Okay, for the 'hottest Inuyasha' poll… we come in dead even, with one human, one hanyou, and one demon. Everybody go recruit your fangirly friends and get them to vote. They don't even have to read the damn thing, just VOTE!
It's not like there aren't enough fangirls out there…
Oh, I own neither Inuyasha (Romiko Takahashi) nor chocolate- covered sugar bombs. (Calvin and Hobbes)
Six pairs of eyes snapped open in unison.
"I feel really really weird…" Kiki said. She didn't look sick. She looked fine. In fact, she looked overjoyed.
"/I'm hungry/" Inuyasha groaned. "/who's making breakfast/"
"Dibs on not me," the Kagome's said.
"Um…" Molly whispered to her friends, "How are we gonna get my mom to make twice as many pancakes as usual?"
"I dunno," said Sam.
"Let's go to the mall!" Kiki exclaimed.
"Um… how will that fix our problem?" Molly asked.
"I dunno! But I really really think we should do it!"
"What's with the exclamation marks?"
"I dunno!" Kiki said. She still had a super- huge grin plastered on her face, but a bit of panic was beginning to seep in as well.
"/Yeah, you guys have fun with the psycho, I'm going to find food./"
Five girls lunged at the hanyou two seconds before he touched the doorknob.
"You can't go out there!" Molly hissed. "If my mom thinks you spent the night in my room, I'm dead!"
"/I did spend the night in your room./"
/That's not really what she means./
"/Your mom's paranoid./"
"And authoritarian," Molly added.
"MY mom wouldn't care," Sam remarked. Everyone stared at her.
Five minutes later, fully dressed, everyone climbed out Molly's window. It being morning and all, the snow was completely gone, and it was actually kinda nice out. They walked single- file over to Sam's house, and went right in the front door.
"I'm home!" Sam called.
"Hello, dear. How was the sleepover?"
"Really weird."
"That's nice dear."
"Hey, I've got some anime characters, and they're hungry."
"There's cereal in the cupboard."
Sam opened the cupboard to find that it was full of nothing but her little brother's cereal. Chocolate- covered sugar bombs, to be exact. She shivered in horror as she imagined Inuyasha on that stuff. To her utter petrification, she saw her arm reach for a box of it. She willed it back to her side. It didn't obey. She tried to call out and warn her friends, but no sound would come from her throat.
Grabbing a box, she tossed it to Molly, who gave it to Kiki, who started pouring bowls.
"You guys want milk? I hear they don't have it in Japan."
She got some weird looks for that one. Shrugging, she poured milk over the brown cereal. The milk immediately turned purple.
"/Sweet/"
Sam, meanwhile, was continuing to try to warn her friends about the dangers of actually eating the caffeine- laced cereal, but was having a hard time doing so. Part of the problem was that her body, with no input from her brain at all, was eating it's own bowl of cereal.
?What's going on? she thought desperately.
(Meanwhile, half a planet away, Rumiko was holding back giggles as she traced out panels. This was going to get so much more complicated, if she had anything to do with it.)
Molly stared at Sam, who was staring, fascinated, at Kiki, was in turn staring at Inuyasha.
"What are you looking at?"
Sam pointed at Kiki, who pointed at Inuyasha. Or, more specifically, at his right ear, which had developed a rather persistent twitch. He didn't seem to notice. He was slightly more worried by his hands, which were busy drumming tattoos into the kitchen table. The bowls, still slightly purple from the milk, were working their way towards the edge, and certain doom.
"We are never eating my brother's cereal again," Sam said firmly. No one asked where the Kagome's were, as they had broken into song a few minutes ago. They had danced their way down the hall and no one had worked up enough courage to go look for them yet.
"I still wanna take them to the mall!" Kiki said randomly. "Come on, Sam, let's goooo!"
"That won't fix our problem," Molly said, inching away from the twitching hanyou. Unfortunately, this put her closer to Kiki, and THAT didn't make things better, either.
"Maybe it will…" Sam mused, thinking hard. "I think I remember something about a Halloween store that sold magic tricks and stuff. Maybe there's something real?"
"Why haven't we heard of this before?" Kiki asked, regaining her senses for a second.
There was a pause.
"Fanfiction," the three otakus said together. Then, just because they were so strung up on sugar, they burst out laughing. Inuyasha watched them cautiously, one hand inching closer to the tessaiga. The giant blade was a bit of a comfort object, and not annihilating anything in the last twelve hours had made him a bit uneasy.
"So let's go," Sam said, finally recovering from her giggles.
"But first let's find the Kagomes," Molly followed.
"Let's send him to do it," Kiki said, pointing at Inuyasha. "Go find the Kagome's," she told him, pronouncing the name the way the Japanese did. He nodded, and disappeared down the hall. Half an hour later, the six sugar- high teenagers piled into Sam's Mom's minivan, and took off for the mall.
Kiki spent most of the trip watching Inuyasha more.
"/Okay just… don't touch anything. Not. A. thing./"
The Halloween store was exactly what it sounded like. It was supposed to look like a haunted house, but it clashed with the contemporary look of the walkways outside. The spooky Halloween music was mixed with a tape player blaring hard rock somewhere in the back room. A bored- looking girl dressed as a witch sat behind the counter, watching the only customers in the store.
"We don't sell cosplay stuff," she said, still sounding bored.
"Actually, we were looking for more like magic stuff," Sam explained.
"Magic tricks are in the back corner."
"No, like real magic," Molly added, Kiki and the Kagomes ran off to look at the magic tricks. Inuyasha, not rally knowing how to react to the dozens of Halloween masks lining the walls, just sort of sat and growled at them.
