A/N: Hey guys... I was on a small vacation so my updating was slightly put off... but I'm back! XD And I'm going to make this chapter really really long... This chapter... Inuyasha and Kagome are going to get some talking time... teeheheheheeeeeee...Muwahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa...hhhhhheheheheee...Uh...ok then... HERE I GO!
Author: Shatsui
Beta-reader: Insane-san (she isn't really my beta-reader. But she does read the fanfictions over and give me a couple ideas. o.o)
Rated: PG-13 (for gore, blood and the usual stuff I do...so there. HAH.)
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any other characters created by Rumiko Takahashi.
Genre: Horror, Humor and Romance.
Note: I am going to be introducing a couple new characters in the story. My cousin and a mysterious character...muwaha... :l -sneeze- Ok, so, yeah!
Chapter 4: Red video.
Kagome entered her family and slumped down onto the couch. "Man what a tiring day. Stupid teachers, Odd telephone calls, and freaky dreams! I mean, SERIOUSLY! What's gonna happen nex--"
DING DONG!
Kagome looked over towards her front door. Who would be coming to the house at this hour? Getting up from her big comfy couch, Kagome made her way towards the foyer. She didn't know whay but it almost felt like she was being pushed towards the door. Little did Kagome know that somebody actually was "encouraging" her to get closer to the front door.
The ghostly figure of a little boy was pushing Kagome to the door. His little hands pushing her ever so slowly to where his master would finally be set free. Finally. After 50 years.
Kagome saw the silhouette of a large figure outside the door. 'Who...who's that?' Kagome wondered finally standing right infront of her door, staring at the form of the figure through the doors window. By the looks of it, it look like the figure was that of a man...
Now where had Kagome heard that before?
Suddenly Kagome saw the doors knob begin to jiggle. Was it her brother and Grandpa? Her brother WAS shorter that the door window, so the person could be her grandpa... But her grandpa doesn't look THAT big. "Who..who is it?" Kagome said through the door. She got no reply, but only heard breathing coming from the other side. She felt her hand slowly moving towards the door knob. She couldn't seem to make her hand stop all actions.
It was doing it on it's own.
Kagome swallowed and whiped a beed of sweat from her brow. And then she yanked open the door. Standing in the doorway was...
"Hojo?" Kagome yelled in surprise. She felt relieved that it wasn't anyone she didn't know, but at the same time she felt sick. She.. had never really liked this boy. Hojo. Ever since that one day back in the 4th grade...
(Flashback)
A 9 year old Kagome walked over to the biggest tree so that she could sit under it while she ate her lunch. It was a turkey and chedder cheese sandwitch with just the right amount of mayonaise and mustard with a big piece of lettuce and a nice thin slice of tomato. It was her dream sandwitch. Her grandmother made it for her. Her grandmother may be old, but she mades the best meals!
Kagome unwrapped her sandwitch and was about to take a bite when out of the blue, a kid came over to her and said, "Hey Hig'rashi-san!" Kagome looked up, mouth open and all, and stared up at the boy. He had sandy brown hair and light brown eyes. His face looked funny, but Kagome wasn't one to judge on appearance. She had to see was he acted like first.
Kagome set her sandwitch on her lap, and replied, "Hello Hojo. What brings you here?" Kagome said smiling sweetly. She always smiled this way. And if a teacher saw her, they would tell her to be proper and not flirt with the boys, and Kagome would just smile sweetly and say, "OK!" And run away.
Hojo blushed beet red all over from the neck up. He always did this. And Kagome never knew why. Was this boy sick? So Kagome decided to ask. "Excuse me, but, are you sick? You seem to have a problem with your face..." Kagome asked innocently, looking at Hojo with curiousity. Hojo's mouth opened and closed as if wanting to say something, but no words ever came out. He just became redder.
"Because if you are sick, then could you get away from my sandwitch? My grandmother made it for me and I dont want it to get disturbed until I take a big wamping bite out it's fat juicy--! ...Oh..sorry. I seem to talk too much about myself most of the time. Will you answer my first question?" Kagome asked.
Hojo slapped his face, and took a step forward. "You see, I--!" Then Hojo tripped and his face smashed right into Kagome's sandwitch. Kagome opened her mouth in pure shock. What...had just happened? "My grandmother's sandwitch!" Kagome yelled out. Hojo got up quickly and bowed to Kagome. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I--...I...I...I!...IIIAAAAACHOO!" Hojo then sneezed all over the remains of Kagome's sandwitch.
