THE EVE OF ICE
Chapter 2
Eve got out her favorite writing pencil and sat down, as she twirled it in her fingers she came up with an idea to start the story.
"Romance, definitely, perhaps suspense?" Eve mused this thought and started to write.
Finity ran, ran away from all of her troubles. From the man of her dreams, all of it. Tears pricked sharply at her eyes as she remember the times she had with him.
Her kissed her neck, gently working his way to her lips. Finity's desires had been satisfied. She slowly put her hands around his neck, making note of where his hands were; one around her back and the other gently rubbing her side...-!
"No!" Finity screamed, "I won't relive these memories!" she blinked back hot tears.
A blood red rose came into her mind, the same one he had first given her. Even with it's sharp pricks she had kept it; she dried it out and kept it in her room. But all of that was gone now.
"You promised to come back to me..." Finity's voice dropped below a whisper, "but I saw you holding her in your arms, just like me..." her throat choked up on her, making her voice hoarse.
"I'm going to stop here," Eve said as she climbed into bed and thought of the rest of her story. Eve slept peacefully until eight o' clock, when she was awoken by Kurama.
"Hi," he said with a smile on his face, "Sorry if I woke you up, would you like to go to breakfast?"
"Sure," Eve said, "Let me change," Eve then realized she had nothing to change into, "Uh, on second thought, I'll go like this!"
"Are you sure? I can get you something, I believe Botan might have stuff for you."
"Really I'm fine, just a bit hungry," Eve grabbed his hand, "Lets go, I'm starved...Where exactly are we going again?"
Kurama laughed, "You'll see," he said, a smile playing about his lips.
The two walked in silence. Kurama felt a bit uncomfortable and wanted to say something to break it. But Eve on the other hand...she liked this quietness between them.
"Hey, so what do you want to eat?"
"Hm...maybe pancakes or something," Eve said staring at the ground.
Kurama reached over to her chin and lifted her head up, "It's better to see where your walking," he smiled. Eve smiled back, she was afraid to open up to him, incase she got hurt again.
But...
Yesterday... 'Was he going to kiss me?' Eve pondered, it kept bugging her to no end. She finally just asked him, "Kurama, remember yesterday?"
"Yeah..."
"When I was outside crying and you hugged me, you looked into my eyes...what were you going to do?" she asked with seriousness in her voice.
Kurama froze and used the same tone she had, "I was going to take you back inside, why?"
"Oh, no, nothing..." Eve said a little disappointed, 'is he lying? Or is it...true?' Eve felt tears prick at her eyes. 'I can't let myself get close to him...I must resist at all costs...but it's so hard!...' Eve felt a tear roll down her cheek. It formed into a tear gem and fell onto the ground. Eve tried to catch it so Kurama wouldn't see but it was too late.
"Hey Eve I think you dropped something-" he bent down to get it then stopped as he realized what it was, "Is that a tear gem?"
"Yeah," Eve murmured, and picked it up, shoving it into her jean pocket.
"Yours right?"
"Yep," she said unemotionally.
"Why?"
"Nothing."
"You're not the type of person who would cry because of nothing Eve, tell me what's wrong."
"Memories."
"What memories?"
"Painful," Eve said, feeling very uncomfortable, 'he's only trying to help,' she told herself.
"Could you give me a proper answer instead of one word?" Kurama asked quietly as he pulled her inside of the restaurant.
"Do you really want to know?"
"Why else would I be asking?"
"Fine-" Eve looked up as a waitress came over.
"How many?" she asked.
"Two," replied Kurama, he saw Eve put on a fake happy smile and frowned a little.
The waitress led them to a table; Eve and Kurama sat opposite each other.
"Eve tell me what's wrong..." Kurama coaxed.
"After we get our food, I don't want to be interrupted."
Eve and Kurama looked at their menus in silence. Kurama decided to get toast, jelly, home fries, orange juice and a scrambled egg. Eve got a piece of toast with butter. Their waitress came a few minutes later.
"Are you ready to order?" Kurama looked at Eve and Eve nodded.
"Yeah, I'll have some toast with jam, home fries, orange juice and a scrambled egg, please," He folded the menu and handed it to her.
"Miss?" Eve put her sappy smile back on.
"I'll have some toast with butter please," she said ever so politely.
"Is that all?"
"Yes," Eve said politely once again. The waitress walked away and Kurama spoke up.
Eve's fake smile fell back and she went normal again, "Why do you smile like that?" Kurama asked confused.
"Because...it doesn't seem right to go out into the world and sulk."
"But that's hiding your true emotions."
"Yeah..."
The waitress came back with the food. Eve nibbled on the toast while Kurama watched her intently.
Eve looked up out of the corner of her eye and saw him staring at her, she looked out of her eye again, and then finally she looked up.
"Is there something you want to say?" Eve asked.
"No, I'm waiting for you to tell me why you're always so sad."
Eve sighed and took a bite out of her toast, "Back in grade four, when I was ten...I fell in love for the first time," Eve said, "So naïve and innocent," she murmured. "Ah, I remember the feeling, blissfully in love when time stopped and my heart fluttered when I saw him. I thought how happy I'd be when he said I love you too. I told him about a month or so later that I liked him. He..." Eve sighed deeply, adverting her gaze from Kurama's eyes, "he...said no, it's took me three years to get over him, and when I finally did, I knew that I'd never be able to love someone else again. A year later, bringing me up to 14 years, I fell in love...again, and this time, he said he loved me. Happy times, playing in the park, sweet kisses and cuddling. All up until two months ago, when he told me he only said...he loved me because he was...flattered. A month after that I caught...him...lip-locked with some bimbo..." another tear gem fell out of her eye. She caught it and held it remembering all of those times she had with him. She shoved it into her pocket, her hand grazing over the first one, "and this all brings me up to today," she said looking back in Kurama's eyes. They were full of so much sympathy and a tinge of...longing.
"Eve..." He said slowly, "I had no idea of how hurt you were..." He placed a hand on hers.
"Yeah, well..."
"This might not be the right time to say it but...I'm your friend, you can really trust me. You don't have to keep everything locked up inside...Eve, I just want you to be happy..."
'Just want me to be happy?' Eve thought, 'happy for what?'
"Kurama, after what I told you, wouldn't you realize that I'm afraid of getting hurt again..." she said then looked away from him, "especially by you..." She pulled her hand away from his.
"You know I wouldn't hurt you, Eve, please just give friendship another chance."
"It isn't friendship that I don't trust in...its love..." Eve paused for a minute, "I don't want to fall in love and be rejected, especially by someone I care for so much...Kurama, I hide my feelings because of this person..." a tear fell from her eye, it formed into a gem and Eve caught it, "if they knew what I really was they'd leave me forever and I can't let that happen, but I'm also too afraid to trust them..." Eve trailed off, "Do you know how much it hurts to hide it?!"
The waitress came back, "Are you ready to pay the bill?"
She placed it on the table, Eve glanced at it, it wasn't much. She interrupted before Kurama could say anything, "Is this enough?" she asked gently placing a tear gem on the table. The waitress picked it up and gasped, she nodded and quickly left.
They both got up, "So who is he?"
"Who?"
"The one you hide your feelings from..."
"I can't tell you," she felt the tear gem in her pocket; she squeezed one and let it transport to Kurama. He felt a small weight in his pocket; he reached in and grabbed it out.
"Eve...!" he said examining it.
"I don't have much use for it, keep it."
"Thanks."
"Just don't spread it around though," she said, remembering what she told Hiei.
As they were walking back Eve stopped.
"Eve?"
"Sorry Kurama, there's something that I forgot to do!" Eve transported to her parent's grave.
