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Higurashi Kagome-san, No Need for High School!
Kagome x ?. Pairings are undecided… and so therefore, to cover it up, I'll say they're (cough) 'secret'… However, there may be a little of Sango x Miroku if I find time and the appropriate moment.
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Staying remote and mysteriously attractive and violent for forever is never easy. Despondently dashing men are picnics, next to tragic death and deep-rooted hatred. But then again, when bloody revenge and budding love is concerned, Kagome had better watch her step. Kagome x ?
Disclaimer: So basically… I don't own Inuyasha, and don't claim to. Everything else, AKA writing, plot, et cetera IS MINE.
(A/N: Sometimes I wish I could give myself reviews… (sighs) Ah, well. I can't—end of happy land. BUT OI! I got EIGHT—EIGHT! Sugoi… (scary crying face) (hides behind muses) (sniffles and blows nose) Thank you all… so much… ('Kotsu: Look how happy you made dark… (grins and hugs) Aw, she's all mooshy now…) Yep… 'Kotsu's right… (looks pointedly at Sess-san and coughs) Hello? But, bah, now I have to keep my word and update.
(So, I decided to get moving earlier than I usually would (yeah… I'm THAT lazy), given that I have nothing but time at the moment, and that I shouldn't waste precious time sitting like a bruised fruit. (Okay… weird comparison.) Besides, I'm sure the readers of Kagome vs. Shikon High would jig for joy (eh?) if I just finished the whole revamp and got back to regular old updating, right?
(Probably (shrugs and half-smiles). At least my muses are happy-go-lucky for now, so that means… CHAPTER ONE! And… my profile hits just jumped from six to two hundred and eighty-nine… Amazing (starry eyes)! I just love you all to death today!
(Quick notice: I changed Prelude around a bit… make things more fun. Heheh. Go back and check it out if you're dying to know what I killed.
(YAY! It's the thirteenth… of February… Which means…? It's almost Valentine's Day! (blech) But YES! I can poke fun at my nemesis (newly dubbed Tomato-kun… I'll explain in the Story Notes…). Nyah… So yes, I'm trying to get this out by V-Day… Dunno if it'll happen. Sorry if it's a smudge late… (cough maybealot cough)
(So, presenting, Higurashi Kagome-san, No Need for High School! Part I, Chapter I (at last)… so… ah… who brought the junk food?)
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The greatest tragedy is not that we fall in love with those that are incapable of loving us in return, ever the unattainable, nor the harsh and unforgiving pangs of unrequited romance… it is that we simply cease to love at all…
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Higurashi Kagome-san, No Need for High School!
Part I; Illusions Deceive
Chapter I; What Meets the Eye
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RECAP…"I know, and I don't care." Inuyasha snorted triumphantly. "Ikujinashi. You're afraid. Well then, sanrinsha-san. I challenge you and your pathetic honor!" A collective, confident smile was shown between pupils, yen changing hands. "Do you accept?"
Kagome sighed. "Hai. I agree. Kami-sama, I am definitely going to be late now. Let's make this quick, shall we?"
"Keh. Enough talk. Can you back it up, though, sanrinsha-san?"
'I'd better be able to, for what I've been through.' Kagome's hazel eyes narrowed, glinting a steely ice blue. 'Hnn. This place is getting on my nerves already…'
"And that's Higurashi. Higurashi Kagome, by the way."
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AND HERE YOU ARE…Inuyasha's liquid gold eyes narrowed dangerously. 'Did his eyes just…?' He shook his head. 'Illusionary.' He told himself, although the once-hazel eyes remained the same shade of arctic blue, still remained burning holes through his face. "Okay, HIGURASHI KAGOME." He embellished the word insultingly, openly asking for trouble. "Decide how you want to be humiliated. As though your girly name isn't enough."
Kagome's left eye twitched, proceeding to swirl into an even darker shade of blue. 'That… that…' She cut the thought off before it got out of hand. "Surprise me, inu-san." She didn't care any longer. Kagome just wanted it over and added to her lengthy and unpleasant past.
