Dannee: Well I hope everyone had happy holidays, whatever you may
celebrate. This year's Christmas has definitely been one of the best.
Cat: ::Comes in with an armful of an assortment of candy canes, fudge pieces, Lucky Charms cereal boxes, sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, raisin oatmeal cookies, Sees candies and Bubble Tapes:: Cat's favorite Christmas was this Christmas for many different reasons.
Dannee: Reasons being what's in your arms, right?
Cat: ::Nods fanatically, spilling some of her arm's contents on the floor::
Dannee: ::Grins:: As for me, well... "Santa" has so generously bestowed the gift of Final Fantasy X1 upon us, and I've been playing almost nonstop...so I'm sorry to the few reviewers who're actually looking forward to my updates...hehe.
Cat: That means that Dannee's not cooking, eating, sleeping, hanging with her boyfriend, moving, cleaning the kitchen, mopping the floors, clearing out the chimney, or, in short, moving from her spot at the computer for approximately 3-4 weeks. After that, maybe Cat will be able to pry her from her spot and force her to write more...
Sleeper Awoken
Kagome had found her house the previous night by luck. Quite some lucky luck too...her mother just so happened to be on her way to pick up her little brother Sota from a friend's house when she found Kagome making a beeline down the sidewalk as fast as her slender legs could take her in the opposite direction she was driving. The moment her head hit the pillow that night, sleep welcomed her quickly.
It was good in a way, that Kagome was too exhausted to even think straight when she had gone to bed, for a full night's rest was in order...but it was also bad in an entirely different way. Because, as Kagome dreamed happy thoughts of running off to alternative worlds without any subjects known as "math" or "history", she did not hear her little brother Sota cry out in the dark. She would have to wait until morning came to find out that her little brother was now in the hospital for reasons that she would later find terrifying and unexplainable.
But now, at 12:23 PM she was just barley beginning to wake up. The events of the previous day flooded into her mind as images of angry pink dog boys danced through her mind along with floating pink spheres that disappeared into her without her consent.
Once Kagome had gotten up and headed downstairs, she found not a trace of anybody that belonged to her family. Not even a note telling her of their whereabouts.
'That's funny.' She thought to herself. 'Mom always tells me where they're going if nobody's going to be home. And she didn't leave me breakfast...'
Kagome searched through the pantry in search of suitable breakfast items but found nothing but a few cups of instant Ramen and some fruit snacks Sota always insisted on having around the house. Kagome pulled out a pack of fruit snacks and munched upon each individual fruit shape mercilessly, walking back up towards her room.
'What's this?'
She bent over to examine the small white object on the floor in Sota's doorway, and then picked it up.
A tiny tooth.
Kagome had remembered Sota saying something about losing a tooth a few days ago ecstatically. Naturally her mother had told the boy to put it under his pillow so the "Tooth Fairy" could give him a quarter or some other miniscule amount of money that would barley buy a gumball. She put the tooth in her pocket passively and headed back to her room.
She sighed, plopping down onto her bed, throwing the trash from the fruit snacks onto the floor.
What was there to do with nobody around and nothing to study?
Absolutely nothing, that's what.
'That's right...' Kagome reflected. 'I forgot to pick up my school work after I ran out of that room last night. Well, at least I have an excuse to not do my math and history work for a couple of days.'
Ring...ring...ring...
Her head perked up instinctively at the sound of the phone ringing loudly downstairs.
'Woo hoo, someone to talk to!'
Relieved at the possibility of a conversation with someone other than herself, Kagome jumped off her bed and raced downstairs rapidly. She picked up the periwinkle phone, then asked pleasantly into the receiver...
"Hello?"
"Kagome?"
Yay, mother dear, where the hell are you?
"Hey mom, where is everyone?"
"...we're at the hospital."
Kagome ignored the bolt of astonishment that ran through her body.
"H-hospital, why?"
"...It's Sota..."
