Chapter 3. The New Arrival and the Girls Night In.

Shadow-Ok, I've had a review warning me not to go O.C on people. Now could someone please explain what that means to me? Since One-I don't watch the O.C, I hate things like that, no real actions. And two I'm lost. Hmmm, I'm lost while at the computer, why is this a serious concern?

InuYasha- you are a serious concern all round.

Shadow-true- I am insane when it comes to most things. Ok, lie when it comes to all things.

InuTashio- I think I will have to do something about that. Starting with the chocolate.

Shadow-You wouldn't dare, I'd go sane without chocolate! NOOOO! I need back up! I need Sister and Stripe! HELP! He's threatening to take away my chocolate!(Tears) Oh, one more thing, none of my characters (the ones I made up just so we're clear on this) care for the whole parents thing, and there's a reason for that and I shall reveal that later on in the story! But for now you can all just wait until I get around to it- if I get around to it- at all.

"Nicky? Any idea who'd that be coming here? There's a car coming up the driveway and people don't come up the driveway for nothing!" Nashi desperately tried to find Nicky, but she was no longer at the laptop.

"Yeah, our new housemate!" Nicky appeared in the hallway, holding the clean new sheets that they had brought for the house just a few days before.

"New house mate? And I was going to be told about this when?" Nashi glared at Nicky, who just grinned at the older girl.

"Hay, there is no point in glaring at me for this, you were the one who told me to invite them!"

"I did?"

Alexzandria looked nervously out the window. She toyed with a strand of her jet black knee length hair as her cold icy blue eyes stared out the window. The orders were very unusual. She had been told that she would be staying at a safe house for the time being, hiding as a member of the family whose house she was now to be staying at. Catching sight of the house, all hope that she was going to be happy while here fled. It was huge, a lot bigger then what she expected for a safe house.

What happened to all the rickety old building that no one remembers? Alexzandria couldn't help but wonder. The car pulled up and the officers (that weren't in uniform) got out and made their way to get all of Alexzandria's belongings out of the boot of the car. They moved it all into the front room of the house and drove off without a word as soon as Alexzandria was out of the car. Pulling together all the courage that she possessed, Alexzandria walked up to the house and into the front room. There was another door that led to the rest of the house. Walking up to it, Alexzandria gently knocked on the door.

The door opened to reveal a figure standing alone in the darkness.

"Yes?" The voice sounded familiar to Alexzandria, but she couldn't quite place it.

"My name is Alexzandria, I here to be put in a safe house." Alexzandria stated calmly, but inside she was fearful that there had been some mistake and she was going to be left stranded out in the middle of the countryside.

"Really? I don't remember being told of that, but then again there is a few….how could I put it? People given to toying with others toys here in this house. People that take matters into their own hands." Alexzandria could barely see the cold smile that spread over the other person's face and fear started to build up inside Alexzandria.

"But then again you also do that don't you? You seek answers that do not belong to you and you do have a certain gift, so to speak, at finding the answers to the questions that you shouldn't ask. Don't you?"

Alexzandria started to fear this person in was front of her. There only a very few people in the world that knew of her odd gift and that could only mean trouble.

"Well!" The tone changed from one of mystery to that of impatience.

"Well what!" Alexzandria shot back.

"Well aren't you going to even say hi to your own sister!" The figure stepped out of the darkness to reveal that it was none other the Nashi herself.

Before Alexzandria could open her mouth to reply- or retort, either one was good- something hit Alexzandria with enough force to send her back to the ground. She looked up to see a blond head that was attached to the body that was now hugging her fiercely.

"NOW I HAVE AN OLDER SISTER! NOW I HAVE AN OLDER SISTER! NOW I HAVE AN OLDER SISTER!" The figured screamed at the top of her lungs.

"You already had an older sister." Nashi stated flatly.

The figure-Nicky- finally pulled herself away enough to look between the two older girls. All was silent for an extra few seconds.

"NOW I HAVE TWO OLDER SISTERS TO TAKE CARE OF ME!" Nicky screamed happily before clinging to her sister again.

Nashi laughed at this before kneeling down to help Alexzandria up with Nicky still attach.

