PEEPS!!! *jumps up and down* Yes!! I'm back with this chappie!! I
should've started it sooner.... but it's here anyways!!! Well, as
promised, I'm introducing more Inuyasha characters. This chapter should be
fun!!! Well, I'm gonna get on with this so that you can read, then review,
and I can right the NEXT chapter.... and.... well.... you get the point!
Shippo! Please read the disclaimer!
Shippo: I don't really see the point to this.... but oh well..... Master Ghaleon doesn't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inuyasha. She only owns the crazy, twisted mangas that she's created.
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Crossing Paths Chapter 5 "ZURO!!! HANG ON! I'M COMING!"
It was now almost sunset.
"Bless you.", they all chorused. Kurama sniffled and thanked them.
"Sneezy, sneezy, Achoo! Someone special is thinking about you!", came a high, perky voice from above them. They all stopped and looked into the air, they saw a blue haired girl in a light pink kimono on a flying oar. And right beside her was an older-looking girl with light brown hair and a suit-like outfit on.
"Botan! Shizuru! What're you doing here?", Keiko asked. Kuwabara looked at Shizuru in shock
"AAAHHH!!!! SHIZURU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!?!", Kuwabara yelled so loud that the rest of them had to cover their ears. Botan brought the oar to the ground and Shizuru jumped off and moved so that she was standing a few inches away from Kuwabara.
"Shut up little brother.", Shizuru said. For a few second they just stared at each other intensely. Then Shizuru held something up in his face.
"You forgot your socks.", everyone fell over as Kuwabara took the sock and began to put them on.
"Thanks, Shizuru!", Kuwabara said after he put the socks on. "Now, I'm pretty sure that you'll be leaving now! So, bye!", Kuwabara turned away from Shizuru and started to walk away.
"Not so fast.", She said in a cold voice that made Kuwabara stop dead in his tracks. He turned around timidly to look at Shizuru. She smiled. "I'm going too."
"No way!! You can't come!!", Kuwabara yelled.
"Either I come, or you go home. Mom wants me to watch over you. So, which is it?", she smiled evilly and Kuwabara groaned.
Kurama wasn't paying attention to any of the sibling rivalry, he was thinking about Botan's comment. Sneezy, Sneezy, Achoo! Someone special is thinking about you! Yes, she had said it before, and other times after it, but now he felt strongly about this saying. Someone special? Zuro? His hopes lifted. Then they dropped just as quickly. No........ It wouldn't be her. Kurama sighed and looked up and the sunset that had began.
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Zuro sighed as she looked at the sunset that had just began. After she ran from the camp, she found a tall tree that reached above the rest. She was now sitting on a branch at the top of that tree, admiring the view. I wonder where Kurama is. Is he even coming back? Zuro sighed again.
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The night passed at the camp and with Kurama. Zuro remained in the tree she was in and woke up in the morning to someone screaming back at camp. It sounded like Mika. Zuro hurried and ran to the camp as quickly as she could.
Back at camp, Sango, Shippo, Miroku, Kagome, Inuyasha, and Hiei were trying to protect Mika, who had gotten badly injured by Sesshomaru. He just suddenly appeared before anyone had woken up and tried to kill Mika. He was surprised to see the short, yet fast, Hiei, in their group. But this didn't discourage him, he fought on as hard as he always did. Even though it was a bit more difficult with Hiei there. Zuro arrived and saw them fighting a demon. He almost looks like a fox. No, wait. Zuro sniffed the air. He's a DOG demon! Zuro saw her injured half-sister on the ground and growled loudly at Sesshomaru. She jumped to the ground behind Sesshomaru, summoned her fire whip, and attacked all in one motion. Sesshomaru felt her presence and got away with a slightly burnt arm. He looked from his wound then back to her.
"You'll regret that, Yoko.", with that he lunged towards Zuro and began his attack.
He sliced at her with his poisonous claws but she nimbly dodged all of his attacks, until he pretended to make an attack and actually disappeared behind her. He grabbed her by her neck and dug his nails into it. The poison from his claws started to seep into her body and drain her energy, the fire whip was becoming weaker and she had one more chance to attack before she went unconscious. So she flipped her fire whip up to hit Sesshomaru's hand and make him let her go. Surely enough, it worked. Sesshomaru let his claws go free of her neck and she tumbled to the ground.
