Disclaimer: Inu yasha is not mine, and he is not hidden under my bed right
now, he is not... I REAPEAT he's not there!! No-- don't look--- ah crap..
you just HAD to look. Well seems like I'll have to take him back to
Japan.. ::Sees extra rope on chair, and looks at the lawyer who found inu,
and grins evilly:: Or do I?? Mr. Lawyer I have a present for you.... hee,
hee, heee....
As the author of this I'd like to say...
THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO HAS REVEIWED!!!!
Since.. I didn't think the were showing up on the website, because every time I went on the search thingy, it said that my story was never created.. but then I got to looking on my own, and I found it... with all these reveiws!! *_* .. unfortunately, I started running around the house, dancing and singing... I think my parents think I'm a little bit crazy now... Oh well, I'm still so happy! So I'd like to send out a special thanks too:
specialpal - I'll get to work on your advice, starting with this chappie okay! ^_^ thankie!
Angel452 - Only I know what will happen!! ha, ha... until I update.. lol..
angelsong89 - Yeah, a little bit O' both ^ _ ^
Sunstar-1217 - actually.. ^_^;;;;; I really don't know the pairing yet.... either it's going to be hiei or Kurama, because eventually she's going to meet all of the spirit detectives (even Kuwabara)... so it all depends on what happens in each chapter...
Yurikkuna - I'm glad you like it!! I like your smiley face guy, its really cool!
LKHfan99 - Oh.. I'm DEFINATELY planning some magic stuff.. heee, hee... still don't know the pairing yet thought.. sorry..
blondkagome - Yes I agree.. a little short... and thanks for the support! I'll keep writing!
Gambit's lover - Thank you!! I really needed help with that one... usually I never catch the small stuff, when I am watching anime.. so I never really learn it.. even if I LOVE the character.. thankie!
arrow-card - yep! only a little birdie told me somethings like that are going to be happening again.. hee...:: gets an innocent expression:: only I didn't say a thing...
Crystal Sapphire - Thanks! It MIGHT take a while for things to get really fluffy.. but there is some small fluff stuff along the way.. *_~ !!! (oh by the way.. how can you do 2 things at once?(whenever I try, like reading while walking, I... well lets just say it's not a pretty sight..two days and a doctor's office later. lol)
Kagome45765 - I'll update sooner okay? lol
Suki1 - I will, in fact, see, I'm updating right now!
Well thank you a bunch everybody, please keep reading!!! On with the story!!
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Roses and Tears
Chapter 4 ~ Where we go and why
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That day, there was a very strange sight going through Tokyo. A boy with long, kept red hair, and green eyes was carrying a bearly dressed girl with black hair, down a busy street sidewalk, getting several stares, and even a few cat calls from the people around them. In any case, the boy was blushing slightly, while the girl remained calm, and quiet.
Kurama looked down at her, and found her sound asleep.
'Well it seems she is worn out from her battle earlier' he thought, nearing the street she had told him was her own. 'She seemed pretty brave to try and fight off all those men at once. Now that I think about it... she might be wounded badly, if she was is this kind of shape when I found her, who knews what happened to her before he got there..' She shifted in her sleep, and his eyes focused on her face. She snuggled in to his chest, letting out a contented sigh, and once again Kurama, started struggling with the blush creeping up his cheeks. He had noticed it once before, but she was... quite... beautiful...
Kurama, to busy struggling with his own thoughts, didn't notice, Kagome's eyes slowly wavering open. She could only see blurry shapes and sizes, but her miko sense were tingling, warning her of something.. she focused harder... a youkai.. was.. close by.. really close... Her eyes focused, and the first thing she saw was...
"Aiee!! ohmy-it isademonkusohelp!!!!!!" (AN: sounds like she said 'Aiee!! itsaemnkuo-help!!!!!)
*SLAP*
Kurama stumbled slightly, as her hand connected with his cheek. Not a touch gentle on her part. She looked at him, rubbing her eyes, muttering
"Huh? Oh.. Kurama? Oh!! I'm so sorry!! I thought you were- nevermind- are you okay?!?!"
"Fine, just wasn't expecting that one...." He said.
She frowned, looking at the red print on his cheek. She reached her hand up, poking it.
"You sure?"
he winced as she did so.
"Yes."
"Really sure?" She poked him again, he winced again.
"Quite."
"Absolutely?" She poked him one last time, him wincing painfully.
"Positive."
"Alright then.." She said, folding her hands against her stomach, a slight smile on her face, at her attempt to make amends to her little 'slap'. There was silence between them, as Kagome looked down the street, she noticed the large shrine coming in to veiw.
