Jusenkhyo, Jusenkhyo,
My father took me there.
Nynnanichuan embraced me despite my chilly fear.
Jusenkhyo, Jusenkhyo,
Refuse to weep or cry.
My father is an asshole if I but knew why.
Jusenkhyo, Jusenkhyo,
You caused a lot of trouble
What you left of my life is but rubble
Jusenkhyo, Jusenkhyo,
I would trade my dad, for a time without strife!
Would that I could...
...but would that be MY life?
The grass was wet, the trees were wet, the dog in the schoolyard was wet.
Everything was wet.
And the dog hated it!
(Great, as if nothing else could go wrong!)
It had stood still for a while, letting the rain soak its fur thoroughly.
But when it heard noises behind it quickly set off again.
It ran through the streets, not caring whether the pursuer was still there.
It just wanted to run away.
(
) -What is this place?
(
) A thin boy with a pointy hat was standing on a log, in a
( forest with water flowing above his head.
) He took a step forward and disappeared.
( Instantly, however, he reappeared above the water.
) Falling through the water, the boy was replaced with an owl.
( Who flapped its wings and flew down to the log the boy had
) stood on moments earlier.
(
) -Tooooot, tooaaaarrrgh.
( Where am I what has been done to me?
) The owl jumped up and down on its log angrily.
(
) From the water fell another owl, this one as blue as the water
( itself. The new one didn't even try to flap its wings.
)
( -AAAAAAAAH!
)
( *Thud*
)
( A new log sprouted up from the ground on which the blue owl
) had landed. Crashed might be a better word, for he (she or
( even it) didn't look like it was in any good health.
)
( The brown owl decided too take a closer look and began
) flapping its wings to try to fly over to the second one.
( However as the laws of the place they were in definitely
) weren't meant to allow him to do this, he quickly
( disappeared.
)
( The screams and the cursing that followed as he reappeared
) above the water again were loud and numerous.
(
-Quick, girl, where's a cage and some rope?
Kasumi turned around.
-Here is some rope, but I don't believe we have a cage.
Genma frowned, he seemed to go into deep thought.
-A shovel then, this will be the only way. He screamed as he hurriedly ran away from her.
Kasumi stared of into the distance for a while and then returned to the stove.
-I wonder what he's up to? She said before emptying the pot, half full of rice, in the sink.
-Better make a new batch before Akane comes back.
From somewhere in the dojo a loud groan and a thud could be heard.
--
Shampoo was lying on her futon, somewhat green in the face. A few moments earlier her grandmother had come in cackling and poured cold water over her.
Then she had pulled out two of her whiskers, poked her in a few places, forcing her to cough hairballs and had then done something to her tail.
A few seconds after that Happosai had busted in through the door with a bucket of hot water, and had thrown her in it.
She clutched her head; it hurt just remembering how she had grown inside that bucket.
The bucket had been ripped apart from the stress.
After all this Mousse had come in and RESCUED her from Happosai. (she really hated that bit)
Shampoo really didn't feel well.
--
Ranma was outside Uchan's wondering if she should really go in or not.
(Yes) she decided and pulled at the door to go in.
*splosh* a bucket of cold water fell on her head.
(Wha- what the hell?) She thought, a bit shocked.
(Why would she do something like that?) She went in calmly, not wanting to upset Ukyou more than she already had.
It clearly showed that she was angry though.
She walked as if she was a living stormcloud.
Ryo-chan noticed this immediately, walked of to her foot, and cuddled her, oinking noisily.
Ranma just looked down in confusion.
-Ryouga?
The pig looked up at him with a scared face.
It didn't make any noise, just carefully started to cuddle her again.
(When did Ryouga like me so much, and when did he ever take off his ridiculous bandana?)
She picked up Ryo-chan, her hands around his stomach, and walked into the next room.
(I wonder....)
She walked into what she remembered as being Uchan's bedroom and looked around.
It was a storeroom, full of foodstuffs.
She continued to search around in the house but found no sign of Ukyou.
She felt increasingly uncomfortable, and unconsciously began to hug Ryo-chan closer.
(RYO-CHAN!) She lifted the pig up to her face and looked at it.
It looked very much like P-chan, but it had a blue bandana tied around its neck instead of that yellow and black thing that Ryouga had.
-You are called Ryo-chan! She said with clear force in her words.
Ryo-chan bigsweated.
Ranma ignored it.
