The Forbidden Child

I crouched down below the museum gate. I can't believe I'm doing this.

"C'mon Kiriyai we dared you." One of the girls said beside me in the bush. I don't know why I wanted to join their group anyway. These initiations were so stupid. Breaking into a museum just to say you could...

"Okay I'm going." I grumbled, slipping on my gloves. I took the bobby pin out of my hair and crept up to the gate. Picking the gate lock was easy, it was going to be the electronic one by the main entrance that would probably give me grief. Unzipping my backpack, I pulled out the decoder. This thing cost me a fortune, but it was so worth it.

"Geez hurry up." One of the other girls said, still hiding by the bushes.

"Shut up, I don't see you out here." I whispered angrily. I wasn't sure she heard me, but I didn't really give a shit. I plugged in the decoder to the lock and waited as a bunch of numbers flashed quickly across the screen, trying to break the code.

I could hear the whispers from the bushes, they didn't think I'd make it this far. I rolled my eyes. Suddenly a flashlight beam shot across the field.

"HEY WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON OVER THERE?!" Yelled a cop, flashing his flashlight brighter and running towards me. The other girls in the bushes took off, and so did I. Quickly unhooking the decoder and shoving it in my backpack. I didn't even bother unlocking the gate again, I just jumped it.

"GET BACK HERE YOU...!" The cop said running, also running out of breath. Apparently he'd been eating too many donuts lately. Climbing the stone wall, I jumped up into the forest and started running. It sometimes helped to live with a mile or so of forest around your house. I saw my house come into view, and I was relieved. I heard a loud popping sound somewhere behind me, then a stinging sensation in my arm. I sniffed the air and almost gagged. Blood. Lots and lots of my blood. That bastard of a cop shot me!

I turned quickly and looked at my enemy. Somehow he had climbed the stone wall and was standing a far distance from me, gun in hand. I turned and started jumping from tree to tree instead of on the ground. Soon the voices faded and even though he fired a few more times, he missed me. I should have killed him, I could have, but it would have ruined everything my mother had told me. Speaking of my mother, she was gonna be so pissed off if she found out I was gone at this time of night.

Evaluating my wound, I noticed it just grazed my left arm, but it hurt like a bitch. My house was just right up ahead, past that creepy old well. I looked up at the window of my house, on the second floor. Sighing, I applied pressure to my wound and jumped right inside my room.

I pulled off my mask (yes, I was being that cliche) and gloves. My long black hair fell in tangles around my waist, except for that long silver streak in the front of my hair. My deep brown eyes looked tired. The blood on my black turtle-neck was already started to cake up, so I gave up on trying to clean it off and took a shower. When I got out, I put some herbs on my wound and wrapped it up. I pulled on my comfy pajamas and walked out the bathroom door...and my mom was standing right in front of me.

"Kiriyai Higurashi, where have you been?! Do you know what time it is?!" Kagome, my mom, berated. Lord knows I didn't need this. I flopped on my bed and gave a muffled response, glad that my pajama sleeve covered my arm wound.

"What's that?" Mom continued "It better have sounded like grounded for a month!" Mom continued. I sighed and my eyes were fighting to stay open.

"Night mom." I mumbled, already half asleep.

I heard my mother sigh and say something like "We'll finish this later." and walk out. I drifted off to sleep.