Ten'nyo

Chapter 20

Snow Day

Neuchi sat in front of the TV, her eyes glued to the screen, mutter the memo's running across the bottom. "Ando High, closed. Hiro Middle school closed. Konbanwa evening classes cancelled. Pika daycare, closed. Konnichiwa High, closed. Kagami Arts, closed" and the list continued, never seeming to repeat. About 35 more schools were listed as closed before, "… Ando High, closed. Hiro-- Aw Common! Every school in northern Japan is closed except in out district? You're kidding me! Shinsetsu Are you ready to go?"

"Well yeah, you have been sitting in front of the TV hopelessly for about 'n half hour."

"No way!? Ack I haven't gotten dressed yet! I was counting on the snow day!"

"Well there's why we haven't gotten on yet."

"Shut up! Please have my lunch ready!" Neuchi shouted, running back to her room.

"When did I start making you lunch?" Shinsetsu called back, but he grudgingly started making a quick sandwich anyway.

Neuchi threw on her purple sweater and the phone began to ring. "Ah! Maybe it's somebody from school, saving the day!" she cheered picking up her cordless phone. "Please tell me schools out." Neuchi muttered in a hushed voice.

"SORRY!" a women voice on the other side shouted, "I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT SCHOOL FOR YOU!" this time she started to sound like she was singing. "THIS IS THE TAMACHI HOUSEHOLD, RIGHT?"

Neuchi sighed, oh great, one of Hoshi's three fears was on the phone. This person was going to emotionally scar anyone she meets for life.

"RIGHT? RIGHT? RIGHT? RIGHT?"

"Yes, Hoshi's here. She's not up. Can Shinsetsu take the message?"

"OH NO, NO, NO! THAT JUST WON'T DO! YOU GO OVER TO MS. TAMACHI AND WAKE HER UP RIGHT NOW!"

"Ma'am please. It's early."

"I SAID WAKE HER UP N-N-N-N-N-N-N-O-O-O-O-O-O-W-W-W-W-W-W!"

Neuchi held the phone away from her ear. "Alright, alright." Neuchi apologized to Hoshi mentally in advance.

Neuchi invited herself into Hoshi's room. Hoshi was fast asleep. Not a care, or clue in the world.

"GET YOUR LAZY BUTT UP N-N-N-N-N-N-N-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-W-W-W-W-W-W!" the phone shouted, inches away from Hoshi's ear.

Whatever nice dream Hoshi had been having disappeared. Hoshi sighed and grabbed the phone from Neuchi. "Wha Ms. Yorumi?" Hoshi groaned, shooting Neuchi the filthiest look her sleepy face could manage.

"Oh, just thought I'd let you know we were closed today. BYE!" and with that the phone call ended.

Hoshi starred at the phone, and then Neuchi, "Ihatethatwoman." She muttered. She handed the phone back to Neuchi and rolled over.

Neuchi managed to jump into snow almost to her knees, fine snow caught in the wind slashing at her face. The temperature must have been at least -15 F. Shinsetsu jump out into the same winter vortex and handed Neuchi a lunch.

In the morning Hoshi's mother shoveled her way out of the driveway, yes she still had to go to work. Hoshi and Ten'nyo were left alone.

"Hey, Ten'nyo do you know the best thing to do on a snow day?"

"The best?"

"You sleep all day." It was no secret where Hoshi was headed when she turned away from the living room.

Ten'nyo sighed and turned on the television. Again no "My Name is Earl" to amuse her. The only junk on was Judge Judy, Judge Brown, Judge Smith, Judge Fred, Judge Bob and of course The Price is Right.

It wasn't too long before Ten'nyo got bored of watching people in a group audience jump up and down screaming happily and guess the price of a can of tomatoes was 88 cents, or the same three people charging each other with the same three crimes.

Maybe some kids would be at the park today. Glancing out side the window at the swirling winds that wasn't too likely but hey, it was something to do. Ten'nyo wrote a note and left it on the stove. It let Hoshi know Ten'nyo would be at the park.

Ten'nyo bundled up in Keikoku's sweater and red coat, and jumped into the snow. She kept her head low and walked through the wind. The park had snowdrifts against all the equipment and the swings rocked back and forth in the wind, not a kid in sight.

Ten'nyo sat on a single swing in the middle and locked around the tundra around her. She swung back and forth skimming her feet against the snow. Her eyes glazed over as she got lost in thought.

In a house not to far off a five-year-old boy and a his little brother sat at home enjoying the worth of the house.

The five-year-old boy looked at his room at the end of the house. "I wanna go out." He stated to his little brother.

"Me too, but mama says we can't in 'dis wetherz" the four year old spoke not looking up from his toy car.

"Forget what mama says I'm gonna go out and play."

"But youz will getz in trouble."

"No I won't"

"Whyz?" the four-year-old asked looking up from his car.

"Because you aren't gonna tell mama."

The four-year-old gasped and dropped his car. "But thatz lying and thatz bad!"

"Your not gonna tell mama. Got it?" the five-year-old picked up a blue white Mamodo spell book off the floor near him. He proceeded to walk out towards the door.

The four-year-old stood up and blocked the door, "noz 'dis is bad!"

The five-year-old made a dirty face at his younger brother. The clear look of a brilliant idea spread over his face. "Fine then I won't go, but letz play tie up game."

The four-year-old flinched. "No youz alwayz tie me to something and then leave me."

