Kokoro No Kaitou : Chapter 8
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Previously:
So cold…he was getting so cold.
But I couldn't bring myself to admit the obvious.
That Youko Kurama, my best friend in all of the world, was dead.
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The sobs made my entire body shake, and I pressed my cheek to his heart, hoping to hear it beat.
Nothing.
"Kurama, you can't leave me!" I said in a hoarse whisper. My heart was wrenching and twisting, and my stomach was doing back flips. I feared that I would get sick, but nothing happened.
Please…wake up!
I bent over him, sobbing harder and harder. I tightened my grip on the front of his shirt.
He couldn't be dead.
He had to be…to be faking it, or something!
"Amaya…" Kuronue's voice said. He couldn't hide his own sadness either.
"Kuronue, he can't be dead." I whispered, before sobbing again.
Hiei growled. "Damn it, onna! The fox is dead, and there isn't anything that you can do about it!"
I couldn't believe it.
No, I wouldn't believe it.
I bent back over his frame, whispering as I cried.
"Kurama…Kurama, please. Come back." I kept asking him to come back, as I cried and rocked back and forth. My tears rolled down my cheeks and some fell onto my hands, which were still clutching his blood-soaked shirt.
All of my memories of him came flooding back at once.
Seeing him for the first time in his human form, meeting my gaze…
Treating me like a human being, not a porcelain doll…
Saving me from Akira when he took me back to his home, and even inviting me to stay there with him…
Teasing me about my dreams…
Healing my finger…
Saving me from those youkai…
Walking in on me in the hot spring…
Sitting back to back in the clearing, under the full moon…talking about our childhoods…
Looking up at me after he fell back in his chair…
Saying that he would never hand me over to Akira…
Holding me after my nightmare about this very moment…
I suddenly heard Kuronue take a step back, and I looked up slightly.
My hands were glowing with a silvery light, and Youko's cuts were closing up. All of them.
I was confused, but I didn't think to question it. I knew that it wouldn't be wise to question Kami-sama when he was helping me. I willed his healing to continue, and kept calling to him. "Kurama, come back. Please, come back."
He started to glow with a faint silver light, and his fingers twitched slightly.
I nearly burst with joy as his eyes fluttered open, and he looked up at me.
"Amaya?"
"Kurama!" I threw my arms around him, and he tensed.
"But…I was dead." He said quietly before pulling away from me.
I felt hurt. "Kurama, who cares how it happened, as long as it did?" I said, before smiling. "You're alive…this is a blessing from Kami-sama!"
I threw my arms around him again, and the tears running down my face were now those of joy.
"Amaya."
I pulled away and looked at him. He had a serious expression on his face.
"I shouldn't be here. I'm supposed to be dead." He said.
Kuronue gave us an awkward smile as he scratched the back of his head. "Well, I say that we get back home."
I stood angrily and walked back to the edge of the hill, surveying the damage that had been done. My anger was quickly replaced by sadness as I saw the slain warriors all over the field.
My heart wrenched again, hurting for those that had passed on.
"The baka is right." Hiei said. "We need to get back home to take care of our wounds." He looked Youko up and down before adding, "Though it seems that Amaya has taken care of that for you, kitsune."
I turned around to face them. "I didn't do anything! My hands just glowed, and then he started to glow! I told you that Kami-sama was the one that did this!" I said, holding up my hands for emphasis.
Youko sighed. "He's right. Let's get back home. We can talk about this later."
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It took us a while to get back home, because of Kuronue's wing, but we made it by dawn. Of course, by then, all of us were exhausted. Youko saw to it that Hiei and Kuronue were treated for their wounds (apparently they had a healer there) while Youko and I went back to the bedroom.
I was still mad at him. I mean, it wasn't like it was a bad thing that he had somehow come back to life (I wasn't complaining, that's for sure) but he seemed really upset about it. And it seemed like he was blaming me for it.
But how was I to blame for a supernatural act?
I was human!
Either way, Youko didn't say anything more about the matter. He just started changing out of his bloody clothes, and I quickly turned around so that I wouldn't see him naked.
I heard him chuckle. "Amaya, I've seen you naked, so why shouldn't you see me?"
I glared, though he couldn't see. "Because that's disgusting. I don't want to see you naked."
