Okay, I've seen a lot of other people having these on their journals, and since we're fairly complex, we decided to make a general info post for our group. *Subject to change, letting you know*

( Cut to save your f-list... )

Okay, it's been long enough. Not as long as I'd like, but I'm hoping I'll get more work done this week. Apologize for the text: LJ's not letting me copy and paste from word correctly.

Title: Soul of a Family
Genres: Angst, romance, drama?
Ch 5
Summary: After William collapses on stage for an unknown reason, his bandmates try to figure out what's wrong with him. What they find out is not what they expected.
Warnings: mentions of self harm, mpreg. some points might be uncomfortable for some people.
Disclaimer: I haven't even met TAI, of course I don't own them.

Chapter 4: http://bbjkrss.livejournal.com/152030.html#cutid1
Chapter 3: http://bbjkrss.livejournal.com/133453.html#cutid1
Chapter 2:http://bbjkrss.livejournal.com/131605.html#cutid1
Chapter 1: http://bbjkrss.livejournal.com/130502.html#cutid1
Prologue: http://bbjkrss.livejournal.com/130191.html#cutid1 

( chapter 5 )

Okay, not feeling that great right now... we had ortho today, AND regular dentist cleaning. Got spacers 'cause we're getting back molar braces next Tuesday, which wasn't that bad, but cleaning was terrible. It's very uncomfortable, and we learned that we got two cavities. (insert pissed off, cursing rant here) It's very irritating to me, because even without braces, I can't seem to brush my teeth correctly. Maybe because they're crooked? But here's the thing- if I get braces to make them straighter (easier to brush), who knows how many cavities we're gonna get WHILE we have braces because it's so hard to brush your teeth with them?! >.< So we're very angry.

In other news, today wasn't all bad. We're slowly starting work on our TAI fic again, after an absence of over a month... just need to work on the novel, too, now... Also got some of our beta-reading done, though there's still a LOT to go.

We also got to watch an old movie this morning that we just found last night. It's an animated movie about the Beatles, and it is VERY entertaining. The whole time I was watching it, I was squeeing and acting like a little kid... loved it. Naru and Shuu were probably watching, too. We're probably going to watch that again at some point soon... the only thing I don't like about it is that since they had fairly heavy British accents, it's hard to tell what they're saying all the time, and even if I hear it, I don't always understand it. Nevertheless, I love watching stuff from my childhood. (Yeah, I'm technically still a kid, but you know what I mean. :P)

That's pretty much it for now. Watching the Phillies until we get tired and decide to go to bed, I suppose. Hey, at least we're winning right now. :) See you guys later.

Went out to see Year One with our brother and Matt last night. Better than I expected, though not the best movie in the world. It had some really good moments, some *really* bad, but most of it was kind of in the middle, funny-wise. The bloopers at the end were awesome, though. :P

Previews were good... there were a couple movies- one funny, one sad- that I might want to see. (Of course, we always say that, and then we never watch them... but still. :P)

Anyway... we're hoping to go over to Matt's today. He got the new Katamari game and we really want to see it. (And try to beat Kingdom Hearts. But it's getting *hard.*)

Finally, Mitsarumi's bond is getting stronger lately. We started playing WoW again, and made a new version of her. She's having fun with that, so that's nice. Now let's just hope it doesn't take over our life. :P
Aaaand... I think that's it for now. See you guys later!

1) Does anyone have any phobias? What is s/he afraid of?
Sarah, with a lot of things, including bugs, bad storms, certain social situations... yeah. As for the rest of us.. a couple things.

2) What is the biggest fear someone has overcome?
..Not sure if we have overcome a fear.

3) Did anyone have typical fears as a child (eg. of the dark, of basements, of being alone)?
Sarah says yes, typical and atypical. Doesn't want to describe. A few of us don't like the dark, most of us hate being alone.

4) What are people's greatest rational fears now?
Fear of the future, I think, is the biggest. Not sure what else we're afraid of is rational.

