Me: And so I'm back...again...
Ariel: Thanks Captain Obvious...
Me: ONWARD!
And so, a few weeks pass by and Emilio and Katsura enrolled Nikki, Kenshin, and Spatial into Kaoru's school. Misao, Megumi, Aoshi, and Sano were shocked at first, but they ended up getting used to having our once-dead heroines/hero around. Nikki and Sano like to make fun of eachother and get into fights a lot but in the end, they make-up and, like with Kaoru, Sano was like a big brother to Spatial and Nikki. Spatial hit it off pretty well with the teachers and was always getting Nikki out of trouble. Our chapter begins with a boring lecture on normal curves in AP Calc. (Advanced Placement Calculus)
Nikki was sitting there, texting Spatial on her cell phone when a new message came up.
BigDaddy: New mission. Need U + K+ S on it. Now. (That was Nikki's dad)
"Dammit." Nikki curses, slapping her phone shut. She looked around at her fellow classmates. Sano was asleep, behind his Calculus book, with a bunch of spitwads in his hair, due to Battousai and Aoshi, and some to herself she had to admit, Kaoru was slamming her head on her textbook and Misao was passing notes with Megumi. We all know what Kenshin was doing, he was paying attention. (Me: will...not...say...it) She needed a good excuse to get her, Kaoru and Spatial out of there. It was then that Nikki noticed for the first time that there was a male teacher in charge of this class (she never pays attention). She smirked. This was gonna be good. She stands up abruptly, knocking her chair over.
"Uh, sir." she says in a shaky voice, "I...OWWWWWW!" she hunches over, gripping her side. Spatial and Kaoru, knowing that something was up, stand up and grabs Nikki's arm.
"Ow, whoo, boy," Nikki looks up at the teacher with an apologetic smile, "Ladies time. I-I gotta go to the bathroom."they start to head out, but the teacher stops her.
"We have five minutes left Miss Hirote, you can wait."
"No, sir! You don't understand! PMS for me means Pants Might Shred, so I gotta go."
"Nikki.."
"SIR! You don't understand!" Nikki's voice sounded more desperate, "I bloat, I take on water and I bloat. And trust me, it is not a pretty picture."
"I gotta take her to the bathroom." Kaoru leads her friend toward the door.
"Oh god! I NEED A TAMPON!" Nikki groans, stopping. Spatial looks earnestly at the teacher.
"You heard the woman. We have a sick student...we need tampons!" she begins to usher Nikki out of the room.
"You gonna do it teach?" asks a now awake Sano.
"I don't even do it for my wife." he tells the class.(Me: What a loser. My dad can buy me pads with no problem)
"I guess this is a job for a real man." Battousai says, standing up and catching the drift, "Any particular brand?" he calls after them.
"Any kind!" Nikki yells, leaving the room with the girls in tow. Kenshin stands up and walks up to Battousai.
"You know, Tomoe liked the ones in the little blue box with the daisies on it.." Battousai grabs Kenshin by the collar and draws Kenshin's face close to his.
"You aren't getting this are you?" he asks, "Something's up and Katsura told us to watch them, c'mon." Battousai runs out and Kenshin looks back at the class who was staring at him like this o.0.
"Right," he tells them, "tampons." and he turns around and runs off.
Once a good distance away in the hallway, Nikki straightens herself up and Kaoru and Spatial release their grip on her. They all look at eachother and that was all it took to cause them to bust out laughing.
"Oh...my...god!" Kaoru yells, "I cannot believe we did that!" She resumes laughing.
"Oh god yeah." Spatial props herself up on a wall to keep from falling down, unlike Nikki, "That was so sweet. God we should've gotten an Emmy." Nikki uncurls herself from the ball she was in and brushes some tears from her eyes.
"Man, what'd I tell you? If you can fake period cramps, you can get away with anything!" she begins laughing again.
"Yes that was genius, that it was." Kenshin walks up to them.
"Hey Kenshin." Nikki tells him, looking up at him.
"Hello Nikki-dono."
"Yeah, and now thanks to you three, I look like a tampon buying freak." Battousai growls.
"But I thought you always were." Kaoru says, innocently. Battousai grabs her and begins tickling her, which causes everyone to laugh.
"Now that everyone's had a nice laugh," Auriela says, climbing in though one of the windows in the hallway, out looking the courtyard, "Let's get going you guys." She looks back at Jason, who was forced to come along, and sweatdrops. He was still struggling to get through the window.
"Give it up Jase," she shoves him back out and into the shrubs below.
"That was mean Ella. You're supposed to make me feel welcome into the family, not push me out!" he yells at her, picking leaves out of his hair. Auriela just sticks her tongue out at him and pushes the window open some more, so everyone can climb out alright.
"Lets go. Jase, you catch us."
"Why me?"
