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Temple Grounds
chapter 6: Girlfriend?
::telepathy:: "speech" //thoughts// /lyrics/
They were walking.. As they had been for several moments.. Ko-Enma it semed hadn't been able to 'line-up' a portal.. so they were walking back to where Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama had first come.. Hiei had already been in the Makai...
But unfortunatly humans seemed to lean toward conversations instead of silence.. Which Maru soon learned could be helpful.. Or annoying..
"No I made it there on time." Yusuke said, a crooked smile on his face like usual..
"Good thing, Kieko would've 'punched' you again." Kuwabara with his usual smile. That was one thing Maru had to credit them for.. They sure did smile alot..
"Who?" The guardian asked, her wolf head looking at the oaf while she padded quietly with them.. But her eyes were proving she actualy wanted to know who this.. Kieko girl was..
Yusuke seemed for the first time either in shock or speechles.. Perhaps a mixture of both as he stuffed his hands in his pockets..
Kuwabara laughed then looked back to the wolf. "She's his girl-friend."
Yusuke however instantly came alive. "She is not my girl-friend Kieko's my friend!" (a/n: rrriiiiigghhttt.)
Maru chose to interupt their arguement.. Of course her next question caught everyone's attention. "What's a... Girl-friend....?"
She got two blank stares, one eye roll, and one small smile.. (I leave everyone to guess where each came from..) Klai only looked interrested about the whole thing but was silent..
Yusuke was blushing and stammering in a somewhat small state of shock.. //She... Doesn't know... And I thought Hiei could be clueless when came to other people...//
Kurama answered her question, "A girl-friend is a close friend of the opposite gender.. Or a boy would be called a boy-friend."
Maru took the words into account and thought on them while still padding along.. //Okay... So it must be something like a lover.. Without the sex I guess....// She had understood from the Keeper that the world outside was filled with creatures much like the theives who came to the temple grounds daily.. And sometimes.. Okay most of the time two of these creatures often paired off and were mates.. This usualy lasted for one 'meeting' then often or not they went their own ways.. But a lover was when a pair actualy felt stronger emotions.. and sometimes these couples could stay together for years or even a whole lifetime... Though those were few.. But Maru had used her own thought process to come up with the idea she must have been the product of a mating gone bad.. So the easiest way for her mother or perhaps her father had found to dispose of her had been through the temple..
"Maru, you said before you'd been at the temple for 15 years.. So how old are you?" Yusuke asked, trying to get a good idea of how much of a life the Guardian had had..
"I don't know.. Around 16 I guess... The Keeper thought me a simple tool and most don't give their tools ages or names, so I started counting the 'years' as soon as I could by added a line on a tree near the temple.. I had fifteen last time I counted." Maru said simply, not really thinking her age that important.. But Yusuke gave her.. Was it a concerned look.. And Kuwabara gave a blank stare.. Nothing new there..
"So.. You don't know who your parents are?" Kuwabara asked.. Acting like it was the greatest secret ever told or something of that sort...
Maru twitched her ears.. As if trying to figure out what he ment.. Parents? Oh yeah.. "You mean the demons or what-ever they were that.." Maru did a reverse. "My parents.. No.. The Keeper never told me who or for that matter what they were. Of course usualy when children are given to the temple.. The parents hide their faces or just leave it on the steps.. There's only been about 5 cases like those as long as I've been there..."
That wasn't the answer they were looking for.. Nope it wasn't.. Kuwabara had his mouth open slightly in shock, Yusuke just looked kind of digusted, Kurama seemed to sigh somewhat sadly, Hiei just looked at her with the usual hard glare, and Klai looked about as confused and bland as Maru..
"How did you learn to change forms then... Or fight..?" Yusuke asked, seemingly interested.. But trying to ignore the last answer...
Maru cocked an eyebrow. "The Keeper taught me five years straight.. Most of it was using toxins, traps, and things of that sort.. But I like the last year when she taught how to use my blades. But She never taught me anything beond that.. I taught myself how to speak japanese, english, a little spanish, and about 5 languages from here..." She had for once seemed happy.. Almost she like the fact that someone really cared if she was smart or not.. Heck if the Keeper ever did.. She'd been ready to kill Maru when the guardian had showed her the new things she could do and fighting styles she'd come up with..
Everyone seemed to fall into silence.. Well except for Yusuke and Kuwabara who wouldn't have been quiet with a silence spell on them... But Maru began to wonder if she was doing the right thing.. Leaving that is.. There were still things that needed her on those grounds.. Her paws seemed to miss even the soft moss..
//Come on! There's gotta be one good reason to NOT go back.. I'm free. No old witch to tell me what to do! I'm free.... I've got everything I need now.. I can start over... No more temple, no more keeper, no more paths to watch, no more death everyday... I can stop that..// "I can stop it..." Maru muttered softly as she began to fall behind.. Then she noted why.. Her shoulder was opened and bleeding again.. And was proving that it was still going to pose a problem with it's painful jerks and the torn muscle and cracked bone.. Screw the fact it was her right..