Sesshomaru stood in the same spot he was, holding onto his wrist, waiting for the pain to stop. Now both of his arms were injured. Zuro, in the meantime, groggily stood up and leaned against a tree, trying to regain her sense of direction. Where had everyone else gone? Weren't there others? Zuro looked around and saw that they WERE there. But there was a blue shield around the area that Sesshomaru and her were fighting in. Probably to make sure that this was a one on one fight. Zuro grunted from the pain of standing up, but yelled to the others.
"GO!! TAKE MIKA AND RUN!!", The others grabbed Mika and went into the forest, except Hiei and Inuyasha, the stubborn warriors.
"I'm not leaving. The chance to fight Sesshomaru is irresistible!", Inuyasha exclaimed as he put the Tetsaiga on his shoulder. Hiei stood right next to him with a similar argument.
"........... Plus, if anything happened to you and I didn't do anything. What would Kurama think?", at this point, people would've stared at him as if he were mad. But at the moment, no one else was around and the ones who were there were in the heat of battle. So they let it slip.
The battle began once again between weakened versions of both the competitors. Sesshomaru's wrist were badly burnt, and poison was seeping through Zuro's system. But that didn't mean they were evenly matched, if anything Sesshomaru had the upper hand. Zuro was constantly getting drowzy and would get hit with one of Sesshomaru's weaker attacks, it was ALWAYS a weaker attack. She re-created her fire whip to be as strong as it was before and hit Sesshomaru with her more powerful attacks. So in a way they were equal. Until he backed her up into a tree. He hit her wrist, causing the fire whip to disappear and pinned her to the tree by her arms.
"You thought you could win? Don't think I'll take mercy on your kind.", Sesshomaru dug his nails into her arms and she yelled from the pain, but... it wasn't painful anymore. The drowziness from the poison seemed to numb the pain. She was slowly falling into a state of sleeping where she wouldn't wake up. Falling............falling.............fall--
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Kurama and the others were almost to where the camp was, only a few miles to go. But even being this far away, Kurama smelt blood in the air.
"Hmm??"
"Kurama!! Shippo!! There you are!! We've been looking for you two!", Sango appeared from behind a tree, followed by Kagome and Miroku supporting Mika (Who had a hole through her stomach). (If I'm forgetting anyone besides Inuyasha and Hiei, they're there too)
"MIKA!", Shippo jumped up in front to jump on Mika and see how hurt she was. Kagome and Miroku set Mika down and Shippo sat on her lap. She smiled weakly at Shippo and then started mumbling. Kurama and Shippo, with their fox-hearing heard what she said.
"She's going to die............. not going to survive his power......... nearly killed me. ............ death will be far more painful for her."
Kurama suddenly noticed something, where was Zuro? He noticed that Hiei and Inuyasha were gone, but his main priority right now was where Zuro was. No.... Zuro!! The blood that he smelt in the air was partially Mika's, but it was overpowered by different blood. Zuro's blood. Kurama sprinted off into the woods towards the scent of Zuro's blood as fast as he could. He felt himself choking, he was going to be too late! Why did he leave?! He was actually yelling for Zuro out loud now.
"ZURO!!! HANG ON! I'M COMING!"
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This was too easy, he thought that killing a Yoko would be harder than this. You just have to play them right.
"ZURO!!! HANG ON! I'M COMING!", he could hear someone yelling in the distance. First, Sesshomaru panicked because someone was most likely coming to back her up. But then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the other two that were trying to help the Yoko. Both Inuyasha and Hiei were hacking away at the blue barrier, but doing no damage. Now he remembered, no one could get in as long as he was protected by this shield of his, the one that his best friend had helped him perfect many years ago.
Hiei and Inuyasha saw that Zuro was going out and they each doubled their efforts. They hadn't been teammates long, or hadn't been close teammates, but the thought of losing a powerful ally was one they didn't like.
Kurama came into the clearing where the battle was going on. It wasn't much of a battle, but there were two opponents, so I think it classifies as a battle. He saw Hiei and Inuyasha hacking away at an invisible shield that turned blue whenever it was hit. Inside the shield, however, there was less of a battle going on, but it was the battle he paid most attention to. Inside the shield, there was a demon with long white hair who had his claws driven into Zuro's arms. Zuro seemed to be nodding off, What is going on? Kurama stood in his place for a few seconds, expecting Zuro to get back into the battle. She was hardly moving anymore. Come on Zuro..... He waited a few more seconds, nothing happened. The only sound that could be heard were the sounds of electricity, that was the sound that emitted from the shield when the swords hit it.
