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Insane-san says: Well, for the sake of my loyal, dedicated, and amazing readers out there, I decided to just update with what I have on this chapter so far. This chapter WILL be added to in the future. But since I haven't updated in so long I decided to just get this out there. I'll do my best to write more. I can hear the echoes of groans of disappointment out there... XD But like I said in my bio, I'm concentrating more these days on offline original stories. Read my bio for a little more info. Other than that, like I said, I'll try to add much more to this at a later time. But with what's happening in my life right now and with the holidays, it may be a while until you see some more. But here's what I have so far. It needs a LOT of work. There's a lot of un-needed stuff in here that I need to cut out and change, as well as add to. So don't judge it as it is. Try to enjoy it...? x.x
Shousetsu no Kowai
Page seventeen (so far)
"Sh-" He cut his words off when the door to his parked car opened. He looked up, startled. "What is it?" He asked irritably.
Suikotsu frowned with a sigh and leaned over the car door. "Ever since notices have been put on the news yesterday about this girl, we've been waiting to get a lot of calls..." Renkotsu's eyes narrowed. "Get to the point." He wasn't in the mood for conversation. He had just spilled coffee on a letter from home and caused the first two lines of it to become practically unreadable.
"Well," Suikotsu drawled. "We finally got some calls about her," he said hesitantly.
Renkotsu's eyebrows rose and his face calmed to some degree. "Good," he said. He paused. Something about Suikotsu's face told him there was something more. "And...?" he asked heavily.
Suikotsu closed his eyes and seemed to sink a little. Renkotsu sipped his coffee steadily, hoping he'd gain some strength from it. "Well, you know how it goes...Some people call when they think they've seen her, but they really haven't, and so on," he said evenly. "There are over two hundred messages from people, and we've been assigned to go through them all."
Renkotsu promptly spit the coffee from his mouth and all over his letter. His eyes bulged at what he had just done as he choked and coughed. "SUNUVA-"
Suikotsu shut the car door.
"Aww, someone has a little band-aid on their boo-boo," Hiten cooed cruelly.
Kohaku fingered the gauze on his head and tried to remain standing straight and tall. He felt his throat closing up.
"It's just a scratch," he mumbled.
Hiten smirked with hate in his eyes. "It just goes to show that someone like you could bump into a table and want a cast put on." Manten burst out laughing. "Well nerd," Hiten sighed and turned away from Kohaku. "We'd just love to stay and talk with you all day, but we're busy." With a flick of his fingers, Manten knew to follow. They headed towards the back of the school.
Kohaku's blood pulsed in his veins and his palms were sweaty. He swallowed the sick lump in his throat and took a step forward. The principal had probably already lectured them about leaving him alone, but knowing them, they didn't do what they were told most of the time, especially if they became annoyed, and Kohaku knew that what he was about to do would annoy them.
If he could even muster up the courage to try.
He took a few more small steps forward; It was nothing compared to their long strides. Something had obviously happened to make them want to hurry. Kohaku narrowed his eyes and mentally slapped himself. He tried to think of where all those heroic feelings he had only moments ago had gone. He took in a sharp breath.
"Wait!" he yelled. Hiten and Manten stopped and they both slowly turn around. They were at least five yards apart, but Kohaku felt the chill of their stares as if they were directly in front of him. He put a few fingers underneath his gauze pad and ripped it from his head, tape and all. He let it drop to the ground. The brothers seemed surprised for a moment, but it quickly faded. "I need to ask you about someone," he said, trying to swallow the shaky-sounding voice that kept trying to come up.
A slow smirk spread across Hiten's face. Kohaku gulped and clenched his fists. He took a few brave steps forward as he spoke. "You...Know about the murder that happened around here recently?" he asked, careful to cover up the crack in his voice. When he met Hiten's eyes again, they were different. The smirk had fallen from his face and he stared.
"I know it," he said darkly.
Kohaku picked at a button on his black school uniform shirt and tried not to look directly at Hiten. "I hear people say that you..." He cleared his throat. He was stunned at his own bravery for actually speaking to his worst enemy. "That you knew the girl who got expelled."
Something in Hiten's eyes flickered and he knitted his eyebrows. "What about her?" he asked. Manten seemed angry at what Kohaku was saying. Kohaku knew it was only a matter of a few more sentences before they'd have had enough.
