Title: Lycanthropy
Author: Mistress Nika (nikasama1480-insert 'at' here since ff.net deletes it-yahoo.com)
Rating: PG
Couples: Inu/Kag Mir/San Kouga/OC
Warnings: not sure yet again, probably nothing much
Summary: Kagome's family has a secret. This secret has been locked away for years. Away from the public eye where it could never be brought to light. But what if that secret escaped? And what if it's only desire centered on the Higurashi Shrine?
Lycanthropy= from Greek lykoi, "wolf" anthropos, "man", a psychiatric state in which the patient believes he is a wolf or some other nonhuman animal. The delusion has been most likely to occur among people who believe in reincarnation and the transmigration of souls.
Chapter One:
Kagome hummed happily as she boiled the water for dinner, Ramen of course. Behind her a golden-eyed silver-haired hanyou bobbed up and down, trying to peek over her shoulder every five seconds to ask "Is it done?" It was just another normal day for her, until the phone rang. Abandoning the cooking Ramen, much to InuYasha's dismay, she rushed over to the phone and answered it with a smile.
"Moshi Moshi!" she chirped happily. "Yes, this is Higurashi Jinja." She absently swatted InuYasha away as he tried to lean closer to listen to the conversation. "No, I'm afraid she's not home. This is her daughter. Can I help you?"
As she listened intently to the person on the other end, shadows crossed her face as she became suddenly serious. InuYasha backed off. The only time he had seen that serious calm overtake her was in the heat of battle, when everything was riding on her one arrow.
"Yes, yes." Kagome spoke in a hushed whisper. "I understand. I'll tell her and be right there. Arigatou." Then she hung up.
InuYasha watched the frowning girl with interest. "Kagome?" he questioned cautiously, "Who was that?"
Kagome seemed not to hear him as she stared intently at the carpet, lost in her own thoughts. After a moment of contemplation, she spoke to the hanyou at her side. "InuYasha?" she began softly, "I need to get across the city. Can you take me?"
"What?!" InuYasha asked with disbelief. "You're always saying how you don't want me to go out! Why can't you walk?!"
Normally that would have gotten him a dressing down at least, possibly even a sit. But instead she just returned her gaze to the floor and said absently, "It's too far, and I need to get there as quick as possible." She returned her attention to him and said with oddly pleading eyes, "Please?"
And that was it. When faced with those stormy blues he could deny her nothing. So he just crossed his arms and huffed, a sign everyone took as an affirmative answer.
Kagome smiled genuinely at him and said, "Thank you, InuYasha. This is very important. Why don't you go change clothes and get your cap while I call Mama?"
InuYasha just huffed again and left the room. He couldn't believe she had talked him into wearing those clothes. They were itchy and smelly and he disliked them from across the room. On his body, he hated them. However he figured he could stand them, since he was supposed to be wearing them in his human form when his senses were dulled. But right now his demon blood was still coursing through his veins. This was gonna be hell. Not to mention the hat. He hated that hat with a passion. He'd thought before about ripping it into a million pieces just to vent a little frustration.
Kagome watched as the doggy-eared hanyou left the room. She had brought him back with her for the new moon tonight. In fact, she had even persuaded him to go with her to meet her friends at the movies. They had recently been accusing her of making up the story of her supposed 'boyfriend' and had increased their efforts to fix her up with Houjo. This was supposed to be the big night where everyone would see her and InuYasha together, accept his existence, and finally allow her to be free of Houjo's excessive attentions. However, it was not shaping up that way.
Glancing out the window, she noticed that the sun would probably set just as they arrived. 'Well,' she thought to herself as she reached for the phone, 'At least he won't have to wait on the roof. He'll be just another human.'
Picking up the phone, she dialed her mother's cell phone. It rang twice before it was answered.
She heard her mother's voice say happily. "Moshi Moshi!"
"Mama." Kagome said in a voice laden with seriousness.
"Kagome?" her mother answered sounding slightly concerned. "What's wrong?"
"Mama." Kagome said quietly, "She escaped again."
"Oh no." her mother's voice gasped. "Did they find her?"
