Nobara: So here's the next chapter. I would argue with the cast but at the
moment they're not bothering me so... ::sees cast in background playing
poker::
Disclaimer: I own nothing, just the computer and the plot.
"Youko darling, did you miss me?" asked the woman in a mocking yet seductive voice. "Well if it isn't the slut of the Makai," he said back coldly. "You're the one to talk about being the slut of the Makai..."Youko growled and tightened his grip on her throat making her cough. "Kurama! Let her go!" said a new voice. Not bothering to turn around and look at the newcomer Youko spoke to him, "This is no affair of yours Koenma so just shove off." His claws dug into her throat, making punctures and letting a small amount of her blood trail to the ground. Before he could kill her Hiei spoke up, a rare thing. "Kurama, is killing this onna worth having to serve more time as a spirit detective?"
With a last growl he released her from his grasp and stood up, brushing the dust away that had settled on him. She followed standing up beside him, "Koenma? So you're Enma's brat, kinda on the short side ain't ya?" she said bending down beside him and poking his hat. Koenma waved her hand away with an irratated look. "Who is this chick?" asked Yusuke who had amazing held his tongue until then. "Whoever she is she's hot!" said Kuwabara. Koenma cleared his throat and took a collected and calm appearance. "Kuroyuri, seeing that you have finally shown yourself in Ningenkai after all the offenses you made nearly fifteen years ago you will be put on trial in one year to the day. Seeing that the offenses were considerably minor compared to the ones you commited with Youko here, we're giving you a second chance on clearing your name by working with the spirit detectives," he said.
Standing back up the woman called Kuroyuri folded her arms over her chest and looked down at him. "And what makes you so sure that I won't run and hide the first chance I get?","You're staying with Genkai and she'll make sure you stay put." Kuroyuri let out a soft growl when she heard this and Youko smirked. "Don't get all happy over there, you're going to be watching her too," said Koenma shooting a look at Youko. This time Kuro smirked as Youko let out a soft growl. "Now I suggest that you all repair Genkai's temple before she makes it back here." And with that the toddler disappeared.
Somehow the temple was repaired just as Genkai came home. Youko had long since reverted back to Kurama and Kuro to Rose. Kurama offered an apology for Youko and Rose silently accepted. The days past by and everything was calm around Genkai's temple. School had let out and it was early June, Genkai was gone yet again, Yukina had went with Botan and Keiko to go to the mall. Yusuke was the unwilling bagboy who had been forced to go by Keiko and Kuwabara was trailing after his lovely Yukina. It was a nice day, pretty much hot with the occasional breeze. Kurama had returned from the nearest gas station which was at the bottom of the mountain. Hiei was in a particularly bad mood and being out of sweet snow didn't make the situation any better.
((Kurama's POV))
It was one of those days, when you sweated so much you finally didn't even realize that you were sweating. Hiei was griping about Kuwabara tagging after Yukina, suggesting sweet snow might calm him down and cool him off I went to see if we had any. There's some good news. Someone had ate the last of it and put the container back in the freezer. That just made his day better and me, not feeling like listening him talk about taking over the worlds...again, I offered to go and buy some. I didn't mind at first, I was able to get out of the house and away from Hiei, not to mention Rose. I didn't really know how to approach her, she seemed like a person who would rather not be bothered by something as trivial as light chatting. Going down the mountain was easy, but coming back up was different. The heat was incredible, and that was in the shade. Okay so maybe I was exaggerrating, but it was pretty unbearable. All I had been wearing was a red tank top and a pair of shorts.
About halfway up the tank was off and had been stuffed halfway into one of the many pockets in my shorts. I didn't worry about Rose seeing me, she kept in her room most days. The temple finally came into view and a breeze had decided to appear. I stepped onto the poarch and was about to enter the house when I heard a voice I hadn't heard in a long time. "So you got more ice cream?" I turned to see who it was even though I knew it was Rose. She sat in the hammock that Yusuke and Kuwabara had recently put up on Genkai's poarch reading a book. I blushed when I saw what she was wearing. A plain white halter belly shirt and a pair of short black shorts that barely covered her. Her hair was pulled ontop of her hair into a clip."Kurama?" she asked with an arched eyebrow, she looked hot, in more than one way....'Don't get involoved with a girl like that, she'll stab you in the back' was what Youko told me, but I decided to tune him out for today.