"Damn right you need more people to watch over you, otherwise you'd properly be dead! Come on, Zanda will be tired after all that has happened to her over the last few days. Come on, we'll show you to your room." Nashi picked up two of the bags and moved into the house.

'What's going on you guys? What are you doing here? What am I doing here? What's going on?" Zanda had no idea why her two sisters where there standing in front of her instead of causing chaos in New York.

"Long story cut short. G's left us the house and we decided to change countries for the hell of it. That and the fact there was a lot of people back home wanting to kill us for one reason or another. We upgraded the house so we can live here and we found out what happened to you parents this morning." Nashi paused so Nicky could take up the story.

"So I hacked into the cop's data system and changed the address so that you would end up here. Not hard, they obviously don't expect people to go hacking into their data systems. Clearly they are unable to ensure your protection, so we took matters into our own hands."

"You do realise this properly counts as kidnapping." Zanda stated in a flat tone.

"Are you complaining?" Nashi questioned causally. Zanda stoped dead in her track and looked at the other two girls.

"Why did you bring me here?" She questioned.

"Because that's what sister's do, we take care of each other." Was all the Nashi said before Zanda broke down crying. The other two girls come in and started to comfort their sister. They said nothing, just simply sat in the hallway holding onto each other for what seemed like hours. No one said anything, they just listen to the sound of Zanda's sobs.

Finally Nashi broke the silence.

"Come on, we'll have a girls night in and have some fun! Now what will be needing for tonight?" Nashi smiled down at the two girls waiting for an answer. Zanda blew her nose before answering with Nicky saying every second one.

"Chips."

"Chocolate."

"Drinks."

"Chocolate."

"Movies."

"More chocolate."

"Popcorn."

"Chocolate."

"Something Japanese for dinner."

"And something chocolate for desert."

Nashi laughed at the two younger girls as the started to argue with one another. Steering them towards Zanda's new room, Nashi left them there to 'debate' with the large number of pillows in the room.

Heading back down to the kitchen, Nashi glanced at the bus schedule and found that a bus would be passing by in the next 20 min to the city. After quickly cleaning up the small mess that had been their lunch, she dashed up stairs to get change and grab her coat before racing out the raid just in time to catch the bus.

The trip to and in the city was uneventful except the part where some weird man decided that Nashi was a good target for something wrong and Nashi had to dislocate his shoulder. But after Nashi got off the bus and decided to take a short cut though the field to get back the house sooner since it was now late afternoon and she had left order for Nicky to finish setting up the sound speaker system in what was to be the new lounge room. She wanted to get back as soon as possible before Nicky discovered any source of fire and burnt the house to the ground. Zanda hadn't live with Nicky to know fully the dangers of leaving Nicky alone with fire.

As she was crossing the field Nashi stoped short. In the middle of the field was a large rock and on the rock sat a long white figure. The back was to Nashi so she couldn't see the face. All Nashi could see was the long almost silver flowing hair and one black shoe with white baggy pants. The person looked like they had a fluffy boa thrown over their shoulder and what looked like armour coming over the shoulder.

Nashi stared at the white figure, wondering what on earth they were doing there and what was with the fluffy thingy. It was so fluffy! A noise behind her cause Nashi to glance over her shoulder out of habit. It was only a squirrel falling into the bushes underneath the tree. But when she looked back the white figure was gone.

Nashi looked around the field, she had only looked away for a second and she doubted that they knew she was there. Shaking the feeling out fear building up in her head, Nashi continue on to the house.

Upon entering the house, Nashi knew something was wrong. It was quiet, too quiet.

A/N I've always wanted to put that into one of my stories. It's a classic! LOL

"Nicky? Zanda? Where are you? Yo, my girls? What's up? Hope ya'll not dead!" Nashi carefully looked around the seemingly empty house, looking for signs of life.

Finally she looked in on Zanda's room to find both girls sound asleep on Zanda's still made bed.

Smiling gently to herself, Nashi went back down stairs to prepare dinner. Tonight she had chosen to make Raman, ok so it wasn't exactly Japanese but at the point of time Nashi couldn't care less.

She had just finished serving it up in the bowls and went upstairs to wake them up. Upon coming back down stairs they made a disturbing discovery.

