"I could stay awake just to hear you breathing, Watch you smile while you are sleeping, While you're far away and dreaming, I could spend my life in this sweet surrender, I could stay lost in this moment forever, Every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure." Aerosmith – I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing

Chapter 10- Coming Clean

Ami wakes up and looks around finding Botan seating on the chair by her side. Botan had her feet resting on the edge of bed and her head leaning against the wall. Ami tries to sit up without making a sound. She grunts a bit and feels a sharp pain all over her body. She then remembers everything that happened the night before. She looks at the clock and it was past 11am. She taps on Botan arm waking her up.

"Botan, wake up?" Ami says in a very soft voice

"uhmm… not now Koenma…" Botan mumbles.

"Botan, wake up, it's Ami," Ami says as she shakes Botan a bit too hard.

"Oh Ami, you're awake… Oh I am so happy to see that you've woken up." She says with a grin going from ear to ear.

"Where's Kurama? Is he at school? Ami says as she manages to seat up in bed.

"No, the poor boy didn't want to leave your side all night, but he eventually fell asleep on the couch in the living room. Want me to go wake him up?" Botan says as she brings her feet down to the floor looking as if she is about to stand up and get Kurama.

"No, don't wake him… Let him sleep. He must be really tired. I will check on him later…" Ami says with a smile on her face. "But he told me to wake him up if you woke up. Oh My… are you going to tell him who you are Ami?" Botan says trying to keep her promise to fox demon.

"There's no point in hiding anymore, he has seen me my demon form and saw me in spirt world, I didn't die last night… he even saw me almost use my Giasu. It's fine… I will go wake him up and then I will tell him." Ami says as she turns around in the bed. "I will shower first though and change.

"Okay, I will leave in a little bit so you two can talk about it."

Botan stands up and helps Ami stand up and makes sure she isn't getting dizzy of anything. Ami heads to the bathroom and takes her clothes off and sees all the bruises on her body. 'No wonder I feel so sore….' She looks down at her right arm and sees an interesting scar, it looked like branches, it wrapped around her arm. '… That's strange... I've never seen one like that before… I like it.' She turns one the shower and steps in. the lets the hot water run through her body, relieving all the ache and pain she was feeling. She stepped out and her bathroom was steamy, she walked out the bathroom and got changed. She put up gray sweat pants, and a white tank top with a black bra underneath. She liked how the straps showed. She didn't know why but she just enjoyed it. She dried her hair with a towel and then twisted it up into a bun. She walked out of her room and saw Botan sitting in a chair by the kitchen, and Kurama laying on the couch, he was sleeping on his stomach, with one hand under the pillow and another hanging on off the couch. Ami couldn't help but smile at the site of how Kurama was sleeping. His long red hair was covering his face. Ami took a few steps towards him, and Botan decided that it was time for her to go.

"Alright, Ami I am glad to see that you're okay. I will head out now, bye" Botan says as she opens the window and flies away on her oar.

Ami turns around facing Botan and waves to her bye.

Ami then kneels down in front of Kurama and gently moves his hair away from his face, she couldn't help but notice how cute he looked when he slept, and how peaceful he looked too. She starts to stand up, when Kurama moves his body now facing her, His eyes slowly open.

"Ami you're up" he mumbles. His voice was huskier and deeper than usual. Ami liked that.

"Yea I am up, I woke up about an hour ago." Ami says and she seats on the floor facing him.

"Where's Botan, I told her to wake me up, if you woke up…" He starts to sit and grunts a bit.

"She left, and I told her to let you sleep. Are you alright, did you get hurt last night too? Ami says with a concerned look in her eyes.

"I am alright, how are you feeling?" Kurama asked.

"I feel great, just sore from all the bruises…." She stands up and heads to kitchen. "… Are you hungry? I am starving… I will prepare something for us to eat." Ami says open checks on her cabinet to see what ingredients she has. She pulls out some bread to make toast, eggs and some fruits. She sets then in the counter and begins to fry the eggs and toast the bread. She puts the other fruits in 2 small bows.

