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Chapter 14

Stop, stop, stop, went my heart-strings!

I wiped my sweating hands on my pants as the door slid open to reveal my daddy. My heart was pounding and I desperately wished he would just go away. I wanted to know what Jin was talking about.

"Good afternoon." Daddy said.

"Hi. What brings you here?" I asked.

"I just decided to stop by for a visit, see how you were doing." Daddy said.

I groaned mentally. He came by just to chat? I wanted to talk, just not to him. Not right this second anyway. I let a pleasant smile cross my face. I didn't want to be rude, I hadn't seen him in days.

"So, how's the training with Touya going?" Daddy asked.

My legs moved of their own accord, pulling me to my feet. They wanted to run out the door after Jin, but I couldn't. I hit my anxiousness by stretching. I looked out over garden as I moved, my eyes searched for a certain red head. "Its okay I guess."

"You guess?"

I turned back to my dad. "Well...I don't really have anything to compare it to."

"I see. Did you have any plans for today?" Daddy asked.

I sensed an opportunity to get away.

"Well...I was kind of hanging out with Jin." I said and rubbed the back of my head.

Dad nodded. "I see. I'm sorry for interrupting. Shall I see you later then?"

I could tell my dad was kind of bummed. I felt a little bad so I quickly added. "If its okay, that is. I'll stay with you if you want."

My daddy brightened and got to his feet. "No. Its alright, you go be with Jin."

Having the okay I stood up and rushed out the door, only to stop, turn around, run back in, and wrap my arms around my daddy in a hug. I think I surprised him a little because he momentarily lost his footing. He laughed and kissed the top of my head.

"Love you daddy." I said.

"Love you too." He said.

I dashed away from him back out into the garden.

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"Jin!" I called.

"Up here, luv!"

I looked up and had to shade my eyes with my hand. He floated down, the wind playing gently with his hair and clothing as he did so.

I couldn't keep the smile off my face as he landed on the grass. Jin smiled back, blue eyes shining.

"Would ya like ta go for a walk?" Jin asked.

I nodded and took the hand he held out to me. I licked my suddenly dry lips as Jin slipped an arm over my shoulders and pulled me into a half-hug as we walked. We managed to find a rhythm with our feet so that we moved in time with each other.

"Are ya nervous?" Jin asked.

I glanced up at him.

"I can hear yer heart flutterin like a bird." He said.

I grinned sheepishly. Great. So much for trying to stay cool and collected. I could feel a blush creep up my cheeks. "Sorry." I mumbled.

Jin cocked his head to the side as we rounded the pond. His smile went goofy and he started to laugh. "Sorry? Lass, what do ya have ta be sorry about? Its right nice when a boy-o knows a lady likes 'im."

The remarks about my feelings got me nervous. It was awkward and made me feel on the spot. I felt myself growing defensive. "Who says I like you?"

Jin clicked his tongue at me and leaned down so we were eye level. He was so close I could feel his breath on my face. Wide blue eyes searched mine. My breath hitched and I felt my knees go weak. A smile quirked his lips and crinkled his eyes up into half moons.

"Yer heart says so, luv, it damn near stopped just then." He teased.

I pulled away from Jin and walked the last few feet to the maple tree. I took a deep shaky breath and leaned back against it. Jin watched me go, the smile never left his face. I crossed my arms over my stomach. I had never felt this way before. It was like a whole flock of butterfly's had taken flight in my stomach. My hands were sweating (yuck) and my toes were tingling. I felt hot and cold at the same time, like a fever, but this was pleasant and a little scary.

"Well...that's not fair." I whispered.

Jin stepped closer to me. I watched as the shade from the tree enveloped him, starting from his toes, up his legs, to his chest, then face, and finally sliding over his hair. He stopped when he was next to me and propped an arm on the bark above me.

"Whats not fair, luv?" He asked.

I looked down at my sneakers. "You can tell what I'm feeling but I have no clue what yours are."

Jin leaned closer. "Ya want ta know what I feel, eh?"

I shuffled my feet suddenly nervous. "Well..." I let my voice die off suddenly not knowing what to say.