5) What do people do to brace themselves if they have to do something which frightens them?
Repeat "relax" over and over while they do it. We don't do those kinds of things very often, though.
-William

Taken from tiel_firas. People on my friends list, whether we know you well or not- answer it! We'd like to get to know you all better! :) Feel free to pick and choose if you'd like.
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1. Your Middle Name:

2. Age:

3. Single or Taken:

4. Favourite Film:

5. Favourite Song or Album:

6. Favourite Band/Artist:

7. Dirty or Clean:

8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:

9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?

10. What's your philosophy on life?

11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?

12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?

13. What is your favorite memory of us?

14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?

15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:

16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?

17. Can we get together and make a cake?

18. Which country is your spiritual home?

19. What is your big weakness?

20. Do you think I'm a good person?

21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?

22. Describe your accent:

23. If you could change anything about me, would you?

24. What do you wear to sleep?

25. Trousers or skirts?

26. Cigarettes or alcohol?

27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)

28. Will you repost this so I can fill it out for you?

The weekend was nice. We brought our friend Nick to the youth group on Friday night, and we had a lot of fun. They all seemed to like him there, if the hugs were any indication, and we had some good discussion. There were some kids from our school this time, which was kinda odd, but it was nice to know people.

We went out to the mall (the big one :D) on Saturday with our friend Matt, which was awesome. He wanted the new Xbox, so he brought 30 old games to trade in, and he got about 200 dollars for them. So he was pretty happy, and I had fun walking around the mall. We saw a lot of cool stores, and I got a beautiful Academy Is... t-shirt from hot topic. Loooove that place. They had a lot of cool shirts there, but I didn't have enough money. >.< And we got smoothies from a place that used real fruits. Which was awesome, except for the fact that I got a raspberry one, and it was *full* of seeds. *sigh* It still tasted great, though.

Yesterday was father's day, and dad took us back to the house for a special lunch. It was nice, our grandparents came over, we watched baseball... when grandparents left, we played games with dad's girlfriend for a while, and it was a pretty nice afternoon. Yesterday evening, mom took us to our grandmom's house, and we hung out for an hour. We *love* her dog. :) Then on the way home, my brother kept us all laughing the whole way, being incredibly random. I love my family. ^_^

In other news, I've gotten up to 22 kanji, the novel's at almost 14,000 words... and we're just feeling good in general now. Now if only we could stop sneezing... :P (rabbit.) Anyway, we're going to do some typing now, so we'll see you guys later.

Came up with this while sitting out in the rain this afternoon. Hope you guys like it.

Well, we accidentally replied to another comment on the main community... been so long we forgot. >.< Anyway.. good morning!

Wow, it's been almost a week. Can't believe we've been neglecting LJ, but we have been busy.

School ended on Friday. Kinda sad, but not missing it too much. A break's always nice, but watch me start pining for it three weeks in. :P I need to be occupied. (Yusuke: Hey, maybe she'll actually start paying attention to Japanese now!) I have been... Anyway, summer's been good so far. Been playing A LOT of video games (and doing awesomely, might I add), and we had a friend over on Sunday. We learned how to shoot our brother's bow and arrow- not that good at it, but we'll learn. Our friend Nick helped us pick out some new earrings, and we love them very much. :D (Now if only we would go places that you wear nice earrings to...)

MYA was good on Friday, though our friend couldn't come... we really need to bring somebody sometime. It is really nice, but things keep coming up.. >.< We watched Fiddler on the Roof on TV one night, played a board game and almost won last night... and I realized yesterday that I recognize about 20 or so kanji. :D (Okay, ten of those are numbers, but still. I feel good.)

Need to get back to work on writing. Have good intentions, but we keep procrastinating. *sigh*

Lost our voice Friday night- could talk enough for MYA, but for Saturday/Sunday, we could barely talk above a whisper/croak. Doing a lot better now- could actually sing a little bit earlier. Hopefully it'll come back all the way within the next couple days.

