Disclaimer: Try to sue me and I will give you a dog-drooled sock that my
dog just stole from me. I also do not own 'Gotta Knock A Little Harder'
from Cowboy Bebop.
Note: This chapter's feeling might be different due to my discovery to a MP3 that I cannot have enough of, 'Call Me Call Me' from Cowboy Bebop.
Chapter 14 Blues
"Shuuichi?" Shuuichi's voice called weakly on the edge of Kurama's consciousness.
'Why don't you just kill him yourself?'
'Please.'
'Why don't you just kill him yourself?'
'Please, just kill.'
"Shuuichi?"
'Please, just kill me.'
'Why don't you just kill him yourself?'
"Shuuichi!" Shuuichis voice gained strength and pulled Kurama the state he was in
"Just. Disoriented. I am sorry, but I have to leave now." Kurama turned around silently and left the room with Shuuichi's tired eyes looking after his stepbrother.
~§~
As Kurama was walking home, a bookstore that had a coffee shop inside. Kurama was quite hungry, since he did not want to eat any hospital food, so he opened the door that had a bell attached, and walked inside.
Inside, it was light enough to sit down with a book by the fireplace that was on the far end of the wall. The walls were painted a dark brown that had deep red trimming, and bookcases that matched, but where a bit darker. Kurama looked around for a second, and then walked over to the café corner of the bookstore and ordered a slice of strawberry cheesecake. He paid the blond haired casher that had her hair up into two low pigtails at the back of her head, and took a seat at one of the small iron tables near a window.
The casher watched Kurama for a few moments, and resumed working behind the counter.
After Kurama finished his cheesecake, he got up and looked around the bookstore for a book his mother had her eye on for a couple of weeks, but never had the time to buy it. He located it easily, 'Moon Stones' by Emiko Ikoma. It was a rather moderate sized book, and on the front cover it had a black haired women dressed in a green dress, and holding a jeweled dagger protectively while standing in the background of a forest.
Kurama's eyebrow raised, because it looked like a horror book, and he knew his mother usually read romance books. He hoped he overheard his mother correctly while on the phone to one of her friends as he walked up to the cash register to pay for the book, and then on impulse, also bought the newspaper.
~§~
Kurama was sitting on the tick tree branch of the giant tree that was outside of his room window. His feet were dangling, and he was moving them slowly back and forth as his eyes looked at nothing in particular.
"What are you planning to do?" Hiei asked from a few branches above Kurama.
"That is what I am thinking about."
"Hn."
"He is in so much pain, and I can do something about that. But if he dies right now, that will cause emotional pain to every one around me, including my self. He is going to die any way."
"Just don't do any thing stupid. I do not think I will enjoy hearing that Yusuke was forced to kill you."
Kurama smiled cleverly, "Well, what would *you* do?"
Hiei was silent for a few moments and then answered, "I am not you, nor am I in your situation."
"But what would you do if you were me?" Kurama's smile was a little broader now, knowing that he was making his friend think.
"Hn."
"I need to get back inside, Shiori will be checking in on me soon." Kurama stood up and started to walk to his open window, but then turned around, "Thanks, for listening," then turned back around and continued to his window, and then stepped inside his room and closed it.
Hiei remained in the tree for a few seconds longer, and then vanished in a black blur.
~§~
"Do you think there is any chance of Shuuichi will be coming back up here any time soon?" Maya asked Botan as they were walking down a hallway that lead to a porch that was over Koenma's office, "Because he never told me his story, nor have I told him mine."
"I am sorry, but I do not think so. But he is not one to break a promise."
Maya sighed sadly and looked down at her feet as she started to think.
"Are you alright?" Botan asked.
"Yes, I am fine. Would you, or any one else, have some paper and a pen or something to write with?" Maya asked.
"Oh! I see! You are going to write it! Very clever! Yes, of course we do, why don't we just take a detour and pick you up some?"
"If you really don't mind." Maya answered.
"Of course not!" Botan said happily.
