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Temple Grounds

Chapter 17: Lobo Humanos

:: Telepathy:: "speech" //thoughts// /lyrics/

Once again they were walking.. Nothin new there. But Kurama couldn't help but watch Maru and Hiei. They were a few steps ahead and walking what seemed like together. Though they had exchanged a few words here and there.. But that in itself was a miracle and both seemed to be somewhat relaxed.
Yusuke noticed as well.. But choosing not to tangle with the two he wisely didn't say anything about it. Though usualy when Hiei talked it was insults at Kuwabara. Which hadn't been said in at least two hours.. (I know that has GOT to be a bit oc-ish..Ugh..)
Then of course there was the ever clueless Kuwabaka. And Maru had yet to adopt that name for him though that surely would come to pass soon. //Shrimp is actually talking to a girl?!// He smiled rather.. uh.. Like he was thinking rather not so good thoughts..
Maru threw a glance at Kuwabara.. The perverted smile went away REAL quick. ::How on earth can you stand him around your sister?::
Hiei looked at her like she was nuts.. Then he narrowed his eyes. ::How did you know?:: ::Easy. Your scents smell too similar for you to be cousins or anything distant like that.:: ::Don't tell her.:: Maru cocked an eyebrow at him.. But shrugged. ::Okay.. What ever.::
Kurama noted the looks passing between them.. //They're using telepathy..// Had Maru mentioned something about being telepathic? No.. She must have been hiding it.
Maru looked around, looing for a place to stay the night.. //The dragon's borders should be in sight by now.. They must hve let the trees grow back since last time..//
Then.. As if there wasn't wierdness in the air.. Something moved above them in the trees.. Though the only proof was a few leaves that fluttered to the ground.. Maru lifted her eyes..
THUNK! THUM! THUMP! Three arrows were fired, the first made contact with something and the second smashed into the ground as Hiei dodged. The third barely missed Yusuke's head.. "Get into the clearing to the right! Quickly!" No one knew who shouted the order but Maru thought it wise advice and ran to it..
The clearing was surrounded by trees but it might give them some idea as to where the blasted arrows were coming from.. "Hey did anyone get hit with those arrows?" Yusuke thought aallowed suddenly. Sense only he'd only seen two of them make contact with the ground..
"Yes.. Not badly though.. Just a bad scratch. I'd like to know who wanted to.. To shoot at me.. They need lessons." Maru said flexing her fingers in her right hand. The arrow had cut a deep gash across her forearm. It wasn't serious but it seemed to trouble Kurama.
"Do you have the arrow?" He asked walking over to her. She nodded. "It's not toxic. And it wouldn't metter if it was. I'm immune to underhanded tricks like that." She said as if her getting poisoned was the dumbest thing she'd ever heard. He only looked slightly doubtful but nodded. And she sat down on the ground. "So who yelled?" Kuwabara asked looking among them.. No one said a word..
"I did. But the arrows came from traps so don't worry too much 'bout them." It was easily the best chipper voice Maru could possibly hear right then.. And a small, purple fur-ball landed on the ground. Black wings pulsing with their black energy as the cat-like creature walked over to Maru.. Black eyes shining brightly.
Maru was in shock.. "K...K..." "Now, come ON! I leave you for a little while and you forget how to speak? Honestly. What on earth could you have been thinking coming here anyway! Crossing into the dragon's land when you're half wolf?! Jeeze! I don't even want to ask how you got through the wolves' territory!" Klai went on for several more moments of giving Maru a lecture.. But suddenly stopped as Maru drew her into a hug.. "Huh?" Black eyes blinked up at the Guardian.. Only to see.. A smiling face, :^:_:^: and tears?? Maru smiled. "You had me so worried you flea bitten cat.. I thought for sure Togasha would've killed you by now.. Oh god what a reliefe.." She sighed and scratched the cat behind the ears, still crying silently. Her eyes flickered a gold color as she blinked, her knuckles tuning white as she held onto her elbows with a confused Klai in a tighter embrace.. Klai was at a loss for words.. "So you didn't come to just kill the guy? You came to get me..?" Her voice was surprised and her feline face showed that much as well. Yusuke snorted. "Yeah, we couldn't stand a moping Maru. She didn't threaten anyone for a whole week." He joked, smiling at the now laughing Klai. Hiei however was watching Maru. She had yet to let the cat go and Klai didn't seem to care. Those two just seemed happy that the other was still alive. It was odd how much Maru had fussed about the cat when Klai had been with her. Then when the fur-ball left she couldn't stop worrying over her.. Now they were two sisters crying for no particular reason except the fact that one had found the other...
