Soul: Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry for not updating; my excuse is that I've had writer's block, some bad news in the family and myself having to make an emergence trip to the hospital early this year. I haven't forgotten about this story (Hell, I love this story), but I have been working on some new ones. I'm so excited about doing my first Bleach, Powerpuff Girls and Harry Potter fanfics and I can't wait until I have the first few chapters of each typed and ready for posting.
On another, brighter, note. The meeting with the Yu Yu crew is coming soon, but I just realized that some of my characters haven't had any face time for anyone to know what they're like and then there is the question in the back of everyone's mind as to where Ivy's grandfather and father are and what happen to them. I'll be answering all that soon.
Besides this story is nowhere near completion, we're still at the beginning people and I assure you that there will be embarrassing moments of perverse nature, fluffy moments of bonding and love, angst-y moments of anger, loathing and sadness and those humorous moment where you can't help but laugh out loud. God, I sound like one of those cheesy advertisement announcers. Anyway, on to the story. ^, ~
P.S.
And again, I would like to apologize for not updating sooner, life can throw you for a loop at times.
Summery: A group of scientist and trackers go back in time to look for demons to find out if they existed. When trouble occurs, one tracker and one scientist are attacked and one is separated from the group.
Two notorious, renowned demons thieves save the tracker and things start to turn weird but when the group returns to the future things don't get any better it's more like things turn for the worse.
Golden Chains
By
Soul-Girl
Chapter 7: Beaumaru a.k.a. Beau, The Dog Who Almost Died.
The group was dumped off awkwardly and unceremoniously in Hibiki's library; Ivy and Jubei were the only ones standing up right, Jubei helping Ivy steady herself as she held on to Rin. Ivy bit her lip to keep from outright laughing at the pile of groaning, tangled limbs on the gray carpeted floor.
"Get your ass out of my face Ricky!" Fey shouted at the violet eyed man as she harshly kneed him in the back. No matter how kinky it sounded, being crushed by two full grown men, this way, was something Fey did not enjoy.
"Ow!" Ricky yelped and glared down at Fey, "I would if Hibiki would get the hell off of me! And don't knee me Fey!" he yelped again as Fey kneed him again. Harder.
"You know Fey, those red bean buns we had for lunch are coming back with an vengeance like no other." Ricky said darkly and smirked evilly as Fey tinged a slight green and froze.
"You wouldn't dare." She whispered hoarsely, her eyes wide with shock.
He smirked, "I would."
"You're sick!"
"Try me!"
"Bastard."
"Bitc-"
"-Ricky I swear if even let out the smallest smell or sound I'll be testing all my newest experiments on you and Fey, if you knee him, the same goes for you too." Hibiki said as the spinning room began to slow down for him. "And I'll get Ivy to help." That shut Fey's and Ricky's mouths up with resounding snaps.
Ivy could be sadistic and brutal and when she said she was going to do something of a violent nature to you; she meant every word she said and she'd carried it out to the T.
Ivy sighed, walked over to the many couches that adorned the library and laid Rin down on one before going back to the pile and helping Jubei detangle them. After everyone was up right and there was some distance between the three, Ivy grabbed her pack and headed down to her room.
"Ivy? Where are you going?" Fey asked, shoving, non to gently, pass Ricky. "Oi!" He shouted and glared daggers at her back as she blatantly ignored him. He was getting ready to flip her off, but was distracted by something Jubei said.
"I need a shower and then I have to run a few errands-"
"We just got back, what could you possibly have to do?" Fey asked, cutting her off.
Ivy gave her a pointed look before sighing and rolling her eyes. "I have to get a few things for Rin, talk to Ojii-san and make some important phones calls. And I need you to keep an eye on Rin for a while."
"Me?! Why do I have to do it?"
"Yeah, why her?" Ricky asked, butting into the conversation with a frown on his face as he made his way over to the two women, "Don't you remember what happened to Beau a year ago when you asked Fey to watch him?"
Everyone tensed and Ricky slapped a hand over his mouth as he paled. No one had spoken about that particular incident since that day and Ricky had accidentally let it slip in his exasperate of Fey.
Ivy's eyes widen in horror as realization hit her hard and tears gathered in the corners of her eyes, "My poor, sweet, beautiful Beaumaru." she whispered brokenly, her body going into shock.
