Dannee: ::Has just been risen from the dead:: I remember this place.
::Shakes her fist angrily:: I liked it better in the afterlife.
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Sleeper Awoken
Kagome's bare feet padded softly against the hard wood floor of her school's gymnasium. Why was she at her school in the gym...in her pajamas?? Wasn't it Saturday or something?
Well, considering the fact that the gym was deserted, save for her, she considered herself to be safe for the moment and began searching around for clues as to why she was there in the first place. She stopped dead in her tracks when the lights overhead suddenly hummed to life and a happy giant tomato, complete with face, descended from above.
She stared at the tomato for a moment before glomping it.
"Yaay! A giant tomato!" She screeched loudly, causing a few windows in the gym to crack.
During her moment of bliss with tomato, she failed to notice Inu Yasha enter the school's fitness center from the back. He looked peeved about something and when she finally gave note to him his ears twitched about.
"Oh hi Inu Yasha, what's up?"
She stepped away from the tomato for a moment to study him and try to decipher why he seemed to be in such a bad mood.
"Watch me destroy it with just one hand!" He bellowed, voice echoing off the walls.
The tomato tried to make a run for it, but alas...despite the fact that it could probably outsmart the half-demon boy, it could not outrun him.
"No!!!!!!!! Inu Yasha stooooooooooop!" Kagome wailed.
His claws sliced through the tomato with ease as Kagome bawled and yowled at him to stop. Its pieces hit the ground with wet splats, and the despairing girl could only watch in dismay as ribbons fell to the floorboards.
"You, wench! You need to wake up and get going! We need to start searching for Shikon shards before they fall into someone else's hands! Are you listening to me!? I need you to go out, find the shards, do some math problems, recite to me the names of the generals in the war of the Tang era, put the shards together, and make me some Ramen!"
"Waaaaah! Inu Yasha you big meanie!! ...SIT!"
Somewhere across town there was a loud thump subsequently followed by a sequence of muffled words that made women turn up their noses and children cry or wet their pants.
Kagome rolled over in bed and slowly lifted her eyelids until her off-white ceiling swam into focus.
"What a horrible dream." She said, wiping her eyes and sniffling.
She hadn't had a dream that horrifying with Inu Yasha as the antagonist in almost a whole week! Then again, she hadn't seen the irate boy in almost twice the amount of time and she was beginning to feel slightly guilty about not taking her own time to go out and seek him or jewel shards...not that she had any idea as to where she would start looking for either of the previously mentioned.
Yes, it had been two weeks since the night of the attack on her brother Sota and her, in their own damn home! Fortunately the police had decided to arrive just after the demon had been discarded and Kagome had kicked Inu Yasha out of her house...
Sota was in the stage when prank phone calling everyone, everywhere was almost as good as blowing up gray blobs that were supposed to be zombies on the TV screen, so consequently the police did not take kindly to the Higurashi residence. They proved to be ineffective though, staying just long enough to poke around the house a little bit and get in Kagome's way.
Yet despite their inefficacy, they escorted Kagome to the hospital where she tenderly convened with her mother and grandfather.
Sota ended up with 68 stitches all over his little arms and legs...there were even four deep gashes on his side that needed stitching. Kagome gawked at the amazing number of stitches he had needed, yet it seemed reasonable considering the numerous wounds he had taken and the length that they were.
Her mother had immediately noticed Kagome's bloodied and torn clothing and the wound Kagome herself had acquired and checked Kagome in without hesitation. She ended up with 15 stitches, which was shameful compared to Sota's amount.
But now, 2 weeks later, everything was returning to normal; Sota was playing his video games unremittingly only stopping to eat, sleep, make a prank phone call, or use the restroom, Kagome was her optimistic self as usual, attending school, doing homework akin to a good girl, and getting lost in her homework because she had absolutely no idea what she was doing, while grandpa spouted off ancient myths and legends in the background concurrently as her mother cooked dinner.