"Fine, like I care. Keh." Inuyasha retorted, thinking up a storm mentally. 'Think, think… he looks very fragile…' He eyed his fiery opponent's slim and slight form. 'But those eyes…?' Not bothering to add much other profound thought to his decision, he recklessly announced with a confident sparkle in his eye, "Hand-to-hand combat, then."
Kagome considered it a bit more carefully, unlike her soon-to-be rival.
Inuyasha was taller than she, by about four or five inches, not including the rippling muscles she could envision. His eyes held experience, but he didn't look like the brain type. Thinking of the possible cheating options for him, she dryly thought, 'Out of the frying pan and into the fire… Might as well leap with my eyes shut.'
"Hand-to-hand combat it is, inu-san."
Inuyasha's mood turned serious. "Follow me." He beckoned, abandoning his car to the mercy of traffic and ridding himself of the headband and wristbands, pocketing the latter. He deftly used the headband, which turned out to be just a ribbon, to tie his hair into a queue and fasten it in a knot. "So, sanrinsha-san? You ready yet?"
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"Oi, have you been listening to anything I've said in the past ten minutes?" A male growled, sufficiently annoyed. "HELLO?" He roared as a last defense, kohl eyes becoming slits. "I don't see what's so special about some guy. There are millions of them, after all, aniki."
"Urusai, onegai? Listen—people like these don't appear very often. He looks almost like he could be one of us." One of the others waved aside his comrade's protests like a buzzing fly needing to be swatted. "Look, that insolent fool has braided his hair. And how many guys do you know that wear trench coats like that?" He resolved to ponder this mystery later, pensive and taught of the mind currently.
"I don't care. He's probably stupid. Stupid and ugly. We're all going to be late now, thanks to you. All over some boy." The first waved his arms energetically, gesturing at all four of them.
"Sugoi," He laughed, "Never thought I'd hear THAT coming from you!" The humor dropped from his voice. "Besides, look. I don't know what it is… but my instincts are telling me something's not right about that kid. And my instincts…" His piercing blue-green eyes followed the two teens below with precision. "Are never wrong.
"I'm going to watch that boy like a hawk. I'll unearth whatever he doesn't want me to, and bring to the light. I swear."
"Urusai, already. Come on," Another smiled darkly, his perfect smirk dredged with malice. "It's time to make our departure."
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Kagome watched him frankly and coldly, observing and absorbing everything she could for later information. He appeared to think he was superior to everyone else in existence. 'Hnn… He has a big ego, I see.' She continued thinking and predicting moves, just in case. Anything to stay the usual twelve or so moves ahead. 'Okay. Got it.'
"Oi, this is the place." Inuyasha's sneering voice broke her out of her self-induced trance. He looked at her factually, thinking, 'This guy is going to be a blow-away.'
"Okay," Kagome replied, glancing around to get an idea of the terrain. 'Chikuso. He has an advantage. He knows the territory like the back of his hand. I can just tell.' Her orbs darkened again as she recalculated the combat. 'Chikuso is right.'
The area itself was beautiful, in a strange, ethereal sort of way. It was surrounded on one side by the faraway, but still looming, Mount Fuji's slopes, another bordered by a deafening waterfall and coarse river and lake. There was an extraordinary garden touching the other side of the river, gorgeous and filled with vivid colors. The remaining two sides of the premise were open territory, a distant forest on the horizon. There was a small, barely noticeable pathway wandering off into a tangent along the river. Trodden grass.
Inuyasha noticed the lackluster look in her eyes before she turned, with her back to him, striding perilously close to the river. 'Tired? Afraid, is he?' He crossed his arms over his chest. "Not going to get jelly legs on me, are you?"
"Iie. I'm not." She shifted slightly so that her face was tilted at an angle to see over her shoulder. Kagome's eyes snapped to attention, trained on his face. She inhaled and exhaled sharply, distrusting. He rolled his eyes at her. She continued to stare at him defiantly and patiently, slowly and agilely turning her body to face him completely. She mirrored his actions, crossing her arms. "I didn't come here to have a stare-down, you understand…?"
"Hai." He wasn't even interested in her.