(This pig is... )
She cuddled it to her breasts.
( ...MINE! ...And Uchan's, of course.)
She started talking to the pig about what Uchan had said, and about how she herself had reacted, and about what Akane would do to her, if she ever found out, and about a lot of things.
(Funny how things start flowing after you start, it's like you can't stop) She thought passingly, in-between talking about Akane's cooking and wondering where that giant mallet came from.
As she got to Hinako (and what she thought of her) she suddenly jumped up and rushed out with one thought ringing clear in her head, (I don't want to be zapped again).
Ryo-chan stopped glowing red and took one look at the watch before passing out from strain.
--
Akane woke up and looked around.
Her head had stopped throbbing and she felt much better.
She saw that Gosunkugi was still asleep, but didn't make any attempts at waking him--instead, she looked around at the rest of the class.
All of them except for a few were knocked out.
Those who weren't were either clutching their heads in pain or sitting calmly in their benches awaiting the end of class.
She looked at the teacher, hoping not to see what she expected to see.
She got what she hoped for, the teacher wasn't a youma, but she was a strange sight.
The teacher was frozen in midjump, like a photograph of a girl throwing a tantrum, only it was her teacher and what she saw was three-dimensional.
She stood up, wanting to leave, but as soon as she did she fell down again.
She was sleeping before she hit the bench.
)
( Gos woke up.
) As he felt for injuries he noticed one important fact that
( changed the way he sieved the world.
) He was an owl!
( He was a good-looking owl.
) (Hey where are my candles) he thought and flapped about
( with his wings trying to sense the candles he usually had
) tapped to his head.
( He saw another owl lying on a log, looking up into the sky.
)
( -Who are you! He said. Well he tried to say it, the only thing
) that came out was a drawn out toot but he heard the other
( part mixed into it.
)
) The other owl, who was brown by the way, answered by
( standing up and looking straight into him.
)
) -I see you finally woke up! There was a sound in the voice
( that warned of pitchforks if you didn't watch your step.
) Unfortunately for Gos he didn't listen to that part.
(
) -COULD YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION!
( He immediately got irritated with himself; he usually acted
) meek and he remembered how he disliked everything he had said
( and done because of that fact.
) He felt good about not having to act like he usually did.
(
) -NOW PLEASE! He tried to sound angry, but all that came out
( was a fluty ring to the words.
)
( The other owl looked very angry.
) It looked down in front of it, at the space between the logs
) they were standing on.
) Suddenly logs plopped out of the ground, forming a neat path
( for him to walk on.
) The brown owl cautiously took a step forward onto the first
( log and as nothing happened, he got a determined gleam in his
) eye and walked up to Gos.
(
) -You will NOT scream in my presence! He stated.
(
) Gos gulped; he hadn't expected this.
(
There was a damp silence hanging in the air.
It had stopped raining outside but you could still feel the dampness lingering, as if it was saying, -Just relax, I'll be back!
The door to Uchans creaked open and a dog trotted in, it looked tired and soaked.
This was no coincidence; it WAS tired and soaked.
The dog walked over to a kettle that was sitting on the grill and swatted at it with its paw.
The kettle swayed dangerously close to falling over but after a few moments of slight indecision soon tipped over, spilling hot water over the dog.
Seconds later a young naked girl was lying on the floor, weeping.
-Bitch! She cried out.
The words stung, before when she had uttered them they couldn't possibly mean her.
Now, on the other hand, it was something else entirely.
-I am a BITCH. She cried in full force.
(No wonder why Ranchan didn't want me, I AM A BITCH) She crawled into her bedroom, but found only a room full of supplies and a very astonished Ryo-chan sitting to one side, blood trickling from his nose.
She crawled up into a heap in the middle of the floor.
(Oh my god, not her too!) Was the last thought Ryo-chan had before he passed out from blood loss.
--
She surveyed the kitchen quickly, noting how little damage Akane had done to it while she had been to the "ladies' room". (Maybe Akane IS actually improving) She thought happily (and for a time I thought she would ruining my kitchen forever)
She smiled, as always, as she entered the kitchen to give Akane a compliment.
-Oh my! It wasn't so much the pot that was broken that she found strange as the food that hung in mid-air, not leaving the confines of the pot's intended space.
Kasumi walked to it carefully, expecting it to fall apart at any moment. She grabbed a pair of cooking gloves and put them on.
