Kokoro No Kaitou : Once Lost, Now Found
Chapter 8
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"This is all your fault!"
Kurama got slammed against the wall, and was pinned there by the blue-haired samurai. His feet were actually off of the ground, and his shoulder ached from where it was being held.
Shishiwakamaru was so angry, that his horns had appeared, and his pupils were tiny.
"It wasn't my fault! She did it while I was gone!" The kitsune protested. "If I could've stopped her, I would've!"
"Bull shit!" He exclaimed. He threw the redhead to the ground, and he coughed up some blood when he landed on his stomach.
"Shishi, I'm giving you my word that I would have stopped her if I had the chance." Kurama said, lifting himself onto all fours. His Youko side was begging to be let free so as to kill the blue-haired warrior, but he refused to let him do that.
Shishiwakamaru kicked him in the stomach, sending him rolling into the snow again. The cold bit at him, but he ignored it. He was more concentrated on how he was going to get the samurai to stop beating him.
"Shishi!"
Both of them turned and saw Naomi standing in the door.
"Stop hurting him." She said, walking down the stairs. Her silver aura was flaring around her, causing her wavy hair to do the same. "I believe him. He'd never hurt my mom on purpose."
Kurama stared at her in disbelief. She was sticking up for him… He smiled slightly at that.
Shishiwakamaru was none too pleased, however. "It was his fault in the first place. If he hadn't taken her to Ningenkai, she never would've seen his damned mother, and then she never would've tried to help her."
Kurama growled at him, and Naomi's aura flared up even more, until it was like a giant flame around her.
"Shishi! She would've done the same even if she hadn't gone with him, and I know that, and you know that. Stop blaming Kurama. I heard my mom say that she wanted to go with him. It was her own choice."
Shishiwakamaru stopped, and his face returned to normal. "I…"
Naomi calmed down as well, and ran over to Kurama's side.
"Hey, you okay?" She asked.
He sat up, and glared at Shishiwakamaru. "No thanks to him."
Naomi cupped his face with her hands, and closed her eyes. He felt a coolness wash over him, and his wounds healed.
"Thanks, Naomi."
"No problem." She stood.
"How are they?" Shishiwakamaru asked.
"Chuu's drowning his misery in alcohol, and the others are doing worse. Chuu seems to be the same …" She said. She looked thoughtful. "I'm not sure why, though."
The door suddenly flew open, and Midori came running out. "Naomi-chan, Kurama-kun! Come quick!"
The three of them ran in, each expecting something that something horrible had happened. Midori lead them into the back room where the sick were being held, and they all blinked. Chuu was drinking a lot of water, and he gave them a lopsided grin.
"I fell much bettah now." He said. He drank some more water. "Jus' a little thirsty. But I can' feel tha' bug anymore."
The three looked at Midori, who grinned.
"I think that we may have found a cure for this thing."
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"You mean…they all have to drink until they puke?" Naomi asked disbelievingly.
"Yeah. Chuu was drowning himself in alcohol, and he puked all over the floor. He sat up, and said that he felt fine." Midori said. "And all the symptoms are gone. Of course, I wasn't in the room, but Yusuke says the bug was there on the floor. They squished it."
Kurama sighed, and let his head hit the table hard. "Kami-sama. What kind of cure is that?"
Shishiwakamaru let out a rare grin. "A damn good one. She'll be okay now…" He stood. "We need to get Amaya here so that she can have some of that…well, whatever Chuu was drinking."
Kurama stood as well, and rubbed his temples. "Are you sure we can't just make them throw up without making them drink?"
"Well, the alcohol makes the bug un-imbed itself from the infected's stomach walls." Midori replied. "So no."
"What about the others? Do we give them some as well?" He asked.
"I thought that you would be smarter than that, kitsune." Came a voice from behind them.
They turned around, and saw Hiei, Kano, and Dawn at the door.
The koorime smirked. "Besides, it'll be funny to see what kind of things the baka says when he's drunk."
Kano snickered. "Yeah, it would."
Kurama sighed inwardly. He felt terrible about this already…despite the fact that it would save her, Amaya would be very, very drunk…
"I'll go get Amaya. You all stay here and get them some alcohol." He said.
This seemed like a really, really bad idea…
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Amaya felt terrible. Her stomach was churning, and she felt incredibly thirsty.
Kami-sama…I never thought that it would hurt this much…I never thought that dieing would be this painful…
"Amaya-chan…"
She slowly opened her eyes, and blinked when she saw a small girl standing by her bedside.