"My grandmother's sandwitch!...Again!" Kagome yelled. Hojo stepped back and tried to apologize again. "I'm very sorry! It was an acciden--" Then Hojo slipped on some mud, which made his foot fly upwards and kick the poor sandwitch into the air and over a fence where you could then hear only God knows what devouring Kagome's home made sandwitch which was made by the loving hands of Grandma Higurashi. Kagome's eyes began to well up with tears. It was her sandwitch... It was there and then...it was just...gone!
Kagome began to silently cry. Hojo looked up and bowed again. "I really am very sorry! I didn't mean to! I swear it! I swear it!" Hojo said, and as if he couldn't cause any more trouble, he fell forward which made his feet fly up and over his back which caused the mud on Hojo's shoes to fly at Kagome's face. Kagome began to cry slightly harder. A teacher ran over and took Hojo away, and called Kagome's mother to take Kagome home.
Kagome knew this wasn't the end. She knew, because she wanted revenge... Kagome sat in her large green van and randomly yelled out, "FOR THE SANDWITCH!" And shoved her fist through the air in a heroic pose.
The next day Kagome's grandmother, who had been living with them for the past 8 years had to move far far away to a nursing home accross town. Sure Kagome would be able to see her anytime she wanted to, but she would never be able to have her grandmother's famous sandwitches again...
(End flashback)
In present time, Kagome found herself tearing up. "Grandmother's sandwitches..." She mumbled out. Hojo had been holding a small box which heald something...well, Kagome actually had no idea what was in the box. Kagome whiped her eyes, and looked up at Hojo. "Hey! What's in the box, hm?" She said with an evil smile on her face. She didn't know why but she suddenly felt the urge to beat Hojo to a pulp.
Suddenly Kagome heard a faint whisper in the background the sounded like a some sort of hiss that said, "He'll be first to go..." But Kagome ignored it. What could it be anway? Kagome blinked, and saw Hojo with his hands out-stretched infront of himself as if indicating that Kagome must take the box. Glancing at the box Kagome could tell it must be holding some type of food item inside. Kagome glanced up at Hojo, then at the box again. Hojo. Box. Hojo. Box. Hojo...Box. HOJO! ... "What is it?" Kagome asked.
Hojo looked at the box and then to Kagome. "It's a present. An apology present..." Kagome cocked her head. "Apology...? Apologizing for what...?" She asked. But really. The sandwitch incident happened 7 years ago, and there was nothing else that had happened between then both besides that sandwitch incident because after that Hojo, had seemed very distant up until Highschool.
Hojo grinned weakly. "A-an a-a-apology present for..."
Kagome swore that if it was an apology present for the sandwitch incident, she would grab the box, and slam the door in Hojo's face. That, or she would...
And then Hojo yelled out, "An apology present for destroying your sandwitch 7 years ago!" Kagome blinked. "Hojo...I'm sorry...Well, no not really." That said, Kagome grabbed the box, shoved Hojo down, and slammed the door. "Now lets see what's in this..." Kagome sat at her kitchen table, and opened up the box ever so slowly just waiting for something, like a rabid hamster, to jump out and attack her. But opening it Kagome found something much much worse.
"OH MY-- What is this, a sick JOKE!" Inside the box was a hand. It looked fake, but the stench told her otherwise. Kagome plugged her nose and closed up the box, and then ran to the front door opened it and threw the box to the ground. Kagome looked up at Hojo, who, surprisingly, was STILL sitting where Kagome shoved him down. "Is this your idea of a gross joke? There's a smelly old hand in there!" Kagome yelled at Hojo and then retreated into her house and closed the door.
Hojo blinked and looked at the box. He scooted over towards it and picked it up. Inside of it was crushed up chocolate chip butter milk cookies. "I was sure that I covered up the sour like smell of the butter milk! I even got milkshakes to taste one!" Milkshakes was Hojo's male Shitzu. You thought it was a girl, didn't you, you silly little viewers?
"They are supposed to be healthy for you. They were sugar free too! Oh no! She must have been alergic to butter milk! I'll have to rush home and make bean starch cupcakes instead! And I'll even add artificial sweeteners!" With that said, Hojo rushed home to make yet ANOTHER apology...thing.
