*Anemone's room...Hiei and Kurama are just hanging out in there, like
they've been doing whenever Anemone sits down to write...Hiei is laying on
her bed, listening Anemone's Linkin Park CD "Meteroa" on Anemone's
walkman...Kurama is sitting at her computer, bored, waiting for something
to happen...Hiei is singing along to "Breaking the Habit", rather badly,
when both he and Kurama notice the readers are here.*
Hiei: *whispers while watching the readers cautiously* Kitsune...where's the ningen?! Why are those other ningen's looking at me?!
Kurama: *snicker* she isn't here right now, Hiei...
Hiei: *looks around him frantically, as if he broke into the wrong place* but...isn't this her house...?
Kurama: yes...
Hiei: then where is she?!
Kurama: Anemone went to go visit Goku up in the mountains...she told me that she sees us everyday because when she writes, I drop by for a visit and you just, you know...break into her room...and she said that she hadn't seen Goku in ages.
Hiei: then why are we here?!
Kurama: for the story, Hiei...
Hiei: but the ningen isn't here to write it, Kitsune...you're losing your IQ...
Kurama: let me explain, Hiei...she wrote it, but it's saved on her laptop, which she had to take with her to Goku's house because she had to show Gohan some documents saved onto it...and she didn't have time to upload her story because she wrote it during the school day between classes and she didn't have time to get to an internet connection to upload it onto the websight because right after school she went straight for the mountains. She's going to hook it up into the Son's internet connection and e-mail me the story to upload for her.
Hiei: ...how do you know all this?!
Kurama: she called me on her cell phone and told me the entire story...she told me to just go to her computer, upload it, and let you in cuz she figured stopping you from breaking in would be pointless.
Hiei: alright...that makes sense...but wait...if the Son's have an internet connection, why can't she upload it herself up there in the mountains?!
Kurama: *heavy sigh* Hiei, if that were the scenario, then we wouldn't be here...there's most likely a logical reason that that probability isn't plausible.
Hiei: hn. *puts headphone's back on and flops onto Anemone's bed again...a bing sound echoes from Anemone's computer*
Kurama: oh look...the e-mail...and it has a note separate from it: *reads note aloud* "hey guys...thanks for doing this Kurama...and Hiei I know you're in there cuz you're always breaking in...anyway, here's the story, and in case your wondering why i didn't upload it here at Goku's house is because they have a VERY strict parental block on their connection so there's really almost nothing here but e-mail and a couple websights...but anyway, thanks again, Kurama dear."
Hiei: hn...can you upload it now?!
Kurama: *Vegeta smirk* aren't you anxious...
Hiei: it's just that this intro is so damn long...
Kurama: right...here you go readers...enjoy! ***************************************
Chapter 3: A Close Encounter
Kurama sped ferociously through the park with an almost scared look about his young face...almost scared...but not quite. The fox's sensitive ears pricked slightly with each dying echo of the scream, and with each breath his steps were forced faster and faster.
Hiei, perched lightly on the broad limb of an elderly tree, pricked at a familiar sense. With the slightest jerk of his head, the demon had caught the sight of his fox friend racing for the origin of the screams. "Hn," the three-eyed Hiei smirked. "if Kurama's heading for that scream, then I've no reason to feel any form of guilt whatsoever...Kitsune can handle it himself."
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"Keiko get in the door!" Botan shoved the frantic Keiko back into the apartment with a furiously forceful push. The brunette slipped somewhat, but quickly scrambled her way back into her bedroom, immediately twisting herself to face her best friend again. The fire escape's inch-thick aluminum wires were cracking apart fast, and Botan still sat to the far end of the breaking balcony, her heart racing and her bubbly self diminished.
"Botan!" Keiko wailed, setting herself firm against the frame of her bedroom window and extending her arm as far as her muscles could bear towards her blue-haired friend. Botan was caught in tremendous fear...Keiko's apartment was on the top floor, and no other fire escapes were on this side of the building...just a long, metal ladder extending from the bottom of the escape towards the ground...the hard, cement ground...
"Botan!" Keiko's tone was slightly more irritated, but fear still poured thickly into her voice. The spirit guide clutched firmly against the railing wail, lacing her fingers tightly in between the bars. "BOTAN!"
