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Opening the Past
Chapter Ten: Beautiful Scars
Waking up wasn't as bad as it was the other night. Even though I had gotten less sleep then I had the day before. I yawned and rubbed the sleep from my eyes. I then swung my legs over the side of my bed and lightly stepped over the two huddles of sleeping bags. One was empty. Three always got up early. I went into the hall way towards the bathroom. As I passed the phone I realized that the message light was blinking. I picked up the receiver and pressed a pink painted nail (freshly done last night by Ichigo One) on the flashing red button.
I froze. I stood there in absolute horror as I held the receiver firmly against my ear. The voice unrelentingly oozing through my head. No…No…Noo! I dropped the receiver as it hung loosely by the spiraling cord over the side of the table. I stood there….in a daze. Slowing drawing back to reality. I then let out the loudest scream I could muster in my crippled state. The door to my bed room swung open and One and Two popped their heads out. Three came rushing up the stairs stopping at the top. They all stared at me as the scream died down and I broke through One and Two and into my room. I swung open my closet door and ripped out my school uniform.
"What's wrong?" asked One as she stepped aside to let me back out into the hall way.
"My parents are coming back!"
"Ok…what else." Asked Two not grasping the situation. I popped my head out of the bathroom door. I looked at her as if she had just asked why I was calling for help when I was set on fire.
"Girl do you not get it! My parents are coming back. Today. In an hour. This day. Hour." Two's face fell. The color drained from One's face. Three looked natural.
"So what are you going to do about it?"
"I don't know? The machine isn't ready yet and I have to go to school! I've all ready missed too many days because I had to find a kirama anima! If I miss another day they'll hold me back!" I slammed the door closed as I tore off my pajamas and started dressing in my uniform. When I came out all three of them were still in the hall. I stood there looking franticly about them.
"What are you guys doing just standing there? An hour!" Three frowned.
"We know that. So what are you going to have us do?" I looked from one expecting face to another.
"Please don't do this to me!" I wailed as I sled down to my knees on the carpet. I had to admit I was getting paranoid.
"Ichigo!" Three snapped. She looked almost as frazzled as me. She was just doing a better job of keeping it under control.
"Do something!" shouted Two. I looked at the both of them.
"What's wrong with you two? I can't do anything! I can't think of anything!" I wailed still on the floor. Now I felt like I was just acting like a baby.
"Think, Ichigo! This is your dimension not ours!" snapped Two. I stood up and held my teeth tightly together. They were right. This was my responsibility. I was the one who brought them here in the first place.
"You guys can go to the café!" I said. Hope swelling up inside me. Three had a deep frown on her face.
"It's a week day. The café doesn't open till two o' clock." I pulled at my pigtails.
"Ryou is there. You could stay with him!" Two made a face.
"I'm not staying with that jerk."
"I really don't mind." Broke in One. Yes! I thought, she could save us.
"No way!" spat Two. "You only want to go because Kish is there!"
"What's wrong with that?"
"Stop acting like children the both of you!" Shouted Three. Man this was way to much noise.
"Stop yelling! We shouldn't be getting so frazzled just because I forgot my parents are supposed to be coming back today." I said as calmly as I could.
"Don't play that. We know you don't know what to do." I hated Two at this point.
"One thing is for sure you guys are not coming to school with me!" I yelled over all of them. Stomping my foot and pointing at the ground. They all froze and slowly small grins came to all there faces.
I walked into the front office and went up to the receptionist.
"Um, excuses me. I'm here to sign in my three cousins. There visiting." The receptionist peeked over my shoulder through her glasses. Behind me stood One, Two, and Three. All in my extra uniforms. One and Three had there hair out. Two was the only one that had her hair up in the same exact pigtails as me. A sweat drop appeared at the side of my face. They looked more like clones rather than cousins. The women behind the desk looked at me suspiciously.
"Which one of you really goes to this school? And which ones are the ones that are visiting." My face fell as I looked at her blankly.
"Me." I said slowly. "Ichigo Momomiya." How stupid was she. Didn't I just say I wanted to sign them up?