"Sota! What happened to Sota, mom!? Why didn't you wake me up and take me with you!?"
"I'm sorry for not waking you up, but we figured that if you didn't wake up after Sota screamed and woke everyone else up, and the ambulance came to take him to the hospital...well, you were just too tired."
"Is Grampa there with you guys?"
"Yes, he'll be home to make dinner for you later tonight..."
Kagome's face turned from pale to blue.
"I'll manage, he can stay. But...why? Why is Sota in the hospital?"
"We don't know yet...He started screaming last night around 3...I thought he was having another nightmare about one of his video games, but when I turned on the light to check on him...it was like...some body had cut him all over..."
"Cut? Like...knife cut?"
"Really big knife cuts...four lined up next to each other all over his body. Oh Kagome, we don't know what happened. Nobody broke into the house, his window was locked...I just don't know..."
"Don't worry mom, I'm sure Sota will be fine. Just...call me if you need me, alright?"
"Right, Kagome. I'll call you as soon as he wakes up. Bye."
"Bye."
This...
Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!!!!!!! This wasn't good!
Kagome's eyes darted from left to right as she backed herself against the wall behind her.
She had heard of something like this before. Little children haunted in the night by some unseen force that nobody could explain! Waking up screaming, because the man in their dream with the knives for fingers was really cutting their flesh.
Yes...
Yes...she had definitely heard of this tale somewhere before. A MOVIE! That was it! It was some...stupid movie that was all made up in the mind of some twisted man and put onto film. That didn't help the situation at hand.
But...what if...the movie was coming true?
The man with the knives for fingers...
"AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!" Kagome wailed as the phone began to ring loudly in front of her.
She picked it up warily.
"H-hello?"
Dial tone.
Oiiiiii...
If someone had chosen this time to sneak up behind Kagome and shout 'Boo!' at her, they would've gotten a pretty good laugh watching her jump right out of her skin, and then watch her melt into a small puddle of clothes and hair on the ground.
Thank the gods that there weren't any cruel people home right now, because Sota would've loved to do just that...
Sota...
Kagome looked at the phone worriedly. She hoped he was alright, even if he was annoying, and whiney, and liked to scare her, and used all the hot water in the shower, and always ate the last fruit snack package. He was her little brother after all, and despite the occasions when she wished she could change that, she loved him in that big sisterly way all big sisters should love their little brothers.
Now all she could do was wait.
Wait for her mother to call, no matter how long it took.
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Kagome exhaled through her nose heavily, causing it to make a whining noise as the air rushed out.
It was already dark outside, unfortunately...which absolutely creeped the hell out of Kagome. She sat alone in the kitchen with a cup of microwave- able Ramen and the TV was on at full blast in the other room, so she couldn't hear the creaking of the house, the wind outside, or the crash from upstairs...
Kagome blued.
Crash from upstairs? She had definitely heard glass shattering from upstairs, but she didn't want to risk going up there to find out what had caused it.
'That's it, you coward. Just wait in the kitchen with your cup of Ramen for the enemy to find you and attack you.' Her mind taunted.
'It's alright. I can hide somewhere.' Her mind countered against herself.
Her eyes searched frantically, desperately, for a spot to stuff herself into until all potential danger had passed.
Sad to part with her cup of just heated Ramen, she abandoned it and ran towards the pantry, flinging the door open the moment her hand made contact with the knob, then pulling it shut as fast as she could once she was safely inside.
She willed her breath to be more quiet, and her heart to stop thumping so terribly loudly, afraid that the said two would give away her position.
She could hear the muffled 'thmp thmp thmp' of footsteps on the carpeted stairs now, heart picking up it's speed as she realized that whoever was in the house was coming downstairs.
She was downstairs!
No, stay upstairs!
Go away, we don't want any!
'Oh. My. Gods.' Kagome's mind buzzed hysterically. 'What if it's a killer!? What if they're the one who did Sota in and they're after me next! Aiee!! Rapist! Gods, please no, please let me stay hidden in here! Don't find me, don't find me, don't find me!!!!!'