Jin shifted next to me and put his hands behind his head. I glanced up and watched as he pursed his lips and scrunched his mouth to one side. His eyes rolled over and he locked onto mine. He gave me a weighted look and his usually light attitude shifted to something serious.

"Carrie luv, I'm gonna ask ya somethin and I want ya ta be honest with ol' Jin." He took a breath and his eyes narrowed slightly. "I'll know if yer lyin, so don even try. So...do ya really wan ta know what I feel?"

"Yes." I said.

Jin searched my face for a moment then looked away. He was silent, the only sound was when he brought a hand down to scratch at his cheek. He sighed then looked at me.

"Luv, there is a way for ya ta know..." He let his voice trail off then shook himself like a dog coming out of water. Confidence seemed to wash over his features as he pushed away from the tree and stood in front of me. His lips quirked up into a grin. "I ain't much good at talkin so let me just show ya."

I looked up at him and my mouth went dry. "You could have fooled me, about the talking bit anyway."

Jin laughed and leaned down. "Very funny, luv. Very funny."

Oh god, he was going to kiss me! I let my eyes slide shut and I puckered my lips slightly. His hands went to my shoulders, holding them gently. I suddenly felt the top of my shirt sliding sideways and he slipped my bra strap out of the way. I opened my eyes in confusion as teeth sank into my shoulder. I gasped, mouth gaping wide in a silent scream. Holey crap that frickin hurt! The pain was suddenly replaced by a warm sensation that flowed from his mouth into my shoulder. The wrenching pain dulled to an ache, then to something almost pleasurable as the heat wormed its way down into my chest cavity. I felt myself relax into Jin and wrap my arms around his waist to steady myself. His power brushed up against something deep inside me, around where my heart was. I felt Jin grow curious of that something, we both did not know what it was.

I wanted to tell him not to touch it, it felt weird. But it was too late, he explored that power with his own. As his warmth caressed that strange spot inside me I felt something click. My body went hot and I arched into his touch. Not knowing what he had done, Jin decided to let go. I felt Jin relax his jaw muscles and take his teeth from my shoulder. My head lolled to the side as his warm, wet tongue licked the blood that pooled out of the bite. I raised myself up on my tiptoes. I had to bite him back, no, needed to. Something wouldn't happen if I didn't. Jin steadied me and knelt down onto the grass.

"Luv? Are ya alright?"

I reared back and sank my teeth into his neck. Jin gasped and flexed his back keeping us steady. Something grew inside me, a tide of power. I didn't know what it was, but it reminded me of the thing that shot out of my palm. But at the same time it was different. There was something else with it. I could feel that other coarse through my veins in time with my heartbeat. In a matter of moments I was burning with power. The power wormed its way up my throat and out my mouth as I poured it into Jin. The wind master cried out and his arms locked around my body. I held him as the power flowed into him. It grew stronger as I pushed it into him. I didn't really know how to stop. And I didn't want to.

"Let go!"

I rolled my eyes up seeing the world through a haze of red. A bald man grabbed onto my hair. I pulled my mouth up from Jin's shoulder and hissed. Blood dripped down my chin.

"Its alright! Get back Hokushin!" Jin said.

I felt something move inside my body at Jin's command. I staggered back and leaned against the tree. I was still hissing, low in my throat. Jin got to his feet heedless of the blood pouring from his shoulder. I watched him. He was the only thing that mattered. I watched as his tongue darted out to wet his lips. I could feel the way the wind coxed his hands and how it wove between his fingers like a pet begging to be touched. I could feel the ache in his shoulder where I bit him. Worry ate at my belly because he thought that this wasn't right. He knew I should not be acting like this. I could feel the grass beneath his knees as he knelt down in front of me.

"Careful Jin, she could kill you."

Jin locked his eyes with mine. I looked back and felt myself drowning in his gaze. I slid down the tree and he reached out to me. His hands grabbed my shoulders and guided me to his shoulder.

"Blood o' my blood. Heart o' my heart. Those that once walked a separate path, shall now walk as one."