"Oh fine!" Botan wailed as she threw herself for the window, releasing the bars and scrambling frantically towards Keiko in one swift move. Just as Botan's fingertips brushed Keiko's, another wire snapped, and a rusted bolt on the underside cracked off. The fire escape dove a good foot downwards in a slant, with the spirit guide still caught upon it. Botan yelped a wild scream as the escape collapsed into a tilt, leaving Botan to lace her fingers tightly into the holes of the escape's floor.
"Oh no Botan!" Keiko shrieked, jerking farther to try and reach her friend. Botan pinned herself against the floor of the breaking escape, wincing sharply and keeping her candy eyes clamped shut. Keiko whimpered violently at the fearful sight, but continued to stretch outward for Botan. The blue-haired teenager shivered in fear as her life dangled loosely on this breaking fire escape.
Keiko's hand brushed Botan's just slightly, and th terrified girl reacting with a quick, scared glance at her brunette friend. With a second's worth of time slipped away, Botan quickly ripped her hand free of it's tie into the bars of the escape and claspe Keiko's forearm tightly. Just as this happened, one last wire snapped and one last bolt cracked. In a death silence the escape began to tumble for the ground, at a maddening pace. Botan's other hand was still clasped tightly into the holes of the escape, and the immensely heavy metal yanked her violently from Keiko's tight grasp and to her untimely doom. The escape began to turn itself over, and Botan, gripped tightly onto the floor, was turned with it. When it stopped twisting in the air, and began to fall without change, Botan was stuck on the bottom, meaning she'd hit the ground before the escape and the huge metal balcony would in turn crush onto her.
"NOO!" Keiko shrieked sharply as her best friend was dragged towards the ground. Botan frantically tugged her hand away from the fire escape's floor, and her collapsing form slowly began to grow faster and faster towards the cement, a huge metal balcony straight abov her head. The spirit guide let escape a terrified scream as she continued her plummet for the ground.
Suddenly, Botan was jerked sharply to the side by a strong arm coiled at her back and another tucked firmly under her bends of her knees. She kept her eyes clenched tight and refused to see what had happened, and she felt her form float weightless as it, and the strong arms clutching her, flipped lightly through the air and come to a soft halt. The arms held her low, her feet brushed the ground. Warm breaths tickled her neck, and a booming crash bellowed loudly at least ten yards away. Botan found herself clenching what felt to be a shirt in her quivering grip. Her candy eyes soon blinked wide in confusion...her entire face was trapped in...crimson hair.
A shadow painted over Kurama's face, but the spirit guide knew well it was him. He leaned over so sharply into the ground with his head so low that his scarlet locks had drapped about her entire face, and he held her defensively close to his chest, his arms coiled about her form protectively. As he slowly drew back his head from it's low bow, his serious, stern expression faded into a gentle, kind smile, his emerald eyes gazing softly into her raspberry ones. "Are you alright, Botan?"
Botan quivered in an uneasy silence for an instant, and almost immediately broke down in his arms. Kurama sighed lightly with a relieved smile as the girl's tears locked into the fibers of his shirt. "Shh...it's okay, Botan...I've got you...you're safe now..." Kurama gently tucked her head under his chin as he cooed her gently. "You're fine now...nothing's going to happen to you now...shh..."
Suddenly, another scream pierced the air. Both Kurama and Botan jerked to attention as it echoed loudly, just above them. Kurama whipped around, Botan still tightly nestled in his arms, and saw...Keiko. A wire from the collapsing fire escape had latched onto the sleeve of her shirt...and dragged her viciously from the window. Kurama watched in pure horror as Keiko's screams stained the air, her form being yanked downward until...a black smear stained the sky, and dragged Keiko from her plummet. The girl was tugged in an upward direction until her little journey ended on the roof of another building. Kurama laughed in joy and relief as he saw no other than Hiei, holding the stunned Keiko tucked under his arm and held at his side.
The little demon smirked at the fox, and through his Jagon Eye, his thought's echoed his Kurama's mind. "Reckless, tonight, aren't we, eh Kurama?...good thing my new-found conscience sort-of kicked in and I decided to take a gander at the comotion...otherwise Spirit Detective's little mate would've died a tragically early demise." Kurama simply grinned in response, and Hiei in turn smirked slightly. The brunette then fell limp in unconsciouness in Hiei's arms, the bluette doing likewise in Kurama's. Hiei grunted a soft "Hn" at the young Keiko, and with a light leap, had flown into her bedroom window and dropped the girl heavily onto her bed, his body taking form as a smear in the night sky as he sped for no exact destination. Kurama smiled faintly after his demonic friend, and cast his soft emerald eyes for the girl in his arms, fainted, tear-stained, and--in the spur of the moment, with thousands of thoughts racing through his mind-- truly the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen.