Kagome nodded out of habit and replied, "Yes, but they need me to come. I'm going to have InuYasha take me as soon as possible. Can you come and pick us up?"
"Hai. Do you want me to join you inside?"
Kagome shook her head. "No, Mama." she replied. "You know how she gets when she sees you. I'll have InuYasha with me, so I'll be fine."
There was a pause from both ends before her mother spoke.
"You're going to tell him? Show him?" Mama Higurashi asked meaningfully. When Kagome didn't respond, her mother continued. "You know how people in the past viewed this, don't you? They considered them to be possessed by evil spirits. Something to be shunned and even destroyed. The families often left them as children to die of exposure, fed them to wild animals, murdered them while they slept. Anything to keep the shame and dishonor away from their family name."
"But Mama," Kagome interjected, "You just described a hanyou as well. InuYasha knows what it's like to be hated because of something that's out of your control. I don't think he'll react the way you believe he will."
"React to what?" InuYasha's voice drifted down the stairs as he returned to the kitchen.
Kagome looked over at him and said quickly, "Hold on, InuYasha." Then she turned back to her conversation with her mother. "So, you'll come? Good. I'll see you then. Ja." And then she quickly hung up.
Turning away from the phone to face the slightly peeved InuYasha, she couldn't help but give him the once over. His black slacks were surprisingly not rumpled from the fight she assumed had occurred in his attempt to get them on properly. They remained wrinkle-less and hung straight to the floor. His long sleeved red shirt, which was incidentally the same colour as his fire-rat kimono, clung much tighter to his body than he appeared comfortable with. However, Kagome wasn't complaining. On his head was the much hated ball cap that covered up his inhuman ears.
"So," InuYasha said, trying to get rid of the feeling he was being sized up as a piece of meat. "React to what?"
Kagome managed to tear her eyes away from the sight before her and went to turn off the stove. She spoke as she did so. "Mama was afraid how you'd react when you saw someone. She's not exactly normal, but I told Mama that neither were you. After all, normal isn't nessacarily good, right? Being different can sometimes be a blessing. Just look at you."
Here InuYasha once again felt a chill go up his spine as Kagome turned and began staring at him again. "Yeah...uhhh..." he stuttered and scratched the back of his head. "Are we going now, or what? I can already feel the change coming on. I assume your mother's going to pick us up since I won't be able to carry you back."
"Yeah," Kagome said, moving to pick up her purse and headed to the front door. "Let's go before you're too far gone to make it all the way."
They then left the house and took to the rooftops, Kagome riding on InuYasha's back. She gave him directions and began to explain somewhat.
"You've met my mother, my little brother and Jii-chan." she said as they soared high into the sky. "But families are usually a lot bigger than that. I've got other relatives too. Cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents on my father's side...and a sister."
"What!?" InuYasha yelled, almost losing his grip on her. "How come you've never mentioned her before!?"
Kagome held tight and said gently, "It's forbidden to talk about her with those outside the family. Like I said before, she's not exactly normal. Back in the Sengoku Jidai she probably wouldn't have been allowed to reach her teens. And I may have even been condemned along with her. See ... she's my twin. My identical twin."
InuYasha listened intently. He had only known of one set of twins in his lifetime, they were so rare. (A/N= before medical science advanced, most multiple births died as well as the mother) The thought that his Kagome was a twin was astonishing. But what could be so horribly wrong with the other girl that even mention of her had been forbidden?
"And...she's not...that is...she's..." Kagome stumbled over the words, not sure how best to explain her sister's delicate situation. Finally she determined the best way would be to be as blunt as possible. "She's crazy." she said and waited for InuYasha's reaction.
But the reaction she got was definitely not the one she expected. She could feel the vibration of InuYasha's quiet laughter as he said jokingly, "And? So are you. You're as crazy as they come."
Kagome smacked InuYasha halfheartedly on the back of the head. "That's not funny!"
He stopped his laughter and said quietly, "So...she's crazy. Crazy, how? Like village idiot, running around with a bucket on her head and shouting random nonsense crazy? Or Sesshoumaru, I'm gonna kill everyone and wear their entrails as jewelry crazy?"