Kurama is sitting down watching how Ami moved around in the kitchen, the way she moved just like in the dream he had of her the night before, but this time there were no attackers after her. He started to walk towards her. He stood behind her and when she turned around to grab something he quickly wrapped his arms around her.

"Shuichi, what are you doing, I will end burning the toasts and the eggs." Ami said to Kurama as her face pulled again his chest. She then wraps her arms around his torso.

"I am just happy to see that you're okay." He whispered as he kissed the top of her head.

Kurama lets go and steps away from Ami. He looks down at her, her eyes were staring at him as if he was a painting she was trying to understand.

"I am going to take a quick shower and change." Kurama said as he headed to the bathroom.

"Okay food will be ready in a little bit." Ami yelled so Kurama could hear her.

She continued cooking and her thoughts were on how Kurama hugged her. She tried to remember back to what happened last night. She could only remember going to school and getting attacked, she was going to tell him, but she never made to school to tell him, then she remembered getting beaten and Kurama picking her up, after that everything went toasts were done and the sound of the toaster straddled her. She turned around and grabbed a few plates and set the table for her and Kurama.

Kurama walked out into the living room where Ami had small dining table. She had set fruits in a bow, eggs and toast in a plate and had tea sitting in the middle of the table. She even brought to the table to rose I gave her and set it in the middle. She was about to sit down when she turned and saw Kurama walk towards the table.

"Come on let's eat, before it gets cold." Ami says with a smile on her face.

Kurama sits down and pours some tea for them. He starts to eat the eggs with toast.

"It's been a long time since I cooked, I've haven't been feeling well enough to stand in the kitchen to cook, but I feel great today. I finally feel well rested." Ami says as she takes a bite of her toast.

"It's really good, Ami… You should cook more often if it makes you happy." Kurama says and he takes a sip of the tea.

"So what do you want to do today? You didn't go to school today…"

"Well I figured we could go to the park or something, then I have to go home. My mother should be back from her business trip tonight.

"Okay, sounds good with I like that plan, but I don't want go outside looking like this. I am all bruised. People will think you beat me up." Ami says and lets out a laugh.

"I would never hurt you…why would I ever hurt you?" He responds to her joke without even thinking about the words that were coming out of his mouth.

Ami looked at him and smiled "I know… you might do it just so you can take care of me though." She says teasing him.

"Okay how about we just relax here, and I can help you catch up with homework and I will get out of your hair?" Kurama said

"Or we can just watch TV?" Ami says

"That sounds good too." Kurama smiled at her.

They finished eating and Kurama started to do the dishes, while Ami started to put the pillow and blanket away in a hamper she had in her bedroom.

Kurama sat on the edge on the couch with his left leg bend under him and his right bend in front of him. He rested his right on the arm of the couch and Ami laid down with her head on the other end of the couch… She was laying in fetal position almost. They started to watch TV. But there's nothing on that interested them. So they started to talk instead.

"Shuich, there's something I've been wanting to tell you…" Ami says and sits up keeping her back again the arm of the couch.

"What is it?" Kurama says looking at her.

Ami looks down away from his face… "I don't know how to say this, I've never had to say this to anymore, but I don't want to lie to you anymore. You're probably wondering what I was doing in spirit world the other day." She says trying to keep herself from making eye contact. "Well, I am know that you are not really Shuichi Minamino… I mean you are but at the same time you're not. I know that you are Kurama, I know you are fox demon and that you manipulate plants. Lord Koenma told me all about you, Hiei, Kuwabara and Yusuke. Like he mention it to you that I was send here to train to become a spirit detective… Well that was a lie… He send me here so I could find the person that did this to me…" Ami says as she looks at Kurama's face who is watching every word come out of her mouth.