Kurama quickly jerked his eyes away from Botan's face, a light blush clouding his cheeks and nose at the thought of her looks. The young fox sighed heavily as he tudged slowly toward's Keiko's apartment to drop off the spirit guide.
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Kurama: my! she certainly got to write a lot during her school day...and what a chapter, whew! I must say...
Hiei: well duh you liked it...it's about you...
Kurama: you're in it as well...
Hiei: it's your story...don't even bother trying to make me feel better by admitting that I appeared in it...
*Anemone enters her room, not in the least bit surprised at the presence of two demons in her bedroom*
Anemone: hey guys.
Kurama: hello.
Hiei: hn.
Anemone: *glances at computer* oh! you uploaded it...thanks, Kurama! *gives him peck on the cheek...Kurama blushes with a timid grin, Hiei rolls his eyes.*
Hiei: ningen...if you like Kurama so much, why are you writing a story about him and Botan? Why not him and you?
Anemone: just friends, Hiei...see...*pecks Hiei on cheek, and he awkwardly blushes and shuts up*...teehee! You see, you're sort of my friend, too, I guess, and since I think of you two pretty much the same, then following your question, why not a fic about you and me? *Hiei pales, Kurama snickers*...actually, now that I think about it, it's a wierd relationship between us where I guess you're comfortable just breaking into my room and I'm comfortable letting you in the waking hours...and see, Kurama here is my friend too! Well a better friend than you but still do you get my point?
Hiei: why is everyone making references to me breaking into your room?! I don't do it THAT often...
Kurama: three times daily isn't that often? *Hiei is shut up again, this time in angry annoyance*
Anemone: I love you guys...you're so funny to deal with...anyway, please review, and please don't be that negative...oh, and for anyone who may be confused...first chapter was way ahead of everything else that's happening...second chapter onward explains how Kurama begins to get feelings for Botan and what leads up to his fight with Ryooki...k? hope that clears up any confusion...anywho, please review, and please be nice...or at least be constructive in your criticism if criticism is necessary.
Kurama: I doubt it is, Anemone...I like this story!
Anemone: you're so sweet! but really guys, be honest in your reviews, but not harsh...kk?
Hiei: *mumbles* I don't break in that often...
Anemone: *rolls eyes* Hiei you're allowed to break into my house, I've already told you...you've been doing it for over six months...
Hiei: *whispers while watching the readers cautiously* Kitsune...where's the ningen?! Why are those other ningen's looking at me?!
Kurama: *snicker* she isn't here right now, Hiei...
Hiei: *looks around him frantically, as if he broke into the wrong place* but...isn't this her house...?
Kurama: yes...
Hiei: then where is she?!
Kurama: Anemone went to go visit Goku up in the mountains...she told me that she sees us everyday because when she writes, I drop by for a visit and you just, you know...break into her room...and she said that she hadn't seen Goku in ages.
Hiei: then why are we here?!
Kurama: for the story, Hiei...
Hiei: but the ningen isn't here to write it, Kitsune...you're losing your IQ...
Kurama: let me explain, Hiei...she wrote it, but it's saved on her laptop, which she had to take with her to Goku's house because she had to show Gohan some documents saved onto it...and she didn't have time to upload her story because she wrote it during the school day between classes and she didn't have time to get to an internet connection to upload it onto the websight because right after school she went straight for the mountains. She's going to hook it up into the Son's internet connection and e-mail me the story to upload for her.
Hiei: ...how do you know all this?!
Kurama: she called me on her cell phone and told me the entire story...she told me to just go to her computer, upload it, and let you in cuz she figured stopping you from breaking in would be pointless.
Hiei: alright...that makes sense...but wait...if the Son's have an internet connection, why can't she upload it herself up there in the mountains?!
Kurama: *heavy sigh* Hiei, if that were the scenario, then we wouldn't be here...there's most likely a logical reason that that probability isn't plausible.
Hiei: hn. *puts headphone's back on and flops onto Anemone's bed again...a bing sound echoes from Anemone's computer*
Kurama: oh look...the e-mail...and it has a note separate from it: *reads note aloud* "hey guys...thanks for doing this Kurama...and Hiei I know you're in there cuz you're always breaking in...anyway, here's the story, and in case your wondering why i didn't upload it here at Goku's house is because they have a VERY strict parental block on their connection so there's really almost nothing here but e-mail and a couple websights...but anyway, thanks again, Kurama dear."