"Because I said so!" she hisses at him, "Okay, Nikki, you first." Nikki nods and does a nice little dive out of the window and lands perfectly on her feet. (Note kids: If you dive headfirst out of a window, make sure someone is there to catch you because I guarantee you won't land perfectly on your feet like Nikki. So doing that would not only be stupid..it would also affect your future. Oh yeah, I guess skipping school would too. (Shoots a there-are-you-satisfied glare at her teachers))
"Spatial, you next." Spatial climbs on the ledge and screams 'cannonball' before she jumps out, and accidentally landing on Jason.
"Sorry, heh."
"No problem." Nikki walks up to Spatial and slaps her across the head.
"Are you stupid!" she hisses, "Now the security guards will have heard you and they'll come and check it out!." PLOP PLOP! Down came Battousai and Kenshin. Auriela hurriedly motions for Kaoru to jump when they hear the security guard's footsteps just around the corner. Kaoru jumps, not caring how graceful it looked, with Auriela following.
"Okay guys, let's go!" They all make a mad dash toward Auriela's hot red convertible and Jason's black Harley. In five minutes they were out of the school zone and on the highway.
"Phew," Kaoru lets out a sigh of relief and slams her head down on the backseat, "I don't think I've ever been so scared in my life."
"Heh, Mafia life. Requires good reflexive skills as well as fighting skills. Personally, I've been doing it ever since I could fight." Nikki lets out a relaxed sigh and rests her head on the back of the seat.
"Which has been since when?" Spatial asks, leaning up toward the front seat to look at her friend.
"Five years old." Nikki and Auriela answer in unison.
"But...how...why...never mind."
"Some things can never be explained Spatial m'dear. So what's the mission?"
"Some of Enishi's goons killed five of our people, who were doing a paranormal investigation, so far. We're supposed to go finish what they've started." Auriela yells over the wind, pulling into a back street.
"SWEET!" Nikki yells, "This is gonna rock!"
"Kinda funny you should say that Nick..."
"Why Ella?"
"Because, the last time you said that a mission would rock, we found your severed head sitting on dad's chair with a note from Enishi pinned to the center of your forehead." Nikki furrows her brow and rubs her forehead, then looks at her hand, as if something came off there.
O.O (Kenshin, Battousai, Kaoru, and Spatial)
"You never cease to amaze me, that you don't"
"Heh, thanks Kenshin." They pull up to a scary looking mansion in the middle of nowhere. Lightning flashes in the background and the gang sweatdrops. (It was like night there)
"Scooby Doo much?" Nikki asks, climbing out of the car and turning on a flashlight. Auriela laughs, slamming the trunk shut and lugging a huge bag behind her.
"Lemme see," she opens the bag and it's full of equipment (weapons, cameras etc.). "For you." she hands Kenshin a katana and a night vision camera, "And you." she hands Batts the same thing, "And Spatial." she hands her a gun and holster attached to a strap that you can tie around your thigh (you will see this a lot), a dagger on the same strap, and a nightvision camera, "Kaoru" she hands Kaoru a katana and the gun and holster and a nightvision camera, "And Nic-chan, your classic Bow and Arrows." Auriela hands her a curved blade-ish thingie with a handle(it's black), connecting the two ends, and a belt with black metal sticks attached and a gun and holster a la Spatial's and Kaoru's.
"Uh, Auriela-san? Sessha hates to criticize you, that he does, but that doesn't look like a bow and some arrows, that it doesn't."
"Yeah, what oro dude said." Jason agrees. (Ahem, the term 'oro dude' belongs to blueangel-maggie1723, ask her if you want to use this, not me)
"Well it is. Anywho, I'll just take a gun for myself. And Jase, sorry bub, we're out."
"WHAT!"
"Heh," Auriela laughs at the glare Jason gave her, "It was a joke." she says defensively, throwing him a gun and a camera as well.
"It better have been." he growls.
"Great, but it's pitch black out and I can barely see Kenshin, and he's two feet infront of me!" Spatial yells. Jason lights a fireball up in his hand.
"Better?"
"YOU'RE A FIRE DEMON! BUT-HOW? WHAT THE! NIKKI! YOUR FAMILY IS A BUNCH OF FREAKS! Wait...are you a demon too? OMG! DON'T KILL ME!" Spatial runs for safety behind Battousai.
"What the-get off woman!"
"No Spatial, I'm a vampire." Nikki says, rolling her eyes.
"OMFG! DON'T SUCK MY BLOOD!"
(-.-) (Everyone) "Eh...Spatial."
"No, actually she is."
O.O (Everyone but Jason, Nikki, and Auriela.)
"Well, I'm half of one anyway." Nikki sits on a rock and crosses her legs, "It's in my blood. Ella's one too. Just like Ryu and Mina."
O.O (Everyone but Nikki and Ella) "But you're all so...innocent." Nikki and Auriela look at eachother and burst out laughing.
