Kurama sighed as he walked down the long dirt road, his school satchel in
hand. He may have acted like he wasn't peeved last night at the ramen shop,
but seriously! How could they all dump this task on him? He had a record to
uphold! So be it he wasn't doing this until they had had their own turns at
it too!
He suddenly stopped in front of the place Hiei said Kaida would be residing. HE did sense the familiar youkai, but it was strangely weaker. Puzzled, he calmly opened the rickety gate, which swung open with a squeak.
He began his trek across the beautiful field, smiling as the sweet fragrance of flowers and fruit met his nose.
He entered the small grove of trees and blinked, searching for the girl's ki.
"There." He set his satchel down by a tree and jumped across the water surrounding an enormous weeping willow.
Pushing back the wines he was met with plenty of wood meant for building, paint, and all sorts of things. HE chuckled to himself. Kaida obviously didn't need some of the stuff, but she had already bought I so it was no use.
Now where can she be? He thought to himself.
"Ah." he looked up the tree, finding a large floor a little ways up. Sighing to himself he started to casually climb the tree, he had plenty of time left.
When he finally settled his weight on the well-built, sturdy, floor he had the time to look around. It was quite large, maybe eighteen by fourteen feet and he smiled when he found a lump of blankets in the center. Walking quickly over to it he smiled and shook the sleeping figure.
"Kaida, please wake up. I'm supposed to check on you today." A pair of brown eyes opened and stared at him.
"Go away." She muttered. It was then Kurama noticed the blood.
"You didn't take care of the wound, did you?" silence and then a mumbled 'no'. Kurama sighed and picked in his hair, bringing out a small seed.
"Sit up, will you?" with a grumble Kaida sat up, keeping the blankets on her legs. She glared angrily at Kurama as the seed popped and a small cloud of dust arose. When that dust cleared however, Kurama was holding a medium sized plant, of which he broke the top and knelt by her.
"It might sting." He said taking her arm in his hand and gently applying sap on the wound. Kaida immediately began trying to pull away from him, but in her sleepy state she didn't secede too well and growled under her breath as the sap hissed and formed into a sort of see through band aid. Kurama smiled and the plant shriveled up into nothing.
Kaida then yanked her arm away and glared vehemently.
"It's not permanent so I suggest you see a hospital soon."
"Forget it." Kaida muttered.
"Just go away and leave me alone."
"I've got to go to school anyway." Kurama smiled, standing up and brushing himself off.
"I guess I will be seeing you shortly." Then the tall red head casually jumped down from the floor, and Kaida grumbled something under her breath, turning over and falling back asleep. She had forgotten to get new clothes last night; she'd get them tonight probably.
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Kaida awoke an hour and a half later and stretched, smiling when she noticed the pain in her arm had been dulled and the blood wasn't really on her clothes that much, so she wouldn't have to wash them today!
She grinned to herself and folded her blankets neatly, setting them nearer to the tree and then climbed down.
Taking a running leap she made it over the water. She smiled to herself. She didn't feel too bad today, so last night she was just too tired probably.
"Let's see. today I will get myself some clothes and some food!" she smiled proudly to herself and took off at a jog, she couldn't wait to get her house finished so she could explore more!
*
Kaida blinked and looked at the clothes meant for girls. They were so tight! She didn't like that; she'd look horrible with her big hips and muscular legs! God, Koenma couldn't at least make her really skinny? What a dork!
She sighed in frustration, walking over to the clothes destined for men. She had at least gotten some undergarments from the girls' section.
In the clothes for men she was definitely pleased, finding large baggy jeans that suited her. She picked up five pairs and a neat belt with lots of silver on it. Then she walked to the shirts and found that they too were baggy! She bought five pairs, each having a different design on them. Then she looked down at her feet. She had black army type boots, perfectly fine.
"Perfect!" she smiled to herself and walked straight to an open cash register. A pale girl with dark black hair was behind it and she smiled, ringing up the clothes and giving Kaida a price. Kaida of course, knowing little about money, gave her a dollar extra and got change back, luckily. Who knows what she would have said if she knew she'd been cheated! Taking her large bag she decided she'd go into one of the restrooms and change.
Fortunately for her, she knew that there was one for guys and one for girls, so she went in the correct one. When she came out she wore a pair of baggy jeans with lots of pockets, and a red shirt that looked like t-shirt on top, but had dark blue long sleeves attached. On the front of it there was the kanji symbol for dragon in shiny silver. The new belt held up her pants and she smiled.