Hiei: hn...can you upload it now?!
Kurama: *Vegeta smirk* aren't you anxious...
Hiei: it's just that this intro is so damn long...
Kurama: right...here you go readers...enjoy! ***************************************
Chapter 3: A Close Encounter
Kurama sped ferociously through the park with an almost scared look about his young face...almost scared...but not quite. The fox's sensitive ears pricked slightly with each dying echo of the scream, and with each breath his steps were forced faster and faster.
Hiei, perched lightly on the broad limb of an elderly tree, pricked at a familiar sense. With the slightest jerk of his head, the demon had caught the sight of his fox friend racing for the origin of the screams. "Hn," the three-eyed Hiei smirked. "if Kurama's heading for that scream, then I've no reason to feel any form of guilt whatsoever...Kitsune can handle it himself."
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"Keiko get in the door!" Botan shoved the frantic Keiko back into the apartment with a furiously forceful push. The brunette slipped somewhat, but quickly scrambled her way back into her bedroom, immediately twisting herself to face her best friend again. The fire escape's inch-thick aluminum wires were cracking apart fast, and Botan still sat to the far end of the breaking balcony, her heart racing and her bubbly self diminished.
"Botan!" Keiko wailed, setting herself firm against the frame of her bedroom window and extending her arm as far as her muscles could bear towards her blue-haired friend. Botan was caught in tremendous fear...Keiko's apartment was on the top floor, and no other fire escapes were on this side of the building...just a long, metal ladder extending from the bottom of the escape towards the ground...the hard, cement ground...
"Botan!" Keiko's tone was slightly more irritated, but fear still poured thickly into her voice. The spirit guide clutched firmly against the railing wail, lacing her fingers tightly in between the bars. "BOTAN!"
"Oh fine!" Botan wailed as she threw herself for the window, releasing the bars and scrambling frantically towards Keiko in one swift move. Just as Botan's fingertips brushed Keiko's, another wire snapped, and a rusted bolt on the underside cracked off. The fire escape dove a good foot downwards in a slant, with the spirit guide still caught upon it. Botan yelped a wild scream as the escape collapsed into a tilt, leaving Botan to lace her fingers tightly into the holes of the escape's floor.
"Oh no Botan!" Keiko shrieked, jerking farther to try and reach her friend. Botan pinned herself against the floor of the breaking escape, wincing sharply and keeping her candy eyes clamped shut. Keiko whimpered violently at the fearful sight, but continued to stretch outward for Botan. The blue-haired teenager shivered in fear as her life dangled loosely on this breaking fire escape.
Keiko's hand brushed Botan's just slightly, and th terrified girl reacting with a quick, scared glance at her brunette friend. With a second's worth of time slipped away, Botan quickly ripped her hand free of it's tie into the bars of the escape and claspe Keiko's forearm tightly. Just as this happened, one last wire snapped and one last bolt cracked. In a death silence the escape began to tumble for the ground, at a maddening pace. Botan's other hand was still clasped tightly into the holes of the escape, and the immensely heavy metal yanked her violently from Keiko's tight grasp and to her untimely doom. The escape began to turn itself over, and Botan, gripped tightly onto the floor, was turned with it. When it stopped twisting in the air, and began to fall without change, Botan was stuck on the bottom, meaning she'd hit the ground before the escape and the huge metal balcony would in turn crush onto her.
"NOO!" Keiko shrieked sharply as her best friend was dragged towards the ground. Botan frantically tugged her hand away from the fire escape's floor, and her collapsing form slowly began to grow faster and faster towards the cement, a huge metal balcony straight abov her head. The spirit guide let escape a terrified scream as she continued her plummet for the ground.
Suddenly, Botan was jerked sharply to the side by a strong arm coiled at her back and another tucked firmly under her bends of her knees. She kept her eyes clenched tight and refused to see what had happened, and she felt her form float weightless as it, and the strong arms clutching her, flipped lightly through the air and come to a soft halt. The arms held her low, her feet brushed the ground. Warm breaths tickled her neck, and a booming crash bellowed loudly at least ten yards away. Botan found herself clenching what felt to be a shirt in her quivering grip. Her candy eyes soon blinked wide in confusion...her entire face was trapped in...crimson hair.