Kurama stopped in worry, thinking something horrible, but then remembering that Eve was a smart girl and could take care of herself. He dwelled on what he had just heard from her.
And...not to mention...
Her parent's were murdered when she was eight.
"Mother, Father...I'm so sorry for being late!" She said as she dropped down next to their graves.
There was only one day in the spirit world she could talk to her parents...and today was it. Since they left in the wrong time, it was their final gift to her.
"Eve, don't worry, we knew you'd come," her mother's voice rang in her head.
"Eve we know about the team you're entering and that boy..." Her father said roughly.
"He's hurt just like you...just give him a chance..." her mother said.
"Who, Kurama?"
"Maybe...." Her mother said.
"Maybe? Well would you approve of him?"
"Perhaps, if you make the right choice..."
"Right choice?-" Eve stopped in mid sentence.
A large claw slapped Eve in the side, making her roll over a few times. Eve, not feeling in the mood for fighting because of so much depression, let herself get whipped around. The monster, a huge wolf demon, kept clawing at her, drawing blood. It clawed at her whole body, making large wounds in her stomach, her back, her legs and her shoulders. Finally she decided to do something, "Blades of ICE!!!!!" She shouted and a hundred blades came out of her right palm and pierced the demon. Eve nearly fell unconscious, but with the last bit of strength she had she teleported to her bedroom. There she lay unconscious with life seeping out of her.
About half an hour later Kurama knocked on her door.
"Eve," He knocked gently, "Can I talk to you?"
No answer, Kurama gently turned the doorknob and slowly opened the door; he peeked inside and saw Eve in a pool of her own blood. He gasped in horror and flung the door open wide then ran for some bandages. He came back into Eve's room.
"Sorry Eve," he said lifting her shirt off and bandaging her stomach. The then did her back and shoulders. Finally he came to her legs.
"H..help-" Eve whispered for a moment and then fell unconscious again.
"I will, Eve please don't die!" Her tenderly took her jeans off and gently wrapped up her legs. When he was finished he picked her up and covered her with her blankets. He then brought a chair up to her bed and held onto her hand, never once letting sleep over take him.
Hiei came out of his room. He saw Eve's open door and ignored it.
"Finally, time to myself, when those idiots aren't here..."
"Hiei?" Kurama's voice was hoarse and choked up.
"Kurama?" Hiei said in concern, his voice was in Eve's room. Eve's door was open, how could he be so blind? "Kurama are you ok?" He said worried as he ran for Eve's door.
Hiei's eye's rested on Kurama then on Eve; he gave Kurama a look of shock. Kurama's gaze still lingered on Eve.
"Kurama?! What the hell happened here?!!" Hiei yelled.
"I don't know, looks like the scars of a wolf demon, I just came in here and she was in a pool of her own blood..." he stared at her gripping her hand tighter.
"Is she?.." Hiei trailed off.
"No, she's still breathing but it's very shallow..."
"Kurama, you should get some sleep..."
"No!" he said firmly, "Sorry Hiei, but I can't seem to leave..."
"How?"
"I dunno..."
Kuwabara and Yusuke walked in laughing. Hiei exited Eve's room.
"Hey, Hiei, why were you in Eve's room?" Kuwabara asked.
"Hn," Hiei walked into his own room.
Yusuke and Kuwabara ran into Eve's room. They both wore a clueless expression on their faces.
"What happened?"
"Eve and I went for breakfast and after that she teleported to somewhere else, saying it was something she forgot to do...I later found her here in her own pool of blood..."
Yusuke and Kuwabara stood with very shocked expressions on their faces.
About three weeks later Eve awoke, Kurama torn from her side by Yusuke's pleas to go to sleep. Eve sat up, feeling the pain return she laid down quickly.
"You might as well give up on her Kurama..." Kuwabara said softly.
"No! I can't...I just can't..." he muttered.
"It's been three weeks now..." Hiei said.
"The day when she and I went to breakfast...she told me something that would scar anyone...She told me of her first two loves. The first in grade four...turned her down, her first love ever...it took her three years to get over him. Her second love returned her feelings out of flattery and told her two months ago. She's just as hurt as any of us, and possibly more because of her parents dying at age eight-"
Eve teleported right in front of Kurama, tears threatening to fall.
"H-how...how c-c-c-could you!!!" Eve managed to choke out, "I-I-I t-t- trusted y-y-y-y-you!!!" she said barely managing to hold back tears. She slapped him hard across the cheek and then started to pound his chest with her fists, "I-I-I h-h-hate you!!" she sobbed, falling apart completely. She tore open his shirt and dug her long fingernails into his chest. Blood dripping as Kurama looked at Eve with sadness.
"I'm sorry," he said just so she could hear. He wrapped his arms around her, embracing her as she tensed up.
"I-I d-d-don't need y-y-your pity!" she said pulling away from him.
"Eve..."
"A-and where did these bandages come from?!" She yelled swallowing her tears.
"Me..."
"You took off my clothes?!?!"
"Yeah.." Kurama blushed deeply and looked down.
"Sorry.." Eve said and teleported to her room where she again fainted from exhaustion. Only this time not on the bed but on the floor.
A thud was heard from Eve's room. Kurama rushed in and gently picked Eve up and placed her on her bed, covering her tightly.
Kurama walked back out, ready to go a take a bath. Yusuke stopped him though.
"How come you didn't do anything?"
"What could I do, Yusuke?"
"Anything, back away perhaps-"
"It was my mistake, now she'll probably never trust me again. I shouldn't have said what I said," Kurama walked into the washroom that was connected to his. (A/N: I know, I know, just go with it though kk?)
He took off his clothes and threw it to the ground. Thinking of how disgusting it was to betray someone who was only just starting to warm up to him, to trust again. Thirty minutes later he finished and dried off and put some flannel pajamas on. He got in bed and started to read.
When he was previously changing his clothes he had set the tear gem on his night table. He picked it up and examined it. It was a small, round, glassy ball, about the size of a centimeter. It had a blue-green tint. Kurama rolled it around in his hand, marveling at the beauty. He sighed restlessly and got up, pocketing the tear gem.
'How could I have done that to Eve?' he sighed, 'might as well as ask for forgiveness...' he walked past the gang and stood at Eve's door...only to find her already conversing with Hiei.
"I don't see how he could've told...I mean, it was so personal..."
Hiei nodded his head, "Ever get that feeling that you just want to be alone? Not disturbed or living on the mountains?"
"All the time," Eve sighed from pain, "Hiei, how is it that you understand me so well?"
"I guess that we're alike..." Hiei smiled.
"Why are you smiling?"
"Just thought that I've never had someone who's nearly exactly like me...very untrusting..."
"Yeah, being rejected and played will do that to ya..." Eve laid back down, "Kurama? Did you want something?" She said sensing him at the door.
At this he opened it and asked, "Can you forgive me?"
"Kurama what I told you was very personal...but you did bandage me...I guess. Wait how long was I unconscious?!"
"About three weeks," he said relieved that he was forgiven.
"THREE WEEKS?!" Eve yelled, "and you never gave up on me..." she murmured.
"How could I?"
"Eve, how did you get those scars?"
"I was attacked by a wolf demon when I went to visit my parents graves,' that's why I left. Sorry Kurama."
"A wolf demon? Odd..." he trailed off, "But that's not what I was asking...where did you get those old scars on your legs?"
Eve blushed and looked down at her hands, "You don't want to know...you'd hate me I you knew..."
"Eve...I know this is hard but please...tell me..."
"Sorry Kurama..."
'In time you'll get used to him...and maybe tell us what we want to know?' Hiei said in her mind.
"Hiei?" Eve said confused.