Ah, life was good...
And normal...
...And...
Where the hell was Inu Yasha?!
Though Kagome hated, loathed, despised and all together resented the thought, she did, somewhere deep inside the caverns of her churning brain, miss the annoying loud-mouthed jerk. He HAD helped her get rid of that demon in her bathroom...
He HAD kinda taught her how to use a bow and arrow in a forceful and unkind way.
He HAD eaten all her Ramen the night of the attack, that bastard!
Her stomach growled punctually reminding her of her existing hunger and she got out of bed quickly, hoping that her mother had cooked something good for breakfast.
It was definitely Saturday and she had no time to think of oddly dressed dummies. Today was her day off, and her schedule should consist of nothing but good times, she reminded herself whilst hopping down the stairs, two at a time.
"Ah!" Came her mother's voice from inside the kitchen. "Kagome, are you finally awake? It's so late now. Come in and have breakfast with me."
Kagome entered the kitchen hastily upon her loving mother's request and smiled.
"Good morning, mom. What's for breakfast?" Kagome greeted.
"I made us some rice, miso soup, roasted salmon and pickles. Take what you want."
"Thanks!"
Kagome grabbed a plate and then used her chopsticks to scoop her breakfast onto it and then sat down at the table and commenced eating. Her mother sat down on the opposite side of the table with her own food and they both ate in contented silence for a while.
Mrs. Higurashi was the first one to break the silence.
"Oh, Kagome your little friend was over this morning looking for you. He didn't seem familiar in how to use the front door though, I found him outside your window with his face pressed against the glass. He was so adorable the way his fluffy little ears moved this way and that, and I just had to give them a squeeze."
Kagome's chopsticks froze in midair, halfway to her mouth as her appetite suddenly ran off without second thoughts. A few pieces of rice fell back onto her plate. The instant her mother had completed her sentence Kagome was left with only one image in her mind...
...Inu Yasha outside her windowpane, face smushed against the glass as much as it could be, claws scratching against the window in attempt to get through the transparent barrier, petite snowy white puppy ears tweaking about, and red clothed butt sticking directly out in the air for anyone and everyone to see...including her mother.
"Mother?"
"Kagome?"
She was speechless, and her face was turning dominantly red.
"You...SQUEEZED his ears!?!?"
"...Yes, dear. I did just that."
"Mooooooooom! His ears! Aaaargh!"
"What's the problem Kagome? He didn't make a fuss over it."
Well that was good, considering that if he had wanted to make a fuss over it, her mother would probably be looking a little bit like the giant tomato had after Inu Yasha was through with it.
Kagome rose from the table quickly, completed with her half-touched breakfast her mother had so generously created for her. She dumped her dishes into the sink with a clatter and rinsed them with water for a few seconds; somehow cleaning her dishes seemed a little less important than finding that menacing hanyou at the moment.
"Where are you going?" Her mother asked calmly, as if her daughter left an unfinished breakfast to hunt for puppy-dog eared boys on a regular basis every morning.
"To find that idiot!" Kagome responded curtly.
"Have fun, dear."
Kagome didn't answer, she was already flying up the stairs towards her room to get changed as fast as she could.
She pondered over the reasons as to why she was getting so bent out of shape over finding Inu Yasha so hurriedly...
Well...lets see...
He could be making trouble for people other than herself if he was in town, which could be a possibility.
2. He could get lost or hurt not fully understanding what a car really was and what power it could have coupled with high speeds.
3. He was an idiot.
4. Due to his awkward clothing and senseless attitude, he could run into trouble and/or attract unwanted attention towards himself.
5. While attracting this needless attention he could get frustrated.
6. Inu Yasha + frustration + people + lethal claws = chunks of people decorating the streets...in lament terms, not good.
7. ...He was an idiot.
...There was always the chance that she missed him, even if it was in the tiniest ration known to man, but Kagome shook her head a few times to clear her mind of all ridiculous thoughts once she finished dressing herself in a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. After she tied her hair back into a high ponytail, she was off.