"Hey, there is my house!!"
"You live at a shrine?" He asked her quizically. She nodded, then smirking.
"Yes... and we have lots and lots of steps to climb as well.. Kurama."
"Wonderful. " He said, getting her hint, of all the steps he'd have to climb to reach her home, while he carried her. He sighed. Turning, taking the first step..
"one..." She started counting.
another step.
"..two..." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ten minutes later...... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "67... 68....69...70. Yep, all there!! Are you okay Kurama? You look a little tired.."
He did look a little winded from the climbing, but was doing fairly well.
"I'm fine Kagome. Is that your home over there?"
"Yep. You can just go to the front door. I'll knock."
He headed over to the two story home, looking around him.. There were many structures around them, and small well house a little far-off, and a large tree near that. He reached the door, and as she knocked on the door, calling
"Mom!!"
He heard steps inside, before a woman wearing an apron opened the door.
"Oh, Kagome! Who is this young man?" She asked calmly.
"Oh this is Kurama, he saved me from some thugs." She said smiling
"Thats nice. Why don't you two come in?"
"Alright."
She stepped aside, so they could walk through the doorway. After closing the door, she led them up a staircase, and down a hallway, in to a small room, Kurama could only guess was Kagome's room.
"Kagome, you'll have to wash up, before you dress your wounds alright?"
"Okay mom." She turned and left the room, leaving Kurama, and Kagome alone. Still in his arms.
"Kagome..?"
"Yes?"
"Is your mother always this calm when you get hurt? She act like its a trival everyday thing..."
Kagome stiffened at the question. She couldn't tell him it WAS an everyday thing. When every she came back from traveling with Inu yasha, she'd always come back with a new bruise, cut, or scrape. It soon became an usual thing, so everyone got used to it happening, thus no big deal. But she couldn't tell HIM that. He did save her, but he still was a stranger nonetheless.
"I guess that is just her personality."
"Right."
"......"
"......"
"...uh....Kurama..?" She asked uneasily.
"Yes..?"
"Could you.. put me down...?" She stared at him, half smiling, half gigling, as a blush flamed up on his face, to the very roots of his red hair.
"Oh.. yes.. of course.. sorry... where..?"
"On my bed. Over there.." She pointed to the corner ehere a bed, with a blue comforter and pillows layed. He nodded, walking over there, and setting her down gently on her bed. He was about to stand up, when suddenly two arms engulfed him around the neck.
"Thank you for everything Kurama." She whispered in to his ear, before letting him go.
"Your welcome Kagome." He stood up walking to the door, only looking back at her when she said,
"Bye!! See ya later okay?"
"Okay. Bye Higurashi."
He exited through thr door, shutting it quietly behind him, as he continued down the hallway. Thinking 'What an odd girl. Pretty. But odd.'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next day..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kagome layed in her bed, reading a book called "Curse of the Angel". It was very interesting. It was about an angel who was cursed by an evil sorceror, and was turned in to an human until she found true love. She had been taken in as a maid in the castle, un beknown to her, that the prince she personally served was falling head over heals for her. She slowly found herself falling in love with him to, but she knew she could never admit it to him. The sorceror found this out, and came to destroy the prince, and in the midst of the battle, he tried saving her, yelling out that he loved her, and she turned back in to an angel, and together they defeated him. She turned back in to a human, out of free will to live out the rest of their lives as husband and wife.
It was a very cool story, and she lost count how many times she had already read it. Well over ten. She sighed. She would rather be outside, or watching TV, but her mother had sternly told her she would do no such thing, when she saw the extend of her wounds. She had her twisted ankle bandaged, along with her knife cut on her arm, and her sprained wrist. Then in the, having nothing better to do, she had counted 78 bandaids covering her body.
She sighed again. This time defeated.
She marked her page, before closing her book, and set it on the table beside her bed. She leaned back, folding her hands behind her head, only wincing slightly. Her wounds would heal. But her thoughts, weren't helping. She kept replaying yesterday's events over and over again in her head. Girl was walking. girl was attacked. girl beat him up, and started running. girl surrounded by thugs. About to get raped. Boy shows up. Boy save girl. Boy carries girl home. Boy meets, girl's mother. Boy brings her to her room. Girl hugs and thanks boy. Boy leaves. Girl verbally killed by mother. Now girl prisoner in her own home.
Yes. Yesterday was VERY eventful...
"Kagome, You have a visitor. Can he come in?" He mom called from outside of her door
"Yes." She said calmly staring expectantly at the door, inwardly going beserk. Who could 'he' be?!
No..
it couldn't be....
