A/N: Ah, well sorry, but I was away for a week in South Padre and couldn't post this next chapter, so here you go! I hope you like it, oh and, more reviews makes more chapters! Thank you SOOOO much for the ones I got. My first story didn't get much praise so I am going to delete… it.. *sigh* Oh well. Thanks everyone who left a review.
Jumping back to get out of the tub, she shrieked as the man in the bath with her lunged forward and covered her mouth, leaning over her wet form as water shook over the edges. Staring into her eyes lustfully, he stood up from the bubbly cover and threw her down onto the floor. Sliding across the ground and bumping into the door, she struggled, but slipped on the cold tile as she scraped at the door and shivered. Throwing her soaked and naked form a towel, she cried out again as she wrapped the towel around her and fought with the locked handle. The man didn't even seem worried that the people down stairs would hear, then as she dried, he snatched her up and headed for the window, when suddenly there was a bang on the door and a voice.
Yusuke's POV:
Still standing in the kitchen, with my jaw dropped and unable to move, I was surprised Keiko would have and outburst like that, and then leave me hanging. Watching her with my eyes as she disappeared into the living room with the others, they all stopped talking for a long moment, before Keiko's soft voice reached my ears. "Can I just go ahead and stay the night here? I am extremely tired."
"Ya, sure. You can stay in MY room." Shizuru answered, then Kuwabara began to mumble. Turning my head and walking to the small open door way leading into the living room, I stayed partially hidden as I watched Keiko wander away. Sighing, I proceeded to the living room and fell back on the couch with a soft thud and rubbed my head with frustration. I knew things hadn't been going so smoothly between us, but I would have tried harder if I knew it was bothering her that much. What am I to do now?
"What happened in there Yusuke? Ya get dumped?" Kuwabara teased, punching him lightly in the shoulder. Glaring at him, Kuwabara backed off and gulped his hot coco as he idly scooted away from me. A minute later Shizuru came down the stairs, then motioned for the other girls to follow her. Wandering off into the kitchen, they all began to gossip and giggle as the boys were left to talk amongst themselves. Hiei sat and rubbed his bandaged arm as Kurama lazily spread out on the foot rest once Botan stood up to leave. Kuwabara stood up and began to light the fire, as I watched and waited for him to burn himself.
"Don't burn yourself Kuwabara…" I joked and right as the words left my mouth, Kuwabara jumped up and stuck his finger into his mouth, and running into the quest bathroom a small whimper escaped him. Laughing quietly as I awaited the chorus of Kurama's and Hiei's laughter, but found them both to be fast asleep. Checking my watch, I heard the bath water upstairs go off, and pictured Keiko in the water. Stopping my laughter as Kuwabara came back in, then invited me to go play video games with him. "Sure, I guess. It seems like everyone will be staying the night at your place." Turning on the Nintendo and putting in Wave Racers, we both sat calmly and played while shrill winds wavered outside and the snow left soft blankets on the window. Soon the girls came back in, still giggling, then the smell of something delicious came into my senses that I hadn't noticed before. Placed on the coffee table, was a tray covered with bowls of beef stew, toasted bread, and warm slices of cake.
"These were some left over cake slices from Kuwabara's birthday two days ago, and I thought we should eat them. I also thought some warm soup will get us all in the spirit." They all sat down on the floor around the coffee table, but I got up and wandered to the dinning room instead. Sitting at the smooth wooden table with roses intricately carved around the edges, and the large window covering almost the whole wall, I leaned against it's thick glass and stared at the quickly forming blizzard outside. Soon everyone followed me into the dinning room and made themselves comfortable, Kurama and Hiei awaken by the sweet scents.
"Are we all staying here?" Asked Kurama as he watched Shizuru curiously sip her soup, then Hiei glared at Kuwabara as he attempted to sit closer to Yukina.
"I suppose so…" Kuwabara muttered as he moved his chair away. I got up, and excused myself silently, then took careful and quiet steps up the stairs. Coming to the bathroom door and listening to Keiko move around in the tub water, I leaned on the door and was about to knock when I heard a mans voice. Counting my fingers and finding that everyone else was still down stairs, I was trying to figure whom was with her. Slowly turning the handle and finding it locked, I waited outside quietly and listened in.