Kurama yelled the only thing that came to his head
"NO!!! ZURO! WAKE UP!!!"
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Zuro was now dreaming. She was in a beautiful field in the middle of the night, I love the night, laying right next to a shining lake, It's beautiful, surrounded by different kinds of white flowers, My favorite color, that seemed to glow under the bright full moon hovering in the sky, I love the moon. In this place she didn't feel anything, pain, loss, or even love. But his was better for her, love gave her just as much pain as any other painful things. She couldn't remember why though. She didn't remember anyone that she knew before she came here, she didn't remember her friends, her family, or the one she loved. It was wonderful here. Just a little while longer and she could live in this pleasant dream-world of hers forever, she started to close her eyes to take a nap.
".........Zuro.........", she heard faintly.
"Huh?" She sat straight up and looked around for the owner of the voice. "Who's there?"
She saw nobody. Zuro looked confused, she stood up and looked in the opposite direction of the lake. Nobody was there either.
"Zuro.....", she heard again from behind her, louder this time. She swung around towards the lake and saw someone this time. He was standing in the lake, ripples were coming out from around his ankles. His clothing was completely white and his hair was silver. He had a silver tail that matched the rose he was holding in his hand. He had two fuzzy ears, like her own, poking out of the top of his head, and he had gorgeous golden eyes that lit up in the dim light.
"Zuro....", the figure said louder. His voice seemed so familiar to her, but how?
"Zuro.", he walked up, slowly, out of the lake and up to her. When he stopped, he was only inches away from her face. He took the silver rose and rubbed the petals softly against her cheek.
"Who are you?", she could only manage a whisper. He seemed so familiar, and she seemed to love his presence. She felt odd whenever she was around him. He took the rose away and started brushing against her cheek with his hand.
"Zuro.", he repeated in a louder voice than last time, so he was now speaking in a fairly loud voice. A name suddenly came to her head.
"Kurama.....", she whispered. Kurama smiled, stepped away from Zuro and disappeared. She reached her hand out, trying to stop him.
"Wait! Kurama! What's going on?", she didn't remember anything else. Only him. As soon as she finished her sentence, images came flashing to her head.
'Hm? It's Kurama!!!!', she jumped out of the lake and ran at full speed in her kitsune form towards Kurama's Sprit energy.
She remembered that now. That was when she joined Kurama on a quest he had started........ Another one came.
"KURAMA!!!!", she yelled as she pinned him to the ground. Hiei stopped to see who had pinned his comrade to the ground and put his hand on the hilt of his katana, readying it for attack. When he saw it was Zuro he sighed disgustedly and let go of the hilt.
"Zuro?" Kurama turned as much as he could and saw Zuro's golden eyes hovering over him.
"Konnichi wa, Kurama!", she yipped excitedly.
"Uh.... Hello, Zuro! Um.... C..Could you please get off of me? I need to move!"
"No problem!!", Zuro hopped off of Kurama and helped him up. Zuro was always cheerful around most people, but no one knew that she was most cheerful around Kurama. She was crazy about him and tried to be with him every chance she got. But she thought that Kurama felt differently. He's got all of those pretty girls in the Ningenkai swooning over him. Why would he pick me? That's what she'd always say to herself.
Crazy? I was.... 'crazy' about Kurama? I don't understand........... Another one came.
Zuro looked up into his eyes. "Then...... you're not mad at me?"
"No.", he didn't realize how close his face had gotten to Zuro's while he was talking. Now his body took over and he leaned in to kiss Zuro. But before Kurama got anywhere near to doing that...........
What? What was happening? I need to know!!! Now, the images were coming faster, right after another, so that she didn't have time to think.
"Kurama?", Zuro was snapped out of her worried state and noticed Kurama standing there for the first time. Tears started to form in her eyes and she flung her arms around Kurama's neck and hugged him. She sobbed on Kurama's shoulder as she spoke to him.
