Shadow- Hay people, sorry I haven't updated in so long. Stupid flu!
Sesshomaru:-Humans are so weak.
Shadow:-Sesshomaru, shut it. Or you be in a pink to-to before the end of the next chapter. Remember fear the power of the pen. Or in this case, the keyboard.
InuYasha:-Hay can we do that anyway?
InuTashio:-InuYasha, she's suppose to have a sense of honour, don't say such things.
Shadow:-Yeah the key word there is 'supposed'.
A/N: - I'm adding in a few new characters, one of them will be mention this chapter. Another thing is that I am completely hopeless when it comes to sticking to a story line since I have this habit of discussing my stories with my friends which give me whole new ideas. But I will be sticking to the main theme of the story.
Disclaimer: - I do not own InuYasha in any shape or form. Though Sister thinks she's going to change that. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Chapter 2 Strange Occurrences
Everything was finally completely done at long last. All the junk and been removed, the plumbers had been called in and he repaired, replace and completed all the plumbing that needed to be done, that took over two weeks with 4 plumbers. The electricians came and added power to the house and installed about half of the appliances that had already come in, plus the carpenters had came to fix everything else that needed repair. Nicky and Nashi did a lot of the finishing touches themselves, which was hard work in and of itself. Now that everything was finished, the two girls suddenly realised that they still hadn't gotten into the East wing. They had each chosen rooms on the West wing and had done the least amount of work on the East wing. So just before the last carpenter left they requested that he removed the door completely. Surprise at the request he complied none the less and soon the girls were exploring the last bit of the house.
All 3 rooms were observably the largest in the house. The rooms looked like there still were people living in them, which didn't make since there was no sign of human life in the rooms. The rooms all looked as if they had been recently lived in, all 3 in different states. While one room was perfect, looking like it had just been cleaned, the one across the hall was a complete mess. While there were no cloths or other personal items, the bed was a mess and there was a serious need for a serious dusting. The third was clean as well except for the unmade bed.
"Ok, any guesses to who been living here?" Nicky asked
"No idea, but by the looks of things I think they may have left. Looks like we have a bit of cleaning ahead of us in that other room. Hay, isn't this one suppose to have an office attached to it?" Nashi looked around to see if she could find the office. On the far side of the room there was the door that would lead into the office.
Causally opening the door Nashi walked in to discover an unusual sight. All the papers in the room were in perfect order, the desk neat and everything was in its place, just as it would have been 500 yrs ago.
That was what made Nashi stop in her steps.
Instead of books on the shelves there were scrolls, instead of pens there were ink wells and brushes. Dust was nowhere to be seen.
It almost looked like they had taken a step back in time, either that or a museum's exhibit. If she didn't know any better Nashi would have sworn that was what had happened. Moving over to the large wooden desk, Nashi picked up the piece of paper that had been left on the desk. Looking over it she saw that she couldn't read any of it since it wasn't in any language that she knew of.
Looking over the different pieces of paper, Nashi sat down at the desk and started to look for something that she could recognize. When she found nothing she could understand, she turned to the maps on the walls. The paper looked very old fashioned, something that you more likely to see in a museum under think glass that had became foggy with the amount of marks that had come about from people pointing to places they thought they knew on the map. Only here there was no foggy glass, just brownish-yellow paper with ink all over it.
Shrugging off the feeling that there was something very wrong with the room apart from the obvious, Nashi left the room to discover that the bed had been made up.
"What the-?" Nashi looked about the room. Nicky was no longer in the room, and it was completely unlike her to do something like this. A cold breeze drew her attention to the open window. Frowning, Nashi silently closed it.
Heading down stairs to find her sister at the kitchen table happily munching away at her breakfast, laptop opened and on in front of her.
"Hay, enjoy your trip to the museum?" Nicky asked with a raised eyebrow, looking at her friend with a odd look in her eyes. Nashi knew that meant trouble.
"Alright, I'll bite, what's up?" Nashi gave her a look to let her know she was having no games that mourning.
"Arr, I know you are gonna think that I've gone a little over the edge with this one, but you know my sixth sense right? How I always know when people are watching me and just where they are when they are doing it?" Nicky gave Nashi a bugging look, hoping that her sister would believe her.
"Yeah, you caught 9 pricks that keep watching us from the building across the road. It wasn't until after the cops busted the place did we find out it was the FBI. Seriously, I still don't know why they would want to watch us or anyone in our building, but anyway, please continue." Nashi gave her sister a sheepish smile.
"Well I got that feeling again, but every time I look there all I ever …well, all I ever think I see is a flash of read or while, sometime a little black as well. But really there nothing there, and… I- I'm really worried that something is about to happen, something bad. I don't know what, but I can just feel it!" Nicky looked around, almost as if she was expecting whatever bad thing that was going to happen to start right after what she had said.
"Look, don't worry, I'm sure the bad feeling is just has something to do with the fact that we are in another country for the first time. As for someone watching us, ever thought that maybe the fact the we are no longer in the city and for the first time in our entire lives we are far away from any other form of human life? Maybe it's the lack of people around us that's getting to you- you felt the same way when we went on that boring summer camp and ended up being isolated. Which I still say is your fault." Nasi gave her sister a cold smile, knowing the last statement would drag her out of the feeling of dread and back to her normal self.