Suddenly she spotted a cool looking hat. It was one of those floppy, kaki colored ones and he picked it up. She put it on and looked in the mirror. It looked great!
She quickly took it off and paid for it. Taking it out of the bag she put it on and put her dirty clothes form before into that bag. With her bags in hand, a smile on her face, and the hat covering up her fox ears, she was ready.
Adjusting her glasses quickly, she walked out of the store, happy as hell.
Of course, that happiness turned into despair when she saw Yusuke and Kuwabara running to catch up to her.
"Kaida!" Yusuke called and smiled, coming up beside her. He looked at him with a pissed off expression.
"What Koenma wants you to tag along the whole day or something?"
'No, we just skipped school because we needed something to do."
"How about you just bug off."
"Jeez Urameshi, she sounds mad."
"Well duh!"
"If you're gonna tag along then at least be useful. Where the hell do you ningens buy food?"
"At a supermarket."
"That's a nice start Kuwabara, but where the hell is the freakin super market!?" Kaida asked, frustrated.
"Across the street."
"Thank you!" Kaida stated to cross the street but Yusuke grabbed her arm.
"Hey wait! You can't cross the street like that!"
"Why the hell not?"
"Because you'll get squashed!" Kuwabara added the sound effects to his statement by clapping his hands together loudly. Kaida rolled her eyes.
"Besides it's J walking." Yusuke stated, scowling when Kaida pulled her arm away.
"Fine, lead away then."
"Fine!"
*
Kaida smiled as she paid for the mounds of food and the small portable refrigerator. This place called the 'supermarket' was really quite useful! You could get everything you needed almost! So far she had bought the basics, getting help (of which she hated) from Yusuke and Kuwabara. She had gotten things called potato chips, eggs, bread, milk, donuts, pickles, ice cream, granola bars, soda pop, beef jerky, cereal, bananas, grapes, cheese, flavored water, flour, sugar, lots of spices, cinnamon, a few knick-knacks, some kitchen ware; pots, pans, a thing you put over a fire to cook with (a camping grill), bowls, forks, spoons, an ice cream scoop, plates, an electric mixer (they had insisted), scissors, some candles, a few strings of lanterns, and a the small portable refrigerator that was two feet tall, and two feet wide.
Kaida smiled and paid the large sum of money, still having some money left, miraculously.
"You're loaded!" Yusuke exclaimed.
"How am I supposed to get this home?" Kaida wondered. They all froze.
"Oh crap."
~*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*~
O.k., so somehow they got all the stuff back to Kaida's property. It resulted in three VERY tired people.
"Well, I guess I did need your help." Kaida smiled.
"Now you may leave."
"What!?"
"You are not useful anymore, because you probably wont help me at all, so.. by!"
"Hey! Is that all you can say after we helped you out?!" Yusuke exclaimed.
"Hmmm... Yes!" she grinned cheekily and both guys fell over.
"Bu~ut, if you help me out I'll let you stay."
"Ya, ya, whatever. Nothing to do anyway."
"Great, follow me and watch your step."
*
Well, it turned out Kuwabara and Yusuke could be useful! They got the rest of the wood Kaida would be needing and managed to get the walls up for her while she set up the electricity currents, or what she liked to call 'the spiritual currents'. And she got the refrigerator working in record time so all the stuff that needed to be kept cold could. She also hooked the door on and then the three of them worked on the roof for a while before they took a break.
It was now about an hour before sunset and all three of them were just lounging around, Kaida had even forgotten about her wound. Each of them had a soda in hand and Kaida was actually smiling a genuine smile.
"Well, you two are actually useful, if that's even possible."
"So, Kaida, are you really, well, you know, from our DNA? I didn't think cloning was possible."
"It's not really cloning. All he had to do was concur your DNA and make is perform simple RNA duties only forming different RNA that was unified." She stopped seeing their clueless expressions.
"Oh go to school. You might actually learn something you idiots."
"Hey! Who asked you?"
"No one." She answered simply, and got up, stretching and crushing her can. Shortly after she sneezed.
"Are you sick?"
"Of course not. I'll never succumb to a lowly ningens disease." Kaida answered with a scowl. Yusuke and Kuwabara too stood up.
"Well I'm sure your mothers are worried about you, and you've angered me enough, so leave." She ordered and turned her back on them climbing swiftly up into her tree, slamming the door.