((End Kurama's POV))
((Rose's POV))
He didn't answer me at first, he just stood there, camo shorts on, barefoot, shirt hanging out of his pocket, plastic bag hanging from his hand. I couldn't really tell if he was blushing or if he was just sunburnt as he stared at me so I looked over it. "Kurama!" I waved my hand trying to bring him back to reality, he spaced out more than I did. I did have to admit, he looked good. He was muscular but not so much as those slicked up bodybuilders on tv, they were gross looking. What keep my attention was his arms, long strong arms, arms that I wanted to be wrapped in. 'What are you saying Rose?! Snap out of it!' growled Kuro's voice in the back of my mind. ' Don't fall for him, you could do better, have someone who would appreciate you and won't take you for granted, who could be trusted,' she tried again. I didn't pay her any attention and pushed her as far in the back of my mind as I could.
"Yes, would you like some?" he asked. My eyes went wide with shock. What did he just say?! "Excuse me?","Ice cream, would you like some ice cream?" I blushed I'm sure, he was being a gentleman while my mind was in the gutter. "What flavor is it?", "Neopolitan; Strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate," he smiled and held out his hand to help me up from the hammock. Without really thinking I took his hand and we went into the kitchen. Hiei was doing one fingered push-ups on the coffee table when we came in. He gave us a weird look before returning to do his push-ups. Taking a few moments I realized what it was, we still hadn't let go of each other's hand. With another blush I quickly let go of his hand and walked into the kitchen.
While Kurama looked for the ice cream scoop I got three bowls, spoons, and whipped cream and sat them on the counter and watched Kurama dip out the sweet snow. "What flavor?" he asked, putting a scoop of vanilla in a bowl. "Strawberry," I replied and took the can of whipped cream in my hand. He handed me the bowl with a smile, his fingers brushing mine lightly. Popping the top of the can off I pressed the nozzle to spray whipped cream on my ice cream, unfortunately Hiei decided that we were taking too long and came to see where the sweet snow was. He tapped me on my shoulder and I jumped with surprise causing my arm to fly up when I pressed the nozzle. I couldn't help but laugh when I saw Kurama, he looked like a snowman.
((End Rose's POV))
The kitsune's entire face was covered with whipped cream, only his eyes showing after he wiped away the two globs that blocked his vision. Hiei hid a small smile that formed on his lips as he took his bowl of sweet snow and left the room. Rose giggled as she searched for a dish towel to help him wipe off his face. With a smile Kurama ran his finger across his cheek to pick up a small glob of whipped cream. Rose turned around about to apologize when a glob of the white fluffy topping was wiped on her nose. Kurama chuckled softly as she gave him a playful glare and threw the towel at him. Again he chuckled and wiped the whipped cream off his face. Placing the towel on t he counter he handed Rose her strawberry ice cream and picked up his vanilla.
"So what book were you reading earlier?" he asked, trying to get a conversation going. "'The Damsel and the Dwarf' by Gerald Morris,"she replied taking a bite of her sweet snow. "It's pretty good but my favorite is Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire'," she continued. "Really? That's one of my favorites," said Kurama through a bite of ice cream, "Really? What's your favorite band?","Either Evanescene or Linkin Park," he said again," I like American music a bit better than Japanese." She smiled," I never knew how much we had in common." "Well you've never really talked to me before, like you had something against me","No I just didn't really know how to approach you you know, I didn't know what to say," she looked at her ice cream that was now soup and put the spoon on the railing.
"I'm really sorry about Kuro's actions everytime she comes around. She has something against Youko that she won't tell me about." Kurama nodded his head, the case was the same with Youko. "How about we call it a truce for now?" Rose asked silently to Kuro. The female voice hned and then said icily, "Fine". "Truce, I really would like to know Rose better," Kurama said to Youko in his head. "I'm telling you that girl is nothing but trouble, hot, but trouble," replied the kitsune's voice. A small silence passed before it said again, "If that's what you want." Kurama held up his ice cream soup as if in a toast, "Truce?","Truce," they laughed softly and clinked the bowls together. "Hey, you got your vanilla in my strawberry,","You got your strawberry in my vanilla,","You know, this is pretty good","HEY! Come back with my vanilla!!"
