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Chapter 37

Kat and Kenshin sat on the porch once again distancing themselves from one another.

Kat's watch beeped and she growled, "Happy Christmas Eve."

"Yah real happy," someone muttered from behind them.

"Mayonaka?" Kat asked.

"Ah yes! Finally you remember me!" he hissed.

"I'm sorry!" Kat said.

"Sorry doesn't cut it," he said.

"Yah well right now, sorrys all I got," Kat mumbled.

Mayonaka's voice softened, "I heard what happened."

Kat bristled. 'Oh now he's sorry.' "That all you have to say?" Kat asked.

Mayonaka stiffened, "Yah."

Kenshin listened to the patter of his feet as he walked back to his room, "You shouldn't be so hard on him."

"Kenshin, you should save your energy to get better," Kat said.

Golden eyes stared at her from the darkness, "You know very well that I'm not Kenshin."

"With Suzaku gone I'm pretty sure you're not," Kat said.

"It's like my other half has been ripped out and now there's a black hole sucking in anything it can," he explained.

Kat was unmoved by his words, "You should rest."

Kenshin's eyes narrowed at the harshness in her voice.

He closed them and lost consciousness.

Inuyasha came out to see what was going on, "I heard what happened."

"Who hasn't?" Kat asked, not in the mood for small talk.

Inuyasha stiffened at her words, "That's not the ball of energy I know so well."

Kat rested her head on her knees, "Who cares?"

"Come on, Kat. It's Christmas Eve," Inuyasha tried.

"Who gives?" Kat muttered.

Inuyasha seized her arm and made her look him in the eye, "What's wrong with you? It's not your fault Suzaku died."

Kat yanked her arm out of his grasp, "How do you know? You weren't there. She was trying to save me and she was killed."

Inuyasha glared at her.

You're wrong.

"What?" Kat snarled.

Kageunsei sauntered up the steps and sat down on the top one gazing at the small crescent of moon. You're wrong. She died trying to save me.

"What?"

I got my foot caught in between two stones and she pushed me out of the way the last minute. She gave her life to save a heartless wolf.

"You're wrong. You're not heartless. Neither is that man slumped unconscious against the step drunk from too much sake. You choose to hide your feelings and that's what makes you appear heartless. You lie to yourself until you begin to believe your lie that you have no feelings and can't go back," Kat said.

Suzaku said the same thing to me.

"But is she dead?"

What are you talking about?!

Inuyasha crept away unnoticed giving a poor excuse on how tired he was.

"Suzaku might be dead but her spirit lives on. Kenshin will heal and Suzaku will return."

How can you be so dense? She'll never be back, never!

"But her memory still lives on. And you better hold on to that because someday that will be all that's left."

Kageunsei turned to look at Kat.

She gasped when she saw crystalline tears and a large cut on his paw.

You're right. Memories are all that I have left. he stood up and walked to the door.

He paused, "Thank you, Katsura."

(A/N: I must be crazy. Now we got talking wolves! PLEASE REVIEW!!!)