The door open..
It couldn't be could it...?
He poked his head through the door..
bingo....
"Hi Hojo.:" She said cheerfully.
"Hi Kagome! How are you feeling?"
"Fine. What are you doing here Hojo?"
"I heard what happened." He said, pulling up a chair beside her bed.
How did HE find out what happened? She hadn't even come to school today!
"Really? What did you hear?"
"I heard it from your Grandpa. He told me you were attacked by spies by some unknown country, trying to get information on how to vanquish demons from the dark. And you wouldn't tell them, but your grandpa saved you from them. That was so brave Kagome, you have a really great grandpa. Protecting his only grand-daughter. You guys must really love each other.." He said going on and on in awe.
She.. was going.. to KILL him. She thought madly, pasting a smile on her face nodding. Him rescue me?!! Yeah right! Kurama did that!! Thugs not spies! C'mon grandpa, at least tell a better lie!! That baka! She was going to get him back SO bad for this.
".. Anyways Kagome, I brought these healing herbs for you.."
"Gee, thatnks Hojo!" She said, taking the bag he held out to her.
"Your welcome Kagome. I hope you get better soon.."
"Yeah me too..." Then I'll be able to go downstairs, and strangle a certain old-guy..
"Well, I'll let you get your rest. My mother is expecting me home by five, so I've got to hurry."
"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow Hojo."
"Bye Kagome!!" He said cheerfully, getting up, bowing, and leaving the room.
As soon as the door clicked shut. Her angelic smile fell, replaced by a furious one, her eyes flaming with rage, as she called calmly
"Oh Grandpa, could you come her for a moment..?? Please..?"
"Be there in a moment Kagome.."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ meanwhile downstairs.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Well, I'm sorry you didn't get a longer visit with Kagome Hojo.." Kagome's mother said apologetically.
"It's alright Ms. Higurashi, I have to leave on my own accord..."
They heard Kagome call for her Grandpa, followed by several loud crashes, and her grandfather's pleas
"No Kagome--"
"Ah, NO not the chair--!!"
"I'm sorry--"
"Hey are those my---"
"Wha-- no! don't throw that out the windo---"
"Kagome, why?!?!"
Ms. Higurashi kept smiling, as Hojo smiled back at her.
"They sure have a special bond don't they Ms. Higurashi.."
"Yes... Yes they do..."
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Hee, hee, a funny little twist at the end. sry, about no Kurama or spirit detectives in this chappie, but they'll be in the next one okay? Well gotta go, sy ya!!
As the author of this I'd like to say...
THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO HAS REVEIWED!!!!
Since.. I didn't think the were showing up on the website, because every time I went on the search thingy, it said that my story was never created.. but then I got to looking on my own, and I found it... with all these reveiws!! *_* .. unfortunately, I started running around the house, dancing and singing... I think my parents think I'm a little bit crazy now... Oh well, I'm still so happy! So I'd like to send out a special thanks too:
specialpal - I'll get to work on your advice, starting with this chappie okay! ^_^ thankie!
Angel452 - Only I know what will happen!! ha, ha... until I update.. lol..
angelsong89 - Yeah, a little bit O' both ^ _ ^
Sunstar-1217 - actually.. ^_^;;;;; I really don't know the pairing yet.... either it's going to be hiei or Kurama, because eventually she's going to meet all of the spirit detectives (even Kuwabara)... so it all depends on what happens in each chapter...
Yurikkuna - I'm glad you like it!! I like your smiley face guy, its really cool!
LKHfan99 - Oh.. I'm DEFINATELY planning some magic stuff.. heee, hee... still don't know the pairing yet thought.. sorry..
blondkagome - Yes I agree.. a little short... and thanks for the support! I'll keep writing!
Gambit's lover - Thank you!! I really needed help with that one... usually I never catch the small stuff, when I am watching anime.. so I never really learn it.. even if I LOVE the character.. thankie!
arrow-card - yep! only a little birdie told me somethings like that are going to be happening again.. hee...:: gets an innocent expression:: only I didn't say a thing...
Crystal Sapphire - Thanks! It MIGHT take a while for things to get really fluffy.. but there is some small fluff stuff along the way.. *_~ !!! (oh by the way.. how can you do 2 things at once?(whenever I try, like reading while walking, I... well lets just say it's not a pretty sight..two days and a doctor's office later. lol)
Kagome45765 - I'll update sooner okay? lol
Suki1 - I will, in fact, see, I'm updating right now!
Well thank you a bunch everybody, please keep reading!!! On with the story!!
