Chapter 16
"Right back at cha foxy." Jeff replied smirking as well.
Ben handed Nobu a controller and she joined the game. They ended up playing quite late into the night. Until EJ left of exhaustion, followed by Jeff. In the end Ben and Nobu went to bed as well.
Putting her pjs on, that consisted of black panties and an oversized purple t-shirt, that fell down one of her shoulders and reached down to her mid-thigh, Nobu slipped into bed and curled up in her covers.
With a struggle she managed to fall asleep in the end, only to be woken up by her nightmares. For the past couple of days, she relived her mother's death, unable to sleep at all.
She lay on her back quietly crying, with her right arm over her eyes.
"Why are you crying?" she heard a voice from the end of her bed ask and sat up in alarm.
"Who're you?" she asked wiping away her tears with the palm of her hand.
"My name's Mr Widemouth. What's bothering you so much that you can't sleep, but lay her crying?" a small animal like creature asked as he walked up to her on the bed.
"Why do you care, furby?" she asked the creature frowning.
"I'm not a furby, and I just don't like seeing cute girls crying." He said sitting down in her lap.
"What's that supposed to mean? " Nobu asked with a glare. For some reason she dint push him away and let him come close to her.
"Haha, calm down. I mean no harm. I usually calm Sally and Lacy down when they have nightmares." He said smiling up at her with his wide grin that reminds her of the Cheshire cat.
"Who're they?" she asked curious now.
"My housemates. They're only small and have nightmares often. But why are you having them?" he asked again.
"I don't know. Ever since I learned of my past it won't let me be." Nobu explained with a sad expression.
"What happened?" he asked curiosity running through his words.
As briefly as she could, Nobu explained what she did to her mother.
Mr Widemouth did not expect this when he sneaked into the crying girl's bedroom, but he guessed that he might as well help her out.
"You can't blame yourself forever you know." He said as she just stared back in confusion.
"What you did that night, no one could have stopped, and your mother knew it too, didn't she? She said that she loved you with her last breath, and that's what you should remember, not that you killed her. Remember the happy memories of her, that's what she would have wanted, right?" he asked smiling.
"I guess so." Nobu said tearing up again. She knew very well that the creature in her lap was right, but she can't just forgive herself that easily. Her actions caused pain for so many people around her.
"And don't worry about the others, I'm sure they never blamed you and forgiven you. They're glad to have you back and that's what matters." He said with a nod and Nobu hugged him out of the blue, taking him by surprise.
"Thank you, furby. I couldn't have overcome that alone . You helped me." She cried into his furry shoulder as he stroked her hair in comfort.
She stopped crying and thanked the furry creature for his help again. Though he brushed it off as his duty to stop a girl from crying as he can't stand the sight.
"I must go now before the sun comes up. I'd get in trouble if I was caught here." He said hugging her again.
"Will I see you again?" Nobu asked smiling.
"Of course. And you should smile more often, it suits you." He said and she gave him a big grin making him chuckle.
"That's it. Bye-bye for now, little puppy." He said and disappeared, leaving Nobu to her thoughts.
She felt better now, with a heavy stone lifted from her heart, but it didn't stop the fact that she was exhausted beyond belief.
So when she went down for breakfast, she forgot to put on some proper clothes and went in her pjs.
She walked in sluggishly and sat down with her head on the table, hair going in every witch direction.
"Wow, what happened to you?" EJ asked Nobu, raising an eyebrow under his mask.
"Sleep deprivation." She said sitting up as Slendy put a plate of pancakes in front of her.
"We need to fix that problem." Slendy said concerned.
"Already fixed. I should be able to sleep tonight." She said sleepily swiping for the chocolate spread but taking the honey instead.
She looked at it confused but just shrugged it off and tried to put that on her pancake, except it dint work. Now everyone watched her amused as she thought with the small bottle of honey.
"Nobuki dear, its brand new, you'll have to open it." Slendy said, now too painful to watch.
With a nod, Nobu took the cap off and tried to take the seal off but failed. Looking around on the table, she grabbed the butter knife. The butt of the bottle facing her chest and the knife in her hand, she stabbed at the seal, missing a few times, and earning the other's chuckles or amused comments.
She finally stabbed through the seal and cheered in achievement. Noticing that everyone went quiet, she looked up, only to be met with a pissed off looking Slendy, whose face was covered in honey.
"Shit, sorry uncle." She apologised but Slendy just wiped some of the honey of his face, silently staring at Nobu and stood up to go clean his face. She just sat the struggling not to burst out laughing like LJ, the rest were a bit scared of what the angry Slender might do to them if they laugh.
Her attention went back to the pancake and she tried to put some honey on it, not realising the top faced up, she squeezed it and it shot up to the ceiling. She stared at the bottle confused, until she felt something drop onto her head. Reaching up she found a sticky substance, bringing her fingers to her nose to smell it, she let out an exhausted groan.