The five-year-old continued to think. He ran quickly to his room and pulled out a single dollar. "How 'bout this. I'll give you this dollar and then if I don't untie it you can keep it."

The four-year-old thought and grabbed the dollar. The five-year-old took daddy's secret stash of rope that everybody knew about and tied his four-year-old brother to a bed post.

Once his little brother was tied the big brother took the single dollar bill out of the shirt pocket and left into the winter wonder land.

The little brother began to cry. He was tied to a bedpost and now he didn't have his dollar.

Outside a strange boy also about five in age appeared. He looked like a bingeing of crystal. His hair was jagged and sharp but glassy. His hold body seemed to be made of colored glass.

The glass bingeing spoke in an echoing low pitch, "I have found where the Mamodo lives."

"The freaky bug kid that hung out with the girl with purple hair?"

"The girl with purple hair was the Mamodo. As for the bug Mamodo I have no clue where he disappeared. He is not in northern Japan anymore. Robeto are you sure about attacking the purple haired Mamodo? She reeks of being a Mamodo elite."

"Garassu, don't ask me stupid things"

"You don't have any idea what you're going to do, do you?"

"Shut up!"

Ten'nyo continued to space out swinging back and forth on her little swing.

Garassu and Robeto invited themselves into Hoshi's home. And redied their spell book. Garassu noticed the little note on the stove.

Ten'nyo's writing was very neat, but a little computerized looking.

"Hoshi, the TV is boring. If you need me I'll be at the park--Ten'nyo"

The Mamodo we are looking for is not here. This Ten'nyo person has left for the park. But it seems that her human partner is here. Shall we attack the defenseless?"

"This is just like a video game. Have ta attack them first."

The two quietly sunk around the house. They opened the door to every room quietly. Behind door number five was Hoshi in her still sickly looking pale glory half-asleep.

As the door opened Hoshi tilted her head of the pillow, what were two small kids doing here?

"Why are you guys in my house?" Hoshi asked sitting up.

"Are you Hoshi?" the Mamodo asked.

Hoshi looked over the body of the child asking the question, his glass body gave him away, Mamodo, think of some lie quick. Something now, lie, quick.

"I am Shinsetsu. Hoshi had to go to school today." Hoshi became sweat cover and looked off to the side.

"You lie. Shinsetsu is a boy." The boy of glass stated, "Now I give you a choice. We lucked out, but one lucky person means an unlucky. You can give us your spell book or we can cut you to pieces till you hand it to us."

Hoshi starred into Garassu blue tinted eyes. He was serious. Hoshi inched closer and closer against the wall.

"If that is the way you wish it." Garassu sighed and opened his mouth wide. "Shakar!" large shards of glass flew out of his mouth.

Hoshi raised both arms over her face and braced. Some shards slashed her skin others stabbed into her and finally the rest stuck into the wall or cut up the bed cover. Hoshi was now panting and bleeding. Hoshi grasped her bed cover firmly, ignoring the glass shard power wearing away her skin. "Ten'nyo hurry up already!" she screamed.

Out side the snow continued to whip the snow viscously and Ten'nyo only sat, rocking on her swing lost in thought. Unaware of Hoshi's circumstance.

A/n:


And that ends another chapter. BONZAI! Yay! Poor Hoshi… I feel really mean to her. Life has been Life. In two weeks I have the MME (very close to the ACT) and exams… School sucks don't it? At least with trimesters you know your two thirds done with school. With semesters you can only figure things out in fourths, or if your freaky you can figure it down into eighths. Sigh…

Before I get complaints about the spelling in the chapter what the Little Kids were saying was slurred on Purpose

I pretty, much give up typing teases on my profile so let me know if you like me putting these here more:

Hoshi's situations is getting more and more desperate. Of Ten'nyo can't suddenly pop out of the hallway and save the day what will become of her? A girl that can not walk on her own. Some of the cuts are deep she's losing blood fast and if Hoshi can't do this on her own there might be a corpse waiting for Neuchi and Shinsetsu when they come home. And how on earth is a FIVE-YEAR-OLD able to comprehend hurting people so badly?

So did you like having my tease here? You hate it? Please review.

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I haven't done this strange thing for a while. I forget whiter or not I named it… what ever.

Ten'nyo sat on a single swing in the middle and locked around the tundra around her. She swung back and forth skimming her feet against the snow. Her eyes glazed over as she got lost in thought.

Ten'nyo: it's cold!

Me: so?

Ten'nyo why are we shouting this actually out side?

Me: because I wanted to yell about how my school district didn't cancel the day after -20 temperatures where I live even though all the neighboring school districts had closed. I mean I don't actually live in the city. I live the next city over and the city I was in actually cancelled.

Ten'nyo: and this justifies putting me into the cold, why?

Me: because I live in the cold. Oh by the way people living some place where you break out the parkas at 65F come up here. We just had a warm spell. 30 degrees! Isn't that great/ though I think it's mostly ending

now as we get cold again.

Ten'nyo: this doesn't have a thing to do with anything! Can we get out of the cold?

Random camera guy: you mom just called! She's stuck in the snow!

Me: again? How can this be! It was melting two days ago!

Yes I have been trapped in the snow a little bit ago (BUT I WASN'T DRIVING! HA!) I hate winter. The only thing it's good for is snow days, but it's typically to cold to do anything.

Ten'nyo: hello! Are we getting out of the cold now? You know I hate this right?