Since the current day was Saturday, that meant down in town would be even busier due to children who weren't in school, which meant even more trouble on Inu Yasha's half if he was there. That's why Kagome worried.
She could just imagine poor naive Hojo riding his bike, like he always did, along the sidewalk innocently, minding his own business and unfortuitously colliding with Inu Yasha. Hojo would most likely offer Inu Yasha a remedy for his health and Inu Yasha would then proceed to cut Hojo into nice little bite-sized pieces.
Well...maybe having Inu Yasha on the loose wasn't such a bad idea after all...
As Kagome was trotting along the sidewalk, she heard something...
Creak...
Uh oh...
Her speed increased a little.
Creak, creak, squeeeeak...
Kagome's face was beginning to pale ever so slightly.
"Kagomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Oh no, it was...
"Kagome, it's me! Wait up!!!"
Kagome halted as a blue bicycle being ridden by a dense boy rocketed by; leaving Kagome behind in the dust it was creating.
She coughed and waved her hand around in front of her face to try and clear the air before her as something in the near distance emitted a deafening crashing sound.
"Hojo, are you all right?" Kagome queried, shuffling over to the heap of intertwined limbs and wheels that used to be Kagome's oblivious friend Hojo.
"Aaaah, yes Kagome, I am quite all right now that you're here."
Kagome sighed and shook her head.
Hojo extended a hand upwards towards Kagome, indicating that he wanted help up, but Kagome's mind was not with the injured boy before her. She was staring at something across the street...
Something wearing bright fire engine red...
"Inu Yasha!" Kagome exclaimed, taking off across the street making a few drivers slam on their car brakes and honk their horns at the psychotic girl.
"What are you doing, Inu Yasha!?" She screeched angrily coming up behind the bright red, white haired blob before her.
When her hand made contact with the thing's shoulder, or what she thought was a shoulder she realized she had been mistaken...horribly and terribly mistaken.
Around turned a very elderly looking old woman that made Kagome's skin pepper with goose bumps.
The woman's face looked like it was going to fall off at any given moment, and all three teeth inside the gigantic gaping mouth were an odd shade of brown and yellow. The greasy hair on her head trembled when she sucked in raggedy breaths and smelled of something unearthly or rather like a mixture of rotten milk, eggs, bad fish and decay; Kagome found it difficult not to gag.
When the woman grunted at Kagome a long rope of drool embarked on its descent towards the waiting pavement below.
"O-oh, I'm so sorry, I thought you were someone else." Kagome admitted sheepishly, resisting the urge to cover her nose and bolt back across the street to Hojo.
The woman rumbled something unintelligible again and then her mouth cracked into a face splitting grin as her pudgy hand reached out towards Kagome.
Kagome looked left.
Then right.
Then took off down the street as fast as her skinny legs could take her without snapping in half from charging away at breakneck speeds.
She kept checking over her shoulder to make sure that nothing was following her, deciding that she wouldn't stop until she reached the edge of the world.
She sped by people, kids, plants, trees, stores that usually would've made her stop and go googley eyed, restaurants, and...the rest was all a blur to her.
Once she found it safe, and ran out of breath, Kagome willed herself to slow to a dawdling walk...then she just stopped.
Gasping for breath she leaned back against the wall closest to her and sank down to the ground. This was impossible, and she had never known that such strange people existed.
"Kagome! Kagome, there you are!"
Gods, this boy had a tracking device on her or something.
"Sorry about that Hojo...I had the sudden urge to...run away...very fast."
"Oh, it's alright Kagome. Look, an ice cream parlor, would you care to join me for a scoop of ice cream since we're here together now?"
"I'd really like to Hojo, but I actually have to find someone now...as soon as possible..."
Kagome continued sputtering out incoherent reasons as to why she couldn't eat ice cream at the moment while Hojo helped her up and dragged her inside the small shop and sat her down at a table.
