~ Chapter 10 ~
Nani?!
"Chichiri, you gotta teleport us in there…" Sakura said in a low voice with her nosed pressed to the doors of the main entrance of the school. Tasuki pressed his nose against the glass as well, slowly reaching for his tessen over his shoulder. He knew Sakura forbid of it, but he wanted to see if burning down the doors were more effective and easier that just a teleportation spell. Sakura caught him out of the corner of his eye, which stopped him in his tracks.
He gave her the biggest, most watery puppy dog eyes you could ever imagine and pouted. "Please?"
She facefaulted whilst trying to resist the pleading. "Tasuki, I could get arrested."
"Oh come on, ya know ya want me to …" He grinned with his fangs and his arm started back to his tessen.
Sakura lunged at him and grabbed his arm. "NO I don't, and STOP ---"
She was cut off by my spell of teleportation, and we were no longer outside, but inside the school library on top of one of the round tables.
"---THAT! WHEN YOU'RE IN PRISON, YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU E----!" Sakura was cut off once again by Tasuki's hand slapped across her mouth to keep her quiet in haste. I looked around frantically for anyone who might've heard.
The place seemed deserted, so I hopped off the wobbly table, only to laugh as Sakura and Tasuki thudded with much thrashing onto the ground from the table as well. It looked as if Sakura bit Tasuki's hand and such havoc was released that the table shook on its foundation. The rest, well, was on the floor in a tangled mess. I shook my head.
"Da…" I watched them get up and brush themselves off.
"Let's pretend that never happened," Sakura said in a rather flustered voice. Tasuki narrowed his eyes and grumbled, but nevertheless followed as she picked a certain row of books.
Her fingers followed down the row of books, all the while muttering to herself.
"I feel it … it's right …… around ……… here!" Her fingers stopped at a particularly fat book with scribbles on the sides. She took it out and stared at the cover for a moment.
"This is …………" she facefaulted and grew a sweatdrop as big as her head, then fell over like a brick of lead.
"ITAI!!!"
Fortunately for me, she fell on Tasuki. Oh well.
"Let's see no da …" I knelt down to wrench the book out of her unconscious grasp and read the gnarled cover.
"Daaa…Science? Lab Book no da?" I sweatdropped. This wasn't the Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho! "Nani no da?"
Sakura suddenly blew up, snatching the book out of my hands. "WHAT IS THIS DOING HERE?!" She shook it after two seconds, as if she were angry that it didn't respond with a reasonable answer. "Minx had this the last time I saw it!!" She slammed the book into her forehead and sat down—
"OOF!" –- right on Tasuki's stomach.
"I don't think she'll be borrowing my lab book for awhile…" Sakura sighed and hung her head. I watched as Tasuki started to turn blue.
"Sakura-chan, you're killing Tasuki…" I pointed out. She got up quickly and watched as Tasuki coughed and gagged for a couple seconds, sat up, and caught Sakura by the collar.
"WHAT DO YA GOT AGAINST ME THAT YA'D TRY AN' KILL ME, HUH?!" He got in her face. She turned her head to the side and looked at him skeptically.
"Keep it down Tasuki, or your diet from now on'll be bread and water!" She retorted, sticking out her tongue. His face fell, but she grinned. "Good." She caught my bewildered gaze.
"Hehe … I don't think we'll find the book here … although I wonder why we sensed a force in here …?" She got a more serious air as she tried to sort things out. "As a matter of fact, I still sense it." She looked up at me and I nodded in response.
"I do too … maybe it's still here ---" I stopped to
see Tasuki flipping through Sakura's Lab Book,
swiping a stray pencil off the floor that was leftover from school the day
before, and vandalizing her book with rude words and little sketches. Sakura
narrowed her eyes dangerously as my face drew a blank.
"Daaaa…Aren't you listening no da?"
Sakura walloped the back of Tasuki's head so hard that he fell
forward into the pages of the book and remained there. Then, as if nothing
happened, she averted her attention to me.
"What was that?"
I put on a nervous grin and stood. "Why don't we just
look around some more no da?" I walked around SD and crawled under tables
as Sakura took Tasuki and slung his unconscious body over her shoulder. She put
the book in the crook of her other arm and looked around in the higher places.
After about 15 minutes of searching, Sakura stood staring at
an awfully large and blank box. I thought she had finally lost it: seeing her
staring at an inanimate object with Tasuki hanging over her shoulder.
"Ehh…Sakura-chan no da …" I tapped her
shoulder in question. "What are you doing no da?"
She turned her head from side to side, her eyes locked on the
screen. "I sense something here ya know …" I stared at it as she did.
We must've looked very stupid there right about now.
I blinked. "What is it no da?" She blinked as well.
"It's a television, or TV … ya turn it on and watch crap
when you're bored," she put Tasuki down in a chair next to the round table
and laughed in embarrassment. "I guess I hit him too hard …" I
stepped back a little out of her way at that comment as she started to fumble with
a mass of wires in the back. In one pull she ripped all of them out of the
wall. Then she sorted them out and put them together neatly next to the TV.
After the arrangement, she walked towards me briskly and took my kasa.
And she forgot it was tied loosely around my neck.
"GAKkkk!"
"Oh, sorry Chichiri … hehehehe…" She took it off
anyway as I tried to regain my breathing. I was starting to realize how hard
she must've smacked Tasuki. I watched her again as she placed the kasa on the
ground, face-up, and roll up her non-existent sleeves as she rounded on the
prepared television. What the heck was she gonna do?
I soon found out, because she lifted the TV into her arms and carried it so it
was right over my kasa. I jumped where I was.
"NANI NO DA?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING NA NO DA?!"
She looked at me as if the answer to that was the most obvious one in the world. "I was gonna put this," she motioned to the TV with a jerk of her head. "…into that …" she then nodded toward the kasa I held protectively in my hands. "…so we can take it to Joanna's house or wherever and check it out … duh!"
"I don't think that big thing will fit no da …"
"Oh yeah? We'll make it fit!!" Her voice rose mischievously as she used MY OWN SPELLS on my kasa and me. Since her powers were more advanced, she altered my simple teleportation spells to just magick my kasa to where she was going to dump the television. I blinked as I looked down and it was no longer there, and when I had looked up, she had half the TV inside the kasa already! She was jumping up and down on the part that was refusing to get inside the rest of the way.
I sighed in defeat. She had the thing halfway into my kasa, so why fight back? It was working. So I snapped my fingers and watched as the television slipped all the way into the kasa. Sakura scrambled and thudded on the ground next to it.
"Now why didn't I think of that before?" She asked herself as she scratched her head. I crossed my arms and just kinda watched (yet again) as she picked up my kasa and walked over SD style and gave it to me. Just to keep my cool on things, I bent down to take it and pat her head as if she were a dog. She pointed to Tasuki slumped over the table.
"What'll we do 'bout him?"
I shook my head and held up my hands as if I was shielding myself. "YOU carry him no da."
"OKAY!" She jumped and got Tasuki situated comfortably in her arms. "I've decided … we're going to Joanna's house at daybreak!"
"Where'll we stay till then no da?" I asked as we teleported outside school grounds.
"Here, get on first," So I climbed, SD style of course, up so I was sitting around her shoulders. We were gonna fly again.
"Sit tight, and you'll see soon enough!" She spread her wings out abruptly.
If it weren't for Sakura's supportive wings, I would've been all over the pavement. "DAA!"
She turned to me, grinning very wide, and, for the first time I noticed something I hadn't before.
She had fangs.