'He sees me as insignificant, of course. I'm no threat to him.' The nagging thought annoyed her. "I am going to be late to class. If all you brought me here to do was wait…" Her voice wavered, as she saw something dance in his eyes. It vanished quickly.
'Nani? What was it…?' Kagome watched his eyes again, straining to give off the impression of being anti-suspicious. She saw it again. The third time, she focused completely on it.
"Keh." In a flash, she was caught off guard, shoved rudely onto the hard earth, his smirking face above her. "I was right about you." He shook his head slowly, mocking and disappointed. "Ah, well, I'll spare you humiliation." He stood, brushing off his jacket as she fumed. He innocently offered her his hand.
When she did nothing but stare at him angrily from the ground, his eyes narrowed, and he grit out, "Don't you have a class to be late to, or what?"
That was the final straw.
Kagome's eyes darkened to the point of being midnight blue, and she growled, "Rematch!" The pitiful display of her skills made her furious. She'd survived everything… only to be faced with THAT? She was ashamed, and horrified. 'H-How could I-I…?'
"Sore loser too?"
"Iie. This time we'll do it fair and square."
"ARE YOU SAYING I CHEATED?" He roared, glaring full force.
"Maybe I am." Kagome glared back enigmatically, "Let's settle this, hnn?"
He observed her suspiciously, thinking slowly. 'If I beat him a second time, maybe he can be a puppet for me…?' He still hadn't bothered to consider her a real opponent.
"Keh. Deal."
Kagome focused, tuning into her honed skills. Years of self-preservation had made them sharp, although at times they failed. Badly, like before. She inhaled slowly, and exhaled even slower, calming her pounding heart with the rhythm of the shuddering sighs. At last she was ready. 'Never make the first move.' She had learned so thousands of times.
And so they waited.
"Come ON!" Inuyasha grumbled, "We've been standing here for SIX MINUTES!" And with that, he charged in the blink of an eye. This time, Kagome saw it coming. A small, lopsided smirk tugged vaguely at the left corner of her mouth, as she twirled gracefully to the side for a fleeting moment, innocently sticking her foot out.
"WHA?" Inuyasha tripped and stumbled, but held his own against an embarrassing fall. "Kuso, what's wrong with you?" Kagome didn't reply, already thinking ahead.
'Good. When he's mad, he'll make mistakes.' Sure enough, he charged forward, right arm drawn back. "Keh." He voiced, slamming it forward with a crackle of ferocity, his hanyou speed stirring the dust around them. "Got 'im."
He smiled victoriously.
But when the dust cleared, the outcome's completely turnabout wiped the smile clean. The audacious fiend had shadowed her eyes with her long, sharp bangs, the tips curling charmingly inward. At last she looked up, her eyes dancing with faded memories. "Miscalculation." Her left hand tightened its grip, to the point of solid steel, the only barrier between them being her gloves.
For a moment Inuyasha felt nothing. Then it began. He gasped at the explosion of pain coming from his clenched fist, as her shrinking grip forced his claws to pierce his callused palm. He attempted to withdraw from the minor agony, the rush of adrenaline lending him the boost to forget the pain. It failed. He tried again, with all his body weight behind the force.
It only hurt more. 'Chikuso! Who is this guy? He acts like a frickin' fruit for a minute, then this?' His upper lip curled into a snarling sneer. Kagome inhaled the scent of fresh, oozing blood with a vengeance, her eyes highlighted with black streaks.
At last a sickening crack was heard, and she looked worried for a moment, her eyes snapping back to a light shade of blue. 'I didn't mean to…' Kagome thought, confused and despondent, 'I should be gentler.' Without warning she targeted the area specifically, pouring in a small allotment of her miko powers, just enough to enhance his demonic healing rate.
The soft blue caress of her palm was gone now, as she jerked her arm away, hoping he had been too preoccupied to take note of it. His amber eyes stared, silent and pensively, at the place, eyes critical. She bit her lip.
"Nani?" She asked shortly and with a breathy quality as he glanced from her to the knitting wound. The flesh was piecing itself together, two pieces of canvas under an invisible needle. The slashes on his palm had already scabbed, and were flaking off. Finally, everything vanished; there was no scar.