"But Hojo, I need to find this person before...trouble, lots of it...because...giant tomato...ribbons and you...end up the same way...so y'see..." She trailed off into nothingness.
Sighing, she shut her eyes and began to rub her temples to try and relieve herself of the pressure building up inside her brain. It would explode at the rate she was going, and she was quite certain that the people in this small parlor would not cherish cleaning up the remnants of her brain. Besides, she kinda needed it for her math test on Tuesday and if she truly needed to, she could just let it burst in there and have her teacher get in trouble by the pasty janitor. He deserved it, the bastard.
While Kagome was envisioning her head blowing into tiny bits Hojo took the liberty to order her ice cream, as well as himself. Kagome sat at the table with no expression on her face.
"So Kagome, what have you been up to lately? How is your brother?" Hojo tried with his best and oh so charming capability to strike up a decent conversation.
Kagome sat there, looking stupid.
"Aaah...Kagome?"
She couldn't have looked stupider if she had been drooling and picking her nose.
"Kagome?"
Her ear almost twitched off her head when...
SCHNORT!
When she spun around to look at the booth behind her, she nearly produced a miniature sonic boom, which would have ruined the table her and Hojo were sitting at.
"Inu Yasha!?!?" She squealed elatedly.
A tiny boy gawked at her with huge saucer-like eyes. His black hair was covered wholly with vanilla ice cream, and a large blob of spit and creamy leftovers dribbled onto his lap. His nose began to run.
"Whoops..." Kagome muttered turning back around, growing a pretty shade of pink.
"Kagome, are you all right? You don't seem to be acting like yourself today..." Hojo admitted honestly.
It was true, Kagome was rather jumpy and twitchy, but then again Hojo was the one who invited her to eat ice cream with him, so he shouldn't be complaining.
"Yeah, I'm alright, Hojo, my mind is just somewhere else today. I need to go, I'm really sorry."
Kagome stood from her seat slowly and waved to Hojo apologetically. She did feel vaguely bad about leaving the poor boy by himself after he had just bought her ice cream, but she also knew he wouldn't hold it against her. There was just something more significant to locate right now.
Once she was gone, the waitress came out and placed two hot fudge sundaes before Hojo, then left him to his ice cream. He stared at the two sundaes for a moment, and then began shoveling the ice cream into his mouth hungrily. Having Kagome leave was turning out towards his advantage.
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Kagome's feet were dragging against the pavement now, all encouraging thoughts of finding Inu Yasha today drained from her body.
It was getting dark, and it was time for her to just go home, Inu Yasha be damned. She took her time to look for him and that was good enough. If he couldn't find her when he needed her, well then that was his own problem.
Kagome yawned and stretched herself out languidly. Her legs were sore from walking around town all day, and she just wanted to take a long hot bath. Maybe with some bubbles.
Bubbles were good.
Thinking of bubbles and warm water, Kagome turned absent-mindedly to her right and started down a dark alley. The darkness grew, the further she wandered in but Kagome's eyes were still glazed over with visions of her bath.
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Wait a minute...
She didn't recognize this place.
'Where the heck am I?' Her mind shrieked at her.
It was black all around and had her and Inu Yasha not defeated that darkness dwelling demon two weeks prior, she would've lost all hope for her chances of survival.
Her thoughts were cut short when a strong pair of arms enveloped her and squeezed her tight, holding her in place.
Knowing her only defense, Kagome used it and screamed as loud as she could, voice echoing off the walls in the dark alley. If anybody had heard her other than herself and her captor, she wouldn't know.
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Dannee: There! ::Nods triumphantly:: Chapter 7 is complete! Now I want reviews!
Cat: Yay Dannee, you finally did it! Cat and Dannee shall go out for ice cream and Chinese food for dinner tonight! And for dessert...Ice cream!!!!!!
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RedKennypuppy, Lilanimatedgirlinred, drake220, and Shiari.