Flashback
"So Fey, I'll be back in a few hours, just take Beau for a walk, maybe play with him and feed him the green can of dog food, not the red one, its been making him sick and the Vet, Dr. Shinosuke Kitai, said he might be having allergic reactions to it but we're still trying to figure out why-"
Ivy was cut off as a cell phone beeped an annoying techno tone and Fey let out a girlish, fan-girl, giggle. Ivy shuddered; feeling deeply disturbed at the unholy sound coming out of her cousin, before shaking it off. I haven't heard that sound in a long time, not since high school, and I never want to hear it again.
She looked down at the green and silver watch on her wrist, "Aw, damnit, I'm running late now." Ivy said more to herself than to Fey. "Did you hear what I said Fey?" Ivy asked; her hands on her hips as she glared at Fey. She was 2 seconds away from smashing the electronic device with her heels, her left eye twitched slightly in irritation. "Fey!"
"Yes." Fey huffed as she continued to text, "Feed him the red one and not the green one because it makes him sick-"
"-No!" She snatched the cell phone away and slapped Fey across the back of the head, "Baka! I said don't give him red! Give him the green one! Understand?!" Ivy shouted, Fey cowered back at the blazing emerald eyes that were burring holes into her.
Ivy seem to towered over Fey demonically with a wall of fire behind her, "I understand! I understand!" Fey said, edging away even farther from the now murderous looking Ivy, who was slowly advancing on her. "The green can! Ivy! The green can!"
Ivy gave her a hard look before handing back the phone, "Fine," She looked at the watch a second time, her eyes widened in shock before rushing to the door. "The emergency numbers for Dr. Kitai is on the fridge! Ja!" Ivy shouted as she ran out the door, stopping only to grab her keys, jacket and bag. "Beau! Be a good boy for Fey!" She yelled over her shoulder as the door slammed shut.
Said dog trotted into room looking around curiously before trotting over to the only occupant in the room and sat down next to her. Fey slumped down in a chair, "It's a Friday night," she began, looking at Beau miserably, "and I'm stuck babysitting." She said feeling annoyed, she let her head hit the tabletop with a muffled thud.
"It's like I'm 15 all over again." She said with a muffled huff. Beau cocked his head to the side; he stood up on his hind legs to reach the tabletop and licked Fey's cheek.
xXx
Later that day, after taking Beau for his walk and playing fetch with him, Fey started preparing his food; just as she was reaching for the can of dog-food her cell phone started ringing. She gave a slight huff before reaching into her pocket for the electronic device, "Moshi moshi?" she answered in a singsong voice.
"Hey Fey-chan." A deep male voice replied on the other end.
"Hajimaru-kun!" Fey squealed briefly forgetting about Beau and the can of food she was reaching for. Beau whimpered causing Fey to look at him and remember the task at hand, "What are you doing right now, Fey?" Hajimaru asked as Fey grabbed a can and took it over to the can-opener.
"I'm stuck babysitting for my cousin." She said miserably, staring off into space as she opened the can and dumped it into Beau's bowl and gave it to him.
Beau, not even one quarter into his bowl, started coughing and wheezing. "Uh," Fey paused in her chattering to see Beau slump on the ground next to his bowl, "I'll call you back!" She hung up before she could get a reply and rushed to his side as he started to convulse on the floor.
Her eyes flew to counter where a red can sat innocently mocking her, "Oh. Shit." She jumped up and rushed over to fridge and snatch a blue piece of paper off of it and punched the numbers into her phone as fast as she could, frequently looking at Beau to make sure he was still breathing.
Suddenly Fey heard the backdoor open and looked up to see Ricky, Jubei and Hibiki walk in. They stopped in their tracks, mouths agape before all three point at her accusingly, "Oh my God," a stark white Jubei began, a hand covering his mouth.
"What have you done Fey?" A shaken up Hibiki asks, ringing his hands in a nervous manner.
"You killed Ivy's dog, you killed Ivy's dog. YOU. KILLED. IVY'S. DOG!!" Ricky shouted, nearly foaming at the mouth as both hands gripped his hair as he shook his head back and forth.
"Urusai!" Fey shouted, slapping all three across the face at the same time, shutting them all up instantly, it was almost comical if not for the situation it caused. "He's not dead. Now help me get him to a hospital!" She ordered, grabbing her car keys.
xXx
The head nurse looked down at the clipboard in her hands, "Fey Yatagai Yukimura?" she calls out before looking up at a nervously pacing Fey and the equally nervous men with her, "You can follow me back to room 5 now."
