Chapter 8:

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"I guess he's alright..."

"Yeah, I know. He isn't as he seems. He wont pull anything...He just likes to party obviously."

I was in Kiaru's room. Kurama was still gone. To where, I don't know, but he hadn't come back.

"He better not get involved in that shit again. He isn't living with us if he does." she pauses and looks at me. "Please don't get together with him. He WILL pull something eventually."

"Oh come on! You make it sound like you and I these little gullible perfect angels! He isn't any worse than us. I'm not going to lie, I'll go to a club or something like that one of these days, both of us will. Something is bound to happen, and afterwards, we'll say we fucked up, and it will be over."

"..."

Awkward Silence. Not good. "I'm staying here tonight. Kurama obviously isn't coming back."

She nods. "I'm getting some sleep. I want to wake up in time for tomorrow. We leave here at seven."

"Oh...ok." I roll onto her couch. "SIX?!"

"Yup. Get some sleep."

'Oh my god...' I put my head down and start to question my self, and what I was doing, but before I could explain to my self, I was asleep.

*

Some one was shaking me. I knew it. I just wasn't giving in. "Hey, we got ten minutes, get your lazy ass up."

Defeat. I get up and stumble to MY room. My bags were against the wall neatly stacked, and Hiei was slaying on the bed staring at the ceiling. "Aw...you put my stuff away! Thank you Hiei..."

I hobbled to my stuff and opened my blue clothing bag. I yanked out a tight light yellow top with strawberries on the front, and long denim jeans. I put the bag back, and sat on the floor, trying to tie my only pair of laced shoes. A white pair of Roxy's. Quickly I put on black eyeliner, my pink eyes shadow, and cappuccino flavored lip gloss.

"Hair...eh.." I pull the pink shimmer band out, and re tie it. "There ya go. I'm done." I look at my self in the mirror. A short, brown haired, mole. That's what I though at least.

I grab my two bags and head for the door.

*

It is kind of cold outside of the station. I was a few minutes early, so I was standing by my self shivering. "Damn it's cold..."

Slowly young men and women start coming out of the train. I notice Kiaru and Seta first. After meeting up with them, I find Hiei, Kurama, and Heidi as well. We converse quietly, and try to stay together.

Eventually Blair comes out, with nothing but a back pack.

He stumbles over to us, "Hey..."

"Hi." I smile at him, and turn back to the group. Heidi was almost blue, and Seta was trying to calm her down. Seta...she was wearing short shorts and a Hooters shirt. Man, she was just unaware I guess...

Hiei and Kurama were mumbling with their backs turned, and Kiaru was standing beside me. Blair was slowly rocking from heel to toe, looking very pale. "You ok?"

"Nauseas..."

"Why? Are you afraid?"

"Withdrawal...again..."

"Oh." I put my hand on his shoulder to stabilize him. "I have sweet tarts."

"I'll be alright for a while at least."

A man in a camouflage suit and hat stands in front of us. He starts pointing, and tells us to get in a line for boot camp. Masses of people are sent to the left, into a huge building. Once he gets to my group he growls. "So it's you again..."

"Here to serve my country sir." I stand as straight as I can without dropping my bags and running.

He nods and salutes to us. "The plane."

A large plane sits to the right. A military plane. I recognized it. The seven of us walk toward the plane. As we board, we see the faces of the people inside. The floor is bare, and groups of people in uniform sit on the floor quietly. Old veterans and young woman and men all sit and look straight ahead.

I sit in the back, and fixate my self on a flag on the back of the pilots chamber. As the plane fills up, engines start to turn on and before I can handle the shocking fact that I was taking a second chance at my death, we were gone.