"Telepathy. Will you?"
"Perhaps," Eve said looking at Hiei. She turned her attention to Kurama and saw a scratch on his neck. Eve struggled to get out of bed. She made her way over to Kurama.
"Sorry," she muttered in a small voice. She unbuttoned his shirt and he blushed once again. She stared at what she had done to him and immediately felt sorry. She put her head to his chest listening to his heartbeat. Kurama blushed even more.
"Eve?"
"Yes?" she said placing her hands on his neck.
"What are you doing?"
"The obvious," she said putting her hands on his chest, a long scratch appeared on her neck.
"Eve, NO!!" it was too late Eve had finished healing him, scars on her chest now. She walked back to her bed.
"Consider it as a thank you," Eve covered herself up. Eve turned beet red as a thought entered her mind, "You...you...didn't...see anything...did you?"
"Um," he blushed as well, quite aware of Hiei's presence, "No. You had on your bra and underwear," he turned to Hiei who was smirking at him.
Eve cocked her eyebrow, "That's not seeing anything?"
"Sorry.." he muttered.
"Thank you Kurama, I-I...there's nothing to express my gratitude. I'd have bled to death if it weren't for you," she sighed deeply, "Only wish I could get up out of here..." her attention turned to Hiei, "And I guess I owe you a re-match."
"Yes you do," Hiei said still smirking.
"Katana or fists?"
"Whatever," he said, "I'm going with katana," he stood up and drew his sword and swiped at her cheek with amazing precision.
"Gee thanks Hiei, that's what I need another cut," she smirked back at him.
"I'd better go," Kurama said leaving the room.
Eve got up to go rinse the cut out but was pushed roughly back down by Hiei, "Sorry," he muttered and left to go get a damp towel. He returned in about two minutes and dabbed gently at Eve's cheek.
"I...I was so overwhelmed by pity that I let myself get beat up," Eve said.
"Feeling sorry for yourself never works, trust me," Hiei said with a small laugh.
"I know. It's just that I wanted to die but something pushed forward in me and saved my life," Eve sighed and closed her eyes, "While I was talking to my parents they told me-" Eve cut herself off, Hiei had been like her best friend for these few minutes she couldn't ruin it now by saying something her parents had told her.
"Told you what? And how come you could talk to them?"
"I can talk to them because they weren't supposed to leave yet and as their final gift they set a date for me to go talk to them. Though after I talked to them, they would be dead...well they are dead, what I mean is that that's the last time I could've ever talked to them. But I got cut off by that wolf demon," Eve figured if she kept talking she wouldn't have to tell Hiei what her parents told her, "I must go and find out if I can still reach them, that cursed wolf demon!"
"Wolf demons...odd, hey what did your parents tell you?"
"To be careful...and..." Eve struggled; lying wasn't her best subject, "to behave myself during...battles."
Hiei cocked an eyebrow, "that's not what they told you...I can read you mind and you're lying," he said solidly.
Eve shifted under Hiei's harsh glare, "Uh..."
Too late.
Hiei was already probing Eve's mind.
"Eve, don't worry, we knew you'd come,"
"Eve we know about the team you're entering and that boy..."
"He's hurt just like you...just give him a chance..."
"Who, Kurama?"
"Maybe...."
"Maybe? Well would you approve of him?"
"Perhaps, if you make the right choice..."
"Right choice?-"
"Kurama? Why him?"
"Argh!" Eve cast a dark look on Hiei, "who told you that you could read my mind?!" she said outraged.
"Hn," Hiei said back, "you lied, and why Kurama?"
"If you must know it's because he's been so nice to me, so sweet and caring...unlike you Hiei," she said her voice full of hatred.
"Hn," Hiei said pretending to be in deep thought, "and he also told us of your secret right?"
"He was obviously trying to help Hiei!! Oh what I wouldn't give you slap you right now!"
"Eve you are obviously in the wrong place at the wrong time...you're just a weak and pathetic half-ice demon," he scoffed.
"So are you Hiei, I wouldn't be talking if I were you!!"
"Hn, I'm the perfect combination of ice and fire, Eve. And what are you? Just some half-ice demon that doesn't even want to embrace their other side!! For all I know you could just be a stinkin' human!!-"
"Try shadow demon!!!!" Eve's body surrounded in a greyish aura, "Run that by me again," she said getting up.
Hiei twinged with fear and drew his katana, "Shadow...not bad...not bad at all. I look forward to fighting with you."
"Grrr," Eve summoned a small ball of dark energy and hurled it at Hiei, he held it back with some of his fire powers then froze it. Smashing it into tiny pieces of ice as it fell to the floor.
Hiei smirked.
"What's going on in here!" Kurama yelled coming into Eve's room.
"Oh just a friendly little match with our dear shadow demon," Hiei said softly.
"Shadow demon?" Kurama asked.
"Darkness Shadows!!!" Eve yelled and a black cloud swirled around Hiei, making him unable to see. Eve felt around for her katana behind her, her eyes never once leaving the black cloud.
"Fortosinthsis," Eve muttered and the black cloud grew denser. With quick and quiet movements Eve swung the blade at Hiei, making a large gash in his stomach.
"Differenscio," Eve said as she sheathed her sword, the metallic vibration filling the room. The black could dissipated and Hiei was revealed clutching his stomach.
"Yeah...so I'm a shadow demon?" Eve asked cheerfully, "Don't mess with me again," she said coldly. Eve slid back into bed and fell asleep from exhaustion.
"Hiei? Are you alright? What happened?" Kurama asked and ran over to Hiei trying to help him up.
"She's a shadow demon, I read her mind and she got upset and started to fight me...She'll pay," Hiei narrowed his eyes and threw Kurama's hands off of him, "Seems like she's quite taken by you also," Hiei lifted himself up, still trying to cover his stomach.
Kurama went pink, "T-taken by me?"
"Yeah that's what she said," Hiei walked out of her room. Kurama followed him.
"Are you alright Hiei? Do you want some help?"
"I'm fine Kurama, just need some bandages. She's quite skilled already. Shadow demons are strong, I wonder why she doesn't want to be one..." Hiei took his shirt off and examined the wound he then proceeded to wrap the bandages around himself. Once he was finished he went around his room and rifled around for another shirt. He found one and put it back on.
"Hiei are you sure you're okay? Shadow attacks are very harmful."
"I'm fine okay?" he said coldly, "Now get out!"
Kurama left in silence and decided to watch TV. He flicked it on and saw the movie he was watching with Eve, right around the time that she left too. He sat down and made himself comfortable while watching it. Kuwabara walked out of his room and sat down next to Kurama.
"Aww, Kurama!!" he moaned, "romance again?!"
"Here Kuwabara," he said and handed him the remote, "I'm just going to check up on Eve, I'll be right back," he walked into Eve's room as Kuwabara flipped the movie to car racing.
Kurama quietly shut the door. A piece of paper that had fallen from Eve's desk caught his eye. He picked it up and read it; Eve's story about love.
'I wonder why she didn't watch that movie with me?' Kurama thought, 'She's quite taken by you,' Hiei's words rang in her head. Kurama placed it back on Eve's desk, 'very descriptive, I never knew she had an interest in romance.' Another object caught his eye, Eve's favorite writing pencil. He studied it for a moment. The comfortable grip, the lead, the fact that it was well kept with no dents or scratches.
He turned his thoughts to Eve and looked over at her. She was sleeping peacefully, her defenses down. She was such a hurt person who put up a large barrier to protect herself. And here she was defenseless without a care in the world. Oh what she must wish to be happy and normal again, Kurama thought. His thoughts once again drifted to Eve's story, romance...it didn't seem like Eve would take interest in that.
