Chapter 9: Spiders and sacred pickle jars
Grandpa Higurashi was having a great day in particular. He had his fortune read, and it was all good. He blessed the pickles with no trouble and the shed was sparkly clean. Smiling and humming to himself, he opened the door with the sacred pickle jar in his hands.
"Hello, everyone! How was your d-"
Grandpa Higurashi stopped dead in his tracks when he saw a strange girl playing video games with his grandson.
"Hi, grandpa! How did the pickle blessing go?"
Grandpa Higurashi went to Ms. Higurashi slowly.
"Kasumi…who is that girl?"
"Her name's Tenko. She'll be staying in the living room for a while."
"Hey that's not fair! You can't go back to life! I shot you!"
"No you didn't!"
"Yeah I did!"
"I had a force field!"
"What in the seven hells is a force field?"
Kagome came out of her room with her pink frilly pajamas on. shudder
"Hey gramps! I'm gonna go study."
"Again! Get a friggin life, sis!"
Kagome glared and threw a lamp at his head.
"Say that one more time, Sota and I'll-"
"Kids! Dinner time!" shouted Ms. Higurashi, saving the skin of her son.
"You got lucky, Sota…"
Dinner that night was sushi (go figure). Tenko spent most of the time staring at the meat and rice rolls in fascination.
"Future food's awesome! How do you use these?" she asked referring to her chopsticks.
"You don't know how to use chopsticks?"
Tenko shook her head.
"Nah, as soon as I was able to eat on my own, my mother never let me join my family for dinner. I had to hunt my entire life."
The family was silent. The grandpa coughed.
"Is she from the Feudal Era, Kagome?"
Kagome sweat dropped.
"How'd you guess? She's a hanyou too."
The grandpa almost jumped. His eyes widened in shock.
"WHAT! MORE EVIL SPIRITS!"
He took out some scrolls and jumped into the air above Tenko.
"DEMON BEGONE!"
He threw an exorcism scroll on Tenko's forehead and everybody stared.
"Um Sota? Is it a custom in the future for old people to throw paper on your foreheads?"
Sota blushed heavily and slammed his hand on the table.
"Gramps cut it out!"
"Please, father…Tenko is a good hanyou…like Inuyasha."
Grandpa Higurashi mumbled something and sat back down.
Once everyone finished their dinner, Sota was thinking about stuff.
Inside Sota's mind (Spooky, eh?)
How can I convince them? How the hell can I convince mom to not make Tenko sleep in the living room? I like her… (Not in that way, you perverts! He just wants her to stay close so they can get to know each other better)
I have to think of something…come on Sota, THINK! Think, dammit think!
How can I convince them for Tenko not to sleep in the living room?
THINKING……………THINKING……………………THINKING…BINGO!
Sota got up and tugged on the sleeve of his mom.
"Hey mom, did you know that Tenko could watch really bad TV shows that aren't for kids that can go on late at night because she sleeping in the living room?"
Mrs. Higurashi turned around form the sink, suspicious about what her son was up to.
"What do you mean? Tenko doesn't know how to operate a TV."
Sota came up with a lie and something totally random.
"But I showed her! And also, that scary girl from the ring could come out!" (A/N: I don't own the Ring)
Ms. Higurashi shuddered…thinking back on when she first saw that movie and how scared she was.
"Where do you expect her to sleep then?"
"I don't know…" he said looking away innocently.
"She could either sleep on the floor of Kagome's room…or the floor of your room."
"She ain't sleeping in my room!" came Kagome's voice from down the hall.
"Is it okay if she sleeps in your room, Sota?"
"It's fine with me…"
"Score!"
They found Tenko outside staring at the night sky.
"Tenko! Come on! It's time to go to bed!" called Ms. Higurashi.
"What? Already? Why do you guys go to bed so early?"
"You have school tomorrow, remember? You're sleeping in Sota's room. Do you want a sleeping bag?"
"Nah. I'll lean on the wall."
When Sota got ready for bed and shit like that, he shut the door and got an evil smirk on his face.
"Hey, Tenko…wanna pull a prank on Kagome?"
Tenko smiled eagerly and nodded. He handed her a bottle of green food coloring.
"Put this in Kagome's body wash! This is gonna be SO cool!"
Tenko nodded and ran in demonic speed into the bathroom. She poured the concoction into the bottle of body wash and sprinted back into Sota's room. They watched from the creaked open door as Kagome stepped in the bathroom and turned on the water.
"When's she gonna put on the body wash?" giggled Tenko excitedly.
"It's only a matter of time, my friend…"
They waited and waited and waited…until…
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Tenko and Sota laughed wildly when Kagome stormed out of the bathroom with her skin a deep, cargo green.
"SOOOOTAAAA! TEEENNKOOOO! YOU GUYS ARE IN SOO MUCH TROUBLE!"
"What laugh if laugh we laugh didn't laugh do laugh it?"
Kagome fumed as Sota came up with that lousy excuse.
"I KNOW IT WAS YOU, YOU LITTLE RUNT! CHANGE MY SKIN BACK RIGHT NOW!"
"Sorry!" said Sota and Tenko in unison as they sprinted into Sota's room and shut the door, rolling around on the ground with laughter and they high fived each other for their first official prank on Kagome.