The footsteps stopped in the entrance to the kitchen, then continued into the kitchen.
The soft slap of bare feet echoed loudly in Kagome's head as she swam in the terrible thoughts her mind presented to her one after another. At least the insane-serial-killer-rapist-criminal-murderer-assassin-slayer-of- the-innocent-slaughterer had the decency and respect to take off his shoes before entering someone's house...and killing them.
The noise stopped. Time seemed to stand still to the girl who stood paralyzed with fear in the pantry. Then...
SCHNORT!
Kagome urped.
What was that?
Schhhhnort!
There it was again.
What the hell was that!?
Any executioner that made that kind of noise had to be some sort of pig...or...something.
Strangely though, that unbelievably loud sniffing/snorting noise sounded familiar. Could it be?
Kagome couldn't help it. She had to see if it was...
She cracked the door to the pantry open just a tiny crack, enough to see out of, and sure enough...
Inu Yasha!
Of course, he wasn't entirely as she had remembered him from the previous night in all pink. In her eyes, it suited him well, but that was because she loved the color, yet his colors fit him good too.
He was dressed in some odd bright red garb, fluffy white puppy ears perched atop his head, cute as ever.
Just as she readied herself to make a wild dash towards the curious dog-boy at her table, examining her Ramen, images of clumsy escape tactics flashed through her mind. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to follow through with the previous thought of glomping the unsuspecting puppy-boy that was sniffing at her Ramen again.
Well this was unfair.
He sat down with a suspicious glare at the cup of Ramen before him, then began to devour it at inhumanly speeds.
'What does that jerk think he's doing!?' Kagome thought angrily. 'He chases me out of his room unceremoniously, then he crashes through the window upstairs and has the nerve to eat my Ramen!? MY Ramen!!!???'
Kagome was about to protest...and she would've...
Instead she screamed.
It made Inu Yasha drop the empty cup onto the table with a soft clutter of plastic, but that wasn't what Kagome had screamed for.
She had screamed because something razor sharp had penetrated her left side, tearing her soft flesh upon contact. It sent a burning sensation running through her torso as she fell out of the pantry weakly.
She almost hit the floor, but was instead...
Caught by Inu Yasha.
Wooooo! He was warm...
"Kikyo, what's wrong with you!?" He barked down at her.
His face paled as he looked down upon the gaping hole in Kagome's side, then scowled at the pantry as a hollow voice called out from the darkness.
"Thanks for the Jewel of the Four Souls..."
"Give that back, you bastard!" Inu Yasha shouted at the blackness.
Damn...
He looked down at the girl in his arms.
Her eyes were shut, and her body was limp.
"Shit! Kikyo, wake up, we have to protect the Shikon Jewel!"
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Dannee: Oh my GOD! I actually have made an update!!! And I've actually gotten a few more reviews! *.* Woo hoo!!!!!!
Cat: ::Puffs out chest proudly:: 'Twas Cat who made her update! Now Cat wants readers to review! ::Continues to puff chest outwards::
Dannee: ::Pokes Cat's chest::
Cat: PFF! ::Exhales sharply, flying into the nearest wall:: Not nice...to Cat...
Dannee: ^^;; Don't be an idiot...you idiot.
Cat: ::Lays on the floor, tongue hanging out of the side of her mouth, drool pooling around her:: Dannee...must fix Cat...with...CANDY!!!!!! @.@
Dannee: ::Subtly ignores Cat:: Well, thank you to my newest reviewers! I really love hearing that you guys like my work! ^________________^
Thanks to:
jazzand friends, nYo, writerofascientist, Iden's Garden (^.^ Yay! You've reviewed 2X now! Thank you thank you thank you!!!! So glad you like it!), Josie, Dreamer Wolf, jazz, and Cat doesn't get a thank you.