"Sure, just have them sign these name tags and well sign them in." I took the tags from her and handed one to each of them. When they passed them back to me I made a look like -.-. They each had made up there own names for themselves. I kept the look on my face as I handed them to the receptionist and we walked out of the office. When I closed the door I looked back at them.
"What kind of names were those?" I asked. "And which were for which." One and Two grinned. Three looked bored.
"I chose the name Peach." Said Ichigo One.
"Mine, is Angel." Two said with a grin. Angel….she was not. I turned to Three.
"So you must have chosen the name Sparrow, right?" I said rising an eyebrow. Her arms crossed below her chest.
"The name means nothing." She said looking away from me.
"I was trying to get her to choose the name Muffin. But she looked at me as if I were asking her to date a guy from the chest club. I thought the name was cute." Two whined. Three turned her back to us.
"I don't do cute." She then started down the hall One and Two coming into step behind her. This was going to be an interesting day.
I stood there in the hall and turned to face them.
"Now listen. Don't do anything that might draw attention. We don't want anything to happen that would have them call my parents or you guys not being able to come back. And things are a little different." I said the last part slowly. Placing a hand at the back of my head.
"What do you mean different?" Asked One. I stood there for a moment looking at the ground.
"I don't know lets just go in." I turned facing the door to my first period glass. Then opened the door. When I stepped in every ones eyes lifted off there papers and right for me. A few boys got disgusting gins on there faces and Moe waved to me from the back of the room. I turned to my English teacher. She was American with hazel brown hair thick and straggly to match her large eyes, and wide hips. She seemed to be no older than in her earlier twenties but that still didn't make it any easier for me to grasp the English language. It was hard if you asked me. And there grammar was written in the most ox ward way. They even had words that were spelled the way the didn't even sound. What kind of crape was that? It was as if the Americans were trying to mentally screw us up.
"Hello Mrs. Hardens – Chan." I said as I stepped in front of her. She slightly smiled.
"Late again Miss. Momomiya." I smiled lightly at her.
"For good reason." I then turned and motioned for the girls to come in. And when they did all the whispering had hushed and almost every jaw dropped. Moe was staring at them from the back row as if she were seeing a ghost. Miss. Hardens eyes opened wide as she gapped at them.
"Miss. Hardens these are my cousins, Peach, Angel, and…Sparrow." Miss. Hardens blinked a few times then looked at me.
"What did you say dear?" I sighed.
"These are my cousins, Peach, Angel, and Sparrow. There here visiting for a while." It took a while for her to respond. She kept looking over my shoulder at the three.
"Oh, yes of course. Girls take a seat where ever you like." She said trying to sound cherry as she waved her hand over the rows of seating. Moe was blinking at me then she shook her head and pointed at the empty seat next to her. I headed for it. There was only one other open seat beside mine and two other on opposite sides of the room. I glanced to Three and Two as they headed towards the seats furthest away from me.
"Remember, no funny business." I whispered. Three nodded. Two ignored me. As I took my seat next to Moe, One taking the one beside me. As Three reached the desk a lot of guys had there eye on her. Some were looking at her as if she were a crispy cream dounut. And other looked at his the room was suddenly to hot for them. Two sat down, crossed her legs daintily and flipped a pigtail, leaning back in her seat. The way she did that I could see why everyone was staring at her, other than the reason that she looked exactly like me. The way she moved was fluid and….almost glamorous.
Moe leaned in towards me.
"Can't wait to tell Miwa about this. She's going to flip. Where did they come from any way? If you weren't standing with them I would have thought that they were you."
I leaned towards her.
"I'll tell you later." I said.
Through out the first three classed everyone was gapping at so called Peach, Angel, and Sparrow. Even in the halls people weren't afraid to stop cold in there tracks and freely stare at the four of us. During second period when we ran into Miwa she didn't even say a word to me. All she could do was stare with her mouth wide open as Moe explained it to her. Now it was lunch, so far so good.
"Now, stay here you guys while I go get my tray ok." I said turning to them. Two crossed her arms over her chest.
"You don't have to act like were four. We can take care of ourselves you know." I sighed.