She seemed to be not a day older than six, and had long, midnight-black hair that fell to her ankles. Her hair was layered in the front, and framed her pale face. She had sea-green eyes, and they bore no emotion. She wore an all white dress that came to her ankles as well. She was barefoot.
The first thought that ran through Amaya's mind was how this little girl could have gotten to Reikai in the first place.
"Amaya-chan…" The little girl repeated. However, her lips didn't move. It was more like a feeling that Amaya had - this girl was addressing her.
She sat up, and winced when her stomach protested the movement.
"Who…are you? How did you get here?" Amaya asked.
The little girl turned and walked slowly to the door. She stopped and looked back at Amaya expectantly. Amaya realized that the girl wanted her to follow her, so she stood.
However, she promptly fell back to her knees and coughed up some blood.
She looked up, and the girl was suddenly in front of her. The girl reached out and trailed a finger down Amaya's cheek, a sad look on her face.
"I'm okay." Amaya said reassuringly, struggling to her feet. "What did you want to show me?"
The girl turned and walked back to the door, and stopped to look back at the tennyo.
Amaya managed to make it all the way there without falling over or coughing up blood, and she was proud of the fact. Her only problem would be if Botan or Hinageshi tried to come and check on her. They'd make her go back to bed, and she'd have to try to make it back to the door again.
She opened the sliding door, and followed the girl as she half walked, half skipped down the hall. Amaya leaned against the wall for support, and started following her.
Her whole body was protesting, but something told her that this thing that the girl wanted to show her was more important than her own life would ever be.
The girl led her down several hallways, until they reached a pair of double doors. By that point, Amaya felt like she would collapse at any minute.
The girl stopped and waited for her to catch up, and she pushed open the doors. The room was like an office, and there was a TV screen across from the desk. The walls and floors and ceilings were all green and blue, reminding Amaya of an ocean.
The girl skipped over to the desk, and Amaya couldn't take it anymore. She fell hard onto her knees, coughing up even more blood. The pain brought tears to her eyes, and she couldn't even raise her head.
Her tears pattered onto the floor, and she could sense that the child was watching her with curiosity.
Amaya managed to get into a sitting position, and started wiping away her tears and sniffling.
"I'm sorry. It's just that…it hurts so much…" She said softly, looking over at the little girl.
The girl gave her a sympathetic look, and then pointed to the desk.
"It's on the desk?" Amaya questioned.
The girl nodded, and Amaya crawled over to the desk on all fours. She dragged herself into the chair, and looked at what the girl had been pointing to.
A pile of pictures was there, as was a folder.
Amaya started going through the pictures. Each was as gruesome as the next - they were pictures of dead people, entire fields of them. Women, children, men, and the elderly were all dead. A massacre…
She looked over at the girl, who had busied herself with the hem of her skirt, fiddling with it.
"What about this?" She asked. "What am I supposed to be noticing?"
The girl just pointed at the pictures in her hand, and said nothing more.
Amaya sighed, and looked back at the pictures. She flipped through them again, and stopped when she saw one of an aerial view of the field with the slaughtered people.
The way they were laid out…it almost looked like a kanji symbol. She squinted at it, then sighed. She couldn't make it out…
She set the photos down, and opened the folder. It had some files on talisman sendings, but nothing of interest to her.
"What symbol is-" She turned back to where the girl was, and saw that she was gone. "this…?" She finished.
She stuffed the pictures into her yukata to look at later, and slowly lowered herself to the floor. She started crawling towards the door, trying to ignore the pain in her stomach. She made it to the door, and slid it open.
She crawled out into the hall, and sat up against the wall. She knew that she wouldn't be able to make it back to her room, but she was sure as hell going to try.
She stood, and leaned against the wall for support. She was extremely thirsty at the moment, and was also very tired.
"Damn all hallways." She muttered. Normally, she never would have cursed like that, but she was in a bad mood and she had been hanging around Chuu way too much.
She started making her way back down the hall, trying to keep conscious. She couldn't see anything clearly, and she felt feverish. The corridor was spinning, and it was making her dizzy.
She stumbled and started to fall, but someone caught her.
"Amaya! What are you do think that you're doing out here?" Kurama exclaimed, rearranging her in his arms slightly.
She smiled weakly. "Kurama-kun…"
He sighed and picked her up bridal style. "You really shouldn't be up like this! What were you doing out here?"
"The little girl showed me something…" She murmured. She turned her face towards his chest and sighed. "But she was gone…"
"What little girl?" He asked. He started walking back towards the room with the portal, and he shifted her again.
