Zoey stood there, frozen in fear. Her cousin, Kagome, was holding a demon child! She had read book about kitsune... They were tricksters, and always hid their true forms. How come Kagome trusted this kit so well? As though he were her child...? Zoey felt shivers as more people joined them. A monk and a youkai exterminator.
Zoey bowed glumly as Kagome spoke to them. "Miroku, Sango, Shippou, this is my cousin, Zoey." Kagome said, smiling.
Zoey looked up, her face held no emotion whatsoever.Inuyasha ruffled Zoey's hair before Kagome dragged him into Kaede's hut to get checked for injuries. Zoey sighed and felt three pairs of eyes watching her. Examining her. Zoey gulped. "Y-Yes?" Zoey spoke.
"So, you do speak." Shippou said.
Sango shushed Shippou. Zoey watched the Miroku come near her, and she backed away. She knew he was looking at her hair, her marking of a black miko. And she felt him looking into her soul. "Monk, what are you--" Sango started.
Miroku stopped, "Look at her closely, Sango. Look at her hair, feel her aura." Miroku said.
Zoey tripped and her hair flew into her face. She enhaled the Winter's air, hoping she would just go numb, to not feel anything.
But, Sango quickly found out, "A black miko! And you Kagome's cousin?" Sango asked, suspicious.
That did it, that little hint of suspicion made Zoey's heart go numb. But that didn't mean she wasn't angry. She looked up at Sango and Miroku, tears in her eyes. She didn't realize she was crying, though. Like I just said, she went numb. The wind made her hair dance as she spoke to Sango and Miroku. Shippou had left to talk with Kagome. So Zoey was just speaking to them. "Yes, I am. I am proud of it, too! It's not my fault I am who I am!" Zoey stood up. "Naraku did this to me! Him and that kid of his!
"My life was quiet and calm until that day when those people attacked our era! They kidnapped me, and Naraku kissed me, to frighten me! And you know what? All it did was make my heart even colder than it was. And now, I am a balck miko, not wanting to be. But I am!" Zoey took a deep breath, she touched her cheeks, and felt tears. I-I'm crying? Zoey thought.
Miroku and Sango went up to her, and Sango hugged her. "I am sorry. It's just hard to believe, a light miko having a black miko as a cousin." Sango apologized.
"And I'm sorry for scaring you." Miroku bowed.
"..." Zoey warmed up, and her tears stopped. Kagome came out, holding a basket. She asked if Zoey was okay, and Zoey nodded, saying she just got the wrong idea. Kagome smiled and then told them Inuyasha had broken three ribs. Zoey folded her arms and complained about him being too stubborn and prideful to stop and rest. That made everyone laugh.
At dinner, everyone talked and ate happily. As Zoey ate slowly, wanting sleep. She had practiced some more earlier, and twice, she almost killed Miroku. The arrow oddly came towards him... But Sango saved him both times. Zoey finished her ramen and sat in the corner, as the gang spoke of Naraku. Her knees were close together as she fell asleep.
Zoey lay on there, on the operating table. Doctors were speaking to her, trying to keep her conscious. "What day is it, Zoey?" A female's voice asked.
Her head pounded as she tried to focus. It was Tuesday. "... I believe T-Tuesday..." Zoey mumbled. Her words were slurred.
The doctors pumped blood into her as one explained to her she was in a car accident.
Zoey woke up, in sweat. She looked around, and saw indigo and amber eyes looking at her. She looked down. She took a deep breath of air, to calm herself down.
"What's wrong?" Miroku asked.
"N-Nothing... Just bad memories." Zoey said, her voice was shaky. How could she ever explain what horrors lay deep under the earth below her? She didn't even like remembering that on that day, her father and brother had died, saving her. All three of them were in a truck, and Zoey was in the middle of the three, when a car it them from their sides. Zoey's older brother and father covered her, which saved her. But a large piece of glass had struck her brother in the neck, killing him. And her father had obtained eternal bleeding which couldn't be stopped. This happened when she was five, too. Ever since then, Zoey was quiet, shy, and as Kagome labeled her, gothic.
New People: Kasheila. Natural blonde.
Danni (Danielle). My sister. Year younger than me.
Josh, Kasheila, Danni, and I were walking home, and Kasheila, out of sheer curiosity, took out her CD player, and placed the headphones on Josh's head. He never listens to music, so she made him listen to Mariah Carey.
JOSH: I'm not giving this back.
ME: -looks ahead, where Kasheila and Danni were riding- Kasheila does know where you live, Josh.
JOSH: So? Mine! -hugs the CD player-
ME: What a sad, sad, tall kid...
(Josh is like, three months younger than me, and three inches TALLER than me... -pouts- I'm so short!)