Both girls continued down the hall in till they stopped because they heard something's running their way. Botan and Maya turned around to see Jiro running towards them, with a bunch of onis falling after him, looking VERY angry.
~§~
Kurama sat in his bed, leaning against the wall with his knees drawn up to his chest and his chin resting on them. Sunlight that was filtering through his drawn-closed curtains that were gently billowing in the wind that came from the window, casting some light upon his hair, but did not reach to his deeply troubled eyes, since his hair was shadowing them.
Shiori knocked on Kurama's closed door lightly, then opened it and stepped in, "I have not been hearing any thing up here lately, is every thing alright?" She asked lightly.
"I am fine, mother, just thinking." 'If a youkai kills a human it's a death penalty.' A voice floated through his mind.
"Are you sure? You have been drawn up in you mind a lot lately." Shiori pointed out, "Do you want to talk?"
Kurama forged a weak smile up to his mother, "No thanks, not right now."
Shiori did not look satisfied, "Alright, then. If you need any thing, I am always here." She smiled and left Kurama's room, leaving the door open.
After Kurama was sure she was a few feet down the hall, he got up and closed his door, and sat in the middle of his room, eyes staring off into his own world as a few wisps of his hair were caught in the calm breeze.
~§~
Hiei's head looked in the direction of Kurama's home. He was up high in an elm tree, "Hn." He snorted and then vanished from the spot he was sitting at.
~§~
The child-like gentle breeze was cheerfully playing with long silver strands of hair, like it was a new toy. The breeze flittingly brought some of his hair in front of his gold eyes, and a slender hand brought them out of his eyesight. He continued to sit in the middle of the room, showing no emotion but the coldness in his eyes, even as he felt another energy come towards him.
"Youko?! What the HELL are you doing?! It is broad daylight!" Hiei hissed from the windowsill.
The kitsune's eyes looked up at Hiei who was scowling down at him, "I felt like it."
"Hn."
Youko Kurama did not reply, and after a few moments of silence, Hiei started to leave, but then he noticed Youko Kurama transforming slowly back into Shuuichi Minamino. Hiei watched as sympathetically as he could muster as tears started to slip down Kurama's cheek from his eyes that were turning greener and larger.
"I don't know what to do," Kurama confessed after he was back into his human form, "He asked me to kill him, but the consequences of doing that are great."
"Do you really care what happens to you afterwards?"
".Not really. But it will baffle the hospital staff, and it will cause long- term grief to my family, because doctors and scientists will keep updating them to what they think happened. I know a way to kill him with out leaving a trace, but."
Hiei sighed; this was certainly not his area of expertise.
~§~
"What did you DO Jiro!?" Maya asked after they were well away from the crowd of mad oni's.
Jiro looked up at the two girls, panting, but happy.
"Why did I expect an answer.?" Maya asked out loud.
"What ever he did, they will be mumbling about it for a long time, so you should keep an eye on this little guy." Botan commented.
"Too bad we can't get him out of here for a length of time, I think it would do him good, any ways."
"Hmm, I believe it is the weekend. Maybe we can leave him at Kurama's?" Botan suggested.
"At whose?" Maya asked, dumbfounded.
Botan sweat dropped, "Never mind! Bad idea!" She said horridly and waving her hands back and forth rapidly.
Maya blinked and gasped, "I remember now! I heard Shuuichi called that once in school! That is his real name, isn't it?!"
'Why must all these things happen to me!?' Botan thought.
"I take it by your facial expression that it is. Don't worry, I won't tell him that you helped me remember that. I wonder what made me forget in the first place.?"
~§~
Later on that night, Kurama felt something walking at the foot of his bed, but he paid it no heed so he just turned over in his bed, making the covers on top of him tighter.
". It would be a crime to wake him up." A female voice said.
Kurama's eyes closed tighter, trying to block out the noise.
". Yea, I know." Another female voice stated as the thing that was walking on his bed came closer.