Kagome blew her nose to get the gross smell out faster. Had Hojo really just been some big jerk who wanted to make Kagome's life a living Dentist office! That must have been it. "I'm bored." Kagome said with a sigh.'Maybe I should go read the red book...Nah...' Kagome stood in the middle of her family room while tapping her chin. "Hey, I know! I'll go to get a video from the movie store!" She said happily. Kagome slipped on her shoes and headed out the door.
It wasn't that long of a walk to the movie store. Just a couple blocks. So Kagome was there in no time. She opened the door to the building and walked inside. Kagome remembered coming to this store since she was a little girl. Kagome walked to her favorite section: Horror!
Horror has always Kagome's favorite. One time when she was 7, Kagome found a movie called "Ringu" in her mother's top drawer. She secretly watched it and she loved it! So much hate! So much passion! She HATED the characters, but she LOVED the story! Why would her mother hide such a thing?
Kagome smiled at the memory and stared at all the movies on the shelf. Lots of them were ones Kagome had already seen. She had somehow talked her mother into letting her see some rated R movies after Kagomr turned 8. So most of these films were old news to her. "Hmm... I haven't seen The Grudge in a while..." It was pretty scary, but Kagome didn't like the fact that everyone died. And she laughed threw most of it. I mean, what was up with the woman making freaky frog sounds? Was that supposed to be scary? Kagome shook her head with a grin.
She saw that movie when she was 10. It was fun to watch, but she had such strange dreams for a while she would question herself about watching it. On the shelf behind Kagome was movies for smaller children. She never could understand why the childrens films were right behind the horror section...
(Flashback)
Kagome's mother walked into the video store checkout counter and grabbed the manager by the collar. "Put the childrens films right behind the horror films so I can sleep with hope in my heart that my child will give up horror films and be normal again!" She yelled.
The manager looked quite freaked out, but nodded quickly just the same.
(End flashback.)
Kagome shook her head. She would never have a movie picked out before her mother came home at this rate. So she stood back and decided to pick out the movie the stood out the most. Kagome covered her eyes and spun around once. Uncovering her eyes Kagome noticed that the tape that stood out the most was...
"Barney: The return of the killer snow man?" Kagome asked herself. "What's that doing there?" Kagome grabbed the tape and saw that this tape...
"Should be put in the adult section! Oh my gosh!" She said shoving the tape in between some random tapes on the adult shelf. "Eeew...gross..." She said. She turned around, and saw that the second tape that stood out the most was... a red tape. It stood alone without a cover. Kagome walked over to the tape and picked it up. She suddenly felt compelled to watch it. There was no writing on it, so Kagome didn't know what was on it or what it was about. "I'll get...this one.." She said to herself.
She walked over to the checkout counter and placed the tape infront of the checkout man. "Excuse me, but, what tape is this?" Kagome asked him. The man looked at the counter and then back up at Kagome. "Pardon me ma'am, but there ain't a tape there." Kagome blinked. Why had she not predicted this? "Yeah, there is a tape there." Kagome said, in a way, hoping that the tape would somehow allow itself to be seen by this man.
The man sighed and said calmly, "My mother told me this day would come. She said some crazy chick at the school she works at wanted to checkout some crazy red book, and there weren't no book there. She told me to never mess with the crazies." He said with a bored expression planted firmly on his face. Wow. So that old hag was his mother? ... How old was this guy, 40!
"Eeeeyeah...so... if you can't see it, then I can just...take it?" Kagome said.
"Nope. Soooorry." He replied. "WHAT! B-but...you can't even SEE it... So, why can't I just take it!" Kagome yelled. "Because if I let you do that, then the buzzer over there would beep, and then I would get in trouble." He said. Kagome sighed. This guy sure was dumb. He thinks he could get in trouble over an invisible tape? Tch! But then Kagome slowly smirked. She had an idea. "So, if I don't have a tape, then the machine wont sence it?" Kagome said. "Duh. Are you dumb or something...?" The man said. "Oh...no, not at all. You see, I'm not holding a tape, see?" Kagome lied. She was really holding the tape on her hand, balancing it as best she could without the red video falling.
The man stared at her as she walked out of the store slowly. It looked like he still couldn't see that tape. That's good...Then suddenly a sharp beeping sound rang through the building and Kagome decided to make a run for it.
"No. Stop. Wait." The man said, still holding his bored expression.
"It doesn't sound like he is being too enthusiastic about this... Thank you Lord!" Kagome said while running for her house.
