Chapter 1: Heaven in a hot spring

"Girl, let's go no need to stick around here any longer." I turned my head as I heard a rough voice call out to me, it belonged to none other than the thousand-man killer himself, Demon eyes Kyo,

"Yes coming your majesty." I said playfully, knowing it would raise his already huge ass ego. Oh, I almost forgot, how rude of me, my name is Erin Haruya, I've been traveling with Kyo ever since he regained his actual body and he was the only one who kept me company seeing as how Kyoshiro and Yuya broke away,

"Hurry up girl, you're slowing me down, this time I will really leave you on your own." I heard Kyo call out sounding annoyed as always,

"Alright, alright geez and here I was thinking you'd actually be nice for once and wait." I replied while trying to not sound annoyed, but he just gave a smirk and we continued off down the dirt road side by side.

'Sigh, why does he keep me around anyway? I mean he's got to be in his late 20's to early 30's by now. I mean I'm only 19.' I thought to myself, hey I wasn't at all bad looking either, my black hair reached all the way down to the middle of my back and my eyes were a deep dark blue and they had a soft look to them.

I wore a plain blue kimono that ended at my thighs and the obi was wrapped tight around my slender waist and I wore plain sandals on my feet, but I also let my hair fly free. Kyo on the other hand wore the same thing he always wore everyday.

He had plain brown sandals on his feet, going up, he had blood red pants on, which were tattered and ripped at the ends, on his well built chest he wore a chest plate which was also red and the shoulder plates went out, over that he wore a long white sleeveless jacket which also had red and gold on it and red arm guards that went up to his elbows. He also had out of control red hair and his famous red eyes.

"Come on girl hurry up." I head Kyo say yet again,

"I'm walking right next to you!!! And I have a name!!! It's Erin." I replied as I gave him a pissed off look and then I crossed my arms and walked ahead of him, we were the only two walking on the dirt road,

"Heh, now I know why I've kept you around…Erin." Kyo replied and I just stopped,

"Wha-wha-what did you just say?" I asked and I couldn't help but stutter,

"Just come along Erin." I blushed but I didn't allow him to see, he finally said my name…ever since I had started traveling with Kyo all he ever called me was servant 1 or girl. I just smiled and ran after him because he was way ahead of me, and I would follow him anywhere.

***

Kyo and I had been walking for quite a while now and my poor feet were aching and tired, but unlike Kyo, he was the strongest and the best looking between us, yes I'll admit it, I had fallen in love with him, but I also knew that he wouldn't return my feelings, but I didn't want to seem weak while around him, aww screw it, I'm more worried about my feet falling off,

"Kyo come on please can we stop? We've been walking for a while now and my feet are killing me!!!" I had said while trying to keep up with him, man he's tough, damnit why do I always go for that type…

"Fine, if your feet hurt that much we'll stop over there." He replied, slightly annoyed, but he pointed over at one of the inns that had a hot spring in the back, I stopped and smiled,

'Oh thank god,' I said within my mind and while I was off in my own little world, I swear Kyo gave a smirk.

***

Finally, a place where I could sit, this was heaven, but as it ended up, Kyo and I had to share a room. I was sitting at the window, watching the stars dance and twinkle around the full moon and I was enjoying the night breeze that blew, but I was also the only one in the room, why you ask? Because Kyo went to go change into one of his own kimonos, me, I just wore one of the comfy kimonos they had given me when we checked in.

"Damn women around here, can't just walk to my destination without being stopped." Kyo said as he slammed the door behind him, now you could tell he was mad, but alas he had sake with him so that would calm him down…somewhat,

"Where'd ya get the kimono at?" I had asked as I watched him sit down, he had changed out of his normal clothing and what he was in now was a plain black kimono with a yin and yang symbol on the back, but yet in front it was open all the way right before it hit the belt, and red hair going everywhere, I felt my face heat up, damnit why did he have to be so freaking sexy, man I just wanted him to take me now!!! What I didn't realize was that I had been looking right at him while I was thinking, so what happened? My face turned about as red as his hair, then he gave me a look, because apparently he knew I was looking at him, and then he raised his eyebrow,

"Stop staring at me, it's getting on my nerves, I'm already mad enough as it is." He said while drinking more of his sake and I shot him a glare,

"Whatever you want your majesty." I replied and he just smirked, yet again rising his ego,

'Why I ought…' I thought as I crossed my arms and sat in my anger,

"Well I'm going to go relax in the hot spring, join if you feel like it, that is if your not afraid to sit next to Oni-me no Kyo." He said and I glared,

"Oh bite me jackass." I shot back,

"Don't tempt me." He replied and with that he left the room.

***

Okay, here I was at a hot spring with Kyo, damn I'm lucky.

'Grrr, he's such a cocky jackass, Oh fear me, I'm Oni-me no Kyo.' I thought as I walked down the hall, with a towel in my arms and my head down, then all of a sudden I felt myself bump into someone, I looked up and realized it was Kyoshiro!

"Oh! Miss Erin, it's nice to see you again!! What are you doing here?" I smiled

"Me and Kyo are just here relaxing until he decides to leave, is Yuya here with you?" I asked nicely,

"Yes, she's just in the room, going to the hot spring?"

"Yeah, sure was." I replied

"Well, continue down the hall and on your right are the changing rooms."

"Thank you Kyoshiro." I gave a bow and continued on my way.

***

Alright here goes nothing, I walked out of the changing room, my towel was wrapped around my slim body then I spotted him, the hot spring was apparently co-ed. He was just sitting there, relaxing, his nice sculpted body, water dripping from every curve of his perfectly tan figure I nearly fainted,

"Ahh Erin, I see you decided to join me." He said without even turning around, I blushed and then slipped in next to him,

"So…feeling any better?"
"Yeah thanks for asking." I replied and slipped farther into the water, it came up right past my lips,

"Good then we can leave first thing in the morning." I heard him say

"What?! We just got here!! Can't we stay for another day or two?" I said and stood up, my towel clinging to my wet body, good thing we were the only two here at this moment,

"Shut up and sit down, what I say is final." He snapped back at me,

"Grr, you cocky jackass, just because you're the strongest samurai in the world doesn't mean you can boss me around!! I have a say as well you know!!" I shouted, my eyes gave him a piercing glare, that's when he stood up, all he had was a towel wrapped around his waist, when he was standing up I came up to his chest, this time I actually felt myself shrink a few inches, I knew I was in deep trouble, no one had ever yelled at him, ever. He then walked over to me and then stood very close,

"Now I know why I keep you around." I heard him say and then he started to lean down.