'I tried so hard,
And got so far,
But in the end,
It doesn't even matter,
I had to fall,
To lose it all,
But in the end,
It doesn't even matter'
~Linkin Park, "In the End"
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Of Crows and Doves
Chapter 3: A Beginning of a Journey Through the Streets
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Yaten looked up numbly at Seiya, panting. "Nani�?" She heard Seiya's cold laugh ring through her ears and winced inwardly. Seiya shoved the end of the joint in Yaten's mouth again.
"Inhale, little school girl. One inhale isn't gonna get you high." Yaten inhaled it again, and tears slowly trickled down her cheeks. Seiya pulled it out of her mouth. "Hold it in." Yaten did as she was told, almost afraid of what would happen if she didn't.
"Jesus, Lady Caine, aren't you being a little harsh on the poor girl?" Seiya smirked and turned to X.
"X, when you're on a mission to truly corrupt someone, being 'harsh' doesn't matter." Seiya turned her attention back to Yaten. "Stop being an idiot, Yaten, let it out gradually." Yaten numbly parted her lips and let out a stream of smoke.
"I� I� can't feel� my body� Oh, Kami-sama�" Yaten closed her eyes and swallowed hard. Seiya snorted.
"You may numb, but damn it, two, may one, more inhales and you'll be giggling and laughing all over the place." Yaten grabbed Seiya's wrist to try and push her away, but she felt too numb, too weak to fight her away.
"Please� Stop�" Seiya jerked her wrist away and shoved the tip of the joint back into Yaten's mouth. She inhaled gently, making the teasing, tingling feeling in her lungs a little less, and kept it in. Yaten cracked her eyes open when Seiya pulled the joint away. Yaten let it out the smoke and stood up straight. Seiya narrowed her eyes.
"Feel a little better�?" Yaten nodded, and quirked her lips into a grin. "Woah� X, she's really wasted�"
"No shit, Sherlock." X rolled his eyes. "It's her first time getting high. She's gonna have a low tolerance."
Seiya growled. "You think I didn't know what? God, you can be su- Eh?" Seiya blinked when she felt a soft, pale hand on her own.
"Just one more time�" Yaten grabbed the joint and jerked it from in between Seiya's fingers. Seiya's eyes widened slightly as Yaten put the tip up to her lips and inhaled gently.
"At least it wasn't cocaine*�" Seiya muttered to herself dully. Yaten took the joint out of her mouth, slowly blowing out the smoke. Seiya stared at her numbly as she took the joint from Yaten's fingers. "You're almost scaring me."
"Arigatou�" Yaten mumbled, picked up her school bag, and wobbly walked out of the alley way and up the street.
"Hey, wait! Yaten!" Seiya shouted, digging into her pocket and pulling out a couple of cartridges. "Take these! They'll get you really high, really fast!" Yaten walked back to Seiya and grabbed them.
"What are they�?"
"They're called 'whippets'*. Just snap 'em open and inhale." Seiya smirked as Yaten's eyes practically lit up.
"Arigatou�!" Seiya watched as Yaten put the cartridges in her school back and began running home.
"Well� She obviously enjoyed being high..." X began slowly
"Shut up, X. Tell me. Heroin*, cocaine, or PCP*?" Seiya shoved the tip of the joint in her mouth, nd turned to X.
"�You ARE evil, Lady Caine. Don't you think PCP is a little bad for a beginner? Go with ketamine if you're gonna put her on a hallucinogen. Just go with heroin to make life easy." X muttered, and then starred at the joint that was almost all gone. "Hey, damn it! I bought that marijuana�! You owe me twenty dollars�!" Seiya took the joint out of her mouth, blew out a stream of smoke, and laughed.
"Sorry, X. I have my own heroin. I don't need you tomorrow." X sighed and rolled his eyes.
"It's so like you to use people for their drugs. Or sex. Or alcohol, or whatever the hell you want." At that, he walked away. Seiya snickered and took out a cigarette.
"You're just mad because I used your weed."
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"Okaasan, I'm home�!" Yaten throw her school bag down, and was giggling to herself. She kicked off her shoes in an ungraceful fashion.
"Kou-chan�" Yaten's mother stared at her. "You're awfully happy-grinny. Something happen in school that you're so happy about?" Yaten lifted an eyebrow, but kept grinning.
"Nothing happened, Okaasan. I'm just in a GLORIOUS mood." Yaten ran upstairs to her room.
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1. ) Cocaine is a colorless or white crystalline alkaloid that comes from the coca leaf. Cocaine has been used in South America for more than 3,000 years and in the United States since the 19th century in a variety of forms: coca leaves, coca paste, powder cocaine, and cocaine base (ex:freebase and crack cocaine). It's usually snorted. However, it is highly addictive. In the drug categories, it is a stimulant.
2.) Heroin is a white, odorless, bitter crystalline compound. It's derived from morphine (morphia for all you technical people). Heroin, an illegal opiate drug known on the street as smack, junk, brown sugar, dope, Big H, is manufactured in remote laboratories using rudimentary equipment which presses the powder into bricks for bulk shipment to destination countries like the United States. Smaller amounts are smuggled by couriers who swallow heroin-filled latex balloons before boarding commercial airlines.
3.) PCP is short for 'phencyclidine'. It was used as an anesthetic, but due to the bizarre and strong hallucinogenic affects, they stopped using it. In 1978, due to considerable abuse phencyclidine was transferred to CSA Schedule II. Today, virtually all of the phencyclidine encountered on the illicit market in the U.S. is produced in clandestine laboratories.
4.) Ketamine is a general anesthetic and used in minor surgical operations. Druggies from the streets got their hands on it, and is now used widely as a cheap hallucinogen.
5.) Whippets are nitrous oxide cartridges you twist or snap open and snort. Nitrous oxide is an odorless, sweeter tasting gas. It's usually used as an anesthetic in dentistry or regular surgery. Nitrous oxide is commonly referred to as 'laughing gas'. Illegally, it is used as an inhalant, and manages to get you really high off your ass.
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