"Of course you can take care of yourself your' all fifteen but I don't want anything to go wrong. And I'm sure you don't want me to walk you through the lunch line as if you're my children now do you?" Three looked at me darkly.
"You know I won't allow that?"
"Good." I said. "That would keep you three forms doing anything you're not supposed to. Or…running off…and starting trouble."
"Oh, stop giving us that look, Ichigo." Two said with a wave of her hand.
"Alright I'll be right back." I turned and headed to catch up with Miwa and Moe in the lunch line.
"That is just plane creepy." Said Miwa in a low voice as she gazed at Peach, Angel, and Sparrow. "It's like seeing you split into fours and then walking around like puppets. It's so weird."
"Oh, stop it Miwa." I said. "There just my cousins! And they happen to look similar to me."
"Similar!" said Moe her voice quite loud. "They look as if they are you!" I rolled my eyes as I took my tray from the line and started headed back to the three when suddenly Masaya showed up in front of me. I stopped dead in my tracks.
"Masaya!" I said almost too perky. He smiled gently at me as he came up to me.
"Hay." He said as he came to stand in front of me. "I saw your cousins. I swear they look as if they could be you."
"Don't swear." I said as I pulled him by the arm with one hand. The other balancing my tray. I was trying to keep him from looking back at Three. He might realize by some miracle that she was the one he spent our last date with.
"Want to have lunch with me?"
"What?" I asked as I snapped out of my train of thought as I was watching the three of them. He smiled sweetly at me. The one I used to love so much. I stilled liked it…I just didn't….love it.
"Have lunch with me." He said pulling me by the arm further away from the girls. I looked over my shoulder at them. My eyes swelling with worry.
"Yah, but" I tried to say but then they were lost in the mob of people.
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Ichigo Three stood watching as Ichigo was taken in another direction my Masaya. Two was smiling to herself. She had won her hidden battle to get herself and Masaya together. One looked around wearily.
"What do you do now that our self has abandoned us?" she asked.
"Bye!" Said Two quite excited as she waved at them and headed away from them.
"Wait where are you going!" asked One in an almost shrill voice. "We're not supposed to separate!" she hissed. But then Two vanished in the steam of the student body. She turned to see Three walking off as well.
"Don't leave me too! Do you know how much trouble it's going to be to find you both in the end?"
"You'll manage. But I'm not going to stand here this whole time while she diddle dazzles with her boyfriend." One's back stiffened as she frowned at Three as she wondered off.
"You all suck, you know that?" she whispered to herself. "You all majorly suck."
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I helplessly was drawn down towards an almost empty hall as Masaya and I sat on a bench along side the wall. Right underneath a window. I held my tray in my lap as I looked at it. My eyes a pair of wide orbs. What in the world was going to happen now? I just knew something bad was going to happen since I left them alone. In hidden desperation I turned towards Masaya as I pried a smile onto my face.
"Where's your food? Aren't you going to eat something?" I asked. He was looking out the window his elbow propped up on the rim of the window. He looked so cute setting like that…but still…I couldn't help but feel as if I should tell him…how I felt. He turned to face me.
"No I'm not hungry. I had a large breakfast this morning." He said flashing me that smile I used to love so much. The one I used to try anxiously for him to flash at me. Now he did it all the time. I didn't even have to try. And it happens when….
"Well then I'll go get you a tray!" I said my voice a little high as I stood up setting my tray on the bench where I sat. He reached up and grabbed hold of my hand.
"No, it's ok Ichigo. I'll just wait tell your done, then if I'm hungry then I'll go get myself something to eat." I nodded and sat back down. Started to shove food quickly into my mouth. Not even giving myself the time to chew. I had to get away and find those three before they wondered off. I then realized that I wasn't swallowing either and my mouth was so full of guck that it took me a while to realize I was starting to feel sick. I had never shoveled my food down so quickly. And the chunks that went down were thick and non-chewed. I started gagging, forcing myself to get the food out my mouth. And spit it back up on my tray. As I coughed I felt Masaya rapped an arm around my shoulder and the other rubbing my back. When the fit was over I felt half drained and I was about to throw up my breakfast at the sight of my regurgitated food on my tray. My face contorted into a disgusted look of revolution as I stayed at my tray. Masaya noticed the look on my face and took the tray from my lap and started heading to wards the trash. I dent over holding my thought that was now sour.