"Kurama? Where have you been? I've been so worried!", Kurama blushed brightly and everyone looked. Shippo had a sly grin on his face and Hiei was smirking. Kurama sighed and turned his attention back to Zuro. He put his arms around her shoulders in a hug and comforted her.
"Shh....Zuro, it's okay. I'm here, I would never let anything happen."
"Kurama....."
"Yes, Zuro?", Kurama smiled. All of a sudden her face turned into one of complete and total anger. She raised one of her clawed hands up and slapped him across the face, leaving three red scratches on his face.
Now, only bits and pieces were coming to her.
Zuro looked out into the forest. He left? Does he even plan on coming back?, Zuro noticed then that Shippo wasn't at the camp either.
"I guess I'm an open book to you then. Ne, Miroku?", she rubbed the tears from her eyes again and smiled. Miroku laughed whole-heartedly as well and he edged closer to Zuro.
"Kurama is not mad at you."
"What?! He was out in the forest?!"
"He was sad."
Oh no...... He saw me with Miroku.......
The last one came clear....
I'm the reason he left!! He thinks I love Miroku...... No!! If only I hadn't let him touch me in the first place!! If only I hadn't let him NEAR me!! Kurama.........
Everything went silent in Zuro's head.
I love Kurama.......
Zuro remembered everything now, but that last sentence was not part of her memory, she had said it to herself.
"NO!! ZURO! WAKE UP!!!!"
Zuro's eyes shot open and she was back in the real world, there was an unfathomable pain in her arms and her neck. She was pinned to something hard and in the distance she heard something that sounded like electricity.
She was in the battle-field. But there was one different thing she saw.
Kurama was there, and he was yelling for her.
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I'm Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry that I ended it there. I hate Cliff-hangers as much as you do....... they're so annoying. But I can assure you that I'm going to get the next chapter up really, really soon. Because I just have to write the next part! It's gonna get good really soon for you people who are waiting for something to happen between Kurama and Zuro. You all wanna know something? I wrote this story because there's this boy at my school that I really like, and this is basically how everything was going for a long time. Me thinking he liked another girl, has a lot of girls swooning over him..... yada yada....... Anyhoo, just thought I'd tell you the real reason for me writing this story...... Well, I'll see you next time on Crossing Paths!!! ~Master Ghaleon~ aka MG aka Tonraibo aka Mik.......... the list goes on....
Shippo: I don't really see the point to this.... but oh well..... Master Ghaleon doesn't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inuyasha. She only owns the crazy, twisted mangas that she's created.
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Crossing Paths Chapter 5 "ZURO!!! HANG ON! I'M COMING!"
It was now almost sunset.
"Bless you.", they all chorused. Kurama sniffled and thanked them.
"Sneezy, sneezy, Achoo! Someone special is thinking about you!", came a high, perky voice from above them. They all stopped and looked into the air, they saw a blue haired girl in a light pink kimono on a flying oar. And right beside her was an older-looking girl with light brown hair and a suit-like outfit on.
"Botan! Shizuru! What're you doing here?", Keiko asked. Kuwabara looked at Shizuru in shock
"AAAHHH!!!! SHIZURU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!?!", Kuwabara yelled so loud that the rest of them had to cover their ears. Botan brought the oar to the ground and Shizuru jumped off and moved so that she was standing a few inches away from Kuwabara.
"Shut up little brother.", Shizuru said. For a few second they just stared at each other intensely. Then Shizuru held something up in his face.
"You forgot your socks.", everyone fell over as Kuwabara took the sock and began to put them on.
"Thanks, Shizuru!", Kuwabara said after he put the socks on. "Now, I'm pretty sure that you'll be leaving now! So, bye!", Kuwabara turned away from Shizuru and started to walk away.
"Not so fast.", She said in a cold voice that made Kuwabara stop dead in his tracks. He turned around timidly to look at Shizuru. She smiled. "I'm going too."
"No way!! You can't come!!", Kuwabara yelled.
"Either I come, or you go home. Mom wants me to watch over you. So, which is it?", she smiled evilly and Kuwabara groaned.
Kurama wasn't paying attention to any of the sibling rivalry, he was thinking about Botan's comment. Sneezy, Sneezy, Achoo! Someone special is thinking about you! Yes, she had said it before, and other times after it, but now he felt strongly about this saying. Someone special? Zuro? His hopes lifted. Then they dropped just as quickly. No........ It wouldn't be her. Kurama sighed and looked up and the sunset that had began.