He was quiet for a minute before he told me that it was okay for me to turn around. He had changed into a clean pair of pants, but he wore no shirt. He held the bundle of bloody laundry in his hand.
He raised an eyebrow at me, and I realized that I must have been staring.
He smirked at me. "Bet you never had a dream quite so good as this, huh, Amaya?"
I glared. "I told you before - I would never dream of you in that kind of way."
He shrugged. "Denial." He looked over at me. "And what exactly is up with your outfit?"
I blushed. "Oh! One of the female thieves, Leiko, let me have it. I think it's a bit too revealing."
He kept his serious expression and looked over me one last time. "No. It looks good on you."
I blushed again, and cursed myself for being so girlish. Not that there was anything wrong with being complimented - it was just that I didn't like blushing about it.
"Amaya…"
"Hm?"
"Did I ever…thank you?" He asked awkwardly.
"Thank me? For what?" I said, confused by what he had said.
"For…reviving me." He said, avoiding eye contact with me.
I smiled. "I told you that I didn't do that. I couldn't have. I'm human, remember?"
He looked over at me and sighed. "Right. I forgot. Now come on and get changed so we can go to bed."
I looked down at my feet, and he rolled his eyes.
"Fine, fine. I'll get out." He said, walking past me and out the door. I heard him grumble something about 'nothing I haven't seen before' as he went past. I smiled, and quickly changed into a sleeping yukata and told him that he could come back in. He did. He walked over to the bed and flopped down, and I got onto the other side.
We're acting as if nothing out of the ordinary happened… I thought to myself. He had his back to me, and I tentatively reached out and hugged him from behind, pressing my cheek to his bare back. He tensed, but I didn't let him go.
"Kurama…I'm glad that you're okay." I whispered.
He rolled over and faced me in the darkness. "I am too." He whispered back.
He wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me even closer to him, and I relaxed into his embrace.
Then, something happened that surprised me more than anything ever had before.
Something warm and soft pressed against my lips, and my eyes widened in shock as I realized what was happening.
Youko was…kissing me.
It was short and quick, ad then he pulled away. He rested his forehead against mine, and his finger started tracing the outline of my lips. I could feel his warm breath tickling my face.
"Amaya…you know that I care about you, right?" He said, a slight hoarseness to his voice.
The finger that had been tracing my lips moved under my chin, and tilted my face up towards him. I really wished that I could see him, but I couldn't through the darkness.
He kissed me again, a bit more fiercely. I responded as best as I could, by putting my hand behind his head and pulling him to me. He slipped his tongue into my mouth, which surprised and delighted me at the same time. He explored my mouth for about a minute, and I pulled away when I felt as though it was getting a little too passionate. The kiss had left me gasping for breath, and I could hear Youko panting lightly as well.
I smiled at him through the darkness. "Kurama-kun, we should probably get some sleep."
I heard him sigh. "Fine."
I pressed my cheek to his bare chest, and smiled again as he put his arms around my waist. We fell asleep like that, and this time I only had happy dreams. Happy dreams filled with a certain silver-haired kitsune.
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The next morning (technically it was evening - we had gotten back at dawn, and had slept through the entire day) I felt strangely exhausted. My entire body ached, and I felt as though there wasn't enough energy left in me to move. Youko tried to get me to get up, but I kept falling back asleep every time he woke me.
I think that after while he gave up on me and left, because the next time I awoke it was some time later and it was Kuronue in front of me instead of him.
I gave him a sleepy smile. "Ohayo, Kuronue-kun. How is your wing?"
"All better now." He replied as he stood again. "Come on. You need to get up."
I sat up and looked at him quizzically. "Why? Is something wrong?"
"Just come on."
His bossy tone annoyed me slightly, but I was still too tired to respond. I threw the covers off of me and stood, following him as he walked out of the room.
As it would turn out, our destination was the library. When we arrived, Youko and Hiei were already there, and both had their feet propped up on the table as they waited for Kuronue and I to approach.
I felt like a child that knew she was about to be scolded for something that she hadn't done.
I smiled awkwardly at them. I still felt odd about Youko kissing me, so I avoided eye contact with him for the moment.
Instead, I turned my attention to Hiei.
"Hiei, you seem a lot better now. How are you feeling?" I asked politely.
"Hn." Was his reply to that.
"Amaya…we need to talk." Youko said, yanking my attention towards him.