Why did I always end up coming off as a weirdo around him? And every move I made had me feel silly. This was one of those moves. I coughed a few more times as he returned to the bench.
"You all right?" He asked placing a hand at my shoulder. The ache in my chest tightened. He truly did care about me….I felt as if I wanted to crawl into a hole and cry myself to sleep. It felt almost like I was betraying him. After all we've been through together. After he had shown how much he cared for me. How he had chosen me over all the other girls in school who wanted him….and I no longer loved him…for seemingly no reason.
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Ichigo Two found herself in the hall way looking out the window. A boy with dark blue hair and brown eyes stood beside her. She smiled at him from time to time as he spoke to her. His name was Takumi. It happens that he had had a crush on Ichigo since last year and since she was dating Masaya he thought he could get in favor with her cousin Angel. He was so amazed by how similar they looked. When he first spotted her he had thought she was Ichigo. Only tell she corrects him and told him her name was Angel.
Ichigo Two just gazed out the window Takumi's rambling went through one ear and out the other. She was too busy thinking about her Aoyama – Kun back in her dimension. She missed him dearly. And every night before she went to sleep she was always greeted by his smiling face when she closed her eyes. Just thinking about him made he stomach flutter with pink butterflies. And to make her day even better her other self was spending lunch as Takumi spoke with Masaya. She rested her chin in the palms of her hands. Her elbows resting on the window seal.
"So where do you live?" she was brought out of her Aoyama fantasy to turn and face Takumi. She had forgotten he had been speaking to her. She smiled her attractive smile as she tilted her head. Takumi's face flushed a slight pink color.
"I live…with Ichigo at the moment." She said. As Takumi was lost in her smile and she was off in her thought something ripped. Out in the sky right over the school yard. A split started streaming in the sky. As if a loose thread were being pulled ever so gently. Revealing a blue so blue it made the sky seem dull. The pink and purple lighting flickered silently within it, sparks of mist.
Down stairs on the bottom level Ichigo three sat on a cement bench under the extended roof of the schools building. She sat peacefully leaning back. Her palms faced down on the bench, leaning back comfortably as she looked up at the sky that was partly concealed by the roof. People walked slowly by. The news had spread about Ichigo; the girl who dated the most popular boy in school had three twins. Couples and friends watched her as some carried book, others food, and some just passing by. Most of the ones to stare was the male part of the student body. Focusing more on her curves rather than the fact that she resembled Ichigo.
A boy walked up behind her and leaned against a beam beside the bench of which she sat. He grinned at her.
"Hay." He said with a nod of his head in her direction, arms crossed over his chest. She ignored him. He stepped forwards and stood beside her.
"You must be Sparrow, Ichigo's cousin." Her eyes turned in his direction. She looked him up and down. To his shoes up to his 'I think I'm so cute' smile. She turned her eyes sight away. She wasn't in for the pretty boys. It disgusted her more than it attracted.
"Why are you seating here all alone? Do you need someone to talk to because I'm open for conversation?"
"I'd rather be by myself than talk with you." She said coldly not even glancing at him. He was taken aback for a second but smoothed his unruly black bangs away from his face. If it were any other girl they would of thought him almost a cute as Masaya. Almost.
"Why, be by yourself when you would hang with a guy like me." He said with a broad grin on his face.
"You're not my type." She said flatly. He leaned in next to her. She shot him a glance so cold that it had his blood freeze for a second as he leaped back up and took a step away. Keeping that dazzling smile of his plastered to his face.
"I'm not I'm I. How do you know that if you haven't talked with me yet?" He said leaning his shoulder against the bean his arms crossed over his chest again. She glanced at him and expected him vaguely.
"Can you cook?" she asked, no trace of emotion portrayed in her eyes.
"No." Her chocolate eyes snapped away from him as she looked straight ahead.