...Aaaaand... I think that's everything mildly interesting so far. Will try to get some work done tonight. See you guys when we see you! :)

Well, finals are finally over! Unfortunately, there are still two days left where we do basically nothing... but I'm happy with how things went. I got a 98% on my English final, which is totally awesome, and I got *ONE QUESTION WRONG* on my math final! :DD Stupid mistake, I could have aced it, instead I got a 97%, but... still really happy. So I think we got straight As this semester. *Verrry* happy.

In other school news, I tried to talk to the diving coach today, but he wasn't in... I think I'll try again tomorrow. From what I can tell, I don't think they practice before school, so if the hours/days aren't too obnoxious, I might do it. At the very least I'll see if we can go to the pool a few times this summer. I really miss swimming, and it's only been a week. :P

Apart from school, things have been okay. I'm a little anxious for school to end. While it would be nice to get a break, I'm worried about what I'm going to do all day. At the apartment, I'm pretty sure I'll get bored, and at the house, I'm worried about being anxious all day. *sigh* I'm sure we'll be fine, and we'll survive, but it seems to be a big part of our mind to just *worry* all the time. >.< And the therapist wasn't particularly helpful on Tuesday. I left more upset than when I came in. (Seems to happen fairly often.) Well..... we'll see how things go.

And, to end on a good note, the novel's starting to come along again. Hit 12,000 words today. :) And inspiration, while not *pouring* out of me, is steadily trickling. Feeling good. ^_^

Things have been busy this afternoon. We went out with the body's mother for a little bit of shopping earlier- not too bad, though it was a little longer than I'd have liked. We got puzzles out of it, so I suppose it was worth it. Sarah also did some novel editing earlier, and is hoping to do some writing later. I'll see if I can help her with that.

Today was Shinobu's birthday.. we didn't really do much for him (or many people, this year... hopefully that'll change..), but he has agreed to start work on one of the puzzles. We'll probably let him and Itsuki work on one together for a while. As a group, we played with the rabbit earlier, but I think the kids get more enjoyment out of that than we older ones do. :P

Well, one thing that we're going to sit down as a group and do this weekend is finish the last Death Note manga. We've been reading the series non-stop since last Saturday, and we're almost done! Getting exciting, and *very* complicated. Some of the others lost interest halfway through because it got too confusing, but Shinobu, Itsuki, Sarah and I are still very into it. (Yusuke sometimes reads "over my shoulder," so to speak, but he keeps asking me what's going on until I can't focus on the book anymore. >.<)

Anyway, I'm starting to run out of things to say. Shame, since I don't post that much to begin with. I'll see you guys when I see you. Chao. ;)

-Koenma

You guys know I've been anxious a lot these past couple weeks? Well, somehow I decided to help Dad and my brothers with cleaning out the garage yesterday. It started out not so bad, but there was a *lot* of crap in there that was *really* dirty, and we found a couple mice while we were working. They were actually kind of cute, but I was really nervous to get in there after a while. Didn't wanna get bit. :P

It took us about an hour and a half to get everything out, organize it into four piles, sweep out the place, and put everything back in. During that time, since we started at 8, bugs started to accumulate... which was really not fun. (The one "upside" is that I think I know now what the little bugs that keep bothering me are, 'cause we saw larger versions of them outside.. but I still hate them, even though that helped a little with the anxiety. :/ At least they aren't cockroaches, is what I'm relieved about.)

I'm glad that I was a little helpful, but stuff like that, I just don't like very much. I think we're going to have to clean out the basement, too, but at least that's inside. :P

Well, I have to finish getting ready for school. See you guys later.

Well, this has been a good day. Started out as a wonderful morning- nice and cool, beautiful clouds... Dad and I had a physics conversation after seeing balloons in the air... yeah. Good morning. I got all my homework done, did a lot of reading... (Death Note's teaching me Japanese! I can recognize the kanji for "human" and "die" now! ...Okay, odd ones to know, but still. :P)

While I was at guitar, Dad got ant spray and already it's working. Only saw one since he sprayed it. So I'm feeling a lot calmer. There are still a few others, but I'll figure out where it can be sprayed safely and we'll see how things go.