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Zuro sighed as she looked at the sunset that had just began. After she ran from the camp, she found a tall tree that reached above the rest. She was now sitting on a branch at the top of that tree, admiring the view. I wonder where Kurama is. Is he even coming back? Zuro sighed again.
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The night passed at the camp and with Kurama. Zuro remained in the tree she was in and woke up in the morning to someone screaming back at camp. It sounded like Mika. Zuro hurried and ran to the camp as quickly as she could.
Back at camp, Sango, Shippo, Miroku, Kagome, Inuyasha, and Hiei were trying to protect Mika, who had gotten badly injured by Sesshomaru. He just suddenly appeared before anyone had woken up and tried to kill Mika. He was surprised to see the short, yet fast, Hiei, in their group. But this didn't discourage him, he fought on as hard as he always did. Even though it was a bit more difficult with Hiei there. Zuro arrived and saw them fighting a demon. He almost looks like a fox. No, wait. Zuro sniffed the air. He's a DOG demon! Zuro saw her injured half-sister on the ground and growled loudly at Sesshomaru. She jumped to the ground behind Sesshomaru, summoned her fire whip, and attacked all in one motion. Sesshomaru felt her presence and got away with a slightly burnt arm. He looked from his wound then back to her.
"You'll regret that, Yoko.", with that he lunged towards Zuro and began his attack.
He sliced at her with his poisonous claws but she nimbly dodged all of his attacks, until he pretended to make an attack and actually disappeared behind her. He grabbed her by her neck and dug his nails into it. The poison from his claws started to seep into her body and drain her energy, the fire whip was becoming weaker and she had one more chance to attack before she went unconscious. So she flipped her fire whip up to hit Sesshomaru's hand and make him let her go. Surely enough, it worked. Sesshomaru let his claws go free of her neck and she tumbled to the ground.
Sesshomaru stood in the same spot he was, holding onto his wrist, waiting for the pain to stop. Now both of his arms were injured. Zuro, in the meantime, groggily stood up and leaned against a tree, trying to regain her sense of direction. Where had everyone else gone? Weren't there others? Zuro looked around and saw that they WERE there. But there was a blue shield around the area that Sesshomaru and her were fighting in. Probably to make sure that this was a one on one fight. Zuro grunted from the pain of standing up, but yelled to the others.
"GO!! TAKE MIKA AND RUN!!", The others grabbed Mika and went into the forest, except Hiei and Inuyasha, the stubborn warriors.
"I'm not leaving. The chance to fight Sesshomaru is irresistible!", Inuyasha exclaimed as he put the Tetsaiga on his shoulder. Hiei stood right next to him with a similar argument.
"........... Plus, if anything happened to you and I didn't do anything. What would Kurama think?", at this point, people would've stared at him as if he were mad. But at the moment, no one else was around and the ones who were there were in the heat of battle. So they let it slip.
The battle began once again between weakened versions of both the competitors. Sesshomaru's wrist were badly burnt, and poison was seeping through Zuro's system. But that didn't mean they were evenly matched, if anything Sesshomaru had the upper hand. Zuro was constantly getting drowzy and would get hit with one of Sesshomaru's weaker attacks, it was ALWAYS a weaker attack. She re-created her fire whip to be as strong as it was before and hit Sesshomaru with her more powerful attacks. So in a way they were equal. Until he backed her up into a tree. He hit her wrist, causing the fire whip to disappear and pinned her to the tree by her arms.
"You thought you could win? Don't think I'll take mercy on your kind.", Sesshomaru dug his nails into her arms and she yelled from the pain, but... it wasn't painful anymore. The drowziness from the poison seemed to numb the pain. She was slowly falling into a state of sleeping where she wouldn't wake up. Falling............falling.............fall--
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Kurama and the others were almost to where the camp was, only a few miles to go. But even being this far away, Kurama smelt blood in the air.
"Hmm??"