Kurama left Eve's room and thought of how she would probably not be able to go back home for a while. Just considering that she was only in bandages, had no clothes of her own and would probably wake up feeling miserable he would go and get her stuff.
Kurama went to Koenma and asked to get Eve's things; Koenma gave him the location of Eve's house and was off.
Meanwhile Hiei was stretched flat on his bed, 'why doesn't she want to be a shadow demon...and Kurama...We were getting along so well though, grrr! I still won't forgive her!! That little bitch! We'll see whose stronger...yeah, we will indeed,' he chuckled to himself in thought.
Kurama arrived at Eve's house. It was a small bungalow, but with blood splattered everywhere. Why was it such a mess, and why didn't Eve clean it up? Eve lived alone since her parents died. Demons probably attacked her while she was here. But whose bloodshed was this?
Kurama went deeper into her house, the floor was torn up and he tripped. As he heaved himself up a tiny kitsune ran out off a room and cautiously walked over to Kurama. It went over and sniffed him and after a dignified mew it let Kurama pick it up.
"What are you doing here little guy?" Kurama whispered gently.
It nuzzled Kurama's arm and Kurama let out a small laugh, "Hey that tickles!"
Kurama walked into more and more rooms looking for anything that would be of value to Eve. The kitchen was more a mess than any other room, nothing to valuable.
"If I can just find her room..." Kurama muttered to himself.
The small kitsune leaped out of Kurama's arms and ran toward another room. Kurama ran after it and came to Eve's room.
Kurama looked around in shock; the carpet was torn, gauze was strewn all over the floor, the mattress had various holes in it, the oak desk was chopped in half and splintering, the curtains were ripped, her chest of drawers was probably the best thing there and the night table had lined binder papers scattered about it.
Kurama walked over to the drawers were and opened it up, lucky him! It just so happened to be all of Eve's bras and panties. Kurama blushed and spotted a leopard skinned one. He grinned out of curiosity and put it into the huge bag he had brought along. He grabbed a few more things and then opened another drawer and found pants. He took as much as he thought he could and then opened the last drawer. He saw a few tank tops and some regular tee shirts but most of it was long-sleeved shirts. He had noticed that Eve had no shorts.
'Maybe I'll buy some for her,' he thought kindly. His mind flicked back to Eve's body, scars on her arms and legs, that was why she wore things that covered her body, it must be.
Kurama turned around, just about ready to leave into another room when he spotted a closet. He opened it up and saw some of the most beautiful clothes ever.
A silk black dress and a short top. An old fashioned puffy dress that was maroon. And tons of skirts.
He fingered them all and pulled out the two dresses then he grabbed some skirts. Stuffing it all in the bag he left Eve's room. His mind dwelled on the dresses, 'hidden beauty in a mass of chaos...much like the owner of all of this.'
Kurama followed the small kitsune into another room. Eve's writing room.
He set the bag down and picked up some of her work. She had about ten stories littering her desk, they seemed to be of no importance because they were just scattered around, stories mixing together. Kurama read the first page and fell in love with the detail, Eve was such an awesome writer. Her stories were mostly angsty, love/romace, suspense, and horror. Kurama spent the next thirty minutes trying to figure out what stories went together. Eve had numbered the bottom and made it easier for him. When he was finished he spent an hour reading them. He sighed and got up, it felt so real. Eve had entranced him in her words, really captured him. He tucked the stories neatly into the bag and headed off when he was stopped by the small kitsune.
Kurama looked at it in question, then picked it up.
"You wanna see Eve right?"
The kitsune mewed in response.
Kurama laughed lightly and picked up the bag in his left hand, while cradling the kitsune in his left. He ran with his demonic speed and made it back in thirty seconds flat.
He set Eve's things at the end of her bed, the kitsune leaped out of his arms and landed awakardly on Eve, making her jump and gasp shortly in pain.
She was about to strangle the thing when she realized it was her kitsune.
"Fox Fire!" she held the kitsune to her face as it licked her cheek, "I missed you so much..." a tem rolled down her cheek and fell to the ground with a soft thud.
"I thought you might've been killed because to that blast-" she realized Kurama was standing right there. She cleared her throat.
"I-I went to get some of your things for you," Eve's stared lingered on him and made him want to babble on, "Your stories, their awesome, especially the romantic ones, and that one you're just starting, Heat, Flame, and Passion; Fire! I really like that one..."
"You read my stories? Without my permission?"
"I-I didn't know, I'm sorry!"
"Kurama, tell me you didn't," she paused, "tell me you don't know my weakness!"
"Eve, I'm sorry, I didn't know!"
"Kurama, what is my weakness?!"
"Uh..um romance?"
"ARGHH!!! Noo!! I...can't believe...it's...that easy...to...break...my...defense!!"
"Honestly if I didn't read your stories I'd think that your weakness would be in your abilities or something..."
"So now you're calling my abilities weak!! Boy Kurama, you sure now how to get someone's forgiveness," Eve said with cold sacasm.
"No! Not at all!!!"
'I don't know what to say...he only wants to help, and frankly I'm tired of pushing people away...but he violated my privacy!! Then there was the time where we went to breakfast, I felt...loved?' Eve thought.
"Take a seat," Eve said moving over.
"Do you forgive me?" he looked at Eve sadly.
'Oh my GOD!! He looks...so sad and hurt...as if he'd break if I said no...and what's this overwhelming urge to kiss him?!?!?!?! Vivid green eyes, boring into my soul...untangling all the knots and caressing the wounds....SNAP OUT OF IT!!!!'
Eve nodded her head and tore her gaze away from him, looking at her kitsune which was now asleep, "Fox Fire seems to take a liking to you, he's usually quite vicious to most people..."
"I think he smelt you me my clothes, knowing that I'd go back, he must've wanted to come and see you again," Kurama said, Eve couldn't help herself she looked back into Kurama's orbs of forest green.
"Um," Eve said softly, "has anyone ever told you that you have really beautiful eyes?" she asked shyly and looked away.
Kurama hid his shock. Eve had just been really mad at him and now it seemed as if he had just broke her defenses, and he wouldn't have if he didn't read her stories. Kurama blushed and cupped Eve's chin, forcing her to look at him.
"Has anyone ever told you that you have really beautiful eyes?" Eve blushed and smiled. The urge to kiss him stronger than ever.
"No actually...Why was it so easy to break my defense?"
"It wasn't. If I hadn't read your stories, then I wouldn't know..."
"I really want to let you in...have a friend, but after so long, I'm kinda scared to do it..."
"Eve," he took her hands in his, "Please don't be afraid, I only want to be your friend, I only want to make your life better...tuck the past away and embrace the future."
"Did you get that from a movie?" Eve asked accusingly.
"No way!" he said defensively.
Eve giggled, "It might not be so bad to have a friend, but-" Eve stopped, she was just about to ask, what if I fall in love with you?
"but what?" Kurama asked.
"It's going to be really hard to start," Eve whispered.
Kurama took her hand and brushed it across his cheeks, then he took her finger and brushed it across his lips. Kurama instantly realized what he was doing and immediately let go of her hand. Kurama blushed a deep shade of red.
Eve pulled her hand back and ran her finger across her lips. She knew she couldn't help it, she ran her tongue over her lips. She grabbed Kurama's hand and held it for a minute, before placing his hand on her chest. She slowed reached up for his chest and felt his heartbeat. Kurama blushed realizing where his hand was he pulled away.
"I think we've already started..." Kurama said to Eve. Eve nodded her head.
RS: wow!! How was that? I liked it, read and review, tell me what you think! Oh and if you don't like Eve, just substitute her for yourself!! - !!!