Reviews are always greatly appreciated...
Thanks for readin'.
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Sleeper Awoken
Kagome's bare feet padded softly against the hard wood floor of her school's gymnasium. Why was she at her school in the gym...in her pajamas?? Wasn't it Saturday or something?
Well, considering the fact that the gym was deserted, save for her, she considered herself to be safe for the moment and began searching around for clues as to why she was there in the first place. She stopped dead in her tracks when the lights overhead suddenly hummed to life and a happy giant tomato, complete with face, descended from above.
She stared at the tomato for a moment before glomping it.
"Yaay! A giant tomato!" She screeched loudly, causing a few windows in the gym to crack.
During her moment of bliss with tomato, she failed to notice Inu Yasha enter the school's fitness center from the back. He looked peeved about something and when she finally gave note to him his ears twitched about.
"Oh hi Inu Yasha, what's up?"
She stepped away from the tomato for a moment to study him and try to decipher why he seemed to be in such a bad mood.
"Watch me destroy it with just one hand!" He bellowed, voice echoing off the walls.
The tomato tried to make a run for it, but alas...despite the fact that it could probably outsmart the half-demon boy, it could not outrun him.
"No!!!!!!!! Inu Yasha stooooooooooop!" Kagome wailed.
His claws sliced through the tomato with ease as Kagome bawled and yowled at him to stop. Its pieces hit the ground with wet splats, and the despairing girl could only watch in dismay as ribbons fell to the floorboards.
"You, wench! You need to wake up and get going! We need to start searching for Shikon shards before they fall into someone else's hands! Are you listening to me!? I need you to go out, find the shards, do some math problems, recite to me the names of the generals in the war of the Tang era, put the shards together, and make me some Ramen!"
"Waaaaah! Inu Yasha you big meanie!! ...SIT!"
Somewhere across town there was a loud thump subsequently followed by a sequence of muffled words that made women turn up their noses and children cry or wet their pants.
Kagome rolled over in bed and slowly lifted her eyelids until her off-white ceiling swam into focus.
"What a horrible dream." She said, wiping her eyes and sniffling.
She hadn't had a dream that horrifying with Inu Yasha as the antagonist in almost a whole week! Then again, she hadn't seen the irate boy in almost twice the amount of time and she was beginning to feel slightly guilty about not taking her own time to go out and seek him or jewel shards...not that she had any idea as to where she would start looking for either of the previously mentioned.
Yes, it had been two weeks since the night of the attack on her brother Sota and her, in their own damn home! Fortunately the police had decided to arrive just after the demon had been discarded and Kagome had kicked Inu Yasha out of her house...
Sota was in the stage when prank phone calling everyone, everywhere was almost as good as blowing up gray blobs that were supposed to be zombies on the TV screen, so consequently the police did not take kindly to the Higurashi residence. They proved to be ineffective though, staying just long enough to poke around the house a little bit and get in Kagome's way.
Yet despite their inefficacy, they escorted Kagome to the hospital where she tenderly convened with her mother and grandfather.
Sota ended up with 68 stitches all over his little arms and legs...there were even four deep gashes on his side that needed stitching. Kagome gawked at the amazing number of stitches he had needed, yet it seemed reasonable considering the numerous wounds he had taken and the length that they were.
Her mother had immediately noticed Kagome's bloodied and torn clothing and the wound Kagome herself had acquired and checked Kagome in without hesitation. She ended up with 15 stitches, which was shameful compared to Sota's amount.
But now, 2 weeks later, everything was returning to normal; Sota was playing his video games unremittingly only stopping to eat, sleep, make a prank phone call, or use the restroom, Kagome was her optimistic self as usual, attending school, doing homework akin to a good girl, and getting lost in her homework because she had absolutely no idea what she was doing, while grandpa spouted off ancient myths and legends in the background concurrently as her mother cooked dinner.
Ah, life was good...
