Authoress' note- I know it has taken me a while to update and I apologize… heh what can I say school and now my new job are giving me a beating… hehe anyways enough about me – enjoy the fic! Oh and I DON'T own YYH!!!
-Chapter 8-
Aneko stared out into the darkness as she waited for Yusuke to get back to the temple with the pizzas they had ordered for dinner.
'Maybe I should have just kept my mouth shut about Teri's birthday… I mean she's gone back to the silent treatment ever since and it's been almost a week now' Aneko thought as she watched the snow fall down steadily outside.
"She always loved the snow" she mumbled more to herself as her raven hair masked her face from view.
"You shouldn't worry about her so much onna, I'm sure the girl is fine – besides if you ask me I think she's hiding something" Hiei stated, making Aneko turn and glare at him.
"My sister would never HIDE something from me OK! If it were important I assure you she would tell me… well… at least I hope she would" Aneko trailed off in thought once the door opened revealing a very chilled Yusuke and Keiko along with two large pizzas.
Aneko found herself trailing off to the table as she grabbed a slice of pepperoni.
'All I can do is hope for the best… hope that… I don't lose her again'
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Teri found herself picking at the details upon the ceiling of her crumbling room as she waiting for her pathetic heater to kick in.
'damn cold… damn house…maybe he's right- maybe I should leave I mean I know I can't do much better than this but at least my sister would be safe and, maybe I could go someplace warmer… though… he has left me alone since that encounter at the school' Teri rubbed the spot that Kent had bruised only a week ago.
'Besides what do I need here- I mean all I've done so far is get caught in a crappy school ,get caught in a crappy situation with my sister, lack of money flow and then there is always that situation with Kurama…' Teri found herself sighing at the thought of what had happened that night.
Then she sat up.
"Hn, that was just a stupid mistake nothing more… it didn't mean anything – besides what could a guy like that want with me- nothing- absolutely nothing" Teri's room mate stirred at the sound of the hanyou's voice, she growled lowly and then dug in between her mattresses to pull out a notebook turning it to a clean page.
'It doesn't speak to me anymore I just wanted everything to just swiftly leave I refuse to take others' 'free rides' what kind of hobo am I? no one notices you after you've been on the road awhile
the determination I had for life
has gone mute
the map I drew for future trips around careers and experiences
have been shredded by none other than my own greedy hands
leave itself in the wind behind me
unfortunately, my car has ran out of gas
stranded on the road of life
labeled as the hobo that never made it
I find it downsizes my potential
but
what potential do I even have anymore?
I've given up on even taking other people's pity
I don't even deserve to call myself that
I'm more like road kill
yeah that's IT! Pathetic road kill
you're just a piece of forgotten scorched earth
torn and shattered in the past
there are hundreds like you
but your downfall deserve just as much recognition right?
or. maybe not'
((Don't steal this I wrote it!))
Teri stopped once she heard the clanking of her heat finally coming on.
'Finally' she thought inwardly as a stream of hot air penetrated the room – then it stopped.
'DAMNIT!!!'
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Teri stared at the wall as usual, it was math class and nothing AT ALL was even remotely interesting in this pathetic class in which they dubbed geometry.
Isosceles this and Theorem that and it was all the same concept… she had stayed awake the first class, and now all she had to do was wing it till the end of the year right?
Not so easy when you are falling asleep at the teachers explanation of Side-Angle-Side Theorem.
The bell rang
Teri hauled herself out of her chair and into the hall.
Today was like any other day, old tattered ripped jeans, baggy black turtle neck and eyes outlined in black. Her fingers were littered with rings as usual and her duck tapped shoes and guitar case had seen better days.
Teri felt her eyes dropping as she began to doze while she waited for traffic in the halls to subside, this only proved to be hazardous.
She ran right into Kurama… or should I say Suichi.
"Ow..." she mumbled under her breath she tried to avert eye contact with the kitsune, Kurama snapped himself out of his own daze just to get a glimpse of Teri's case as she cut a corner out of sight.
No matter, he saw her next class anyways.
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Teri jammed her hands into her bag as she tried to find something remotely interesting in it to keep herself from getting trapped into seeing Kurama enter the room.
She knew he was coming over, but that didn't matter, she was in 'fan girl paradise.'
Kurama tried to make his way over to the Teri only to be bombarded by bubbly ditzy headed 'Suichi lovers' just as she had planned, he figured.
The bell rang as usual and class went on as usual, the class took notes, as the teacher paced back and forth on her new Wal-Mart heels- while Teri snoozed in the back and Kurama seemed deep in thought.
The bell finally rung, dismissing the kids from their educational hell – but sadly this seemed to go unnoticed by the lilac haired onna in the back.
Kurama packed his stuff slowly, he was NOT looking forward to going on another mission- but it seemed there had been some Makai prison breakouts- and it was his job to round up the fugitives as usual.
