By Mezi Matsuki
After wandering for a while, Mehin began to get tired. Keecha knew something was wrong when that happened, because he NEVER got tired. After a short time, he was leaning on Nikki and Ami to keep from falling as he walked.
"Are we almost anywhere?" was the question asked by Nikki as they continued to look.
"Why should I know?" was Keecha's grumpy reply. With a mutter, Nikki answered her.
"Cuz you're the youkai..." Suddenly Keecha stopped, causing Nikki and Ami, who were basically carrying Mehin, to trip over her.
"Why did you stop??"
"Shhh!! I heard something!!" With that, all the girls (Mehin had been in and out of consciousness for a while now) began listening for another sound. Seeing something move, Keecha went up to the bush and poked at it a little, trying to figure out what moved. As she was doing this, she just seemed to disappear since something grabbed her and yanked her into the bush. Hearing Keecha's yelp, the other two girls dragged Mehin over to the bush, and were grabbed as well. Seeing their captors, Ami's eyes got wide and she squeaked a small squeak. The only thing any of our group got to see before being drugged was their captors, a group of ragged looking (and scary-looking to Ami) bunch of demons. There were five of them, one for each girl, and two for Mehin in case he woke up.
A while later, Ami began to wake up. She opened her eyes and looked around, noticing the room she was in and it's interesting-ness. She saw the furs hanging on the walls, and the wooden table that had the lamp, the only source of light in the room, sitting on it, and wondered why the rest of the room was dark. "What's that little glimmer of light," she thought, looking at it more. She heard a low growl from that general direction, and she yelped when she noticed that the golden glimmer blinked. Coming forward a little into the light with a slightly louder growl, Kurama glared at her.
"There isn't any reason for the high-pitched noises. They hurt, you know." He said, ears lying flat against his head. "Haven't you ever seen a youko before??" Eyes wide, Ami shook her head and kept staring.
"Why were you carrying the boy? And why are you with Keecha, you're both ningens. Well? Stop staring and answer me!" Despite the fact that Ami knew he was beginning to get annoyed, she didn't answer him. Instead, she asked him a question.
"What did you do with Keecha and Mehin? And who are you? Please don't hurt us..." she said, cringing when she saw his look change to disbelief (which she thought was anger).
"Do you seriously not know who I am?" He asked her, which she answered by shaking her head. All of the sudden, fangirl syndrome kicked in. Shaking Nikki, Ami squealed something that is totally impossible for anyone to understand, due to the speed at which it is said.
"Nikki, look!! Ears!!" Kurama cringed at this point, because despite the fact he couldn't understand it, it was fairly high pitched. "KAWAII!!!!!" was her next shout. Kurama understood this one, and barely had time to mutter "oh no..." before she was on him playing with his ears. Trying to control his moods, he growled loud enough that Nikki heard him.
"Ami, you may want to get off of him... he doesn't look happy..." This was possibly the hugest understatement that Nikki ever said. Having a 15-year-old girl playing with your ears brings a large array of emotions, happiness not being one of them.
"Get... off... of... me... NOW." He growled. All the commotion caused a subordinate to Kurama to knock on the door and ask if everything was ok. Kurama told the youkai to get lost, since there was no way he was letting his subordinate see him with his new "earring".