Maru sighed and let Klai go.. "But in a way I did come to get back at togadha. I guess I'm no friggin' better than that darn Infernal Bruja.. But I was so sure..." Klai nodded. "Well T-Man isn't happy, that much I can tell right off the bat." "T-Man?" Yusuke asked, arching an eyebrow..
Klai ignored him. "He was furious with the lobe humanos for not stopping you at the bridge, good job on that to by the way." She said jumping to the ground and sitting.
"Lobo humanos..." Kuwabara had yet to pick up on any of the spanish.. Kurama, Hiei, Maru, and Klai said at once, "Wolf Humans." Yusuke chose not to say anything since he hadn't a clue about what they were saying and instead looked at Klai. "So what is he going to do?"
"Well, when I went to him.." ###############Flash
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"Who are you?" The voice was deep, male, and angry. Klai chose correctly to give a straight and fast answer. "Klai, Messenger from the Anago Temple sir." He seemed slightly bothered by that but still had that angry and distant look about him. He wore armor of sorts, black messy hair, gray eyes, and a fresh scar on the left side of his face. But the fierce look in his eyes and the commanding tone to his voice read of one person, Maru. "What is it you're here for?" "I wish to ask you about what you plan on doing about the Guardian." "That's none of your concern. And she has a name doesn't she? This 'Guardian' of yours." Togasha spoke around his daughter's false name with an air of hatred there..
"Yes. I don't usualy speak of it outside of the Temple Grounds sir. It does go against tradition." He must have found that amusing.. "Hah. Yes your wonderful tradition. But who sent you? Surely you didn't come here for no reason." "I did tell you my reason sir. I came to ask what you plan on doing about, Maru. Your daughter." Now THAT got his attention. "And what could you possibly know about her?! That little witch has no connection to me! What does she want then? To live here? To see her mother?" "No." Klai allowed her anger to surge through her smoothly.
"Your own flesh and blood only wants you to leave her alone. She's done nothing to you and you're sending the Lobo Humanos after her like that! Does it not bother your head or that sorry excuse for a heart you have that you're killing her AGAIN?!" Klai unsheathed her claws and hissed out the last word.. Her wings were glowing a slight black color now..
"You'll watch you mouth here cat!" ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ```````````````````````````````
"And then the dunder head tossed me behind bars. Idiot. He had no idea I could change into my human form and unlock the stupid door. I swear Maru you must be gifted with your mother's brains because he's about as stupid and egolistick as it gets." Klai finished crossing her paws and narrowined her eyes.
"So.. What now?" Yusuke asked sitting down and looking Klai over. She didn't look too shabby. Though her fur was disleveled in a few places.
Maru sighed. "I have no idea what's so ever. I'm just wondering how on earth my mother could've ever thought HIM of all people in the Makai a good mate or father."
"Either that or he blinded her with his stupidity." Klai scoffed.
Kuwabara didn't say a word for a few moments.. "So why would he want to kill you?" TheGuardian thought on that for a few moments.. "I don't know. I mean, he hasn't seen me for 16 years, so it can't be because I look like my mother.. He wasn't angry with her when he talked to Suna. Maybe.." She froze, the stood up suddenly.
"What is it?" Kurama asked.
"That story... The one where the half-breed killed her father.. Because he killed her mother and tried to attack the wolves.." Maru said sputing out just small samples of what was currently racing through her head..