He turned to the back, awaiting the sight of her empty seat- but found himself instead gazing on what seemed to be a snoring Teri.
He smirked to himself knowing he had finally beat her at her own game as he finishing zipping up her bag, coming closer to the girl, which seemed to have caused him great confusion in the past few months- Kurama found that the hanyou was pleasantly mumbling to herself incessant dribble.
'So this is who she talks to all the time… heh who would have figured she was her own best friend' Kurama laughed at his own joke slightly as he began closer.
As he was about to tap her awake, he found himself being thrown across the room and slammed into a chalk board as a high pitch scream followed, he looked up to see Teri breathing heavily as she clasped her chest for air.
Several administrators ran into the room once their heard her piercing scream.
"What's wrong? Is everything alright? What happened here?" As Teri finally began to catch her breath she found herself coming up with ridiculous lies for what had happened. I had a bad dream this and I saw a mouse that… it was rather pathetic but what was she going to say? That she was afraid of any guy getting even remotely close to her while she slept?
After further explanations, or rather lies about what had happened; Teri finally pushed herself out of the building and onto the streets. She turned to leave only to hear a low chuckle in the background.
She turned slightly.
"Have a bad dream again baby?" Kent's voice asked ringing through the air, Teri stiffened to his voice but found herself unable to move, a figure dropped down into the daylight.
His amber eyes scanning her body, she stared straight ahead as if he didn't even exist to her.
He took a hold of her arm and pulled her to him.
"You know I'm right, you should let them have their own lives- when have you ever proved to be useful anyways… well besides being useful to me" Kent smirked once he dug his face into her hair.
"Ger away from her" a voice growled from the darkness as Kent ceased his harassment.
"Don't tell me you have little body guards now Teri baby, I thought you knew me better than to go and BRING OTHER PEOPLE INTO OUR BUSNIESS!" he yelled grabbing her harshly by the arm and digging his nails into the thin fabric which separated her flesh from his own.
"Get away from her, now" the voice growled again now appearing from the shadows, Kurama's emerald orbs seemed to penetrate through the evil aura which littered the air.
Kent smirked once he saw the red head emerge, he pulled Teri closer to himself grabbing a fist full of her hair and pulling her head backwards harshly.
"Looks like you got a pretty boy watching out for you" he growled, his sticky breath seeping through her skin, he yanked her head back fiercely, receiving a yelp from the girl in his grasp.
"So tell me what do you know about Theresa, Mr. Pretty boy? Let me guess not a clue right?" Kent asked getting a defiant stare from the fox demon before him, and the mumbling of pleas from the girl in his hold.
"Hey SHUT UP ONNA NO ONE ASKED FOR YOU STUPID OPIONION YOU DUMB WHORE!" Kent screamed sending a hard smack across the hanyou's face, Kurama found himself having trouble from leaping at this guy.
"Unhand her now unless you want to die" Kurama growled, Teri peered at him, only to feel herself being yanked once again to the ground, where she felt a foot slam into her hand which emitted a sickening crunch.
That was it, this guy was toast – Teri was face floor on the ground, her right hand obviously mangled that is until she was yanked upward once again.
Kent grabbed a hold of her bruised face as he tried to force her to stare at him – she wouldn't, he threw her to the ground.
"You're not worth it anyways whore- go back to the streets where you belong…" and with that he was gone.
Teri only heard the mumbling of seemed to be words, and then the feeling of someone pushing her body back up off the ground, she looked up to see Kurama looking over her obvious pathetic wounds.
She pushed herself away from the kitsune, only to find that gravity had other plans, she fell flat on her butt once again.
"Come on… I can have those wounds fixed up" Kurama mumbled only to get a glare from the girl in his presence.
"I don't need your sympathy fox" she stuttered out as she found her balance once again and grabbed a hold of her things.
"Teri-"
"No, I don't want it ok! It's not like this is anything new, just forget it," and with that Teri swung herself around the corner and out of sight.
Unfortunately for her Kurama followed
She turned around slightly once she heard the rushing of footsteps.
"I don't care how damn stubborn you are, it's not safe for you to be walking home alone at this hour, let me give you a ride-"
Teri huffed at his suggestion and pressed on, only making Kurama that much more frustrated in return.
"Teri, be reasonable" Teri zoomed around at this remark and dropped her case.
"Be reasonable, BE RESONABLE! Ok well you want to tell me what you were doing in the fucken shadows to begin with or by chance why you think this is such a 'hideous' event because Kurama I've seem much MUCH worse, This is only a scratch to what I've bared before Kurama, oh yes that's right he wasn't joking I AM NOTHING! And thus why don't you go back to your pretty little life and let me deal with my own wounds, because I know that I am not about to share them with a complete stranger LIKE YOU!" she screamed throwing objects every which way as her powers obviously became agitated.