Chapter 2
Eve got out her favorite writing pencil and sat down, as she twirled it in her fingers she came up with an idea to start the story.
"Romance, definitely, perhaps suspense?" Eve mused this thought and started to write.
Finity ran, ran away from all of her troubles. From the man of her dreams, all of it. Tears pricked sharply at her eyes as she remember the times she had with him.
Her kissed her neck, gently working his way to her lips. Finity's desires had been satisfied. She slowly put her hands around his neck, making note of where his hands were; one around her back and the other gently rubbing her side...-!
"No!" Finity screamed, "I won't relive these memories!" she blinked back hot tears.
A blood red rose came into her mind, the same one he had first given her. Even with it's sharp pricks she had kept it; she dried it out and kept it in her room. But all of that was gone now.
"You promised to come back to me..." Finity's voice dropped below a whisper, "but I saw you holding her in your arms, just like me..." her throat choked up on her, making her voice hoarse.
"I'm going to stop here," Eve said as she climbed into bed and thought of the rest of her story. Eve slept peacefully until eight o' clock, when she was awoken by Kurama.
"Hi," he said with a smile on his face, "Sorry if I woke you up, would you like to go to breakfast?"
"Sure," Eve said, "Let me change," Eve then realized she had nothing to change into, "Uh, on second thought, I'll go like this!"
"Are you sure? I can get you something, I believe Botan might have stuff for you."
"Really I'm fine, just a bit hungry," Eve grabbed his hand, "Lets go, I'm starved...Where exactly are we going again?"
Kurama laughed, "You'll see," he said, a smile playing about his lips.
The two walked in silence. Kurama felt a bit uncomfortable and wanted to say something to break it. But Eve on the other hand...she liked this quietness between them.
"Hey, so what do you want to eat?"
"Hm...maybe pancakes or something," Eve said staring at the ground.
Kurama reached over to her chin and lifted her head up, "It's better to see where your walking," he smiled. Eve smiled back, she was afraid to open up to him, incase she got hurt again.
But...
Yesterday... 'Was he going to kiss me?' Eve pondered, it kept bugging her to no end. She finally just asked him, "Kurama, remember yesterday?"
"Yeah..."
"When I was outside crying and you hugged me, you looked into my eyes...what were you going to do?" she asked with seriousness in her voice.
Kurama froze and used the same tone she had, "I was going to take you back inside, why?"
"Oh, no, nothing..." Eve said a little disappointed, 'is he lying? Or is it...true?' Eve felt tears prick at her eyes. 'I can't let myself get close to him...I must resist at all costs...but it's so hard!...' Eve felt a tear roll down her cheek. It formed into a tear gem and fell onto the ground. Eve tried to catch it so Kurama wouldn't see but it was too late.
"Hey Eve I think you dropped something-" he bent down to get it then stopped as he realized what it was, "Is that a tear gem?"
"Yeah," Eve murmured, and picked it up, shoving it into her jean pocket.
"Yours right?"
"Yep," she said unemotionally.
"Why?"
"Nothing."
"You're not the type of person who would cry because of nothing Eve, tell me what's wrong."
"Memories."
"What memories?"
"Painful," Eve said, feeling very uncomfortable, 'he's only trying to help,' she told herself.
"Could you give me a proper answer instead of one word?" Kurama asked quietly as he pulled her inside of the restaurant.
"Do you really want to know?"
"Why else would I be asking?"
"Fine-" Eve looked up as a waitress came over.
"How many?" she asked.
"Two," replied Kurama, he saw Eve put on a fake happy smile and frowned a little.
The waitress led them to a table; Eve and Kurama sat opposite each other.
"Eve tell me what's wrong..." Kurama coaxed.
"After we get our food, I don't want to be interrupted."
Eve and Kurama looked at their menus in silence. Kurama decided to get toast, jelly, home fries, orange juice and a scrambled egg. Eve got a piece of toast with butter. Their waitress came a few minutes later.
"Are you ready to order?" Kurama looked at Eve and Eve nodded.
"Yeah, I'll have some toast with jam, home fries, orange juice and a scrambled egg, please," He folded the menu and handed it to her.
"Miss?" Eve put her sappy smile back on.
"I'll have some toast with butter please," she said ever so politely.
"Is that all?"
"Yes," Eve said politely once again. The waitress walked away and Kurama spoke up.
Eve's fake smile fell back and she went normal again, "Why do you smile like that?" Kurama asked confused.
"Because...it doesn't seem right to go out into the world and sulk."
"But that's hiding your true emotions."
"Yeah..."
The waitress came back with the food. Eve nibbled on the toast while Kurama watched her intently.
Eve looked up out of the corner of her eye and saw him staring at her, she looked out of her eye again, and then finally she looked up.
"Is there something you want to say?" Eve asked.
"No, I'm waiting for you to tell me why you're always so sad."
Eve sighed and took a bite out of her toast, "Back in grade four, when I was ten...I fell in love for the first time," Eve said, "So naïve and innocent," she murmured. "Ah, I remember the feeling, blissfully in love when time stopped and my heart fluttered when I saw him. I thought how happy I'd be when he said I love you too. I told him about a month or so later that I liked him. He..." Eve sighed deeply, adverting her gaze from Kurama's eyes, "he...said no, it's took me three years to get over him, and when I finally did, I knew that I'd never be able to love someone else again. A year later, bringing me up to 14 years, I fell in love...again, and this time, he said he loved me. Happy times, playing in the park, sweet kisses and cuddling. All up until two months ago, when he told me he only said...he loved me because he was...flattered. A month after that I caught...him...lip-locked with some bimbo..." another tear gem fell out of her eye. She caught it and held it remembering all of those times she had with him. She shoved it into her pocket, her hand grazing over the first one, "and this all brings me up to today," she said looking back in Kurama's eyes. They were full of so much sympathy and a tinge of...longing.
"Eve..." He said slowly, "I had no idea of how hurt you were..." He placed a hand on hers.
"Yeah, well..."
"This might not be the right time to say it but...I'm your friend, you can really trust me. You don't have to keep everything locked up inside...Eve, I just want you to be happy..."
'Just want me to be happy?' Eve thought, 'happy for what?'
"Kurama, after what I told you, wouldn't you realize that I'm afraid of getting hurt again..." she said then looked away from him, "especially by you..." She pulled her hand away from his.
"You know I wouldn't hurt you, Eve, please just give friendship another chance."
"It isn't friendship that I don't trust in...its love..." Eve paused for a minute, "I don't want to fall in love and be rejected, especially by someone I care for so much...Kurama, I hide my feelings because of this person..." a tear fell from her eye, it formed into a gem and Eve caught it, "if they knew what I really was they'd leave me forever and I can't let that happen, but I'm also too afraid to trust them..." Eve trailed off, "Do you know how much it hurts to hide it?!"
The waitress came back, "Are you ready to pay the bill?"
She placed it on the table, Eve glanced at it, it wasn't much. She interrupted before Kurama could say anything, "Is this enough?" she asked gently placing a tear gem on the table. The waitress picked it up and gasped, she nodded and quickly left.
They both got up, "So who is he?"
"Who?"
"The one you hide your feelings from..."
"I can't tell you," she felt the tear gem in her pocket; she squeezed one and let it transport to Kurama. He felt a small weight in his pocket; he reached in and grabbed it out.
"Eve...!" he said examining it.
"I don't have much use for it, keep it."
"Thanks."
"Just don't spread it around though," she said, remembering what she told Hiei.
As they were walking back Eve stopped.
"Eve?"
"Sorry Kurama, there's something that I forgot to do!" Eve transported to her parent's grave.
