Broken Angel: Hi! What's up? I don't really feel like writing this
authors note today so, Baka, your on, then on with the story.

Baka: Okay...Uh...

BA: *Smacks forehead* You forgot what to say didn't you?

B: *Shakes head in meaning of yes.*

BA: What do you usually say?

B: Uh...Broken Angel doesn't own YYH?

BA: Yes, that's what you say. Now can you say it without the
question mark, just to make sure I don't get sued?

B: Uh-huh. Broken angel does own YYH.

BA: NOOOOOOOO!!!! You're supposed to say, "Broken Angel doesn't own
YYH!!!!!!!" Not that I do! Because I don't! I wish I did, but I
don't!

B: *Looks angrily at BA*

BA: What?

B: You stole my line.

BA: I wouldn't have if you would have said it in the first place.

B: You stole my line.

BA: We've established that, already.

B: You stole my line.

BA: Are you going to keep on saying that?

B: You stole my line.

BA: Lets just get on with the story.

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I woke in the morning, much better than before, I'll have to remember to try to get the recipe for Kurama's potion. I pet Celer as she wakes up besides me. She purrs and walks into the living room, she's glad that she's free to walk around the apartment as she pleases now. Yusuke's friends all stayed over last night. Baka and Krysta are sleeping on the floor of my room, in the "sleeping bags" that I had created from Youlukean Botst Tree leaves.

I hate to wake them up, but I need to get them, and Yusuke, along with my mother to a safe place. It probably won't hurt to bring along Yusuke's friends. Lecto will probably use them to get to Yusuke, and by getting to Yusuke, he'll get to me.

I still can't believe that he would do that. Why would Lecto do that? He is my most loyal priest, I mean he was. It's so confusing. I need to think. I'll get everyone to safety, then I'll go to my pocket dimension.

Just where will I take them? I know, Vetntol Inari owes me. I'll take them there. To his home dimension. He'll be able to protect them while I figure out exactly what's going on.

I wake up Baka and Krysta, Baka is not a morning person. I got zapped by her electricity. Ouch. Krysta, on the other hand, is, as always, chipper. She smiles brightly at me as she goes into the kitchen to fix breakfast for everyone. I hope she doesn't burn anything.

I suddenly feel very content, kind of like when I pet Celer, she transmits the feelings she has that are good to me all the time. It feels like someone's petting her right now. Who would have that nerve? Didn't the br- I mean-Koenma teach them something about the proper etiquette with people with spirit beasts. You don't touch them unless they're person gives you permission...oh...whoever is petting her has moved to rubbing her chest and stomach......Uh...Okay...get a grip...just go into the living room and see who's doing that...oh...

Trying to ignore the feelings that Celer is sending me, I go into the living room, I find no one. Oh...Well, that su-...uh......oh...I go into the kitchen and find what I expected to, Krysta was fixing bacon and eggs, they smell quite enticing. Trying to keep my composure, I ask her where Celer is, usually I'd be able to tell automatically, but as you know, I'm trying to keep myself from moaning out loud from ecstasy. Oh...whoever's got there hands on Celer knows how to use them, and knows what is happening, or they're just obsessed with an animal's chest...oh...mmm...Okay...where was I? Oh, yeah, asking Krysta where Celer is. "Krysta? Do you...uh...know where...um...Celer is?"

"Last time I saw her, she went into your brother's room." Okay, that's where Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama, and Kuwarba are sleeping. Please, don't let the person touching Celer be Kuwarba. Oh...If the guy goes on for much longer, I'm going to have an orgasm. (* O_O Did I just write that? *) I walk to the door to Yusuke's room, it's open enough for Celer to get in. I peak in and see my brother, and the imbecile sleeping, I don't see Hiei or Kurama though. I hear a noise behind me, Hiei just sat down on the couch, besides Baka, she's happy. I'm glad she's finally found someone to like, she's a loving shade of red. Hiei seems more a confused yet loving shade of red. Cute. Well, that leaves Kurama, he must still be in the room, and I don't see him anywhere.