Kagome chuckled. He was taking it pretty well, but she had the sneaking suspicion that it was because he didn't have an accurate picture of a truly insane person. It was doubtful he had ever encountered one. "Neither." she said. "Actually, she has a condition called Lycanthropy. In the past, umm...not your time, just...in past times, she would have been called a werewolf. Sometimes she seems just as normal as anyone else. She used to go to school. She had lots of friends, a part-time job and was even taking collage courses. I was kinda jealous of her. It seemed she had received all the good luck, while I was forced to struggle through school and was far from the most popular girl. But then, she would go through one of her episodes and I'd be reminded of just how bad her luck really was.
"Mama first realized something was wrong when we were about five. Mama came to tuck us into bed and she suddenly leaped at her. She was growling and bearing her teeth, clawing at her face and howling like a wild animal. Jii-chan managed to get her off of Mama and we took her to the doctor. The doctor just said it was a phase and she would grow out of it. A few days later she returned to normal and everything seemed to be over. But then, about a month later she did it again. And we took her back to the doctor. They told us to stop letting her watch animal shows and read her books about humans instead of animals. We did, and everything went back to normal. But then...a month later, it happened again. And over and over and over. For almost two years everyone told us it was a phase, that she would grow out of it.
"But then, one night Mama was watching a television show about a woman who had been captured in some remote forested area. She had been reported missing from her home in Osaka a week earlier. The woman had attacked a group of hikers when they got too close to the cave she was sleeping in. They managed to escape and got the police. When the woman was captured, she was taken to a hospital for a physical and mental evaluation. It was discovered that she had a rare mental illness called Lycanthropy. It causes the person to go through periods in which they believe themselves to be wolves, tigers or some other predatory animal.
"That was when Mama made the connection between that woman and my sister. She pulled some strings and got her an appointment with the doctor who had worked with the woman from the program. The doctor examined her and eventually determined that she did, in fact, have Lycanthropy. She was surprised to find it in one so young, but it wasn't unheard of.
"After that, we got her medicine and therapy. Usually she was fine and could lead a normal life. But every-so-often she would go through an episode where she would be like a wild animal. The only people she allows near her in that condition are me and Souta. For some reason, she always attacks Mama as soon as she sees her. And she ignores Jii-chan as if he weren't there. Even the doctor's have trouble controlling her.
"We kept her problems secret from everyone who wasn't family, because so far she only had an episode when she was at home or somewhere secluded. But when she was thirteen she did it at school. She attacked her teacher and the other students. We had to come clean and tell the school about her problems. They refused to allow her to attend school there anymore, saying she was a danger to the other students. After that, she lost all her friends, was refused the collage courses she had previously been taking and lost her job. No one wanted anything to do with the 'crazy girl' anymore. Things got bad then. She was spending more time as an animal than as a human. I think she was depressed. She told me once that when she's a wolf she feels free, almost like she belongs. It takes her away from her human life and everything makes sense to her. She told me she wouldn't mind being that way forever. She honestly believes that she's a wolf.
"Finally, we just couldn't take care of her anymore. At fourteen she was committed. She's going to spend the rest of her life locked away in an asylum because of something she can't control. Because of the way she was born."
(A/N) I'm not completely happy with this chapter, but here it is. Next chapter will be from her sister's point of view, so I hope it'll be better than this one. I plan to go into more detail when it's from her point of view to distinguish how different her sense of reality is from the others.
Thank you to those who reviewed! Thank you SniperGirl, kuroTenshi2nd, Kawaii Youkai, Green-Eyed-Moony, lilhillbillie, Shadow Dragon Demon, morlana, and bluefuzzyelf! (big huggles for all!)
bluefuzzyelf: O.O I feel honoured that I can reduce you to one word reviews with only a prologue! (giggles insanely) Oh, please forgive me for not reviewing the new chapter of ASITD! (bows) It's not my fault! It's my computer!! Blame it!! I really did read it and I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!! (glomps fic with slightly insane look) Must have fic! (eyes dart back and forth) No one try to take the fic from me!! (growing look of insaneness) I see you over there!! (points at random guy who gets scared bunny look) It's my only source of HAPPINESS!! (glares at random guy) YOU LOOKED AT IT!!! DIDN'T YOU!? DIDN'T YOU!?!?!?
