Chapter Six
"C'mon, ya sure? You don't know what you're missing"said Moninoke.
Kari shook her head, Moninoke just shrugged.
She offered Kari some weed but Kari said no. Kari held back the coughs as she did not want to look as thoguh she were gestering them to not smoke, she knew she'd get it for sure. Why were they so nice now? They sure as heck hadn't shown any mercy or pitty when they first forced her to join. On the other hand, they had seemed to change since she came along.
She felt guilty over the fact that she had replaced Sakura in a gang she didn't even want to be in and Salura did want to be in it, at least she used to. Kari doubted Sakura wanted to be with Moninoke or Jun anymore. But Kari knew Sakura would do everything in her power to see to it that Kari went down bad.
Most kids would want serious revenge but Kari didn't. For some odd reason she never felt revenge, or did she? If she did then she didn't know it obviously. She was in no mood to talk to Moninoke much, Jun didn't seem to talk at all so she wouldn't be a problem. Kari couldn't muster up the courage to even start a light conversastion for fear of saying something wrong.
"Listen Kari, I have something to tell you. You're not actualy part of the gang, we're just giving Sakura a lesson in loyalty"said Moninoke.
"You mean some kind of iniciation?"asked Kari more comfortable.
"No not that. You see Kari the problem with Sakura is that she's too rebelious. She ran away from her family since she was 7, so was used to doing things on her own for awhile. Even when I took her in(Jun wasn't in until later) she always tried to do things her own way. She only seems to follow orders if it's convienient for her. Sure, eventualy we got her to be more coorapertive but she still can't seem to stay in tune. She's gone for now, but she'll be back. Until she comes back you are to stay away from us. When she does return, so do you, we'll tell you when that is"said Moninoke.
Kari nodded her head, stood up, and walked out. ****************************************************
"It's probaly still early so I'll just walk around a little. I just hope T.K or anyone else at school dosen't decide to snitch"said Kari to herself.
A burn of rage seemed to be surfacing but not much. While she was walking, on her trail was Sakura.
"I might not be able to come back to the gang but I don't need them, I never did. I'll make Kari pay for what she did, I'll make her death slow and painful"thought Sakura.
She pulled a pocket knife from her pocket.
"No, that's too simple. I have to strike in all areas, and I know where to go for first"thought Sakura. ******************************************************
Kari slowly opened the apartment door to her house. She peeked her head in, no one home. She looked at the clock, 3:00 PM. Everyone would just be getting out. Kari could only hope her parents hadn't arrived. She looked at the welcome matt, no shoes were there so she made it. She slipped her sandles off and entered.
She walked into the kitchen, where a trail of blood and a body were waiting for her. *****************************************************
Sakura dialed a number on a payphone:911.
After some rining there was an awnser(sorry if this isn't comepletely acurate)
"Hello?"
"Listen, there's been a murder! The murderer's still in the apartment!"said Sakura worriedly.
"What's the address" *********************************************************
Kari gasped and trembled at what she saw. The body of a boy around the ages of 4,5 or maybe 6 layed there motionless. On the floor was a knife drenched in blood. She picked the knife up and felt to see if it was real or if this was all a joke. She jumped a little as she felt the sharpness of the blade. It made a small barely noticable cut.
Kari jumped in suprise as the door was broken down, several policemen with guns in hand stormed through and surrounded Kari.
"Officers, thank goodness, you-
One of them quickly smacked her hand with the knife causing her to drop it. The officer cuffed Kari's hands behind her back.
(sorry if this isn't totaly acurate, just bare with me will ya/)
"What's going on?"
"You're under arrest for murder, Anything you say can or will be used against you in a court of law. If you can't afford a lawyer such will be provided for you"he said as she was stuffed into a police car.
"I didn't murder anyone, I swear"
"Then why were you holding the knife?"asking the cop(driving) in a tone that told Kari he didn't believe her.
"I was checking to see if it was real or if someone was pulling some kind of prank"
No awnser, he didn't believe her. Kari just stared out the window with a depressed face as people gathered around her apartment complex to see what had happened. She sighed as she was driven down. *******************************************************
"Better then prsion, I guess sort of"thought Kari as she stood in the office of a Juvinile hall. The officer explained everything.
"We aren't entirely sure if she;s the one but we're pretty positive. Further inverstigating will be done but until then we feel we best keep her here"said the officer.
When he leaft she was face t face with who was known as Mr. Goldwell. He stood an a fairly average high, Black hair, dressed how you would expect one to dress. He seemed kind of young.
"This way maggot"he said as he yanked her his way. After traveling some flightls of stairs she was finaly placed in a cell. He unlocked Kari's cuff with keys given to him by the officer.
Kari sat confused, it all happened so fast she wondered if this was all some kind of weird dream. She slapped her head hard, it was real allright.