I instantly felt panic grow in my heart.
Was this about our kiss? Or about his revival? Was he going to tell me that I wasn't welcome here anymore, and that I had to leave? There were so many possibilities, and each was more frightening than the last.
"We think that we may have found an explanation as to what happened." Hiei said.
"What…happened?" I repeated.
"My revival." Youko said. "From two days ago."
"Two days? Have I been asleep that long?" I asked, a bit surprised. I hadn't known that I was capable of sleeping for two straight days.
He nodded. "Yeah. For about that long."
"Kitsune, get to the point." Hiei snorted.
"Right, right. Relax, Hiei." Youko said with a glare. He turned back to me. "Amaya…we have reason to believe that you may not be entirely human."
"What do you mean, 'not human'?" I asked, now very confused.
Kuronue spoke up. "While you were sleeping, Kurama here tried to find an explanation to what happened. He stumbled onto a book about-"
Hiei cut him off. "Tennyos."
"Tennyo?" I repeated.
"Celestial maidens, heavenly maidens, they have many names that mean pretty much the same thing." Youko said.
"So you think that…I'm a tennyo?" I asked.
Youko nodded and pointed to a book laying on the table, closed. I looked at the title, Heavenly Creatures.
"All the signs, everything, was in there." He said.
"Like…what?" I felt numb. First, I wasn't from my family, and now I wasn't even human?
"Well, there was the clairvoyance." Hiei said.
I looked over to him. "What?"
"Seeing the future." Kuronue said. "You did have a dream about Kurama getting killed, right?"
I nodded mutely.
"And then there was mental dominance." Hiei said.
Before I could even open my mouth to ask what it was, Youko was already answering. "That means that you can give people a little push so that they do what you want them to. You used it on Hiei when you made him eat your food, and on Kuronue when you asked him where I was."
"Also, tennyos can heal at incredibly high speeds. Faster than demons." Kuronue said. "That's why your bruise was gone even before Kurama's was."
"And lastly, healing powers." Youko said. "You healed my body after I died, which made it able to house my soul again. And apparently, you also have enough power to pull a soul back from limbo into the living world."
"You mean…that glowing light…was coming from me?" I asked.
He nodded.
Youko smirked. "Oh yeah, and have you heard about the legends?"
I shook my head.
"Heavenly maidens are also supposed to be incredibly beautiful. You fit that description as well."
I blushed, and looked down at my feet. "H-How is that in a legend?"
"The legend of the celestial maiden is of a fisherman. It varies from story to story, but the fisherman finds three really beautiful women bathing in a spring. He realizes that they're tennyos and takes one of their heavenly robes, which allow them to travel back to heaven - which, by the way, happens to be represented by the moon. He shows himself, and two of the maidens fly away, leaving one in the spring. He takes her home to be his bride, they have a few kids, she learns where the robe is, and she flies back to heaven leaving the man all alone - just like a typical woman." Kuronue said.
I glared at him about the last comment. I crossed my arms over my chest. "I still don't see how all of these coincidences make me a celestial maiden."
"Face it, onna. You're a tennyo." Hiei said.
Kuronue stretched. "Well, my part's done, so I'm going to go get me some breakfast."
Hiei got up as well. "Wait for me, you oaf. I'm sure as hell not going to eat that crappy tofu again."
They left the room, leaving Youko and I alone. I sighed and sat down across from him, running a hand through my hair. We were both silent for what seemed like forever.
Finally, he spoke up.
"Are you okay?"
I glared at him. "Well, Kuronue woke me up from a very nice dream to find out that I'm not human. Oh yeah, I'm just perfect."
He got that playful smirk again. "Another dream, Amaya? About what?"
I rolled my eyes. "I swear! Will you ever stop being such a hentai?!"
He chuckled. "Probably not."
I smiled, but stopped when my stomach rumbled loudly.
He smirked at me. "Will you ever stop being hungry?"
I stood and put my hands on my hips, giving him a playful glare. "Probably not."
He started to stand, when suddenly I remembered the book that he had been reading, the one with the tsuki.
"Oh!"
He looked over at me. "What?"
I tried to think of what to say. Would he be mad if he knew that I had been snooping around, trying to find out what he had been reading? I decided to take my chances.
"Kurama, the other day…after the whole scythe incident, I kind of…" I drifted off.
