Yo, Minna-san!!!.... wait.... wasn't I trying NOT to say that?? *sigh*
Oh, well...... Gomen, gomen, gomen, GOMEN NASAI, Minna-san!!! For not
getting this up sooner, like I hoped I would!!! Well.... I have good
excuses!!!! Well... one anyways.... the good one is...... I got a major
writers block!! yeah....... And!! I got only two reviews for chapter
5.... *sniff, sniff* Do you guys not love me anymore??? *puppy-dog eyes*
Well, It seems I got over my writers block. AND my imaginary cousin, SMG,
pestered me. That made me get back to work!! Thank you for that,
Sarcasm397!! ^_^ Well..... on with the Story then!! Zuro! The disclaimer
please!!
Zuro: I already did it.
Me: Oh, sorry......... um.. HIEI!!! Yes! Your turn!! ^_^
Hiei: T_T;; MG doesn't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inuyasha. Now leave me alone. *walks away*
Me: Somebody is Grumpy!! ^_^
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Crossing Paths Chapter 6 "It's not going to bring her back....'"
Kurama was there, and he was yelling for her.
The minute she saw Kurama, a new-found power surged within her and she knocked her opponent away from her. Sesshomaru growled and wondered how on earth this girl could've broken out of his grasp! When he had someone in a hold with his poison talons they could never escape.
Sesshomaru and Zuro fought fiercely for the next couple of minutes, Zuro with her new-found energy. After awhile Zuro swung her fire whip and him and missed as he jumped in the air. But now she had him where she wanted him. She made a fire sword in her other hand and sliced Sesshomaru in his stomach. He came to the ground and slashed her across the chest before jumping a few feet away. For another couple of minutes, they sat there having a stare-off. In the end, Sesshomaru gave in and fell to the ground. Satisfied with her victory, Zuro also collapsed unconscious to the ground.
As soon as Sesshomaru collapsed, the shield disintegrated. The first thing Kurama did was rush to Zuro's side and examine her wounds. At first glance, Zuro looked dead. Kurama started to silently curse himself for not staying to watch over her and started to whisper things to Zuro as he lifted her up into his lap. As he pulled Zuro close to him he couldn't help but let tears well up in his eyes. Kurama sobbed on the inside, refusing to let the others see him cry. Hiei and Inuyasha, took care of Sesshomaru by tying him up to a tree with some strong rope.
Zuro, although very weak, was not dead. She sat there, lying in Kurama's arms, unmoving, but awake and listening to his every word.
"Don't leave, Zuro, Please!!!", he started to lightly shake her, hoping that she was just kidding and was ready to wake up any moment and scare him like she always did. He wanted her too. After she didn't do anything again, he shook her harder.
"Zuro! This isn't funny anymore!", he almost choked on his words. "Zuro, PLEASE WAKE UP!!", but no matter what Kurama did, Zuro wouldn't wake up. He was defeated, he didn't want to go on. He felt like the biggest fool on earth.
'How did you know she didn't feel the same?', Shuichi reasoned within him.
'I....', For once, Yoko Kurama was at a loss for words
'You didn't!! That's because you didn't tell her!! You were foolish this time, Yoko.', Shuichi was right
"Zuro.......", He whispered before Mika came ripping into the forest, the hole in her stomach wrapped up.
"ZURO!!!!!", Mika yelled at the top of her lungs as she searched the clearing, she obviously had gained her spirit back quickly and was now concerned for Zuro. She was also obviously not supposed to be up, because behind her everyone else was chasing her, trying to get her to rest.
"Mika!! You have to rest!!"
"Your wounds aren't healed!"
"Please, Mika!!"
It seemed like Mika couldn't hear them, because at the exact second they arrived in the clearing, Mika found Zuro.
Mika saw her, what she thought was, dead sister lying, bloodied up, in the arms of a tearful and sad Kurama.
"No..... ZURO!!!!", she rushed for Zuro right as everyone else in the clearing noticed Zuro. The men, except for Kurama, were trying to stay strong and not show their sadness. While the women showed their feelings openly.
Mika snatched Zuro from Kurama, and Kurama put up no fight whatsoever. He was in too much of a state of denial/guilt.
'No..... it can't be. It's my fault.', Kurama thought to himself as he looked at Mika cry over Zuro, trying to get her to wake up just like Kurama did. 'I should've....'
'Yoko.....', Shuichi sighed. 'It's nice to know that you care about Zuro, but does that mean that you really have to blame yourself?'