Fey nodded, sending an unreadable look to her three friends as she followed the nurse back. "It'll be okay Fey." Hibiki said send her an encouraging smile, Ricky and Jubei giving their own support.
The long walk down the hall made Fey's insides bunch and twist oddly, almost painfully, making her want to gag, but she held it in and continued to follow the nurse. The nurse opened the door to room 5 and gestured for Fey to enter, which she did shakily.
Is it guilt that's making me feel this way? Fey questioned herself, spacing out. Guilt for neglecting Ivy's specific instructions? Guilt for neglecting my duties? Or is it guilt in general for neglecting Beau to talk to a dime a dozen guy?
"The Doctor will be in shortly and everything will be okay Ms. Yukimura," the nurse said, breaking Fey out of dismal thoughts, offering her a helpful smile, "so please have a seat." She said before closing the door behind her.
Fey turned and gasped as she finally noticed Beau hooked up to a breathing machine, a heart monitor and an I.V. dip. She stiffly made her way over to the chair next to Beau's bed and slowly eased her down into the chair. The bunching and twisting returned full force.
"Beau," Fey started, reaching out a hand shaky to touch his pure white paw, unknown to her, silent tears made their way down her face, "I'm so sorry, Beaumaru." She whispered. A knock at the door made her jump out of her seat and wipe her face franticly.
The door opened and a tall man in a white lab coat, with fiery auburn hair held in a low ponytail by a green ribbon walked in looking at a clipboard, "So you're the women I've heard so much about." He said, his deep voice carrying a hint of humor to it as he looked up and locked eyes with hers. She was startled to notice his eyes were a vibrant aqua green.
Fey shook her head as she realized what he had said. "What?" She didn't know what else to say, the only thing she could do was blush, the doctor was more than hansom, he was hot. The confusion must have shown on her face because the doctor chuckled, his green eyes dancing with mirth.
"How do you know me?" Fey asked, her brows furrowed in confusion. "Ivy hasn't said anything to you about me I guess, I'm Doctor Shinosuke Kitai, Ivy has told me a lot about you and your friends over our meetings."
Ivy's dating a vet? Was the only question that swirled in Fey's head. She shook her head, it wasn't time to be think of something like that. "Is Beau going to be okay?" Fey asked, changing subjects.
"He will be. I had to pump his stomach and keep his throat from swelling shut." Dr. Kitai said carefully as he watched Fey in her shock blindly grope for the chair behind her, he walked over and helped her sit down. "Not only that," he continued, "but his body had started to go into shock-"
"No more." Fey cut him off, "Please."
He sighed, nodding slightly. "Alright, Ms. Yatagai, I've called Ivy and she'll be here shortly." He said walking to the door.
xXx
The door flew open with a slight bang and there stood Ivy, panting and her appearance was more than a little disarrayed. "Ivy!" Fey, Ricky, Jubei and Hibiki said all at once as they stood up.
Her eyes landed on Beau before they went to Fey's somber face and they harden as she bowed her head, "Get out." She whispered.
"What?" Fey asked, her brows furrowing, maybe she had heard wrong, "Ivy, what are you-"
"-I said: get out." Ivy repeated cutting her off, her hands at her sides balled into fists. She was restraining herself from doing something stupid.
"But, Ivy we're here to help-" Fey tried only to be cut off again.
Her head flew up and she glared at all of them, stunning all of them into shocked silence, "-Not one of you, not one! Had the guts to call me and tell me what was wrong!" her eyes went Fey's shocked face, "And you! I trusted you!" her anger wavered slightly. All she could say through clenched teeth was, "Get. Out." They hesitated, "Now!" she shouted. She waited until everyone was out the door before a strangled sob escaped her and she slid to the floor weeping.
End Flashback
That year everyone had to tread lightly because Ivy stop talking to everyone for one month and two weeks, she didn't take all their calls, only the emergencies ones, and she was rarely seen as she had stayed with Beau nursing him back to full health and when he was healthy she still didn't say a word.
Not only that they were worried about what her outburst would be like. And when she did come around she acted as if it never happened, likely she repressed it and carried on with life and everyone else decided not to push their luck.
"Please watch Rin for me, Jubei." Ivy said tersely as they watched her leave the library with a cloud of gloom hanging over her head before they rounded on Ricky. "You just had to bring that up." Fey said darkly as she was being restrained by Jubei and Hibiki. "Didn't you?!" Fey hissed.