A shadow painted over Kurama's face, but the spirit guide knew well it was him. He leaned over so sharply into the ground with his head so low that his scarlet locks had drapped about her entire face, and he held her defensively close to his chest, his arms coiled about her form protectively. As he slowly drew back his head from it's low bow, his serious, stern expression faded into a gentle, kind smile, his emerald eyes gazing softly into her raspberry ones. "Are you alright, Botan?"
Botan quivered in an uneasy silence for an instant, and almost immediately broke down in his arms. Kurama sighed lightly with a relieved smile as the girl's tears locked into the fibers of his shirt. "Shh...it's okay, Botan...I've got you...you're safe now..." Kurama gently tucked her head under his chin as he cooed her gently. "You're fine now...nothing's going to happen to you now...shh..."
Suddenly, another scream pierced the air. Both Kurama and Botan jerked to attention as it echoed loudly, just above them. Kurama whipped around, Botan still tightly nestled in his arms, and saw...Keiko. A wire from the collapsing fire escape had latched onto the sleeve of her shirt...and dragged her viciously from the window. Kurama watched in pure horror as Keiko's screams stained the air, her form being yanked downward until...a black smear stained the sky, and dragged Keiko from her plummet. The girl was tugged in an upward direction until her little journey ended on the roof of another building. Kurama laughed in joy and relief as he saw no other than Hiei, holding the stunned Keiko tucked under his arm and held at his side.
The little demon smirked at the fox, and through his Jagon Eye, his thought's echoed his Kurama's mind. "Reckless, tonight, aren't we, eh Kurama?...good thing my new-found conscience sort-of kicked in and I decided to take a gander at the comotion...otherwise Spirit Detective's little mate would've died a tragically early demise." Kurama simply grinned in response, and Hiei in turn smirked slightly. The brunette then fell limp in unconsciouness in Hiei's arms, the bluette doing likewise in Kurama's. Hiei grunted a soft "Hn" at the young Keiko, and with a light leap, had flown into her bedroom window and dropped the girl heavily onto her bed, his body taking form as a smear in the night sky as he sped for no exact destination. Kurama smiled faintly after his demonic friend, and cast his soft emerald eyes for the girl in his arms, fainted, tear-stained, and--in the spur of the moment, with thousands of thoughts racing through his mind-- truly the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen.
Kurama quickly jerked his eyes away from Botan's face, a light blush clouding his cheeks and nose at the thought of her looks. The young fox sighed heavily as he tudged slowly toward's Keiko's apartment to drop off the spirit guide.
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Kurama: my! she certainly got to write a lot during her school day...and what a chapter, whew! I must say...
Hiei: well duh you liked it...it's about you...
Kurama: you're in it as well...
Hiei: it's your story...don't even bother trying to make me feel better by admitting that I appeared in it...
*Anemone enters her room, not in the least bit surprised at the presence of two demons in her bedroom*
Anemone: hey guys.
Kurama: hello.
Hiei: hn.
Anemone: *glances at computer* oh! you uploaded it...thanks, Kurama! *gives him peck on the cheek...Kurama blushes with a timid grin, Hiei rolls his eyes.*
Hiei: ningen...if you like Kurama so much, why are you writing a story about him and Botan? Why not him and you?
Anemone: just friends, Hiei...see...*pecks Hiei on cheek, and he awkwardly blushes and shuts up*...teehee! You see, you're sort of my friend, too, I guess, and since I think of you two pretty much the same, then following your question, why not a fic about you and me? *Hiei pales, Kurama snickers*...actually, now that I think about it, it's a wierd relationship between us where I guess you're comfortable just breaking into my room and I'm comfortable letting you in the waking hours...and see, Kurama here is my friend too! Well a better friend than you but still do you get my point?
Hiei: why is everyone making references to me breaking into your room?! I don't do it THAT often...
Kurama: three times daily isn't that often? *Hiei is shut up again, this time in angry annoyance*
Anemone: I love you guys...you're so funny to deal with...anyway, please review, and please don't be that negative...oh, and for anyone who may be confused...first chapter was way ahead of everything else that's happening...second chapter onward explains how Kurama begins to get feelings for Botan and what leads up to his fight with Ryooki...k? hope that clears up any confusion...anywho, please review, and please be nice...or at least be constructive in your criticism if criticism is necessary.
Kurama: I doubt it is, Anemone...I like this story!
Anemone: you're so sweet! but really guys, be honest in your reviews, but not harsh...kk?
Hiei: *mumbles* I don't break in that often...
Anemone: *rolls eyes* Hiei you're allowed to break into my house, I've already told you...you've been doing it for over six months...