"Kind of what?" He asked.
"Um, well, I had seen that you were reading a book, and I wanted to know what it had been so I…came back here and read that page. The page about the tsuki." I said, wringing my hands.
He didn't say anything, and I assumed that that meant he wanted me to continue.
"Well, I was wondering…you didn't know that I was a tennyo before, so why were you reading that?" I asked.
"Mainly because of the fact that you had been having dreams about the moon. Also, because the time that you made Hiei eat your food, a very faint symbol appeared on your forehead." He pointed to his own forehead to emphasis his point. "And it was the same symbol that was on that page. A crescent moon."
I nodded. "But why would that appear on my forehead?"
"Probably because it's a symbol of your powers or something." He shrugged. "I don't know everything."
"Oh."
"Let's stop talking about this tennyo thing and get some breakfast." He said. "I'm hungry too."
I smiled, and we walked to breakfast together.
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Author's Notes: Ahh! I think this chapter SUCKED. But that's just me. The whole death scene was pretty badly written, and the part where they talk about Amaya being a tennyo is weird too. Does anybody know if 'tennyos' is the plural form of tennyo or not? Because I wasn't sure, but I really wanted to post this chapter up today so…your help would be appreciated. And was it just me, or did the whole 'crescent moon on the forehead' thing sound a little too Sailor Moon? It sounded good when I thought about it, but when I wrote it, I imagined Amaya suddenly jumping up and yelling 'Moon Crystal Power' - which, by the way, was NOT what I was going for. What do you think?
Thanks To All Those That Reviewed The Last Chapter:
YoukoKurama: She's not quite a demon, but she isn't human either. She's immortal. Close enough. Thanks for the review!
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Abby: Do you know that you're the first person that's asked me that? Well, since I'm not very good at Japanese grammar, the title can be roughly translated in two ways: Mysterious Thief Of Hearts or Mysterious Thief's Heart. Both ways apply to the story, which I think is really cool!
Japanese Dictionary For This Chapter:
I don't think there is anything new…
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Previously:
So cold…he was getting so cold.
But I couldn't bring myself to admit the obvious.
That Youko Kurama, my best friend in all of the world, was dead.
~*~
The sobs made my entire body shake, and I pressed my cheek to his heart, hoping to hear it beat.
Nothing.
"Kurama, you can't leave me!" I said in a hoarse whisper. My heart was wrenching and twisting, and my stomach was doing back flips. I feared that I would get sick, but nothing happened.
Please…wake up!
I bent over him, sobbing harder and harder. I tightened my grip on the front of his shirt.
He couldn't be dead.
He had to be…to be faking it, or something!
"Amaya…" Kuronue's voice said. He couldn't hide his own sadness either.
"Kuronue, he can't be dead." I whispered, before sobbing again.
Hiei growled. "Damn it, onna! The fox is dead, and there isn't anything that you can do about it!"
I couldn't believe it.
No, I wouldn't believe it.
I bent back over his frame, whispering as I cried.
"Kurama…Kurama, please. Come back." I kept asking him to come back, as I cried and rocked back and forth. My tears rolled down my cheeks and some fell onto my hands, which were still clutching his blood-soaked shirt.
All of my memories of him came flooding back at once.
Seeing him for the first time in his human form, meeting my gaze…
Treating me like a human being, not a porcelain doll…
Saving me from Akira when he took me back to his home, and even inviting me to stay there with him…
Teasing me about my dreams…
Healing my finger…
Saving me from those youkai…
Walking in on me in the hot spring…
Sitting back to back in the clearing, under the full moon…talking about our childhoods…
Looking up at me after he fell back in his chair…
Saying that he would never hand me over to Akira…
Holding me after my nightmare about this very moment…
I suddenly heard Kuronue take a step back, and I looked up slightly.
My hands were glowing with a silvery light, and Youko's cuts were closing up. All of them.
I was confused, but I didn't think to question it. I knew that it wouldn't be wise to question Kami-sama when he was helping me. I willed his healing to continue, and kept calling to him. "Kurama, come back. Please, come back."
He started to glow with a faint silver light, and his fingers twitched slightly.
I nearly burst with joy as his eyes fluttered open, and he looked up at me.
"Amaya?"
"Kurama!" I threw my arms around him, and he tensed.