He watched her like a hawk, suspicious. "What was that light, sanrinsha-san?"
Her heart sank. So he had. "Absolutely nothing of importance." Kagome retorted bitterly.
"Nothing my a—" She ignored him blissfully.
She had discovered the little glitch in normality quite some time ago, back at Higurashi Shrine. It had all been so innocent…
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"Aniki! Wait up! I need a ride to school! Anou, come back, onegai?" A little girl, beaming but looking anxious, shouts, jogging as fast as her short legs could possibly carry her. She fled into the street, panting, her black slip-ons chaffing the caked dust. "WAAAIIIIIIT!" She screeched, face darkening.
"ANIKI-BAKA! GET BACK OVER HERE! I'm going to be late for school!" After a silent moment, her face contorted in furious rage, as she glared out at the empty street. "I'll get you, Souta," She murmured angrily, her breath clouding her face in the cold air. She waved it away energetically, and jagged briskly up the shrine stairs.
"HAHAOYA!" She shouted grumpily, pausing to wait for her mother's attention, "I need a ride to school! Souta left without me… Onegai?"
"Gomen, Kagome dear, you'll have to walk. I'm taking your ojiisan to his doctor's appointment today. Souta chose a bad time for this…" As she said this, she stood in the kitchen's doorframe, light pooled around her, wiping her hands on a small towel. A frown pulled at her lips, and she ran a hand through her glossy raven hair. It was a family habit. Her brow furrowed over her dark hazel eyes. She sighed, "Gomen, Kagome." She echoed herself, before turning back to the kitchen to help ojiisan stand and wobble to the door.
Kagome's eyes darkened considerable, and her mother was troubled by the change. It hadn't occurred before. "Kagome—" She began, worried, and was cut off.
"SOOOOUUUUTAAAAA! I'M GOING TO BE LAAAAATE!" Kagome's twirled bangs flared outward, her eyes dark to the point of midnight blue, as she growled, "I'm gonna get you…" Suddenly, the beautiful, sturdy Goshinboku began to tremble. In a sudden flash of brilliancy, the rare blossoms bloomed like weeds, nearly engulfing those below. "N-Nani?" The young girl, Kagome, asked tensely, as a stray petal blew into her face.
Her ojiisan stared. "Kagome… I believe you have discovered a rare ability…"
She looked so innocently confused, watching as another petal broke off a flowery stem and drifted her way. She leapt to catch it, then simply waited to fall back to the suddenly pulsing shrine grounds.
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Kagome sighed, shaking her head. Good times, better times. A thing of beauty, compared with what she had to do in present times…
It had been so very long, long ago…
"Oi, sanrinsha-san? Are you asleep?"
Reality packed a punch. She forced herself from her swirling memories, instead focusing on the taunting Taisho Inuyasha. "Hai, inu-san." She shifted into a loose stance once more, very aware that he could sense any shift, and therefore predict the soon-to-follow move.
Her eyes narrowed, completely tuned into his body motions. He favored his right a tad. 'Going for the left approach, then, ne?' She was correct. Until he brought his right foot up as well.
Her right eye twitched, and they both lightened a shade as she was forced to bring up her right knee to block his medium-in-height sweep, and swat away his left hand. He was unbalanced—stronger on his right side than left. 'Uneven training.'
She flashed him an annoyed look, before snapping her entire body forward in a sudden burst of exhilaration, her right knee tucked close to her chest, other leg streamlining behind her. Veering to the left of Inuyasha, she began smiling coldly as she flew past him, hand planted firmly on his shoulder, knee slammed into his muscular chest. His heels dragged along the earth, digging in eventually.
When she felt her speed slowing, she let go of his bunched shirt and leapt back, sticking the landing while skidding in the wet riverbank grass. 'I didn't realize I'd brought us so close…' It was a fleeting thought, and she pushed it aside airily. She felt the air temperature drop, as her breath fogged in front of her.