Kurama stared at her as he eyes became alight with fury, he became infuriated. How could she think and feel such things, he grabbed her hand tightly and yanked back to the direction of his car.
"What are you- LET GO BAKA!" Teri growled as she tried to release herself from his strong grip.
"No" is all he could muster as he shoved her into the car, stuck the door on child lock and walked over to the driver's side.
Teri glared at him as she tried to steal his keys before he could shove them into the ignition.
Too late.
They were now zooming down the highway, Kurama glaring ahead as he tried to drown out the silence which plagued the car.
Teri glared out the window as she held her throbbing crushed hand – what the hell was this guy thinking?
As soon as she came back to Earth, Kurama had shut off the ignition and was staring at her.
She glared in return.
"You've lost your mind, what in KAMI'S name makes you think you can do something like this?" she asked sending an icy glare Kurama's way.
"Because I know you deserve to be treated better then that," Teri stared at him for a split second then moved her attention to the house he had parked in front of. She waited for him to open the door so she could make a run for it, but once he let her out she couldn't seem to find her feet.
"Come on" me stated, obviously still annoyed by the attack from earlier. Kurama led her to the door and then pulled her into the first warm room she had been in for months.
Teri herself found herself dozing right then there, unlike her own room which seemed to be an igloo, or the school where the thermostat was purposely left on ten below to keep you from 'dozing' this room was fantastic- her thoughts of passing out were soon brought to a halt when a woman with brown hair emerged from what seemed to be the kitchen.
"Suichi I see you're home, and you brought a friend how nice… my goodness what happened?" the woman asked coming closer to Teri to get a better look at her forming bruise, Kurama sighed.
"Yes she got into a fight earlier, I thought I might help her clean up her wounds – mother this is Teri" Kurama stated leaving Teri to fend for herself like a wounded gazelle awaiting the lion's fury.
Teri couldn't seem to find her voice as Mrs. Minamino introduced herself, Teri nodded smiling lightly at the woman's kindness but soon found herself being pulled upstairs.
Kurama pulled her into a room shutting the door behind her, Teri looked to see she was in a bedroom of some sort, Kurama's most likely. Consisting of the usual, a bed blue sheets a dresser… desk nothing fancy.
"Sit down," Kurama stated, Teri found a chair and awaited the lecture she figured was to awaiting her.
Kurama sighed taking a hold of her face and dabbing it lightly, then wrapping her hand – all this – in silence.
Once he was done with her wounds, he found memories of their peculiar kiss haunting his thoughts once again, Teri looked up and then away – obviously confused on what to say or do.
Kurama sighed and took a seat on his bed, plopping his head into his hand.
"You don't have to talk about it – It's your business… I don't want to force you to talk about something you don't want to" he mumbled getting a surprised look from the girl that sat only few feet away from him.
"Th… thanks – look- I didn't mean to snap at you – it's just… Kent does this all the time it's nothing new-"
"So was he the one that clawed you before?" Kurama asked getting a heavy sigh from Teri.
"What do you think?" she asked sarcastically now glancing up at him, Kurama sighed only to hear a yawn permeate the room… he looked to see Teri now dozing off.
"If you're that tired… you can always rest here" Kurama stated getting a smirk from the lilac haired girl.
"I would never impose like that" she stated only to find Kurama had moved from his bed already, Teri stared at it for a second then at him – finally she decided it couldn't hurt and stood up making her way to the bed but stopped before she reached it.
She looked over at Kurama with a questioning look.
"Why are you doing this?" she asked confused by his kindness, Kurama smiled at her question.
"because I want to" and with that he pushed her to the bed but not before finding the hanyou staring at him intently, he couldn't seem to think when it came to eyes, he grabbed a hold of her chin and pulled her closer to him.
Before he knew what he was doing, he once again found his lips upon hers – but it didn't take him long to catch himself and he let go.
Teri stood there, staring at him as he tried to recollect his thoughts.
"Sorry… I didn't mean to-" it didn't matter what his excuse was, he soon found himself once again in a lip lock with the girl which seemed to find her way into his arms.
She didn't want to let go, that would mean being alone in the room- only to await Kent's return, besides for some reason she seemed to enjoy it with this kitsune- not that she would ever say so out loud but he was making it more and more impossible for her stop the kiss.
She let go once she decided it was time for air, Kurama looked at her confused.
"That was my fault I apologize" Teri mumbled as she unwove herself from Kurama's hold, she found her way to the bed and crawled into the awaiting covers, the scent of roses taking over her thoughts once again.
Kurama blinked once he found her finally rested – what was with this girl? Never in a million years had met someone so… bipolar.
He made his way to the door, only to hear a mutter from the heap of covers upon his bed.
A mumbled thank you… Kurama smiled closing the door behind him – that was all he needed to know he was doing the right thing.
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