Once she arrived, she locked the doors and windows, and checked the clock. It was 4:30 PM. Where was her brother and grandpa? Kagome placed the red tape on the sofa, and walked towards the phone. Maybe she would give them a call.
"Hmm? There are 3 messages..." Kagome clicked the play button on the answering machine.
""Message number 1. 4:23 PM...: Hello Kagome. This is your mother. I'm calling from miss Creden's house! I just wanted to tell you that Sota and Grandpa are going to be with me for the rest of the day! I've already called Mr. and Mrs. Takanaka to come check up on you later today, so if you hear a knock at the door, it should be them! I love you sweety! Talk to you soon!
-click- Message end.""
Kagome blinked. Crap. Mom was coming home later than planned? And she asked...the Takanaka's... Kagome didn't know why, but she always somewhat hated the Takanaka's. They sent their 5 year old son to boarding school, they have no sugar in the house, they don't have any pets, and their house looks as though it is caged in so nobody can even step past the front gate!
Kagome shook her head. "Oh well. I'll deal with them in my own way. Next message!" She said while pushing the play button to hear the second message.
""Message number 2. 4:26 PM...: Hey Kagome! It's almost 4:30... I think I'll head over to your house at about 10 to 5! Oh, by the way, this is Mr. Takanaka! Psht! As if you didn't know! Well, see you then darlin'! Buh Bye!
-click- Message end.""
Kagome twitched and shivered. "I hate that guy..." He always called her darlin' or sweety pie. An occational "sweet pee" would come out, but that was only if he really wanted or was glad to see her. It was nice of him to think of her as a daughter, but sometimes Kagome just HAD to wonder... What was this guy plotting? "My gosh...next message!" Kagome said, pushing the play button.
""Message number 3. 4:36 PM..."...Watch the tape...
-click- Message...e...nd...""
Kagome stared at the machine, eyes wide. It said the message was at 4:36...? Kagome looked at the clock again. It said that it was 4:40 pm. But the message came at...and the clock said... Did that mean that in between Kagome listening to the new messages, somebody made a call? But that didn't make sence! Kagome cocked her head. At 4:30 Kagome saw there were 3 new messages. One was at 4:23, one was at 4:26, and that last one was at 4:36. But it said 3... and...
"This is too confusing..." Kagome mumbled covering her face slightly. Peeking through her fingers she said, "But what freaked me out the most is that... That last message that was telling me to watch a tape... Was it refering to the tape I got earlier...? Or maybe...I just don't know. But I'm gonna see what's on the tape all the same!" Kagome said suddenly motivated.
She trotted over to her couch and picked up the tape, and then slid it into her VCR. She had never seen a red tape before, but she had seen orange and white, so this wasn't anything special...
Or was it?
Kagome sat in her favorite fat brown chair, and slumped back, ready to watch whatever was on the tape. But after what showed up on the screen, Kagome couldn't help but wonder. Was she ready?
What appeared on the screen was a white room. And inside the room was a black wooden chair. That was all. What kind of a movie was this? Suddenly, a boy walked onto the screen. It was that same boy from her nightmares. Kagome's eyes widened and then just to make sure this wasn't a dream, she pinched herself really hard. Kagome winced. 'Ow!' She thought. 'This is no dream. But if this isn't...then what about the others?' Kagome stared at the boy on the screen with wide eyes.
She could feel pain or comfort in all of her dreams since she opened up that...
Kagome's eyes grew wide. "Red...Book..." She said softly, her voice had a slight tremble to it. She sat up and stared deeply into the tv. The boy was walking closer. Closer and closer until his face was lookinmg straight forward, but not into the camera. His face was up to the camera, but it almost seemed like he was staring at something other than the camera lens. Suddenly Kagome knew this tape was no ordinary tape. It was evil.
"Why am I all of a sudden getting flashes of different scenes in my mind from Ringu and The Grudge mixed together?" Kagome asked herself out loud. Kagome would have rushed to take out the video tape if what was on the screen wasn't...Kagome gulped. "L-life s-s-size..." She stuttered out. She wanted to stand up, but she felt that she couldn't move. She felt stiff. Kagome began to panic. She didn't know what this was, but this had to be some kind of practical joke. "Ok guys you can pop out and yell GOTCHA now!" Kagome yelled into the air.