"Room for two?" The voice spoke, and then I heard the water splash about, as if it had surprised Keiko. Raising my brow and trying the handle again, I heard the water hitting the floor suddenly and then a shriek echo off the marble bathroom walls. Shaking the handle harder, I feared saying anything and startling whomever was in the bathroom with her. Suddenly a thump vibrated the door and I pounded on it. There was silence, then the swoosh of the window opening and the wind coming through it startled me. Was she being abducted? Pounding again, louder this time, I began to ram the door.
"Keiko! Keiko! Open up! Keiko! Are you ok!?!?! Keiko!" Running back down the stairs and through the dinning room quickly, I swung my coat on as I came through the front door and stared through the blizzard, my friends quickly following and frantically asking what was the matter. "Keiko!!!" Was the only answer they got as I ran around the house screaming her name, shaking in the cold. Stopping breathless at the front door as I came back from running around the house my fourth time, everyone's concerned eyes rested on me. Kurama came first, followed by Shizuru who both helped me inside. Sitting me down, they all stood around and asked questions.
"Yusuke! What's gotten into you!?! Keiko is in the bathroom taking a bath. What is wrong?!" They all stammered and tried to comfort me. Shaking my head and shivering, I looked out the window and told them what I heard slowly. Instantly, Kuwabara ran up the stairs and burst through the bathroom door, tearing it open. Slipping on the damp floor as he spun in, he shook as the icy snow blew in through the open bathroom window and Keiko was nowhere to be seen. Quickly the rest of the group came into the bathroom doorway as I pushed through them and stuck my head out the window, a cold tear streaking my cheek. "Keiko!!! Keiko…"
Shizuru's POV:
Watching Yusuke shiver with his head out the window, he yelled her name again and again in a feudal attempt to find wherever it was she went, and I looked down, seeing her towel sprawled on the floor and her cloths still on the on the counter. "She's naked in that horrible weather!?!?!" I yelled as I picked up her garments. Yusuke turned to me and grabbed the blue jeans and the yellow t-shirt from me, holding them close to his chest. I back away and stared at the floor. Kurama took my hand gently and lead me out as Hiei and Yukina left, followed by Kuwabara whom rubbed his butt. Kurama had seemed extremely nice to me lately, and I had liked it. The way he comforted me and always watched me with curiosity. I went into my room and flopped onto the bed as he stood in the doorway and watched over me. After a long time, I had curled up and fallen asleep with my worries for Keiko whilst Kurama had too fallen asleep in my doorway. Kuwabara slept on the couch with Hiei sitting silently and watching him as Yukina napped on the large footrest. Yusuke drowsily stared out at the snow and fought his brain for ideas on whom her kidnapper may be. I shifted uncomfortably and looked up, seeing my door open and all the lights beyond it still on. Sitting up with a shadow cast over my face, Kurama stirred and slowly opened his eyes. Coming to my side on the bed, he looked at me, though his head drooped with tiredness.
"Something… wrong?" Yawning and scratching his head as I shook mine, he fell back on the bed with a thump and was asleep again. Looking at him curiously, I thought of what they planned to do about Keiko. Before I knew it, I had fallen asleep again next to Kurama, and everyone else soon cuddled up with themselves for a good nights sleep before we decided how to find Keiko.
Keiko's POV:
Trying to hug the towel to my damp body when it was thrown to me, I looked back at the door as there was a bang on it and was about to cry out when I was snatched up and the towel slipped from my grip. Being forced through the window in this mans arms, my hair immediately began to crystallize in the wind and show whilst I almost shivered to death. "Who…who.. Are you?" I questioned through cold raspy breaths as the mans raven hair tickled my back. My stomach began to hurt as I was slung over his shoulder, and I closed my eyes in pain, my form already becoming frost bitten. I could slightly feel his eyes on me, glowing in the snowy frost, and I shook my head when a bursting shiver hit me.
"Karasu…" He smiled and nodded his head, but I knew no one named… Karasu.
"Well what do you want with me? If this is to get to Yusuke, I have nothing to do with him anymore!" Kicking my legs, he seemed unaffected and I flinched as I felt his hand slid over my back and the to my thigh.
