I DON'T OWN THESE CHARACTERS, I DON'T EVEN WANT TO PRETEND I DO. NOW ENJOY THE FIC, AN' PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW IT!!!
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Disruption in Personality
Shidobu darted down the stairs, Botan running behind him, yelling something that she thought he needed to hear. 'I don't need your lecturing Botan, I think I can handle one lil demon by myself,' Shidobu thought. He reached the street and jumped into the back of a truck, landing softly enough that the driver didn't notice. "SHIDOBU!!" Botan yelled after him, waving her arms for him to come back. 'See yah Botan, I've got a demon to kill,' Shidobu smiled, his hand unconciously carressing his katana's hilt. After being driven a few blocks he made his way to the warehouse that the demon was supposed to be hiding out in, as it was the last place he had been seen. 'Okay, where are you now lil guy?' Shidobu thought as he silently ghosted from crate to crate, looking for the demon. After several minutes, which seemed like a decade to Shidobu, he came across something odd. A little girl, in a bright blue dress, with yellow flowers on it. She was only maybe 5, 7 at the most, with a serious stunt in her grouth. Her hair was cut short, going only to her shoulders, its straight soft orange length in a curl on the egde framing her innocent face. Her bright sky blue eyes, caught sight of Shidobu, and looked at him curiously. "Hello," the girl says softly. "What are you doing here little girl, are you lost?" Shidobu askes, coming from between the crates. "I'm looking something," she replies, turning around to rummage around the crates, "It fell between the crates and I can't reach it." Tears fill the little girls eyes, as she sits defeatedly next to two crates. "Well, what is it you lost?" Shidobu askes, going over to kneel by the girl and peer between the crates. The little girl lets out a little sniffle, mumbling, "My locket, I lost my locket!" "shh shh, I'll get it back for you," Shidobu says soothingly, reaching deep between the crates. His fingers brush against the unsanded wood and pepbly asphault, and slowly close around a cold, smooth object. His fingers pull it deeper into his palm and he pulls his arm out, opening his hand to see a samll golden locket, a black circular onyx stone on it. Its clasp is small on the side, bedect in a small diamond. "Wow, this looks expensive, you should be more careful with it," He says as he hands the trinket back to the girl, whos eyes light up with joy, as she pulls it over her neck. "There all better now? Now you should run along home, its not safe here," Shidobu says as he stands up, his eyes scanning for the demon he's supposed to be hunting. "I don't have a home," the little girl whispers, her hands caressing the locket, its onyx glinting maliciously in the light. "What? You don't have a..." Shidobu says trailing off as he sees the dark gleam in the girls eyes, the down cast look of her hair, one fist closed in a small fist. His eyes don't believe what he's seeing. "No, I don't, and neither do you any more," The little girl says, her voice now deeper, menacing, frightening. Her hand clutches the locket, supressing a dark glow. "Wahh..." Shidobu starts, before drawing his katana slightly from its sheath. He doesn't have time to react as the girl removes her hand from the locket, a dark glow surrounding both of them, the light dwindling, seeming to soak up the light, and hope with it.
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"SHIDOBU!? SHIDOBU WHERE ARE YOU!?" Botan called from her lofty perch in the clouds. Her eyes continually scan the ground for signs of the way ward detective. 'Ohhh why must new recruits ALWAYS get asigned to me!?' She thinks furiously. She zooms around the city, for an hour, maybe 3, untill she finally gives up and goes back to Shidobu's appartment, thinking, 'Well he's got to come back SOME time.' Minutes turn to hours, hours into half a day. "WHERE IS HE!?!?!" Botan rages, stalking in a small circle in Shidobu's living room. She had watched multipul soaps, and tv game shows, finally giving up on the television for relief. "This is bad, very bad, he should have been back by now, maybe he's hurt?" Botan worries, finally leaving the appartment and heading to spirit world on her oar.