Disclaimer: waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! I don't own Sailor Moon, it belongs to Naoko T, sniff, sob (yes I'm too lazy to look up and write her last name) so don't sue me! I do, however, own takes a deep breath Houshinanki, Terranu, Okibi, the Shinbi twins Kyokujitsu and Sekiyou, Hokushin, Aiyuugure, Mahizashi, Kagesshoku, Kanhikiiru, Saigoyuku, Joukisai, and "him"… hey, I feel better now! For most of them though only their last names are mentioned.
Author's Notes: guess what I realized!? (crickets chirping) hmph! well whatever… the prologue was actually over 9½ pages typed! how awesome is that! YAY!!!!!!!!!
"…"= speaking '…'= thinking [AN:…]= Author's Note(s) …= the ghost's (Okibi) way of talking
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They are coming…
Houshinanki Aijikizoku bowed to the great flame in her shrine and rose from her meditative position. As she walked out of her shrine, she double-checked to make sure her bow and arrow was in the corner. She walked across the stone path quickly because it was winter, mid December to be exact, and cold outside. She sighed as she walked through the hallways of her large house (which is an understatement, she lived in a mansion). 'It's a shame I live here all alone, except for the ghosts of course. It is so lonely without him.' She thought to herself and waved to an apparition which had just floated through the wall, 'and my cat, Terranu.'
GOOD AFTERNOON HOUSHINANKI-CHAN said one ghost she was particularly friendly with.
"Good Afternoon Okibi-san" she replied and bowed slightly "how many times have I told you to call me Inaki, Houshinanki is too formal."
OVER A THOUSAND TIMES MISS, she said with a smile AND AT LEAST TEN THOUSAND MORE.
"Whatever," she said with a sigh, "come on, lets go get the mail." And kept on walking, sandalled feet echoing throughout the hallways. 'He never called me that unless he was really mad,' she thought, 'I miss him.' She shaded her eyes as she walked out into the bright December sunshine, and walked halfway down her steps to get to her mailbox. As she reached in to get her mail a yellow-orange cat with the symbol of the sun on its forehead streaked past up the stairs.
"Hey Aijikizoku-san!" yelled a voice from the bottom of the stairs "you live here?" Inaki turned her magenta eyes to the speakers, a girl an inch or so shorter than her with flaming crimson hair pulled up in a ponytail at the top of her head. The girl smiled her wide, dark-orange eyes twinkling,
"Yes Shinbi-san! Don't tell me you've never heard rumors in school about the crazy psychic who lives in a haunted mansion and talks to ghosts?" the first girl to speak smiled and replied,
"Of course! I just thought you were a crazy psychic, I just never knew you talked to ghosts!" her mirror image then elbowed her.
"Yes you did know Kyokujitsu, stop pretending!"
THEY SAY 'TALKING TO GHOSTS' AS IF IT WERE A BAD THING Okibi commented.
"Well you're both crazy psychos! Just ask her if we can go inside and use the tub, before Hoshi-chan freezes to death!" a boy over a head taller than twins with emerald green eyes and shaggy, yellow orange hair, some of which fell into his eyes, said. He walked up to them carrying a blond-haired girl who was unconscious and dripping wet.
"Of course you may Zaraionunari-kun, you could have just asked in the first place." She bowed and led them up the stairs. When they got to the bathroom, she directed the three boys to a room they could sit and wait in, and she took the girl into her arms, soaking one of her shrine robes. She walked into the large bathroom, following the four girls. She closed the door to the bathroom with her foot and set the girl down on the plush carpet on the floor stripping her of her shoes and outer layer of clothes. "Okay, Shinbi-san," both girls looked up, "whichever one of you is closer to the tub fill it up with hot water, the left knob." She left them to that and quietly slipped out the door and smiled at Okibi. She walked a little ways down the hall thinking it weird there were so many people in her house at once. 'The last time there were so many people in this house was after my uncle died. My mom decided to let us live here since I could use something to keep my mind occupied so soon after the divorce, besides, mom and I don't get along so well together. And she probably would never have let me if he hadn't invited me. No use thinking about him now though,' her eyes started to tear up, 'oh who am I kidding, I'm always thinking about him.' She wiped her eyes as she got to the phone and picked it up, dialing the Hikawa Shrine.