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Roses and Tears
Chapter 4 ~ Where we go and why
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That day, there was a very strange sight going through Tokyo. A boy with long, kept red hair, and green eyes was carrying a bearly dressed girl with black hair, down a busy street sidewalk, getting several stares, and even a few cat calls from the people around them. In any case, the boy was blushing slightly, while the girl remained calm, and quiet.
Kurama looked down at her, and found her sound asleep.
'Well it seems she is worn out from her battle earlier' he thought, nearing the street she had told him was her own. 'She seemed pretty brave to try and fight off all those men at once. Now that I think about it... she might be wounded badly, if she was is this kind of shape when I found her, who knews what happened to her before he got there..' She shifted in her sleep, and his eyes focused on her face. She snuggled in to his chest, letting out a contented sigh, and once again Kurama, started struggling with the blush creeping up his cheeks. He had noticed it once before, but she was... quite... beautiful...
Kurama, to busy struggling with his own thoughts, didn't notice, Kagome's eyes slowly wavering open. She could only see blurry shapes and sizes, but her miko sense were tingling, warning her of something.. she focused harder... a youkai.. was.. close by.. really close... Her eyes focused, and the first thing she saw was...
"Aiee!! ohmy-it isademonkusohelp!!!!!!" (AN: sounds like she said 'Aiee!! itsaemnkuo-help!!!!!)
*SLAP*
Kurama stumbled slightly, as her hand connected with his cheek. Not a touch gentle on her part. She looked at him, rubbing her eyes, muttering
"Huh? Oh.. Kurama? Oh!! I'm so sorry!! I thought you were- nevermind- are you okay?!?!"
"Fine, just wasn't expecting that one...." He said.
She frowned, looking at the red print on his cheek. She reached her hand up, poking it.
"You sure?"
he winced as she did so.
"Yes."
"Really sure?" She poked him again, he winced again.
"Quite."
"Absolutely?" She poked him one last time, him wincing painfully.
"Positive."
"Alright then.." She said, folding her hands against her stomach, a slight smile on her face, at her attempt to make amends to her little 'slap'. There was silence between them, as Kagome looked down the street, she noticed the large shrine coming in to veiw.
"Hey, there is my house!!"
"You live at a shrine?" He asked her quizically. She nodded, then smirking.
"Yes... and we have lots and lots of steps to climb as well.. Kurama."
"Wonderful. " He said, getting her hint, of all the steps he'd have to climb to reach her home, while he carried her. He sighed. Turning, taking the first step..
"one..." She started counting.
another step.
"..two..." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ten minutes later...... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "67... 68....69...70. Yep, all there!! Are you okay Kurama? You look a little tired.."
He did look a little winded from the climbing, but was doing fairly well.
"I'm fine Kagome. Is that your home over there?"
"Yep. You can just go to the front door. I'll knock."
He headed over to the two story home, looking around him.. There were many structures around them, and small well house a little far-off, and a large tree near that. He reached the door, and as she knocked on the door, calling
"Mom!!"
He heard steps inside, before a woman wearing an apron opened the door.
"Oh, Kagome! Who is this young man?" She asked calmly.
"Oh this is Kurama, he saved me from some thugs." She said smiling
"Thats nice. Why don't you two come in?"
"Alright."
She stepped aside, so they could walk through the doorway. After closing the door, she led them up a staircase, and down a hallway, in to a small room, Kurama could only guess was Kagome's room.
"Kagome, you'll have to wash up, before you dress your wounds alright?"
"Okay mom." She turned and left the room, leaving Kurama, and Kagome alone. Still in his arms.
"Kagome..?"
"Yes?"
"Is your mother always this calm when you get hurt? She act like its a trival everyday thing..."
Kagome stiffened at the question. She couldn't tell him it WAS an everyday thing. When every she came back from traveling with Inu yasha, she'd always come back with a new bruise, cut, or scrape. It soon became an usual thing, so everyone got used to it happening, thus no big deal. But she couldn't tell HIM that. He did save her, but he still was a stranger nonetheless.
"I guess that is just her personality."
"Right."
"......"
"......"
"...uh....Kurama..?" She asked uneasily.
"Yes..?"
"Could you.. put me down...?" She stared at him, half smiling, half gigling, as a blush flamed up on his face, to the very roots of his red hair.
"Oh.. yes.. of course.. sorry... where..?"
"On my bed. Over there.." She pointed to the corner ehere a bed, with a blue comforter and pillows layed. He nodded, walking over there, and setting her down gently on her bed. He was about to stand up, when suddenly two arms engulfed him around the neck.
"Thank you for everything Kurama." She whispered in to his ear, before letting him go.