Cat: HEY!
Dannee: Myoo hoo hoo.
Cat: ::Comes in with an armful of an assortment of candy canes, fudge pieces, Lucky Charms cereal boxes, sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, raisin oatmeal cookies, Sees candies and Bubble Tapes:: Cat's favorite Christmas was this Christmas for many different reasons.
Dannee: Reasons being what's in your arms, right?
Cat: ::Nods fanatically, spilling some of her arm's contents on the floor::
Dannee: ::Grins:: As for me, well... "Santa" has so generously bestowed the gift of Final Fantasy X1 upon us, and I've been playing almost nonstop...so I'm sorry to the few reviewers who're actually looking forward to my updates...hehe.
Cat: That means that Dannee's not cooking, eating, sleeping, hanging with her boyfriend, moving, cleaning the kitchen, mopping the floors, clearing out the chimney, or, in short, moving from her spot at the computer for approximately 3-4 weeks. After that, maybe Cat will be able to pry her from her spot and force her to write more...
Sleeper Awoken
Kagome had found her house the previous night by luck. Quite some lucky luck too...her mother just so happened to be on her way to pick up her little brother Sota from a friend's house when she found Kagome making a beeline down the sidewalk as fast as her slender legs could take her in the opposite direction she was driving. The moment her head hit the pillow that night, sleep welcomed her quickly.
It was good in a way, that Kagome was too exhausted to even think straight when she had gone to bed, for a full night's rest was in order...but it was also bad in an entirely different way. Because, as Kagome dreamed happy thoughts of running off to alternative worlds without any subjects known as "math" or "history", she did not hear her little brother Sota cry out in the dark. She would have to wait until morning came to find out that her little brother was now in the hospital for reasons that she would later find terrifying and unexplainable.
But now, at 12:23 PM she was just barley beginning to wake up. The events of the previous day flooded into her mind as images of angry pink dog boys danced through her mind along with floating pink spheres that disappeared into her without her consent.
Once Kagome had gotten up and headed downstairs, she found not a trace of anybody that belonged to her family. Not even a note telling her of their whereabouts.
'That's funny.' She thought to herself. 'Mom always tells me where they're going if nobody's going to be home. And she didn't leave me breakfast...'
Kagome searched through the pantry in search of suitable breakfast items but found nothing but a few cups of instant Ramen and some fruit snacks Sota always insisted on having around the house. Kagome pulled out a pack of fruit snacks and munched upon each individual fruit shape mercilessly, walking back up towards her room.
'What's this?'
She bent over to examine the small white object on the floor in Sota's doorway, and then picked it up.
A tiny tooth.
Kagome had remembered Sota saying something about losing a tooth a few days ago ecstatically. Naturally her mother had told the boy to put it under his pillow so the "Tooth Fairy" could give him a quarter or some other miniscule amount of money that would barley buy a gumball. She put the tooth in her pocket passively and headed back to her room.
She sighed, plopping down onto her bed, throwing the trash from the fruit snacks onto the floor.
What was there to do with nobody around and nothing to study?
Absolutely nothing, that's what.
'That's right...' Kagome reflected. 'I forgot to pick up my school work after I ran out of that room last night. Well, at least I have an excuse to not do my math and history work for a couple of days.'
Ring...ring...ring...
Her head perked up instinctively at the sound of the phone ringing loudly downstairs.
'Woo hoo, someone to talk to!'
Relieved at the possibility of a conversation with someone other than herself, Kagome jumped off her bed and raced downstairs rapidly. She picked up the periwinkle phone, then asked pleasantly into the receiver...
"Hello?"
"Kagome?"
Yay, mother dear, where the hell are you?
"Hey mom, where is everyone?"
"...we're at the hospital."
Kagome ignored the bolt of astonishment that ran through her body.
"H-hospital, why?"
"...It's Sota..."
"Sota! What happened to Sota, mom!? Why didn't you wake me up and take me with you!?"