"Kurama!! Shippo!! There you are!! We've been looking for you two!", Sango appeared from behind a tree, followed by Kagome and Miroku supporting Mika (Who had a hole through her stomach). (If I'm forgetting anyone besides Inuyasha and Hiei, they're there too)
"MIKA!", Shippo jumped up in front to jump on Mika and see how hurt she was. Kagome and Miroku set Mika down and Shippo sat on her lap. She smiled weakly at Shippo and then started mumbling. Kurama and Shippo, with their fox-hearing heard what she said.
"She's going to die............. not going to survive his power......... nearly killed me. ............ death will be far more painful for her."
Kurama suddenly noticed something, where was Zuro? He noticed that Hiei and Inuyasha were gone, but his main priority right now was where Zuro was. No.... Zuro!! The blood that he smelt in the air was partially Mika's, but it was overpowered by different blood. Zuro's blood. Kurama sprinted off into the woods towards the scent of Zuro's blood as fast as he could. He felt himself choking, he was going to be too late! Why did he leave?! He was actually yelling for Zuro out loud now.
"ZURO!!! HANG ON! I'M COMING!"
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This was too easy, he thought that killing a Yoko would be harder than this. You just have to play them right.
"ZURO!!! HANG ON! I'M COMING!", he could hear someone yelling in the distance. First, Sesshomaru panicked because someone was most likely coming to back her up. But then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the other two that were trying to help the Yoko. Both Inuyasha and Hiei were hacking away at the blue barrier, but doing no damage. Now he remembered, no one could get in as long as he was protected by this shield of his, the one that his best friend had helped him perfect many years ago.
Hiei and Inuyasha saw that Zuro was going out and they each doubled their efforts. They hadn't been teammates long, or hadn't been close teammates, but the thought of losing a powerful ally was one they didn't like.
Kurama came into the clearing where the battle was going on. It wasn't much of a battle, but there were two opponents, so I think it classifies as a battle. He saw Hiei and Inuyasha hacking away at an invisible shield that turned blue whenever it was hit. Inside the shield, however, there was less of a battle going on, but it was the battle he paid most attention to. Inside the shield, there was a demon with long white hair who had his claws driven into Zuro's arms. Zuro seemed to be nodding off, What is going on? Kurama stood in his place for a few seconds, expecting Zuro to get back into the battle. She was hardly moving anymore. Come on Zuro..... He waited a few more seconds, nothing happened. The only sound that could be heard were the sounds of electricity, that was the sound that emitted from the shield when the swords hit it.
Kurama yelled the only thing that came to his head
"NO!!! ZURO! WAKE UP!!!"
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Zuro was now dreaming. She was in a beautiful field in the middle of the night, I love the night, laying right next to a shining lake, It's beautiful, surrounded by different kinds of white flowers, My favorite color, that seemed to glow under the bright full moon hovering in the sky, I love the moon. In this place she didn't feel anything, pain, loss, or even love. But his was better for her, love gave her just as much pain as any other painful things. She couldn't remember why though. She didn't remember anyone that she knew before she came here, she didn't remember her friends, her family, or the one she loved. It was wonderful here. Just a little while longer and she could live in this pleasant dream-world of hers forever, she started to close her eyes to take a nap.
".........Zuro.........", she heard faintly.
"Huh?" She sat straight up and looked around for the owner of the voice. "Who's there?"
She saw nobody. Zuro looked confused, she stood up and looked in the opposite direction of the lake. Nobody was there either.
"Zuro.....", she heard again from behind her, louder this time. She swung around towards the lake and saw someone this time. He was standing in the lake, ripples were coming out from around his ankles. His clothing was completely white and his hair was silver. He had a silver tail that matched the rose he was holding in his hand. He had two fuzzy ears, like her own, poking out of the top of his head, and he had gorgeous golden eyes that lit up in the dim light.
"Zuro....", the figure said louder. His voice seemed so familiar to her, but how?
"Zuro.", he walked up, slowly, out of the lake and up to her. When he stopped, he was only inches away from her face. He took the silver rose and rubbed the petals softly against her cheek.
"Who are you?", she could only manage a whisper. He seemed so familiar, and she seemed to love his presence. She felt odd whenever she was around him. He took the rose away and started brushing against her cheek with his hand.
"Zuro.", he repeated in a louder voice than last time, so he was now speaking in a fairly loud voice. A name suddenly came to her head.
"Kurama.....", she whispered. Kurama smiled, stepped away from Zuro and disappeared. She reached her hand out, trying to stop him.