"Oi, what happened to our dinner?" Nashi franticly looked around the room, searching for the lost meal. The other two girls looked around the kitchen only to find three empty bowls and a single pair of chopsticks.

"GGRRRRRR!" Was the only sound made by Nashi as she set about making yet another dinner.

The Girl's Night In went perfectly after that. After dinner (which they decide to eat in their PJ's for the hell of it) they sat down with their desert and watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Once the movie was over (and they almost killed themselves laughing) the next movie was brought out- Shrek 2. They watched this with the chips, drinks, big bowls of chocolate, popcorn and the little frozen fruit cups Nicky made while Nashi was out. Quite a bit of the popcorn ended up being thrown at the T.V screen for one reason or another.

After the second movie the beds and the extra pillows were brought out. After the sleeping arrangement were made it was time for the time honoured tradition of-

"Pillow Fight!" Nicky threw a pillow at Nashi, who was just standing up form finishing her bed when the pillow knocked her to the ground, catching her off guard.

Nicky and Zanda attacked her ruthlessly, ganging up on the older girls and preventing her from getting up off the ground. Nashi tried to protect herself from her prone position on the ground.

"Ow, ow, ow! All right, all right, already! Cut it out!" Nashi shouted between blows from the pillows. Both girls stoped with the pillows held above their heads ready to strike.

"Why?" Zanda asked.

"'Cause I'm about to do this!" Nashi shot out her leg and caught her foot behind Zanda's knee, pulling the younger girl off balance and down onto the couch behind her. Rolling over, Nashi barely avoided Nicky's attack on her head. Scrambling to her feet with a pillow in each hand, Nashi continued to defend herself unsuccessfully from the other two girls.

"Hay! Why gang up on me!" Nashi demanded.

"Good point!" Zanda changed her attack to Nicky who in turn started to defend herself. This continued well into the night, all the girls changing sides and alliances until the effect of all the sugar they had eaten earlier in the night started to wear off. They only paused to put on their CD's. The first song was Boom, boom, boom, boom! Whenever the boom, boom, boom, boom, part came on the girls would hit each other with the pillows, shouting the words t the song at the top of their lungs.

A/N Yes this is a real song, it happen to be on of my favourites.

By the early hours of the morning they went to sleep on a big pile on the floor- sort of like a nest made of pillows, blankets and the odd cushion.

There they slept undisturbed until lunch time, holding onto each others hands. When they woke they had choc-chip pancakes for lunch/breakfast. While cleaning up the mess made by the Girl's Night In after lunch, Zanda's eye caught on something almost completely hidden under the couch.

Picking it up she found it to be a red leather bound book with tarnished brass trimmings.

"Yo, who's is this?" Zanda held up the book for the other two to see. Nicky crossed the room and took the book and started to flick though the pages.

"It's properly one of the books from the office upstairs. It's in that same strange language. No idea what's it's doing down here though." Nicky handed back the book with a shrug and bent down to pick up the last of the mess.

"What office?" Zanda's curiosity was sparked instantly.

"It's upstairs. It joins on to one of the three rooms that were blocked off. It's really weird- I think it looks like a museum- heaps of old stuff all in that weird writing. I swear I could feel someone watching me in their, almost like they were waiting for me to do something." Nicky shivered involuntarily. "Anyway, I got out of there quick. You go have a look, I'm just about done here anyway." Nicky pushed her sister in the direction of the stairs that lead to the office and Zanda need no extra encouragement.

"Thank, my girls. Later!" Zanda took off at the full run up to the strange room.

First things first, she rearranged the desk to her liking so that she could work without having to feel out of place.

Then she spent the rest of the day there, looking though different book, scrolls and pieces of paper, but the red book never left her side. Zanda just knew it would hold all the answers she would need. She just needed to translate it, but to do that she was going to need a little help.

It wasn't until it was getting really dark in the room did Zanda bother to take enough notice of time to turn on the light.

"Hay are you going to come down to dinner or shall I simply lock the door until ya starve yourself to dearth, or die of thirst, whatever comes first." Nashi gave a quick one arm shrug before turning to leave, closing the door behind her slowly.