She sighed and stared at the barred window. The sunlight fel refreshing even though it was plunty light where she was. The sunlight seemed to add to the touch and feel of it in a positive way but there was absouloutely nothing positive about her current situation. She was lucky enouhg to get a cell to herself at least, the last thing she wanted was to get social with the "juviniles".
Many of them were talking, yelling and fooling around which caused cursing and threatening. Juvinile officers did everything in their power to stop the commotion, making things even noisier.
"Is this what I'll have to live with for the rest of my life? Naw, eventualy they'll send you to a prision maybe"thought Kari.
The idea of keeping an adult in a juvinile prision didn't seem likely. She didn't see anyway of making it out of this. She seemed to get out of almost every other scrape but now it didn't seem likely. All of the kids at school were against her so they would probaly promote her being there. The children would probaly help influence the adults.
Heck, her family would probaly turn on her after awhile.
"Well I've been lucky the past few days, I've gotten out of a ton of jams. I guess this is where it all stops, the last chapter in the book of my life"said Kari.
"In fact if they had a title for my book it would probaly be Rotting in prision: The Kari Kamiya story. Of course I would be featured as someone like Sakura but oh well"said Kari.
A thought hit her like a bottle to the head.
"Could Sakura have set this all up? If so, then it really could be all over even if I get out of here"thought Kari. *****************************************************
After being questioned countless times Sakura was sent to an orphanage which she would runaway from whn everyone else was asleep.
That's exactly what she did, she ran off. None of the kids were to her liking, of course no one ever was. When sakura thought about it, love was something she never experienced. She though about crying but shook her head.
"No, weaklings like Kari cry, only wimps and whooses cry, the strong loners like me would never embares themselves"thought Sakura.
All she really wanted to do was break down and cry but she would never lower herself to such a level, she would never live it down. Time would never heal that kind of wound to her pride.
"Well I got her, I got Kari good. If all goes to plan she'll rot in prision for life. If some kind of God made miracle happens and she's proven innocnent, which there's a slim to none chance of happening, I'll have an alternate plan"thought Sakura. *********************************************************
There was much desention among the Kamiya family. Tai knew Kari was framed, his father said she has been acting weird and probaly says she did do it and that she'll learn a lesson from this while his mom seemed nuetral and confused.
"Enough! I've made up my mind, it's for the best she learns the consequences of wrong choices. Maybe this will show her what happens to kids who skip school and ignore their problems"said his father.
"Mom, say something"said Tai.
She just bowed her head. Tai slipped his sneakers on.
"BURN IN HELL!"
He slammed the door and walked to Matt's apartment furious. He knocked on the door and Matt awnsered. It was about 7:00 PM.
"What's up Tai, it's a little late"said Matt.
"It's Kari, they threw her in some juvinile prision and my Dad won't do a dar thing about it"said Tai rage in his voice.
"Okay, calm down a little. Come on in and tell me more"said matt.
While tai told of what happened, T.K heared from his room which he was supposed to be doing homework.
"She dosen't deserve this, I know kari and she would never murder someone. Problems or no problems she didn't do it, I know it!"said Tai.
"So waht are ya gonna do?"asked Matt.
"There's nothing I can do until that sleezeball of a father get's his head out of his (censored) and tries at least, at least try to get Kari out of there, and until he does I am never going back there, the only reason I have of keeping my name is for Kari. I don't know how Matt, but I'll get Kari out of there. A petition, something, I know on my heart she would never go to such drastic lengths"said
T.K thought about everything Tai said and from his own experiences. Now that he thought about it, Kari didn't seem like the kind of person to do all the things she did.
"T.K how could you? You let let your peers pressure you into dumping your friend. How could I let this happen? Well I have to do something"thought T.K.
T.K walked out into the living room where Tai and Matt were speaking.
"Guys? I have something to tell you"said T.K. *********************************************************
All Kari did was stare up into the window all, oh and eat when her meals were delivered to her. They were nothing special, nothing good, nothing bad, just tasteless really, to her at least. While other kids continued talking and trying to cause riots, she just stood staring at the moon.
"Hey new kid, what's your name?"asked a boy from across.
Not wanting to be rude, she responded "Kari"
"Name's Hakutesigh, what'chya in for?"
"Murder"
"Whoa, you really are bad! I like that"said Hakutesigh.
"I was framed, but no one believes me"said Kari.
"Everyone says that at first, eventualy they live to deal with it"
"But I really didn't, I swear"
"You'll learn eventualy"he said turning his head.
Kari sighed.
"The beggining of the rest of my life"she thought. *************************************************
"I refuse to believe it! Kari is no murderer, I'll bet my soul that Sakura was behind this"said Moninoke slamming her fist on the table.
She was not happy to say the least.
"I let this go too far. C'mon Jun, we gotta figure a way to bust her out of there"said Moninoke.