"Then you're not my type. Get away from me." The boy had an astonished look on his face as he looked down at her. It was one of the first times that he had been rejected. Other than by the girls who were devoted to Masaya. As he stared with aw at her unknowingly another seam was pulled from the sky as three more splits appeared in the sky.
People in the field stopped in their tracks and looked towards the sky. They mouths dropped open in aw. Whispering going around wondering what it was.
Ichigo One or Peach was walking down the hall. About four guys had hit on her and she had shoved them all away with a dark glance. She wasn't up for boys making the move on her when she was completely devoted to her Kish. And she wasn't going to be polite about it and just tell them she's taken. She was going to make sure they kept there eyes in their heads and kept away from her. After about Twenty minuets of wandering the halls she got sick of all the yellow and gray walls. She let out a loud sigh.
"This is it. I'm going to find Ichigo." She then started down the hall. Going past the window not even noticing the tears that were splitting the sky into pieces.
Ichigo sat on the bench next to Masaya nodding now and then as he spoke. She held her hands in her lap trying to think of a way to bring up the situation. And as if the four of them were connected she too looked out the window. And her heart froze dead in the middle of its beat. The sky looked at if it were being shredded. As dozens of rips streamed through. Her eyes widened in silent horror as she watch them slice through the sky right before her eyes. As they slowly crawled across the horizon.
I couldn't breath. I couldn't tear my eyes away. If felt as if a force was connected to us through those splits that tore at the sky. And in that moment all sound around me blocked out. And all I heard was the struggle of my heart trying to beat. It looked as if the sky were scabbed. That a knife has sliced through it. And left behind something beautiful. Scares that took your breath away. Everything slowed. And the edges started to get smeared.
Beautiful scars….
I slowly turned my head in this haze and saw Ichigo One walking towards me. She was smiling and her hand was raised in a wave. But the vision was blurred at the steams. It was as if time had slown down as she barley seemed to move as she headed towards me. I rose from the seat my eyes fixed on her.
"Masaya I have to go." My voice was soft, weak, almost a whisper as I headed towards her. My heart suddenly screamed and I broke through the haze and rushed towards One. Her smile faded when she saw the sickened look on my face. I grabbed hold of her arm and tugged her in the direction she had come. She was about to say something tell she caught a glance out the window and she gasped. Suddenly I was no longer dragging her she was running along side me. I went down the steps taking four at a time. I heart was pounding as the tie I felt towards the sky grew stronger. I felt as if I would chock. One the second level down I spotted Two, her knuckles were white as she gripped the window seal, gazing wide eyes out the window. I swiped past her. One taking hold of her and tugging her along. I quickened my pass as another rip spread across the sky. This was wrong.
I glanced to my side as I ran the dozens of windows along the wall passing by in a rush. The sky out side never varied. It continued to rip. I busted out side and saw Three seating on a bench a boy standing stiffly beside her. I grabbed hold of her hand and yanked her off the bench as I ran by.
"What in the world-
She never finished her sentence. As I led her fully out side and for the first time caught a full vision of the sky. I felt her breath catch. The sky was filled with thousands of tears that stretched as far as I could see. Above all of Tokyo. I held firm on to Three's hand. I
This is wrong.
I continued running with them behind me Three's hand clasped tightly in mine. But the sky was always there, it felt as if we couldn't get away. And inside I screamed
THIS IS WRONG!
I picked up pass and ran as faster than I had ever in my entire lifetime. The whole time a heightening fear rose in me. The fear that my friends would be taken from me. The fear that One, Two, and Three were slipping from me. I held the tears back as everything was lost in a blur.
I didn't even notice as we entered the café. I absently went down the steps into the lab. Fearing that the presence of Three's hand in mine would slip from me. I caught glance a at the computer. Almost all the numbers was flashing violently. I took a struggled breath as I went up to Ryou who stood next to Keiichiro staring at the screen.
Half the lights were out in the lab. The others were flickering and burning gold sparks seemed to fall out of space from the ceiling and dropped softly to the floor with electric power. The both of them were staring at the screen. It seemed to be controlling all the electricity in the lab and every time Keiichiro lifted a finger to touch a key a small, thin sliver of purple lighting slivered from between the keys like a threatening snake.