I walk over to the kitchen, and whistle, my usual signal for Celer to come to me. She doesn't come, and she's doing it on purpose. I telepathically communicate with her. "Celer, come here! Now!" She doesn't respond, she just stays in his arms. Right after I say that to her, I feel a little laughing yellow coming from Hiei, he knows what's going on? Why doesn't he help me then? I feel him sending a telepathic message to Kurama, the only person in the room awake. It's has to be him doing this to me.

The pampering that Celer was receiving turned up a notch, instead of feeling a touch on both my stomach and my small chest, I feel the touch focusing around Celer's and my own chest. Oh...He wants to play it like that? Okay. I'd play, but unfortunately, he doesn't have s spirit beast. Damn. Why is he doing this? I mean, it's not...ooh...it's not as if he...uh...he...he...he likes me in that way does he? I don't have time for this. I force myself to regain my composure as I walk into the room. I look at Kurama, who has, from what I can feel, my Celer quite happily laying on her back in his lap as he touches her. He is radiating a seductive shade of red, I nearly let him continue, but, I have to worry about Krysta, and Baka, and my brother and mother. "Celer. To me," I speak aloud. Celer radiates an angry red at being disturbed from this pleasure, tuning around and jumping from his lap, and sends me a thought.

"Why?" I send her back a thought.

"We have to get everyone to a safe place. Then, MAYBE, we can worry about things like this."

"Okay." She jumps to his shoulder, and gives his face a lick, thanking him for the rubbing. I feel more like slapping him, he not only did not go by proper manners concerning spirit partners as close as Celer and myself, but once he knew his menstruations were not wanted he did not cease. She isn't jumping off his shoulder as he gets up from his spot on the floor. Great, she's taking the side I don't want to be on.

As Kurama walks past me he slides his right hand around the front of my waist, holding me for a moment, and lets it slide back off as he walks away.

I stand still, not moving a muscle. If I could see my own colors right now, I'd see only one, orange, because I'm confused.

When he touched me now, my body had moved of it's own accord, swaying into his touch. I already know what the mating rituals are for all kitsune cultures, his actions just now, with his hand and my waist...that was one of the beginning actions of Inari's mating ritual...and seeing he's from a world where all kitsunes worship him...he was asking if I would accept him if he succeeded in winning me...I should have thought when he did that...my own action, when he had touched me, my waist, swaying into the touch...I had said with that, that I would accept him. I accepted his challenge. Damn you, Inari. Why couldn't you just have a spoken ritual, like Younou? Or maybe one that is mixed with actions and words like mine? With everything spoken first, then action?

I snap out of my reverie, and go into the living room, Krysta has finished making breakfast, and is now setting it out. "Krysta, Baka, I'm going to Ventrok. I have someone there that may be able to help. I'll be back in two shakes of a lambs tail. Celer, come on." As Celer reluctantly jumped off of Kurama's shoulder, and walked besides me as I went into my room to retrieve my seeds, I opened a portal to Ventrok, Inari's home world, and walk through, I close it after Celer gets through.

As I walk with Celer on my shoulders, through the city where Inari lives, Celer and I talk, now we can talk freely, instead of through telepathy, since no one is paying attention to us. "Why did you stop Kurama?"

"Because, we can't put our minds to things such as that. Plus I'm supposed to be a VIRGIN goddess. That means I have nor will I ever have a mate." Celer snorts.

"Yes, but you're also still human. And if I'm correct, human females have husbands, and lovers. Not mates."

"You know exactly what I mean Celer. I have to stay as my people wish me. And they wish me to be a virgin goddess."

"You're supposed to be the god! Not them! They're supposed to listen to you! Not you listen to them!"

"That is not right, Celer. And you know it. They need a goddess who isn't so focused on sex. That's what I am. You know all of the worlds I am a god in are overpopulated with kitsunes. They need a god that is focused on turning their beliefs to a way that will bring down the population, without a massacre. That is what I am."

