Okay i know it has been a very long time since i've updated. but my computer was all wonky and when i tried to update fanfiction . net was updating stuff themselves. so i'm sorry. i hope you like this chapter and i'm going to try to work on the next one...it has barely started. :) :)
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Ami was confused. She was at the car, it was 10:30, and no one was back. She figured Makoto and Minako found some guys and lost track of time, but she was sure that Rei and Jadeite would be here as soon as they could. Maybe they got lost?
Ami chewed on her bottom lip for a minute until she felt it bleed. She was worried.
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I knew this place wasn't such a great idea, I thought, when the old woman left us. I felt completely lost. I looked up as we got further, Jadeite was rambling about something, and I saw the most hideous creature I had ever seen. It started coming towards me, and I screamed. "What the--" Jadeite turned around. He looked at me, then the monster, then me again. He seemed to not know what to do. I guess he made up his mind because he started going after the youma.
He tore at it like a wild beast. It kicked at him, but he still went after it. It's long jagged jaws grabbed at his shoulder. Jadeite yelped in pain. I came down and jabbed it in the neck. It fell down and we stared. "What was that?" I whispered. Jadeite seemed to have heard me because he answered, "I don't know." Damn, I wish I had my transformation pen now. Screw the fact that Jadeite is standing right there. I could have fought it myself.
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After that little encounter with the youma we moved quickly through the haunted mansion. I felt so stupid for putting Rei in danger like that. I didn't even realize that the old woman was eerie, let alone dangerous. But we couldn't find a quick way out. My shoulder burned in agony. I wasn't going to let Rei know that though.
We went into a hallway that had many doors in it, but when we went towards a door it would suddenly vanish. I really did not like this haunted house any more.
"If you want to get out of this house as soon as possible I suggest this," we jumped as we heard the voice coming out of nowhere.
"Two halves, a whole, two wholes a half. What now do you have? A little smile goes a long way, just be patient and you two might find your way." The old woman giggled as she finished her riddle. The laugh sounded a little young for her.
"Great a riddle," I complained, "Now all we have to do is solve it and we get out of this comfy hotel." I sarcastically whined. Riddles, I hate riddles!
"I think if we work together we can solve it, but first lets just try to find our way around this place. Shall we?" Rei questioned. It didn't seem like a bad idea so I agreed. Oh what a night.
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Close to a half hour later Jadeite and I were sitting, exhausted, by a small window that we had found a while back. "It gives us a sense of where we are," Jadeite had said when we found it. I looked out into the dark sky sighing and wishing I were out there.
Two halves, a whole, two wholes a half. What did that mean? I had been pondering over that question for more than a half hour now and it was giving me a migraine. Jadeite didn't even look like he was trying to figure it out. He was lazily flopped onto the floor and hadn't said anything in a long while.
"You know you could help me figure out this riddle!" I was pissed off at how inconsiderate he was of me. He probably didn't even care if we got out of here.
He sighed as he looked over at me. "I have been thinking of this just as long as you have, only I haven't been muttering possible answers under my breath." I blushed and turned my head. Okay so maybe he was helping me out, just not verbally.
"Well maybe we should talk about it so that we can get two sets of answers instead of one. Maybe one of us already had the answer, but didn't realize it because they didn't get the others opinion." He seemed to be rolling my statement in his head. Then he nodded.
"You are right, Rei. Even though I hate to admit it you are completely right. We should work out our ideas together. I will call a truce if you do." He had the grace to blush slightly as he held out his hand. "Truce." I smiled turning my head slightly away from his.
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We argued our ideas for over an hour when I heard Rei's stomach growl. She laughed as I looked up at her with a questioning eye.
"Yes I am hungry. What about you?" I nodded my head back at her.
"Maybe we should ask the old woman if she could at least give us something to eat." Rei glared back at me.
"And how do you suppose are we going to do that? Just yell out 'Old Woman, Old Woman can you feed us because you are keeping us trapped inside this Old House that has no food'? Right like she is going to even listen to us." Rei shook her head as she finished her rant. Her hair fell down over her shoulder, framing her face. What a nice contrast, the paleness of her skin against the pure black lock of hair. I was so entranced with her beauty that I didn't even see the old woman appear right before us.
"Jadeite!" Rei screamed at me. I looked up at her, confused. She nodded up to where the hag was sitting, right on the windowsill Rei was just at.
"Wow. You came. I'm completely surprised."
"I didn't just come because Rei here is starved, but also I realized just now that your shoulder should be taken care of." I blushed. I didn't want Rei to know that I was still hurting from that attack earlier.
"I'm fine, old hag. Just worry about Rei." I glared at her as she started to walk towards me.
