Cross My Heart
Chapter 4
I do not own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho.
Two weeks… Two whole weeks and he had yet to meet his mother's new 'friend'. Day after day he could tell his mother was getting closer to her. Yesterday she spent half of the visiting hours talking about Kagome and how sweet she was.
Stop getting lost in thought, Red! We're almost there. This time we will find her!
Picking up his speed he quickly turned the last corner and came to a stop right outside his mother's door and listened.
"I know my mother means well, but I feel like I have to do this. Lately I've been trying to compromise and asked my boss if I could cut down on my hours. It's just so hard watching my family struggle to buy the necessities."
Listen to her, Red. This girl is feeding Mother fake sob stories! Follow her when she leaves. It's time to finish this.
"It is ok to feel that way Kagome, but you can't work yourself to death. I know exactly what your mother feels. I am a mother myself. Right now with your grandfather sick your family doesn't just need financial support they need you there with them. You are also in school. Working so much could hurt your grad-".
BEEP!-BEEP!-BEEP! BEEP!
"I'm really sorry Ms. Minamino that's my alarm on my phone. I have to go. I have to be at work in a half hour, and I promised Grandpa I would visit his room today."
"Will you stop by tomorrow?"
"I have to be at work earlier than usual tomorrow. I'll call you when I have time to visit."
"Ok! Tell your grandfather I said hello dear!"
Hearing soft footsteps head towards the door Kurama slowly backed into the shadowed alcove nearby. Reaching into his crimson locks he pulled out a seed, and waited for his prey.
As soon as Kagome stepped out of the room she knew something was wrong. The air was cold and prickly with warnings that made her shiver. She quickly started down the hallway in hopes that the feeling would dissipate. Stopping at the elevator she pressed the button and nervously waited. Looking up at the screen on top of the elevator she watched as numbers went across the screen telling her what floor the elevator was on.
2-3-4-"Hello"
Smothering a small yelp that threatened to escape she spun around to see two beautiful emerald eyes staring down at her. It took her several moments to break out of a trance. From the corner of her eye she could see the stranger's mouth tilt into a delicate frown.
"Are you here to see someone?" He asked conversationally after a moment of awkward silence.
"Yes, my grandfather. What about you?"
"I'm visiting my mother."
Turning to look at him Kagome suddenly realize.
"You're Ms. Minamino's son. I can't believe I didn't realize it! I mean seriously! How many natural red heads do you see running around Japan?"
*Ding!*
Kagome smiled brightly over the fact the elevator arrived and that she finally met the infamous Suichi. Stepping into the elevator she heard Suichi follow her. Pressing the button she waited patiently for the elevator to stop at her destination. After a second, Kagome realized something.
"Wait…Why are you on the elevator when your mother was on the floor we were just on?"
After a pregnant pause the red head calmly stepped from the spot in the corner and pressed the button that halted the elevator. With his back still facing her he responded in a flat tone.
"I'm here to have a little chat with you Kagome."
In a blink of an eye Kagome found herself hanging several inches from the ground by her neck. Suichi leaned in closer until their noses just barely touched.
"You thought you were so smart didn't you? Preying on my mother to get to me. What you didn't take into account was that nobody is as good at head games as the great Youko Kurama."
Looking at him she saw something she didn't before. The hair near his scalp bled red to silver like the waves on a beach going in and out, and his eyes flickered hypnotically from calm green to stony gold. In that moment she knew he wasn't lying.
"Youko? Y-you're alive?"
Youko do you know her?
She's bluffing, Red.
Looking at the girl struggling for breath Suichi didn't really believe Youko. Something in the recesses of his mind told him to let her go.
"You know, I never truly believed what they told me. You have to believe me Youko! I would have searched high and low for if I had any clue. Yomi told me you were dead!"
By this point the poor girl practically sobbing. Sensing Suichi's indecision at the first sight of tears, Youko took this chance to take over. Youko dropped the girl and reached behind him to press the button to resume the elevator's trek to the chosen floor. Turning back to the girl he spoke coldly.
"When these elevator doors open you will calmly walk out and you will never set foot on my mother's floor again. If you do I will give you the slowest most painful death possible."
*Ding!*
"Leave."
Youko watched dispassionately as she stumbled off the elevator. The last thing he saw before the doors closed was her teary blue eyes silently begging him to listen to her.
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-Love,
Words of Law (Bri)