A/N: Ok, I know ya'll are reading, so even if you're not hitting follow just to track me, I still appreciate that you took the time to read (the extremely short 'chapter'). As a thank you, to MikoWhiteFang, for the fave and follow, I'm posting the next 3 now, but bear with me; this upload thing seems to go at its own speed. Btw, I am not a fan of the doc manager. Anyone else who posts here agree?
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*******Equilibrium********
Snippet 2 – Not Back to the Future, but the Past?
Her younger brother looked like she had smacked him on the back of his head, a combination of disbelief and laughter. After a scoff, Souta released the straps of his elementary school pack, when she continued to stare at him quietly. He stopped bouncing around. The lopsided grin slipped from his face. Kagome just blinked her big blue eyes at him. Souta's brow furrowed again.
"You're not kidding, Kagome?" He breathed out lowly, turning his body halfway back toward their house at the back of the property. "Did you hit your head? Do I need to get Mom?"
Kagome chuffed and plopped a fist on her left hip while shoving the toe of her right loafer into the stones at her feet. "Of course not – to all three! I told you all about Mistress Centipede six months ago, when it happened!" It was not surprising at all that her voice went up a whole octave by the end.
"Uh, what are you talking about a Mistress Centipede, Nee-chan? And why are you so messy in your old middle school uniform? And where is your backpack?" Souta shot out in quick succession, more worried as he went. It wasn't like his big sister to make this little sense. There must be a breakdown in communication somewhere. Or she was going crazy. The middle school uniform made him lean more toward the crazy sister option. No girl wanted to go back to their old uniform. The high school ones were so much better.
"You just asked me about the centipede lady!" Kagome hollered, no longer slightly confused, but completely frustrated.
"No, I didn't – you're nuts!" He snapped back.
"Yes, you did! I am not!" Glare for glare matched, less than half a meter in height difference.
"No, I didn't!"
So they were playing this game, huh? Kagome was not giving in; she knew the conversation she just had with him less than five minutes ago. This was not funny at all, but she really wanted to laugh. Natural reflex. She laughed all the time when InuYasha made her nervous or frustrated.
"Yes."
"No!"
She pushed again, calmly. "Yes." The given was, I'm your big sister, I know I'm right.
His brown eyes, so like their mother's, could not possibly narrow more. She was proven wrong, when he practically squinted at her face as he leaned forward. 'Trying to be menacing, little squirt,' Kagome thought, bemused.
"No."
They were not getting anywhere.