"I just noticed something." Hibiki began worriedly, causing everyone to stop and look at him, "We never took into account what consequences there might be when we brought Rin back with us," He looked over to the small girl who was resting peacefully on the couch, blissfully unaware of the tenses atmosphere.
"We're going to have to talk to Ivy when she gets back." He finished, picking up his pack up and walked over to the door, "But first we need to give her some breathing room." He said with an afterthought and headed to his lab.
xXx
She sighed to herself as she walked down a number of staircases and down a few corridors before finally reaching her room. Ivy dropped her thing off as soon as she walked through the threshold and started to sorted through her spare sets of clothes and picking out a white shirt with green short sleeves, a pair of khaki colored cargos and a pair of white green chucks. She laid them on her bed before grabbing two towels, her toiletries and walked down the hall to the full bathroom.
xXx
30 minutes later Ivy walked back to her room with her towel wrapped around her head and one around her torso, as she was getting dressed there was a knock at her door. When it opened Fey stuck her head in, small smile on her face.
"Hey, Ivy?" Fey pulled her a side and sat her down, "I think you need to go get Beau and while you're out you might want to go have a talk with Oji and tell him about what happened to you."
Ivy ran a shaky hand through her hair. "What about Rin, I still need to get her a birth certificate, her shots, get her into a good school, get new clothes, get her up to date on the world around her and set up a room at my house-"
Fey cut her off, "Don't worry about it, I'll help you take care of all that and you know the guys will help out too. The longer you wait to see what this. . .is. . .the harder it's going to be when you finally do. Anyway, it's going to take at least a month to two months, maybe more, to get the stuff together, especially the shots, they have to be ordered."
Ivy sighed in defeat and nodded her head. "I need to finish getting dressed and grab a few things first before I go then."
xXx
After traveling up the almost mile long steps, Ivy knocked on the large wooden red doors and waited for someone to answer. She didn't have to wait long as a young girl with red eyes and shoulder length torques green hair answered it, "Hello, is Genkai-san here?" Ivy asked, giving the girl a polite smile.
The girl briefly looked surprised before a polite smile appeared on her own face, "You must be Yatagai-dono."
"Dono?" Ivy said more to herself, looking slightly put off at the term, "Ivy is just fine—um you haven't told me your name yet."
The girl blushed, "It's Yukina, Miss Ivy." She said bowing. I guess you can't break a habit. Ivy thought sweatdropping. "Genkai-sama is in the tearoom, if you'll just follow me, I'll take you right to her."
Ivy stepped through the threshold, marveling at tapestry and painting lining the walls of the corridor, something she always did whenever she visited here. So caught up in sightseeing Ivy never saw the bounding body mass heading toward her until it was too late.
With a sharp cry, Ivy found herself sprawled out on carpeted floor with a heavy weight on her chest, and she was certain she hit her head at some point in the fall. Blurrily she peered up at the giggling Yukina before looking to the mass still on her chest, which was now licking her face.
"I missed you too, Beau, but if you don't get off me I won't give a treat." Ivy said teasingly, instantly the weight was gone and she sat up slowly to see Yukina holding out a hand to help her up, "Are you ok, Miss Ivy?" she asked in concerned after realizing how hard Ivy had hit the floor.
Ivy took the offered hand without a second thought, "I'm peachy, just peachy." Ivy groaned as she stood up with Yukina's help. She gave Beau a pointed look when she was up right, causing the large dog to duck his head whimpering. He nudged her hand with his nose, rubbing his face against her leg.
With mock reluctance she sighed placing a hand on his head and crouch down in front of him giving him a mock glare, Beau stuck out his tongue and licked the tip of her nose. "You play dirty, you know that?" Ivy said grinning as scratch Beau behind the ears.
Ivy laughed as Beau seem to bask in the loving attention he was receiving from his beloved master. Ivy blinked as she realized what she was there for, she stopped and stood up, fighting back a laugh when Beau huffed at her. "Can't keep Genkai-san waiting, lead the way, Yukina-chan." Ivy said gesturing politely for the red eyed girl to lead the way.
TBC.
Soul: I'm ending it here and I hope you all love this chapter, I know it took awhile but I still got it uploaded. I'll be starting on the next chapter soon. Besides, I'm babysitting at the moment. Read and Review. Ja-Ne from: ^, ~ Soul-Girl!
P.S
Happy New Years Everyone!