"I'm sorry for not waking you up, but we figured that if you didn't wake up after Sota screamed and woke everyone else up, and the ambulance came to take him to the hospital...well, you were just too tired."
"Is Grampa there with you guys?"
"Yes, he'll be home to make dinner for you later tonight..."
Kagome's face turned from pale to blue.
"I'll manage, he can stay. But...why? Why is Sota in the hospital?"
"We don't know yet...He started screaming last night around 3...I thought he was having another nightmare about one of his video games, but when I turned on the light to check on him...it was like...some body had cut him all over..."
"Cut? Like...knife cut?"
"Really big knife cuts...four lined up next to each other all over his body. Oh Kagome, we don't know what happened. Nobody broke into the house, his window was locked...I just don't know..."
"Don't worry mom, I'm sure Sota will be fine. Just...call me if you need me, alright?"
"Right, Kagome. I'll call you as soon as he wakes up. Bye."
"Bye."
This...
Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!!!!!!! This wasn't good!
Kagome's eyes darted from left to right as she backed herself against the wall behind her.
She had heard of something like this before. Little children haunted in the night by some unseen force that nobody could explain! Waking up screaming, because the man in their dream with the knives for fingers was really cutting their flesh.
Yes...
Yes...she had definitely heard of this tale somewhere before. A MOVIE! That was it! It was some...stupid movie that was all made up in the mind of some twisted man and put onto film. That didn't help the situation at hand.
But...what if...the movie was coming true?
The man with the knives for fingers...
"AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!" Kagome wailed as the phone began to ring loudly in front of her.
She picked it up warily.
"H-hello?"
Dial tone.
Oiiiiii...
If someone had chosen this time to sneak up behind Kagome and shout 'Boo!' at her, they would've gotten a pretty good laugh watching her jump right out of her skin, and then watch her melt into a small puddle of clothes and hair on the ground.
Thank the gods that there weren't any cruel people home right now, because Sota would've loved to do just that...
Sota...
Kagome looked at the phone worriedly. She hoped he was alright, even if he was annoying, and whiney, and liked to scare her, and used all the hot water in the shower, and always ate the last fruit snack package. He was her little brother after all, and despite the occasions when she wished she could change that, she loved him in that big sisterly way all big sisters should love their little brothers.
Now all she could do was wait.
Wait for her mother to call, no matter how long it took.
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Kagome exhaled through her nose heavily, causing it to make a whining noise as the air rushed out.
It was already dark outside, unfortunately...which absolutely creeped the hell out of Kagome. She sat alone in the kitchen with a cup of microwave- able Ramen and the TV was on at full blast in the other room, so she couldn't hear the creaking of the house, the wind outside, or the crash from upstairs...
Kagome blued.
Crash from upstairs? She had definitely heard glass shattering from upstairs, but she didn't want to risk going up there to find out what had caused it.
'That's it, you coward. Just wait in the kitchen with your cup of Ramen for the enemy to find you and attack you.' Her mind taunted.
'It's alright. I can hide somewhere.' Her mind countered against herself.
Her eyes searched frantically, desperately, for a spot to stuff herself into until all potential danger had passed.
Sad to part with her cup of just heated Ramen, she abandoned it and ran towards the pantry, flinging the door open the moment her hand made contact with the knob, then pulling it shut as fast as she could once she was safely inside.
She willed her breath to be more quiet, and her heart to stop thumping so terribly loudly, afraid that the said two would give away her position.
She could hear the muffled 'thmp thmp thmp' of footsteps on the carpeted stairs now, heart picking up it's speed as she realized that whoever was in the house was coming downstairs.
She was downstairs!
No, stay upstairs!
Go away, we don't want any!
'Oh. My. Gods.' Kagome's mind buzzed hysterically. 'What if it's a killer!? What if they're the one who did Sota in and they're after me next! Aiee!! Rapist! Gods, please no, please let me stay hidden in here! Don't find me, don't find me, don't find me!!!!!'
