A/N: Ok folks, I'm back, no I didn't die. I'm extremely bored at the moment, so I'm bringing this to you guys about 2 days earlier then I expected. Wait…EARLIER! HOLY SHIT! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M EARLY, I'M ALWAYS LATE! Now that I have that done and over with, time for chapter 5. And big Thank You to JesusGirl883 because she gave me one of the names and that stopped me from tear things apart.
Disclaimer: Very few things do I own, I don't even own sanity, but of course who does?
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Chapter Five
. : Ch. 5 Of Musicals and Library Cards : .
"Uggh…It's not in this either." Ryu's head finally gave in to gravity and landed with a loud thud on an open book. He had been searching book after book after bloody frickin book on musicals. 'Who knew there were so many? This is like trying to find a needle in a million gallons of hay.' He sighed in his mind; the little cheerleader that was motivating him on in his head had died from exhaustion about an hour ago.
The hairs on the back of his neck were starting to stand on end like somebody was watching him. He reluctantly raised his eyes from the darkness of the crack between the pages then saw what, more like who, was staring at him; it was that creepy librarian lady. She wasn't creepy looking, in fact, to him, she looked hot, what was creepy about her was that every time he looked over she was gawking at him.
"Is it just me," he muttered to himself, "or are all librarians female?" Raising himself up the tengu gave the woman one of his charming, knock-em-off-their-feet, smiles and a little wave. When she saw that he had noticed her, the librarian looked away; a nice shade of red covered her cheeks.
The boy smirked at himself. 'The ladies just can't resist the looks.' A quick glance at his watch almost had him yell out 'Holy hell!' but refrained from doing so. He was in a library after all; people get ticked when you're loud.
It was almost two thirty and Ryu decided it was time to leave. He gathered up a few of the remaining books and headed for the front desk. "Uhh…Hey, can I borrow these umm…library…lady?"
The librarian ignored the last part of his question and replied with a smile, "Certainly Sir, but first I need to scan your card." He just stared at her before a look of shock and disgust covered his face and he backed away slowly from her. "Ohmigosh, how dare you. You sick, disgusting, evil…"
"Sir…"
"Maniacal, perverted, inhumane…"
"Sir, do you have your library card with you?" She burst out.
The demon stopped his rantings and a dazed look came over his face, "What's a library card?" The librarian sweat dropped, "You mean you seriously don't know?"
Ryu shook his head much like a dog would after being in water. "Nope. This is only my third time in a public library. First time I had to use the bathroom; second time I needed to use an atlas and a couple of different maps." He explained, "But I've been in school libraries bunches of times, you never needed this library card you speak of. Can I get one?"
The lady gaped at him for a moment before proceeding to look in a folder and brought out a sheet of paper riddled with questions and a pen. "If you'll just fill this out while I activate your card and account." Then pushed the paper across the desk with one hand while her other hand was flying across the keyboard of the computer.
Ryu looked down at the paper and read the first question out loud in his mind. 'What is your name?'
Ryu Suou. 'The next question is wrong; it should say "What is your quest?" not "Where do you live?" but…oh well.' Moonshine Bar.
He silently continued to fill out the paper. Finally he completed the questionnaire and handed it back to the lady who quickly scanned over it before handing him a blue plastic card with the name of the library and an extremely long barcode on the front. "Now all you have to do is sign your name on the back and you have a library card." Flipping it over he saw the white strip of paper and quickly signed his name.
"Okay, now what?" He asked; all the tengu wanted to do was check out his books and get out of there. Ryu had a feeling about the librarian, a bad feeling that kept gnawing at him from the bottom of his gut.
"I scan your card." She did so as she said this. "Then I scan the barcode on the corners of the books. Print up the receipt. Here ya go and these are due back in three weeks."
"Okay. Thank you uhh…" "Ashiko." "Thanks Ashiko…guess I'll see ya around."
She smiled at him as he left through the large set of glass double doors. Once Ryu was out of sight the smile on Ashiko's lips faded. 'What a dumbass.' She thought pulling out her flip-phone and dialing a number.
"Hokuto shut up, let me speak to Neidermeyer." There was a pause before she spoke again. "Hey, remember that guy you said has been your arch-enemy since you were about fifteen? Well he was just in here and how exactly is he a genius? He didn't even know what a library card is."
She paused once again. "Fine if you must know Akito Neidermeyer." The person on the other end seemed to be protesting. "I'm gonna call you by your first name if your gonna act like an asshole. He lives at the Moonshine Bar. Later." Ashiko pressed the 'end' button and closed the phone with a snap. Resting her head on her hand Ashiko wondered why men had to be so difficult.