I locked my lips over the wound I had inflicted to Jin's shoulder, but did not bite. The salty, metallic taste of blood filled my senses and overwhelmed me. My throat convulsed and I swallowed the blood. I hardly noticed when Jin locked his own lips to my still bleeding shoulder. I felt a deep pulsing inside my chest, something that was different. I released my hold on Jin's shoulder and licked the blood from my lips. I took in a deep breath and sighed.

"Carrie. Are ya alright luv?" Jin asked and wiped my blood away from his lips.

I collapsed to my knees my breath coming in a shaking gasp. It took me two tries to finally get out. "W-what the heck was that?"

"Jin! What the hell did you do!" Yusuke was suddenly there.

I felt woozy and the world was a little tipsy. Jin winced and braced himself on the ground with his hands. He shook his head, and I could feel the way his hair tickled his shoulders at the movement. I knew without him saying anything that he didn't know what had gone wrong.

"I don know." Jin said.

Yusuke reached down and hauled Jin up by his arms.

"What do you mean 'you don't know'? I'm in the middle of a god-damn meeting and then you set off a frickin bomb!" Yusuke yelled. "I thought we were under attack!"

I covered my ears and moaned. Yusuke was too loud. A gentle pair of hands were on either side of my face and I found myself looking into the concerned face of my daddy. Relief flooded through me and I heard Jin sigh. Daddy's eyes flicked to my shirt and the blood that stained it. His mouth went into a grim line as he pulled the hem back and looked at it.

Daddy tipped my head to the side and ran his fingers over the bite. I flinched, expecting his fingers to explore a bloody wound. Instead I felt his fingers glide over smooth skin. Daddy closed his eyes and I could feel...I don't know how to explain it, but something washed over my skin. It tingled like electricity and I felt something flare inside my chest in response to his energy. I could almost associate a color to that flare. Cherry red.

"Carrie. What have you done?" My daddy asked.

"What happened?" I asked.

Suddenly there was the sick sound of flesh hitting a tree and leaves fell all around me.

"Jin! You marked my baby! What they hell?" Yusuke shouted.

Jin held up his hand. "Wait! I didn-a mean it! It wasn't supposed ta happen like that!"

I gasped and covered my ears again. "STOP IT!"

Yusuke's grip tightened on Jin's arms and I cried out. Bruises in the shape of hands bloomed on my arms.

Daddy pulled me into his arms. "Yusuke, let Jin go you're hurting Carrie!"

I felt when Jin's butt hit the ground. The energy in my chest pulsed with relief and worry over me. I grabbed onto my dad's shirt and buried my face in his chest. I got lost in his smell. I could smell the soap he used this morning during his shower, the faint hint of the garlic that had been in his food, I could smell the warm scent of his skin and under that something else. I didn't know what it was, but it reminded me of some animal. I had never been able to smell anything like this before.

"What's happening to me?" I asked.

Daddy glanced up as Jin came over to me. "You had best let Jin tell you that, darling. Just remember that I will be here if you need help."

Yusuke loomed over us, eyes burning like chocolate. "Yes Jin, enlighten us."

Jin took my hand and I instantly felt better. I got out of daddy's lap and let Jin wrap his arms around me.

"I didn-a mean for it ta get this far." Jin licked his lips before he could continue. "All I wanted was a sharin o' power. Sometin' friends give ta one another and isn't bindin. But somethin went wrong..."

"Can it be undone?" Yusuke barked.

Jin looked down at me and his eyes softened. I could tell that he wasn't sure he wanted this, what ever it was, broken. I could tell that, now that he was getting used to it, he rather liked it. "I don know."

"Jin?" I asked.

Jin's eyes grew soft. I felt a small smile flick to my lips as the energy inside me grew warm and very pleasant.

"Yes luv?"

"What happened to me?" I asked.

"Uh...How do ya feel 'bout gettin married?" Jin asked.

Married? "To who?" I asked.

Jin laughed at me and Yusuke growled. I could feel Jin's humor and almost laughed myself except for the layer of fear that undercut the happiness.

"Ta who? She says. Ta me o' course. We...Uh, I don rightly know how ta say this, luv. But, uh...We...well..." His voice cut off and I suddenly felt very awkward and a little afraid of what was going to be said.