We were at the mall for a little bit this afternoon. I got some new clothes for summer, which made me happy, and I got two Loveless manga. Once I'm done with Death Note, I'm gonna go through all the Loveless... in considerably less time. :P

Currently watching Deadliest Warrior: Pirates vs. Knights. :D I want pirates to win, but I doubt they will. Still, it's a good show. I love these battles. It's so cool seeing how old weapons worked. (THEY WON! :DD we watched to the end, and that was awesome!! And now we're watching Mafia vs. Yakuza. GOD I love this show. ...And Yusuke does too.)

Guitar recital tonight. Not too worried about the guitar playing- more so the singing. William's not worried, but that's because he does that for a living. I'll probably ask him for health.

Swimming's been fun this week. We've almost nailed doing a flip when we're diving. Too bad there're only two more classes. Kuwabara was doing a lot of diving on Friday, showing off for Mitarai. :P And now he's complaining that I'm embarrassing him, but it really was adorable.

And finally, on the writing front, the novel's not going so well. Can't focus that great here. Also thinking that I might re-work some of my old stories- I sometimes reread them on FF.net, and they are *painful* to read. No description, and the dialogue is so.. awkward. *sigh* Well, once things settle down in the summer, I might do it, along with the novels. *shrug* We'll see. And now I've rambled enough, so ja matta! :)

Wow, we haven't been updating a lot lately. I suppose we've been busy. Doing a little work on the novel.. played with the bunny this afternoon... I've gotten it to sit on my lap on almost a regular basis now. ^_^ It's so adorable.

On the house front, I talked about it (and anxiety in general) with the therapist, and I'm feeling a little better. Still get the weird "deja vu/anxiety attack" thing (still don't know what it is..), but Dad did call the bug guy, and so hopefully the house will be taken care of. Matt's offered to come over this weekend and help clean, which is at the same time kinda odd and also so nice of him. Even if all we do is tidy up the basement and vacuum a little, that'll be a BIG help. And I plan on talking with Dad about house issues, like do we want/need a person who'll clean the house, since we don't always have time? (At the moment that's my biggest concern.) So I'm trying to learn to deal with anxiety logically instead of getting hysterical about it.

Friends and school-wise, things are also going well. I feel sad that some of my friends I don't talk with that much anymore, but I'm getting very close with two others, and lunch is a lot of fun now. I almost always leave in a very good mood. :) (And on a side note, we got to see our Spanish grades. 98%! I'm in second place by .35! :P)

Now I want to mention something kinda cool that me and the guys noticed this afternoon. We were watching Yu Yu, in Japanese since I'm trying to recognize what I know/don't know. It's fun hearing stuff I recognize, though more often than not, I can't even tell what the word is, and I don't particularly like most of their Japanese voices. But, while we were watching, it felt more... realistic? or something. Like, more how they remembered it, I suppose. Tones of voices and vocabulary used. It was strange to me, because the background noises didn't change all that much, but it felt a lot more creepy and real than when I listened to it in English. I think we might continue doing this- it interests the guys, and Japanese is always cool. :D (I just need to learn more. >.<)

...Aaand I think that's it for how things are going. I'm going to get back to writing now, so I'll see you guys later!

Feeling really terrible right now. Not physically- not sick, but.. we're at the house right now, which isn't really as clean as it should be. Lately, there have been a lot of small insects in here.. at first, not scary at all, merely annoying. Now there are a lot more, and I'm feeling anxious as hell. We're not going back to the apartment until Sunday morning, and we're only there until Friday. I want to be there right now... sleeping on the couch tonight, since it feels safer. Dad's gonna get the exterminator, I think.. And it's not helping that the dog's acting funny..

Hoping things will get better in the morning.

So, we went down to the city last night to see Hamlet. (Well, really left at 2.. and got back 12:30. >.<) Traffic was terrible going down, but we finally got there, picked up Dad's friend, and went out to dinner. Very fun- it was an Italian place, though it had creme broule (sp?) for dessert.. tasted a lot like flan, and I loved it.