But something told her this wasn't a joke, although the other part so wanted to believe it was. Kagome looked back at the tv. "Where's the boy?" Kagome whispered. Suddenly Kagome felt her house begin to rumble, as though an earthquake had suddenly come. Kagome yelped in surprise but at the same time fear. She saw things from the counter begin to fall to the ground with a loud crash. "What's going on!" She yelled. She looked all around, and then spotted her window and looked out. "Why isn't anything out there moving...?" She asked nobody in particular with very wide eyes. Kagome suddenly noticed that her tv was perfectly still. "What the he--"
And then the screen went black, and, for a moment, all had stopped. Sound, movement, everything. And then finally she noticed a hand begin to reach out from her tv. First it started off as finger tips which heald very long claws. Next she had the view of a full hand, and then a body started to rapidly come out of the tv. Kagome pressed her back against her chair, and gasped loudly. The boy was coming out of the tv...Kagome screamed and the boy shot his head towards her. The look in his eyes was desturbing. They were pure evil. And then she heard him say in a harsh tone,
"I'm back..." And then he put on an extremely horrific grin. Kagome stopped screaming when he said that. He was...back...?
"...What...?" Kagome said, hardly able to get her words out.
Then, faster than Kagome could blink, he stood and disappeared. And Kagome sat in her favorite chair right in the middle of a very...messy...house. She slowly looked over to the clock. It was 4:50. "Hey, wasn't that the time that Mr. Takanaka was supposed to--" Suddenly Kagome heard a sharp scream. It sounded like a woman was in trouble! Kagome sat there for about a minute, and then stood up and ran to her front door only to see that the door was wide open, and Mr. Takanaka was lying on the front porch sliced all over his arms and legs, and completely split in two and was in a large puddle of his own blood.
His limbs were cut in such a way that Kagome could see his bones. Muscle was still attached to many of them. The blood kept pouring out like a small waterfall letting it's liquid flow into it's stream. His face looked distorted. It looked as though it had been frozen in a shocked and utterly horrified expression, and it scared Kagome. Blood was splattered on the front door, and on everything else near Mr. Takanaka that was nearby.
Kagome's face paled. This guy...Mr. Takanaka was...dead...very dead.Kagome covered her mouth hoping that it would help her to not throw up. She slammed the door shut and ran up to her room and covered herself. She may have hated that man but he didn't deserve to die such a horrible death... Kagome could feel a tear make it's way down her cheek. Thinking back, she never really considered how much fear she had go through her body during those past 15 minutes.
Kagome burried her face deep in her pillow. "I-" Sniff. "-never want-" Huff. Hic. "-something like-" Cough. Sniff. "-that to happen ag-g-gain...!" Kagome yelled out and began to cry. It was truly, TRULY a horrifying experience. Watching that evil thing come out from the tv, witnessing the death of her neighbor...all of it...
Knock knock knock!
Kagome's eyes shot open, and she looked up quickly. Who was at the door? She felt like she wanted to stay under her covers and wait for the person to leave... if it even was a person--
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.
Kagome uncovered herself, and walked slowly over to her window, pulling back the curtains so she could peek out, Kagome couldn't get a clear view of who was at her door. She walked away from the window, and looked towards her door. And again the door was hit. But this time it was louder.
BAM. BAM. BAM.
Man, this person must really want her attention. Kagome walked out of her room slowly and glanced down at the front door.
BAM. BAM BAM!
This person was starting to freak Kagome out. Why not just yell your name? Kagome wouldn't open the door for just ANYone. What if it was a burgler?
BAM BAM BAM!
Kagome knew she would have to answer it sooner or later. She was too afraid of what might happen if the person were to bust down the door themselves. She cleared her throat and yelled, "Wh...Who is it!" She felt that if she were to yell any louder, her voice would crack, and then she would be showing that she was in a weak state. But what she heard next shocked her. Deeply.
"Hey sweet pee, it's Mr. Takanaka!" Said the person.
Kagome's eyes grew wide. It was Mr...Takanaka? But...she saw his body! He was dead! Very dead! She knew that unless by some miracle he probably would have never been able to come back!
"You gonna open the door for me darlin'?" He sounded ok. Didn't sound dead at all. Kagome put on a small sickly smile and replied, "Y-yes! I'm coming Mr. Takanaka!" Kagome said and began trotting down the stairs. She reached the front door and opened it and standing there, to her disbelief, was Mr. Takanaka!