Kurama stopped in worry, thinking something horrible, but then remembering that Eve was a smart girl and could take care of herself. He dwelled on what he had just heard from her.
And...not to mention...
Her parent's were murdered when she was eight.
"Mother, Father...I'm so sorry for being late!" She said as she dropped down next to their graves.
There was only one day in the spirit world she could talk to her parents...and today was it. Since they left in the wrong time, it was their final gift to her.
"Eve, don't worry, we knew you'd come," her mother's voice rang in her head.
"Eve we know about the team you're entering and that boy..." Her father said roughly.
"He's hurt just like you...just give him a chance..." her mother said.
"Who, Kurama?"
"Maybe...." Her mother said.
"Maybe? Well would you approve of him?"
"Perhaps, if you make the right choice..."
"Right choice?-" Eve stopped in mid sentence.
A large claw slapped Eve in the side, making her roll over a few times. Eve, not feeling in the mood for fighting because of so much depression, let herself get whipped around. The monster, a huge wolf demon, kept clawing at her, drawing blood. It clawed at her whole body, making large wounds in her stomach, her back, her legs and her shoulders. Finally she decided to do something, "Blades of ICE!!!!!" She shouted and a hundred blades came out of her right palm and pierced the demon. Eve nearly fell unconscious, but with the last bit of strength she had she teleported to her bedroom. There she lay unconscious with life seeping out of her.
About half an hour later Kurama knocked on her door.
"Eve," He knocked gently, "Can I talk to you?"
No answer, Kurama gently turned the doorknob and slowly opened the door; he peeked inside and saw Eve in a pool of her own blood. He gasped in horror and flung the door open wide then ran for some bandages. He came back into Eve's room.
"Sorry Eve," he said lifting her shirt off and bandaging her stomach. The then did her back and shoulders. Finally he came to her legs.
"H..help-" Eve whispered for a moment and then fell unconscious again.
"I will, Eve please don't die!" Her tenderly took her jeans off and gently wrapped up her legs. When he was finished he picked her up and covered her with her blankets. He then brought a chair up to her bed and held onto her hand, never once letting sleep over take him.
Hiei came out of his room. He saw Eve's open door and ignored it.
"Finally, time to myself, when those idiots aren't here..."
"Hiei?" Kurama's voice was hoarse and choked up.
"Kurama?" Hiei said in concern, his voice was in Eve's room. Eve's door was open, how could he be so blind? "Kurama are you ok?" He said worried as he ran for Eve's door.
Hiei's eye's rested on Kurama then on Eve; he gave Kurama a look of shock. Kurama's gaze still lingered on Eve.
"Kurama?! What the hell happened here?!!" Hiei yelled.
"I don't know, looks like the scars of a wolf demon, I just came in here and she was in a pool of her own blood..." he stared at her gripping her hand tighter.
"Is she?.." Hiei trailed off.
"No, she's still breathing but it's very shallow..."
"Kurama, you should get some sleep..."
"No!" he said firmly, "Sorry Hiei, but I can't seem to leave..."
"How?"
"I dunno..."
Kuwabara and Yusuke walked in laughing. Hiei exited Eve's room.
"Hey, Hiei, why were you in Eve's room?" Kuwabara asked.
"Hn," Hiei walked into his own room.
Yusuke and Kuwabara ran into Eve's room. They both wore a clueless expression on their faces.
"What happened?"
"Eve and I went for breakfast and after that she teleported to somewhere else, saying it was something she forgot to do...I later found her here in her own pool of blood..."
Yusuke and Kuwabara stood with very shocked expressions on their faces.
About three weeks later Eve awoke, Kurama torn from her side by Yusuke's pleas to go to sleep. Eve sat up, feeling the pain return she laid down quickly.
"You might as well give up on her Kurama..." Kuwabara said softly.
"No! I can't...I just can't..." he muttered.
"It's been three weeks now..." Hiei said.
"The day when she and I went to breakfast...she told me something that would scar anyone...She told me of her first two loves. The first in grade four...turned her down, her first love ever...it took her three years to get over him. Her second love returned her feelings out of flattery and told her two months ago. She's just as hurt as any of us, and possibly more because of her parents dying at age eight-"
Eve teleported right in front of Kurama, tears threatening to fall.
"H-how...how c-c-c-could you!!!" Eve managed to choke out, "I-I-I t-t- trusted y-y-y-y-you!!!" she said barely managing to hold back tears. She slapped him hard across the cheek and then started to pound his chest with her fists, "I-I-I h-h-hate you!!" she sobbed, falling apart completely. She tore open his shirt and dug her long fingernails into his chest. Blood dripping as Kurama looked at Eve with sadness.
"I'm sorry," he said just so she could hear. He wrapped his arms around her, embracing her as she tensed up.
"I-I d-d-don't need y-y-your pity!" she said pulling away from him.
"Eve..."
"A-and where did these bandages come from?!" She yelled swallowing her tears.
"Me..."
"You took off my clothes?!?!"
"Yeah.." Kurama blushed deeply and looked down.
"Sorry.." Eve said and teleported to her room where she again fainted from exhaustion. Only this time not on the bed but on the floor.
A thud was heard from Eve's room. Kurama rushed in and gently picked Eve up and placed her on her bed, covering her tightly.
Kurama walked back out, ready to go a take a bath. Yusuke stopped him though.
"How come you didn't do anything?"
"What could I do, Yusuke?"
"Anything, back away perhaps-"
"It was my mistake, now she'll probably never trust me again. I shouldn't have said what I said," Kurama walked into the washroom that was connected to his. (A/N: I know, I know, just go with it though kk?)
He took off his clothes and threw it to the ground. Thinking of how disgusting it was to betray someone who was only just starting to warm up to him, to trust again. Thirty minutes later he finished and dried off and put some flannel pajamas on. He got in bed and started to read.
When he was previously changing his clothes he had set the tear gem on his night table. He picked it up and examined it. It was a small, round, glassy ball, about the size of a centimeter. It had a blue-green tint. Kurama rolled it around in his hand, marveling at the beauty. He sighed restlessly and got up, pocketing the tear gem.
'How could I have done that to Eve?' he sighed, 'might as well as ask for forgiveness...' he walked past the gang and stood at Eve's door...only to find her already conversing with Hiei.
"I don't see how he could've told...I mean, it was so personal..."
Hiei nodded his head, "Ever get that feeling that you just want to be alone? Not disturbed or living on the mountains?"
"All the time," Eve sighed from pain, "Hiei, how is it that you understand me so well?"
"I guess that we're alike..." Hiei smiled.
"Why are you smiling?"
"Just thought that I've never had someone who's nearly exactly like me...very untrusting..."
"Yeah, being rejected and played will do that to ya..." Eve laid back down, "Kurama? Did you want something?" She said sensing him at the door.
At this he opened it and asked, "Can you forgive me?"
"Kurama what I told you was very personal...but you did bandage me...I guess. Wait how long was I unconscious?!"
"About three weeks," he said relieved that he was forgiven.
"THREE WEEKS?!" Eve yelled, "and you never gave up on me..." she murmured.
"How could I?"
"Eve, how did you get those scars?"
"I was attacked by a wolf demon when I went to visit my parents graves,' that's why I left. Sorry Kurama."
"A wolf demon? Odd..." he trailed off, "But that's not what I was asking...where did you get those old scars on your legs?"
Eve blushed and looked down at her hands, "You don't want to know...you'd hate me I you knew..."
"Eve...I know this is hard but please...tell me..."
"Sorry Kurama..."
'In time you'll get used to him...and maybe tell us what we want to know?' Hiei said in her mind.
"Hiei?" Eve said confused.