"Wait! I'm coming! So what's for dinner?" Zanda quickly got out of the room before moving down towards the kitchen. They had a proper dinning room (why they are yet to figure out) but the never use it since it was nothing but a pain to do so. Rather they sat at the kitchen table to eat all meals.

"I've cooked up my special chicken burgers with all the toppings- no pickles or raw tomatoes of course- with some light noodles on the side. You like?" Nashi glanced at the other girls for a reaction.

"Of course I don't like it!" Zanda stated hotly, crossing her arms and looking away with a fake hurt expression on her face.

"Is that so?" Nashi lifted an eyebrow at the other girl.

"Yes it is!" Zanda paused before throwing her arms around the older girl. "I LOVE them!" Both girls laughed before continuing down the hallway.

After sitting down to dinner and taking a big bite out of her burger, letting all the natural juices gently trickle down her thought while letting out a sigh of pure bliss at the taste.

"These are the best!" Zanda managed to say around a full mouth. After sallowing she turned to her two housemates.

"So, do you want to know what I've found out?"

"So, what have you found?" Nicky asked only paying half attention.

"According to legend, there is said to be a great battle fought not far from here. The lord of the west was called to the area because his father- who had died some years before- had been brought back from the dead and if he was not freed soon he would be under the control of the one that had brought him back in the first place." Zanda paused to take another bite out of her overstuffed burger.

"People being brought back from the dead? Cool, what happen to the dad?" Nicky wondered.

"From what I sort of read-"

"What do you mean 'sort of'?" Nashi butted in.

"Well, I can't read it all completely like I can Ancient Egyptian or Latin, but I can read most word and I just full what I can in by guessing. However, I think who ever record this strange bit of history was a bit confused with the dates since this event happened over about a hundred years. That's started from, the father's death to the revival. Anyway, as I was saying the Lord of the West went to find his father, but only because having him under the control of another would cause more problems for every, including the son. This Lord dude had a little half-brother who he hated heaps or something to do with the sword he had, I think." Zanda pause as both girls sighed

"What is it with boys and their stupid toys? Haven't they ever heard of sharing? Seriously, the second one guy has something that the other guys wants they go to war, try and kill each other and everyone around them! Males are such egotistic morons!" All the girls laughed at this but was cut off sort when someone started to shout.

"Oi!" Anything else was cut of by the sound of something falling to the ground.

"What was that?" Nicky asked.

"No idea, but whatever it was it's gone now." Nashi looked out the window only to see nothing.

"Well as I was saying, the brothers really hated each other so they really didn't get along. But here's something that may prove to be interesting. In one story- from the book I found while we were cleaning up- it's the only one that used present tense- they were referred to as not human, but as youkai." Paused at the confused looks on the other two girls faces.

"Huh?" They answered in sync.

"You mean they were demons? How's that work?" Nicky asked

"I'm not sure, but I do know all my answers are in this book! I can feel it! Now all I've gotta do is finish translating it. Which may take some time, since its very rear to find anything written in this particular dialect." Zanda started to chop down on her burger again, almost finishing it.

"Why's that?"

"Well, the first findings of it date back about four hundreds yrs, when high officials used it to write secrete messages to one another. The thing is everyone who had anything to do with it all knew the language, so it was a complete language before people started to use it. Which suggest there was someone else using it before them. While knowledge of it is limited, the debate is that there was another race that used the language before the Japanese high officials and lords. But no one knows who, it's like they were never there but they left their mark. Kinda like when you look at Egypt today you wouldn't have guessed it was once under British rule. Anyway, getting back to the point, the story says that instead of them being human, it says that they were taiyoukais and hanyous, and that the witch that brought back the father then sealed the three with a barrier to prevent them from interfering with her plans."

"You know you've been talking for ages." Nicky said off handily,

"Do you want to hear the end of the story or not?" Zanda shot back

"Yes we do, please continue." Nashi shot Nicky a warning look, telling her not to interrupt again.