"Sweety pie, I told you to call me dad or at least call me Uncle Rei!" He said with a grin. Mr. Takanaka wasn't skinny, but he wasn't fat either. He was sort of a mix between a fat man and a strong woman. He was also a lot taller than Kagome. By about 4 inches. His hair was light brown and his eyes were black. If you asked Kagome, that was just a little creepy. "Your alive!" Was the first thing Kagome found herself saying. "Alive and well might I add!" He said with a laugh. "Why would I be dead?" He said holding his arms open to give her a big hug.
Kagome heald her hand out to shake hands instead, but he hugged her anyway. ...about 2 full minutes had passed. "Um, heh, you can let go of me down." Kagome said with a nervous smile. You must realize that even though you may think this man is nice, Kagome didn't like him at all. So imagine what she must feel like, hugging a man that wants her to call him dad that she has only seen about 10 times in her life. That may seem like a while to you, but to Kagome, it was meaningless. He only even said "Hi!" to her, and then talked with his wife and her mother for hours, but then about the 6th time she'd seen him, this time it wasn't just a "Hi!".
He actually hugged her. It was embarrassing, and weird. He always hugged her longer than most, and seemed to talk to her and only about herself for hours! It got annoying and a bit weird after the third time. This was Kagome's 11th time seeing him. And, once again, no matter how many times Kagome would put out her hand, he would hug her instead.
2 full minutes later...
"Mr. Takanaka, you can let go of me now." Kagome said, pushing him away slightly. "Kagome, I have a confession to make..." Kagome's eyes grew wide when she heard him begin to speak. "...Kagome, sweet heart, from the first time I laid eyes on you, I've loved you more than a man could ever love..." Kagome gulped. "L-like a daughter, correct?" Kagome asked. "No...more than that." Then Kagome could feel him pull away from her, enough so that she was still heald in his smelly arms, but anough so that she could look at his beet read sweaty face.
"Kagome, I love you. I love you more than I love my own wife!" After that said, Kagome KNEW this guy had some sort of mental issue. Kagome's face paled. What was WRONG with this guy! "Kagome, I'll do anything for you! ANYthing! If you'll just be my wife!" He said, and began to lean down to kiss Kagome, but Kagome put her hand up to block it. "Look, I don't like you the way you like me, ok? No I will NOT be your wife! You and your wife have been married for over 31 years! And I am not about to give away my first kiss to a 52 year old man!" Kagome yelled. She was feeling faint, and was currently, very pale. It took almost all of her strength to tell this guy that she meant it.
Considering what happened to her earlier, she would be very surprised if she collapsed within the next 5 minutes!
"But Kagome, sweety pie! I love you! More than life and more than my wife! Please! PLEASE!" He yelled. He seemed somewhat desperate. A little more so than Kagome could imagine. It was...pretty scary. "Kagome!" He yelled, and then hugged onto her tighter. "I will never let you go! Never in my whole life!" He yelled shutting his eyes tightly.
Ok. This was "touching" and all...well, no not really. It was actually kind of weird, and quite frankly, Kagome felt like she couldn't breathe. "Get away from me!" Kagome yelled pushing him away, and then slapping him across the face. "Leave me alone! I don't like you the way you like me! Get that through your head!" Kagome yelled sternly. She couldn't take this anymore, she felt horrible inside. She felt like she could never trust anyone again, but really! He was 52 years old, and Kagome was 16! It would NEVER work, and Kagome NEVER liked this guy! And she wasn't about to!
Kagome stepped away from the man, and pressed her back against the wall. Crap. Trapped! Mr. Takanaka began to walk closer to her. "Kagome, I NEED you to marry me!" He said. He was old, sweaty, and red. "What are you talking about! You are already happily married! Go home! I can take care of myself!" Kagome said, and then ran forward, around the stair case and towards the family room. "Kagome! No! Wait!" Kagome ran faster.
She slid on the tile floor, and ran over to the VCR. It had to be the video tape! Things were fine till she brought it home! Kagome took it out, and turned to go to the front door, but standing in her way was Mr. Takanaka. "Please Kagome! I love you! Age doesn't matter! It's our love that counts!" He yelled. Kagome twitched. "But...there is 1 BIG problem! I-HATE-YOU!" Kagome yelled and then ran around the opposite half of the stair case again, and ran towards the front door.
Kagome slipped on her shoes, and ran out. She hadn't even bothered to close the door. She knew that-that guy would close it. 'Cause that guy was like that. He was a very anal 52 year old man. Kagome ran down the street thanking God that the video store was only a couple blocks away. In the distance, not too far away, she could hear Mr. Takanaka yelling for her to stop because they were both deeply in love. What a strange mental man.