'......'
'Well..... STOP IT ALREADY!!! It's getting annoying and it's not going to bring her back....'
'.....', Kurama sighed in defeat, Shuichi was right. Wow, two in a row. That was a record for Shuichi.
'T_T.... I heard that..'
Kurama would've chuckled if not for the circumstances, but sighed instead. He decided to take a look again at the man who killed her. He walked over to a currently unconscious Sesshomaru and kneeled down next to him.
Zuro's POV
"Huh? Where am I?", she was now somewhere else. It was dark and dank and ugly, not at all like the beautiful field she was in earlier. There was no light at all and she couldn't tell where she was. It was cold and wet and it made her want to leave. There was a noise behind her, a splash of water.
"What? Who's there?!", she turned to face the noise but found no one. She was starting to get scared of this place.
"Kurama? Is that you?", she was hoping that it would be the same as last time, but no one answered.
"Kurama?", she almost sobbed, she really wanted to leave.
'Please Kurama..... please save me....'
"You wish for 'Kurama' to save you?", a mocking voice came from the darkness. She was taken aback at how this voice could read her mind and asked just that.
"Simple," It chuckled. "This is your mind, the exact place that your thoughts float about. I see everything you are thinking and have thought"
"Why can't I see it then?"
"You really don't know much, do you?" It sighed. "Well, it's because you are the owner of the mind. And should already know this without seeing it."
"What about my other thoughts? I don't remember those."
"That's what I'm here for."
Zuro heard fingers snap and the darkness went away. She was now in a blue room full of scrolling sentences in different colors, her thoughts.
'It's beautiful!'
On the wall opposite her she saw a new sentence scroll by: It's beautiful!
"Of course it is, Zuro." She looked to the left side of her and saw a man standing amongst the sentences, some of them scrolling around him. He looked like...... Shuichi!!
"Shuichi!!", Zuro cried out happily as she ran towards him. But he held up a hand and she stopped.
"I am not Shuichi, I just take that form. I am Memory, I help you to remember the important things." Memory smiled as he transformed into Yoko. "It's just easier to get you to listen to me if I take the form of something appealing to you, like earlier." He smirked.
Zuro didn't understand what he meant at first, but then soon understood. She walked up next do him and slapped him across the face with her talons, leaving three red marks. Immediately, the memory of slapping Kurama popped into her head. She tried to ignore it and went on being angry at him.
"HOW DARE YOU!!! THAT WAS A BAD TRICK TO PLAY ON ME!!! How dare you mess around with my mind like tha--"
"I LIVE in your mind..."
"Still! That doesn't mean you can just--" She couldn't think of an excuse. She was just angry that it wasn't really Kurama who saved her from death.
"But it was, Zuro.... It was Kurama." Zuro looked at Memory, he was smiling as he looked at the wall.
It said: It wasn't Kurama, was it? It was Memory that saved me.......
"The only thing I helped with was getting you to remember Kurama so that you would hear his voice." Memory looked at Zuro again, still looking like Yoko Kurama. He grabbed her hands and looked into her eyes.
"Listen to him again." Zuro was confused by this.
"Don't leave, Zuro, Please!!!", she heard Kurama's voice yell in sadness.
"Huh? What's going on?" She looked to Memory for an answer. He smiled and motioned her to listen again
"Zuro! This isn't funny anymore!"
"Zuro, PLEASE WAKE UP!!", she listened Kurama's voice yell in pain now.
"What do I do, Memory?" She said as she listened to the stuff going on outside, her sister crying, Kurama leaving her after she was transferred to Mika. She could also feel everything happening to her, except the pain. She was safe here.
"Try to go back.", Memory said and walked back to the scrolling sentences to watch them.
She was now interested. She closed her eyes and sat down to listen to everything happening outside of her mind.
Kurama's POV
"Se....S....Sess.....Sesshomaru?!?!?!", Kurama yelled in surprise. He couldn't believe Zuro's death. But he WOULD NOT, COULD NOT believe that it was Sesshomaru that killed her! Not Sesshomaru.
"Feh! Yeah, Sesshomaru. Evil.....", Inuyasha started muttering under his breath and turned his head away while Kurama looked in shock at Sesshomaru.
I should've recognized him sooner... his shield.... his poison claws!! Something!! He should've recognized him right away!
'You've been among ningens too long, Yoko....', he said to himself. He was about to slap Sesshomaru to wake him up and question him, but Mika screamed so loud that he woke up anyways and sent Kurama flying in fear.
