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--; Meh . . . I'm only writing another chapter because I'm bored . . .
Kali: Yeah right. You know you want to . . .
Meh . . . I give you warning, there will be blood in this chapter . . . just a little though, and it's not too graphic.
Chapter 6 . . .?
Kali lay in the middle of the village's boat's floor, staring up at the ceiling. It was probably close to midnight, from what she guessed, and everyone was asleep except her. She yawned quietly and gently pried Gray's arm from around her stomach. She didn't want everyone to wake up and see them like that . . . especially since they were all sleeping in one room.
Kali rose and stretched, looking around at the sleeping villagers. She was surprised Kai was sleeping; he should have been extremely miserable. He hadn't gotten any acknowledgement that it was his birthday, and he hadn't seen Popuri either. And, of course, his home was ruined. Kali yawned again, and walking over the bodies of her rescuers, she made her way outside to the boat's deck.
There was a cool breeze creeping along the deck, enough to make Kali's hair wave in it. Her head felt bear without her bandana; she'd lost in sometime in all the madness. She tugged at her dirty, torn shirt and fought back another yawn. It had been a long couple of days. She had barely slept at all . . .
Waves rocked the boat gently as it rest anchored to the bottom of the sea. Kali glanced towards the end of the boat, subconsciously checking to see if their own boat was still there. If you could still call it a boat, of course. She chuckled as she heard a yawn and then a quiet groan from inside the boat and then a small thump. A minute later, Gray emerged from inside the boat without his hat, rubbing sleep from his eyes.
"What are you doing up?" he asked monotonously, walking next to Kali and gripping the railing. Kali replied with a grunt and then another concealed yawn.
"Too tired to sleep," she eventually came up with, brushing her bangs behind her ears. "I need a shower," she added nonchalantly. Gray snorted at her and grabbed the bottom of her shirt.
"You need new clothes too," he added and stuck two fingers through one of the rips in the clothing. Kali tiredly slapped his hand away, and tugged the shirt back down.
"Do we have nothing to talk about that we converse about clothing?" She yawned. "I talk like that when I'm sleepy. Even though I'm not."
"You need to get to bed," Gray told her and grasped her arm, intending to bring her back inside. Kali pushed it off.
"I'm fine, leave me here. Stay if you'd like." Gray yawned, kissed Kali on the cheek, and left, leaving Kali alone yet again. She sighed and hugged herself as she seemed to realize how cold it was. It was definitely colder when half her clothes were ripped off . . . In an attempt to warm herself, she began to pace the lengths of the deck, careful not to get splinters in her bare feet.
"I truly must look like a wreck now," Kali said to herself and laughed sardonically. Suddenly, a hot burst of anger flared up inside her, and Kali dropped to her knees and slammed her fist into the wooden ground, immediately regretting this course of action. She held back a shriek of anguish, and cradled her hand close to her stomach, still kneeling on the ground. All that escaped her mouth was an exasperated groan.
'Stupid, stupid, stupid . . .' Kali chanted in her mind, rubbing her hand. 'Stupid, stupid, stupid . . .' she stood up awkwardly, feeling self conscious even though nobody had witnessed the moment. She looked around to make sure Gray hadn't come back out, and when she was satisfied that he was not, she started pacing the deck again, still subconsciously rubbing her hand.
"Anger management, sis," a voice from behind Kali remarked. Kali snorted and turned around.
"I thought you were asleep," she said monotonously and pointed an accusing finger at her brother, who was standing in front of her, one hand resting on his hip. He shrugged nonchalantly.
"You thought wrong," he said simply and raised an eyebrow at her. "I thought we were over your self mutilation issues," he finished half jokingly. Kali blushed in shame and changed the subject.
"Why aren't you freaking out? Your life hasn't been all rainbows and flowers recently." Suddenly, Kai's face seemed to darken.
"I'm going back to bed. Don't hurt yourself," he warned and walked inside. Kali blinked, confused at his behavior. She pushed the temptation to follow him back inside herself, and settled on resuming her earlier job, pacing.