I stopped in front of them forcing to keep my eyes from the ground. I held firm to the hand clasped in mine. The presence of the Three behind me was reassuring but at the same time frightening. Why did it feel as if they were going to be taken away? Looking Ryou straight in the eyes as he turned to face me I kept my voice as calm as I could.
"Ryou there's something I have to tell you." He looked at me for a moment a deep look of concern in his eyes. As if he knew I knew something. It panged me more. He stayed silent. Keiichiro was mumbling something. I couldn't hear what.
"Ryou…" I looked down. "Something is wrong…I think, that it has something to do with us." His brow furrowed, Keiichiro turned to face us as well over hearing. They didn't say a word. I looked back up into Ryou's eyes. They remained me of the sky. The sky that we were now destroying.
"What are you talking about?" Ryou's voice was calm in a way it never was before. It frightened me more than I already was.
"Ryou! The sky is…I don't know. I think its tearing apart!" I practically screamed. "It's always been there ever since they came! When Kish and all of them! When I brought them here! It even happened two nights ago! It disappeared but then it came back….." I was struggling to get the words out. I wasn't sure if I was explaining it right. Or how I knew what was happening. Ryou's eyes stayed firm to mine.
"What are you talking about? What happened Ichigo?" His voice came out harsh and cold at the same time. It felt as if my legs were going to buckle beneath me. But I had to tell them…they would find out anyway. I wanted to look towards the ceiling as if I could see through it to the sky, but I couldn't pull my eyes away from Ryou's. The lights in the other corner crackled then busted sending another showing of glowing gold sparks from the ceiling. Making the lab look even more haunting then it all read was. I let go of Three's hand. But I still felt them there.
"It happened almost every nigh…" I said slowly, trying to calm myself. "And it took my pendant – I don't know how it just did! Like…the same lighting bolt that shot out of the computer – It came from the sky! And it's happening now but there's more!" I couldn't keep myself calm. Ryou looked at me with a darkened look, Keiichiro rushed up the stairs to look out the window. The way he looked at me…it felt as if I were being torn apart. He roughly grabbed firm hold of my shoulders and yanked me towards him.
"Why didn't you tell me this before Ichigo? That was important for us to know! Why didn't you tell me!" he was shaking me. And the fury that danced through his eyes…. Keiichiro came back down the stairs out of breath
"Ryou!" he began as he panted, holding the stair rail. But Ryou was still looking at me. My eyes began to sting and I held my breath. But then I couldn't hold them back. I suddenly burst into tears. I focused on the ground. Feeling worse then I had ever in my entire life. Everything was going wrong!
I felt a pair of arms envelop me as I was pulled closer to Ryou's body. My head pressed against his chest. I reached up and grabbed hold of his shirt in both my hands as I continued to cry. He laid his chin in my air and I felt his face next to my ear.
"I'm sorry Ichigo." He whispered. I chocked on my own tears as I took a tighter grasp onto his skirt. All the feelings I had held back. The things I wanted to tell Masaya. The emotions I knew I felt towards Ryou all flowed out freely now in a flow of tears.
Slowly as the lights that were still working were threatening to die and the soft hazy sparks flouted down around us my tears stopped. Ryou stroked my hair as he held me to him. I took slow deep breaths as I kept my eyes closed.
"I think I've figured something out." Called Keiichiro from across the lab his eyes focusing intently on the computer screen. Ryou lifted his head and turned to face him. I didn't move. I didn't want to.
"What is it? Does it have anything to do with what Ichigo said?"
"Well it seems all this has something to do with the time machine. It could be that what ever happened that caused it to trigger to an alternate universe than going through time has also caused some short of rippling effect."
"Alternate Universe? I thought we came from another dimension." My face was still buried in Ryou's black shirt and I couldn't tell witch of the three Ichigo's had spoken.
"And alternate universe is the same as dimension. Its' just a different name." The way it was spoken I could tell defiantly that it was Two.
There was a sudden shifting to the air and I heard feet touch the ground.
"Something freaky is going on with the sky," said Kish.
"Kish! Where have you been! I was looking all over for you yesterday!"
