Chapter 14- Time to fix it
Kurama followed Rika out into the living room where she was muttering to her self and pacing around.
"What's wrong?" He asked forgetting all about Hiei as he became more and more worried about Rika.
"Do you really love me?" She asked picking up her slow walk to a fast walk as she bit her thumb nail.
"Yes, why wouldn't I?" He asked becoming more worried about their future instead of Rika.
"Well I'm starting to regret coming back to you," she spit out finally stopping her walking and sitting "Native American" style on the floor.
"What? Why? I love you and I know I screwed up but that was just a quick one last fling to make sure I'm ready to take the next step," he tried to reason as he bent down to her level kneeling and sitting on his feet.
"Well what if you were doing that subconsciously just to push me away so the real blow wouldn't seem so bad," she began rocking never looking Kurama straight in the eye as she still bit her thumb nail.
"Why in the hell would I be pushing you away from me? I love you what is there to understand. Don't you love me too?" He tried not to shout as her heard Hiei in the back scream as Yaniki and Mace tried to patch him up.
"I do I guess but it doesn't feel like you really do. Any moment you could just decide to leave me again. You know it just came out of nowhere I had no idea you still even knew who Asuya was. I really felt like killing you that night, and if we really loved each other why would we just disappear and want to kill one another?" She tried reasoning holding back the cry, they heard Hiei yell again and she cringed. "What the hell are they doing to him?" She wanted to shout but she didn't want to stray from the subject they were talking about.
Kurama began to feel extremely sad though he didn't cry. All these thoughts were running through his head, about his short, horrible, unexplainable days with Asuya. Thoughts about his long 4 year love relationship with Rika and their even longer friendship with her. Was Rika really the love of his life? There was no way in hell that all those fun years were all for nothing, they had been together for so long and yet neither of them talked about or considered marriage and starting a family. He knew he wanted one, it was about time too, and he was pretty sure Rika did too she always love children. Had he ruined a good thing forever?
He looked at Rika as she finally lifted her head to look at him; she had been wondering why he wasn't saying anything. She stopped rocking and took her thumb out of her mouth. She looked him in the eye and knew she did love him but she just couldn't accept him now. He hadn't repented for what he had done to her, she realized that for know they had to have a break and she needed to focus on Hiei. She knew Hiei loved her but she also knew she didn't have the same feelings for him. Her head began spinning as she thought more and more about her predicament.
"Kurama," she spoke softly almost as a whisper and she ran her finger across the left side of his face. "I love you, and what you did to me just put us way back to the beginning. We need to fix it and it won't help if we are living together," she said making up her mind. They just needed time to fix what went wrong and he needed to redeem himself.
Kurama nodded and felt as if he was going to break down after all as he leaned in and gave Rika a big hug. He pulled back and smiled, "I'll let you stay here you're the one that earned it anyways," he said giving her a quick kiss before leaving.
Rika sat on the ground as soon as she heard the door shut she began to cry. Though this wasn't the same hateful cry she had only a month ago but it was a cry of closure she knew it would be the best thing. She had taken her regretful relationship with Kurama and turned it around as a lesson and a fixation time before she was ready to take that BIG step with him. She had no idea where Kurama would go but she had faith that it wasn't with Asuya.
She got up and walked to the room. Hiei was pretty much all bandaged up and looking as good as new. She looked at Yaniki as she wiped away her tears. Yaniki was smiling proudly at herself for healing Hiei without Genkai's help.
"Thank you Yaniki he looks pretty good," she laughed through the slowly fading tears.
"Oh you're welcome," She said before turning the subject to more important matters, gossip.
"Kurama is gone, for now I guess we are just taking a break," Rika told them saying exactly what they all wanted to hear. Rika looked at Hiei saw him smirk and she mouthed the words 'I'm sorry' before walking over him and using her powers took him back to Genkai's and then rapidly returned back to her apartment.
"Now who's cleaning my sheet?" Rika asked looking at Mace and Yaniki.
"Hey it's not our fault he was bleeding all over the place!" Mace shouted in their defense, grabbing Yaniki around the waist from behind.
"Yeah, and if you don't mind we are going back to bed I have school in the morning," Yaniki yawned as she began to walk back to Mace's room with him still attached to her.
"Who said you were going to school tomorrow?" He asked her with a devilish smile on her face.
"OOOOOO," Yaniki giggled walking into the room and shutting the door.
Surprisingly that little display of affection hadn't bothered Rika one bit. She decided she would clean it up later and just sleep on the couch for now.
JUST LIKE RIKA HAD HOPED Kurama hadn't gone to Asuya's; he didn't want anything to do with that conniving skank. He opted to go to Yusuke's instead. He went up and knocked on his front door, usually he would just walk into Yusuke's house but it was about 3 a.m. and figured he was asleep. To his surprise Yusuke came right to the door and opened it. He didn't look sleepy at all though he was a little disheveled.
"I'm sorry are you busy?" Kurama asked looking at Yusuke who had a huge smile on his face.
"No, well at least not anymore, come on in," He said happy as could be opening the door letting Kurama walk in. As he walked in he saw Lash laying on the couch watching television in the living room to his right and Toby was in the kitchen cooking something. Kurama looked at him mysteriously, why was Toby cooking at Yusuke's at 3 in the morning?
"Hey Kurama, will you be eating with us tonight?" Toby waved to him as he flipped some kind of meat in a frying pan.
"Nah, I had my dinner like 5 hours ago," he laughed declining food.
"This is going to be breakfast, Yusuke is paying me some good money," Toby said giving a huge grin on his face.
"Well in that case I'll get back to you in a second," He said as Toby went back too cooking and he turned to see that Yusuke had disappeared. He walked into the living room and saw Yusuke and Lash laying on the couch together, Lash was asleep. He walked up and sat in the chair next to the couch. "Can I ask you for a favor?" He asked hesitantly.
"Yeah sure anything buddy," Yusuke turned his head from the TV to Kurama.
"Well I kind of need a place to stay for a few months at the most," he started when Lash woke up and looked at him suspiciously.
"Why is that?" She asked butting into their conversation.
"I told Rika she could keep the apartment while she does whatever it is she needs to do," he said slowly trying to comprehend what again it was that she wanted.
"Well sure that's fine with me it's not technically my house, its Koenma's but, I'm sure he would mind," Yusuke and Lash both grinned happy to know Rika made the right decision afterwards. Lash pushed off of Yusuke's chest and got off the couch; she stretched a little and then walked towards the kitchen to tell Toby the news. Yusuke also stood up and motioned for Kurama to follow him to his new room.
Kurama walked up the stairs and then turned right and there was his room. He opened the door and saw a pretty nice looking room. With a king sized bed and a nice dresser with a big television on top. Off left side was a small bathroom for his use only. Kurama smiled and thanked Yusuke as he went inside and fell face first on the bed and clocked out for the rest of the night.
Yusuke returned downstairs and walked straight to the kitchen with a big smile still plastered on his face. "Man I wonder what got Rika to do the right thing after all?" He said to no one unparticular and walked over to Lash and gave her a quick kiss.
I really want to call her, I wonder if she is all right," Lash sighed holding back the urge to call her best friend.
"Breakfast is ready," Toby said setting 3 plates down on the kitchen table.
"I guess I will call her later, she should be fine for now," Lash decided sitting down with Yusuke and Toby for the delicious meal she's been waiting for.
A/n: K this chapters all done, I'm starting to really hate this story. Does anyone else feel that way? I was reading my old chapters and I realized that I had a bunch of mistakes and not enough detail, do you think my writing has improved any?