----The next morning----
Kali stretched her legs warily and stood up.
'I guess I fell asleep outside,' she commented dryly to herself as she saw the ocean background around her.
"You're awake," Gotz commented from a few feet away from her, eating eggs. The doctor stood next to him, also eating eggs. Gray walked outside of the boat also eating. Kali blinked.
Eggs?
Gray walked over to Kali and held his plate toward her, offering her eggs.
"I hate eggs, dork," Kali mumbled and pushed the plate away impolitely. She yawned and stretched again, trying to find a not-so-sleepy voice. "Where's Kai? He was up awhile ago," she asked, recalling her late night pacing. Gray shrugged, chewing on his eggs.
"Haf n't seen heem," he worked out slowly. Kali raised an eyebrow at him and turned to the other two men, whose reactions were the same.
"Oh for Goddess's SAKE," Kali shrieked. "It's a boat!" With that, she made a dramatic exit (or entrance) and left the boat's deck. As she stomped inside oddly irate, she heard a gasp coming from the bathroom. Kali cocked her head to the side and listened as another soft gasp followed by a small sniffle emerged from behind the closed door. The only person who should still have been in the boat was Kai . . .
Without a second though, Kali grabbed a paperclip from off a counter and unbent it until it was straight. Then she rushed over to the bathroom door, picked the lock, and opened the door. The sight inside almost sickened her.
Kai sat on the toilet seat holding a knife over his arm. A bloody knife over a bloody arm, to be exact. Kali gasped in surprise, suddenly unable to move. Kai turned and looked at her with dull eyes.
"It's not my wrists. Don't worry," he said monotonously, uncaring. Kali felt tears well up in her eyes.
"Don't worry?! DON'T WORRY?! Kai! You're cutting yourself," she shrieked as Kai placed the knife in the sink, while dabbing tissue paper at the blood on his arm. It was only then that Kali saw all the scars running up and down his arms. Kai blinked his sullen eyes at his sister and pressed more tissue to his arm. Kali shook her head, disbelieving how lightly this was being taken.
"Do you realize what you're doing?"
"It's just the same thing you did awhile ago . . ." Kai replied, not noticing how out of line his comment was. Kali gaped at him.
"T-that's totally different," she choked out, wringing her hands.
"How so . . ." Kai half asked, half commented, turning his hope emptied face to Kali.
"You need help Kai," she said, worried at what was happening to her brother. When Kai didn't respond or try to stop her, Kali rushed out of the room to find the doctor, who was still hopefully out on the deck.
"Doctor! Kai's . . ." Kali stopped to pant. "Kai's hurt himself, he's in the bathroom." She didn't notice how hard she was crying until Gray ran over and held her after the doctor and Gotz ran inside.
"He's cut himself. Just like I did . . ." Kali sobbed, soaking Gray's shirt though. He 'shush'ed her over and over, letting her cry. With a final sniff, Kali pulled away from Gray and wiped her eyes.
"It's so weird to see him like this. He's never depressed," she told Gray desperately. Suddenly the boat started moving, and the doctor came outside.
"We're going to take Kai to a clinic in the city," he told them. "We're going to stop by there before we get back to the village. I'm sorry, Kali," he told Kali. "He needs this though." With that, the doctor went back inside the boat. Kali stood unmoving, staring at the spot the doctor had just occupied.
"Why is it that everything is being ripped away from me?" She asked Gray, using the monotone voice that Kai had used before, making Gray nervous.
"Y-you have m-me," he stuttered, a huge mistake. Kali's eyes darkened.
"For now, but what happens when you decide that Mary's a better choice again?"
"I told you, that was a misunderstanding! I would never pick Mary over you!" Gray said in nervous exasperation.
Thus began the fight . . .
"But you DID pick her over me! You wouldn't answer me when I asked if you still loved her, and then you left! And the next time I talked to you, you were with her!" Kali screamed at the scared looking boy, who suddenly turned not-so-scared.
"I told you, she was getting something from grandpa! At the blacksmith shop! Let it GO!"
