Disclaimer: I hope I don't have to KEEP doing this! *sigh*

AN: …I promised grace something. And I owe her so...^.^ well- here you have it! The romance begins! Let's see if I can pull this off.

Chapter 20 (already?):Alternate worlds...

By: fire demoness

" = speech

//= thoughts

*= someone/thing makes a sound or does something, or word is stressed

[=narrator voice? Dunno.

~*@*~= another scene, later, another person, etc.



He knelt down by the flickering camp fire, feeding it much-needed dead leaves and logs. The black horse by him neighed once and walked off in search of food. The man heed no attention to this and kept his eye on the fire.

" I know you're there" he talked aloud. No sound came out to reply. "I see what you plan. I know what you want...and I can't allow it."

He suddenly made a fast movement to his waist, the same time as a rustling sound was heard in the tree above him. A bow and arrow fell out of the tree and soft cursing followed. The man flicked a silver flash towards the trees effortlessly. There was another curse and some blood leaked out of the tree. Then- the forest was silent. The man went back to guarding the fire like nothing had happened.

//he'll be back. Injured- but not down...//

~*@*~

Melissa glanced around the group again with a pout. Now *SHE* had to be the one cleaning everything up, washing the blood away from Tasuki's arm, and locking up the blond dude.

//this blows!! But...what if...heyyyyy...*mental snicker*//

She then followed through to pick up a log and bonk herself on the head with it, ensuring long unconsiousness.

[She wasn't the smartest of the group...but pretty lazy...although NOT as lazy as SOME people who were just going to get a startling awakening...]

~*@*~

Grace was lost in a rainbow swirl of colors, blending this way and that way, her attention focused on that and nothing else. She didn't realize that she was floating in midair, or that her hair had changed to striped purple streaks, blended in with her black hair. All that mattered were the shiny swirling colors...

//hehee...mel' d love to see THIS! sh- OH SHIT!!! MELLL!!!...but the colors...she can wait.//

and so Grace kept on spinning and swirling around in her own world, lost in the colors. Everything in the real world seemed so far away now...

~*@*~

Suboshi let out a sigh of relief as he set down the last log and slayed out on the cool forest grass. He had already made a decent fire already with what he had. The splintered pieces of the tree he had been flung into before really helped too. Grace wasn't glowing purple anymore, but he'd never forget what happened. Everything was...purple. he still had had purple spots in his eyes when he awoke, so there wasn't anything in his mind that told him to go more than 5 feet near the tennyo.

//where's Tomite anyways? I'm doing everything by myself here...//

he set down the blade of grass he'd been tearing into pieces and walked over to the tennyo causiously. One step...two steps...she seemed to be fine, but there was that annoying nagging voice at the back of his head... he reached her- and found the problem.

//SHE'S NOT BREATHING!!!//

suboshi quickly felt her wrist and neck for a pulse. None. He felt over her heart for any sign of movement.

//NO HEARTBEAT EITHER?!?//

he almost started hyperventalating and immediately did the first thing that came to his mind- which, surprisingly, was something he had been taught by his aniki before...

...CPR...

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~*@*~

Grace was just in her world, snuggling her little pink teddy bear when...she felt something tug at her soul. Something from "the real world" ...

"gimme a minute..." she muttered and swatted at the invisible hand to go away, but it just "slapped" her and pulled Nini bear away.

"BITTCHHHH!!" came the echo behind it before another hand pulled her back into consiousness.

~*@*~

She snapped back into "the real world" to an unexpected surprise. A MOUTH was breathing air to her! And some part of her body's limited supply of Common Sense told her that if a mouth was breathing air INTO her, that means that a mouth was on hers…and that means...

Grace opened her eyes quickly, almost let out a gasp, then closed her eyes again and feigned unconciousness. Suboshi felt so nice...so perfect...and she was going to make this last as long as possible.

~*@*~

Suboshi knelt up and wiped the grass shards and sweat away from his forhead. She seemed to have no heartbeat, pulse, nor was she breathing, but she didn't seem dead either. He put his 2 hands together and pressed down on the bottom of the ribcage...

~*@*~

Grace almost let out a groan as a rough hand pushed down on below her heart. What was he doing? CPR? But...when was the next breath? She wasn't exactly KNOWN for her patience...

~*@*~

Suboshi laid down to breath air into grace again when he accidently touched her neck pulse. He quickly stopped and laid his head down on her chest to hear the faint thudding of a heartbeat. She was alive. More than alive actually...no one who was dead could reach up and kiss him...

TBC?

(don't ask who nini bear iS!)

melissa is NOT retarded! Just ...lazy.^.^

the "guy" isnt Tanahashi though, in case anyone was wondering.

and CPR? He just knew!

Grace makes her own "world/dimension" thingy. It's something I (the authoress) blessed her with. Of course her's would NATURALLY look like that!

Melissa isnt doing too good in this fic ne? cuz she CAN'T WRITE ABOUT HERSELF!! *sniffle* so most of the time I wanna make myself unconcious or something. Hehe.

Chichiri- don't you miss him lots?! He'll be bacK! And I have decided who jana'll picckkkk...^.^



POLLIES!!

Grace has had her wish (a kissie) now who should be next?

When should the next seishi appear?

How many chapters would u expect this to be? (not part 2) and would you keep up with it till then?

Am I good at romance?

Should there be more Grace scenes or should I explore more into the bucket hat of which is Tomite?



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