"ME! You're the one who decided that the councillors needed to get up four hours early! And I was not the one who used honey to attract all the birds. Which only brought that bear into the camp!" Nicky glared up at her friend.
"Hay! You can't blame me for the bear. OR how every adult at the camp ran for the lives which only made the bear panic! And it's not like anyone got hurt, and besides I was the one who took care of it! And how was I to know that there were bears in the area? There shouldn't have been any, it was SUMMER CAMP! Besides I wasn't the one who hardwired the camp sound speakers to so that everyone in the camp could hear what was going on in the office! That was wrong on so many levels! Then you hack into the camp system, why they needed one I don't know- and rescheduled the activities so that we were always either on swimming or archery. I swear that guy hated us!" Nashi gave a sad look to her friend, remembering the other poor campers.
"And why not? You did shot him, 8 times!"
"Hay, he asked me to. It is not my fault that he didn't believe I was any good with a bow and arrow. Ok, so he was sent off to the hospital for that one-"
"That's because you shot him twice in each limb! Come on girl, I know you got away with it since he did ask you to but that's no reason to be so mean. …. You could have at least have finished him off!" Both girls laughed at this.
"And be charged with murder! I think not! The cops already have a hard enough time as is printing out my history, they don't need anymore. Getting back to the point, you were the one who somehow managed to get two diversions of the U.S. army to show up at the camp's front gate and try to arrest that annoying guy that was in charge…… They weren't too happy with you." Nashi silently laughed at what she saw as a fond memory, or at least on of the better ones she had. Nicky on the other hand laughed all out at the memory, simply because she knew that there had to be something to laugh at.
The laptop that was sitting on the table made a few small musical notes along with a pop-up to notify Nicky that she had a new email. Clicking on it, Nicky's eyes went wide with surprise when she saw who it was from.
"It's from the Carters!" Nicky looked over to Nashi to find her pouring herself a cup of green tea.
"Really? What, they need our help again? Maybe they need me to get some ancient statue from a booby-trapped temple? Or steal some ancient jewel back from the black market? Or get something back from some rich collecting snob who stole what is not their's in the first place. Or do they need someone blackmailed again?" Nashi causally sat herself down across from her friend, waiting for an answer.
"Not sure," Nicky clicked on the email, opening it up "Crap." Was all she said as she turned the laptop to face Nashi, her face full with worry. Nashi rea it out loud
Dear Contact of Mr & Mrs Carter
We regret to inform you in such a way but we feel all must know. Mr and Mrs Carter were found dead yesterday morning in their apartment in Tokyo. Their only child Alexzandria has been placed in police custody for protection reason and also due to the fact that there is no suitable relative for her to be placed with. It is believed that the deaths of Mr & Mrs Carter were unnatural but this has yet to be out in writing. If you have any clue or information that may be useful in this matter please forward it to the address below.
Nashi sat back, numbly. Shock was written all over her face. Nicky mirrored this look.
"Zanda, Isis. Oh sh$#! This is not good." It didn't take long for Nashi's mind to reboot and start working again. "All right. I think school next week is going to be cancelled. First we gotta find Zanda. Nicky, hack into the police data system- I want to know where they think they will be hiding her. I'll go upstairs and see if she answering her email. You use the wireless. See what you can find on the case once you know where she is." Nashi stood up and moved towards the hallway, catching out of the corner of her eye a glint of silver and red. Nashi glanced towards the window, only nothing was there. Nothing was ever there.
A lone tall figure calmly watched the house (even though it's properly more of a mansion) from the safety of a old cherry tree. The pink blossoms budding all around him. Not even sparing a glance to the figure clad in red that had just arrived he spoke a signal word
"Report."
"Apparently one of them has the ability to sense when people are watching them, I mean really watching them. But it's been brushed off because of an incident at someplace called Summer Camp where they were isolated for causing trouble." The red clad figure pause as the tall figure looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Trouble?" Was all that was said.
The red figure tucked his hand into his wide sleeves and smiled smugly. "Yeah, there was something to do with bringing a bear into the camp, waking up the councillors 4 hours early, shooting the archery master 8 times, calling in 2 diversions of the U.S army to arrest the guy in charge of the camp-" The figure in red paused to watch the tall figure chuckle softly to himself.
"A real pair of trouble makers, are they? Well, this should prove more interesting then I thought. What else?"
"IT seem that trouble has fallen one or two of their friends. There was something about a murder and at present they are trying to find out about at least one of the friends. One of them- the older one, Nashi- has gone upstairs to try and contact the friend while the other one- Nicky- is downstairs trying to find the friend and any information on what has happened."
The tall figure continued to watch the house, as if waiting for something to happen.
"Continue to watch them, I will want to know if more of them are to arrive. I am unsure how long this will last. And where is your brother? I hope he still isn't entertaining ideas of a massacre."
The red figure huffed and looked away. "He's properly in some meadow thinking of absolutely nothing that doesn't involve making my life worst then it already is." With that he left the tall figure turned his attention back to the house with only one thought
At least those two don't try to kill each other, unlike my two. Maybe it's because girls are gentler? This seemed to amuse the tall figure.
Shadow:- There another chapter completed.
Sesshomaru:- I did not get to say anything.
Shadow:- Shut up. The pink to-to threat still stands.