As the couple continued to yell at each other in exclamations, the boat reached the city's dock. They both stopped shouting abruptly as the doctor, Gotz, and a subdued Kai walked off the boat and into the city.
"Hey! What about me?" Kali yelled after them. Kai turned around and winked, and then disappeared into a crowd with the other two. "That's not fair . . ." she said more softly and began to pout (childishly). Gray raised an eyebrow and stalked inside, pissed off. Kali narrowed her eyes at his retreating back and looked back out into the crowd. She was still considerably scared of the city, scared enough to not want to go in it. With a shudder, Kali wrenched her sight away from the city and walked to the other side of the deck to look out at the now-polluted waters.
It was so much grosser, the city waters. So much grosser then the clean ocean near the village. Kali noted this, narrowed her eyes in concentration, leaned over the rail of the boat, and stared at the water, observing it in all its gross glory.
"YOU ---! YOU'LL PAY FOR STEALING MY BREAD, PEASANT!" Kali was about to see who had just yelled at her, but before she could, there was a tremendous force to her back, and she flailed blindly before she hit the water. The gross, unclean water. Kali came up sputtering and looked up to see who had pushed her in. An old guy was staring down at her in hatred, and then suddenly embarrassment.
"Oh . . . you're not her . . ." he muttered, and without even bothering to help Kali out of the water, the old guy turned around and left. Kali shook her hair off her face and growled at him in the back of her throat, even though he was already gone.
"Stupid trespasser," Kali mumbled as she pulled herself back onto the boat. Because of him, she needed to take another shower. "Stupid, bloody old guy. I'm no peasant," she complained as she reached the railing and pulled herself over, dripping wet. "It might have been the fact that my clothes are so torn and dirty," she continued, "but I'm still no bread stealing peasant . . ." After finishing her rant, Kali shook her hair out like a dog and made her way inside the boat, pausing to curse at Gray, who was watching TV. He gave her a look of bemusement and amusement before turning back to watch the show. Kali showered and exited the bathroom in a large towel with a glass of water. She wandered into the main room and plopped down next to Gray. He looked at her in astonishment.
"You're naked," he informed her and lightly poked the fluffy blue towel surrounding her. Kali nodded, now watching the show on the TV.
"I washed my clothes in the sink. And then hung them up. They need to dry now," she told him absentmindedly. He opened his mouth again, as if to speak, and Kali held up a hand in front of his face.
"Shhh . . . I'm watching this show . . ." Gray sighed in defeat and sullenly sat back next to his exotic girlfriend, who, he decided, seemed to contradict herself every five minutes. The said girlfriend began to squeeze her wet hair out all over the couch and onto Gray, who grabbed her hand and took it off her hair, laying it on her lap. Kali scowled at her hand, picked it up again, and began to drip-dry her hair over Gray again. Gray stood up; his pants soaked, and reseated himself on the floor by the foot of the couch. Kali grinned evilly, moved over a little, and squeezed her hair out on Gray's head.
"Oh, for the love of-"
"Hey guys, we're back," Gotz said as he and the doctor came through the door to see an interesting scene including an evil looking Kali and a wet Gray scowling on the floor. After looking at Kali and Gray for a moment, the two went back outside, probably to steer the boat back to the village. Kali coughed and laid herself back onto the couch, her hair considerably dry. Gray stayed on the floor, face still holding a firm, sullen, scowl. Kali waited a good five minutes, letting Gray dry out, before looking at the top of his head evilly, yet again.
She leaned over quietly, a smirk playing across her face, and dumped the full glass of cold water over Gray's unsuspecting head.
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End chapter. . .
Kali: ::grins:: Well, there you go. It's relatively short, but it sure isn't my fault. I just sit here and muse.
Yes well, I'm running out of ideas and inspiration. Reviews are what get me inspired . . . and any ideas for next chapter are welcomed with open arms! Of course, Kali'll be the one with the open arms.
Kali: ::eye roll:: HINT, HINT!!! R&R! PLEASE!