"But…I was dead." He said quietly before pulling away from me.
I felt hurt. "Kurama, who cares how it happened, as long as it did?" I said, before smiling. "You're alive…this is a blessing from Kami-sama!"
I threw my arms around him again, and the tears running down my face were now those of joy.
"Amaya."
I pulled away and looked at him. He had a serious expression on his face.
"I shouldn't be here. I'm supposed to be dead." He said.
Kuronue gave us an awkward smile as he scratched the back of his head. "Well, I say that we get back home."
I stood angrily and walked back to the edge of the hill, surveying the damage that had been done. My anger was quickly replaced by sadness as I saw the slain warriors all over the field.
My heart wrenched again, hurting for those that had passed on.
"The baka is right." Hiei said. "We need to get back home to take care of our wounds." He looked Youko up and down before adding, "Though it seems that Amaya has taken care of that for you, kitsune."
I turned around to face them. "I didn't do anything! My hands just glowed, and then he started to glow! I told you that Kami-sama was the one that did this!" I said, holding up my hands for emphasis.
Youko sighed. "He's right. Let's get back home. We can talk about this later."
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It took us a while to get back home, because of Kuronue's wing, but we made it by dawn. Of course, by then, all of us were exhausted. Youko saw to it that Hiei and Kuronue were treated for their wounds (apparently they had a healer there) while Youko and I went back to the bedroom.
I was still mad at him. I mean, it wasn't like it was a bad thing that he had somehow come back to life (I wasn't complaining, that's for sure) but he seemed really upset about it. And it seemed like he was blaming me for it.
But how was I to blame for a supernatural act?
I was human!
Either way, Youko didn't say anything more about the matter. He just started changing out of his bloody clothes, and I quickly turned around so that I wouldn't see him naked.
I heard him chuckle. "Amaya, I've seen you naked, so why shouldn't you see me?"
I glared, though he couldn't see. "Because that's disgusting. I don't want to see you naked."
He was quiet for a minute before he told me that it was okay for me to turn around. He had changed into a clean pair of pants, but he wore no shirt. He held the bundle of bloody laundry in his hand.
He raised an eyebrow at me, and I realized that I must have been staring.
He smirked at me. "Bet you never had a dream quite so good as this, huh, Amaya?"
I glared. "I told you before - I would never dream of you in that kind of way."
He shrugged. "Denial." He looked over at me. "And what exactly is up with your outfit?"
I blushed. "Oh! One of the female thieves, Leiko, let me have it. I think it's a bit too revealing."
He kept his serious expression and looked over me one last time. "No. It looks good on you."
I blushed again, and cursed myself for being so girlish. Not that there was anything wrong with being complimented - it was just that I didn't like blushing about it.
"Amaya…"
"Hm?"
"Did I ever…thank you?" He asked awkwardly.
"Thank me? For what?" I said, confused by what he had said.
"For…reviving me." He said, avoiding eye contact with me.
I smiled. "I told you that I didn't do that. I couldn't have. I'm human, remember?"
He looked over at me and sighed. "Right. I forgot. Now come on and get changed so we can go to bed."
I looked down at my feet, and he rolled his eyes.
"Fine, fine. I'll get out." He said, walking past me and out the door. I heard him grumble something about 'nothing I haven't seen before' as he went past. I smiled, and quickly changed into a sleeping yukata and told him that he could come back in. He did. He walked over to the bed and flopped down, and I got onto the other side.
We're acting as if nothing out of the ordinary happened… I thought to myself. He had his back to me, and I tentatively reached out and hugged him from behind, pressing my cheek to his bare back. He tensed, but I didn't let him go.
"Kurama…I'm glad that you're okay." I whispered.
He rolled over and faced me in the darkness. "I am too." He whispered back.
He wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me even closer to him, and I relaxed into his embrace.
Then, something happened that surprised me more than anything ever had before.
Something warm and soft pressed against my lips, and my eyes widened in shock as I realized what was happening.
Youko was…kissing me.
It was short and quick, ad then he pulled away. He rested his forehead against mine, and his finger started tracing the outline of my lips. I could feel his warm breath tickling my face.
"Amaya…you know that I care about you, right?" He said, a slight hoarseness to his voice.
The finger that had been tracing my lips moved under my chin, and tilted my face up towards him. I really wished that I could see him, but I couldn't through the darkness.
