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Kurama was thrown into consciousness with a sudden jolt, as his eyes flew open in astonishment. His heart was racing like a rabbit's and his fingers tingled slightly with energy. He sat up slowly, wincing at the headache that was quickly forming.
Koranu was sitting beside him, looking concerned. "Careful now, don't want you to faint or anything."
"What happened?' he asked, holding his nursed head as he gently rubbed his fingers around his temples in circular motions. Taking control over his body, he slowed down his heart rate until it was back to normal, and allowed the energy that had been residing outside of his body back inside.
Koranu winced slightly. "I pulled too much energy out of you and the lack of it was a shock to your system, throwing the entire thing completely out of control."
"How'd you do that?" Kurama frowned slightly. "I thought you could tell how much energy I had by just looking."
His teacher studied him carefully. "Your body was acting odd. No matter how much I kept taking out, it kept filling up, like a gas tank. So I kept taking it, and taking it, and suddenly, your body stopped refueling and I didn't have time to cut off the connection before I took a bit too much. I've never, ever seen someone who could refuel that energy so fast. It was almost like you weren't making more energy, but rather just pulling some out of secret tanks no one could see."
'Shoot,' Kurama swore venomously. He had completely forgotten about his reserve energy he had tucked away long ago. It was an incredible ability and he was skeptical he could repeat it in human form if he tried. When the fox demon had become human, he had simply assumed that his reserves had disappeared along with his body.
"Um, maybe I was drawing energy from the things around me, like the trees and stuff? Everything turned a lot brighter when you did that," Kurama stuttered, looking for an excuse.
"It's possible," Koranu shrugged. "If you can do that subconsciously, you have an incredible knack for it. But that's something to puzzle for another day. Look at that."
A faint ball hovered a foot off the ground a few feet away. It was an odd, multicolored thing, with Kurama and Koranu's energy mixing around in it like oil and water. "Will it work?" he asked her, eyeing it speculatively.
His teacher shrugged. "I assume so. Haven't tested it yet, of course, did you right away, but it looks fine."
"How does it work?"
"Just command it to go somewhere and off it flies. Since it's got our energy in it, we can just sit back and watch the show. Try it," she encouraged.
Closing his eyes, the fox demon imagined himself inside the ball, looking out, as he slowly slipped inside, something tickled in the back of his mind. What began as faint shadows turned into more solid objects until the world around the ball became more clear, enough so that he could recognize his and Koranu's own shapes a few feet away.
Slipping back out of the ball of energy, he looked up at his teacher. "It's pretty blurry, but it's not bad," he told her.
She shrugged. "It's only to be expected. It was a quick make and kind of a spur of the moment idea. We did it to get a rough idea of their caves only, not to spy."
"Then it's alright," Kurama replied, standing up and brushing the back of his pants off. "When should we do it."
"No time like the present," Koranu cried, clapping her hands together in resolution.
The caves were seemingly endless. Kurama watched them as his physical body relaxed against the trunk of a tree. The colorful, now invisible, ball flew through the tight passages and small rooms like lightening, just fast enough for the fox demon to draw a map in his head. They ran into no demons, which surprised Kurama greatly, and triggered both relief as well as suspicion.
When the real "film" was over, Kurama and Koranu allowed their energy in the ball to drift away into nothingness, dispersing the chi until the traces of their actions were completely gone.
Keeping his eyes closed for an extra moment, the fox demon assessed their newly given information. Opening them, he turned to look at his teacher. "It won't be easy," he told her. "They've got tighter security then Fort Knox."
"We knew that through," Koranu retorted. "We knew this wouldn't be easy from the start. Besides, they have virtually no guards. It wouldn't be very had to get them all in there and hunt them out one by one." She smiled viciously. "The dirt walls would even muffle their screams."
"You're being too rash, Koranu," he told her, shaking his head at his teacher's antics. "These things take careful planning. We can't just run in there without knowing more information or at least a plan."
The teacher eyed her student suspiciously. "Since when did you know so much about breaking and entering, Shuichi?"
Kurama cursed inwardly at forgetting his new nature. It was so easy, to forget out here, working with another demon at the thing he did best with nothing to hold his humanity in place.
"I've just got a natural knack for this sort of thing," he scoffed.
Watching him carefully, she replied, "Perhaps, Shuichi. Perhaps."
Hey adoring fans!
I know, I know, it took me MONTHS to update, but I'm starting to get into fanfiction again, so there will probably be more things again soon. I'm thinking of starting a full metal alchemist one, or maybe wolf's rain. What do you guys think?
I'm updating some other stuff tonight as well, so check out my other stories. Some our updated right now, but other's will be updated late this evening, so check tomorrow morning as well.