"Did what to you?" Kurama asked…

"For a while now. I've been really wanting to tell you is… Five years ago I lived in Kanuma, I went by a different last name then. I had a sister and two brothers… They were twins… One day, I was home alone preparing dinner for them, when I heard a noise…" Ami said as a knot started to form in her throat and her voice began to crack. "… I was attacked by one of Toguro's minion…I didn't know it at the time, because I couldn't see its face. After the attack I woke up in spirit world, I had died, but didn't die… I got this scar on my shoulder from the attack… and every now and then it flares up and I can't control it. I had gotten much strong recently… That's why I've been so tired lately. I….. I have a demon living inside of me… what you saw in the park that night was my demon form…" She had tears running down her cheeks, but she continued to talk. "… I heard you and Hiei talking about the dark tournament and I heard them mention Toguro's name. So I want to go. I want to fight and defeat him.

Kurama leaned in and wiped the tears from Ami's cheeks and cupped her face on his hands and hugged her, she pulled away and looked into his eyes. He leaned in and kissed her lips. Ami kisses him back.

"I will help you defeat all of them for laying a finger on you, Ami…" Kurama whispered as their lips parted.

Ami smiles and hugs him tighter. "Thank you, Kurama."

"You will need to train a lot if you plan on beating Toguro. I will get Hiei and the guys to help you out with training." Kurama says while he arms are still wrapped around Ami. Ami looks at him and smiles.

"Kurama, how did you know that I had been kidnapped and where I was?" Ami asked as she turned on her back leaning on Kurama's shoulder.

"Well, I was in school and I noticed you didn't showed up, and during lunch a demon pretending to be you showed up and I knew right there that something was up."

"What do you mean pretending to be me?

"it was a shapeshifter… I knew it wasn't you, because I could smell him, and it didn't smell like you.

"What do I smell like to you?" Ami asks as she leans her head back to look into his eyes.

He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath in. While his eyes are closed he says "You smell like lavender, with coconut, and hint of cinnamon. Your scent is quite soothing. It's one of the reason why I like being around you… Your scent relaxes me…and also feel like I am developing feelings for you… I love you Ami."

Ami was surprised to see the way he described her scent… Then she felt a shock go through her body when she heard Kurama say that he loved her. "I think I love you too" she said and kissed him.

She leaned back and rest her head on his lap. He picked up her right hand and wrapped his fingers around hers. He looked at the scar that he had given her the night before while trying to save her life.

"I am sorry about that scar"

Ami looked at her arm, "what do you mean?" Ami asked him.

"You were poisoned last night by the demon that captured you, and we tried to do everything that we could to save you. You even stopped breathing. So I used my bloodsucking plant on you to remove the poison from your body… that's why you have that scar on your arm. I am sorry about the scar but it was the only way I could save your life."

"Couldn't you have died using the bloodsucking plant to save my life? Ami says

"It could, but it didn't..." Kurama smiles… "Anyways I should get going now, my mother will be worried if she gets home and I am not there. I will see you tomorrow and maybe on Friday, you could come over to my house and meet her, she would love to meet you."

They stand up and she walks him to the door.

"Okay I will see you tomorrow at school, Kurama."

"I will see you, just call me Shuichi when we are at school though." Kurama said, and Ami nodded

He kissed her goodbye and left.

*Kurama's POV

Kurama arrived to his house, his mother wasn't back yet, so he went to his room and started to read book. He hears a knock on his window. He checks on his window and it was Hiei

"Hey, Hiei how are you?" Kurama says as he steps back so Hiei can get in his room.

"Do you know long I was standing outside for, Kurama? What's up with you… lately you haven't noticed me sneak up on you…. It's the human girl isn't it?" Hiei growls at Kurama

"I'm sorry Hiei, I just go back from Ami." Kurama says as he sits back on his bed.

"So is she your girlfriend now? What has human world done to you Kurama? You've gone soft for a human." Hiei says eyeing Kurama from the side.

"Hiei, she isn't human, I kissed her… pretty sure she is demon." Kurama says jokingly to Hiei

"I don't need to know the detail Kurama." Hiei heads back to the window and leaves.

Kurama closes the window and goes to sleep.