She winced. "Don't move so much, Kurama-kun…"
"I'm sorry." He replied. "Now what little girl?"
"The one with the long hair…" She said. "She had eyes like me, but she had long black hair."
"Are you sure? Because I didn't see a girl when I was coming down the hall."
"I'm positive." She said. "Where are you taking me?"
"Back to Makai. We found a cure." He said. "It's rather disturbing, but it's still a cure."
Amaya smiled again, though he couldn't see. This was wonderful…she didn't care how bad this cure was.
I'll be able to be with my daughter again…
~*~
Author's Notes : I'm sorry that this chapter is so short, but deal with it. I haven't had much time lately, and I wanted to give you all something to read.
Story Weaver1 : I was looking at your profile…you're really a guy? Damn, I'm a bit slow. But you'd be the first male I've ever seen on fanfiction.net. Still, that's cool! I'm just feeling a but slow today…LOL. My sister asked me to pass the ketchup, and I handed her pickles…that's how bad it is. And Shishi knows that they're mates, but he's kinda in denial…he thinks that Amaya doesn't love Kurama anymore. But we all know that she still does.
Katie E. : Actually, the drama is coming a bit later. First, we have to have the funny. ^_____^
Aya Komodo : If they die, it will be from alcohol poisoning…LOL.
DarkVixenNisha : There's your cure, Nisha-chan! And it's a damn funny one, if I do say so myself!
Suzaku no miko : I'm glad that nobody can guess what's going to happen! That makes me feel like I can actually write a good story.
FieryKitsune : That's 'cause Kuronue and Hiei ARE priceless! I love them! They're my comic relief!!
crimson7319 : Now your only suspense is 'what the hell will they do while they're drunk'?
miyako14 : Actually, it was supposed to be Shishi's hair products, but Botan'll work too. Actually, it didn't even occur to me that she has blue hair too. *bonks self on head*
Sun Priestess : Actually, when I was trying to find a picture of Amaya, I used the girl from Fruits Basket. I've never seen it before. Is it any good? If it is, I'll look into the DVDs. And I can't tell you the ending, or even what it'll be like. ^____~ Doncha just hate me?
MoonbeamMarik'skoi4456 : I'm debating on who should be the one to tell Naomi - Amaya, Kurama, or both.
Review now, everyone!!
Chapter 8
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"This is all your fault!"
Kurama got slammed against the wall, and was pinned there by the blue-haired samurai. His feet were actually off of the ground, and his shoulder ached from where it was being held.
Shishiwakamaru was so angry, that his horns had appeared, and his pupils were tiny.
"It wasn't my fault! She did it while I was gone!" The kitsune protested. "If I could've stopped her, I would've!"
"Bull shit!" He exclaimed. He threw the redhead to the ground, and he coughed up some blood when he landed on his stomach.
"Shishi, I'm giving you my word that I would have stopped her if I had the chance." Kurama said, lifting himself onto all fours. His Youko side was begging to be let free so as to kill the blue-haired warrior, but he refused to let him do that.
Shishiwakamaru kicked him in the stomach, sending him rolling into the snow again. The cold bit at him, but he ignored it. He was more concentrated on how he was going to get the samurai to stop beating him.
"Shishi!"
Both of them turned and saw Naomi standing in the door.
"Stop hurting him." She said, walking down the stairs. Her silver aura was flaring around her, causing her wavy hair to do the same. "I believe him. He'd never hurt my mom on purpose."
Kurama stared at her in disbelief. She was sticking up for him… He smiled slightly at that.
Shishiwakamaru was none too pleased, however. "It was his fault in the first place. If he hadn't taken her to Ningenkai, she never would've seen his damned mother, and then she never would've tried to help her."
Kurama growled at him, and Naomi's aura flared up even more, until it was like a giant flame around her.
"Shishi! She would've done the same even if she hadn't gone with him, and I know that, and you know that. Stop blaming Kurama. I heard my mom say that she wanted to go with him. It was her own choice."
Shishiwakamaru stopped, and his face returned to normal. "I…"
Naomi calmed down as well, and ran over to Kurama's side.
"Hey, you okay?" She asked.
He sat up, and glared at Shishiwakamaru. "No thanks to him."
Naomi cupped his face with her hands, and closed her eyes. He felt a coolness wash over him, and his wounds healed.
"Thanks, Naomi."
"No problem." She stood.
"How are they?" Shishiwakamaru asked.
"Chuu's drowning his misery in alcohol, and the others are doing worse. Chuu seems to be the same …" She said. She looked thoughtful. "I'm not sure why, though."
