New Friend Found
Chapter 2
About Another
Kurama watched the young lady breath in her unconscious sleep. Her chest moved up and down gently to her breathing. He then noticed something, near her chest on the ground; a gold pendant gently gleamed in the sunshine that shone through the trees. Before he could continue his thoughts about the round pendant, the girl began to come back to conscious and shifted around. Kurama observed her.
The girl slightly opened her eyes, blinked a few times and began to push herself up and sat up. It wasn't till now at how close Kurama was that he noticed how stunning the girl's eyes were. He also noticed a black leather collar that wrapped around her slender neck, that didn't go to well with her round pendant. She rubbed her head with a clawed hand and let out a moan of pain from the come upon with the tree.
'Ugh, my head,' the female thought wincing in pain. She then gasped noticing the scent of the boy she had stumbled upon at the edge of the forest. She then snapped her head up at the youko and looked at where she thought his eyes were.
"I was wondering when you would notice that I was right near you." Kurama replied to the demon. 'Strange,' the crimson haired boy thought, 'she's a fox demon. I can tell now being so close to her, but she has no tail, like every fox demon should. Could it be that she...?' Kurama ceased his thoughts as he noticed what the girl was doing. She was backing up agents a tree, still sitting upon the ground.
"Wait," Kurama instructed to the girl, grabbing a hold of her wrist, keeping her from getting away. The girl froze at the touch of the boy's hand. She knew that he was a youko like her, but his scent had a hint of ningen in it.
"I have a question for you." He continued, looking into the girl's eyes.
'Her eyes,' Kurama thought as her took a good look into hers', 'they're... blank? Then is she... blind?' He suddenly put his thought on hold, wanting to know a little about this strange girl.
"Why are you here in the Ningenkai?" He demanded, keeping a strong hold on her wrist, so she couldn't slip through his fingers. The girl took a deep sigh and answered him.
"Why should it be any of your business?" She retorted back at him, blinking a few times, keeping a straight face.
"Because unless you would like to visit Koenma's office in the Reikai, I suggest you answer me." Kurama threatened her. The demon gave another sigh, realizing that going to Koenma's office would only get her into deep trouble, with her records that Koenma held.
"Fine, if you must know, I trying to hide from someone, but I'm guessing he'll find me anyway." She turned her head in the other direction so she didn't have to put up her "seeing" act for him while she told Kurama this.
Kurama believed her response she gave him, because of the fact that she looked irritated when she told him. But now, he focused on other lingering thoughts that kept on nagging him in the back of his mind. What was this strange demon's name, what type of demon is she, and is she blind? Before he could ask her, she questioned him first.
"Who are you anyway?" She asked, her face losing the irritated look and replacing it with a kinder look. She had faced forward when she asked this question. Kurama blinked his attractive emerald eyes a few times, but quickly shook his head from the unexpected question that was presented to him and answered.
"I'm called Kurama." The red haired boy replied calmly.
"What?" The female asked in surprise. Not believing what she heard with her fox ears. "You're Kurama! The Youko Kurama! I don't believe you." She had managed to slip out of his grasp and crossed her arms over her chest with a slight frown on her face.
"I am." He replied suppressing his little laugh.
"But Youko Kurama is dead. Unless," she began "you're the rebirth of Youko when his spirit fled to Ningenkai!" She finished excitement in her voice. Her hands dropped to her sides in disbelief.
"That's me." Kurama gladly answered.
"But, where are your ears?" She asked. By this time, the girl's hands were on top of his head, patting around looking for his fox ears. Kurama's eyebrow twitched in irritation; completely caught off guard by this sudden change.
"Ah-hem," The red head sounded, telling her to get off him.
"Oh, sorry..." The fox girl apologized, taking her seat in front of him just like in the beginning. She had a remorseful look upon her face. "Why don't you have ears like me?" She asked, tugging on one of her white ears.
"Because, I was reborn as a human," The youko explained, his irritated look disappearing and replacing it with a more calm appearance. The young lady nodded, signaling that she understood. A small moment of silence fell between the two of them, apparently the girl lost for words for a conversation. Kurama took that split second silence to ask his question.