"Jeez, what's her problem?"
"Sensitive subject Urameshi."
"Girls are so confusing!" Yusuke kicked Kaida's leftover can in anger as he and Kuwabara left.
*
Inside Kaida scowled a bit and surveyed the house. The lamps lit it up mostly. Her fridge was in the corner, her food near by and some stuff she had set aside for shelves was also left out. Her bed was in the middle where she had drawn an outline in pencil. She had drawn a place where she would put the bathroom and mentally mapped out how she would hook up the pipes that would carry the sewage.
She, getting tips from Yusuke and Kuwabara, learned about the ningens device, the TV and decided to get one of those as well. She also decided for a stereo and some CDs to occupy her time.
"Stupid ningens.." she muttered angrily, obviously talking about Yusuke and Kuwabara. It was then her arm became noticed and she began to curse at it.
"Oh of all the times, damn it!" She peeled back her shirt and examined the wound. It had begun to bleed slowly. She rolled her eyes.
A quiet knock on the door.
"Damn it!" she hissed and opened her door to see Kurama standing on the porch she had made.
"What?!"
"I came to check on you, just as I said. May I come in?"
"Whatever!" she left the door opened and stalked over to her bed, sitting down with a huff.
"You've gotten a lot done today. I ran into Yusuke and Kuwabara on the way here, they helped?"
"Hn." Kurama chuckled.
"Oh, I see. Did you go to the."
"No, fox boy. I didn't. O.k.?! I didn't and there is nothing in heaven or hell you can freakin' do about it!"
"No need to get angry."
"Hn. You checked me, I'm fine, go away." Kurama's steps drew nearer and she scowled.
"I said go!" Kurama knelt in front of her.
"Koenma said I shouldn't let you bleed to death."
"Really? How nice, now go away." Kurama sighed in exasperation, a sweat drop appearing on his head. He took out some bandages from his pocket.
"I'll let you slid tonight, but I assure you. Someone will check up on you every morning and evening."
"Whatever. I'm not a baby." Kaida growled deep in her throat as Kurama handed her the bandages. She bandaged the wound sloppily and then turned her back to him.
"Now go away." She heard retreating footsteps, and the door closed. It was silent for a few minutes before she finally crawled into her bed and fell back asleep with a content sigh.
He suddenly stopped in front of the place Hiei said Kaida would be residing. HE did sense the familiar youkai, but it was strangely weaker. Puzzled, he calmly opened the rickety gate, which swung open with a squeak.
He began his trek across the beautiful field, smiling as the sweet fragrance of flowers and fruit met his nose.
He entered the small grove of trees and blinked, searching for the girl's ki.
"There." He set his satchel down by a tree and jumped across the water surrounding an enormous weeping willow.
Pushing back the wines he was met with plenty of wood meant for building, paint, and all sorts of things. HE chuckled to himself. Kaida obviously didn't need some of the stuff, but she had already bought I so it was no use.
Now where can she be? He thought to himself.
"Ah." he looked up the tree, finding a large floor a little ways up. Sighing to himself he started to casually climb the tree, he had plenty of time left.
When he finally settled his weight on the well-built, sturdy, floor he had the time to look around. It was quite large, maybe eighteen by fourteen feet and he smiled when he found a lump of blankets in the center. Walking quickly over to it he smiled and shook the sleeping figure.
"Kaida, please wake up. I'm supposed to check on you today." A pair of brown eyes opened and stared at him.
"Go away." She muttered. It was then Kurama noticed the blood.
"You didn't take care of the wound, did you?" silence and then a mumbled 'no'. Kurama sighed and picked in his hair, bringing out a small seed.
"Sit up, will you?" with a grumble Kaida sat up, keeping the blankets on her legs. She glared angrily at Kurama as the seed popped and a small cloud of dust arose. When that dust cleared however, Kurama was holding a medium sized plant, of which he broke the top and knelt by her.
"It might sting." He said taking her arm in his hand and gently applying sap on the wound. Kaida immediately began trying to pull away from him, but in her sleepy state she didn't secede too well and growled under her breath as the sap hissed and formed into a sort of see through band aid. Kurama smiled and the plant shriveled up into nothing.
Kaida then yanked her arm away and glared vehemently.
"It's not permanent so I suggest you see a hospital soon."
"Forget it." Kaida muttered.