When she came to the pot she slowly tried to move her hand through the rather obvious hole in it.
She felt solid metal through the gloves.
(phew) she thought (It's just invisible)
Kasumi stepped away a little from the pot cooking on the stove.
It was, after all, something that Akane had prepared.
She went over to check on the bowl of rice she had made a bit earlier.
(I know I promised her to make the family eat her cooking but I enjoy cooking for them too much to let them die, besides it will boost her confidence)
Reassured by this she checked the other prepared meals, just in case.
--
Ryo-chan woke up in-between to big soft things.
(I didn't realize that I got pillows)
He could hear sobbing.
(Who is that? Ah yes, Uchan, well she can be late if she wants to be. I'm totally pooped)
Suddenly he realized where he really was and passed out again.
--
RRRRIIIIIINNNNNG
Nabiki rose up from her chair and walked out the door a bit after the rush.
She was thinking about what had happened before school.
She lost her thoughts as Kuno spoke to her.
-Nabiki Tendo, do you know the whereabouts of Akane or Ranko?
He stood in the middle of the sunlight coming in through a window, lighting him up against a darker background.
He looked handsome, letting the sunrays fall on him just right.
(wow) she thought, and shook her head.
(mustn't get distracted)
-Why do you want to know?
(Stupid, he's a moron who can't see the truth if it hit him in the head, that's why!)
Kuno raised his head slightly, the sunrays changing to give his face a shine of devotion.
-The longer I am away from the ones I love, the more my heart is pained, as I cannot protect them against whatever ill befalls them.
He lowered his head and looked straight into her eyes.
Placing his hand on her right shoulder, he said.
-I wish only for you to meet someone that found you the charming and beguiling woman I believe you really are, so that you would know what they mean to me!
He sighed heavily and let his hand fall of her shoulder.
-I suppose I must be off. Ere I might never see them again.
He walked away out of the schoolroom, dark, as he was walking into the light.
Nabiki simply stood there stunned.
She lifted her left hand to her right shoulder, feeling were Kuno-baby had touched her.
--
Cologne was outside feeling the air.
(It has rained a few moments ago. It will rain again later today.)
-Good, good.
She whirled around on top of her staff and bounced into Nekohanten again.
(
) In a clearing, in a forest, below a river, on a log, two owls
( were trying to fight.
)
( -Stand still so I can swat you, said one of them.
) He had brown feathers and was waving his wings about in a
( clear effort to what he had said.
)
( The other one who was watery blue, seemed a little bit quicker
) and was using his wingtip feathers as pinchers, trying to pluck
( the brown one.
)
( -I demand an answer! The blue one said.
) He got a hold on one feather and tried to pull it out.
(
) -Ouch! The brown one smacked the blue one right on the face.
(
) The blue one fell of the log and disappeared.
(
) -No one demands anything of Hikaru Gosunkugi. Tooted the
( brown one.
)
( From up above, a scream could be heard, then a splash, finally
) a thud from nearby on the ground.
(
) The brown owl turned around to see where his foe had fallen
( in time to see a log rise up beneath the unconscious blue form.
)
( Suddenly a new splash could be heard.
) He looked up to see who it was.
(
) A semi-transparent form floated down in-between the owls.
(
) -Please, you will refrain from hurting?
(
) She looked like a woman made of water.
( Her hair was rather long and the same went for her cheekbones.
) The woman was stark naked, a fact not unnoticed by the brown owl.
( She stood on nothing, in the precise middle of the two logs.
) She raised one arm, holding it out to the blue owl.
( It blurred a bit and reformed into something that looked like a cannon.
) From the cannon came a beam of light.
(
) The brown owl watched in fascination as the blue one's
( injuries faded away.
) When the blue one stood up, he looked around confused and
( called out to the brown one.
)
( -Hello, who are you? He waved his wing.
)
( The brown owl grumbled and was about to say something
) very nasty, when he noticed the water woman look at him
( slightly hurt.
)
( -*Sigh* My name...is Hikaru Gosunkugi.
)
( -We'll what a coincidence, so is Mine!
)
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Can you see the red thread,
the yellow or the blue?
Can you see the green one
inbetween the two?
Take a look at all of it.
Can you see it too?
It all forms a tapestry.
A tapestry for you
(Dewin Duvae)
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Freemage's Notes:
The Gos-man as an owl--gotta love it, right? Why don't you send some lavish praise Dewin's way?
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