Disclaimer: So, Kouga and Inuyasha both try to claim Kagome, Kagome and
Kikyou fight over Inuyasha, Sango and Miroku...well I'm not even going to go
there. And unfortunately, I don't have any claim over any of them.
pouts Oh well, maybe in my next life...grins
Kagome slowly opened her eyes. She felt like she had been sleeping for hours although she knew it couldn't have been that long because it was dark in the room and she couldn't see anything out the windows.
Stumbling in the dark, Kagome slowly climbed out of the bed and stood in the room. She squinted, trying to make out something in the room to get her bearings. She looked for a light switch or lamp. Feeling her way along the walls she felt nothing but the smooth plaster of the walls, no light switch.
'Where's Sandra?' She wondered to herself. She had thought that her roommate would wake her for the floor meeting before she left herself. 'Besides, wasn't her boyfriend supposed to come by? Did she just not bother to wake me up while he was here?!' She thought, more than a little annoyed at the thought.
As her eyes adjusted to the darkness, she noticed a small line of light along the floor on one side of the room. She cautiously walked toward it – she wasn't used to the room yet and didn't want to trip over anything. As she reached the light, she felt along the wall and felt the doorknob. Slowly, she turned it and pulled the door. It felt heavier than she remembered it being when she had come in earlier. 'I must not have gotten all my strength back yet, since I just woke up. This door feels like it's made of lead!' She thought and pulled hard on the door.
When the door came open, Kagome was suddenly covered by the bright light of the hallway. Covering her eyes with her hands so that her eyes could adjust some, she stepped out into the hallway. She looked around; there was no one in sight.
'Well, it's definitely bright out here!' She thought, gradually uncovered her face as her eyes adjusted to the brightness of the hallway. 'I wonder what time it is. It sure seems dead around here; even if it is late, you'd think there'd be someone around...'
She looked down at her watch. The digital numbers said something along the lines of two in the afternoon and the date was wrong as well. 'Damn!' She thought. 'I forgot to reset it to the right time zone after I got on the plane this morning; it's still set on Tokyo time. I wonder if there's a clock in the room...maybe if I prop the door open...'
She slowly reached behind her to grab the door but it had already shut tightly. She tried to push it back open again, hoping to shine some light from the hall into her room and find another light inside, but found the door shut too tightly to reopen; it almost appeared as if it had been locked as soon as she left the room. 'But that's not possible!' thought Kagome with surprise!
She decided to investigate later, and began slowly walking down the hallway looking for anyone she might know. There appeared to be a room at the end of the hallway, but the lights in the room flickered. 'You'd think they'd have replaced the light bulbs before the students arrived...' Kagome thought, shaking her head slightly.
She wandered into the room, still looking around. The room seemed to be empty, save a couple of arm chairs and table in the center of the room. Some stiff looking chairs lined the table. One of the chairs was turned away from the room, toward a corner of the room with a small light.
'How odd...' thought Kagome. 'I wonder why that chair is turned that way. Doesn't seem like it would be very nice not to be able to see the rest of the room like that...'
She walked over to the chair, thinking to turn it around so that it faced the center of the room like the others. She neared the chair, but when she was just feet away from it, a voice suddenly came from it.
"Nice for you to join me, Kagome. I was wondering when you would bother yourself to show up." The deep voice resonated in the silent room.
Kagome thought hard, trying to place the voice. 'Do I know this person? Their voice doesn't sound familiar, but they certainly seem to know me...'
"Aw, Kagome! I'm hurt! You don't know me at all, do you?" The voice sounded offended, but the menacing tone still remained. The person in the chair sighed disappointedly. "Oh well, I don't suppose you would recognize me so quickly...you wouldn't really be expecting me to show up here, would you. I guess I'll have to remind you a bit, won't I?"
Suddenly, Kagome felt the ground fall from under her feet. She looked down to find herself hovering several feet above the ground. But, before she could fully comprehend the situation, she was thrown across the room and into wall furthest from where she had stood. She hit it with a thud, and felt her breath leave her chest.
