Chapter 2:
The next day, Kohaku went to bed soon as she came home. The mission took the whole night and the
murderer was very elusive and tried to ambush her. Fortunately, she caught up with him and slit his
throat.
She sighed and went to bed. An hour later, Kirara came in to cover Kohaku with her covers. She
reached to touch Kohaku's forehead and her eyes widened. Kirara went to the bathroom to Iris-
message Kohaku's seventeen year old boyfriend, who, at this time was working at Kimura Village's
hospital. She turned on the faucet, letting it fill up the sink. When it was full, she turned off the tap and
held up a golden Greek drachma. She closed her eyes and thought, O Iris, please accept my offering,
and threw the drachma in the water and said, "I want to see Prince Hiyacinthus." The image rippled and
the prince's face appeared. He, apparently, was giving a patient a dose of silverwood nectar. "Ne,
Hiyacinthus!" Kirara called to him. "Hm?" He stood up and turned around. He had an expression of
surprise when he saw Kirara. "Kirara-san? What did you need?" he asked. "Kohaku has a fever,
apparently." Katsumi replied. "Did she go out on another mission?" he questioned. She nodded. Hiyacinthus sighed and face palmed. "Kohaku needs to take a little break from missions for a while. I will have to talk to Hiroshi-sama about this. She keeps taking on S-class missions." "I try to tell her to chill for a while, but she doesn't listen, she never has. She's definitely my friend's daughter, for sure!" "Well, keep her in bed, strap her down if necessary. Then, keep her forehead cool with a cool, wet cloth and vary the temperature of her food."Hai, hai. Good luck with your operation!" "Arigatou." They disconnected and Kirara did as Hiyacinthus instructed. Kohaku, of course, had a fit of anger when she was not allowed to leave her bed.
A week went by and Kohaku was finally allowed to leave her bed. She went to the skate ramp to
skateboard. Later, she came back and went to the kitchen. She saw a of onigiri on the counter and
reached her hand out to take one. Her hand was smack away with a hard plastic spatula. "Itai!"
She shrieked out. "No snacking on the sly, Haku-kun," Kirara scolded. "B-but-" Kohaku started. "No."
Kirara replied firmly. "These are for everyone, you know." Kohaku rubbed her reddened hand and said, "But you know I love onigiri!" "Yes, yes, but this is for everyone." "Even that stupid
okami?" "Yes, even for him." "Grrr. Fine." Kohaku growled. "I'll be outside, in the back."
"Hai." She went out the sliding door only to bump into someone. "Kyaa~!" She looked up to see an
onyx brown eyed, black haired boy. "Ah! Shushuya! Baka-okami!" Kohaku yelled out. "Watch
where you're going, you little brat!" Shushuya yelled back. "Urusai! You weren't watching where you
were going either!" Kohaku replied back, a vein in her forehead threatening to rupture. "Now,
now, you two. Always fighting like this." Aoshi said, walking down the hallway. "OI! Uncle!" Kohaku whined. At that moment, Katsumi came outside with a big plate of onigiri and chocolate drenched dango. "Kyaa~! Chocolate dango!" Kohaku exclaimed and ran to get some dango. Kirara's hand held her back by her Kohaku's forehead. "Hey! What's the meaning of this?!" Kohaku yelled out. "Some for others first, dear." "Dammit." Katsumi gave Aoshi, Shushuya, and Kirara a few onigiri and dango before taking one of each for herself. She gave Kohaku the rest of the dango and onigiri, which was a lot and Kohaku was satisfied. When everyone was finished, Kirara took the plates back in.
"Kirara-san, wanna have a go at kenjutsu?" Kohaku asked her mom's best friend. "Hmm? Oh, I
don't know. I'm not as good as you, Haku-kun." Kirara replied. Kohaku stood up and crossed her arms
over her chest. "Hnnn? Turning away from a challenge? How cowardly." That got Kirara to look
up at the white-haired teen. "Seems that I have to step up to the challenge now, don't I?" she replied.
She stood up and said, "Fine. Let's go."
When Kohaku and Kirara got their celestial bronze armour, arm and leg guards, and helmets on, they
got into position. Kohaku had one of the twin blades, her white diamond katana, and Kirara had her steel and bronze katana. "Kirara-san, ready when you are!" Kohaku called to Kirara. The latter sped off towards heropponent in reponse. Kohaku blocked and parried with ease. Kohaku continued to play defense, while Kirara played offense. (This is not football, mind you.) After an hour of this back and forth, Kirara was sweating and tired. "Uwah~! I can't keep up! You win!" she said and sat down where she was, panting. (She's a wolf demon) Kohaku just stood there, and lowered her katana. "You were good, too, you know." she replied. "Thanks, but, not as good as you." Kirara said. "Let's go inside." "Hai!"
After they went inside, Kohaku went to her room. She went to her room and decided to play video
games. Mitsuko called Kohaku from down the hall. Kohaku went to see what she wanted. "Haku-kun,
let's go surfing!" she exclaimed. Kohaku's eyes lit up at surfing. "Sure!" So, they got changed and brought out their surfboards.