Random guy: O.O (points at self) ...me!?
Nika: (lets out a war cry and leaps off the floor where she was glomping the fic) YAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! (chases poor random guy)
Random guy: O.o ................. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! (runs)
morlana: Yay! (dances) I like making people think one thing and then having something totally different happen! (big grin) Thank you for reviewing my fic!! (glomps morlana)
Shadow Dragon Demon: Wow, thanks for complimenting it so! (glomps) Daisuki desu!!
lilhillbillie: Yes, insane person fic! I like insanity! (big grin) I'm glad you think I can do funny, insane and serious well. It really all depends on what mood I'm in. I'm gonna try to keep the chapters from the other people's point of view kinda light compared to the one's from the sister's. She is insane after all. ;D
Green-Eyed-Moony: I'm glad you like it! (glomps insanely) And yes, I did get your OC. I emailed you back...twice... but apparanetly you didn't get my email. I basically just said I loved it and she'll not only be making an appearance next chapter but will also be a permanent character. :D
Kawaii Youkai: YAY!!! YOU LIKE IT!!! I have a reason to live!!! (spins in circles too) Wow! This is fun!! Look! The clouds are spinning!! They look just like cotton candy in a cotton candy maker machine thingy! (tries to catch clouds)
kuroTenshi2nd: HAHAHA!!! I fooled you!! That's exactly what I wanted people to think! That Kagome was a crazy person who thought she was a wolf! YAY!! I bet NO ONE suspected an OC!! Oh...um...damn. -.- You figured out Kouga'd be here, huh? Damn. =D (huggles her wolfy)
SniperGirl: YAY!!! You like it!! (dances frantically) Heh-heh. Still like it when you figured out it wasn't Kagome? (big watery chibi eyes)
Author: Mistress Nika (nikasama1480-insert 'at' here since ff.net deletes it-yahoo.com)
Rating: PG
Couples: Inu/Kag Mir/San Kouga/OC
Warnings: not sure yet again, probably nothing much
Summary: Kagome's family has a secret. This secret has been locked away for years. Away from the public eye where it could never be brought to light. But what if that secret escaped? And what if it's only desire centered on the Higurashi Shrine?
Lycanthropy= from Greek lykoi, "wolf" anthropos, "man", a psychiatric state in which the patient believes he is a wolf or some other nonhuman animal. The delusion has been most likely to occur among people who believe in reincarnation and the transmigration of souls.
Chapter One:
Kagome hummed happily as she boiled the water for dinner, Ramen of course. Behind her a golden-eyed silver-haired hanyou bobbed up and down, trying to peek over her shoulder every five seconds to ask "Is it done?" It was just another normal day for her, until the phone rang. Abandoning the cooking Ramen, much to InuYasha's dismay, she rushed over to the phone and answered it with a smile.
"Moshi Moshi!" she chirped happily. "Yes, this is Higurashi Jinja." She absently swatted InuYasha away as he tried to lean closer to listen to the conversation. "No, I'm afraid she's not home. This is her daughter. Can I help you?"
As she listened intently to the person on the other end, shadows crossed her face as she became suddenly serious. InuYasha backed off. The only time he had seen that serious calm overtake her was in the heat of battle, when everything was riding on her one arrow.
"Yes, yes." Kagome spoke in a hushed whisper. "I understand. I'll tell her and be right there. Arigatou." Then she hung up.
InuYasha watched the frowning girl with interest. "Kagome?" he questioned cautiously, "Who was that?"
Kagome seemed not to hear him as she stared intently at the carpet, lost in her own thoughts. After a moment of contemplation, she spoke to the hanyou at her side. "InuYasha?" she began softly, "I need to get across the city. Can you take me?"
"What?!" InuYasha asked with disbelief. "You're always saying how you don't want me to go out! Why can't you walk?!"