The door suddenly flew open, and Midori came running out. "Naomi-chan, Kurama-kun! Come quick!"
The three of them ran in, each expecting something that something horrible had happened. Midori lead them into the back room where the sick were being held, and they all blinked. Chuu was drinking a lot of water, and he gave them a lopsided grin.
"I fell much bettah now." He said. He drank some more water. "Jus' a little thirsty. But I can' feel tha' bug anymore."
The three looked at Midori, who grinned.
"I think that we may have found a cure for this thing."
~*~
"You mean…they all have to drink until they puke?" Naomi asked disbelievingly.
"Yeah. Chuu was drowning himself in alcohol, and he puked all over the floor. He sat up, and said that he felt fine." Midori said. "And all the symptoms are gone. Of course, I wasn't in the room, but Yusuke says the bug was there on the floor. They squished it."
Kurama sighed, and let his head hit the table hard. "Kami-sama. What kind of cure is that?"
Shishiwakamaru let out a rare grin. "A damn good one. She'll be okay now…" He stood. "We need to get Amaya here so that she can have some of that…well, whatever Chuu was drinking."
Kurama stood as well, and rubbed his temples. "Are you sure we can't just make them throw up without making them drink?"
"Well, the alcohol makes the bug un-imbed itself from the infected's stomach walls." Midori replied. "So no."
"What about the others? Do we give them some as well?" He asked.
"I thought that you would be smarter than that, kitsune." Came a voice from behind them.
They turned around, and saw Hiei, Kano, and Dawn at the door.
The koorime smirked. "Besides, it'll be funny to see what kind of things the baka says when he's drunk."
Kano snickered. "Yeah, it would."
Kurama sighed inwardly. He felt terrible about this already…despite the fact that it would save her, Amaya would be very, very drunk…
"I'll go get Amaya. You all stay here and get them some alcohol." He said.
This seemed like a really, really bad idea…
~*~
Amaya felt terrible. Her stomach was churning, and she felt incredibly thirsty.
Kami-sama…I never thought that it would hurt this much…I never thought that dieing would be this painful…
"Amaya-chan…"
She slowly opened her eyes, and blinked when she saw a small girl standing by her bedside.
She seemed to be not a day older than six, and had long, midnight-black hair that fell to her ankles. Her hair was layered in the front, and framed her pale face. She had sea-green eyes, and they bore no emotion. She wore an all white dress that came to her ankles as well. She was barefoot.
The first thought that ran through Amaya's mind was how this little girl could have gotten to Reikai in the first place.
"Amaya-chan…" The little girl repeated. However, her lips didn't move. It was more like a feeling that Amaya had - this girl was addressing her.
She sat up, and winced when her stomach protested the movement.
"Who…are you? How did you get here?" Amaya asked.
The little girl turned and walked slowly to the door. She stopped and looked back at Amaya expectantly. Amaya realized that the girl wanted her to follow her, so she stood.
However, she promptly fell back to her knees and coughed up some blood.
She looked up, and the girl was suddenly in front of her. The girl reached out and trailed a finger down Amaya's cheek, a sad look on her face.
"I'm okay." Amaya said reassuringly, struggling to her feet. "What did you want to show me?"
The girl turned and walked back to the door, and stopped to look back at the tennyo.
Amaya managed to make it all the way there without falling over or coughing up blood, and she was proud of the fact. Her only problem would be if Botan or Hinageshi tried to come and check on her. They'd make her go back to bed, and she'd have to try to make it back to the door again.
She opened the sliding door, and followed the girl as she half walked, half skipped down the hall. Amaya leaned against the wall for support, and started following her.
Her whole body was protesting, but something told her that this thing that the girl wanted to show her was more important than her own life would ever be.
The girl led her down several hallways, until they reached a pair of double doors. By that point, Amaya felt like she would collapse at any minute.
The girl stopped and waited for her to catch up, and she pushed open the doors. The room was like an office, and there was a TV screen across from the desk. The walls and floors and ceilings were all green and blue, reminding Amaya of an ocean.
The girl skipped over to the desk, and Amaya couldn't take it anymore. She fell hard onto her knees, coughing up even more blood. The pain brought tears to her eyes, and she couldn't even raise her head.
Her tears pattered onto the floor, and she could sense that the child was watching her with curiosity.
Amaya managed to get into a sitting position, and started wiping away her tears and sniffling.
"I'm sorry. It's just that…it hurts so much…" She said softly, looking over at the little girl.