The girl at the counter looked closer to Sam and Molly.
"You guys are too young to be messing with real magic. It isn't something you should just start dabbling in."
"Well, yeah, we know that now," Sam groaned. "We need a spell UN done."
"What kinda spell? You guys aren't boys, are you?"
"Um… no."
"Oh, good. It amazing how many times I get teenage girls in here with that problem."
"No, actually, we got some characters out of a TV set and we kinda want to put them back."
"Ha ha, very funny. Yeah, I was actually buying that for a minute."
"No, really. These three are really characters from a TV show. We brought them out last night, and… uh… they want to go home."
"How much for the silly string?" Kiki piped up.
"A dollar a can," the girl said, without really thinking. "You guys are telling me you actually pulled off an interdimensional spell?"
"Yup."
"Okay, no, wait, this can't be happening."
"Why not? What's going on?"
"Where did you even find it?"
"Online, some web page. It's gone now."
"But we still have the words," Molly said, holding up her tape recorder. She hit the replay button and their words played back.
"Yes, I know the words. But you've gotta understand, that's been around since Mickey Mouse was the only fictional character on TV and nobody's ever pulled this off."
"So people try it?"
"All the time. Are you kidding? Every otaku on the planet's tried it."
"So why could we do it and no one else?" Molly said.
"And why did you bring three of the same character, that's what I want to know."
"Three? No there's only two. The two in the same clothes are Kagome, from Inuyasha. The guy with the sword is Inuyasha himself. He doesn't speak English, so we brought the Kagomes to translate."
"So why do those three look exactly the same?"
"We… don't know."
The girl looked from the two worried teens to the boy growling at the masks to the three identical girls having a vicious silly string fight.
"I'm gonna have to get my supervisor," she said simply.
It was almost five minutes later when she returned from the back room.
"She'll be out in a second," she said. "My name's Katrina, by the way."
"Molly," Molly introduced herself. "And this is Sam, Kiki, Kagomes, and Inuyasha.
The silly- string coated triplets grinned at Katrina. Kiki handed over five bucks for their cans of string.
At that moment, an older woman emerged regally from the back room. She had green eyes and light purple hair, making her look like an anime character herself. She surveyed the scene before her with a touch of distain.
"Of all the anime's, you picked this one," she said tonelessly. Kiki was reminded of Sesshoumaru's heartless manner. Then the woman grinned. "Good choice. Isabel the Golden, at your service."
"Golden?" Kiki asked.
"My parents are from California," Isabel said in a clipped tone. "/So, I understand you three need a spell reversed/"
"Yes," said Molly, and Sam.
"Hai," Kagome and Inuyasha.
The American Kagome and Kiki looked at each other.
"Not yet. We have a score to settle," Kiki said in a hard voice.
"What? Where did this come from?"
"I challenge you!" Kagome responded, pointing a finger at Kiki, her face also hard. "Whoever loses has to admit they stole their face!"
"Deal!"
Kiki grabbed Inuyasha's wrist, and pulled him out the door, the two Kagome's following.
"Wait!" Molly yelled, "Where the heck are you going?"
"Mortal combat!" Kagome yelled back.
"She means DDR!" Kiki corrected. Then they were out of sight, leaving their two companions alone in the Halloween store.
"DDR?" Molly asked.
"Dance Dance revolution," Sam translated. "No fanfiction is complete without it."
"Fanfiction?" Isabel asked.
"Oh, yeah. We're in one, apparently. Everything we do is being dictated by a higher power."
"Like god?"
"Only more otaku-y."
"Right, okay. So, to finish the story and return everything to normal, you need to put these three characters back?"
"Right, and also to keep Inuyasha from killing us."
Inuyasha, hearing his name, looked to Kagome for translations, which she hastily provided.
"Well, in order to find out how to reverse the spell, we have to determine how you cast it. Or, why it worked for you."
"I have a theory," Katrina piped up. All eyes turned to her.
"It's kinda far- fetched, and has to do with all sorts of spooky scientific theory- type stuff."
"I think we can handle it," Kagome said dryly.
"Okydoke, here it goes. Everybody who knows anything knows there's no such thing as fiction. It's just chronicles of alternate dimensions brought to ours. Authors and such are seers who, for some reason, can see the past, or sometimes future happenings in these dimensions."
Kagome was trying to work out what Katrina's words would mean in Japanese. By the look on Inuyasha's face, it was a wasted effort.
"But the authors aren't strong enough, or their bond to the dimensions aren't strong enough, to actually bring a being through into our world. Maybe you three could, because your friend Kiki, in our dimension, really is Kagome."
"That makes a lot of sense," Molly finished. She was, apparently, the only one who thought so.
"Yeah, but it still doesn't fix the problem we have right now," Sam said, covering.
"Well, taking into account the IQ of most fanwriters," Isabel mused with a smile, "It's probably something infinitely simple."
"Like having Kiki say the spell backwards," Sam added, laughing. Everyone else stared at her. She looked disbelievingly back at them.
"Oh, come on. There's no way that would work."
Back in Japan, Romiko had passed out asleep at her desk. Over twenty pages of sketches scattered across her desk. It would be at lest three hours until someone figured out where she was. But until then, we'll let her sleep….
Did a large procession
where thier torches
as my head fell in the basket,
and was everybody dancin on the casket...
Now I'm dead and I haven't done
everyhting thatI want,
Or I'm still alive and there's
nothing I want to do...
(Dances randomly at freakish lyrics.)
Okay, there's just gonna be one more chapter after this one, so be happy!
You know the drill, hit the purple button and win ten million in prizes instantly.
(And I still don't own Inuyasha!)