Normally that would have gotten him a dressing down at least, possibly even a sit. But instead she just returned her gaze to the floor and said absently, "It's too far, and I need to get there as quick as possible." She returned her attention to him and said with oddly pleading eyes, "Please?"
And that was it. When faced with those stormy blues he could deny her nothing. So he just crossed his arms and huffed, a sign everyone took as an affirmative answer.
Kagome smiled genuinely at him and said, "Thank you, InuYasha. This is very important. Why don't you go change clothes and get your cap while I call Mama?"
InuYasha just huffed again and left the room. He couldn't believe she had talked him into wearing those clothes. They were itchy and smelly and he disliked them from across the room. On his body, he hated them. However he figured he could stand them, since he was supposed to be wearing them in his human form when his senses were dulled. But right now his demon blood was still coursing through his veins. This was gonna be hell. Not to mention the hat. He hated that hat with a passion. He'd thought before about ripping it into a million pieces just to vent a little frustration.
Kagome watched as the doggy-eared hanyou left the room. She had brought him back with her for the new moon tonight. In fact, she had even persuaded him to go with her to meet her friends at the movies. They had recently been accusing her of making up the story of her supposed 'boyfriend' and had increased their efforts to fix her up with Houjo. This was supposed to be the big night where everyone would see her and InuYasha together, accept his existence, and finally allow her to be free of Houjo's excessive attentions. However, it was not shaping up that way.
Glancing out the window, she noticed that the sun would probably set just as they arrived. 'Well,' she thought to herself as she reached for the phone, 'At least he won't have to wait on the roof. He'll be just another human.'
Picking up the phone, she dialed her mother's cell phone. It rang twice before it was answered.
She heard her mother's voice say happily. "Moshi Moshi!"
"Mama." Kagome said in a voice laden with seriousness.
"Kagome?" her mother answered sounding slightly concerned. "What's wrong?"
"Mama." Kagome said quietly, "She escaped again."
"Oh no." her mother's voice gasped. "Did they find her?"
Kagome nodded out of habit and replied, "Yes, but they need me to come. I'm going to have InuYasha take me as soon as possible. Can you come and pick us up?"
"Hai. Do you want me to join you inside?"
Kagome shook her head. "No, Mama." she replied. "You know how she gets when she sees you. I'll have InuYasha with me, so I'll be fine."
There was a pause from both ends before her mother spoke.
"You're going to tell him? Show him?" Mama Higurashi asked meaningfully. When Kagome didn't respond, her mother continued. "You know how people in the past viewed this, don't you? They considered them to be possessed by evil spirits. Something to be shunned and even destroyed. The families often left them as children to die of exposure, fed them to wild animals, murdered them while they slept. Anything to keep the shame and dishonor away from their family name."
"But Mama," Kagome interjected, "You just described a hanyou as well. InuYasha knows what it's like to be hated because of something that's out of your control. I don't think he'll react the way you believe he will."
"React to what?" InuYasha's voice drifted down the stairs as he returned to the kitchen.
Kagome looked over at him and said quickly, "Hold on, InuYasha." Then she turned back to her conversation with her mother. "So, you'll come? Good. I'll see you then. Ja." And then she quickly hung up.
Turning away from the phone to face the slightly peeved InuYasha, she couldn't help but give him the once over. His black slacks were surprisingly not rumpled from the fight she assumed had occurred in his attempt to get them on properly. They remained wrinkle-less and hung straight to the floor. His long sleeved red shirt, which was incidentally the same colour as his fire-rat kimono, clung much tighter to his body than he appeared comfortable with. However, Kagome wasn't complaining. On his head was the much hated ball cap that covered up his inhuman ears.
"So," InuYasha said, trying to get rid of the feeling he was being sized up as a piece of meat. "React to what?"
Kagome managed to tear her eyes away from the sight before her and went to turn off the stove. She spoke as she did so. "Mama was afraid how you'd react when you saw someone. She's not exactly normal, but I told Mama that neither were you. After all, normal isn't nessacarily good, right? Being different can sometimes be a blessing. Just look at you."