"Telepathy. Will you?"
"Perhaps," Eve said looking at Hiei. She turned her attention to Kurama and saw a scratch on his neck. Eve struggled to get out of bed. She made her way over to Kurama.
"Sorry," she muttered in a small voice. She unbuttoned his shirt and he blushed once again. She stared at what she had done to him and immediately felt sorry. She put her head to his chest listening to his heartbeat. Kurama blushed even more.
"Eve?"
"Yes?" she said placing her hands on his neck.
"What are you doing?"
"The obvious," she said putting her hands on his chest, a long scratch appeared on her neck.
"Eve, NO!!" it was too late Eve had finished healing him, scars on her chest now. She walked back to her bed.
"Consider it as a thank you," Eve covered herself up. Eve turned beet red as a thought entered her mind, "You...you...didn't...see anything...did you?"
"Um," he blushed as well, quite aware of Hiei's presence, "No. You had on your bra and underwear," he turned to Hiei who was smirking at him.
Eve cocked her eyebrow, "That's not seeing anything?"
"Sorry.." he muttered.
"Thank you Kurama, I-I...there's nothing to express my gratitude. I'd have bled to death if it weren't for you," she sighed deeply, "Only wish I could get up out of here..." her attention turned to Hiei, "And I guess I owe you a re-match."
"Yes you do," Hiei said still smirking.
"Katana or fists?"
"Whatever," he said, "I'm going with katana," he stood up and drew his sword and swiped at her cheek with amazing precision.
"Gee thanks Hiei, that's what I need another cut," she smirked back at him.
"I'd better go," Kurama said leaving the room.
Eve got up to go rinse the cut out but was pushed roughly back down by Hiei, "Sorry," he muttered and left to go get a damp towel. He returned in about two minutes and dabbed gently at Eve's cheek.
"I...I was so overwhelmed by pity that I let myself get beat up," Eve said.
"Feeling sorry for yourself never works, trust me," Hiei said with a small laugh.
"I know. It's just that I wanted to die but something pushed forward in me and saved my life," Eve sighed and closed her eyes, "While I was talking to my parents they told me-" Eve cut herself off, Hiei had been like her best friend for these few minutes she couldn't ruin it now by saying something her parents had told her.
"Told you what? And how come you could talk to them?"
"I can talk to them because they weren't supposed to leave yet and as their final gift they set a date for me to go talk to them. Though after I talked to them, they would be dead...well they are dead, what I mean is that that's the last time I could've ever talked to them. But I got cut off by that wolf demon," Eve figured if she kept talking she wouldn't have to tell Hiei what her parents told her, "I must go and find out if I can still reach them, that cursed wolf demon!"
"Wolf demons...odd, hey what did your parents tell you?"
"To be careful...and..." Eve struggled; lying wasn't her best subject, "to behave myself during...battles."
Hiei cocked an eyebrow, "that's not what they told you...I can read you mind and you're lying," he said solidly.
Eve shifted under Hiei's harsh glare, "Uh..."
Too late.
Hiei was already probing Eve's mind.
"Eve, don't worry, we knew you'd come,"
"Eve we know about the team you're entering and that boy..."
"He's hurt just like you...just give him a chance..."
"Who, Kurama?"
"Maybe...."
"Maybe? Well would you approve of him?"
"Perhaps, if you make the right choice..."
"Right choice?-"
"Kurama? Why him?"
"Argh!" Eve cast a dark look on Hiei, "who told you that you could read my mind?!" she said outraged.
"Hn," Hiei said back, "you lied, and why Kurama?"
"If you must know it's because he's been so nice to me, so sweet and caring...unlike you Hiei," she said her voice full of hatred.
"Hn," Hiei said pretending to be in deep thought, "and he also told us of your secret right?"
"He was obviously trying to help Hiei!! Oh what I wouldn't give you slap you right now!"
"Eve you are obviously in the wrong place at the wrong time...you're just a weak and pathetic half-ice demon," he scoffed.
"So are you Hiei, I wouldn't be talking if I were you!!"
"Hn, I'm the perfect combination of ice and fire, Eve. And what are you? Just some half-ice demon that doesn't even want to embrace their other side!! For all I know you could just be a stinkin' human!!-"
"Try shadow demon!!!!" Eve's body surrounded in a greyish aura, "Run that by me again," she said getting up.
Hiei twinged with fear and drew his katana, "Shadow...not bad...not bad at all. I look forward to fighting with you."
"Grrr," Eve summoned a small ball of dark energy and hurled it at Hiei, he held it back with some of his fire powers then froze it. Smashing it into tiny pieces of ice as it fell to the floor.
Hiei smirked.
"What's going on in here!" Kurama yelled coming into Eve's room.
"Oh just a friendly little match with our dear shadow demon," Hiei said softly.
"Shadow demon?" Kurama asked.
"Darkness Shadows!!!" Eve yelled and a black cloud swirled around Hiei, making him unable to see. Eve felt around for her katana behind her, her eyes never once leaving the black cloud.
"Fortosinthsis," Eve muttered and the black cloud grew denser. With quick and quiet movements Eve swung the blade at Hiei, making a large gash in his stomach.
"Differenscio," Eve said as she sheathed her sword, the metallic vibration filling the room. The black could dissipated and Hiei was revealed clutching his stomach.
"Yeah...so I'm a shadow demon?" Eve asked cheerfully, "Don't mess with me again," she said coldly. Eve slid back into bed and fell asleep from exhaustion.
"Hiei? Are you alright? What happened?" Kurama asked and ran over to Hiei trying to help him up.
"She's a shadow demon, I read her mind and she got upset and started to fight me...She'll pay," Hiei narrowed his eyes and threw Kurama's hands off of him, "Seems like she's quite taken by you also," Hiei lifted himself up, still trying to cover his stomach.
Kurama went pink, "T-taken by me?"
"Yeah that's what she said," Hiei walked out of her room. Kurama followed him.
"Are you alright Hiei? Do you want some help?"
"I'm fine Kurama, just need some bandages. She's quite skilled already. Shadow demons are strong, I wonder why she doesn't want to be one..." Hiei took his shirt off and examined the wound he then proceeded to wrap the bandages around himself. Once he was finished he went around his room and rifled around for another shirt. He found one and put it back on.
"Hiei are you sure you're okay? Shadow attacks are very harmful."
"I'm fine okay?" he said coldly, "Now get out!"
Kurama left in silence and decided to watch TV. He flicked it on and saw the movie he was watching with Eve, right around the time that she left too. He sat down and made himself comfortable while watching it. Kuwabara walked out of his room and sat down next to Kurama.
"Aww, Kurama!!" he moaned, "romance again?!"
"Here Kuwabara," he said and handed him the remote, "I'm just going to check up on Eve, I'll be right back," he walked into Eve's room as Kuwabara flipped the movie to car racing.
Kurama quietly shut the door. A piece of paper that had fallen from Eve's desk caught his eye. He picked it up and read it; Eve's story about love.
'I wonder why she didn't watch that movie with me?' Kurama thought, 'She's quite taken by you,' Hiei's words rang in her head. Kurama placed it back on Eve's desk, 'very descriptive, I never knew she had an interest in romance.' Another object caught his eye, Eve's favorite writing pencil. He studied it for a moment. The comfortable grip, the lead, the fact that it was well kept with no dents or scratches.
He turned his thoughts to Eve and looked over at her. She was sleeping peacefully, her defenses down. She was such a hurt person who put up a large barrier to protect herself. And here she was defenseless without a care in the world. Oh what she must wish to be happy and normal again, Kurama thought. His thoughts once again drifted to Eve's story, romance...it didn't seem like Eve would take interest in that.