He kissed me again, a bit more fiercely. I responded as best as I could, by putting my hand behind his head and pulling him to me. He slipped his tongue into my mouth, which surprised and delighted me at the same time. He explored my mouth for about a minute, and I pulled away when I felt as though it was getting a little too passionate. The kiss had left me gasping for breath, and I could hear Youko panting lightly as well.
I smiled at him through the darkness. "Kurama-kun, we should probably get some sleep."
I heard him sigh. "Fine."
I pressed my cheek to his bare chest, and smiled again as he put his arms around my waist. We fell asleep like that, and this time I only had happy dreams. Happy dreams filled with a certain silver-haired kitsune.
~*~
The next morning (technically it was evening - we had gotten back at dawn, and had slept through the entire day) I felt strangely exhausted. My entire body ached, and I felt as though there wasn't enough energy left in me to move. Youko tried to get me to get up, but I kept falling back asleep every time he woke me.
I think that after while he gave up on me and left, because the next time I awoke it was some time later and it was Kuronue in front of me instead of him.
I gave him a sleepy smile. "Ohayo, Kuronue-kun. How is your wing?"
"All better now." He replied as he stood again. "Come on. You need to get up."
I sat up and looked at him quizzically. "Why? Is something wrong?"
"Just come on."
His bossy tone annoyed me slightly, but I was still too tired to respond. I threw the covers off of me and stood, following him as he walked out of the room.
As it would turn out, our destination was the library. When we arrived, Youko and Hiei were already there, and both had their feet propped up on the table as they waited for Kuronue and I to approach.
I felt like a child that knew she was about to be scolded for something that she hadn't done.
I smiled awkwardly at them. I still felt odd about Youko kissing me, so I avoided eye contact with him for the moment.
Instead, I turned my attention to Hiei.
"Hiei, you seem a lot better now. How are you feeling?" I asked politely.
"Hn." Was his reply to that.
"Amaya…we need to talk." Youko said, yanking my attention towards him.
I instantly felt panic grow in my heart.
Was this about our kiss? Or about his revival? Was he going to tell me that I wasn't welcome here anymore, and that I had to leave? There were so many possibilities, and each was more frightening than the last.
"We think that we may have found an explanation as to what happened." Hiei said.
"What…happened?" I repeated.
"My revival." Youko said. "From two days ago."
"Two days? Have I been asleep that long?" I asked, a bit surprised. I hadn't known that I was capable of sleeping for two straight days.
He nodded. "Yeah. For about that long."
"Kitsune, get to the point." Hiei snorted.
"Right, right. Relax, Hiei." Youko said with a glare. He turned back to me. "Amaya…we have reason to believe that you may not be entirely human."
"What do you mean, 'not human'?" I asked, now very confused.
Kuronue spoke up. "While you were sleeping, Kurama here tried to find an explanation to what happened. He stumbled onto a book about-"
Hiei cut him off. "Tennyos."
"Tennyo?" I repeated.
"Celestial maidens, heavenly maidens, they have many names that mean pretty much the same thing." Youko said.
"So you think that…I'm a tennyo?" I asked.
Youko nodded and pointed to a book laying on the table, closed. I looked at the title, Heavenly Creatures.
"All the signs, everything, was in there." He said.
"Like…what?" I felt numb. First, I wasn't from my family, and now I wasn't even human?
"Well, there was the clairvoyance." Hiei said.
I looked over to him. "What?"
"Seeing the future." Kuronue said. "You did have a dream about Kurama getting killed, right?"
I nodded mutely.
"And then there was mental dominance." Hiei said.
Before I could even open my mouth to ask what it was, Youko was already answering. "That means that you can give people a little push so that they do what you want them to. You used it on Hiei when you made him eat your food, and on Kuronue when you asked him where I was."
"Also, tennyos can heal at incredibly high speeds. Faster than demons." Kuronue said. "That's why your bruise was gone even before Kurama's was."
"And lastly, healing powers." Youko said. "You healed my body after I died, which made it able to house my soul again. And apparently, you also have enough power to pull a soul back from limbo into the living world."
"You mean…that glowing light…was coming from me?" I asked.
He nodded.
Youko smirked. "Oh yeah, and have you heard about the legends?"
I shook my head.