TBC ******************************************************
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"C'mon, ya sure? You don't know what you're missing"said Moninoke.
Kari shook her head, Moninoke just shrugged.
She offered Kari some weed but Kari said no. Kari held back the coughs as she did not want to look as thoguh she were gestering them to not smoke, she knew she'd get it for sure. Why were they so nice now? They sure as heck hadn't shown any mercy or pitty when they first forced her to join. On the other hand, they had seemed to change since she came along.
She felt guilty over the fact that she had replaced Sakura in a gang she didn't even want to be in and Salura did want to be in it, at least she used to. Kari doubted Sakura wanted to be with Moninoke or Jun anymore. But Kari knew Sakura would do everything in her power to see to it that Kari went down bad.
Most kids would want serious revenge but Kari didn't. For some odd reason she never felt revenge, or did she? If she did then she didn't know it obviously. She was in no mood to talk to Moninoke much, Jun didn't seem to talk at all so she wouldn't be a problem. Kari couldn't muster up the courage to even start a light conversastion for fear of saying something wrong.
"Listen Kari, I have something to tell you. You're not actualy part of the gang, we're just giving Sakura a lesson in loyalty"said Moninoke.
"You mean some kind of iniciation?"asked Kari more comfortable.
"No not that. You see Kari the problem with Sakura is that she's too rebelious. She ran away from her family since she was 7, so was used to doing things on her own for awhile. Even when I took her in(Jun wasn't in until later) she always tried to do things her own way. She only seems to follow orders if it's convienient for her. Sure, eventualy we got her to be more coorapertive but she still can't seem to stay in tune. She's gone for now, but she'll be back. Until she comes back you are to stay away from us. When she does return, so do you, we'll tell you when that is"said Moninoke.
Kari nodded her head, stood up, and walked out. ****************************************************
"It's probaly still early so I'll just walk around a little. I just hope T.K or anyone else at school dosen't decide to snitch"said Kari to herself.
A burn of rage seemed to be surfacing but not much. While she was walking, on her trail was Sakura.
"I might not be able to come back to the gang but I don't need them, I never did. I'll make Kari pay for what she did, I'll make her death slow and painful"thought Sakura.
She pulled a pocket knife from her pocket.
"No, that's too simple. I have to strike in all areas, and I know where to go for first"thought Sakura. ******************************************************
Kari slowly opened the apartment door to her house. She peeked her head in, no one home. She looked at the clock, 3:00 PM. Everyone would just be getting out. Kari could only hope her parents hadn't arrived. She looked at the welcome matt, no shoes were there so she made it. She slipped her sandles off and entered.
She walked into the kitchen, where a trail of blood and a body were waiting for her. *****************************************************
Sakura dialed a number on a payphone:911.
After some rining there was an awnser(sorry if this isn't comepletely acurate)
"Hello?"
"Listen, there's been a murder! The murderer's still in the apartment!"said Sakura worriedly.
"What's the address" *********************************************************
Kari gasped and trembled at what she saw. The body of a boy around the ages of 4,5 or maybe 6 layed there motionless. On the floor was a knife drenched in blood. She picked the knife up and felt to see if it was real or if this was all a joke. She jumped a little as she felt the sharpness of the blade. It made a small barely noticable cut.
Kari jumped in suprise as the door was broken down, several policemen with guns in hand stormed through and surrounded Kari.
"Officers, thank goodness, you-
One of them quickly smacked her hand with the knife causing her to drop it. The officer cuffed Kari's hands behind her back.
(sorry if this isn't totaly acurate, just bare with me will ya/)
"What's going on?"
"You're under arrest for murder, Anything you say can or will be used against you in a court of law. If you can't afford a lawyer such will be provided for you"he said as she was stuffed into a police car.
"I didn't murder anyone, I swear"
"Then why were you holding the knife?"asking the cop(driving) in a tone that told Kari he didn't believe her.
"I was checking to see if it was real or if someone was pulling some kind of prank"
No awnser, he didn't believe her. Kari just stared out the window with a depressed face as people gathered around her apartment complex to see what had happened. She sighed as she was driven down. *******************************************************
"Better then prsion, I guess sort of"thought Kari as she stood in the office of a Juvinile hall. The officer explained everything.
"We aren't entirely sure if she;s the one but we're pretty positive. Further inverstigating will be done but until then we feel we best keep her here"said the officer.
When he leaft she was face t face with who was known as Mr. Goldwell. He stood an a fairly average high, Black hair, dressed how you would expect one to dress. He seemed kind of young.
"This way maggot"he said as he yanked her his way. After traveling some flightls of stairs she was finaly placed in a cell. He unlocked Kari's cuff with keys given to him by the officer.
Kari sat confused, it all happened so fast she wondered if this was all some kind of weird dream. She slapped her head hard, it was real allright.