"SHE'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!! ZURO IS ALIVE!!!!!", Mika was hugging her older, half- sister to her body in joy while chanting in a soft, thankful voice: "She's alive, she's alive!"
Kurama opened his eyes wide in shock as Mika yelled this and was over to Zuro in half a second to check her. Mika let Zuro fall into Kurama's arms as she stood up and danced around, squeezing Shippo to death instead.
Kurama eagerly looked Zuro over. He could feel her breath on his skin, because he held her close. He could see her chest slowly rising and falling. He quickly lowered one ear to her chest. Yes, he could hear her heart beating. She was alive!!!! Kurama was now just as happy as, if not more than, Mika. Sure, he wasn't jumping around like Mika, but he was rejoicing far more on the inside.
"Zuro......... You're alive...." That was all that Kurama got to say before Kagome and Sango picked Zuro up off of Kurama's lap and started to carry her away, but they provided their excuse: "We should get Zuro to the town so that she can heal properly."
"Yeah!! Kaede can help with that!" And they walked off with Zuro. Kurama turned back to Sesshomaru, Hiei and Inuyasha were supporting him and dragging him off while Miroku held up his scrolls to stop him from doing anything. Sesshomaru was glaring daggers at everyone around him and seemed to finally see Kurama. His eyes widened in shock and then Sesshomaru sighed and let them drag him away, he didn't look at Kurama again. Shippo jumped on Kurama's shoulder after Mika let him go and ran after Kagome and Sango.
"You didn't tell me that he still roamed these lands, Shippo." Kurama said with a serious tone and face.
"I'm sorry Kurama. I had completely forgotten about it. We've been wandering this whole time with him as our own enemy, I had completely forgotten that you knew him." Shippo said with the same seriousness.
"No matter......" Kurama sighed and looked towards Sesshomaru again. 'Zuro is my main priority, but I'll get my chance to deal with you later, Sesshomaru. We still have our own unfinished business.' Kurama's eyes shrunk to slits as he started to walk towards the town after everyone else. 'Count on it.'
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Well! That's it for this, I guess....... well, again, I am sorry for the long wait AND for the cliffhanger.... BUT!! If I get people to bug me like SMG did... then I'll get it up quicker. So please review!! More reviews = Quicker update!!! And Merry Christmas to you all!!!
Tonraibo: I want a pony!! ^_^
Ghaleon: Uh...... Ton... We've been over this...
Tonraibo: GASP!! You sound just like my friend, Ghaleon, Mr. Santy Claus!!
Ghaleon: T_T;;;... *sigh*.....
Me: Merry Christmas!! ^_^
Zuro: I already did it.
Me: Oh, sorry......... um.. HIEI!!! Yes! Your turn!! ^_^
Hiei: T_T;; MG doesn't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inuyasha. Now leave me alone. *walks away*
Me: Somebody is Grumpy!! ^_^
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Crossing Paths Chapter 6 "It's not going to bring her back....'"
Kurama was there, and he was yelling for her.
The minute she saw Kurama, a new-found power surged within her and she knocked her opponent away from her. Sesshomaru growled and wondered how on earth this girl could've broken out of his grasp! When he had someone in a hold with his poison talons they could never escape.
Sesshomaru and Zuro fought fiercely for the next couple of minutes, Zuro with her new-found energy. After awhile Zuro swung her fire whip and him and missed as he jumped in the air. But now she had him where she wanted him. She made a fire sword in her other hand and sliced Sesshomaru in his stomach. He came to the ground and slashed her across the chest before jumping a few feet away. For another couple of minutes, they sat there having a stare-off. In the end, Sesshomaru gave in and fell to the ground. Satisfied with her victory, Zuro also collapsed unconscious to the ground.
As soon as Sesshomaru collapsed, the shield disintegrated. The first thing Kurama did was rush to Zuro's side and examine her wounds. At first glance, Zuro looked dead. Kurama started to silently curse himself for not staying to watch over her and started to whisper things to Zuro as he lifted her up into his lap. As he pulled Zuro close to him he couldn't help but let tears well up in his eyes. Kurama sobbed on the inside, refusing to let the others see him cry. Hiei and Inuyasha, took care of Sesshomaru by tying him up to a tree with some strong rope.
Zuro, although very weak, was not dead. She sat there, lying in Kurama's arms, unmoving, but awake and listening to his every word.
"Don't leave, Zuro, Please!!!", he started to lightly shake her, hoping that she was just kidding and was ready to wake up any moment and scare him like she always did. He wanted her too. After she didn't do anything again, he shook her harder.