"Just go away and leave me alone."
"I've got to go to school anyway." Kurama smiled, standing up and brushing himself off.
"I guess I will be seeing you shortly." Then the tall red head casually jumped down from the floor, and Kaida grumbled something under her breath, turning over and falling back asleep. She had forgotten to get new clothes last night; she'd get them tonight probably.
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Kaida awoke an hour and a half later and stretched, smiling when she noticed the pain in her arm had been dulled and the blood wasn't really on her clothes that much, so she wouldn't have to wash them today!
She grinned to herself and folded her blankets neatly, setting them nearer to the tree and then climbed down.
Taking a running leap she made it over the water. She smiled to herself. She didn't feel too bad today, so last night she was just too tired probably.
"Let's see. today I will get myself some clothes and some food!" she smiled proudly to herself and took off at a jog, she couldn't wait to get her house finished so she could explore more!
*
Kaida blinked and looked at the clothes meant for girls. They were so tight! She didn't like that; she'd look horrible with her big hips and muscular legs! God, Koenma couldn't at least make her really skinny? What a dork!
She sighed in frustration, walking over to the clothes destined for men. She had at least gotten some undergarments from the girls' section.
In the clothes for men she was definitely pleased, finding large baggy jeans that suited her. She picked up five pairs and a neat belt with lots of silver on it. Then she walked to the shirts and found that they too were baggy! She bought five pairs, each having a different design on them. Then she looked down at her feet. She had black army type boots, perfectly fine.
"Perfect!" she smiled to herself and walked straight to an open cash register. A pale girl with dark black hair was behind it and she smiled, ringing up the clothes and giving Kaida a price. Kaida of course, knowing little about money, gave her a dollar extra and got change back, luckily. Who knows what she would have said if she knew she'd been cheated! Taking her large bag she decided she'd go into one of the restrooms and change.
Fortunately for her, she knew that there was one for guys and one for girls, so she went in the correct one. When she came out she wore a pair of baggy jeans with lots of pockets, and a red shirt that looked like t-shirt on top, but had dark blue long sleeves attached. On the front of it there was the kanji symbol for dragon in shiny silver. The new belt held up her pants and she smiled.
Suddenly she spotted a cool looking hat. It was one of those floppy, kaki colored ones and he picked it up. She put it on and looked in the mirror. It looked great!
She quickly took it off and paid for it. Taking it out of the bag she put it on and put her dirty clothes form before into that bag. With her bags in hand, a smile on her face, and the hat covering up her fox ears, she was ready.
Adjusting her glasses quickly, she walked out of the store, happy as hell.
Of course, that happiness turned into despair when she saw Yusuke and Kuwabara running to catch up to her.
"Kaida!" Yusuke called and smiled, coming up beside her. He looked at him with a pissed off expression.
"What Koenma wants you to tag along the whole day or something?"
'No, we just skipped school because we needed something to do."
"How about you just bug off."
"Jeez Urameshi, she sounds mad."
"Well duh!"
"If you're gonna tag along then at least be useful. Where the hell do you ningens buy food?"
"At a supermarket."
"That's a nice start Kuwabara, but where the hell is the freakin super market!?" Kaida asked, frustrated.
"Across the street."
"Thank you!" Kaida stated to cross the street but Yusuke grabbed her arm.
"Hey wait! You can't cross the street like that!"
"Why the hell not?"
"Because you'll get squashed!" Kuwabara added the sound effects to his statement by clapping his hands together loudly. Kaida rolled her eyes.
"Besides it's J walking." Yusuke stated, scowling when Kaida pulled her arm away.
"Fine, lead away then."
"Fine!"
*
Kaida smiled as she paid for the mounds of food and the small portable refrigerator. This place called the 'supermarket' was really quite useful! You could get everything you needed almost! So far she had bought the basics, getting help (of which she hated) from Yusuke and Kuwabara. She had gotten things called potato chips, eggs, bread, milk, donuts, pickles, ice cream, granola bars, soda pop, beef jerky, cereal, bananas, grapes, cheese, flavored water, flour, sugar, lots of spices, cinnamon, a few knick-knacks, some kitchen ware; pots, pans, a thing you put over a fire to cook with (a camping grill), bowls, forks, spoons, an ice cream scoop, plates, an electric mixer (they had insisted), scissors, some candles, a few strings of lanterns, and a the small portable refrigerator that was two feet tall, and two feet wide.