"What's your name?" He asked, gesturing towards the girl.
"Hm? My name?" The female questioned, blinking her dazzling deep azure eyes a few times in obvious surprise. "It's none of your businesses." She retorted quickly closing her eyes and quickly turned her head some-what to the side.
"Alright," Kurama answered, shrugging a bit. The girl had opened one of her eyes in curiosity, wondering what the old youko was planning.
"I'll just have to take you to Koenma's office and search for you in his files." The girl sighed.
'Of course,' she thought with a small some-what irritated smile on her face, 'figures he'd bring this up again.' She turned her head to face him and opened her blank-like eyes. Her face had changed into a neutral expression.
"Alright, you wanna know my name I'll tell you." She had placed her hands in the empty space in between her crossed legs. Her back was completely straight in this position; she gave another sigh.
"My name is Kayu." She said, not so thrilled that this human-looking youko now knows her name.
"How do I know that's your real name?" He asked suspiciously.
"Because the last thing I want to do is meet Koenma," Kayu truthfully replied with an honest expression.
'And to be punished by him,' the golden brown haired demon thought to herself. Kayu had brought up her legs up to her chest, wrapped her arms around them, and rested her head on top.
"Anymore questions for me?" She asked Kurama, a small smirk crept upon her face.
"Actually, yes," he replied "You are a kitsune demon are you not?"
"Yes." The kitsune girl answered. She had a pretty good idea where this conversation was going.
"Then would you mind telling me the reason why you have no tail?" Once again, Kayu heaved a huge sigh.
"Yes, I would mind telling you." There was a hint of annoyance in her voice when she told this.
"Well then, we could always go to Koen-" Kurama began but was soon cut off.
"Fine, fine, fine, if you're always going to resort going to Koenma's then I'll answer." She hated this game of threatening to go to Koenma's when she didn't answer.
"You see, I'm not just a kitsune demon, I have something else in my blood that stops me from being a full blooded kitsune."
"And the thing that would be stopping you from being a kitsune would be?" The red head questioned.
"...The human blood within me." She answered. Her deep sapphire eyes stared right into his emerald ones. Kurama began to open his mouth to say something, but was cut off before he could even say a word.
"I was born like this if you were going to ask." Kayu had answered his unspoken question. Her tone of voice was neutral and quite witty.
"So your parents were-" Kurama began to say, but was once again cut off from his sentence.
"A demon and human, yes."
"I see." He replied, thinking of how this human-demon relationship went about. It seemed a little farfetched from his point of view, and probably didn't go so very far. It either resulted in death or separation to him.
"So, any more questions you feel you need to ask?" Kayu asked.
"Only one," was Kurama's reply. The half demon let out a breath of relief, glad that she only had one more question that needed an answer.
"Alright, ask then."
"Are you-?"
"Blind? Yes. Took ya long enough to figure it out for one who should exceed in intelligence." Kayu had a small grin upon her face.
"So," Kurama continued, testing out if what she said was true about her handicap, "that would explain why you didn't know about my human form."
"Yep" Was Kayu's only reply.
It did seem strange that she asked about his fox ears when she should have clearly seen that he was in a human body and hade no fox ears, if she was able to see.
"How were you able to evade the trees if you are blind?" He questioned while his thoughts were fixed upon the subject.
"The trees give of a scent that lets me know where they are. I also have a sixth sense that gives off an energy signal of living things." Kayu hugged her legs closer to her chest.
Suddenly, Kayu's expression of sly happiness went into a distortion of pain. She gasped for air as she positioned her legs so they crossed and clutched her throat with one hand and supported herself with the other. Kurama leaned forward to help to pain struck hanyou.
"Are you alright?" He asked with concern in his voice.
'He's getting close,' Kayu thought as the pain seemed to soften. 'I have to leave.'
"I must go." Was her reply to the youko as she let go of her throat and stood up. Kurama looked up at her.