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Ryu arrived back at the Moonshine. The first thing he did was deposit his books in his room then wandered down the hall to Mahiru's room. "Ooooh Mahiru!" Ryu exclaimed in a sing-songy voice as he knocked on her door. "Are you in there? If so then I'm coming in." With out waiting for any answer he opened up the door to the room, only to find it was…empty. "Maybe…" He drawled out, "she's downstairs, or possibly…" An evil smirk came over the young man's lips as he left the sentence unfinished and scrambled to his younger brother's room. He placed n ear to the door but heard nothing; flinging open the door he found that it was also empty.
"Damn." He muttered, "I was hoping to at least catch them in the same room, oh well…Mahiru where are you?" The tengu went back down the stairs to the bar area. It was basically deserted except for at the actual bar where the ever grumpy aqua haired mop top sat looking at some magazine with a very, very vague interest in it.
'Nope, not there either.' Ryu checked off that area in his mind and continued his search through the Moonshine for the "missing" Princess, occasionally yelling out her name hoping she would answer. Eventually his search brought him back to where his brother was with his chin resting in his left palm as he lazily flipped through his magazine still. "Mitsuruuu," Ryu whined, "I can't find Mahiru anywhere! She's dropped off the face of this planet!" His arms were now draped around the younger's neck as if without that he'd crumple to a heap on the floor.
Without taking his eyes from the page he used his free arm to wrench Ryu off of him stating with mock surprise, "Oh you came back, I was so sure that you left…again." Ryu straightened up from his slumped position he had been in after Mitsuru had yanked him off. He sat like that for a few minutes just staring straight off into outer space. Then all of a sudden out of the blue his arm reached across and placed Mitsuru in a choke hold. "Where is she Mitty-Chan?"
The only noise emitting from Mitsuru where those of a person choking; the elder seemed to understand what the babblings meant. "Oh, sorry, forgot that you can't talk very well when you're being choked." His grip slackened and Mitsuru stumbled backwards a few steps.
Taking a quick look at the clock Mitsuru grumbled a few words that were, thankfully, unheard as he stomped over to the cabinet that held all the maps, phonebooks, and things of the nature. The tengu snatched up a map of the local area and a fat red marker, then walked around to the area behind the bar and smoothed the map out between them like a barrier.
"Where's Misoka and the others?"
"Shopping; now," Mitsuru cleared his throat, "this building here," he took the red marker and circled one of the buildings on the map, "is us, the Moonshine. Following me so far?"
The reply was a simple nod and he continued on, circling another building a couple of blocks away from the first. "This is where you need to go to get the girl. After you get her, you go here to this place." Mitsuru made a swift circle on a bridge.
"Okay, then what?"
"You and her both jump off and stay underwater until I come and get you."
"And that would be when?"
"Never of course." Ryu gave a sarcastic laugh, "How about cutting it out with your bull shit Mitty because I'm sick of it. Now, what do I really do?"
The younger gave his brother a glare of death before giving in and telling him what to do. "You go to this building." He stated, pointing to the second building circled in red, "Then you just bring her back here."
Standing up Ryu reached across the bar and patted his brother's head smiling. "Thank you baby bro." He turned and headed for the door. As he left he added, "Don't worry I'll be back with Princess soon and you'll have company, 'cause the others are back." Then the door shut with a soft 'click'.
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The members of the Lunar Race were sitting around the kitchen; it had been almost half an hour since they came back and Ryu went to retrieve the Princess. After about another five minutes the two had finally arrived, Ryu wearing his usual happy expression guiding Mahiru, who had looked paler than a ghost, by the shoulder to a nearby chair.
"Mahiru, what's wrong? What Happened? Who's after you?" Nozomu shot out question after question going into a 'mother hen' mode. She simply shook her head before saying, "It's nothing like that, really it isn't, it's just…I had a stroke of boldness."
"Alert the newspapers, the girl was bold, something she never does." The aqua haired teen scoffed. His brother replied coolly, "And the day that Mitsuru Suou is a nice person I shall alert the people at the World Record place, now let her finish. Go on Mahiru, tell them what you did."
"I –I tried out for the school play…And…" She gulped loudly, "I got a lead, I'm Wendy-Jo in FootLoose."
TBC
A/N: This is actually I think longer than I thought it would be; this chapter. Anyways on to the name thing Ashiko was thought up by JesusGirl883, Akito came from Kodocha and his last name Neidermeyer came from the movie Animal House and those are the last two OCs in this fic. Next order of business is the character death thing; somebody said that it all depended on which character so I'll give ya some characters: Misoka; Nozomu; Mitsuru; Mahiru; Ryu. Those are the ones in which it'll happen between. And I changed another light bulb on this one was up on my ceiling fan.
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