head to the side. Inuyasha stared and tried to calm his rushing blood. He peered carefully over her and around the tree trunk. Her hair brushed against his neck and he sucked in short breath. He shook it off and stared over her. There was a car in a dirt road. It was the same kind of car that he had found his shirt in. He remembered how Kagome had been scared of the people in it. She wasn't scared then, however. It was the opposite. She was almost excited-looking.

"This is so lucky. A police car out here at this time of night?" She said in an exited whisper. "Wait here." She whispered. She slid her arm from his chest. She looked at him. "Inuyasha, your clothes are still pretty soaked from the river. Aren't you cold?" Inuyasha's heart leapt to his throat and his eyes twitched involuntarily. When he didn't give a reply, Kagome narrowed an eye and turned away. "I'll be back in a sec." With that, she parted from him and made her way to the car. Inuyasha was left alone to stand with his back at the tree in a daze of sickly emotions.

"HELP!" Kagome yelled out. Inuyasha's ears twitched at her cry, but the voice she used sounded fake to him. He glanced around the tree trunk, but his feet remained planted in the ground from Kagome's command.

A woman came out of the car and rushed forward. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Take it easy, miss!" Kagome faltered in front of the woman and pressed a hand over her chest and gasped. "What's the problem? How'd you get over here...?" The woman asked. Kagome looked like she was trying to hide her face by bending over in a feign of out-of-breath-ness. "A man..." She took a breath. "Was chasing me..." She bent over the car and began shaking slightly. "He was trying...To kill...me!" She sucked in air and shrank down onto the ground and hugged her knees.

"Which direction?" She asked urgently. Kagome reached a shaky arm up and pointed in the direction she had come from. The woman nodded and pulled something from her belt. She put her mouth to it and said, "We have possible attempted murder here about two miles from the nose of the waterfall. Suspect is said to be chasing the victim and is still at large; Possibly the Shadow Killer. Calling in for backup." She clipped it back into her belt. "Roger; sending out four armed cars." The little machine said.

Inuyasha stared at it warily for a moment before returning his attention to Kagome. She was hugging her knees to her chest with her face pressed against them. The woman opened the trunk of the car and pulled out a blanket. She handed it to Kagome with a few words of calm assurance, and Kagome draped it over herself and her head to better hide herself. "Are you injured, miss?" She asked. Kagome shook her head and sounded as if she were stifling sobs.

Inuyasha tried desperately to hold back a smirk. She was an actress when she had to be. Something like that was quite a useful trait. In desperate situations, it was hard for even him to mask his emotions with believable false ones. He knew that his temper gave out quickly and it was hard to keep his cool. He had struggled with acting for a very long time.

He wondered where she picked up her acting skills from, and when in her life she ever needed to use them. It was strange to think of her that way. In a few more seconds, the smirk had taken over his face and he examined her with interest, completely forgetting everything that had happened just minutes before.

"You can make yourself comfortable in the back seat until the other cars arrive, miss." She opened the car door and Kagome gratefully accepted her offer with a sniffle. She slid into the back seat and closed her eyes, bowing her head. "Do you need anything?" The woman asked attentively. Kagome shook her head with a mumble of something Inuyasha couldn't hear. The woman nodded and stepped away from the car. She seemed ever on her guard, as if she knew the danger that was around. She stared around the area severely. Her black hair was tied up neatly, and her reddish eyes were seemingly well-adapted to the dark of the night.

Fiteen minutes or more passed silently until the blaring of sirens echoed in the distance. They drew nearer and nearer until Inuyasha could see the glow of red lights on the cliffs above them. Somehow the cars managed to get down the cliffs from some un-seen path and soon ended up surrounding the car Kagome was in. Several people came out of the cars with big, black instruments that Inuyasha hadn't seen before. He observed them with caution and looked at Kagome to see how she was taking all of it.

She was staring right at him. Their eyes met and she appeared almost flustered for a moment at being found staring at him. The look faded and she smiled slightly with a nod of reassurance as if to tell him her plan was going accordingly. Inuyasha's pupils thinned and he choked on a bulge that appeared in his throat. So many times he had told himself that Kagome was just some foolish human whom he despised with every fiber of his being. But for the first time, he didn't think that anymore.

"Let's go, guys!" A man shouted. All of the officers departed into the woods, rushing by Inuyasha without notice. The black-haired woman remained behind with a male officer. They spoke to each other in quiet tones and spoke into their little machines every once in a while. Minutes passed with only those things happening. There were no sounds from the officers in the distance. They were quiet in their work and obviously knew what they were doing.

The officers in front of him however, seemed more like they were easy-going. Because in just a few minutes, Inuyasha sensed that their guard was completely lowered. He hadn't been watching their guard on purpose, though. He just took notice of it. It was something that came naturally to him. And, in the same moment he felt their guard drop, Kagome hissed his name. He shot his gaze to her direction and saw her getting slowly out of car door opposite from the other humans, nodding her head as a signal for him to follow. She didn't give a second glance to the officers who were supposed to be protecting her.

Inuyasha stared, his eyes wide with surprise and his heart slamming in his chest. 'Who...Is Kagome?' He thought in shock.

Insane-san says: Woot, there goes another chapter. And man, I'm sitting on the couch with my laptop in such a way that I think my colon just cramped. It's...Such a weird feeling. o.o

Okay, in the next chapter, I plan to get into Kagome's background more. Thank all that is GOOD that I know exactly what the next chapter revolves around. I can't believe I let myself get so carried away that I had so many problems for this chapter. XD PHEW. Once again, sorry 'bout the late update. Oh and guess what? My hits reached over 10,000. :'D

Whether it separates everyone's separate IP addresses, or it just sees the same people visiting over and over, I don't really know for sure...But it's at somewhere around 10,500 now. That makes me happy. o.o -giggles like a squirrel-

I got a lot of death threats in my reviews. People like, "UPDATE SOON OR DIE." I was like, "Oh my God, okayyy. n.n;"

Anyway, I'll see you guys pretty soon. I hope you all have your holiday plans figured out. I sure don't. I have so much shopping to do. I'm totally gonna go bankrupt. x.x WHATEVER. IT'S ALL IN THE SPIRIT OF THIS SEASON, RIGHT? BLOW YOUR GOODS ON OTHER GOODS FOR OTHER PEOPLE WHO MIGHT NOT EVEN WANT THE GOOD'S GOODS?!

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