She sighed and stared at the barred window. The sunlight fel refreshing even though it was plunty light where she was. The sunlight seemed to add to the touch and feel of it in a positive way but there was absouloutely nothing positive about her current situation. She was lucky enouhg to get a cell to herself at least, the last thing she wanted was to get social with the "juviniles".
Many of them were talking, yelling and fooling around which caused cursing and threatening. Juvinile officers did everything in their power to stop the commotion, making things even noisier.
"Is this what I'll have to live with for the rest of my life? Naw, eventualy they'll send you to a prision maybe"thought Kari.
The idea of keeping an adult in a juvinile prision didn't seem likely. She didn't see anyway of making it out of this. She seemed to get out of almost every other scrape but now it didn't seem likely. All of the kids at school were against her so they would probaly promote her being there. The children would probaly help influence the adults.
Heck, her family would probaly turn on her after awhile.
"Well I've been lucky the past few days, I've gotten out of a ton of jams. I guess this is where it all stops, the last chapter in the book of my life"said Kari.
"In fact if they had a title for my book it would probaly be Rotting in prision: The Kari Kamiya story. Of course I would be featured as someone like Sakura but oh well"said Kari.
A thought hit her like a bottle to the head.
"Could Sakura have set this all up? If so, then it really could be all over even if I get out of here"thought Kari. *****************************************************
After being questioned countless times Sakura was sent to an orphanage which she would runaway from whn everyone else was asleep.
That's exactly what she did, she ran off. None of the kids were to her liking, of course no one ever was. When sakura thought about it, love was something she never experienced. She though about crying but shook her head.
"No, weaklings like Kari cry, only wimps and whooses cry, the strong loners like me would never embares themselves"thought Sakura.
All she really wanted to do was break down and cry but she would never lower herself to such a level, she would never live it down. Time would never heal that kind of wound to her pride.
"Well I got her, I got Kari good. If all goes to plan she'll rot in prision for life. If some kind of God made miracle happens and she's proven innocnent, which there's a slim to none chance of happening, I'll have an alternate plan"thought Sakura. *********************************************************
There was much desention among the Kamiya family. Tai knew Kari was framed, his father said she has been acting weird and probaly says she did do it and that she'll learn a lesson from this while his mom seemed nuetral and confused.
"Enough! I've made up my mind, it's for the best she learns the consequences of wrong choices. Maybe this will show her what happens to kids who skip school and ignore their problems"said his father.
"Mom, say something"said Tai.
She just bowed her head. Tai slipped his sneakers on.
"BURN IN HELL!"
He slammed the door and walked to Matt's apartment furious. He knocked on the door and Matt awnsered. It was about 7:00 PM.
"What's up Tai, it's a little late"said Matt.
"It's Kari, they threw her in some juvinile prision and my Dad won't do a dar thing about it"said Tai rage in his voice.
"Okay, calm down a little. Come on in and tell me more"said matt.
While tai told of what happened, T.K heared from his room which he was supposed to be doing homework.
"She dosen't deserve this, I know kari and she would never murder someone. Problems or no problems she didn't do it, I know it!"said Tai.
"So waht are ya gonna do?"asked Matt.
"There's nothing I can do until that sleezeball of a father get's his head out of his (censored) and tries at least, at least try to get Kari out of there, and until he does I am never going back there, the only reason I have of keeping my name is for Kari. I don't know how Matt, but I'll get Kari out of there. A petition, something, I know on my heart she would never go to such drastic lengths"said
T.K thought about everything Tai said and from his own experiences. Now that he thought about it, Kari didn't seem like the kind of person to do all the things she did.
"T.K how could you? You let let your peers pressure you into dumping your friend. How could I let this happen? Well I have to do something"thought T.K.
T.K walked out into the living room where Tai and Matt were speaking.
"Guys? I have something to tell you"said T.K. *********************************************************
All Kari did was stare up into the window all, oh and eat when her meals were delivered to her. They were nothing special, nothing good, nothing bad, just tasteless really, to her at least. While other kids continued talking and trying to cause riots, she just stood staring at the moon.
"Hey new kid, what's your name?"asked a boy from across.
Not wanting to be rude, she responded "Kari"
"Name's Hakutesigh, what'chya in for?"
"Murder"
"Whoa, you really are bad! I like that"said Hakutesigh.
"I was framed, but no one believes me"said Kari.
"Everyone says that at first, eventualy they live to deal with it"
"But I really didn't, I swear"
"You'll learn eventualy"he said turning his head.
Kari sighed.
"The beggining of the rest of my life"she thought. *************************************************
"I refuse to believe it! Kari is no murderer, I'll bet my soul that Sakura was behind this"said Moninoke slamming her fist on the table.
She was not happy to say the least.
"I let this go too far. C'mon Jun, we gotta figure a way to bust her out of there"said Moninoke.
TBC ******************************************************
Another twist, another chapter. REVIEW!