There were a lot of horses around- I love seeing them, but I also feel bad for them, doing the same thing over and over.. walking near *cars* and everything.. but they were beautiful.

We went to the bookstore, and we got three mangas- the last Death Note, a Loveless, and a Yu Yu.. (I am getting pissed at the YYH mangas- there seem to be less and less words with each manga, and they are taking longer and longer to get done. I had to wait since December for this one, I think, and the next one doesn't come out until October. -_-;;;;)
Then we went to the play.

Acting was good, though props/effects were plain-ish... the guy who did Hamlet was very monkey-like- they had scaffolding next to the stage, and at 2/3 points he'd climb up on it and hang like a monkey or a sloth- very cool. :D The language was hard to understand, but I can't really understand Shakespeare that well anyway. >.< Recognized a few lines, so that's good enough for me. I felt bad that I was falling asleep by the end, but it was around 11, and I usually go to bed 9-10ish. Still, it was an enjoyable afternoon. :)

1) Is there any front runner who hates being late?
Yeah. A couple of us don't like it, but Sarah's the one who has the biggest issue with it.

2) Do any of the front runners have issues with time? What kind of issues?
Uh.. not really sure.. not more than the usual "going too fast/slow" kinda thing. No glaring at the clock saying "I hate you," or anything.

3) Do any of the front runners procrastinate?
Heh.. I'd say quite a few of us do, at least the younger ones. The adults and one or two of us teens are good doing things on time, but...

4) Is there anyone who is always early for appointments?
Sarah, since she *hates* being late... apart from her, not really sure. We don't really have appointments, I don't think.

5) Is losing time an issue for your household?
99 percent of the time, I'd say nope.

-Yusuke

Gah, we've been so boring lately. Sorry 'bout that, but nothing exciting really's been happening. Well, outside, that is. I haven't been out much lately, 'cause the palate expander really pisses me off. I can feel my teeth moving when I swallow, and I can see the two front ones moves when I push them with my tongue. Well, we don't have to go back for two months, so that's good. (And then we get back molar ones.. that'll be hell for sure.)

Inside's been fun. Mostly hung out with Koenma, watched some movies.. Kuwa and I practice fighting once in a while.. I always win. ^_^

Sarah's mom got her a new puzzle- an "I Spy" one. It is *hard.* Koenma's been trying to help her, but he doesn't get it, either. Sometimes one of the kids puts in a handful at a time, but I think this is the hardest one we've done, 'cause almost nothing's *connected.* It's all so much random stuff. *sigh*

Well, I guess we're gonna get back to work on that. Sarah wants to get some work in before Spanish homework. (We've got a benchmark tomorrow. Don't really care myself, but she's excited.) Sayonara! :P

-Yusuke

Today was nice. Woke up early for some reason, but didn't really mind. We went to church with our grandmother, which was okay, and then we went to our aunt's house for lunch. Our uncle made really good pasta and our grandmom made *awesome* cream puff cake. Very delicious. ^_^ Both our grandmom and our mom liked the cards we gave them, and when I gave mom the necklace we got her, she seemed really happy. :D

The drive home was... interesting, to say the least. We were driving our grandmom home, and we're going past a house with three cars in the driveway. We're a couple seconds past it when my older brother says, "Is that guy okay? He's just lying in the driveway." So we turn around after a little deliberation, and mom/grandmom/Phil go to check on him. Apparently he had dropped something that shattered and he was picking it up, but he looked like he had collapsed... >.> So he was okay. Very odd, but we felt good that we checked on him. Then, later on, we see a guy start jogging across the street, and then when he gets to the middle, he suddenly stops and hobbles the rest of the way across. I couldn't tell if he was mentally challenged or what, but that was also strange..

When we got home, we gave mom the stuffed giraffe we got her as a joke gift, and she thought it was really cute. She seemed happy today, and I'm glad.

*sigh* Now we have to finish our homework and get a little done writing-wise. I don't want to go to school tomorrow... >.<
I hope you guys had happy Mother's Days too! :)