"You need to stop that. Stop being so caring for others. And care for yourself. And what you feel."

"What do you mean?"

"Kurama. You notice the way your heart reacts to the sound of his name, and his voice."

"It is nothing. My human form and my kitsune form are both in the ages that would be considered 'teenage,' hence, all I feel is a crush driven on by hormones. Nothing more, nothing less."

"That's not what I feel. I feel so much more, than just a 'crush driven on by hormones.'"

"We're here, Celer. No more talk of this until we're alone."

I walk onto the Inari estate. You're probably thinking, why did I put Vetntol the first time I said Inari, and why I put the Inari, now. It's because, the original Inari died a few hundred millennia ago. His sons and his grandsons, and so forth, have been taking his place as gods, the ones that are silver anyways. I hope I don't have to see-er-well-you know what I mean, Nenthok Inari. He's been trying to get me to be his, eck, mate. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.

I walk past the guards, who've seen me as a human enough to know who I am. I walk to where I sense Vetntol, and speak. "Vetntol Inari." I speak loud and clear so that he'll hear me, as soon as he hears my voice, he radiates a happy fatherly blue. If Kelonta hadn't taken the role, then I'd probably have considered Vetntol my second father, but unfortunately he's like a third.

"Kelentia. I haven't heard from you in a while. What's been up?" I laugh at his trying to speak like the humans from my world.

"'What's up', Vetntol. Not, 'What's been up?' And to answer, nothing good."

"What's wrong?"

"I found out who killed Kelonta."

"What's bad about that?"

"It's Lecto." A silence comes about for several, so thick that you couldn't use even a hot knife to cut it.

"Oh, my...are you sure?"

"Hai. He sent a note, when he tried to kill Baka, and Krysta. And when he tried again, for Krysta, he had sent his spirit beast. How he had gotten a hold of a spirit egg and survived, with his actions, I don't know."

"Let me guess. You would like me to protect your friends, you family, and your brother's friends? To that I suppose I can say yes. I know how much your loved ones mean to you." Good old Vetntol. I'm glad I can count on him.

"Thank you. When will it be convenient to-"

"As soon as you can, of coarse. Oh, and how is Krysta fairing?" Hehe, I guess I forgot to mention that even though he is probably to old for her, even in demon age, he has an infatuation with my Hikari, and the feeling is returned. Though, they're both too shy to admit it.

"Alright. Thank you Vetntol. Oh, Vetnol, since the time difference, I was hoping you could explain something to me?"

"What needs explaining?"

I'm fairly sure I'm blushing. "Eh, how does a female, in the Mating ritual that Inari set up, decline an offer, after she's said yes?"

"There's not one. If the female decides she doesn't want a thing to do with the male, then she has to make sure she's faster than him, and a bit stronger as well. Then, he won't be able to win her."

"Eh, what if he's older?"

"Make sure he's weaker."

"He's about four hundred years older."

"What?"

"I'm the female in the situation. I'm only six-hundred-years-old. He's about one thousand, or maybe eleven hundred."

"Oh, and his main element is the same as yours?"

"Yes, we both control plants."

"Then use one he's not familiar with."

"From what records I have found of him, he's adaptable. He uses the same type of energy I use to control plants, thinking he's using his spirit energy."

"Eh, then your stuck."

"Great."

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Broken Angel: Ok. I really don't want to explain how she gets
everyone into the other world, so just know, that in the next chapter,
everyone will be at the Inari estate. I might decide later to explain
how, but I don't think it'll have anything that'll make any relevance
to the story, other than them getting to safety.

Baka: You stole my line.

BA: And yes, as you can tell, Baka's still mad. -_-

B: You stole my line.

BA: Please review people. I'm living of them!

B: You stole my line.

BA: -_- And I was supposed to have short author's notes this time.........

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Sorry to my loyal readers who have been waiting for this update. My
computer's been wacky, and every time I tried to update, the chapter
was unreadable.