Rose took off across the yard with either bowl in her hands, Kurama right on her heels. Not a drop of the sweet liquids fell from the bowls as she circled around heading back for the temple. Turning to look she saw no Kurama behind her. As she came into the clearing of temple's yard she stopped and looked around, wondering what had happened to Kurama. About to give up and go inside she heard someone behind her in the trees. Turning to see her visitor she was tackled by the red haired kitsune and the bowls flew into the air. They landed on the grass with a thud and the ice cream, or what was left of it, abided gravity and came down covering they in the sticky sweet goop.
Wiping the swirl of vanilla and strawberry from her eyes Rose looked up at the chuckling Kurama and began laughing too. Kurama sat up and moved to the side so Rose could get up. "And what exactly have you two been doing?" came a voice from behind them. Looking up they saw the shopping brigade had returned. "What do you mean?" asked Kurama staring at the black haired boy who had spoke. "Oh you know..." he replied with a smug look. Keiko would stood beside him understood what he was getting at turned and smacked him in the back of the head. "Yusuke! Get your mind out of the gutter and leave them alone!" she shouted. Kurama and Rose blushed and stood up. Kuwabara looked confused as his gaze shifted from Yusuke to Rose and Kurama not completely understanding what Yusuke had meant.
Botan, Yukina, and the still confused Kuwabara went inside followed by Yusuke and Keiko. Rose and Kurama picked up the bowls and spoons that were laying on the ground. When they finally came inside they saw that things were very toned down. No usual shouting matches between Yusuke and Kuwabara and even Botan wasn't her normal perky self. "I'm bored," said Yusuke who sat at the kitchen table leaning back his chair where it stood on only two legs. "Me too," agreed many of them in the room. "I have an idea," said Rose. The others turned and gave her their attention, any suggestion was better than nothing. "Back home my foster family use to go to this place called 'Mugs and Jugs' it was a kareokee diner/bar every Saturday night, do ya'll have any kareokee joints around here?" Rose said.
"That sounds like a good idea Rose, there is one place not far from the high school, remember Yusuke it's the one I tried to get you to go to," said Keiko. Everyone talked it over and decided," It's better than nothing." Agreeing to meet there at 7:00 everyone went home to get ready.
= Like I know, shooting in the dark
Nobara: I'm going to leave it at that for now, hope you ebjoyed it.
Yusuke: Kareokee?
Hiei: Have you heard Kuwabara sing before?!?!
Nobara: Is it that bad?
Yusuke,Hiei, Kurama: YES!!
Nobara: o.o ok I won't let him sing then....til next time, adios!
"Youko darling, did you miss me?" asked the woman in a mocking yet seductive voice. "Well if it isn't the slut of the Makai," he said back coldly. "You're the one to talk about being the slut of the Makai..."Youko growled and tightened his grip on her throat making her cough. "Kurama! Let her go!" said a new voice. Not bothering to turn around and look at the newcomer Youko spoke to him, "This is no affair of yours Koenma so just shove off." His claws dug into her throat, making punctures and letting a small amount of her blood trail to the ground. Before he could kill her Hiei spoke up, a rare thing. "Kurama, is killing this onna worth having to serve more time as a spirit detective?"
With a last growl he released her from his grasp and stood up, brushing the dust away that had settled on him. She followed standing up beside him, "Koenma? So you're Enma's brat, kinda on the short side ain't ya?" she said bending down beside him and poking his hat. Koenma waved her hand away with an irratated look. "Who is this chick?" asked Yusuke who had amazing held his tongue until then. "Whoever she is she's hot!" said Kuwabara. Koenma cleared his throat and took a collected and calm appearance. "Kuroyuri, seeing that you have finally shown yourself in Ningenkai after all the offenses you made nearly fifteen years ago you will be put on trial in one year to the day. Seeing that the offenses were considerably minor compared to the ones you commited with Youko here, we're giving you a second chance on clearing your name by working with the spirit detectives," he said.
Standing back up the woman called Kuroyuri folded her arms over her chest and looked down at him. "And what makes you so sure that I won't run and hide the first chance I get?","You're staying with Genkai and she'll make sure you stay put." Kuroyuri let out a soft growl when she heard this and Youko smirked. "Don't get all happy over there, you're going to be watching her too," said Koenma shooting a look at Youko. This time Kuro smirked as Youko let out a soft growl. "Now I suggest that you all repair Genkai's temple before she makes it back here." And with that the toddler disappeared.