"Heavenly maidens are also supposed to be incredibly beautiful. You fit that description as well."
I blushed, and looked down at my feet. "H-How is that in a legend?"
"The legend of the celestial maiden is of a fisherman. It varies from story to story, but the fisherman finds three really beautiful women bathing in a spring. He realizes that they're tennyos and takes one of their heavenly robes, which allow them to travel back to heaven - which, by the way, happens to be represented by the moon. He shows himself, and two of the maidens fly away, leaving one in the spring. He takes her home to be his bride, they have a few kids, she learns where the robe is, and she flies back to heaven leaving the man all alone - just like a typical woman." Kuronue said.
I glared at him about the last comment. I crossed my arms over my chest. "I still don't see how all of these coincidences make me a celestial maiden."
"Face it, onna. You're a tennyo." Hiei said.
Kuronue stretched. "Well, my part's done, so I'm going to go get me some breakfast."
Hiei got up as well. "Wait for me, you oaf. I'm sure as hell not going to eat that crappy tofu again."
They left the room, leaving Youko and I alone. I sighed and sat down across from him, running a hand through my hair. We were both silent for what seemed like forever.
Finally, he spoke up.
"Are you okay?"
I glared at him. "Well, Kuronue woke me up from a very nice dream to find out that I'm not human. Oh yeah, I'm just perfect."
He got that playful smirk again. "Another dream, Amaya? About what?"
I rolled my eyes. "I swear! Will you ever stop being such a hentai?!"
He chuckled. "Probably not."
I smiled, but stopped when my stomach rumbled loudly.
He smirked at me. "Will you ever stop being hungry?"
I stood and put my hands on my hips, giving him a playful glare. "Probably not."
He started to stand, when suddenly I remembered the book that he had been reading, the one with the tsuki.
"Oh!"
He looked over at me. "What?"
I tried to think of what to say. Would he be mad if he knew that I had been snooping around, trying to find out what he had been reading? I decided to take my chances.
"Kurama, the other day…after the whole scythe incident, I kind of…" I drifted off.
"Kind of what?" He asked.
"Um, well, I had seen that you were reading a book, and I wanted to know what it had been so I…came back here and read that page. The page about the tsuki." I said, wringing my hands.
He didn't say anything, and I assumed that that meant he wanted me to continue.
"Well, I was wondering…you didn't know that I was a tennyo before, so why were you reading that?" I asked.
"Mainly because of the fact that you had been having dreams about the moon. Also, because the time that you made Hiei eat your food, a very faint symbol appeared on your forehead." He pointed to his own forehead to emphasis his point. "And it was the same symbol that was on that page. A crescent moon."
I nodded. "But why would that appear on my forehead?"
"Probably because it's a symbol of your powers or something." He shrugged. "I don't know everything."
"Oh."
"Let's stop talking about this tennyo thing and get some breakfast." He said. "I'm hungry too."
I smiled, and we walked to breakfast together.
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Author's Notes: Ahh! I think this chapter SUCKED. But that's just me. The whole death scene was pretty badly written, and the part where they talk about Amaya being a tennyo is weird too. Does anybody know if 'tennyos' is the plural form of tennyo or not? Because I wasn't sure, but I really wanted to post this chapter up today so…your help would be appreciated. And was it just me, or did the whole 'crescent moon on the forehead' thing sound a little too Sailor Moon? It sounded good when I thought about it, but when I wrote it, I imagined Amaya suddenly jumping up and yelling 'Moon Crystal Power' - which, by the way, was NOT what I was going for. What do you think?
Thanks To All Those That Reviewed The Last Chapter:
YoukoKurama: She's not quite a demon, but she isn't human either. She's immortal. Close enough. Thanks for the review!
TrU AzN cHiK: Thanks! Yeah, Bloody Mary scares me too.
psychopath143: He didn't die! Well, permanently anyways. Thanks for the review! And yes, he IS too hot to die!
Wizardess Gal: Hey! You aren't supposed to know what's going to happen! LOL
Abby: Do you know that you're the first person that's asked me that? Well, since I'm not very good at Japanese grammar, the title can be roughly translated in two ways: Mysterious Thief Of Hearts or Mysterious Thief's Heart. Both ways apply to the story, which I think is really cool!
Japanese Dictionary For This Chapter:
I don't think there is anything new…
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