"Moshi moshi," came the reply after only two rings,
"Hello Hino-san, I need to speak to Ami-chan, could you please put her on?"
"Sure, who is this again?"
"It's Aijikizoku-san, tell Ami-chan I need medical advice." There was a short pause and then,
"Hello?" said Ami tentatively,
"Hello Ami-chan! I need your medical assistance…" When she finally hung up the phone after chatting with Ami, she sighed.
"Have fun?" said a voice from the hallway, and Inaki jumped. "We don't like to really have anything to do with the inner— their inner circle, Aijikizoku-san." A girl about the same height as Inaki but with much darker skin stepped out of the shadows, her many braids clacking against one another [AN: in fact her whole head is braided]. Her dark-purple eyes flashing,
"I didn't hear, or sense, you come in Hisansuisei-san. Did you have the urge to surprise me?"
"No. Stealth just comes naturally to me, so…" they continued to talk as she walked to the bathroom, she checked to make sure there were no boys in the hall and she and the strange, dark girl slipped inside. She took the blanket she had lain across her off, and lifted her gently into the tub. As she did she tuned to the dark girl,
"So Hisansuisei-san, is your hair black or blue?"
"It's blue. It's just such a dark blue it looks black with blue highlights," she replied, "I don't really care about my hair that much."
"Where did you learn to do that?" one of the Shinbi twins asked incredulously,
"What?"
"That," she said, "lifting her."
"Oh," Inaki said and mumbled something indistinct. Inaki sighed and leaned against the wall, as she let her hair down out of the (purposely) messy bun, brushing her blond bangs out of her magenta eyes.
"You know, Aijikizoku-san," the whitish-blue haired girl with gray eyes said softly, "when the sun hits your hair, it gives the brown part red highlights, it's pretty, my hair is boring."
"Thanks Akarikisaki-san," she said as she put her hair up again, "and no it's not. It's really cool how you did it." The girl, same as the dark-purple haired girl with burgundy eyes sitting beside her, had her hair done up uniquely. She had taken two locks of hair from each side of her head, twisted them, and pulled them back into a half ponytail with the four curls hanging down in the back, and she had two twists on each side of her head. Inaki laid her hand on the girl's forehead. "So how did this happen?" she asked, and both of the twins and the dark-purple haired girl started to talk at once. "Hold it!" Inaki said, "Akarikisaki-san, you tell me."…
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An hour and half (or so) later…
"Okay, so she fell into the pond while you nine were ice skating. And it wasn't thin ice, that you know." Inaki said, "is that right?" the five girls nodded. "She was skating nearest to you, Yamiatae-san, when you heard a yell and a splash."
"Yeah," the dark-purple haired girl said, "and I looked over to where I thought the splash had come form, near Hoshi-chan, and there was no Hoshi-chan."
"Right." Inaki said, "you saw a hole in the ice and skated over to it, just in time to see Eieiakarui-san's hand that she was reaching up, go under." The girl nodded again, "you got down on your knees and just managed to grab three of her fingers, and you called everyone else over. This is when you, Hisansuisei-san, noticed that the ice was actually at least half-a-foot thick. So then Shigo-kun and Zaraionunari-kun reached in grabbed her arms, and they pulled her out. After they took off her skates you were bringing her to the Shinbi house, which was closest. As you were walking by my house you saw me getting the mail. So who was that orange cat that ran past me?" she asked.
"I can answer that," said one of the twins, "that was our cat, Solaria,"
"Oh, I guess she wanted to play with my cat, Terranu," Inaki said and turned away from them, "but why did she have a golden symbol on her forehead? I didn't see the symbol so clearly because she ran by me too fast but still…" she trailed off. Everyone gasped,
"Umm symbol, you could s— I mean, what symbol?" the other twin said,
"You almost had it," Inaki said laughing, "my cat has one too."
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