'Nani? It was so hot this morning…?' She inhaled the welcome cold, watching the mist float towards her opponent. He was giving a valiant effort, despite being winded. She looked towards him with a hint of interest. "Oi, what time is it?"
"Seven…" He answered, before a grin infected his face, "Thirty-six."
Kagome inhaled sharply. 'SEVEN THIRTY-SIX?' She screamed mentally, 'Enough is enough! Time to stop fooling around, or what?' Her eyes widened, before narrowing sharply. She waved away the mist to no effect, concentrating on Inuyasha's outline.
It flickered, wavering. She slowly tilted her right shoulder to a one hundred thirty-five degrees clockwise position, and without warning leaned back, her protected hand making contact with the cold ground. She followed through by rotating her body overhead, avoiding a swipe of sharp metallic claws. Her heart beat softly.
Another beat brought a jerking movement, a sharp blow to his unmarred neck, at the jugular. He coughed, and winced noticeably. There would certainly be a bruise. She returned her agilely twisted foot to the springy ground.
Kagome shook off the thought that they would be united in that way…
This time she reached forward, between her feet, sinking down quickly, twirling with expert grace using both hands to support herself, as she swung her long, toned legs in an arc. It took a bit of contortion, and a good deal of practice beforehand to accomplish, but she managed to create an opening. He lost his footing after an astoundingly strong blow to the calves, before a backlash to the backside of his knees.
"Keh…" He staggered, but kept his façade continuous. 'I won't be seen as weak… Iie.' He instantaneously crouched after jumping to his feet. A quick rush followed, and with a snarl, they collided. She met him hand for hand, block for block. At last he saw an opportunity.
Clasping his hands, he swung them down onto her shoulder joint forcefully. 'NGH!' Kagome shuddered and shouted internally, 'He just had to hit THAT gash…' Inhaling with slow deliberation, she shrugged him off, and with a flounce, backhanded her signature gloves into his ribs. He bent over, clutching the area, not too proud, with both hands.
He ground out, "Chikuso, sanrinsha-san…"
She frowned. 'He is a strong hanyou. I'll give him that.' She snatched his leg, hefted him up to her hip, checked behind her, and released him to fly.
He had begun breathing hard. 'Kuso, I'm not used to more exertion than a minute or two!' She danced over towards him gracefully, before glancing down at him. Her eyes swirled darker, as he mumbled, "Seven forty-one." And then the pain began, as blows rained down upon him plentifully. When it had ended, and her eyes became their usual shade of cobalt, she strode to the river to calm down.
When she saw her reflection, she halted, freezing. Kagome stared at her glove-concealed hands.
They were crimson.
The memories lurched inside her, and she couldn't stare any longer. She broke her gaze away, and sank to her knees pathetically, her buttocks resting on her calves. Bringing a hand to eye level, she furiously peeled away the steel-plated glove. The metal inlaid along the back made a dull thump as it crushed the grass below it.
The red liquid had seeped through…
Her breath caught in her throat, and as if in a trance-like state, she stared at her reflection, hand still in the air.
Slowly she brought it to her face, emotions indescribable, eyes a placid hazel once more. It caressed her cheek, before its gloved mate floated up. Together they cupped her face as she bent over the water, cradling her thoughts in the palms of her hands.
She couldn't help it.
Traces of fire scorched a pathway down her face, traitorous snakes.
She cried there, silent and pensive, unsuspecting of the eyes that observed her with passionate coolness.
Once it had begun, it couldn't be helped. They were indestructible—unstoppable.
Ironic.
She had promised herself never to cry again. And here she was, in all her glorious misery, a reminder of her crystalline teardrops echoing in the brook below.
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(A/N: At last, what you've been patient for, the first chapter! It's only slightly longer than the first, but I decided that this would simply be a nice place to leave it off at. I didn't quite get to everything I'd planned too, but… hey, all the better for my readers! Means a longer chapter next time… or does it?