She gasped for air, but found the wind knocked out of her. She slid down the wall and looked frantically around, the room beginning to swim in and out of focus. Her lungs where beginning to burn from lack of oxygen. Then, suddenly, she found she could breathe again. She gulped down air; the rush of cold filling her lungs and tasting to her like there could be nothing sweeter. It was at that point that she could suddenly feel the sharp pains in her body. Her back stung from slamming into the wall, and as she had fallen after hitting, she had twisted her ankle underneath her and it now ached painfully.
She looked over at the chair, still swallowing as much air as her lungs could hold. "Who are you?!" She shouted, anger filling her voice as tears stung her eyes.
"All in due time, my dear Kagome!" The voice chided, "Have you no patience at all?" The owner of the voice mocked her coldly, and Kagome could feel the warmth of a tear as it slid down her cheek. She brushed it away and took another deep breath, moving slowly in an attempt to untangle her now painful limbs.
"Uncomfortable, are we?" The voice asked ominously, "I wouldn't want my guest of honor to be uncomfortable, now would I..." he continued on sarcastically.
Once again, Kagome found herself lifted off the ground and floating in the air by some unknown power. She tried to move but found herself frozen, unable to move more than a half an inch before her strength gave out and she was forced back into the position she had been in before. She opened her mouth to scream, to call for help, anything. Someone else on the floor was bound her hear her cries. But, no sound came. It was at this point that she began to panic. She was completely at the whim of the madman sitting in the turned chair on the other side of the room.
She found herself flung across the room, just as before. Kagome prepared herself for the strike, but it never came. She found herself lowered into an armchair near the wall that she had just hit. She breathed a sigh of relief.
"See, that wasn't so bad, was it?" The voice from the chair asked her condescendingly.
"What do you want from me?!" Kagome asked, her voice broke as she tried to block back her tears. The voice merely chuckled in response.
"Oh Kagome, are you really that gullible? I thought you were smarter than that. Did you really think that I was dead? Me?! I could never be killed that easily." She was given just enough information to confuse her even more. There was something eerily familiar about the man, but as hard as she thought she couldn't seem to put two and two together. "Think, girl! You aren't really this stupid, are you? Are you, Kagome? Kagome?"
The man was using his powers to shake her as he yelled her name.
"Kagome! Kagome!" Slowly, the man's voice dissolved into a softer, more feminine voice. The shaking was less harsh. Kagome could feel two hands on her, one of each of her shoulders, shaking her softly. She opened her eyes to find Sandra leaning over her, trying to wake her.
"Kagome?! Wake up! Are you okay? You were screaming in your sleep! I couldn't get you to wake up you were shouting something about someone wanting something from you. Is everything okay?" Kagome could see lines of worry on Sandra's face as she questioned Kagome nervously.
"Nani? Where am I? It wasn't real? Oh thank god." Sandra just looked at Kagome with slightly more perplexed look as Kagome propped herself up in the bed and looked frantically around the room.
"You know, it's a good thing I speak Japanese, or else I wouldn't have understood a word you just said. Kagome thought for a moment, and then realized that she must have been speaking in Japanese without thinking.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Kagome said, switching back into English. "I was having a nightmare." 'But it was so real...' she thought to herself.
"Well," said Sandra, "It's time to go to the floor meeting. You'd better get up or you'll be late." Sandra looked in the mirror to check her hair one last time and then exited the room.
A/N: Well, it's been awhile, but I'm back now. I don't know how many of you are reading, but those of you that are, I hope you like. It should get a little more exciting from here on out. Don't forget to let me know what you think, I know you know how! R/R. .
Miranda – Thanks! Hope you like the rest of the story as I write it!
Avalone – Thanks to you too! As for who's next, well she still has to meet "Seth" her RA, right? Who could that be? grins And could that be Inuyasha she's been spotting? I don't know...have to read and find out. .
