Chapter 2- Snow days

Two days later exciting rumors of a snow day was going around school, tonight it was meant to snow through to the morning. When I got home from basketball practice at five P.M. little flurries of snowflakes had already started to cover the ground.

For the past two nights I had taped Inuyasha, but had no yet had a chance to sit down and watch them. Once I had finished my homework, I sat down and watched both of them. It was the last two I had seen before school started about Koga the wolf demon and how he kidnapped Kagome. It was a lot different from the comic book, and from what I remembered. Once they were over I went on the computer and looked for more Inuyasha sites.

At ten, I went upstairs to get ready for bed. I looked outside. My entire year was covered in a steadily growing lair of snow. Once I got ready for bed, I went back downstairs. I was taping Inuyasha, but I wanted to see it now. I looked outside the window. There was no way that there would be school tomorrow or at the very least there would be a long delay. I decided to gamble a bit with the chance that there would be no school tomorrow. I would stay up long enough to watch Inuyasha, but as soon as it was over I would go straight to sleep.

I did stay up to watch Inuyasha and I didn't care if there was school tomorrow it was so worth it. Even though I had already read what was going to happen in the comic book there were things that popped out and surprised me, and best of all it was the episode that I had wanted to see but couldn't because of school, when Koga said he loved Kagome. It was worth the risk of being tired if there is school. But as soon as it was over I went straight to sleep, just like I told myself I would. But before I drifted of into dreamland I looked outside at the lair of snow, which had turned into a thick blanket.

At seven A.M. I hit the snooze button, much to my dismay my alarm was still there. I crawled out of my bed and walked to my parent's room. My Dad was away on a business trip but my Mom was lying asleep on her bed half-asleep "Is there any school today Mom?" I asked her praying there was not going to be a ironic twist of having to go to school.

"No school." My Mom replied sleepily. I jumped for joy, not only had I gambled a bit, but I won the jack pot! I walked back to my room and collapsed on my bed, I was asleep before my head hit the pillow.

Later that day the snow plows came and cleared the roads. I had spent the entire morning and some of the afternoon lying around in my sweat pants, and hooded sweatshirt, searching on the computer for Inuyasha sites, pictures, fan-fictions. I printed out several pictures for my locker, and read a few chapter summaries to hold me off till the next time I go shopping for more Inuyasha books. I didn't have to wait long. My Mom walked in on me while I was searching for pictures of Kagome and Inuyasha. "Kirsty, I'm going to pop out to the mall. Do you want to come?" My Mom asked. Something inside my head clicked. The mall has a bookstore, which is most likely to have the Inuyasha series, and I still have Christmas money.

"Yes!" I said loudly, logging off the computer. I ran into my room, quickly changed into something decent, and grabbed my purse. I was ready and waiting in less than five minutes to go to the mall with my mom. In half an hour we were at the mall, and I was making a bee line for the book store. I told my mom that I would be on the bookstore which was a floor above us. She told me which store she was going to be in and let me be on my way. I ran up the stairs, I was faster on my own two feet than riding the elevator or escalator. I arrived at the bookstore and head straight for the anime section.

After searching for a few minutes I found the row that contained the Inuyasha series and began to search for the books which I did not have. Unfortunately they did not have anything past volume sixteen. I picked up sixteen along with one, two, five, eight, and thirteen. It was an odd order to buy them in, but there were some episodes which I had not seen or wanted to see again. After bought them, I went back and had a looked at the other anime comic books surrounding Inuyasha. Having lived in Japan for two years when I was younger I recognized most of them. However I didn't bother to pick one up and read it. The last thing I wanted was for another anime to take the place of Inuyasha.

A few hours later, I arrived home from the mall. The first thing I did go up to my room, and start on the pile of Inuyasha books. I sat there on my bed with my nose buried in the action, fantasy world which is Inuyasha. Hour's later I was still sitting on my bed finishing up my sixth and final book. It was the best couple of hours I had ever spent reading books. But just like the first time I read Inuyasha, I wanted more. I spent the rest of the night searching internet for all the spoiler sites and summaries I could find and stuck them in a folder after I read a few. I placed the folder on my bedside table and looked at the clock, it was nearly eleven o'clock and there was a chance that I would have school tomorrow.

I quickly got ready for bed. I would not gamble tonight since there was no new snow on the ground. I climbed into my bed and fell asleep dreaming of Inuyasha like I had so many nights before. And made the same wish as well; I wished that I could join Inuyasha and his friends and travel around collecting jewel shards with them.

I awoke at seven A.M. with my alarm like I had, every morning this week. My hand still felt the alarm snooze button confirming it was still there. I looked outside my widow. There was no additional snow on the ground. I decided to go check if there was no school, maybe it was too icy or something like that. I went into my parent's room. My Mom was lying in her bed asleep. "Mom," I said tapping her. "Mom, time to get up, I have to school right?"

My mom opened her eyes a little and mumbled "No school, to cold." I went back into my room, completely dumbfounded that there was no school for such a silly reason. I lay back down in my bed and tried to get back to sleep, but I wasn't tired anymore. I decided to spend the morning and most of the afternoon, doing anything that has to do with Inuyasha. I put all of my Inuyasha books, and the folder with all the summaries into my blue Japanese style bag (which I had bought when I was living there). I didn't want to be a total slob all day so I decided to get dressed. I opened my closet and picked out my blue jeans, my white tank top, and red jacket. I then proceeded into the bathroom and did my morning routine of brushing my teeth and hair.

After I had finished getting dressed and brushing my hair and teeth I left the bathroom and went back into my room. I checked around my room to see if I had missed anything. On the shelves by my desk there were countless blank note books. I took a small red note book from the shelf and put in it my bag along with a pencil. Sometime during the day I would start writing my own fan fiction.

Quickly and silently I crept down the stair and into the living room. I would start off my Inuyasha fest by watching the episode that I had taped last night. I stretched out on the couch, and as I did I noticed something. Still holding my bag I walked over to the corner of the room, there was a brick nook by the fire place which was used for storing firewood. But it was empty, and by the looks of it my Mom may have vacuumed it. I crawled into it; the nook was just big enough for me to sit comfortably. I decided to post pone watching the Inuyasha episode, and sit in the nook and brain storm some ideas for my story.

I took out my note book and had a good look at my surroundings. I put down my note book when I noticed a white brick which stood out from the rest which were red. I gently tapped it, it felt lose. I pushed it. A strange light started to fill the nook.