6/15/04: I'm starting to type it...yeah, look at me go...whoa, I'm typing a lot more than I wrote. See that first paragraph? That was only three sentences originally.
BLEAGH! The coffee cake I was eating is bad; I think...it's squishy. And squishy like the part that's supposed to be un-squishy is squishy...I may be sick.
Keh...my hand hurts. I've typed the first part up, and now I'm kinda thinking...hmmm...I have five days to type this, why do it all now? But I won't do it later, and I have to go to field hockey later anyway. I should just do it now and then worry about Take it From the Top, but I'm sorta a slacker. Well, definitely is the correct phrase. -sigh-
Whoa, just deleted this by accident. It's back though, so no worries. Anyway, breaking. Gotta play some GBA.
6/16/04: Yep...gonna write more of this today. I'm renaming some files on the other computer though, so probably not too much. And I gotta RP with a bud as well as consider studying...
Whoa, guess who broke her computer? :xp: Hmm...using the emoticons too much now. I need to get off Gaia. ShinoMiko on there, if anyone cares.
Eep, it seems I gotta run off to hockey practice now. ; So I will have to write later...
6/19/04: I feel so sick.
6/21/04: So why was it not finished? Because I wasn't on my computer. At all. The entire day. sigh And today I start work, so I don't have time to work on it right now...I have to finish it tonight. I don't have much to finish, either...so evil. :xp:
6/22/04: My internet is finally back. Thank god.
Akira and Kagome both stared glumly at the decks of cards, neither wanting to pick up the cards. They both knew what the cards were going to be, and they didn't want to see another prediction come out the same. Finally, Akira put her hand on her deck and sighed as Kagome did so as well. They both drew their card, but neither of them looked at it. They stared glumly out the window instead, with a slight frown on their faces. Akira idly thought about what sort of curtains she should buy for Kaede.
"...Same card again, Kagome?" She sighed and nodded, flipped the card towards Akira and looking at the piles of cards. "Explain this all to me again, Akira. These cards aren't tarot cards, but you're saying they tell the future?"
Akira began picking up the cards and shuffling them all together. "Well, not really. They can't really tell the future. They're just a way Kaji and I built to talk to each other without him having to come down here."
"So they're like a cheap system of AOL."
Kira chuckled. "Not quite. Imagine using MSN and trying to get the ideas across only by using colors, numbers, and four symbols. That's more of what this is like."
"So why doesn't he just come down?"
"Because, it takes a lot of energy out of him...and me. All in all, this is easier. The ideas are just harder to get across this way. But since Kaji doesn't specialize in the future either, he's not too accurate and it's hard to get what he means. This is for getting across a general idea."
"So what was his idea this time?"
Akira sighed and put her cards on the ground in front of her, so they were both clearly visible. "Ace and King of Spades. Spades are a black suit, and we use them to symbolize bad things. Having a reading with only two spade cards isn't a good thing. The King of Spades is a pretty bad thing on it's own. The King is a way of saying there will be great change soon, the different suits all show ways they'll happen in. Diamonds are relating to wealth, Hearts to love, obviously, Clubs to feelings, and Spades to overall life...or death." Akira paused for a moment in thought. "...Anyway, a great change in life. The Ace means that whatever the change will be, it will have a huge impact on everyone involved."
"...So the prediction is for a bad change for everyone near."
"Exactly." Kagome sighed and looked out the window. "Well, that's not too happy for the rest of us, is it? Inuyasha will be pissed...but it's not a good fortune for her at all, is it?" She stood up and dusted some dirt off of her legs, still thinking. "I'm gonna go on a walk or something for a while. All of this stress is driving me crazy..."
Akira nodded. "Yeah...you're not the only one." Kagome looked at Akira for a moment, confused by the weird tone. Akira didn't seem to be talking about herself, but looking out the window instead. She finally left the hut, deciding that she wouldn't be able to help anyway. Akira leaned against the floor, looking up at the ceiling, thinking.
"...A huge bad change for Ang..."
"Oi! Baka no Miko!"
Akira winced. Inuyasha definitely wasn't talking to her, because she could hear him walking away. However, that left only one person he could be yelling at. There was only one other miko around. Only one ill fated deranged miko for him to yell at.
"OI! I'm talking to you, kono baka!"
"Mau, mau, Inu-kun. No need to be so rude to me. I'll answer you just fine when you call me by my proper name."
He gritted his teeth. "Fine, I'll call you butcher then. And I'm not Inu- kun to you, you murderer. What the hell is your problem?" He leaned in towards the girl in what any normal person would have found a highly threatening manner.
She smiled. "Why, Inuyasha, that's so nice of you to ask! I'm quite fine though, nothing you could help me with. Just thinking about spells. Do you need anything?"
He blinked and leaned away from her in confusion. He had assumed she'd react like normal people and scoot away, but it seemed he was wrong. "...Uh...no, I...I'm fine." Then he glowered at her again. "You're the one who's not normal, you crazy girl! Don't you understand even that? You just blew someone up! You just killed her! Don't you find that at least partially wrong?"
She stared at him coldly, him warm smile fading quickly into a perfectly neutral expression. Inuyasha tried not to visibly flinch. She looked like she was eyeing him up on the spot and deciding if it was worth her time to kill him right away. "I find nothing wrong with killing those weaker than me, hanyou. I merely killed a rival priestess, as you might kill a demon which rivaled you."