"Wait! Kurama! What's going on?", she didn't remember anything else. Only him. As soon as she finished her sentence, images came flashing to her head.
'Hm? It's Kurama!!!!', she jumped out of the lake and ran at full speed in her kitsune form towards Kurama's Sprit energy.
She remembered that now. That was when she joined Kurama on a quest he had started........ Another one came.
"KURAMA!!!!", she yelled as she pinned him to the ground. Hiei stopped to see who had pinned his comrade to the ground and put his hand on the hilt of his katana, readying it for attack. When he saw it was Zuro he sighed disgustedly and let go of the hilt.
"Zuro?" Kurama turned as much as he could and saw Zuro's golden eyes hovering over him.
"Konnichi wa, Kurama!", she yipped excitedly.
"Uh.... Hello, Zuro! Um.... C..Could you please get off of me? I need to move!"
"No problem!!", Zuro hopped off of Kurama and helped him up. Zuro was always cheerful around most people, but no one knew that she was most cheerful around Kurama. She was crazy about him and tried to be with him every chance she got. But she thought that Kurama felt differently. He's got all of those pretty girls in the Ningenkai swooning over him. Why would he pick me? That's what she'd always say to herself.
Crazy? I was.... 'crazy' about Kurama? I don't understand........... Another one came.
Zuro looked up into his eyes. "Then...... you're not mad at me?"
"No.", he didn't realize how close his face had gotten to Zuro's while he was talking. Now his body took over and he leaned in to kiss Zuro. But before Kurama got anywhere near to doing that...........
What? What was happening? I need to know!!! Now, the images were coming faster, right after another, so that she didn't have time to think.
"Kurama?", Zuro was snapped out of her worried state and noticed Kurama standing there for the first time. Tears started to form in her eyes and she flung her arms around Kurama's neck and hugged him. She sobbed on Kurama's shoulder as she spoke to him.
"Kurama? Where have you been? I've been so worried!", Kurama blushed brightly and everyone looked. Shippo had a sly grin on his face and Hiei was smirking. Kurama sighed and turned his attention back to Zuro. He put his arms around her shoulders in a hug and comforted her.
"Shh....Zuro, it's okay. I'm here, I would never let anything happen."
"Kurama....."
"Yes, Zuro?", Kurama smiled. All of a sudden her face turned into one of complete and total anger. She raised one of her clawed hands up and slapped him across the face, leaving three red scratches on his face.
Now, only bits and pieces were coming to her.
Zuro looked out into the forest. He left? Does he even plan on coming back?, Zuro noticed then that Shippo wasn't at the camp either.
"I guess I'm an open book to you then. Ne, Miroku?", she rubbed the tears from her eyes again and smiled. Miroku laughed whole-heartedly as well and he edged closer to Zuro.
"Kurama is not mad at you."
"What?! He was out in the forest?!"
"He was sad."
Oh no...... He saw me with Miroku.......
The last one came clear....
I'm the reason he left!! He thinks I love Miroku...... No!! If only I hadn't let him touch me in the first place!! If only I hadn't let him NEAR me!! Kurama.........
Everything went silent in Zuro's head.
I love Kurama.......
Zuro remembered everything now, but that last sentence was not part of her memory, she had said it to herself.
"NO!! ZURO! WAKE UP!!!!"
Zuro's eyes shot open and she was back in the real world, there was an unfathomable pain in her arms and her neck. She was pinned to something hard and in the distance she heard something that sounded like electricity.
She was in the battle-field. But there was one different thing she saw.
Kurama was there, and he was yelling for her.
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I'm Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry that I ended it there. I hate Cliff-hangers as much as you do....... they're so annoying. But I can assure you that I'm going to get the next chapter up really, really soon. Because I just have to write the next part! It's gonna get good really soon for you people who are waiting for something to happen between Kurama and Zuro. You all wanna know something? I wrote this story because there's this boy at my school that I really like, and this is basically how everything was going for a long time. Me thinking he liked another girl, has a lot of girls swooning over him..... yada yada....... Anyhoo, just thought I'd tell you the real reason for me writing this story...... Well, I'll see you next time on Crossing Paths!!! ~Master Ghaleon~ aka MG aka Tonraibo aka Mik.......... the list goes on....