"Calm down, you wont be hurt as long as Yusuke cooperates. Maybe saving you will be his way of getting back together, or getting you to have something to do with him… as you might say." Laughing to himself, I growled and suddenly felt light headed, my body convulsing in the cold. Then there was darkness.
Jumping back to get out of the tub, she shrieked as the man in the bath with her lunged forward and covered her mouth, leaning over her wet form as water shook over the edges. Staring into her eyes lustfully, he stood up from the bubbly cover and threw her down onto the floor. Sliding across the ground and bumping into the door, she struggled, but slipped on the cold tile as she scraped at the door and shivered. Throwing her soaked and naked form a towel, she cried out again as she wrapped the towel around her and fought with the locked handle. The man didn't even seem worried that the people down stairs would hear, then as she dried, he snatched her up and headed for the window, when suddenly there was a bang on the door and a voice.
Yusuke's POV:
Still standing in the kitchen, with my jaw dropped and unable to move, I was surprised Keiko would have and outburst like that, and then leave me hanging. Watching her with my eyes as she disappeared into the living room with the others, they all stopped talking for a long moment, before Keiko's soft voice reached my ears. "Can I just go ahead and stay the night here? I am extremely tired."
"Ya, sure. You can stay in MY room." Shizuru answered, then Kuwabara began to mumble. Turning my head and walking to the small open door way leading into the living room, I stayed partially hidden as I watched Keiko wander away. Sighing, I proceeded to the living room and fell back on the couch with a soft thud and rubbed my head with frustration. I knew things hadn't been going so smoothly between us, but I would have tried harder if I knew it was bothering her that much. What am I to do now?
"What happened in there Yusuke? Ya get dumped?" Kuwabara teased, punching him lightly in the shoulder. Glaring at him, Kuwabara backed off and gulped his hot coco as he idly scooted away from me. A minute later Shizuru came down the stairs, then motioned for the other girls to follow her. Wandering off into the kitchen, they all began to gossip and giggle as the boys were left to talk amongst themselves. Hiei sat and rubbed his bandaged arm as Kurama lazily spread out on the foot rest once Botan stood up to leave. Kuwabara stood up and began to light the fire, as I watched and waited for him to burn himself.
"Don't burn yourself Kuwabara…" I joked and right as the words left my mouth, Kuwabara jumped up and stuck his finger into his mouth, and running into the quest bathroom a small whimper escaped him. Laughing quietly as I awaited the chorus of Kurama's and Hiei's laughter, but found them both to be fast asleep. Checking my watch, I heard the bath water upstairs go off, and pictured Keiko in the water. Stopping my laughter as Kuwabara came back in, then invited me to go play video games with him. "Sure, I guess. It seems like everyone will be staying the night at your place." Turning on the Nintendo and putting in Wave Racers, we both sat calmly and played while shrill winds wavered outside and the snow left soft blankets on the window. Soon the girls came back in, still giggling, then the smell of something delicious came into my senses that I hadn't noticed before. Placed on the coffee table, was a tray covered with bowls of beef stew, toasted bread, and warm slices of cake.
"These were some left over cake slices from Kuwabara's birthday two days ago, and I thought we should eat them. I also thought some warm soup will get us all in the spirit." They all sat down on the floor around the coffee table, but I got up and wandered to the dinning room instead. Sitting at the smooth wooden table with roses intricately carved around the edges, and the large window covering almost the whole wall, I leaned against it's thick glass and stared at the quickly forming blizzard outside. Soon everyone followed me into the dinning room and made themselves comfortable, Kurama and Hiei awaken by the sweet scents.
"Are we all staying here?" Asked Kurama as he watched Shizuru curiously sip her soup, then Hiei glared at Kuwabara as he attempted to sit closer to Yukina.
"I suppose so…" Kuwabara muttered as he moved his chair away. I got up, and excused myself silently, then took careful and quiet steps up the stairs. Coming to the bathroom door and listening to Keiko move around in the tub water, I leaned on the door and was about to knock when I heard a mans voice. Counting my fingers and finding that everyone else was still down stairs, I was trying to figure whom was with her. Slowly turning the handle and finding it locked, I waited outside quietly and listened in.