He then turned on his stomach, head facing the wall. After he did this, the thing that was walking on his bed jumped over his back, walked up to his face, sniffed, and then licked Kurama's nose, causing him to fully wake up with a jolt, "Jiro!?"
Maya had to bite the inside of her cheek to keep from smiling at the scene.
Kurama turned around, sat up, and looked at the nervous ferry girl, and then Maya, "Yes?" He asked sleepily.
"Uhhh. We were wondering." Botan answered, carefully thinking over her words before she spoke them, "Can we leave Jiro with you for a while? He.Uh. Caused some trouble. I know it is quite inconvenient for you at the time."
Kurama looked down at the puppy that, in return, looked back at him with wide, luminous eyes. He then chuckled, "Sure, why not. Mother always wanted a dog any way, and I think he would cheer her up." Kurama ruffled Jiros' ears.
Jiro then walked over Kurama's legs and looked up at the two girls as if to say 'goodbye'. Maya smiled and scratched the top of his head. While Botan was watching Jiro, she spotted a long piece of silver hair on the ground by Maya. Her brow furrowed slightly and looked up at Kurama questionably. Kurama bit his lip for a second and then gave her a look as if to say 'it is alright.' Botan nodded in return.
Kurama then looked at the newspaper that was lying on his computer desk, and remembered an article that he had seen on the second page, "Maya, I got the news paper for you, I think you will find an article that proteins to you on the second page. The news paper is on my desk behind you."
Maya stopped petting Jiro and turned around and headed over to Kurama's desk to retrieve the paper.
"It is about your mother and her boyfriend. I believe it will explain better then I could."
~§~
~Emptiness, a lonely parody~
'The singing, it is back. It is different.' Shuuichi thought, 'it is more like jazz.'
~ And my life, another smokin' gun A sign of my indifference~
"Heh." Shuuichi said out loud, lifting up his arm that had an IV in it and looked at it.
~§§~
Yes! I am finally done! Waho! Just a few more chapters I believe boys and girls, until the last one. But then again, I don't know, it could be several more since school has been out for me since the 22nd. Who knows?
Note: This chapter's feeling might be different due to my discovery to a MP3 that I cannot have enough of, 'Call Me Call Me' from Cowboy Bebop.
Chapter 14 Blues
"Shuuichi?" Shuuichi's voice called weakly on the edge of Kurama's consciousness.
'Why don't you just kill him yourself?'
'Please.'
'Why don't you just kill him yourself?'
'Please, just kill.'
"Shuuichi?"
'Please, just kill me.'
'Why don't you just kill him yourself?'
"Shuuichi!" Shuuichis voice gained strength and pulled Kurama the state he was in
"Just. Disoriented. I am sorry, but I have to leave now." Kurama turned around silently and left the room with Shuuichi's tired eyes looking after his stepbrother.
~§~
As Kurama was walking home, a bookstore that had a coffee shop inside. Kurama was quite hungry, since he did not want to eat any hospital food, so he opened the door that had a bell attached, and walked inside.
Inside, it was light enough to sit down with a book by the fireplace that was on the far end of the wall. The walls were painted a dark brown that had deep red trimming, and bookcases that matched, but where a bit darker. Kurama looked around for a second, and then walked over to the café corner of the bookstore and ordered a slice of strawberry cheesecake. He paid the blond haired casher that had her hair up into two low pigtails at the back of her head, and took a seat at one of the small iron tables near a window.
The casher watched Kurama for a few moments, and resumed working behind the counter.
After Kurama finished his cheesecake, he got up and looked around the bookstore for a book his mother had her eye on for a couple of weeks, but never had the time to buy it. He located it easily, 'Moon Stones' by Emiko Ikoma. It was a rather moderate sized book, and on the front cover it had a black haired women dressed in a green dress, and holding a jeweled dagger protectively while standing in the background of a forest.