Klai blinked. "The olg Inferno Bruja story? But that's almost a thousand years old." "Yeah, we know." Yusuke answered rolling his eyes. "Kly told us that when we saw him yesterday." Klai looked at Yusuke sharply but wrote it off as 'I'll deal with it later'.
Hiei however was watching Maru, who was pacing around the ground counting something with her hands.. "Maru, what is it?"
She didn't bother stopping or even answering.. Just muttered, "Years.. Years.. Ten centuries.. 1,000 years.." Klai fluttered with her wings and hovered in front of Maru's face. Only to start talking and get knocked away.. "Whaa! Yo miss zombie! WAKE UP!!" Klai bolted at Maru.. And missed because Maru turned suddenly and kept walking.. Her eyes glowing a golden color..
"Well, any more arrows we won't have to worry about her being hit again.." The cat said watching the Guardian pace like everyone else was..
"The story.." Maru stood dead still.. Then a look of understandment washed over her face.. Her eyes sparkled as an idea obbviosly took root there. "That bakayara thinks I'll play the part of the Infernal Bruja.. And since he's a dragon, there natural train of thought is based in a live of a thousand years.. He thinks I'll do the same thing and plan to kill him exactly a thousand years after she did! So he hid me in the temple, and now he's worried.." Maru stopped talking.. The same mysterious and some what plotting look still on her face..
"Hold it! You mean he actually believes.." Klai stopped mid sentence and shook her head. "Come on, if he's THAT thick how would he still be controlling this area? HELLO!! MAKAI TO GUARDIAN!! Are you even frikkin' listening..?"
"She can't hear you." Hiei said like it was the easiest thing to see at that moment. Klai looked at him and narowed her eyes, but decided better then to say anything..
"The wolf clan.." Maru said with a blink. "Klai, I need for you to go to Kly!" "Oh.. NOW you can hear me?!" Klai said being a pain.. But Maru only 'humph'ed and raised her right hand.. Suddenly Klai started glowing red then she landed neatly in Maru's palm. "Listen, I bet he'll try to send the lobo humanos to the wolf'clan's outskirting villiages. I need Kly to make sure that that doesn't happen got that?"
Klai relaxed as the glowing stopped.. "Fine.. Jeeze all you had to do was ask.." Maru glared.. "Eep.. Okay I'm outta here!" She bolted upward and vanished.
Yusuke looked at Maru rather oddly. "You gotta plan?" "Yeah.. Look if the four of you want to go back I don't care.. You helped me get this far, and this is a rather personal matter." Yusuke and Kuwabara chuckled and laughed. "Like we'd wimp out now?" Kuwabara asked. Yusuke winked. "Besides this Togasha guy sounds like a real laugh to be around. Might as well 'visit'." "Indeed." Hiei only looked at her.. She met his gaze and walked over to him.. "Well, what more can I ask for.. Thanks." She more then likely ment it to all of them.. But a few people present got the idea she meant it more toward Hiei.. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ``````````````````````
ALRIGHTY THEN! It's like soo close to being done.. I can practiclly hear the last live being said.. But I will try my best not leave this hanging too long.. But god.. If anyone had any idea how much I've stressed over this fic.. I know people can write good.. But I'm pretty sure most of them don't cry and stress out over it.. I tried not cerntering it too much, I tried to get the romance. (which is coming along horribly..) I've tried everything.. And even though it sucks in A LOT of places and has typos and has corny humor, and has a REALY small amount of readers.. I DON'T CARE! I'm just soo happy.. I had tears in my eyes when Maru was hugging Klai.. Mostly because I could picture that in my head and it was soo sweet... *sniff* Anyways.. Just to say this ahead of time.. THank you to EVERYONE who read this or reviewed it.. Heck send me a flame and you couldn't make me any less happy because to send a flame.. You had to.. Have. At least.. Read some of it.. *sniffs and whipes her eyes..* Sorry, I'm blabbing again.. Please wait for the next chapter.. It will come soon.. I promise!