"Sorry kitten I didn't mean to worry you." I heard a gag of revolution from Two. Taking another breath I lifted my head from Ryou's shirt and looked across at Keiichiro.
"What else is there? What's this rippling effect?" Kish's brows knotting together.
"What are you guys talking about?" One elbowed him.
"Hay what was that about!" She grabbed hold of his arm and pulled him close glaring up at him.
"Quite! If you listen you may figure it out. If you can't I'll explain it to you later." She snapped in a low hiss. But he smiled that smile of his that showed all his teeth.
"You look nice in that uniform. I haven't seen you where that in like what – years!" She rolled her eyes letting out a loud sigh as she turned her head away from him, still holding on to his arm. Keiichiro decided to continue.
"To what I know Ichigo must be right. What ever it is that's happening looks as if it's because there here. I don't know exactly what but I plan on finding it out."
Ichigo Two folded her arms over her chest looking intently at the floor.
"Maybe it's because there's a lose of balance." I blinked. What? Keiichiro and Ryou stayed silent looking at her. Everyone was waiting for her to finish her thought.
"When I was in school I remember having a weird science teacher who was interested in the possibility of there being more than one reality. Other dimensions. He raved on about it some much that once I raised my hand and asked him if it was possible to go to one of these alternate realities. He said it was impossible; that no one would ever gain the knowledge or have the power to tap into the dimensions and go there. But if we could he said we still shouldn't do it."
"Why?" One asked.
"Because he said that it would disturb the balance. That there was a theory that told that if we ever could do it that the balance between the universes would be ruptured and that if not rebalanced in time everything would collapse into it self; time and space. That everything in existence in the universe would destroy it self because of the unbalance. Like a chemical being removed from a machine and it switching to self destruct…in order to fix the unbalance." Everyone was silent as we gapped at her. All that was running through my mind was how in the world she was able to stay awake during a science lecture. I could never keep my eyes open. And if I did I sure wasn't interested enough to listen.
"I think..." started Keiichiro almost in a stunned daze. " That you're right. That could be the reason why all of this is happening." Kish was grinning at Two as she stilled was looking with a focused gaze at the floor.
"Looks like our kitten here is a geek." She swept her head up and growled at him. Three rolled her eyes and turned away from the two.
"You know, Kish that was the worst insult you've come up with yet." Kish's face fell and Two was beaming with a self satisfied grin. One was tightening her grip on his arm to hold him back.
"So what are we going to do about it?" I asked.
"Sending them back were they came from." That was obvious. I felt stupid again. Everyone always had a way of making me feel stupid. I blinked the last few ruminate of tears from my eyes when I noticed that I was still in Ryou's arms! I jumped back and looked furiously at the ground. My cheeks were burning and I caught a glimpse that Ryou's face was slightly pink.
"Maybe you three should wait up in the dinning area," said Ryou. "And we'll call the rest of the mews and tell them to get here right away. We have a lot of work to do if were going to fix this machine in time enough to stop the universe from 'self destruction'." Two glared at him. She thought he was being sarcastic. Everyone started going up the stairs. I looked up and took a step forward as Ryou and Keiichiro got to work.
"I'll help." I busted out. The girls behind me stopped there ascending of the stairs and turned back to look at me. Ichigo Three and Kish raised eyebrows and Three looked as if she had just been slapped in the face. I ignored them. Ryou turned to face me. Keiichiro looked worried. I didn't see why.
"Are you sure?" he asked. I nodded my head.
"I'm sure. I want to help fix this. It's partly my fault."
"It may be only partly. Just tripping over a cord couldn't have ruined the machine but it could have triggered something that made the impossible possible."
"I'll get right to work just tell me what you want me to do."
Well that's the end of chapter ten. The next chapter is going to be called False Hope. In the last chapter I mentioned that Three had an interest in a guy well I have a small hint of who it was. It was small so you might not have caught it. I might just come out and say it or I would have a part in the next chapter to make it painfully obvious of who it is. Oh and I didn't have the time to check over the intire chapter for mistakes. If you guys find any please tell me so I can go backand fix it– Beloved Kitten.