The girl gave her a sympathetic look, and then pointed to the desk.
"It's on the desk?" Amaya questioned.
The girl nodded, and Amaya crawled over to the desk on all fours. She dragged herself into the chair, and looked at what the girl had been pointing to.
A pile of pictures was there, as was a folder.
Amaya started going through the pictures. Each was as gruesome as the next - they were pictures of dead people, entire fields of them. Women, children, men, and the elderly were all dead. A massacre…
She looked over at the girl, who had busied herself with the hem of her skirt, fiddling with it.
"What about this?" She asked. "What am I supposed to be noticing?"
The girl just pointed at the pictures in her hand, and said nothing more.
Amaya sighed, and looked back at the pictures. She flipped through them again, and stopped when she saw one of an aerial view of the field with the slaughtered people.
The way they were laid out…it almost looked like a kanji symbol. She squinted at it, then sighed. She couldn't make it out…
She set the photos down, and opened the folder. It had some files on talisman sendings, but nothing of interest to her.
"What symbol is-" She turned back to where the girl was, and saw that she was gone. "this…?" She finished.
She stuffed the pictures into her yukata to look at later, and slowly lowered herself to the floor. She started crawling towards the door, trying to ignore the pain in her stomach. She made it to the door, and slid it open.
She crawled out into the hall, and sat up against the wall. She knew that she wouldn't be able to make it back to her room, but she was sure as hell going to try.
She stood, and leaned against the wall for support. She was extremely thirsty at the moment, and was also very tired.
"Damn all hallways." She muttered. Normally, she never would have cursed like that, but she was in a bad mood and she had been hanging around Chuu way too much.
She started making her way back down the hall, trying to keep conscious. She couldn't see anything clearly, and she felt feverish. The corridor was spinning, and it was making her dizzy.
She stumbled and started to fall, but someone caught her.
"Amaya! What are you do think that you're doing out here?" Kurama exclaimed, rearranging her in his arms slightly.
She smiled weakly. "Kurama-kun…"
He sighed and picked her up bridal style. "You really shouldn't be up like this! What were you doing out here?"
"The little girl showed me something…" She murmured. She turned her face towards his chest and sighed. "But she was gone…"
"What little girl?" He asked. He started walking back towards the room with the portal, and he shifted her again.
She winced. "Don't move so much, Kurama-kun…"
"I'm sorry." He replied. "Now what little girl?"
"The one with the long hair…" She said. "She had eyes like me, but she had long black hair."
"Are you sure? Because I didn't see a girl when I was coming down the hall."
"I'm positive." She said. "Where are you taking me?"
"Back to Makai. We found a cure." He said. "It's rather disturbing, but it's still a cure."
Amaya smiled again, though he couldn't see. This was wonderful…she didn't care how bad this cure was.
I'll be able to be with my daughter again…
~*~
Author's Notes : I'm sorry that this chapter is so short, but deal with it. I haven't had much time lately, and I wanted to give you all something to read.
Story Weaver1 : I was looking at your profile…you're really a guy? Damn, I'm a bit slow. But you'd be the first male I've ever seen on fanfiction.net. Still, that's cool! I'm just feeling a but slow today…LOL. My sister asked me to pass the ketchup, and I handed her pickles…that's how bad it is. And Shishi knows that they're mates, but he's kinda in denial…he thinks that Amaya doesn't love Kurama anymore. But we all know that she still does.
Katie E. : Actually, the drama is coming a bit later. First, we have to have the funny. ^_____^
Aya Komodo : If they die, it will be from alcohol poisoning…LOL.
DarkVixenNisha : There's your cure, Nisha-chan! And it's a damn funny one, if I do say so myself!
Suzaku no miko : I'm glad that nobody can guess what's going to happen! That makes me feel like I can actually write a good story.
FieryKitsune : That's 'cause Kuronue and Hiei ARE priceless! I love them! They're my comic relief!!
crimson7319 : Now your only suspense is 'what the hell will they do while they're drunk'?
miyako14 : Actually, it was supposed to be Shishi's hair products, but Botan'll work too. Actually, it didn't even occur to me that she has blue hair too. *bonks self on head*
Sun Priestess : Actually, when I was trying to find a picture of Amaya, I used the girl from Fruits Basket. I've never seen it before. Is it any good? If it is, I'll look into the DVDs. And I can't tell you the ending, or even what it'll be like. ^____~ Doncha just hate me?
MoonbeamMarik'skoi4456 : I'm debating on who should be the one to tell Naomi - Amaya, Kurama, or both.
Review now, everyone!!