"Your welcome Kagome." He stood up walking to the door, only looking back at her when she said,
"Bye!! See ya later okay?"
"Okay. Bye Higurashi."
He exited through thr door, shutting it quietly behind him, as he continued down the hallway. Thinking 'What an odd girl. Pretty. But odd.'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next day..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kagome layed in her bed, reading a book called "Curse of the Angel". It was very interesting. It was about an angel who was cursed by an evil sorceror, and was turned in to an human until she found true love. She had been taken in as a maid in the castle, un beknown to her, that the prince she personally served was falling head over heals for her. She slowly found herself falling in love with him to, but she knew she could never admit it to him. The sorceror found this out, and came to destroy the prince, and in the midst of the battle, he tried saving her, yelling out that he loved her, and she turned back in to an angel, and together they defeated him. She turned back in to a human, out of free will to live out the rest of their lives as husband and wife.
It was a very cool story, and she lost count how many times she had already read it. Well over ten. She sighed. She would rather be outside, or watching TV, but her mother had sternly told her she would do no such thing, when she saw the extend of her wounds. She had her twisted ankle bandaged, along with her knife cut on her arm, and her sprained wrist. Then in the, having nothing better to do, she had counted 78 bandaids covering her body.
She sighed again. This time defeated.
She marked her page, before closing her book, and set it on the table beside her bed. She leaned back, folding her hands behind her head, only wincing slightly. Her wounds would heal. But her thoughts, weren't helping. She kept replaying yesterday's events over and over again in her head. Girl was walking. girl was attacked. girl beat him up, and started running. girl surrounded by thugs. About to get raped. Boy shows up. Boy save girl. Boy carries girl home. Boy meets, girl's mother. Boy brings her to her room. Girl hugs and thanks boy. Boy leaves. Girl verbally killed by mother. Now girl prisoner in her own home.
Yes. Yesterday was VERY eventful...
"Kagome, You have a visitor. Can he come in?" He mom called from outside of her door
"Yes." She said calmly staring expectantly at the door, inwardly going beserk. Who could 'he' be?!
No..
it couldn't be....
The door open..
It couldn't be could it...?
He poked his head through the door..
bingo....
"Hi Hojo.:" She said cheerfully.
"Hi Kagome! How are you feeling?"
"Fine. What are you doing here Hojo?"
"I heard what happened." He said, pulling up a chair beside her bed.
How did HE find out what happened? She hadn't even come to school today!
"Really? What did you hear?"
"I heard it from your Grandpa. He told me you were attacked by spies by some unknown country, trying to get information on how to vanquish demons from the dark. And you wouldn't tell them, but your grandpa saved you from them. That was so brave Kagome, you have a really great grandpa. Protecting his only grand-daughter. You guys must really love each other.." He said going on and on in awe.
She.. was going.. to KILL him. She thought madly, pasting a smile on her face nodding. Him rescue me?!! Yeah right! Kurama did that!! Thugs not spies! C'mon grandpa, at least tell a better lie!! That baka! She was going to get him back SO bad for this.
".. Anyways Kagome, I brought these healing herbs for you.."
"Gee, thatnks Hojo!" She said, taking the bag he held out to her.
"Your welcome Kagome. I hope you get better soon.."
"Yeah me too..." Then I'll be able to go downstairs, and strangle a certain old-guy..
"Well, I'll let you get your rest. My mother is expecting me home by five, so I've got to hurry."
"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow Hojo."
"Bye Kagome!!" He said cheerfully, getting up, bowing, and leaving the room.
As soon as the door clicked shut. Her angelic smile fell, replaced by a furious one, her eyes flaming with rage, as she called calmly
"Oh Grandpa, could you come her for a moment..?? Please..?"
"Be there in a moment Kagome.."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ meanwhile downstairs.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Well, I'm sorry you didn't get a longer visit with Kagome Hojo.." Kagome's mother said apologetically.
"It's alright Ms. Higurashi, I have to leave on my own accord..."
They heard Kagome call for her Grandpa, followed by several loud crashes, and her grandfather's pleas
"No Kagome--"
"Ah, NO not the chair--!!"
"I'm sorry--"
"Hey are those my---"
"Wha-- no! don't throw that out the windo---"
"Kagome, why?!?!"
Ms. Higurashi kept smiling, as Hojo smiled back at her.
"They sure have a special bond don't they Ms. Higurashi.."
"Yes... Yes they do..."
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Hee, hee, a funny little twist at the end. sry, about no Kurama or spirit detectives in this chappie, but they'll be in the next one okay? Well gotta go, sy ya!!