"No, young man, you need to be bandaged, and quick. I've let you run around with that shoulder long enough." She touched my shoulder and all of a sudden I felt better. I looked over and saw some cream on her hands. She was rubbing it into my skin.
"Okay, fine. I'll let you fix me up. Just help Rei, also." She seemed pleased.
"Hey! What's this?" Rei shrieked. Damn that girl had a pair of lungs. Why she was screaming I do not know, however.
"What's wrong now Rei? A spider jump in your lap or something." I snickered. She really can get annoying at times.
"No. It's food. But it's also not food. I don't know what it is." I smelled a familiar scent. Which was odd because I really didn't recognize much at this time. But still I loved pepperoni pizza hot pockets.
"If you don't like them, I'll gladly take it and eat it. You're not the only one who is hungry at this point." I glanced at her as she was eyeing her deliciously wonderful food with distaste. Though when I mentioned that I would take it she looked up at me with even more loathing and replied back with, "No, I'd rather eat something than starve. You can have whatever the Old Woman gives you." I think she was happy she was taking something that I loved, no matter how much she hated it.
Before the old woman went she left us with a clue. "Don't sit here dawdling this whole time. Move around, it might help you solve your puzzle." We just looked at her, confused as all hell.
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Rei and I decided to take her advice. We moved out of the small area we were in, with the enchanting window that Rei did not want to leave behind. We moved slowly in case if we ran into more youma.
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During our little wander around the haunted house, both Jadeite and myself began to bicker. It started out with something simple. It was just a little thing to talk about to pass the time. Somehow, it became an argument.
"So Rei, do you like living as a priestess? Living day after day in a religious state of mind." Jadeite questioningly asked. It was meant as a simple question, not something most people would get angry over. But then I'm Rei, the ever-temperamental Mars.
"Why do you ask Jadeite? Do you want to become a Shinto priest?" I replied. Even though I sounded calm I was completely pissed that he would be that rude to question my religious habits.
"No, I don't. I was asking you because I thought that you hated doing it. I supposed that you only became apart of the Shinto religion because of your Grandpa." He retorted. Maybe he did hear some of the anger in my voice.
"No, I do it because I like it. It helps me concentrate and it indulges into my psychic powers." I almost couldn't take his questioning any longer.
"Oooooh. Rei has psychic powers. Oh, how exciting. I hope she doesn't decide to read my mind or anything. She might like what she sees." He was mocking me. Damn him! If there's anything that I absolutely hate is people making fun of my abilities.
"Listen Jadeite, if you are going to make fun of me. Do it with some class." He started laughing at me. I was about to look up at him and start yelling, but I heard a very loud thump. Before I could comprehend what was going on I walked into the Jadeite lump, tripped over him, and land squarely on top of a very muscled chest. I looked up into his bright cherry face and ceased to do anything. His capturing eyes grabbed my soul and swung it around a few times. Jadeite stopped laughing. In fact he stopped doing anything at all.
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I was arguing with Rei when I felt myself trip. Yes, I felt myself trip. You heard me correctly. It was odd because I swear the hall we were walking in was completely clear and spotless. There was nothing that could have made me fall over like that. Unless it was some sort of rodent, or worse even, a youma.
But that wasn't the weirdest part either. When I tripped, Rei tripped over me, also. She looked up at me a tinge of red covering her cheeks and I just stared into her eyes. It wasn't the first time I had felt like this. In fact, I remember feeling the exact same emotion when a certain thunderstorm crept over our lives.
We stared at each other for what seemed like a couple of hours, but then she grinned like a Cheshire cat to break the awkwardness. I couldn't help but smile back at her as well. Then the world turned back as I felt myself fall.
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Great, where are they? I silently asked myself. Mina-chan and Mako-chan made it back to the car at 11:00. My suspicions about them running into a couple of hot boys were correct. But Rei and Jadeite were not back yet and it was aggravating me whole-heartedly.
I was wondering inside my head when something large, and very masculine landed on top of me. That invasion was followed by another large object landing on top of him. I was getting my head straight when I heard two very excited squeals come from somewhere in the car.
"Rei! Jadeite! Where were you? Ami-chan was so worried. I swear she was just about to have a seizure waiting for you to get back. Wait, how did you guys end up on top of Ami?" Minako was the questioning one. Her blonde hair was waving back and forth from her head bouncing as she was talking.
The two in question were groaning as they scrambled to get to their feet. I was so relieved.
Rei answered. "Umm. We don't know how we got here, we were trapped inside a haunted house, and then we just landed here. I don't know how we did it though."
"Wow," Minako shrieked. "You found a haunted house! Why didn't you tell us about it?" Everyone just shook their heads as she finished her question. Sweat drops and all.