Here InuYasha once again felt a chill go up his spine as Kagome turned and began staring at him again. "Yeah...uhhh..." he stuttered and scratched the back of his head. "Are we going now, or what? I can already feel the change coming on. I assume your mother's going to pick us up since I won't be able to carry you back."
"Yeah," Kagome said, moving to pick up her purse and headed to the front door. "Let's go before you're too far gone to make it all the way."
They then left the house and took to the rooftops, Kagome riding on InuYasha's back. She gave him directions and began to explain somewhat.
"You've met my mother, my little brother and Jii-chan." she said as they soared high into the sky. "But families are usually a lot bigger than that. I've got other relatives too. Cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents on my father's side...and a sister."
"What!?" InuYasha yelled, almost losing his grip on her. "How come you've never mentioned her before!?"
Kagome held tight and said gently, "It's forbidden to talk about her with those outside the family. Like I said before, she's not exactly normal. Back in the Sengoku Jidai she probably wouldn't have been allowed to reach her teens. And I may have even been condemned along with her. See ... she's my twin. My identical twin."
InuYasha listened intently. He had only known of one set of twins in his lifetime, they were so rare. (A/N= before medical science advanced, most multiple births died as well as the mother) The thought that his Kagome was a twin was astonishing. But what could be so horribly wrong with the other girl that even mention of her had been forbidden?
"And...she's not...that is...she's..." Kagome stumbled over the words, not sure how best to explain her sister's delicate situation. Finally she determined the best way would be to be as blunt as possible. "She's crazy." she said and waited for InuYasha's reaction.
But the reaction she got was definitely not the one she expected. She could feel the vibration of InuYasha's quiet laughter as he said jokingly, "And? So are you. You're as crazy as they come."
Kagome smacked InuYasha halfheartedly on the back of the head. "That's not funny!"
He stopped his laughter and said quietly, "So...she's crazy. Crazy, how? Like village idiot, running around with a bucket on her head and shouting random nonsense crazy? Or Sesshoumaru, I'm gonna kill everyone and wear their entrails as jewelry crazy?"
Kagome chuckled. He was taking it pretty well, but she had the sneaking suspicion that it was because he didn't have an accurate picture of a truly insane person. It was doubtful he had ever encountered one. "Neither." she said. "Actually, she has a condition called Lycanthropy. In the past, umm...not your time, just...in past times, she would have been called a werewolf. Sometimes she seems just as normal as anyone else. She used to go to school. She had lots of friends, a part-time job and was even taking collage courses. I was kinda jealous of her. It seemed she had received all the good luck, while I was forced to struggle through school and was far from the most popular girl. But then, she would go through one of her episodes and I'd be reminded of just how bad her luck really was.
"Mama first realized something was wrong when we were about five. Mama came to tuck us into bed and she suddenly leaped at her. She was growling and bearing her teeth, clawing at her face and howling like a wild animal. Jii-chan managed to get her off of Mama and we took her to the doctor. The doctor just said it was a phase and she would grow out of it. A few days later she returned to normal and everything seemed to be over. But then, about a month later she did it again. And we took her back to the doctor. They told us to stop letting her watch animal shows and read her books about humans instead of animals. We did, and everything went back to normal. But then...a month later, it happened again. And over and over and over. For almost two years everyone told us it was a phase, that she would grow out of it.
"But then, one night Mama was watching a television show about a woman who had been captured in some remote forested area. She had been reported missing from her home in Osaka a week earlier. The woman had attacked a group of hikers when they got too close to the cave she was sleeping in. They managed to escape and got the police. When the woman was captured, she was taken to a hospital for a physical and mental evaluation. It was discovered that she had a rare mental illness called Lycanthropy. It causes the person to go through periods in which they believe themselves to be wolves, tigers or some other predatory animal.
"That was when Mama made the connection between that woman and my sister. She pulled some strings and got her an appointment with the doctor who had worked with the woman from the program. The doctor examined her and eventually determined that she did, in fact, have Lycanthropy. She was surprised to find it in one so young, but it wasn't unheard of.