And normal...
...And...
Where the hell was Inu Yasha?!
Though Kagome hated, loathed, despised and all together resented the thought, she did, somewhere deep inside the caverns of her churning brain, miss the annoying loud-mouthed jerk. He HAD helped her get rid of that demon in her bathroom...
He HAD kinda taught her how to use a bow and arrow in a forceful and unkind way.
He HAD eaten all her Ramen the night of the attack, that bastard!
Her stomach growled punctually reminding her of her existing hunger and she got out of bed quickly, hoping that her mother had cooked something good for breakfast.
It was definitely Saturday and she had no time to think of oddly dressed dummies. Today was her day off, and her schedule should consist of nothing but good times, she reminded herself whilst hopping down the stairs, two at a time.
"Ah!" Came her mother's voice from inside the kitchen. "Kagome, are you finally awake? It's so late now. Come in and have breakfast with me."
Kagome entered the kitchen hastily upon her loving mother's request and smiled.
"Good morning, mom. What's for breakfast?" Kagome greeted.
"I made us some rice, miso soup, roasted salmon and pickles. Take what you want."
"Thanks!"
Kagome grabbed a plate and then used her chopsticks to scoop her breakfast onto it and then sat down at the table and commenced eating. Her mother sat down on the opposite side of the table with her own food and they both ate in contented silence for a while.
Mrs. Higurashi was the first one to break the silence.
"Oh, Kagome your little friend was over this morning looking for you. He didn't seem familiar in how to use the front door though, I found him outside your window with his face pressed against the glass. He was so adorable the way his fluffy little ears moved this way and that, and I just had to give them a squeeze."
Kagome's chopsticks froze in midair, halfway to her mouth as her appetite suddenly ran off without second thoughts. A few pieces of rice fell back onto her plate. The instant her mother had completed her sentence Kagome was left with only one image in her mind...
...Inu Yasha outside her windowpane, face smushed against the glass as much as it could be, claws scratching against the window in attempt to get through the transparent barrier, petite snowy white puppy ears tweaking about, and red clothed butt sticking directly out in the air for anyone and everyone to see...including her mother.
"Mother?"
"Kagome?"
She was speechless, and her face was turning dominantly red.
"You...SQUEEZED his ears!?!?"
"...Yes, dear. I did just that."
"Mooooooooom! His ears! Aaaargh!"
"What's the problem Kagome? He didn't make a fuss over it."
Well that was good, considering that if he had wanted to make a fuss over it, her mother would probably be looking a little bit like the giant tomato had after Inu Yasha was through with it.
Kagome rose from the table quickly, completed with her half-touched breakfast her mother had so generously created for her. She dumped her dishes into the sink with a clatter and rinsed them with water for a few seconds; somehow cleaning her dishes seemed a little less important than finding that menacing hanyou at the moment.
"Where are you going?" Her mother asked calmly, as if her daughter left an unfinished breakfast to hunt for puppy-dog eared boys on a regular basis every morning.
"To find that idiot!" Kagome responded curtly.
"Have fun, dear."
Kagome didn't answer, she was already flying up the stairs towards her room to get changed as fast as she could.
She pondered over the reasons as to why she was getting so bent out of shape over finding Inu Yasha so hurriedly...
Well...lets see...
He could be making trouble for people other than herself if he was in town, which could be a possibility.
2. He could get lost or hurt not fully understanding what a car really was and what power it could have coupled with high speeds.
3. He was an idiot.
4. Due to his awkward clothing and senseless attitude, he could run into trouble and/or attract unwanted attention towards himself.
5. While attracting this needless attention he could get frustrated.
6. Inu Yasha + frustration + people + lethal claws = chunks of people decorating the streets...in lament terms, not good.
7. ...He was an idiot.
...There was always the chance that she missed him, even if it was in the tiniest ration known to man, but Kagome shook her head a few times to clear her mind of all ridiculous thoughts once she finished dressing herself in a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. After she tied her hair back into a high ponytail, she was off.
