Because I'm a Persocon
Chapter 4: Searching
By Rose Shadow
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Rose Shadow: [sigh]
Inuyasha: You know, it's good you're depressed! You don't talk as much!
Rose Shadow: TT I will use my dog whistle if I have to. Besides, it's not my screwed up life I'm sighing about- It's my computer... [sigh] The third computer I've broken so far. It's been rebooted so I've lost everything and the stupid Microsoft Word isn't working! So then, I had to type this on my brother's computer... again. I rant a lot, don't I?
Inuyasha: Yes, yes you do.
Rose Shadow: Shut up!
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It was raining again. Pouring rain, to be more exact. This wasn't really helpful to Hideki, but he was so worried about Chii, he didn't notice. He panted out of exhaustion and leaned against a wall. Hideki raised his head and saw the sign: Chiroru Bakery.
'I shouldn't go inside... Chii missing again would worry Mr. Ueda too much,' Hideki said to himself in his head. He dug inside his backpack, calling out Sumomo.
"Yes, master?" Sumomo greeted in a perky voice, popping out of the piled books in the backpack.
"I need to call Minoru Kokubunji," Hideki requested.
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Chii sat alone inside Kaede's hut. Kagome was outside with Kaede picking out healing herbs, Miroku was 'exorcising ominous clouds' [which really meant finding a good inn for a few nights], Sango was somewhere and Inuyasha is probably sitting in a tree. Even though Shippo and Kirara were there, asleep on blankets, Chii remembered what Ms. Hibiya had said...
"Even if you're not alone, the person you want to be close to is away, you'll be lonely."
She sighed, her eyes full of pain and loneliness. Chii closed her eyes, hearing Freya call her again. Chii looked up at her 'sister' with a mournful face.
"Chii... what's wrong?" Freya asked, though she knew the answer.
"Hideki isn't here..." Chii responded.
Freya knew this, but said, "...And when Hideki isn't with you..."
"My heart hurts," finished Chii.
Freya sadly smiled at Chii. "You must be lonely. Is that only with Hideki? Are you lonely when other people aren't around?"
Chii shook her head... a 'no.' "Right now Shippo and Kirara are here, but... Hideki is not," she explained. Freya embraced her sister to comfort her as darkness engulfed them.
"It's okay..." Freya comforted. "Just open your eyes, look in a yellow bag and you will find what you were searching for."
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"Hm..." Minoru silently said, as he listened to Hideki's story of what happened to the disappearance of Chii. "Was there... anything unusual about your room? Anything that was misplaced or out of the ordinary?"
Hideki reached into his backpack, pulling out his history textbook. "The only thing that seemed different was my book laid open in the middle of the room. But I don't think it's so weird," Hideki said. "Maybe she was just reading it and that's all?"
Minoru flipped the book open, strangely to the same exact page to where Chii was. "Motosuwa... do you know about a small superstition spreading?"
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Rose Shadow: Damn... so much homework and studying to do...
Inuyasha: I have an idea! More studying and less writing this story!
Rose Shadow: Don't push it...