"HAHAHAHA! US INNOCENT! YEAH RIGHT! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY MEN ELLA HAD TO BED BEFORE SHE HAD THE PERFECT CHANCE TO KILL THEM! HAHAHAHAHA! THAT'S A LAUGH!"
"NIKKI! INNOCENT! OMG IF THAT ISN'T THE JOKE OF THE CENTURY! HAHAHAHA! DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW MANY MEN SHE HAD TO SEDUCE AND BRING OUT INTO AN ALLEYWAY SO WE COULD KILL THEM! OMFG!"
"AND DON'T EVEN GET US STARTED WITH RYU AND MINA! HAHAHA HAHAHA!" they fall over from laughing
(-.-) (Everyone)
"Are you all finished?" Battousai growls.
"Yes." both stand up and wipe tears from their eyes.
"Let's go then. I'd like to get back to civilization sometime."
Once inside the building...
"Kay, kay Spatial, time to do your psychic tuning girl, what's up with this place?" Nikki shuts off her flashlight and Jason's fireball vanishes, "Night vision cameras on everyone." Everyone turns them on and the only light in the whole building was that coming from the small flashlight on the cameras.
"Well, it's a building."
"Duh." Nikki whacks Spatial with her camera, "I mean spiritually."
"Ohhhh."
"Yeah, 'Ohhhh.' Now get going girl. Before I suck your blood!"
"Meep!"
"Relax Spatial. We don't suck blood. We don't even drink it. We aren't that much vampire." Auriela smacks Nikki across the head.
"Phew. Okay! Lemme see. Well, it belonged to a young couple from the Meiji Era. Disowned by them around...oh say, the second year. Yes, the second year. Uh, wait...they had one child but it died a day after it's first birthday, a day after the mother was killed."
"How? The mother, I mean." Auriela asks.
"Gunshot. Husband went insane and killed himself."
"Any names?"
"The mother's."
"And it was...?"
"Dona (Dona is a Spanish title for a noble lady. Pronounced Doh-na) Isabella Setsuka Hirote-Himura (try saying that five times fast I dare ya). Shares your last name. Making any connections anyone?" Auriela shakes her head and Jason just shrugs. Kenshin just has his usual 'Oro?' look and Battousai let out a small 'Hn' which Spatial took as a no.
"Makes sense to me." Nikki speaks up. Everyone focuses their cameras on her ( (singing)I always feel like, somebody's watching meeeeeeee!) .
"Aren't you going to tell us?"
"Yes, Spatial, I believe I will. Dona Isabella Himura was our ancestress from Spain. She married a Japanese samurai who had almost killed her in the revolution. They had a daughter together and Isabella was killed, shot, by what is believed by her husband's ex-brother-in-law...according to Tomoe and historians."
"You mean that creepy girl who now works for us?"
"Yes Ella, that creepy girl who was transferred from our unit in China. But most of us in the mafia believe it's from the jealous ex-wife. A day later, she poisoned the baby and the samurai went insane. Two days later, he stabbed himself and died. The end. Sleep tight."
"Do you know the samurai's name?"
"Nope."
"You Spatial."
"Ain't getting nothin. And that's basically the whole house's history."
"Okay then." Auriela claps her hands together, "I suggest we split up, look for Enishi's goons. Kill them, all the while exploring this house's history. Nikki, you take the second floor. Kenshin you take the west wing. Battousai and Kaoru, take the east. Spatial and Jason, take the main floor and I'll do the cellar. Okay?" everyone nods, "Okay then. Split!" Everyone headed off to their destinations...not knowing what tonight would bring.
Me: The end. I actually wonder how many people tried saying that name 5 times fast.
Ariel: Don't know, don't care. Just go with the review responses.
Reignashii- Amen, sista. And does the above chappie answer the school question. If it doesn't get glasses. I wouldn't be too worried about school anyway. God girl. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!
Spatial- Ahem, I prefer the one that goes, Kaoru and Battousai sittin in a tree f-u-c-k-i-n-g Batts:(reading over my shoulder/growling) Woman... Me: Shoot. Gotta run! Bye!
Evil-chan- Thanks for screaming for me. I kinda have to make this response quick because I'm running from a certain hitokiri who got pissed because of something I said in the above review response. And what the hell do you mean about time? They've been romantical! Geez. Batts: Woman! Get your ass over here! Me: Shit, gotta fly! Toodles! (Runs away)
Me: R and R please! Hope everyone had a happy holiday! I know I did, cause I GOT AN MP3 PLAYER! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I ALSO GOT DDR2 AND 2 DANCE PADS! OH YEAH! WOOT WOOT! (Does the 'This-so-rocks-dance' Also known as the 'Billy was right' dance from the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.) P.S.,I have some questions for you to answer in your reviews if you could please...actually, just one, what do you think of Nikki and Spatial? That's all. thanks!