Since the current day was Saturday, that meant down in town would be even busier due to children who weren't in school, which meant even more trouble on Inu Yasha's half if he was there. That's why Kagome worried.
She could just imagine poor naive Hojo riding his bike, like he always did, along the sidewalk innocently, minding his own business and unfortuitously colliding with Inu Yasha. Hojo would most likely offer Inu Yasha a remedy for his health and Inu Yasha would then proceed to cut Hojo into nice little bite-sized pieces.
Well...maybe having Inu Yasha on the loose wasn't such a bad idea after all...
As Kagome was trotting along the sidewalk, she heard something...
Creak...
Uh oh...
Her speed increased a little.
Creak, creak, squeeeeak...
Kagome's face was beginning to pale ever so slightly.
"Kagomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Oh no, it was...
"Kagome, it's me! Wait up!!!"
Kagome halted as a blue bicycle being ridden by a dense boy rocketed by; leaving Kagome behind in the dust it was creating.
She coughed and waved her hand around in front of her face to try and clear the air before her as something in the near distance emitted a deafening crashing sound.
"Hojo, are you all right?" Kagome queried, shuffling over to the heap of intertwined limbs and wheels that used to be Kagome's oblivious friend Hojo.
"Aaaah, yes Kagome, I am quite all right now that you're here."
Kagome sighed and shook her head.
Hojo extended a hand upwards towards Kagome, indicating that he wanted help up, but Kagome's mind was not with the injured boy before her. She was staring at something across the street...
Something wearing bright fire engine red...
"Inu Yasha!" Kagome exclaimed, taking off across the street making a few drivers slam on their car brakes and honk their horns at the psychotic girl.
"What are you doing, Inu Yasha!?" She screeched angrily coming up behind the bright red, white haired blob before her.
When her hand made contact with the thing's shoulder, or what she thought was a shoulder she realized she had been mistaken...horribly and terribly mistaken.
Around turned a very elderly looking old woman that made Kagome's skin pepper with goose bumps.
The woman's face looked like it was going to fall off at any given moment, and all three teeth inside the gigantic gaping mouth were an odd shade of brown and yellow. The greasy hair on her head trembled when she sucked in raggedy breaths and smelled of something unearthly or rather like a mixture of rotten milk, eggs, bad fish and decay; Kagome found it difficult not to gag.
When the woman grunted at Kagome a long rope of drool embarked on its descent towards the waiting pavement below.
"O-oh, I'm so sorry, I thought you were someone else." Kagome admitted sheepishly, resisting the urge to cover her nose and bolt back across the street to Hojo.
The woman rumbled something unintelligible again and then her mouth cracked into a face splitting grin as her pudgy hand reached out towards Kagome.
Kagome looked left.
Then right.
Then took off down the street as fast as her skinny legs could take her without snapping in half from charging away at breakneck speeds.
She kept checking over her shoulder to make sure that nothing was following her, deciding that she wouldn't stop until she reached the edge of the world.
She sped by people, kids, plants, trees, stores that usually would've made her stop and go googley eyed, restaurants, and...the rest was all a blur to her.
Once she found it safe, and ran out of breath, Kagome willed herself to slow to a dawdling walk...then she just stopped.
Gasping for breath she leaned back against the wall closest to her and sank down to the ground. This was impossible, and she had never known that such strange people existed.
"Kagome! Kagome, there you are!"
Gods, this boy had a tracking device on her or something.
"Sorry about that Hojo...I had the sudden urge to...run away...very fast."
"Oh, it's alright Kagome. Look, an ice cream parlor, would you care to join me for a scoop of ice cream since we're here together now?"
"I'd really like to Hojo, but I actually have to find someone now...as soon as possible..."
Kagome continued sputtering out incoherent reasons as to why she couldn't eat ice cream at the moment while Hojo helped her up and dragged her inside the small shop and sat her down at a table.