Kurama's eyebrow raised, because it looked like a horror book, and he knew his mother usually read romance books. He hoped he overheard his mother correctly while on the phone to one of her friends as he walked up to the cash register to pay for the book, and then on impulse, also bought the newspaper.
~§~
Kurama was sitting on the tick tree branch of the giant tree that was outside of his room window. His feet were dangling, and he was moving them slowly back and forth as his eyes looked at nothing in particular.
"What are you planning to do?" Hiei asked from a few branches above Kurama.
"That is what I am thinking about."
"Hn."
"He is in so much pain, and I can do something about that. But if he dies right now, that will cause emotional pain to every one around me, including my self. He is going to die any way."
"Just don't do any thing stupid. I do not think I will enjoy hearing that Yusuke was forced to kill you."
Kurama smiled cleverly, "Well, what would *you* do?"
Hiei was silent for a few moments and then answered, "I am not you, nor am I in your situation."
"But what would you do if you were me?" Kurama's smile was a little broader now, knowing that he was making his friend think.
"Hn."
"I need to get back inside, Shiori will be checking in on me soon." Kurama stood up and started to walk to his open window, but then turned around, "Thanks, for listening," then turned back around and continued to his window, and then stepped inside his room and closed it.
Hiei remained in the tree for a few seconds longer, and then vanished in a black blur.
~§~
"Do you think there is any chance of Shuuichi will be coming back up here any time soon?" Maya asked Botan as they were walking down a hallway that lead to a porch that was over Koenma's office, "Because he never told me his story, nor have I told him mine."
"I am sorry, but I do not think so. But he is not one to break a promise."
Maya sighed sadly and looked down at her feet as she started to think.
"Are you alright?" Botan asked.
"Yes, I am fine. Would you, or any one else, have some paper and a pen or something to write with?" Maya asked.
"Oh! I see! You are going to write it! Very clever! Yes, of course we do, why don't we just take a detour and pick you up some?"
"If you really don't mind." Maya answered.
"Of course not!" Botan said happily.
Both girls continued down the hall in till they stopped because they heard something's running their way. Botan and Maya turned around to see Jiro running towards them, with a bunch of onis falling after him, looking VERY angry.
~§~
Kurama sat in his bed, leaning against the wall with his knees drawn up to his chest and his chin resting on them. Sunlight that was filtering through his drawn-closed curtains that were gently billowing in the wind that came from the window, casting some light upon his hair, but did not reach to his deeply troubled eyes, since his hair was shadowing them.
Shiori knocked on Kurama's closed door lightly, then opened it and stepped in, "I have not been hearing any thing up here lately, is every thing alright?" She asked lightly.
"I am fine, mother, just thinking." 'If a youkai kills a human it's a death penalty.' A voice floated through his mind.
"Are you sure? You have been drawn up in you mind a lot lately." Shiori pointed out, "Do you want to talk?"
Kurama forged a weak smile up to his mother, "No thanks, not right now."
Shiori did not look satisfied, "Alright, then. If you need any thing, I am always here." She smiled and left Kurama's room, leaving the door open.
After Kurama was sure she was a few feet down the hall, he got up and closed his door, and sat in the middle of his room, eyes staring off into his own world as a few wisps of his hair were caught in the calm breeze.
~§~
Hiei's head looked in the direction of Kurama's home. He was up high in an elm tree, "Hn." He snorted and then vanished from the spot he was sitting at.
~§~
The child-like gentle breeze was cheerfully playing with long silver strands of hair, like it was a new toy. The breeze flittingly brought some of his hair in front of his gold eyes, and a slender hand brought them out of his eyesight. He continued to sit in the middle of the room, showing no emotion but the coldness in his eyes, even as he felt another energy come towards him.
"Youko?! What the HELL are you doing?! It is broad daylight!" Hiei hissed from the windowsill.
The kitsune's eyes looked up at Hiei who was scowling down at him, "I felt like it."
"Hn."