Kohaku took a deep breath. "When I was little...uh...someone set my house on fire. I don't really remember anything. That's just what everyone told me." Hiten raised an eyebrow and Manten snorted. Kohaku's heart was racing and he swallowed. "Everyone in my family died except me, but...but I've always questioned that. Even though I don't remember it, I can remember a girl; I think she was my sister, carrying me through the flames and down the stairs. I remember that we both got out of the house before it collapsed." Hiten and Manten looked at each other.
"I think the both of us had passed out, but when I woke up, I was in the hospital of an orphanage. I asked as many questions as I could, but no one would tell me about my family. It was like they wanted it to be kept secret," he said. "All the doctors and the police officers said that everyone in the house had burned to death. They didn't have any records of my family's names or anything about us at all. If they did, they didn't show me, so I have no idea who I am or anything about my family. The only thing I could remember was my first name and how old I was."
Hiten looked at Kohaku with an expression he wasn't familiar with. "So what does that have to do with the murder that happened recently?" Hiten asked. Kohaku clenched and unclenched his fists a few times.
"I...I just keep having this weird feeling," he murmured. Hiten and Manten exchanged looks. They stared back at Kohaku.
"I think maybe the girl who ran away could be my older sister."
"If you're going to keep yelling at me, then I really won't go in!"
Rain hammered down hard. So hard, things were barely visible to the two pairs of eyes that were glaring at each other.
"Well, here's an idea, then," rose a mock-happy voice through the pounding. "I'll go in, and you can stay out in the rain!"
A harsh gust billowed through the trees. It whipped around them and made their hair sting their faces. Finally, the girl's defiance began to collapse. The storm was getting to be just too much to handle. "But there could be bears and things in there!" she yelled with an obvious tone of fear in her voice, though she tried her best to mask it. "When I wanted to find a place to get out of the rain, I was thinking-"
"What, a nice little canopy of trees, perhaps? Maybe a servant who'd bring you a roasted pig with an apple in its mouth?" Inuyasha said with a smile and a look of endearment. He wiped off his sarcasm to glare at her. He spit rain water out of his mouth which didn't do much good as there was a seemingly endless supply of rain pouring from the sky. He watched Kagome begin to shake as the anger rose up inside of her.
"Okay," Kagome finally sighed over the roar of the rain. "I'll go in. But only if you go and check the inside first, okay?" Inuyasha's eyes scanned her face in thought for a moment before turning around and moving towards the cave.
Kagome blinked rain out of her eyes rapidly in surprise. He had gone in so easily without even so much as a sarcastic murmur. He'd simply turned around, walked towards the cave, and gone inside. "Odd..." Kagome mumbled to herself. She hugged her arms around her body in an attempt to trap some warmth in. The rain was hard and freezing. Going into the cave seemed like a great idea, and after watching a TV show about caves and stalagmites, she knew it'd be a warm place because she'd be out of the rain and wind. However, she wouldn't have said so out loud. She made up the excuse that she was afraid wild animals would be inside, or there'd be some kind of rotting carcass, or deadly mushroom spores.
What really scared her was being alone in a dark cave with Inuyasha. To top it off, she'd have to tell him bits and pieces of her life story.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled. Kagome jumped from her thoughts with a gasp and looked up. Inuyasha was waving her over. Kagome lifted a foot to begin walking, but hesitated. Inuyasha grew tired of waiting in the rain for her and turned around to enter the cave. When Kagome saw that she was being left in the rain, she picked herself up and ran after him. "Wait for me!" she yelled as she ran. Inuyasha stopped in his tracks at her command. Kagome mentally scolded herself for forgetting he did whatever she told him to. She felt a little guilty for making him wait for her in the pouring rain.
"Thanks," she said once she caught up. Inuyasha snorted and continued towards the cave. Kagome followed. She braced herself as she entered the dark cave. In the split second that she walked past the entrance, she felt warmer. The rain had stopped its cold and harsh massage, and the air she breathed was much drier. She smiled at the feeling and walked further into the cave. She picked a cozy-looking spot to sit down in and was about to take a seat, but Inuyasha kept walking further inside.
"Inuyasha...?" she called quietly, staring after him in confusion. He kept on walking further.