Dream Fox
Kurama was thrown into consciousness with a sudden jolt, as his eyes flew open in astonishment. His heart was racing like a rabbit's and his fingers tingled slightly with energy. He sat up slowly, wincing at the headache that was quickly forming.
Koranu was sitting beside him, looking concerned. "Careful now, don't want you to faint or anything."
"What happened?' he asked, holding his nursed head as he gently rubbed his fingers around his temples in circular motions. Taking control over his body, he slowed down his heart rate until it was back to normal, and allowed the energy that had been residing outside of his body back inside.
Koranu winced slightly. "I pulled too much energy out of you and the lack of it was a shock to your system, throwing the entire thing completely out of control."
"How'd you do that?" Kurama frowned slightly. "I thought you could tell how much energy I had by just looking."
His teacher studied him carefully. "Your body was acting odd. No matter how much I kept taking out, it kept filling up, like a gas tank. So I kept taking it, and taking it, and suddenly, your body stopped refueling and I didn't have time to cut off the connection before I took a bit too much. I've never, ever seen someone who could refuel that energy so fast. It was almost like you weren't making more energy, but rather just pulling some out of secret tanks no one could see."
'Shoot,' Kurama swore venomously. He had completely forgotten about his reserve energy he had tucked away long ago. It was an incredible ability and he was skeptical he could repeat it in human form if he tried. When the fox demon had become human, he had simply assumed that his reserves had disappeared along with his body.
"Um, maybe I was drawing energy from the things around me, like the trees and stuff? Everything turned a lot brighter when you did that," Kurama stuttered, looking for an excuse.
"It's possible," Koranu shrugged. "If you can do that subconsciously, you have an incredible knack for it. But that's something to puzzle for another day. Look at that."
A faint ball hovered a foot off the ground a few feet away. It was an odd, multicolored thing, with Kurama and Koranu's energy mixing around in it like oil and water. "Will it work?" he asked her, eyeing it speculatively.
His teacher shrugged. "I assume so. Haven't tested it yet, of course, did you right away, but it looks fine."
"How does it work?"
"Just command it to go somewhere and off it flies. Since it's got our energy in it, we can just sit back and watch the show. Try it," she encouraged.
Closing his eyes, the fox demon imagined himself inside the ball, looking out, as he slowly slipped inside, something tickled in the back of his mind. What began as faint shadows turned into more solid objects until the world around the ball became more clear, enough so that he could recognize his and Koranu's own shapes a few feet away.
Slipping back out of the ball of energy, he looked up at his teacher. "It's pretty blurry, but it's not bad," he told her.
She shrugged. "It's only to be expected. It was a quick make and kind of a spur of the moment idea. We did it to get a rough idea of their caves only, not to spy."
"Then it's alright," Kurama replied, standing up and brushing the back of his pants off. "When should we do it."
"No time like the present," Koranu cried, clapping her hands together in resolution.
The caves were seemingly endless. Kurama watched them as his physical body relaxed against the trunk of a tree. The colorful, now invisible, ball flew through the tight passages and small rooms like lightening, just fast enough for the fox demon to draw a map in his head. They ran into no demons, which surprised Kurama greatly, and triggered both relief as well as suspicion.
When the real "film" was over, Kurama and Koranu allowed their energy in the ball to drift away into nothingness, dispersing the chi until the traces of their actions were completely gone.
Keeping his eyes closed for an extra moment, the fox demon assessed their newly given information. Opening them, he turned to look at his teacher. "It won't be easy," he told her. "They've got tighter security then Fort Knox."
"We knew that through," Koranu retorted. "We knew this wouldn't be easy from the start. Besides, they have virtually no guards. It wouldn't be very had to get them all in there and hunt them out one by one." She smiled viciously. "The dirt walls would even muffle their screams."
"You're being too rash, Koranu," he told her, shaking his head at his teacher's antics. "These things take careful planning. We can't just run in there without knowing more information or at least a plan."
The teacher eyed her student suspiciously. "Since when did you know so much about breaking and entering, Shuichi?"
Kurama cursed inwardly at forgetting his new nature. It was so easy, to forget out here, working with another demon at the thing he did best with nothing to hold his humanity in place.
"I've just got a natural knack for this sort of thing," he scoffed.
Watching him carefully, she replied, "Perhaps, Shuichi. Perhaps."
Hey adoring fans!
I know, I know, it took me MONTHS to update, but I'm starting to get into fanfiction again, so there will probably be more things again soon. I'm thinking of starting a full metal alchemist one, or maybe wolf's rain. What do you guys think?
I'm updating some other stuff tonight as well, so check out my other stories. Some our updated right now, but other's will be updated late this evening, so check tomorrow morning as well.
Dream Fox