The Path we Choose
By: Kiara Adachi
Chapter 2: A friends house
Five Days Later...
It's late at night, about 11:00. The cold night air was all around Kiara and Haku, but they kept walking.
"Come on Haku, hurry up, we're almost there!" Kiara said, stopping, and turning around to face Haku, who was slowly lagging behind her.
"Kiara..." he said. "You've been saying that for three days or so now."
"Well I was wrong, but It's true now, the house is just over the hill."
"Whose house is it?"
Kiara sighed. "Its my friend Oujoukei Inuyasha's house."
"Why...
are we going to your friends house?" Haku wondered out
loud.
"She knows people in Konoha, she'll probably want to
come with us! And besides, I'd be better to travel with someone who
has already been to Konoha before."
"That.. makes sense... But we should have left Kiri days ago..."
The forest path that Kiara and Haku were walking on disapeared, and the forest opened up unto a valley. The grass in the valley was brown and dead, and so were the few trees that hung over a small beaten-up looking house. The house itself was very small, but had a very evil feeling hanging around it, just looking at it, sent shivers down most people's spines.
"We're here!" Kiara, exclaimed happlily, "Come on!"
Haku stopped and looked at the house. "You.. sure Kiara? It seems kind of... well... unfriendly." He stood there, staring at the strange house.
"Yes, this is it." she said. "Don't worry Haku, its fine." she began to walking towards the house. Haku stood there for a few more seconds, unsure, but then sighed and followed her. As they got close to the house, Kiara stopped.
"Kiara? Aren't you going to get your friend?" Haku said. "Hurry and go up there and knock on the door or something."
"Working on it." Kiara said, looking around. Haku looked at her strangely.
"Well,
then I'll knock." Haku said, stepping up on the steps towards
the door. Kiara whipped around.
"Haku, don't go that way!"
Kiara said, but it was too late.
"What?" Haku said,
stepping up again. The next think he knew, he heard a small snap, and
suddenly, something flew towards him. A sharp pain shot through his
arm, and he quickly jumped back beside Kiara.
"What the..." he half asked, and half yelled, glancing down at the arm. Three brownish colored senbon were lodged in his arm. "Senbon..." he mumbled, pulling them out. Wrapped around on of them was a piece of paper. He took it off of the senbon. On the paper, in red letters, it read.
"You got what you deserved, now leave. Or you will suffer a harsh fate."
Haku
looked up from the note with wide eyes. "Ok Kiara, time to go
now." he said, turning towards Kiara. She was messing with a
rock.
"Found it!" she said.
"Found
wha--" Haku began to ask. Kiara pushed the rock back, and
suddenly the ground opened up beneath her and Haku. They began to
fall down into darkness, Haku landed on the hard floor. Before he
ever got a chance to get up, Kiara landed right on top of him. The
hole that they fell through closed up, and it became pitch black.
"Haku?" Kiara asked.
"Mmmm Hmmmm." Haku mumbled. She jumped up.
"Sorry Haku, didn't know I was sitting on you."
He
slowly sat up, looking around. He couldn't see anything at all.
Suddenly, he saw two red dots; eyes.
"Kiara..." he
whispered in her ear. "We need to get out of here."
It was just then that a voice came from the darkness. The tone was pure evil, and chilling.
"Who dares to break into my home." It said. "Your gonna die now."
Haku looked over at Kiara, and was suprised to see she was smiling. He was beginning to wonder if she was Ok...
"Inuyasha?" She suddenly said. "It's Kiara!" The red eyes widened.
"Kiara?" the voice said again, this time less dark and cold. There was a shuffling noise and a dim light flickered on, reveiling a figure, whom stepped into the light.
The figure was a girl, that appeared about 13. She wore a black kimono, black ninja sandals, and around her neck were two things; a black necklace with red jewels on it, and a Kiri ninja headband under the necklace. Utop her head were two black ears. Her hair was long and silvery white, and her eyes were, or course, red.
"Kiara!" she said. "Its been a while."
"Sure has!" Kiara replied.
"So why are ya here?" She paused. "And who's he" She pointed a clawed finger at Haku.
"This is Haku!" she said. "I mentioned him to you, didn't I?"
"Yes, I think so." she said. "So why are you here?"
"Me and Haku were going to Konoha, and I thought maybe you'd want to come too."
There was a pause, and it looked like Inuyasha was in deep thought for a second.
"Sure." she said. "I'll go... tomorrow we'll leave, its gettin' late. You can sleep in any room." she said, as she walked off.
"Okay, come on Haku." Kiara said, grabbing his wrist and pullin him into a random room. Haku looked around the room, which was just as bare as the first room.
Haku sat in the corner, and Kiara curled up on the floor next to him on the hard floor. She fell asleep almost instantly, but it took Haku a while to get used to sleeping in the darkness, instead of outside like usual. But he eventually fell asleep too.
I FINALLY FIGURED OUT A NAME FOR MY STORY! Yay, go me! It took the help of my sister Shippo... and about 20 minutes staring at the computer screen. But I figure out a name!
