Tiemiosho thanks for your considering. So here's a new chapter.

Can you turn my black roses red? Chapter 2

-"Maya!" Ayumus voice was under breath yet still high pitch, apparently not trying to hide the act that she was party embarrassed by her friend. Maya sighed as she felt Ayumu grab her by the arm dragging her away down the corridor.

-"We're going to be late for class…" Mayas voice didn't hold an enthusiastic tone though, since knowing her friend, she wouldn't listen.

When she had been dragged further down the corridor Ayumu spun her around staring strait at her. Maya knew what type of schooling she would expect.

-"Why did you turn him down? You barely knew him!" Ayumus voice upset.

-"And that's just why." Mayas voice calm.

-"If you're that picky you'll never get a boyfriend Maya. Never!" Maya raised an eyebrow, at times like this she could be wondering why she and Ayumu were so close. Well looking away from this she was nice.

-"But there are more things to think about in life then guys Ayumu…." Then a smile crossed her face to light up the situation that was, for Ayumu only, getting depressive. "Besides I have so many great friends I don't really have time for another boyfriend."

-"Maya…….You're just adorable like that!" Before Maya could react Ayumu had thrown her arms around her hugging her. Maya sighed, then there was this side of her as well.

-

Maya was at the very end of this university course. Considering space and planets and such. Her undying passion for the supernatural couldn't be denied. She already had a smaller plan for life now. And well since Ayumu was taking the same class as she was; well let's just say Maya didn't really understand how she could have so much spare time to think about boys, like a highschool student of some sort.

Her hand started twirling her hair as she was looking through a text she should leave in today.

-(…..I need to cut it some day….) Sometimes she missed having short hair. She sharpened her eyes on the text letting her hand freely mess with her hair, it helped her focus.

Getting a boyfriend? In the beginning Ayumu had tried to set her up with several people, now when she thought back about it, it felt pretty ridicules that she had agreed to it.

No one of them seemed to provide any real emotions towards her. Ayumu said she didn't take love seriously. Maya disagreed, she was the only one who DID take love seriously. Seriously enough to realise that she didn't have time for it now, but would devote herself to it when time presented itself.

-"Kitajima-san?" She turned around facing her teacher.

-"Ah good morning Shiroyama-sensei." She gave her teacher a smile.

-"Good morning Kitajima-sa- She interrupted him by getting up.

-"I'm sorry Shiroyama-sensei but I really must rush to class now." She said; her glance fixed at her watch. She grabbed her text and hurried of not noticing how her teacher let his finger traced the last strands of her hair.

-(Are you truly sorry Kitajima-san?) He twirled the strand of hair between his fingers in a frustrated manner.

-

-"Minamino take a look at this." Kurama reached over and took the paper from his co-worker analyzing it for a few seconds.

-"I'm sorry, but it's no good." He said with a concerning yet firm voice, making it clear that he appreciated what his co-worker did, but that it needed to be improved.

-"Sometimes you're worse then the boss Minamino…." But his co-worker smiled knowing that what he did was in the best interest for the company.

Kurama returned the smile. He had just started here, he had decided to help his step father with his computer company, since further education wasn't all that necessary for him. Even if his human age was young he had managed to get respect from the others, and life was progressing as he wished.

-"You're going anywhere for lunch?" Kurama shook his head.

-"I'm planning to correct this and then I can head home early." His co-worker scratched himself behind the head, he must feel inferior to that he was being corrected by a ´child´. "But I'll handle it back to you afterwards so that you can do the last correcting." His co-worker seemed more pleased and Kurama gave of a mental sigh of relief.

Life was going smoothly, but it still a fine balance needed to bee kept.

-

-"Maya" Ayumus voice making an uninvited entrance into her ears.

-"Yes?"

-"Are you free today?" Maya blinked at first, thinking over if she was doing anything.

-"Yes I'm free." Ayumu seemed awfully happy.

-"You know at some level I'm glad you're so picky about guys Maya." However to Ayumus devotion, Maya seemed oblivious.

-

Kurama sat down having his gaze look over the plaza where people moved like a sea outside the office window. Then suddenly his eyes fell on two particular young women. One of them seems awfully familiar. His sharper youkai eyes allowed him to see closer.

Indeed that face was familiar.

-(Kitajima Maya-san was it?)

-"Minamino?" A hand on his shoulder snapped him back to reality.

-"Yes?"

-"How rare to see you doze of."

-"It won't happen again." He said with a smile.

-"Don't think about it. Everyone needs some time of."

After that Kurama was left alone to return to his thoughts, noticing that Maya was no longer anywhere to be seen. He was just considering to head home when the phone called.

-"Hatakana computer systems. This is Minamino Shuuichi."

-"Hey Kurama what's with the formalities!" Kurama felt a smile crawl up his lips.

-"Kuwabara-kun."

-"Who else would it be?" His voice cheerful since he was talking to an old friend. "Are you still at work?"

-"As a matter of fact I'm just leaving."

-"Great! You see I thought it was a while ago. So you have time for an old friend?"

-"Must surely I do. I can see you in about." He glanced at the watch on the wall "How is an hour?"

-"It's perfect!" Kurama heard the phone hang up on the other side. He sighed. Some people never changed. And that served a wonderful purpose as well.