She tried to ignore it.. Thinking the old 'it'll blow over' saying.. But the fact she suddenly fell flat on her nose.. Er.. Muzzle proved that very much wrong..
Now there are few things you'll find a demon that they will actualy not try to prove wrong..And Maru wasn't about to say her shoulder was fine.. But she wasn't going to let them see her like this.. So she did the smartest thing she could think of... She tried to get up without anyone seeing her...
But there's REALLY slim chance of that if one is currently traveling with five people.. 3 of which with rather large mouths...
Fortunatly.. The single person who hadn't said a single word for atleast the past 15 minutes noted her er... lack of movement and appeared beside her.. Which just plain sucked..
"Go.. Away." Maru said with a rather strange growl..
Hiei almost said fine to that.. but decided better of it. Might as well not get bugged by everyone else as to why he'd let the damn wolf fall behind because she was injured.. "You're hurt." "No kidding." Ruby eyes narrowed. Ruby-gold eyes narrowed. "Go.Away." "No." Maru suddenly began to wonder if this arguement would ever end.. Okay, short man wanted to argue.. (mentle picture of Maru twisting a bseball cap around backwards on her head) Bring it on. "Why don't you go bug someone else, flea?" "Baka lobo." (idiot-japanese, wolf-spanish) "Oh wow.. That REALLY hurt." "Same goes for yours." -_-; About ten minutes later...
"Damn wolf."
Maru did a mentle eye roll since her real eyes were currently glarring daggers at the 'flea'. "How long did it take you to think that one up?"
Then by some grace of the gods Klai dropped out of the sky and gave a shout, "I found them!"
Hiei and Maru but rolled their eyes and muttered, "Great." At the same time.. Which bothered Maru enough to where she the fur along her spin stood on end as she bristled..
Hiei began glowing with a small hint of a flame around him.. Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara walked up.. Eyeing the pair with slightly unsettled looks..
Klai however seemed to be the single one with her tounge about her. "Yamette, Futariwa." (stop it both of you-japanese)
Maru snorted but stood shakily. "Tell him, he's the one that stopped moving." She said this as she began limping forward.. Ignorring the looks..
Klai however turned to everyone as soon as the wolf was out of ear shot. "I suggest you mwntion stopping somewhere pretty soon." Was all the cat said as she blinked her coal black eyes and flew after the retreating white form... ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ```````
WHHEEWW!! My hands are aching... But... This chapter had a few plot thickening moments, ne? Now our little guardian has a past and it would seem has no earthly idea who her parents were.. Leaves alot of room for ideas... I LOVE making litle slots where I can put just about anything there.. *sigh* But that's all you guys need to need to know...
Temple Grounds
chapter 6: Girlfriend?
::telepathy:: "speech" //thoughts// /lyrics/
They were walking.. As they had been for several moments.. Ko-Enma it semed hadn't been able to 'line-up' a portal.. so they were walking back to where Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama had first come.. Hiei had already been in the Makai...
But unfortunatly humans seemed to lean toward conversations instead of silence.. Which Maru soon learned could be helpful.. Or annoying..
"No I made it there on time." Yusuke said, a crooked smile on his face like usual..
"Good thing, Kieko would've 'punched' you again." Kuwabara with his usual smile. That was one thing Maru had to credit them for.. They sure did smile alot..
"Who?" The guardian asked, her wolf head looking at the oaf while she padded quietly with them.. But her eyes were proving she actualy wanted to know who this.. Kieko girl was..
Yusuke seemed for the first time either in shock or speechles.. Perhaps a mixture of both as he stuffed his hands in his pockets..
Kuwabara laughed then looked back to the wolf. "She's his girl-friend."
Yusuke however instantly came alive. "She is not my girl-friend Kieko's my friend!" (a/n: rrriiiiigghhttt.)
Maru chose to interupt their arguement.. Of course her next question caught everyone's attention. "What's a... Girl-friend....?"
She got two blank stares, one eye roll, and one small smile.. (I leave everyone to guess where each came from..) Klai only looked interrested about the whole thing but was silent..
Yusuke was blushing and stammering in a somewhat small state of shock.. //She... Doesn't know... And I thought Hiei could be clueless when came to other people...//
Kurama answered her question, "A girl-friend is a close friend of the opposite gender.. Or a boy would be called a boy-friend."
Maru took the words into account and thought on them while still padding along.. //Okay... So it must be something like a lover.. Without the sex I guess....// She had understood from the Keeper that the world outside was filled with creatures much like the theives who came to the temple grounds daily.. And sometimes.. Okay most of the time two of these creatures often paired off and were mates.. This usualy lasted for one 'meeting' then often or not they went their own ways.. But a lover was when a pair actualy felt stronger emotions.. and sometimes these couples could stay together for years or even a whole lifetime... Though those were few.. But Maru had used her own thought process to come up with the idea she must have been the product of a mating gone bad.. So the easiest way for her mother or perhaps her father had found to dispose of her had been through the temple..
"Maru, you said before you'd been at the temple for 15 years.. So how old are you?" Yusuke asked, trying to get a good idea of how much of a life the Guardian had had..