Kurama left Eve's room and thought of how she would probably not be able to go back home for a while. Just considering that she was only in bandages, had no clothes of her own and would probably wake up feeling miserable he would go and get her stuff.
Kurama went to Koenma and asked to get Eve's things; Koenma gave him the location of Eve's house and was off.
Meanwhile Hiei was stretched flat on his bed, 'why doesn't she want to be a shadow demon...and Kurama...We were getting along so well though, grrr! I still won't forgive her!! That little bitch! We'll see whose stronger...yeah, we will indeed,' he chuckled to himself in thought.
Kurama arrived at Eve's house. It was a small bungalow, but with blood splattered everywhere. Why was it such a mess, and why didn't Eve clean it up? Eve lived alone since her parents died. Demons probably attacked her while she was here. But whose bloodshed was this?
Kurama went deeper into her house, the floor was torn up and he tripped. As he heaved himself up a tiny kitsune ran out off a room and cautiously walked over to Kurama. It went over and sniffed him and after a dignified mew it let Kurama pick it up.
"What are you doing here little guy?" Kurama whispered gently.
It nuzzled Kurama's arm and Kurama let out a small laugh, "Hey that tickles!"
Kurama walked into more and more rooms looking for anything that would be of value to Eve. The kitchen was more a mess than any other room, nothing to valuable.
"If I can just find her room..." Kurama muttered to himself.
The small kitsune leaped out of Kurama's arms and ran toward another room. Kurama ran after it and came to Eve's room.
Kurama looked around in shock; the carpet was torn, gauze was strewn all over the floor, the mattress had various holes in it, the oak desk was chopped in half and splintering, the curtains were ripped, her chest of drawers was probably the best thing there and the night table had lined binder papers scattered about it.
Kurama walked over to the drawers were and opened it up, lucky him! It just so happened to be all of Eve's bras and panties. Kurama blushed and spotted a leopard skinned one. He grinned out of curiosity and put it into the huge bag he had brought along. He grabbed a few more things and then opened another drawer and found pants. He took as much as he thought he could and then opened the last drawer. He saw a few tank tops and some regular tee shirts but most of it was long-sleeved shirts. He had noticed that Eve had no shorts.
'Maybe I'll buy some for her,' he thought kindly. His mind flicked back to Eve's body, scars on her arms and legs, that was why she wore things that covered her body, it must be.
Kurama turned around, just about ready to leave into another room when he spotted a closet. He opened it up and saw some of the most beautiful clothes ever.
A silk black dress and a short top. An old fashioned puffy dress that was maroon. And tons of skirts.
He fingered them all and pulled out the two dresses then he grabbed some skirts. Stuffing it all in the bag he left Eve's room. His mind dwelled on the dresses, 'hidden beauty in a mass of chaos...much like the owner of all of this.'
Kurama followed the small kitsune into another room. Eve's writing room.
He set the bag down and picked up some of her work. She had about ten stories littering her desk, they seemed to be of no importance because they were just scattered around, stories mixing together. Kurama read the first page and fell in love with the detail, Eve was such an awesome writer. Her stories were mostly angsty, love/romace, suspense, and horror. Kurama spent the next thirty minutes trying to figure out what stories went together. Eve had numbered the bottom and made it easier for him. When he was finished he spent an hour reading them. He sighed and got up, it felt so real. Eve had entranced him in her words, really captured him. He tucked the stories neatly into the bag and headed off when he was stopped by the small kitsune.
Kurama looked at it in question, then picked it up.
"You wanna see Eve right?"
The kitsune mewed in response.
Kurama laughed lightly and picked up the bag in his left hand, while cradling the kitsune in his left. He ran with his demonic speed and made it back in thirty seconds flat.
He set Eve's things at the end of her bed, the kitsune leaped out of his arms and landed awakardly on Eve, making her jump and gasp shortly in pain.
She was about to strangle the thing when she realized it was her kitsune.
"Fox Fire!" she held the kitsune to her face as it licked her cheek, "I missed you so much..." a tem rolled down her cheek and fell to the ground with a soft thud.
"I thought you might've been killed because to that blast-" she realized Kurama was standing right there. She cleared her throat.
"I-I went to get some of your things for you," Eve's stared lingered on him and made him want to babble on, "Your stories, their awesome, especially the romantic ones, and that one you're just starting, Heat, Flame, and Passion; Fire! I really like that one..."
"You read my stories? Without my permission?"
"I-I didn't know, I'm sorry!"
"Kurama, tell me you didn't," she paused, "tell me you don't know my weakness!"
"Eve, I'm sorry, I didn't know!"
"Kurama, what is my weakness?!"
"Uh..um romance?"
"ARGHH!!! Noo!! I...can't believe...it's...that easy...to...break...my...defense!!"
"Honestly if I didn't read your stories I'd think that your weakness would be in your abilities or something..."
"So now you're calling my abilities weak!! Boy Kurama, you sure now how to get someone's forgiveness," Eve said with cold sacasm.
"No! Not at all!!!"
'I don't know what to say...he only wants to help, and frankly I'm tired of pushing people away...but he violated my privacy!! Then there was the time where we went to breakfast, I felt...loved?' Eve thought.
"Take a seat," Eve said moving over.
"Do you forgive me?" he looked at Eve sadly.
'Oh my GOD!! He looks...so sad and hurt...as if he'd break if I said no...and what's this overwhelming urge to kiss him?!?!?!?! Vivid green eyes, boring into my soul...untangling all the knots and caressing the wounds....SNAP OUT OF IT!!!!'
Eve nodded her head and tore her gaze away from him, looking at her kitsune which was now asleep, "Fox Fire seems to take a liking to you, he's usually quite vicious to most people..."
"I think he smelt you me my clothes, knowing that I'd go back, he must've wanted to come and see you again," Kurama said, Eve couldn't help herself she looked back into Kurama's orbs of forest green.
"Um," Eve said softly, "has anyone ever told you that you have really beautiful eyes?" she asked shyly and looked away.
Kurama hid his shock. Eve had just been really mad at him and now it seemed as if he had just broke her defenses, and he wouldn't have if he didn't read her stories. Kurama blushed and cupped Eve's chin, forcing her to look at him.
"Has anyone ever told you that you have really beautiful eyes?" Eve blushed and smiled. The urge to kiss him stronger than ever.
"No actually...Why was it so easy to break my defense?"
"It wasn't. If I hadn't read your stories, then I wouldn't know..."
"I really want to let you in...have a friend, but after so long, I'm kinda scared to do it..."
"Eve," he took her hands in his, "Please don't be afraid, I only want to be your friend, I only want to make your life better...tuck the past away and embrace the future."
"Did you get that from a movie?" Eve asked accusingly.
"No way!" he said defensively.
Eve giggled, "It might not be so bad to have a friend, but-" Eve stopped, she was just about to ask, what if I fall in love with you?
"but what?" Kurama asked.
"It's going to be really hard to start," Eve whispered.
Kurama took her hand and brushed it across his cheeks, then he took her finger and brushed it across his lips. Kurama instantly realized what he was doing and immediately let go of her hand. Kurama blushed a deep shade of red.
Eve pulled her hand back and ran her finger across her lips. She knew she couldn't help it, she ran her tongue over her lips. She grabbed Kurama's hand and held it for a minute, before placing his hand on her chest. She slowed reached up for his chest and felt his heartbeat. Kurama blushed realizing where his hand was he pulled away.
"I think we've already started..." Kurama said to Eve. Eve nodded her head.
RS: wow!! How was that? I liked it, read and review, tell me what you think! Oh and if you don't like Eve, just substitute her for yourself!! - !!!