The footsteps stopped in the entrance to the kitchen, then continued into the kitchen.
The soft slap of bare feet echoed loudly in Kagome's head as she swam in the terrible thoughts her mind presented to her one after another. At least the insane-serial-killer-rapist-criminal-murderer-assassin-slayer-of- the-innocent-slaughterer had the decency and respect to take off his shoes before entering someone's house...and killing them.
The noise stopped. Time seemed to stand still to the girl who stood paralyzed with fear in the pantry. Then...
SCHNORT!
Kagome urped.
What was that?
Schhhhnort!
There it was again.
What the hell was that!?
Any executioner that made that kind of noise had to be some sort of pig...or...something.
Strangely though, that unbelievably loud sniffing/snorting noise sounded familiar. Could it be?
Kagome couldn't help it. She had to see if it was...
She cracked the door to the pantry open just a tiny crack, enough to see out of, and sure enough...
Inu Yasha!
Of course, he wasn't entirely as she had remembered him from the previous night in all pink. In her eyes, it suited him well, but that was because she loved the color, yet his colors fit him good too.
He was dressed in some odd bright red garb, fluffy white puppy ears perched atop his head, cute as ever.
Just as she readied herself to make a wild dash towards the curious dog-boy at her table, examining her Ramen, images of clumsy escape tactics flashed through her mind. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to follow through with the previous thought of glomping the unsuspecting puppy-boy that was sniffing at her Ramen again.
Well this was unfair.
He sat down with a suspicious glare at the cup of Ramen before him, then began to devour it at inhumanly speeds.
'What does that jerk think he's doing!?' Kagome thought angrily. 'He chases me out of his room unceremoniously, then he crashes through the window upstairs and has the nerve to eat my Ramen!? MY Ramen!!!???'
Kagome was about to protest...and she would've...
Instead she screamed.
It made Inu Yasha drop the empty cup onto the table with a soft clutter of plastic, but that wasn't what Kagome had screamed for.
She had screamed because something razor sharp had penetrated her left side, tearing her soft flesh upon contact. It sent a burning sensation running through her torso as she fell out of the pantry weakly.
She almost hit the floor, but was instead...
Caught by Inu Yasha.
Wooooo! He was warm...
"Kikyo, what's wrong with you!?" He barked down at her.
His face paled as he looked down upon the gaping hole in Kagome's side, then scowled at the pantry as a hollow voice called out from the darkness.
"Thanks for the Jewel of the Four Souls..."
"Give that back, you bastard!" Inu Yasha shouted at the blackness.
Damn...
He looked down at the girl in his arms.
Her eyes were shut, and her body was limp.
"Shit! Kikyo, wake up, we have to protect the Shikon Jewel!"
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Dannee: Oh my GOD! I actually have made an update!!! And I've actually gotten a few more reviews! *.* Woo hoo!!!!!!
Cat: ::Puffs out chest proudly:: 'Twas Cat who made her update! Now Cat wants readers to review! ::Continues to puff chest outwards::
Dannee: ::Pokes Cat's chest::
Cat: PFF! ::Exhales sharply, flying into the nearest wall:: Not nice...to Cat...
Dannee: ^^;; Don't be an idiot...you idiot.
Cat: ::Lays on the floor, tongue hanging out of the side of her mouth, drool pooling around her:: Dannee...must fix Cat...with...CANDY!!!!!! @.@
Dannee: ::Subtly ignores Cat:: Well, thank you to my newest reviewers! I really love hearing that you guys like my work! ^________________^
Thanks to:
jazzand friends, nYo, writerofascientist, Iden's Garden (^.^ Yay! You've reviewed 2X now! Thank you thank you thank you!!!! So glad you like it!), Josie, Dreamer Wolf, jazz, and Cat doesn't get a thank you.
Cat: HEY!
Dannee: Myoo hoo hoo.