"After that, we got her medicine and therapy. Usually she was fine and could lead a normal life. But every-so-often she would go through an episode where she would be like a wild animal. The only people she allows near her in that condition are me and Souta. For some reason, she always attacks Mama as soon as she sees her. And she ignores Jii-chan as if he weren't there. Even the doctor's have trouble controlling her.
"We kept her problems secret from everyone who wasn't family, because so far she only had an episode when she was at home or somewhere secluded. But when she was thirteen she did it at school. She attacked her teacher and the other students. We had to come clean and tell the school about her problems. They refused to allow her to attend school there anymore, saying she was a danger to the other students. After that, she lost all her friends, was refused the collage courses she had previously been taking and lost her job. No one wanted anything to do with the 'crazy girl' anymore. Things got bad then. She was spending more time as an animal than as a human. I think she was depressed. She told me once that when she's a wolf she feels free, almost like she belongs. It takes her away from her human life and everything makes sense to her. She told me she wouldn't mind being that way forever. She honestly believes that she's a wolf.
"Finally, we just couldn't take care of her anymore. At fourteen she was committed. She's going to spend the rest of her life locked away in an asylum because of something she can't control. Because of the way she was born."
(A/N) I'm not completely happy with this chapter, but here it is. Next chapter will be from her sister's point of view, so I hope it'll be better than this one. I plan to go into more detail when it's from her point of view to distinguish how different her sense of reality is from the others.
Thank you to those who reviewed! Thank you SniperGirl, kuroTenshi2nd, Kawaii Youkai, Green-Eyed-Moony, lilhillbillie, Shadow Dragon Demon, morlana, and bluefuzzyelf! (big huggles for all!)
bluefuzzyelf: O.O I feel honoured that I can reduce you to one word reviews with only a prologue! (giggles insanely) Oh, please forgive me for not reviewing the new chapter of ASITD! (bows) It's not my fault! It's my computer!! Blame it!! I really did read it and I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!! (glomps fic with slightly insane look) Must have fic! (eyes dart back and forth) No one try to take the fic from me!! (growing look of insaneness) I see you over there!! (points at random guy who gets scared bunny look) It's my only source of HAPPINESS!! (glares at random guy) YOU LOOKED AT IT!!! DIDN'T YOU!? DIDN'T YOU!?!?!?
Random guy: O.O (points at self) ...me!?
Nika: (lets out a war cry and leaps off the floor where she was glomping the fic) YAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! (chases poor random guy)
Random guy: O.o ................. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! (runs)
morlana: Yay! (dances) I like making people think one thing and then having something totally different happen! (big grin) Thank you for reviewing my fic!! (glomps morlana)
Shadow Dragon Demon: Wow, thanks for complimenting it so! (glomps) Daisuki desu!!
lilhillbillie: Yes, insane person fic! I like insanity! (big grin) I'm glad you think I can do funny, insane and serious well. It really all depends on what mood I'm in. I'm gonna try to keep the chapters from the other people's point of view kinda light compared to the one's from the sister's. She is insane after all. ;D
Green-Eyed-Moony: I'm glad you like it! (glomps insanely) And yes, I did get your OC. I emailed you back...twice... but apparanetly you didn't get my email. I basically just said I loved it and she'll not only be making an appearance next chapter but will also be a permanent character. :D
Kawaii Youkai: YAY!!! YOU LIKE IT!!! I have a reason to live!!! (spins in circles too) Wow! This is fun!! Look! The clouds are spinning!! They look just like cotton candy in a cotton candy maker machine thingy! (tries to catch clouds)
kuroTenshi2nd: HAHAHA!!! I fooled you!! That's exactly what I wanted people to think! That Kagome was a crazy person who thought she was a wolf! YAY!! I bet NO ONE suspected an OC!! Oh...um...damn. -.- You figured out Kouga'd be here, huh? Damn. =D (huggles her wolfy)
SniperGirl: YAY!!! You like it!! (dances frantically) Heh-heh. Still like it when you figured out it wasn't Kagome? (big watery chibi eyes)