"Zuro! This isn't funny anymore!", he almost choked on his words. "Zuro, PLEASE WAKE UP!!", but no matter what Kurama did, Zuro wouldn't wake up. He was defeated, he didn't want to go on. He felt like the biggest fool on earth.
'How did you know she didn't feel the same?', Shuichi reasoned within him.
'I....', For once, Yoko Kurama was at a loss for words
'You didn't!! That's because you didn't tell her!! You were foolish this time, Yoko.', Shuichi was right
"Zuro.......", He whispered before Mika came ripping into the forest, the hole in her stomach wrapped up.
"ZURO!!!!!", Mika yelled at the top of her lungs as she searched the clearing, she obviously had gained her spirit back quickly and was now concerned for Zuro. She was also obviously not supposed to be up, because behind her everyone else was chasing her, trying to get her to rest.
"Mika!! You have to rest!!"
"Your wounds aren't healed!"
"Please, Mika!!"
It seemed like Mika couldn't hear them, because at the exact second they arrived in the clearing, Mika found Zuro.
Mika saw her, what she thought was, dead sister lying, bloodied up, in the arms of a tearful and sad Kurama.
"No..... ZURO!!!!", she rushed for Zuro right as everyone else in the clearing noticed Zuro. The men, except for Kurama, were trying to stay strong and not show their sadness. While the women showed their feelings openly.
Mika snatched Zuro from Kurama, and Kurama put up no fight whatsoever. He was in too much of a state of denial/guilt.
'No..... it can't be. It's my fault.', Kurama thought to himself as he looked at Mika cry over Zuro, trying to get her to wake up just like Kurama did. 'I should've....'
'Yoko.....', Shuichi sighed. 'It's nice to know that you care about Zuro, but does that mean that you really have to blame yourself?'
'......'
'Well..... STOP IT ALREADY!!! It's getting annoying and it's not going to bring her back....'
'.....', Kurama sighed in defeat, Shuichi was right. Wow, two in a row. That was a record for Shuichi.
'T_T.... I heard that..'
Kurama would've chuckled if not for the circumstances, but sighed instead. He decided to take a look again at the man who killed her. He walked over to a currently unconscious Sesshomaru and kneeled down next to him.
Zuro's POV
"Huh? Where am I?", she was now somewhere else. It was dark and dank and ugly, not at all like the beautiful field she was in earlier. There was no light at all and she couldn't tell where she was. It was cold and wet and it made her want to leave. There was a noise behind her, a splash of water.
"What? Who's there?!", she turned to face the noise but found no one. She was starting to get scared of this place.
"Kurama? Is that you?", she was hoping that it would be the same as last time, but no one answered.
"Kurama?", she almost sobbed, she really wanted to leave.
'Please Kurama..... please save me....'
"You wish for 'Kurama' to save you?", a mocking voice came from the darkness. She was taken aback at how this voice could read her mind and asked just that.
"Simple," It chuckled. "This is your mind, the exact place that your thoughts float about. I see everything you are thinking and have thought"
"Why can't I see it then?"
"You really don't know much, do you?" It sighed. "Well, it's because you are the owner of the mind. And should already know this without seeing it."
"What about my other thoughts? I don't remember those."
"That's what I'm here for."
Zuro heard fingers snap and the darkness went away. She was now in a blue room full of scrolling sentences in different colors, her thoughts.
'It's beautiful!'
On the wall opposite her she saw a new sentence scroll by: It's beautiful!
"Of course it is, Zuro." She looked to the left side of her and saw a man standing amongst the sentences, some of them scrolling around him. He looked like...... Shuichi!!
"Shuichi!!", Zuro cried out happily as she ran towards him. But he held up a hand and she stopped.
"I am not Shuichi, I just take that form. I am Memory, I help you to remember the important things." Memory smiled as he transformed into Yoko. "It's just easier to get you to listen to me if I take the form of something appealing to you, like earlier." He smirked.
Zuro didn't understand what he meant at first, but then soon understood. She walked up next do him and slapped him across the face with her talons, leaving three red marks. Immediately, the memory of slapping Kurama popped into her head. She tried to ignore it and went on being angry at him.
"HOW DARE YOU!!! THAT WAS A BAD TRICK TO PLAY ON ME!!! How dare you mess around with my mind like tha--"
"I LIVE in your mind..."