Kagome turned the street corner, and ran inside the video store. She ran into the horror section and slipped the tape back where it belonged. Away from her. She hid there for a while, and waited till she heard Mr. Takanaka running down the street just outside the building yelling Kagome's name. Was this what it was like to be famous? Or just insanely loved by a mental 52 year old?
She sighed a deep breath, glad that the worst was over. Or so she thought. Then she felt a tap on her shoulder. Turning around Kagome saw a little girl that looked to be about Souta's age. She had short dirty blonde hair, and beautiful blue eyes. She must have been American, because she couldn't remember the last time she saw a person with blue eyes in Japan. Let alone blone hair.
"Y-yes?" Kagome said. The little girl grinned and said, "Hi! I'm Natalie! I have a quick little question! If you were going to rent one of these movies, which ones would you get?" Kagome looked at both the tapes. One looked like it had rabid alien people on it that read: "Teletubies: The revenge of Tinkey-winkey!" And the other read: "Sesame Street: Elmo meets the Gremlins!".
Kagome twitched at both names. They both looked like aweful movies. But she replied just the same. "Uhh...honestly, I would choose...umm...I-I would choose... uh...th-that o-one?" She said pointing at the Teletubies one. The little girl grinned wider. "Thanks! I thought that I should get that one too!" She said. Behind her, Kagome saw somebody peeking from behind the movie shelf. It was...it...it was...
"It's...h-h-h-him..." Kagome said with wide eyes and a pale face. The little girl cocked her head, and turned around. "Nobodies there. Who were you looking at ma'am?" Asked the girl. Kagome blinked, and suddenly the boy was gone. She shook her head and said, "N...no one. It's fine." She said smiling meekly at the little girl. Then the little girl nodded and started walking to the checkout counter while humming a happy tune. But before she passed Kagome fully, she looked at somebody who was apperantly standing right behind Kagome without Kagome even knowing it. "Hey mister!" She said, and then continued one her way.
Did Kagome dare turn around?
Yes. She did.
Kagome slowly turned her head around and standing there was...!
"Some mail man renting a video?" Kagome said with a sigh. This had been a very tough day. She didn't know how she could have taken it all. Kagome walked out of the video store and stood on the side walk for a moment. She looked at her watch, which sat happily on her left wrist, and saw that it was about 5:54 pm. "It's been a long day." Kagome said to herself, and she began to slowly walk home.
She reached her front door and was surprised to see that it was still wide open. She cocked her head, and warily walked inside, closing the door behind her. "Hello?" She said walking through the hallway. "Mom? You home early? ...again?" She asked, hoping nobody would answer. As she entered the family room, she noticed something different about it. It was either that fact that the tv was on with a blue screen, or the fact that the place looked trashed.
"What the--!" Kagome said in surprise. What had happened! The whole place was turned upside down! Kagome suddenly heard noise coming from upstairs. It sounded like foot steps, and loud crashes. Kagome ran over to the kitchen cabinets, and pulled a rolling pin out from one of them. This would do nicely.
Then Kgaome began to walk up the stairs.
Upstairs, inside Kagome's room, a black and white blur circled the room at a rapid speed. Everything was falling over. The bed was flipped, and the closet was torn out and the bathroom was smashed up.
Kagome reached the top of the stairs, and walked over towards her room. As she walked over, she noticed that Souta's room as well as her mothers and her grandfathers rooms were torn to bits. Had a burgler entered the house? She thought as she reached the front of her door. She slowly reached over towards the doors knob while listening to all the crashes in her room. Once her hand touched the door knob, all the sound stopped. Kagome heald her breath wondering what she should do. Should she open the door, or should she walk away and call the police?
Call the police, she decided. But her hand did otherwise. It twisted the knob and swung open the door. Kagome heald out the rolling pin, ready to face the intruder. In the middle of her room she saw...
"You..." Kagome said. She began to shake violently. This guy really scared her. He was some sort of demon. But it was almost as though he was more evil than some. He made her...see...things. "What do you want from me...?" She found herself asking. She had been facing his back. He was wearing the same things he wore in the film and in her dreams. Black and white. And as his head turned to face her, she saw that his eyes were blood red.
