Hotel Nowhere
Chapter One
By Ame Rokugatsut
Disclaimer: If I owned the show Kurama would lose his shirt frequently and for no apparent reason. That and he'd be in his Youko form half the time. Yum.
WARNINGS: This should be for sixteen and up but not rated R. It's rated for suggestive themes.
"Rise and shine babe! It's another beautiful day!"
"Fuck ya," a tan hand rose from the depths of the black comforter to slam down on the alarm clock. Hopefully she didn't break it this time, replacing the damn things added up after a while.
Yawning and rubbing her eyes, Summer brushed her teeth quickly and threw on a pair of black jeans, and royal blue tank top under a half-open burgundy trench coat. She quickly ran a brush threw her shoulder length, wavy, white hair, and tossed the brush in her bag. A little smile flitted over her features as she then put on her trademark burgundy fisher's hat, tilting it so that it shadowed over one blue eye eye.
She decided to skip breakfast. She could eat on the bus if she needed to. It was time to go to work. Her boss had told her to pack enough clothes to last a month and a half, in other words all of her clothes. He had mentioned something about shipping certain staff members to a normally deserted hotel for a once a year competition. Most of the staff had not wanted to go, some of them muttering something about demons, crazies and what sounded like dark tournament.
Summer actually hadn't wanted to go because she had no one to look after her beloved pets. But the boss told her that taking the job would pay more and she could bring her pets too. Well, she needed the money so she said why not.
She already had sent her tabby cat, Ryoshi, ahead of her. Cats do not travel well. Her dog she would be bringing with her. He traveled well in buses and on boats.
Closing the door with her foot, Summer picked up her waiting duffle bag and strung her headphones around her neck, glancing around the empty house once before turning and walking out the door.
Before stopping quite abruptly.
"MAH SHOES!"
Like a burgundy blur Summer tore back into the house and to the living room, immediately spotting one black combat boot. Hopping on one foot she searched around frantically for the other, tripping over the couch in the process.
"Here shoe, shoe, shoe-KYA!" Summer glared at the couch as her shoe was finally put on, then groaned in the hopeless search for her other. The wagging of a tail against a carpet caught her attention, and she looked up at the big German Shepard sitting in the kitchen doorway.
With her shoe.
"Lupin!" Summer yelled, scrambling up. "Give me that!"
As soon as he saw his mistress coming, he dashed away and, from what Summer could see, zoomed out the door.
"LUPIN! YA GET YOUR SORRY ASS BACK HERE!"
Disregarding everything Summer tore after the dog, who was running flat out down the street, tail wagging like mad. Damn, that dog could run! Summer soon found herself jumping fences, clearing garbage pails, and narrowly getting run over by a few cars in the private streets of her neighborhood. Fucking dog.
All the while yelling at the dog like an idiot.
Oh look, the bus to take her and the damn dog to the docks to catch the boat was here! Oh dear, several of the coworkers decided that she made for great entertainment. Where they doing what she thought they were? Yes, yes they were. Some of them were taking pictures damn them, oh and look! The other ones are pointing and laughing. I'll get them for this. I'll just get Ryoshi to leave dead mouse heads in their rooms. Childish yes, but effective too.
An idea struck Summer so suddenly that it might as well have been a lightning bolt from the heavens above. She reached into her pocket. Was it there? Yes, it was. Score!
She pulled her hand back out of her pocket. "Lupin! Cookie!"
The German Shepard stopped dead in his tracks. He took a deep whiff, around the smell of the slobber covered leather shoe, he could smell it. A chocolate chip cookie. For him? Yes, she said his name. Then it was for him.
It all boiled down to one question the shoe, or the cookie? Easy choice. He dropped the shoe and tackled his mistress to the ground and grabbed the cookie from her hand, he bounced off a ways to eat his rare treat.
Summer sat up from her hard meeting with the pavement. She crawled over to the shoe, her hand reached for it. She paused, there were a pair of feet standing next to her shoe. These shoes were shiny black loafers that looked hauntingly familiar. She looked up. "Hi boss."
"Mackenzy, is that your dog?"
"Yup! This," she hauled Lupin over by the collar, "is mah dog Lupin. He's a big loveable ball of fluff."
"He's big."
Summer nodded as she dragged the munching Lupin over to the bus. "Uh-uh, he's half Geraman Shepard and half wolf. That makes him look like a big, long haired, German Shepard. Don't worry though. He's a real sweetie."
"Is he dangerous?"
"Oh, calm down. Lupin is as about as dangerous as a squirrel," Summer responded, trying to pull Lupin up the bus steps with little success. Summer frowned and then with a grunt managed to pull the dog half way up the steps before he decided to help her. Well, not so much as help her, but he was done with his cookie and there were delightfully gullible humans on the bus to pet and coo over him.
He bounced up the steps and flopped onto a seat in the third row near some of the maids, who were only to happy to run their hands through the soft, fluffy fur.
Summer staggered up to steps behind him after depositing her bag in the storage compartment. Unlike her dog she wandered to the back of the bus and immediately plopped down between the identical dark haired twins. The boys smiled at her in welcome. Only years of association enabled her to tell them apart.
Yuki, the older twin, had a slightly deeper voice than Kyo the younger. While they both had blue eyes, Kyo's were a shade lighter than Yuki's. Unfortunately, unless you knew exactly what to look for you would be unable to tell them apart. Not even knowing about the eyes helped unless you saw them side by side and even then the color was hard to tell apart.
The boss walked past them and sat three rows behind them on the other side of the bus.
"I see you brought, loony, loopy, Lupin with you," Kyo commented.
"Ryoshi too," Summer said agreeably.
"Why," Yuki asked.
"'Cause I couldn't find anyone who was willing ta watch them while I'm gone." She leaned back in her seat, an arm thrown over each boys shoulder. "So boys, ya ready ta have some fun?"
"Oh, yes," said Kyo.
"Lot's of pretty boys to drool over," Yuki sighed blissfully.
The boss twitched violently.
Summer saw this out of the long corner of her eye and smirked evilly. "Now, now. Ya know better than ta make out with the pool boy-"
"What's wrong with making out with the pool boy," Kyo cried out.
"-during work hours," Summer finished.
"There is nothing wrong about lusting after the pool boy," Yuki soothed his brother.
"It did seem to bother the boss though," Kyo mentioned.
Summer smirked. "I think what bothered him is the fact both of ya were making out with the pool boy at the same time."
Yuki smiled innocently. "We're identical twins. Our DNA code is exactly the same which is like being one person. So technically it's not incest."
Kyo nodded happily. "Really, it's more like masturbation."
The boss shuddered. "I am not hearing this." He got up to move to the front of the bus. Only to be tossed back into his seat by the stampeding heard of workers. They looked rather green in the face.
"The windows won't open," one of the maids wheezed.
The workers all huddled in the back of the bus while the unfortunate bus driver had to make do with a gas mask. Lupin sat behind the driver with a blissful expression.
Yuki stared at the brightly smiling Summer. "What did you do? I know chocolate makes dogs fart horribly, but you only gave him a small chocolate chip cookie!"
Summer giggled evilly. "I gave him liver for diner."
Ame here! Anyways this is my next story that I'm working on until I get more reviews for my Naruto fanfic, Infinite Time. Please review, ne?
Ideas for the next chapter would be appreciated. I have several scenes all plotted out, but no full ideas. I also have a vague idea where this story is going. Before warned it is spastic.
Summer has an accent so a few words are pronounced oddly. If you aren't sure what's what here you go.
You- ya
You'll- ya'll
You're- ya're
Yours- yas
My- mah
To- ta