Anyhow, glad to say all is well so far, and I'm doing a small I-updated-on-time victory dance with my muses. Proud to say this actually came out pretty close to when I intended it too. Ecstatic with the reviews and profile page hits as well! Aw, this is the best… I'm getting all inspired and creative! Heheheh… (scary smile)
So, well… Hope you look forward to the next installment of this revamp (and yes, I'm so much happier with this than the original), and remember…
Have a great belated V-Day! (Have no fear, I even wrote it on my arm. Beautifully cynic V-Day!) (I remember things so much more accurately when I write on my forearm… Don't ask. It's not nice to question the quirky muses I have.) Oh, one final note…
Nyah (sticks out tongue and bounces off walls with muses).
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Next Chapter o.O.o.O
The skirmish with Taisho Inuyasha comes to an end, and at last the school day begins for Higurashi Kagome-san! Not without its trials and dramas, though… ahem. With everything from an aggravated taijiya, to an uncooperative secretary, to a run-in with a certain deranged circle of friends, can Kagome's day get any more hazardous?
Engulf o.O.o.O
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Vocabulary;
-san- suffix, at the end of a name, usually respectful and meaning Mr., Ms., or Mrs.
Sugoi- wow
Ikujinashi- coward
Sanrinsha-San- Mr. (in this case) Motorcycle (therefore… sanrinsha- motorcycle, and san… you can go look it up)
Hai- yes
Kami-god
-sama- suffix, always added to a name, usually of extreme respect, indicating royalty, lordship, or a term of a LOT of admiration (EX: Sesshoumaru-sama)
Inu- dog
Oi- hey
Aniki- respectful term for 'elder brother'
Urusai- shut up
Onegai- please
Chikuso- damn
Iie- no
Nani?- what?
Kuso- shit
Hanyou- half-demon
Miko- priestess
Anou…- erm…, well…, ah…, er…, eh…, um…, et cetera (those awkward-moment words you know so well)
Gomen- sorry (informal)
Ojiisan- grandfather
Goshinboku- God Tree
-ne- suffix, usually put at the end of a question to add emphasis (EX: Inuyasha sure loves his ramen, ne?) (Inu-san: STOP USING ME AS AN EXAMPLE!)
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Story Notes:
(Okay… Wait… (holds up hand and thinks) (slow smile) Eureka!)
-I have newly decided upon calling my substitute nemesis… (My old, preferred one moved… WAH!) Tomato-kun. In Japanese, -kun, means… (blushes faintly)… well, it's an affectionate term for a male. But he doesn't know Japanese… (You put two and two together. It's most likely unrequited…) ('Kotsu: (pats dark on back)) Well, I kind of think of him as my very own cactus-like Jakotsu. A fruit is someone who's homosexual. So, therefore, I'd call a straight person a vegetable. A tomato is… in between… right? (Not sure if he's gay or not. Think so.)
-See if you can figure out what the connection is with Kagome's eye color changing. (Yes, I had to work it in.)Yes… there IS a connection.
-As for the mystery people… have fun guessing. (makes funny face) It should be pretty easy, though.
-I tried not to make Inuyasha seem like as much of a dunce as before. Did it work?
-There's your favorite Italics again! NOW do you know what they're supposed to be?
-No, Kagome won't always be so superhuman. She'll have quite a few… moments. (evil, evil smile)
-Sugoi… (blinks) what a mood change.
-You can expect new characters to show up eventually. It wouldn't be much if it ended up being just Inuyasha and Kagome, after all.
-Get ready for a little plot detour coming up soon...
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Ja ne,
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And company. My adorably annoying muses. 'Kotsu and the Grumpy One (who is being nice for now and therefore can be called Sess-sen).
(P.S. Hope you enjoyed this, and will show some self-restraint when poking at us… If not… (evil smile) Anyhow, thanks for reading Higurashi Kagome-san, No Need for High School (cough come back cough)!)
Chapter Finished: 2.17.06. YES! I'm ON TIME? Forgive (and forget) errors you come across, unless they're insane.
Post: 2.19.06. Sorry for the delay, just checking things, finishing up the A/N.
Spell Check: Yep.
Brain Check: Hnn. That's not funny 'Kotsu. But then again, it is. (BUT you're still getting locked in a room with Sess anyhow.)
EDIT (EXPORT): ONCE, so far. Subject to change.