Somehow the temple was repaired just as Genkai came home. Youko had long since reverted back to Kurama and Kuro to Rose. Kurama offered an apology for Youko and Rose silently accepted. The days past by and everything was calm around Genkai's temple. School had let out and it was early June, Genkai was gone yet again, Yukina had went with Botan and Keiko to go to the mall. Yusuke was the unwilling bagboy who had been forced to go by Keiko and Kuwabara was trailing after his lovely Yukina. It was a nice day, pretty much hot with the occasional breeze. Kurama had returned from the nearest gas station which was at the bottom of the mountain. Hiei was in a particularly bad mood and being out of sweet snow didn't make the situation any better.
((Kurama's POV))
It was one of those days, when you sweated so much you finally didn't even realize that you were sweating. Hiei was griping about Kuwabara tagging after Yukina, suggesting sweet snow might calm him down and cool him off I went to see if we had any. There's some good news. Someone had ate the last of it and put the container back in the freezer. That just made his day better and me, not feeling like listening him talk about taking over the worlds...again, I offered to go and buy some. I didn't mind at first, I was able to get out of the house and away from Hiei, not to mention Rose. I didn't really know how to approach her, she seemed like a person who would rather not be bothered by something as trivial as light chatting. Going down the mountain was easy, but coming back up was different. The heat was incredible, and that was in the shade. Okay so maybe I was exaggerrating, but it was pretty unbearable. All I had been wearing was a red tank top and a pair of shorts.
About halfway up the tank was off and had been stuffed halfway into one of the many pockets in my shorts. I didn't worry about Rose seeing me, she kept in her room most days. The temple finally came into view and a breeze had decided to appear. I stepped onto the poarch and was about to enter the house when I heard a voice I hadn't heard in a long time. "So you got more ice cream?" I turned to see who it was even though I knew it was Rose. She sat in the hammock that Yusuke and Kuwabara had recently put up on Genkai's poarch reading a book. I blushed when I saw what she was wearing. A plain white halter belly shirt and a pair of short black shorts that barely covered her. Her hair was pulled ontop of her hair into a clip."Kurama?" she asked with an arched eyebrow, she looked hot, in more than one way....'Don't get involoved with a girl like that, she'll stab you in the back' was what Youko told me, but I decided to tune him out for today.
((End Kurama's POV))
((Rose's POV))
He didn't answer me at first, he just stood there, camo shorts on, barefoot, shirt hanging out of his pocket, plastic bag hanging from his hand. I couldn't really tell if he was blushing or if he was just sunburnt as he stared at me so I looked over it. "Kurama!" I waved my hand trying to bring him back to reality, he spaced out more than I did. I did have to admit, he looked good. He was muscular but not so much as those slicked up bodybuilders on tv, they were gross looking. What keep my attention was his arms, long strong arms, arms that I wanted to be wrapped in. 'What are you saying Rose?! Snap out of it!' growled Kuro's voice in the back of my mind. ' Don't fall for him, you could do better, have someone who would appreciate you and won't take you for granted, who could be trusted,' she tried again. I didn't pay her any attention and pushed her as far in the back of my mind as I could.
"Yes, would you like some?" he asked. My eyes went wide with shock. What did he just say?! "Excuse me?","Ice cream, would you like some ice cream?" I blushed I'm sure, he was being a gentleman while my mind was in the gutter. "What flavor is it?", "Neopolitan; Strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate," he smiled and held out his hand to help me up from the hammock. Without really thinking I took his hand and we went into the kitchen. Hiei was doing one fingered push-ups on the coffee table when we came in. He gave us a weird look before returning to do his push-ups. Taking a few moments I realized what it was, we still hadn't let go of each other's hand. With another blush I quickly let go of his hand and walked into the kitchen.
While Kurama looked for the ice cream scoop I got three bowls, spoons, and whipped cream and sat them on the counter and watched Kurama dip out the sweet snow. "What flavor?" he asked, putting a scoop of vanilla in a bowl. "Strawberry," I replied and took the can of whipped cream in my hand. He handed me the bowl with a smile, his fingers brushing mine lightly. Popping the top of the can off I pressed the nozzle to spray whipped cream on my ice cream, unfortunately Hiei decided that we were taking too long and came to see where the sweet snow was. He tapped me on my shoulder and I jumped with surprise causing my arm to fly up when I pressed the nozzle. I couldn't help but laugh when I saw Kurama, he looked like a snowman.