Youko Kurama did not reply, and after a few moments of silence, Hiei started to leave, but then he noticed Youko Kurama transforming slowly back into Shuuichi Minamino. Hiei watched as sympathetically as he could muster as tears started to slip down Kurama's cheek from his eyes that were turning greener and larger.
"I don't know what to do," Kurama confessed after he was back into his human form, "He asked me to kill him, but the consequences of doing that are great."
"Do you really care what happens to you afterwards?"
".Not really. But it will baffle the hospital staff, and it will cause long- term grief to my family, because doctors and scientists will keep updating them to what they think happened. I know a way to kill him with out leaving a trace, but."
Hiei sighed; this was certainly not his area of expertise.
~§~
"What did you DO Jiro!?" Maya asked after they were well away from the crowd of mad oni's.
Jiro looked up at the two girls, panting, but happy.
"Why did I expect an answer.?" Maya asked out loud.
"What ever he did, they will be mumbling about it for a long time, so you should keep an eye on this little guy." Botan commented.
"Too bad we can't get him out of here for a length of time, I think it would do him good, any ways."
"Hmm, I believe it is the weekend. Maybe we can leave him at Kurama's?" Botan suggested.
"At whose?" Maya asked, dumbfounded.
Botan sweat dropped, "Never mind! Bad idea!" She said horridly and waving her hands back and forth rapidly.
Maya blinked and gasped, "I remember now! I heard Shuuichi called that once in school! That is his real name, isn't it?!"
'Why must all these things happen to me!?' Botan thought.
"I take it by your facial expression that it is. Don't worry, I won't tell him that you helped me remember that. I wonder what made me forget in the first place.?"
~§~
Later on that night, Kurama felt something walking at the foot of his bed, but he paid it no heed so he just turned over in his bed, making the covers on top of him tighter.
". It would be a crime to wake him up." A female voice said.
Kurama's eyes closed tighter, trying to block out the noise.
". Yea, I know." Another female voice stated as the thing that was walking on his bed came closer.
He then turned on his stomach, head facing the wall. After he did this, the thing that was walking on his bed jumped over his back, walked up to his face, sniffed, and then licked Kurama's nose, causing him to fully wake up with a jolt, "Jiro!?"
Maya had to bite the inside of her cheek to keep from smiling at the scene.
Kurama turned around, sat up, and looked at the nervous ferry girl, and then Maya, "Yes?" He asked sleepily.
"Uhhh. We were wondering." Botan answered, carefully thinking over her words before she spoke them, "Can we leave Jiro with you for a while? He.Uh. Caused some trouble. I know it is quite inconvenient for you at the time."
Kurama looked down at the puppy that, in return, looked back at him with wide, luminous eyes. He then chuckled, "Sure, why not. Mother always wanted a dog any way, and I think he would cheer her up." Kurama ruffled Jiros' ears.
Jiro then walked over Kurama's legs and looked up at the two girls as if to say 'goodbye'. Maya smiled and scratched the top of his head. While Botan was watching Jiro, she spotted a long piece of silver hair on the ground by Maya. Her brow furrowed slightly and looked up at Kurama questionably. Kurama bit his lip for a second and then gave her a look as if to say 'it is alright.' Botan nodded in return.
Kurama then looked at the newspaper that was lying on his computer desk, and remembered an article that he had seen on the second page, "Maya, I got the news paper for you, I think you will find an article that proteins to you on the second page. The news paper is on my desk behind you."
Maya stopped petting Jiro and turned around and headed over to Kurama's desk to retrieve the paper.
"It is about your mother and her boyfriend. I believe it will explain better then I could."
~§~
~Emptiness, a lonely parody~
'The singing, it is back. It is different.' Shuuichi thought, 'it is more like jazz.'
~ And my life, another smokin' gun A sign of my indifference~
"Heh." Shuuichi said out loud, lifting up his arm that had an IV in it and looked at it.
~§§~
Yes! I am finally done! Waho! Just a few more chapters I believe boys and girls, until the last one. But then again, I don't know, it could be several more since school has been out for me since the 22nd. Who knows?