"Room for two?" The voice spoke, and then I heard the water splash about, as if it had surprised Keiko. Raising my brow and trying the handle again, I heard the water hitting the floor suddenly and then a shriek echo off the marble bathroom walls. Shaking the handle harder, I feared saying anything and startling whomever was in the bathroom with her. Suddenly a thump vibrated the door and I pounded on it. There was silence, then the swoosh of the window opening and the wind coming through it startled me. Was she being abducted? Pounding again, louder this time, I began to ram the door.
"Keiko! Keiko! Open up! Keiko! Are you ok!?!?! Keiko!" Running back down the stairs and through the dinning room quickly, I swung my coat on as I came through the front door and stared through the blizzard, my friends quickly following and frantically asking what was the matter. "Keiko!!!" Was the only answer they got as I ran around the house screaming her name, shaking in the cold. Stopping breathless at the front door as I came back from running around the house my fourth time, everyone's concerned eyes rested on me. Kurama came first, followed by Shizuru who both helped me inside. Sitting me down, they all stood around and asked questions.
"Yusuke! What's gotten into you!?! Keiko is in the bathroom taking a bath. What is wrong?!" They all stammered and tried to comfort me. Shaking my head and shivering, I looked out the window and told them what I heard slowly. Instantly, Kuwabara ran up the stairs and burst through the bathroom door, tearing it open. Slipping on the damp floor as he spun in, he shook as the icy snow blew in through the open bathroom window and Keiko was nowhere to be seen. Quickly the rest of the group came into the bathroom doorway as I pushed through them and stuck my head out the window, a cold tear streaking my cheek. "Keiko!!! Keiko…"
Shizuru's POV:
Watching Yusuke shiver with his head out the window, he yelled her name again and again in a feudal attempt to find wherever it was she went, and I looked down, seeing her towel sprawled on the floor and her cloths still on the on the counter. "She's naked in that horrible weather!?!?!" I yelled as I picked up her garments. Yusuke turned to me and grabbed the blue jeans and the yellow t-shirt from me, holding them close to his chest. I back away and stared at the floor. Kurama took my hand gently and lead me out as Hiei and Yukina left, followed by Kuwabara whom rubbed his butt. Kurama had seemed extremely nice to me lately, and I had liked it. The way he comforted me and always watched me with curiosity. I went into my room and flopped onto the bed as he stood in the doorway and watched over me. After a long time, I had curled up and fallen asleep with my worries for Keiko whilst Kurama had too fallen asleep in my doorway. Kuwabara slept on the couch with Hiei sitting silently and watching him as Yukina napped on the large footrest. Yusuke drowsily stared out at the snow and fought his brain for ideas on whom her kidnapper may be. I shifted uncomfortably and looked up, seeing my door open and all the lights beyond it still on. Sitting up with a shadow cast over my face, Kurama stirred and slowly opened his eyes. Coming to my side on the bed, he looked at me, though his head drooped with tiredness.
"Something… wrong?" Yawning and scratching his head as I shook mine, he fell back on the bed with a thump and was asleep again. Looking at him curiously, I thought of what they planned to do about Keiko. Before I knew it, I had fallen asleep again next to Kurama, and everyone else soon cuddled up with themselves for a good nights sleep before we decided how to find Keiko.
Keiko's POV:
Trying to hug the towel to my damp body when it was thrown to me, I looked back at the door as there was a bang on it and was about to cry out when I was snatched up and the towel slipped from my grip. Being forced through the window in this mans arms, my hair immediately began to crystallize in the wind and show whilst I almost shivered to death. "Who…who.. Are you?" I questioned through cold raspy breaths as the mans raven hair tickled my back. My stomach began to hurt as I was slung over his shoulder, and I closed my eyes in pain, my form already becoming frost bitten. I could slightly feel his eyes on me, glowing in the snowy frost, and I shook my head when a bursting shiver hit me.
"Karasu…" He smiled and nodded his head, but I knew no one named… Karasu.
"Well what do you want with me? If this is to get to Yusuke, I have nothing to do with him anymore!" Kicking my legs, he seemed unaffected and I flinched as I felt his hand slid over my back and the to my thigh.
"Calm down, you wont be hurt as long as Yusuke cooperates. Maybe saving you will be his way of getting back together, or getting you to have something to do with him… as you might say." Laughing to himself, I growled and suddenly felt light headed, my body convulsing in the cold. Then there was darkness.