((End Rose's POV))
The kitsune's entire face was covered with whipped cream, only his eyes showing after he wiped away the two globs that blocked his vision. Hiei hid a small smile that formed on his lips as he took his bowl of sweet snow and left the room. Rose giggled as she searched for a dish towel to help him wipe off his face. With a smile Kurama ran his finger across his cheek to pick up a small glob of whipped cream. Rose turned around about to apologize when a glob of the white fluffy topping was wiped on her nose. Kurama chuckled softly as she gave him a playful glare and threw the towel at him. Again he chuckled and wiped the whipped cream off his face. Placing the towel on t he counter he handed Rose her strawberry ice cream and picked up his vanilla.
"So what book were you reading earlier?" he asked, trying to get a conversation going. "'The Damsel and the Dwarf' by Gerald Morris,"she replied taking a bite of her sweet snow. "It's pretty good but my favorite is Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire'," she continued. "Really? That's one of my favorites," said Kurama through a bite of ice cream, "Really? What's your favorite band?","Either Evanescene or Linkin Park," he said again," I like American music a bit better than Japanese." She smiled," I never knew how much we had in common." "Well you've never really talked to me before, like you had something against me","No I just didn't really know how to approach you you know, I didn't know what to say," she looked at her ice cream that was now soup and put the spoon on the railing.
"I'm really sorry about Kuro's actions everytime she comes around. She has something against Youko that she won't tell me about." Kurama nodded his head, the case was the same with Youko. "How about we call it a truce for now?" Rose asked silently to Kuro. The female voice hned and then said icily, "Fine". "Truce, I really would like to know Rose better," Kurama said to Youko in his head. "I'm telling you that girl is nothing but trouble, hot, but trouble," replied the kitsune's voice. A small silence passed before it said again, "If that's what you want." Kurama held up his ice cream soup as if in a toast, "Truce?","Truce," they laughed softly and clinked the bowls together. "Hey, you got your vanilla in my strawberry,","You got your strawberry in my vanilla,","You know, this is pretty good","HEY! Come back with my vanilla!!"
Rose took off across the yard with either bowl in her hands, Kurama right on her heels. Not a drop of the sweet liquids fell from the bowls as she circled around heading back for the temple. Turning to look she saw no Kurama behind her. As she came into the clearing of temple's yard she stopped and looked around, wondering what had happened to Kurama. About to give up and go inside she heard someone behind her in the trees. Turning to see her visitor she was tackled by the red haired kitsune and the bowls flew into the air. They landed on the grass with a thud and the ice cream, or what was left of it, abided gravity and came down covering they in the sticky sweet goop.
Wiping the swirl of vanilla and strawberry from her eyes Rose looked up at the chuckling Kurama and began laughing too. Kurama sat up and moved to the side so Rose could get up. "And what exactly have you two been doing?" came a voice from behind them. Looking up they saw the shopping brigade had returned. "What do you mean?" asked Kurama staring at the black haired boy who had spoke. "Oh you know..." he replied with a smug look. Keiko would stood beside him understood what he was getting at turned and smacked him in the back of the head. "Yusuke! Get your mind out of the gutter and leave them alone!" she shouted. Kurama and Rose blushed and stood up. Kuwabara looked confused as his gaze shifted from Yusuke to Rose and Kurama not completely understanding what Yusuke had meant.
Botan, Yukina, and the still confused Kuwabara went inside followed by Yusuke and Keiko. Rose and Kurama picked up the bowls and spoons that were laying on the ground. When they finally came inside they saw that things were very toned down. No usual shouting matches between Yusuke and Kuwabara and even Botan wasn't her normal perky self. "I'm bored," said Yusuke who sat at the kitchen table leaning back his chair where it stood on only two legs. "Me too," agreed many of them in the room. "I have an idea," said Rose. The others turned and gave her their attention, any suggestion was better than nothing. "Back home my foster family use to go to this place called 'Mugs and Jugs' it was a kareokee diner/bar every Saturday night, do ya'll have any kareokee joints around here?" Rose said.
"That sounds like a good idea Rose, there is one place not far from the high school, remember Yusuke it's the one I tried to get you to go to," said Keiko. Everyone talked it over and decided," It's better than nothing." Agreeing to meet there at 7:00 everyone went home to get ready.
= Like I know, shooting in the dark
Nobara: I'm going to leave it at that for now, hope you ebjoyed it.
Yusuke: Kareokee?
Hiei: Have you heard Kuwabara sing before?!?!
Nobara: Is it that bad?
Yusuke,Hiei, Kurama: YES!!
Nobara: o.o ok I won't let him sing then....til next time, adios!