Stripe – I was trying to make it a bit funny. A bit more comical at the beginning because it's going to get more serious as the story progresses, I did a decent job then?
Kagome slowly opened her eyes. She felt like she had been sleeping for hours although she knew it couldn't have been that long because it was dark in the room and she couldn't see anything out the windows.
Stumbling in the dark, Kagome slowly climbed out of the bed and stood in the room. She squinted, trying to make out something in the room to get her bearings. She looked for a light switch or lamp. Feeling her way along the walls she felt nothing but the smooth plaster of the walls, no light switch.
'Where's Sandra?' She wondered to herself. She had thought that her roommate would wake her for the floor meeting before she left herself. 'Besides, wasn't her boyfriend supposed to come by? Did she just not bother to wake me up while he was here?!' She thought, more than a little annoyed at the thought.
As her eyes adjusted to the darkness, she noticed a small line of light along the floor on one side of the room. She cautiously walked toward it – she wasn't used to the room yet and didn't want to trip over anything. As she reached the light, she felt along the wall and felt the doorknob. Slowly, she turned it and pulled the door. It felt heavier than she remembered it being when she had come in earlier. 'I must not have gotten all my strength back yet, since I just woke up. This door feels like it's made of lead!' She thought and pulled hard on the door.
When the door came open, Kagome was suddenly covered by the bright light of the hallway. Covering her eyes with her hands so that her eyes could adjust some, she stepped out into the hallway. She looked around; there was no one in sight.
'Well, it's definitely bright out here!' She thought, gradually uncovered her face as her eyes adjusted to the brightness of the hallway. 'I wonder what time it is. It sure seems dead around here; even if it is late, you'd think there'd be someone around...'
She looked down at her watch. The digital numbers said something along the lines of two in the afternoon and the date was wrong as well. 'Damn!' She thought. 'I forgot to reset it to the right time zone after I got on the plane this morning; it's still set on Tokyo time. I wonder if there's a clock in the room...maybe if I prop the door open...'
She slowly reached behind her to grab the door but it had already shut tightly. She tried to push it back open again, hoping to shine some light from the hall into her room and find another light inside, but found the door shut too tightly to reopen; it almost appeared as if it had been locked as soon as she left the room. 'But that's not possible!' thought Kagome with surprise!
She decided to investigate later, and began slowly walking down the hallway looking for anyone she might know. There appeared to be a room at the end of the hallway, but the lights in the room flickered. 'You'd think they'd have replaced the light bulbs before the students arrived...' Kagome thought, shaking her head slightly.
She wandered into the room, still looking around. The room seemed to be empty, save a couple of arm chairs and table in the center of the room. Some stiff looking chairs lined the table. One of the chairs was turned away from the room, toward a corner of the room with a small light.
'How odd...' thought Kagome. 'I wonder why that chair is turned that way. Doesn't seem like it would be very nice not to be able to see the rest of the room like that...'
She walked over to the chair, thinking to turn it around so that it faced the center of the room like the others. She neared the chair, but when she was just feet away from it, a voice suddenly came from it.
"Nice for you to join me, Kagome. I was wondering when you would bother yourself to show up." The deep voice resonated in the silent room.
Kagome thought hard, trying to place the voice. 'Do I know this person? Their voice doesn't sound familiar, but they certainly seem to know me...'
"Aw, Kagome! I'm hurt! You don't know me at all, do you?" The voice sounded offended, but the menacing tone still remained. The person in the chair sighed disappointedly. "Oh well, I don't suppose you would recognize me so quickly...you wouldn't really be expecting me to show up here, would you. I guess I'll have to remind you a bit, won't I?"
Suddenly, Kagome felt the ground fall from under her feet. She looked down to find herself hovering several feet above the ground. But, before she could fully comprehend the situation, she was thrown across the room and into wall furthest from where she had stood. She hit it with a thud, and felt her breath leave her chest.