Kaida smiled and paid the large sum of money, still having some money left, miraculously.
"You're loaded!" Yusuke exclaimed.
"How am I supposed to get this home?" Kaida wondered. They all froze.
"Oh crap."
~*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*~
O.k., so somehow they got all the stuff back to Kaida's property. It resulted in three VERY tired people.
"Well, I guess I did need your help." Kaida smiled.
"Now you may leave."
"What!?"
"You are not useful anymore, because you probably wont help me at all, so.. by!"
"Hey! Is that all you can say after we helped you out?!" Yusuke exclaimed.
"Hmmm... Yes!" she grinned cheekily and both guys fell over.
"Bu~ut, if you help me out I'll let you stay."
"Ya, ya, whatever. Nothing to do anyway."
"Great, follow me and watch your step."
*
Well, it turned out Kuwabara and Yusuke could be useful! They got the rest of the wood Kaida would be needing and managed to get the walls up for her while she set up the electricity currents, or what she liked to call 'the spiritual currents'. And she got the refrigerator working in record time so all the stuff that needed to be kept cold could. She also hooked the door on and then the three of them worked on the roof for a while before they took a break.
It was now about an hour before sunset and all three of them were just lounging around, Kaida had even forgotten about her wound. Each of them had a soda in hand and Kaida was actually smiling a genuine smile.
"Well, you two are actually useful, if that's even possible."
"So, Kaida, are you really, well, you know, from our DNA? I didn't think cloning was possible."
"It's not really cloning. All he had to do was concur your DNA and make is perform simple RNA duties only forming different RNA that was unified." She stopped seeing their clueless expressions.
"Oh go to school. You might actually learn something you idiots."
"Hey! Who asked you?"
"No one." She answered simply, and got up, stretching and crushing her can. Shortly after she sneezed.
"Are you sick?"
"Of course not. I'll never succumb to a lowly ningens disease." Kaida answered with a scowl. Yusuke and Kuwabara too stood up.
"Well I'm sure your mothers are worried about you, and you've angered me enough, so leave." She ordered and turned her back on them climbing swiftly up into her tree, slamming the door.
"Jeez, what's her problem?"
"Sensitive subject Urameshi."
"Girls are so confusing!" Yusuke kicked Kaida's leftover can in anger as he and Kuwabara left.
*
Inside Kaida scowled a bit and surveyed the house. The lamps lit it up mostly. Her fridge was in the corner, her food near by and some stuff she had set aside for shelves was also left out. Her bed was in the middle where she had drawn an outline in pencil. She had drawn a place where she would put the bathroom and mentally mapped out how she would hook up the pipes that would carry the sewage.
She, getting tips from Yusuke and Kuwabara, learned about the ningens device, the TV and decided to get one of those as well. She also decided for a stereo and some CDs to occupy her time.
"Stupid ningens.." she muttered angrily, obviously talking about Yusuke and Kuwabara. It was then her arm became noticed and she began to curse at it.
"Oh of all the times, damn it!" She peeled back her shirt and examined the wound. It had begun to bleed slowly. She rolled her eyes.
A quiet knock on the door.
"Damn it!" she hissed and opened her door to see Kurama standing on the porch she had made.
"What?!"
"I came to check on you, just as I said. May I come in?"
"Whatever!" she left the door opened and stalked over to her bed, sitting down with a huff.
"You've gotten a lot done today. I ran into Yusuke and Kuwabara on the way here, they helped?"
"Hn." Kurama chuckled.
"Oh, I see. Did you go to the."
"No, fox boy. I didn't. O.k.?! I didn't and there is nothing in heaven or hell you can freakin' do about it!"
"No need to get angry."
"Hn. You checked me, I'm fine, go away." Kurama's steps drew nearer and she scowled.
"I said go!" Kurama knelt in front of her.
"Koenma said I shouldn't let you bleed to death."
"Really? How nice, now go away." Kurama sighed in exasperation, a sweat drop appearing on his head. He took out some bandages from his pocket.
"I'll let you slid tonight, but I assure you. Someone will check up on you every morning and evening."
"Whatever. I'm not a baby." Kaida growled deep in her throat as Kurama handed her the bandages. She bandaged the wound sloppily and then turned her back to him.
"Now go away." She heard retreating footsteps, and the door closed. It was silent for a few minutes before she finally crawled into her bed and fell back asleep with a content sigh.