"You killed someone who posed no threat to you in cold blood."
"She would have posed a threat to me later in her life, had I allowed her to live. You don't speak Spanish, Inuyasha. I know what they were saying to me. Shi wanted only me to understand. Don't you get that?"
"Well, what were they saying, then?"
"Only I was meant to know, and only I will know. Either way, I feel perfectly justified in what I did. And only that is what matters."
Inuyasha glared even harder at her. "So, that's your idea of fairness? If I kill you because I feel justified in doing it, then everything is fine."
"It's fine to you."
"What about the rest of the world?"
"Look out for number one first and foremost, Inuyasha. I'm surprised you have to actually ask me that question. You know that."
"...What if Akira didn't agree with you?"
"That's her opinion. I won't fight her on it. As long as she doesn't challenge me on my decision, it doesn't really matter." She closed her eyes for a moment, and then sighed. "What do you really want to say to me, Inuyasha?"
"Who else are you going to kill?"
"I don't intend on killing anyone else. It depends on if anyone else is going to get in my way."
"When are you going to leave, then?"
"I don't know at this point."
"Why don't you just leave now, then?"
"Inuyasha." She opened her eyes and looked at him with annoyance. "I would, but I know I'm safe here. How can I possibly be any safer? I'm surrounded by people who will fight against anything to protect each other and the town near here. If I stay in the town, then I'm protected by default. Now leave me alone."
"You can't tell me-"
"Leave, will you?"
Inuyasha turned around and stalked off, clenching his fists. He didn't want to admit it, but he didn't trust the girl at all. At the moment, she was liable to suddenly let loose an attack and possibly kill him without enough of a warning to allow him to escape. He didn't need to deal with it.
"I want her gone."
Nobody responded to the statement. Kagome and Akira exchanged an uneasy look and then separated, each looking at a spot on the wall. Kaede looked out the window, watching a bird idly and pretending not to have heard the statement. Miroku picked up a glass of tea and took a sip of it in order to avoid answering right away. Realizing no one else would, he sighed and looked at Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, I know you perceive her as a threat, but...is she really?"
"Yeah...Inuyasha, she's just unbalanced..."
"Stop protecting her, Akira. There's still bloodstains all over that shirt she's wearing. I went to check out the place that the priestess died at last night. I wanted to see signs of a struggle or proof she wasn't just crazy or something. That's girl's head is dangling from a tree. She tied the head to a tree using it's own hair. Little bits of her are scattered all over the place. Plants under the head are sucking up bits of her and turning colors. I...she is totally insane."
Miroku winced at the description of the area. Kagome looked slightly ill. "I am forced to agree with Inuyasha, Kaede quickly said, turning away from the window looking grim. "She has become unbalanced, as Akira says, to an exceedingly dangerous point."
Miroku nodded. Kagome looked out the window, not willing to say anything. She wanted to get rid of the girl too, but felt slightly guilty for feeling that. Akira gulped slightly. "...So, what are you all saying?"
Inuyasha glared at her, a malicious fang-baring smirk growing quickly across his face. "Your friend, Akira, has become a danger to us. We're saying that we want her gone."
"...I can't make her leave..."
"Ooh, no, Akira. Having her leave is just simply out of the question. She'll probably come back and do something horrible to us if we simply force her to leave. Maybe she'd kill us."
"So what are you saying?"
Kagome looked at Akira slowly, thinking of all the things Ang had done and closed her eyes. "...Well, Akira, 'do unto others...'"
Akira shook her head. "I...I follow you, Kagome. But I won't do that. If...if you all want to kill her, then kill her yourself. I'll have no part in it."
Angela sneezed. She rubbed her nose and scowled slightly, looking up at the sky. It was pretty out today, and she had no allergies. "Mau. They must be talking about me again."
She shrugged. "No matter." She looked back down at the ground, back at the beautiful pattern of the design she had been drawing in the dirt. "...It really won't matter soon, will it? It won't matter very, very soon..." She picked up her daggers again, and walked to the middle of the pattern, into a small circle there. She knelt down in the middle of it, and pulled out her old pouch. She emptied her store of diamonds into her hands and smiled at them. She took the bloodstained diamonds and arranged them in a pattern around her. Smiling at the crimson diamonds, she took her daggers and very slowly cut a deep path from each shoulder to her palms. Her face twitched slightly as the daggers dug through her skin, but her face remained only passively interested in what was going on to it. As her blood began running down her arms and on to her fists and the daggers she held in each, she picked them up and drove them into the ground, exactly as she had when she had destroyed Aika. She looked around, and watched the severed hair sway slightly in the wind. "...Poor Aika...dying to help me cast my spell." She looked down at her hands, and the blood running to them and closed her eyes.
"...I summon thee."
The design she had spent hours on dully glowed a red shade. The blood on her body tingled and began dripping to the dagger's blades, which began to fade to a black color while green sparks appeared from them, shaking from the energy. "As promised, I summon thee."
Not now.
She winced, and the design on the ground began flashing wildly, going through a wide range of colors. "But everything is-already prepared for your arrival now! It will be much harder to achieve later!"
...Very well.
She closed her eyes, and smiled slightly. Already, she felt slightly faint from all the blood flowing down her arms. Her smile faltered slightly as the spell began to manifest itself, spinning into a black ball above her. "...Thank...you..."