"I'm not sure I like honey anymore." She said innocently, and the whole table burst out laughing this time.
In the end Ben felt sorry enough for her and helped her spread the chocolate on her pancakes and she happily ate them, thanking him and stumbling back upstairs.
She had a shower and got dressed, but as she went back to her room, she sat down and kinda collapsed onto her bed, falling asleep.
"Where is Nobuki?" Slendy asked noticing said hound's absence.
"Last I seen her, she went back up stairs." LJ said in thought.
"I'll go get her." EJ said heading up.
"Yea she probably fell asleep again." Masky said shaking his head.
"She looked super tired." Toby laughed.
As EJ neared her room, he found it wide open. He took a cautious step inside and was met with a very much asleep Nobu, who's sprawled out on her bed.
Chuckling a little, he walked up to her, not wanting to wake her, he pulled her onto his back and carried her downstairs.
"Oh dear, she's still asleep." Slendy commented looking at Nobu.
"We can wake her later, she looks like she needs the sleep." Ben said smiling from beside EJ.
They left for school and it didn't take all that awfully long to get there.
Stepping into their form room, EJ put Nobu down in her seat and shook her shoulders gently.
"Wha u wan dad? Am sleepin." She mumbled sitting up slowly and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"I'm not your father, and class will start soon." EJ laughed. He noticed, when she's woken up, she always believes it's her father waking her.
"Oh, mkay." She said leaning on her elbow, her chin in her palm, not even bothering to ask how she got to school.
"Nobuki." Zalgo shouted happily as he entered the room. "I have your new timetable."
"Oh, cool. You put in my combat training with Seedeater's class then?" she asked with a grin, standing and walking to his side as he handed her the piece of paper.
"Yes. I swapped your Music lessons to it as you refuse to contribute to the lesson. But I planned a rota, so you will swap between Combat Training and Music every month." Zalgo explained with a smile.
"Got it." Nobu smiled with a nod and sat back down.
Her first lesson being Music, she headed to the gym instead, having CT now.
As she stepped through the door, she was met with only a small number of people.
"Morning puppy. I'm glad to see you joining this class." Offendy greeted her happily with a hug.
"Monin uncle." She smiled hugging him back.
"Come, meet your new class." He said pulling her in front of them.
"Seedeater House, this is Nobu from the Slender House. She will be joining you in CT to train her full hound form, please be nice to my cute little niece." Offendy explained grinning like a mad man.
"Yo." Nobu smiled waving.
Smile ran up to her and licked her face as she petted him grinning.
"Hi again, this is Grinny." The yellow doll came up to them smiling with a cat beside him.
"Hi." Nobu greeted the doll but ignored the cat, holding back the urge to attack it.
"No killing your classmates puppy, even if Grinny is a cat." Offendy warned.
"Hello little puppy." Smiled a familiar furby.
"You-" Nobu pointed at him surprised but cut herself off as Mr Widemouth put a finger to his mouth, indicating for her to keep his little visit a secret.
"Do you know each other?" Offendy asked curiously.
"Furby." Nobu grinned and hugged him. 'Thanks for last night, I owe you' she whispered in his hear, then put him down as he smiled up at her with a nod.
"My name is Mr Widemouth." He introduced himself for the second time now.
"Nice to meet you." Nobu smiled.
"These two young girls are Sally and Lacy." He said pulling the two forward.
"Hello." They said at the same time smiling up at Nobu.
"Hi." She smiled back.
"Ok. Now that all the introduction is over, let's start the lesson. Nobu turn to your full hound form." Offendy said as she did what she was told and as Black smoke engulfed her body she once more took up the appearance of a big white wolf with longer red fur running down her back and tail, with one lilac purple eye and one black, reaching up to Offendy's waist in her full height, that would usually reach up to Jeff's shoulder.
"Good, now the rest of you carry on from yesterday and I can sort you out." Offendy said smiling at Nobu, ruffling the fur on her head.
Offendy got her to run through an obstacle course until she could do it in less than a minute. If she was in her human form, it would have been no problem for her, but in hound form it is a completely different story, and the course is the most difficult she's ever been in. Her father trained her with obstacle courses as well but they weren't this difficult.
At the end of the lesson, Nobu lay there on the floor, exhausted from the training and still in her hound form.
Slender House entered the gym as they have CT now and some walked up to Nobu, poking her in the ribs amused.
"Haha, you ok Nobu?" Ben asked poking her with a smirk on his face.
'Offendy's a slave driver' she groaned but turned back to normal.
"Get up puppy, you have CT in your human form now." Offendy called and she dragged herself up from the floor.
This time he left her alone about the weapons and set her up with LJ for free hand sparring. Every few 10 minutes the pairs swapped for a different person and it went on for the whole lesson, with 3 minute break between the each rota.
The rest of Nobu's day went by quietly, only having, Biology (Shadowlurker), Literature (Splendorman), History (Slenderman), and Special Power (Zalgo) where she carried on with Monday's task.