"I don't know.. Around 16 I guess... The Keeper thought me a simple tool and most don't give their tools ages or names, so I started counting the 'years' as soon as I could by added a line on a tree near the temple.. I had fifteen last time I counted." Maru said simply, not really thinking her age that important.. But Yusuke gave her.. Was it a concerned look.. And Kuwabara gave a blank stare.. Nothing new there..
"So.. You don't know who your parents are?" Kuwabara asked.. Acting like it was the greatest secret ever told or something of that sort...
Maru twitched her ears.. As if trying to figure out what he ment.. Parents? Oh yeah.. "You mean the demons or what-ever they were that.." Maru did a reverse. "My parents.. No.. The Keeper never told me who or for that matter what they were. Of course usualy when children are given to the temple.. The parents hide their faces or just leave it on the steps.. There's only been about 5 cases like those as long as I've been there..."
That wasn't the answer they were looking for.. Nope it wasn't.. Kuwabara had his mouth open slightly in shock, Yusuke just looked kind of digusted, Kurama seemed to sigh somewhat sadly, Hiei just looked at her with the usual hard glare, and Klai looked about as confused and bland as Maru..
"How did you learn to change forms then... Or fight..?" Yusuke asked, seemingly interested.. But trying to ignore the last answer...
Maru cocked an eyebrow. "The Keeper taught me five years straight.. Most of it was using toxins, traps, and things of that sort.. But I like the last year when she taught how to use my blades. But She never taught me anything beond that.. I taught myself how to speak japanese, english, a little spanish, and about 5 languages from here..." She had for once seemed happy.. Almost she like the fact that someone really cared if she was smart or not.. Heck if the Keeper ever did.. She'd been ready to kill Maru when the guardian had showed her the new things she could do and fighting styles she'd come up with..
Everyone seemed to fall into silence.. Well except for Yusuke and Kuwabara who wouldn't have been quiet with a silence spell on them... But Maru began to wonder if she was doing the right thing.. Leaving that is.. There were still things that needed her on those grounds.. Her paws seemed to miss even the soft moss..
//Come on! There's gotta be one good reason to NOT go back.. I'm free. No old witch to tell me what to do! I'm free.... I've got everything I need now.. I can start over... No more temple, no more keeper, no more paths to watch, no more death everyday... I can stop that..// "I can stop it..." Maru muttered softly as she began to fall behind.. Then she noted why.. Her shoulder was opened and bleeding again.. And was proving that it was still going to pose a problem with it's painful jerks and the torn muscle and cracked bone.. Screw the fact it was her right..
She tried to ignore it.. Thinking the old 'it'll blow over' saying.. But the fact she suddenly fell flat on her nose.. Er.. Muzzle proved that very much wrong..
Now there are few things you'll find a demon that they will actualy not try to prove wrong..And Maru wasn't about to say her shoulder was fine.. But she wasn't going to let them see her like this.. So she did the smartest thing she could think of... She tried to get up without anyone seeing her...
But there's REALLY slim chance of that if one is currently traveling with five people.. 3 of which with rather large mouths...
Fortunatly.. The single person who hadn't said a single word for atleast the past 15 minutes noted her er... lack of movement and appeared beside her.. Which just plain sucked..
"Go.. Away." Maru said with a rather strange growl..
Hiei almost said fine to that.. but decided better of it. Might as well not get bugged by everyone else as to why he'd let the damn wolf fall behind because she was injured.. "You're hurt." "No kidding." Ruby eyes narrowed. Ruby-gold eyes narrowed. "Go.Away." "No." Maru suddenly began to wonder if this arguement would ever end.. Okay, short man wanted to argue.. (mentle picture of Maru twisting a bseball cap around backwards on her head) Bring it on. "Why don't you go bug someone else, flea?" "Baka lobo." (idiot-japanese, wolf-spanish) "Oh wow.. That REALLY hurt." "Same goes for yours." -_-; About ten minutes later...
"Damn wolf."
Maru did a mentle eye roll since her real eyes were currently glarring daggers at the 'flea'. "How long did it take you to think that one up?"
Then by some grace of the gods Klai dropped out of the sky and gave a shout, "I found them!"
Hiei and Maru but rolled their eyes and muttered, "Great." At the same time.. Which bothered Maru enough to where she the fur along her spin stood on end as she bristled..
Hiei began glowing with a small hint of a flame around him.. Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara walked up.. Eyeing the pair with slightly unsettled looks..
Klai however seemed to be the single one with her tounge about her. "Yamette, Futariwa." (stop it both of you-japanese)
Maru snorted but stood shakily. "Tell him, he's the one that stopped moving." She said this as she began limping forward.. Ignorring the looks..
Klai however turned to everyone as soon as the wolf was out of ear shot. "I suggest you mwntion stopping somewhere pretty soon." Was all the cat said as she blinked her coal black eyes and flew after the retreating white form... ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ```````
WHHEEWW!! My hands are aching... But... This chapter had a few plot thickening moments, ne? Now our little guardian has a past and it would seem has no earthly idea who her parents were.. Leaves alot of room for ideas... I LOVE making litle slots where I can put just about anything there.. *sigh* But that's all you guys need to need to know...