"Still! That doesn't mean you can just--" She couldn't think of an excuse. She was just angry that it wasn't really Kurama who saved her from death.
"But it was, Zuro.... It was Kurama." Zuro looked at Memory, he was smiling as he looked at the wall.
It said: It wasn't Kurama, was it? It was Memory that saved me.......
"The only thing I helped with was getting you to remember Kurama so that you would hear his voice." Memory looked at Zuro again, still looking like Yoko Kurama. He grabbed her hands and looked into her eyes.
"Listen to him again." Zuro was confused by this.
"Don't leave, Zuro, Please!!!", she heard Kurama's voice yell in sadness.
"Huh? What's going on?" She looked to Memory for an answer. He smiled and motioned her to listen again
"Zuro! This isn't funny anymore!"
"Zuro, PLEASE WAKE UP!!", she listened Kurama's voice yell in pain now.
"What do I do, Memory?" She said as she listened to the stuff going on outside, her sister crying, Kurama leaving her after she was transferred to Mika. She could also feel everything happening to her, except the pain. She was safe here.
"Try to go back.", Memory said and walked back to the scrolling sentences to watch them.
She was now interested. She closed her eyes and sat down to listen to everything happening outside of her mind.
Kurama's POV
"Se....S....Sess.....Sesshomaru?!?!?!", Kurama yelled in surprise. He couldn't believe Zuro's death. But he WOULD NOT, COULD NOT believe that it was Sesshomaru that killed her! Not Sesshomaru.
"Feh! Yeah, Sesshomaru. Evil.....", Inuyasha started muttering under his breath and turned his head away while Kurama looked in shock at Sesshomaru.
I should've recognized him sooner... his shield.... his poison claws!! Something!! He should've recognized him right away!
'You've been among ningens too long, Yoko....', he said to himself. He was about to slap Sesshomaru to wake him up and question him, but Mika screamed so loud that he woke up anyways and sent Kurama flying in fear.
"SHE'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!! ZURO IS ALIVE!!!!!", Mika was hugging her older, half- sister to her body in joy while chanting in a soft, thankful voice: "She's alive, she's alive!"
Kurama opened his eyes wide in shock as Mika yelled this and was over to Zuro in half a second to check her. Mika let Zuro fall into Kurama's arms as she stood up and danced around, squeezing Shippo to death instead.
Kurama eagerly looked Zuro over. He could feel her breath on his skin, because he held her close. He could see her chest slowly rising and falling. He quickly lowered one ear to her chest. Yes, he could hear her heart beating. She was alive!!!! Kurama was now just as happy as, if not more than, Mika. Sure, he wasn't jumping around like Mika, but he was rejoicing far more on the inside.
"Zuro......... You're alive...." That was all that Kurama got to say before Kagome and Sango picked Zuro up off of Kurama's lap and started to carry her away, but they provided their excuse: "We should get Zuro to the town so that she can heal properly."
"Yeah!! Kaede can help with that!" And they walked off with Zuro. Kurama turned back to Sesshomaru, Hiei and Inuyasha were supporting him and dragging him off while Miroku held up his scrolls to stop him from doing anything. Sesshomaru was glaring daggers at everyone around him and seemed to finally see Kurama. His eyes widened in shock and then Sesshomaru sighed and let them drag him away, he didn't look at Kurama again. Shippo jumped on Kurama's shoulder after Mika let him go and ran after Kagome and Sango.
"You didn't tell me that he still roamed these lands, Shippo." Kurama said with a serious tone and face.
"I'm sorry Kurama. I had completely forgotten about it. We've been wandering this whole time with him as our own enemy, I had completely forgotten that you knew him." Shippo said with the same seriousness.
"No matter......" Kurama sighed and looked towards Sesshomaru again. 'Zuro is my main priority, but I'll get my chance to deal with you later, Sesshomaru. We still have our own unfinished business.' Kurama's eyes shrunk to slits as he started to walk towards the town after everyone else. 'Count on it.'
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Well! That's it for this, I guess....... well, again, I am sorry for the long wait AND for the cliffhanger.... BUT!! If I get people to bug me like SMG did... then I'll get it up quicker. So please review!! More reviews = Quicker update!!! And Merry Christmas to you all!!!
Tonraibo: I want a pony!! ^_^
Ghaleon: Uh...... Ton... We've been over this...
Tonraibo: GASP!! You sound just like my friend, Ghaleon, Mr. Santy Claus!!
Ghaleon: T_T;;;... *sigh*.....
Me: Merry Christmas!! ^_^