"As I was saying, the witch, as she's referred to in the book, set up the barrier to prevent them from interfering. The barrier cover an entire forest, since the witch planned to come back and use them, she didn't want to drive them insane or they might hurt each other or something like that. Anyway I looked up the forest on the maps in the room- yes Nashi there's more then one. In fact here's a whole entire another room that you've haven't seen, it's so cool. Anyway, according to the map, this house, the one we're living to is just inside the barrier. But what's more interesting is that from what I've already heard of the area and from my parent's research, no one will live with a certain area because they believe it's haunted by the spirits of the lost Lords. But with this new information, I believe that the area is not haunted by the dead at all." Zanda stoped and smiled to herself, proud that she could dismiss the stupid fears of others.

"Then if the spirits aren't haunting the place then what's the problem?" Nashi asked, somewhat confused.

"Well, according to local legend about a hundred yrs ago strange things started to happen within what I believe to be the barrier. While I cant prove anything until the rest of the book is fully translated- I've only got about half of the words- I still have reason to believe that the so called 'spirits' aren't even dead. In fact there are very much alive. Since it was always common belief that youkai live much longer lives then us, I believe that we actually have a few house guests, either that or we're the house guests." Zanda sat quietly sipping her drink as if there was nothing wrong with what she had just said.

"You mean to tell me that you believe that there is two and a half youkai living with us?" Nashi pressed.

"Yup." Zanda was very happy with herself.

"……."

"Cool. Now how do we meet these taiyoukais?" Nicky ask cheerfully.

"I don't know if having two and a half demons living in the same house as three girls is a good idea. Just think of all the things we'll have to stop doing just because there's a few males in the house." Nashi warned

"Like what?"

"Playing jokes on each other while they're in the shower." Zanda pointed out

"And why would that be a problem?" Nicky shot back

"Because you always jump out of the shower with nothing but the towel around you- if we're lucky." Nashi replied simply.

"So what, Zanda looks all over the house just for the bra she wants, and you sleep walk in your underwear during summer and sometimes in the middle of the winter!" Nicky glared at Nashi.

"I do not sleepwalk!" Nashi shouted back hotly

"So then where did all the chocolate we were saving go to? Besides, I watched you! And filmed it if you want to see it!"

"GGGRRRRR!" Was Nashi only response. "Fine, I sleep walk, but that's not my point, my point is we are going to have to give up a lot of stuff if we are to go find these demons. BTW, since when did we believe in demons and ghost and the like?" Nashi looked from one girl to the other, looking for an answer.

"Since right……. Now!" Zanda responded.

Nicky and Nashi looked at each other for a few seconds as if silently asking each other if Zanda was for real. Then they just shrugged.

"Cool, so we know they're there now, and that explains a lot of what's been going down here, so now what?" Nicky looked to her older sisters.

"Now we wait, according to what I've researched, youkai have advance strength, speed and senses. Though I don't know about the whole brains department, but going out to find them is properly a big no-no." Zanda finished her drink and moved toward the sink to rinse her dishes before putting them in the top dishwasher (they have two).

"Maybe we can't get to them, but they can come to us." Nashi gave her evil I'm-starting-to-scheme-so-watch-out smile.

Stripe- Hoo boy, are you guys in trouble! I mean, three girls living in your house? You'll never find anything again, you'll never win another argument, and there's no way you'll get away with anything, even when you're innocent!

Sesshomaru-Who are you?

Stripe- Me-ow to you too. I'm the one, the only, Striped Innocence!

Shadow-Yay! Stripe you're here! Boys this is my bestest friend in the whole world Stripe!

Stripe-Awww! But don't forget Sister. She's coming soon too. Now who's the guy with the adorable doggy ears! Can I touch them! PLEASE!

Shadow-Of course, InuYasha here boy!

InuYasha- Oh no you don't! No! Leggo! Let me GO! OW!

Stripe- Are they real? Do they come off?

InuYasha- OOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!

Shadow-I can't wait for Sister to get here!

Sesshomaru-Neither can I.

InuTashio-What's going on here?

Stripe, Shadow, Sesshomaru-Nothing!

InuYasha-GET HER OFF ME!

InuTashio- Err………… no. It's cute…. Who are you?

Stripe- Aw, man, not again. I woulda thought my rep preceded me. It would be so much easier that way.

Shadow-This is my bestest best friend Stripe.

InuTashio- Bestest is not a real word.

Shadow- Since when do you care? Besides, it is now. You knew what it meant, so it's a word.