"But Hojo, I need to find this person before...trouble, lots of it...because...giant tomato...ribbons and you...end up the same way...so y'see..." She trailed off into nothingness.
Sighing, she shut her eyes and began to rub her temples to try and relieve herself of the pressure building up inside her brain. It would explode at the rate she was going, and she was quite certain that the people in this small parlor would not cherish cleaning up the remnants of her brain. Besides, she kinda needed it for her math test on Tuesday and if she truly needed to, she could just let it burst in there and have her teacher get in trouble by the pasty janitor. He deserved it, the bastard.
While Kagome was envisioning her head blowing into tiny bits Hojo took the liberty to order her ice cream, as well as himself. Kagome sat at the table with no expression on her face.
"So Kagome, what have you been up to lately? How is your brother?" Hojo tried with his best and oh so charming capability to strike up a decent conversation.
Kagome sat there, looking stupid.
"Aaah...Kagome?"
She couldn't have looked stupider if she had been drooling and picking her nose.
"Kagome?"
Her ear almost twitched off her head when...
SCHNORT!
When she spun around to look at the booth behind her, she nearly produced a miniature sonic boom, which would have ruined the table her and Hojo were sitting at.
"Inu Yasha!?!?" She squealed elatedly.
A tiny boy gawked at her with huge saucer-like eyes. His black hair was covered wholly with vanilla ice cream, and a large blob of spit and creamy leftovers dribbled onto his lap. His nose began to run.
"Whoops..." Kagome muttered turning back around, growing a pretty shade of pink.
"Kagome, are you all right? You don't seem to be acting like yourself today..." Hojo admitted honestly.
It was true, Kagome was rather jumpy and twitchy, but then again Hojo was the one who invited her to eat ice cream with him, so he shouldn't be complaining.
"Yeah, I'm alright, Hojo, my mind is just somewhere else today. I need to go, I'm really sorry."
Kagome stood from her seat slowly and waved to Hojo apologetically. She did feel vaguely bad about leaving the poor boy by himself after he had just bought her ice cream, but she also knew he wouldn't hold it against her. There was just something more significant to locate right now.
Once she was gone, the waitress came out and placed two hot fudge sundaes before Hojo, then left him to his ice cream. He stared at the two sundaes for a moment, and then began shoveling the ice cream into his mouth hungrily. Having Kagome leave was turning out towards his advantage.
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Kagome's feet were dragging against the pavement now, all encouraging thoughts of finding Inu Yasha today drained from her body.
It was getting dark, and it was time for her to just go home, Inu Yasha be damned. She took her time to look for him and that was good enough. If he couldn't find her when he needed her, well then that was his own problem.
Kagome yawned and stretched herself out languidly. Her legs were sore from walking around town all day, and she just wanted to take a long hot bath. Maybe with some bubbles.
Bubbles were good.
Thinking of bubbles and warm water, Kagome turned absent-mindedly to her right and started down a dark alley. The darkness grew, the further she wandered in but Kagome's eyes were still glazed over with visions of her bath.
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Wait a minute...
She didn't recognize this place.
'Where the heck am I?' Her mind shrieked at her.
It was black all around and had her and Inu Yasha not defeated that darkness dwelling demon two weeks prior, she would've lost all hope for her chances of survival.
Her thoughts were cut short when a strong pair of arms enveloped her and squeezed her tight, holding her in place.
Knowing her only defense, Kagome used it and screamed as loud as she could, voice echoing off the walls in the dark alley. If anybody had heard her other than herself and her captor, she wouldn't know.
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Dannee: There! ::Nods triumphantly:: Chapter 7 is complete! Now I want reviews!
Cat: Yay Dannee, you finally did it! Cat and Dannee shall go out for ice cream and Chinese food for dinner tonight! And for dessert...Ice cream!!!!!!
Dannee: -.- Anyways, thanks to the 4 who reviewed last chapter...
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