She gasped for air, but found the wind knocked out of her. She slid down the wall and looked frantically around, the room beginning to swim in and out of focus. Her lungs where beginning to burn from lack of oxygen. Then, suddenly, she found she could breathe again. She gulped down air; the rush of cold filling her lungs and tasting to her like there could be nothing sweeter. It was at that point that she could suddenly feel the sharp pains in her body. Her back stung from slamming into the wall, and as she had fallen after hitting, she had twisted her ankle underneath her and it now ached painfully.
She looked over at the chair, still swallowing as much air as her lungs could hold. "Who are you?!" She shouted, anger filling her voice as tears stung her eyes.
"All in due time, my dear Kagome!" The voice chided, "Have you no patience at all?" The owner of the voice mocked her coldly, and Kagome could feel the warmth of a tear as it slid down her cheek. She brushed it away and took another deep breath, moving slowly in an attempt to untangle her now painful limbs.
"Uncomfortable, are we?" The voice asked ominously, "I wouldn't want my guest of honor to be uncomfortable, now would I..." he continued on sarcastically.
Once again, Kagome found herself lifted off the ground and floating in the air by some unknown power. She tried to move but found herself frozen, unable to move more than a half an inch before her strength gave out and she was forced back into the position she had been in before. She opened her mouth to scream, to call for help, anything. Someone else on the floor was bound her hear her cries. But, no sound came. It was at this point that she began to panic. She was completely at the whim of the madman sitting in the turned chair on the other side of the room.
She found herself flung across the room, just as before. Kagome prepared herself for the strike, but it never came. She found herself lowered into an armchair near the wall that she had just hit. She breathed a sigh of relief.
"See, that wasn't so bad, was it?" The voice from the chair asked her condescendingly.
"What do you want from me?!" Kagome asked, her voice broke as she tried to block back her tears. The voice merely chuckled in response.
"Oh Kagome, are you really that gullible? I thought you were smarter than that. Did you really think that I was dead? Me?! I could never be killed that easily." She was given just enough information to confuse her even more. There was something eerily familiar about the man, but as hard as she thought she couldn't seem to put two and two together. "Think, girl! You aren't really this stupid, are you? Are you, Kagome? Kagome?"
The man was using his powers to shake her as he yelled her name.
"Kagome! Kagome!" Slowly, the man's voice dissolved into a softer, more feminine voice. The shaking was less harsh. Kagome could feel two hands on her, one of each of her shoulders, shaking her softly. She opened her eyes to find Sandra leaning over her, trying to wake her.
"Kagome?! Wake up! Are you okay? You were screaming in your sleep! I couldn't get you to wake up you were shouting something about someone wanting something from you. Is everything okay?" Kagome could see lines of worry on Sandra's face as she questioned Kagome nervously.
"Nani? Where am I? It wasn't real? Oh thank god." Sandra just looked at Kagome with slightly more perplexed look as Kagome propped herself up in the bed and looked frantically around the room.
"You know, it's a good thing I speak Japanese, or else I wouldn't have understood a word you just said. Kagome thought for a moment, and then realized that she must have been speaking in Japanese without thinking.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Kagome said, switching back into English. "I was having a nightmare." 'But it was so real...' she thought to herself.
"Well," said Sandra, "It's time to go to the floor meeting. You'd better get up or you'll be late." Sandra looked in the mirror to check her hair one last time and then exited the room.
A/N: Well, it's been awhile, but I'm back now. I don't know how many of you are reading, but those of you that are, I hope you like. It should get a little more exciting from here on out. Don't forget to let me know what you think, I know you know how! R/R. .
Miranda – Thanks! Hope you like the rest of the story as I write it!
Avalone – Thanks to you too! As for who's next, well she still has to meet "Seth" her RA, right? Who could that be? grins And could that be Inuyasha she's been spotting? I don't know...have to read and find out. .
Stripe – I was trying to make it a bit funny. A bit more comical at the beginning because it's going to get more serious as the story progresses, I did a decent job then?