Are you Asleep (Open)

It was the end of June and a storm was rolling in. The rain was starting with a set of small drops but was falling quickly thunder cracked and lightning lit the early morning of the area. The raindrops pelted a young woman's window and slowly roused her from sleep. Her yellow eyes seemed to light up as lightening filled her room. She rolled over and the darkness filled her room and she heard a voice in her room it was a confident but gitty voice.

"Are you going to take the chance to be late? Do you just wish to sleep?" The voice asked Rikku who rolled over and the lightning brought her eyes open again and she stretched out. Pulling her blanket off and letting it hit the floor she rolled to pulled herself up to a sitting position letting her feet slap against the concrete floor.

"Why are you talking to me again?" She asked the disembodied voice in her room. "I thought you had left me many years ago." The statement was almost somber. Pulling her self from her bed wearing a black camisole and white panties she mad he way to her closet. "If you know I'm running late why ask if I want to Gamble it?" it seemed she was talking to herself.

A whimsical giggle filled the room. "So you take the Gamble let us see how this plays out." Another flash of lightning revealed the form of a woman wearing a black evening gown that faded out in a soft of smoke and the sound of dice hitting each other. Rikku grabbed a blue tank top and a black mini skirt out of her closet getting dressed and headed out seeing her mother was already gone and sighed. "I hope you can get some sleep mom" she grabbed her bag and started out of the house letting the water soak into her.

With a sigh, she started on her way down the street. Doing her best to ignore the rain that was soaking into her and causing her feet to get soaked as the water started to soak and fill her boots. Glancing at the sky she thought she saw a serpent in the clouds and took a deep breath closing her eyes as she had been stunned by the site doing her best to ignore the image she saw and the memories it brought. forcing herself to keep walking as she was making her way to school.

She was walking with her head down and came to an abrut stop seeing the woman now standing before her or atleast her feet. she reached up running her fingers through the white and blue locks she had and sighed. before she realized she couldn't exactlly make out the person standing before her.
"Great another halucination." the feelind of water around her made it had to see her between the rain and the fact it was running off the field she was using to keep the rain from hitting her. A little black butterfly was darting around Rikku's head and she glanced at it and sighed then decided to great the strange thing infront of her.
"Hopefully I'm still asleep" She spoke aloud and then finally let her almost hollow yellow eyes lock onto the form before her. "Cant exactlly say it is good but morning." She seemed reserved like she was ready to run at a moments notice her eyes darting checking all possible exits. She didn't move though and gripped her bag. "Guess I will be late for school" she stated under her breath

Those yellow eyes of her started to get a bit brighter and the Hell butterfly that was fluttering around her started to back away as its message was not for this woman. She watched the woman's hand and then felt the touch to her cheek as the rain seemed to fade her mind reeled at the woman's words. As much as she was thankful for the rain being gone she couldn't help but be disgusted by the brashness of this woman hallucination or no she would not take being accosted by her own mind. But her voice and touch were so real.

"Don't touch me you pervert." She exclaimed out loud and pulled back from her and took a hop back and closed her eyes and took several deep breaths to calm herself. She heard a whisper telling her to run. Rikku for once didn't argue with herself or that though. Even though the rain had stopped she could still run and she knew the path to school all too well. Taking a quick sidestep she got near the wall and started to run. If the woman was as sharp as she seemed she would be able to nice through the now almost sheer fabric the symbols for the old Gotei 13 on her back. When Rikku got to a bench she vaulted off it and used the nearby wall to jump higher grabbing a street light and swung up landing on a small roof and just kept moving. "I swear this better just be a bad dream." She couldn't consider it a nightmare but it certainly wasn't fun. She paid attention to where she was landing not the distance.

"Maybe I can still make it before the second bell"

Nearly stumbling when the woman appeared before her again she simply picked a new spot and leaped over onto a pipe on the roof and looked to her breathing hard and stared at her. she started to take even breaths to steady her breathing and her mind raced and she seemed to be reading something as her eyes were flicking back and forth. "So not a Hallucination" she finally said standing up and then wrapped her arms around her chest to hide herself some.

"So tell me who are you? are you one of those damn shinigami I have read about? Are you here to claim my soul?" She was hoping to distract the woman long enough to be able to get to school but she looked at her watch and gave up not hat idea. "Well looks like you won the gamble this time I'm late for school" she seemed to be talking to someone else at this point and not Ulv.

"No one has told me a thing about them I have been studying them studying their world." She crossed her arms and looked over this woman she mentioned something she didn't quite understand. She continued to think her eyes flicking back and forth again. they finally stopped and she looked at her not sure why she was willing to trust this woman for right now.

"A hollow?" She asked having not encountered that word before. Ulv seemed to have information that she needed and to an extent wanted. "I'm willing to trust you for now." She stated as she watched the woman standing there she hoped maybe this would help her find out what happened to her father and why her mother insisted the spirit world was a bunch of nonsense that will only lead to one's death. Her mind started to go through the catalog of information she had studied still trying to see if she could remember any mention of a Hollow.