"Just like what Kagamei wrote..." Kagome whispered, eyes wide. The boy seemed to react strongly to what she had just said. Then Kagome found herself being heald up in the air by her collar. "What did you just say?" His voice was low, and at the end of his sentence he had a bit of a growl added to it. Kagome began to sweat, which, in her eyes, just made things worse. "I...I...um...I...uh...I...I...I s-s-said...j-j-j-j-j-just l-like K-K-K-K-Kag-g-g-g-gam-mei wr-wr-wr-wr-wro..te..." Kagome replied. She felt her head begin to spin. She could breathe right, and this guy holding her up wasn't helping at all.
"Kagamei...I remember her. And all the OTHERS." He said, his gaze not leaving hers. He didn't even blink!
Kagome swallowed, but she couldn't swallow right because she felt as though there were a lump in her throat. "O...others..?" She asked him. He smirked evily. "Yes." He said. "Others." He tightened his grip on her collar. "I had such fun...spending time with them." He said, still smirking, and then his eyes became psychotic. "I had fun with them all. Although I don't think they liked me much. See, they all acted the way you are right now whenever they only saw my hands." Kagome gulped.
What did he mean? "Did...d-d-did you...k-k-k-kill th-them...? ...M-maybe?" The boy never changed his expression, but instead of a smirk, he put on an evil grin. "Maybe..." He said throwing her to the ground. "They all took my book. And they all payed the price it takes to steal my book. Do you know which book that is?" He asked her in a mocking tone. "Here. I'll give you a hint. It's about the size of my hand... and it's the color of your blood." He said. Now he looked even more psychotic.
Kagome's eyes grew wider. The red book...that was...his...? So...this was...this...
"I know you have it girl. I know you do. You could hand it over to me now, and pay the price, or you can not hand it over to me, and...pay the price." He said cracking his knuckles. Kagome felt like she just wanted to wake up from another dream. Another dream. Was this another dream? "This isn't another dream wench. None of them really were dreams to begin with. You were just in...MY world." He growled out. He then took the stance which looked like he was about to jumped at her and slash her to bits.
"You can read my thoughts?" Kagome asked pale in the face.
The boy frowned eyes still psycho. "No. But the question was asked 5 other times." He said grinning evily once again. Kagome could feel her lip trembling. Was she going to die? She didn't know.
Suddenly Kagome could here somebody call her name.
"Kagome! We're hom--OH MY GOODNESS WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED TO MY HOUSE!"
"Mom...!" Kagome breathed out.
The boy looked towards the door and cursed and then looked back to Kagome. "INUYASHA." He said. Kagome cocked her head. "H-huh?" She said. "That is my name. Remember it for you will be hearing it...QUITE often." He smirked and then dashed out through Kagom'e broken window without a fragment of a second to be spared. Kagome could hear foot steps coming up the stairs and suddenly her mother appeared in the door way.
"Kagome what HAPPENED!" She yelled. It was scary when Kagome's mother got angry. But...Inu...ya-sha was...much scarier.
Kagome let out a small sigh and then fainted.
Kagome rubbed her eyes. What time was it? She turned on the light of her digital watch and it read: 3:44 AM. Kagome blinked. She felt so tired and yet so awake all of a sudden. Then she remembered... Kagome sat up straight.
The boy!
She looked around her room. She could not see anything, but she knew it must be trashed. She could feel it. And her window was patched up with wooden boards. Kagome sighed. She had wished it was just all a large nightmare, but she also couldn't. Kagome layed back down and covered herself with her big fluffy quilt. Then she heard a voice...
"Hello...wench...hahahahahaha...!" It said. It sounded just like him...that boy. She suddenly felt a strike of fear sear through her body and she covered her head with her quilt.
Kagome lay in bed, trembling. "Leave me alone. Leave me alone. LEAVE ME ALONE." She said. Her eyes began to tear up.
Then, she heard out of the pitch black darkness, somebody whisper in her ear, almost tounting her, "I only want the book. And I am not going to leave you alone until it, and everything that came with it, are MINE."
A/N: Really really long chapter! And it only took me two days to write it:o But seriously...WHERE IN THE WORLD DO I GET SO MUCH FRIGGIN FREE TIME! Ahem...anyways... please review. I look forward to all reviews! Sure I'll curse at you if you flame me, but that's fine:D Please review. They really encourage me to write faster! If I get up to 10 more reviews, I'll consider having the next chapter done by maybe...next week? XD Hope you enjoyed it:) Bye bye:o
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