"The power you two just shared was the demon equivalent of a wedding ceremony. For better or worse, Carrie, you are now Jin's wife. I hope you two will be very happy together." My daddy said.

I pushed away from Jin and got to my feet. "WHAT?"

Jin reached out to me, I glared at him and pointed a finger at him. "DON'T TOUCH ME!"

Jin let his hand drop and I felt him grow sad. It was so sharp that it stabbed my own heart like a knife. I felt tears well up in my eyes and I hugged myself. "Jin...I just...give me a minuet." I let out a breath. The sadness lessened a little, but didn't go away.

Something white fluttered by my face and I batted at it. My fingers got tangled in something. I gasped when I realized it was my own hair. I felt my stomach fall to my feet when I saw something blue on the back of my hands. I felt my chest heave and Jin was suddenly grabbing my shoulders.

"Breathe, luv. Its alright."

I tried to wipe off the blue marks from the backs of my hands but they didn't come off. I felt panic wash over me and tore at my shirt, catching a flash of blue under it. I almost exposed my breasts as the cloth ripped under my fingers and revealed a strange mark that dipped down between my breasts. It almost looked like two downward pointed triangles. I caught sight of my hands and brought them up to my face. They were tipped in claws, honest to god claws.

"Oh my god!" I panicked.

Jin wrapped his arms around me in a hug and petted my hair. "Shhh. S'alright. Carrie, calm down. Tis alright."

I could feel calm radiating out from that red spot inside me. It chased away the panic. I closed my eyes and breathed. I could smell Jin. He smelled like wind through pine trees. Under that was a smell that was all male, something dark and comforting.

"She changed when I marked her. I think I woke up her demon blood." Jin said.

"That would explain why things went wrong," Daddy said. "and her current appearance."

"I thought you said that would never happen, Kurama." Yusuke said.

"I said that it was not likely. I didn't expect this to happen. Her being in demon world woke her spirit energy, Jin's invasion of power must have been enough to summon her demon blood." Daddy's voice was dark.

"Why is her hear beatin? Demon's don have hearts." Jin said.

I glanced over Jin's shoulder as Touya appeared. Relief flooded through me. I always felt better when Touya was here. Was that my thought? I don't ever remember feeling that way before.

"She's not fully demon. I can smell it."

Jin leaned down and sniffed my hair. The movement was very unsettling. "Yer right Touya. She's like one of them half-bloods."

"Not surprising, considering her lineage." Daddy said.

I pushed myself away from Jin and looked at my daddy. "I don't understand! Whats wrong with me? Why do I feel...I...I'm not alone in my body anymore."

Daddy put a hand on my shoulder. "Come here, darling."

Daddy lead me away from the group to sit on a rock. I felt stupid and shook my head. My world was reeling and I felt different. Sounds, sights, smells, and feelings were stronger. I didn't know what to focus on. Everything seemed to be demanding my attention all at once. A blade of grass waved in the breeze and I watched it bend. I could feel the very wind, almost understood how it moved. It dawned on me that it was a simple matter of moving pressure. All I needed to do was create a vacuum and let the air do what it did naturally, move from an area of high pressure to one of low pressure, thereby creating a breeze. With enough practice, one could create a pressure change with enough force that the natural air flow would launch a person skyward. The cherry red power inside me knew how to do it. Would show me how to do it, begged me to do it.

"Carrie. Carrie!" Fingers snapped in my face. "Carrie, are you with me?"

I blinked and looked up at my daddy. "Yes."

Daddy looked relieved. I looked past daddy and saw Jin. Our eyes met and I grinned from ear to ear. Power rushed up inside of me, and I followed the instructions inside my head. I knew how to move pressure. Jin didn't smile, instead he took a step towards me and lifted a hand. "Carrie luv, DONT!"

I let go of the build up of pressure, but I didn't know how to control it. I suddenly realized that understanding how a power worked was not the same as knowing how to use it. It was like a gun, it didn't matter if the three year old holding it towards their head knew what they were doing or not. The gun would fire if the trigger was pulled. My "gun" went off, and I didn't know how to point it. I shot myself hard enough to force the air out of my lungs and knock myself out.

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end chapter 14

Sorry it took me so long to get this out. See you again.