'What the. . .?' He began to ponder, he swore he saw the black leather collar around her neck begin to loosen up around her neck, allowing her to breath. Suddenly, before he could be sure of what he saw the girl dashed away.
"Ugh, not again," He complained, leaning he back against a nearby tree, "I'm not going to chase after her again."
Chapter 2
About Another
Kurama watched the young lady breath in her unconscious sleep. Her chest moved up and down gently to her breathing. He then noticed something, near her chest on the ground; a gold pendant gently gleamed in the sunshine that shone through the trees. Before he could continue his thoughts about the round pendant, the girl began to come back to conscious and shifted around. Kurama observed her.
The girl slightly opened her eyes, blinked a few times and began to push herself up and sat up. It wasn't till now at how close Kurama was that he noticed how stunning the girl's eyes were. He also noticed a black leather collar that wrapped around her slender neck, that didn't go to well with her round pendant. She rubbed her head with a clawed hand and let out a moan of pain from the come upon with the tree.
'Ugh, my head,' the female thought wincing in pain. She then gasped noticing the scent of the boy she had stumbled upon at the edge of the forest. She then snapped her head up at the youko and looked at where she thought his eyes were.
"I was wondering when you would notice that I was right near you." Kurama replied to the demon. 'Strange,' the crimson haired boy thought, 'she's a fox demon. I can tell now being so close to her, but she has no tail, like every fox demon should. Could it be that she...?' Kurama ceased his thoughts as he noticed what the girl was doing. She was backing up agents a tree, still sitting upon the ground.
"Wait," Kurama instructed to the girl, grabbing a hold of her wrist, keeping her from getting away. The girl froze at the touch of the boy's hand. She knew that he was a youko like her, but his scent had a hint of ningen in it.
"I have a question for you." He continued, looking into the girl's eyes.
'Her eyes,' Kurama thought as her took a good look into hers', 'they're... blank? Then is she... blind?' He suddenly put his thought on hold, wanting to know a little about this strange girl.
"Why are you here in the Ningenkai?" He demanded, keeping a strong hold on her wrist, so she couldn't slip through his fingers. The girl took a deep sigh and answered him.
"Why should it be any of your business?" She retorted back at him, blinking a few times, keeping a straight face.
"Because unless you would like to visit Koenma's office in the Reikai, I suggest you answer me." Kurama threatened her. The demon gave another sigh, realizing that going to Koenma's office would only get her into deep trouble, with her records that Koenma held.
"Fine, if you must know, I trying to hide from someone, but I'm guessing he'll find me anyway." She turned her head in the other direction so she didn't have to put up her "seeing" act for him while she told Kurama this.
Kurama believed her response she gave him, because of the fact that she looked irritated when she told him. But now, he focused on other lingering thoughts that kept on nagging him in the back of his mind. What was this strange demon's name, what type of demon is she, and is she blind? Before he could ask her, she questioned him first.
"Who are you anyway?" She asked, her face losing the irritated look and replacing it with a kinder look. She had faced forward when she asked this question. Kurama blinked his attractive emerald eyes a few times, but quickly shook his head from the unexpected question that was presented to him and answered.
"I'm called Kurama." The red haired boy replied calmly.
"What?" The female asked in surprise. Not believing what she heard with her fox ears. "You're Kurama! The Youko Kurama! I don't believe you." She had managed to slip out of his grasp and crossed her arms over her chest with a slight frown on her face.
"I am." He replied suppressing his little laugh.
"But Youko Kurama is dead. Unless," she began "you're the rebirth of Youko when his spirit fled to Ningenkai!" She finished excitement in her voice. Her hands dropped to her sides in disbelief.
"That's me." Kurama gladly answered.
"But, where are your ears?" She asked. By this time, the girl's hands were on top of his head, patting around looking for his fox ears. Kurama's eyebrow twitched in irritation; completely caught off guard by this sudden change.
"Ah-hem," The red head sounded, telling her to get off him.
"Oh, sorry..." The fox girl apologized, taking her seat in front of him just like in the beginning. She had a remorseful look upon her face. "Why don't you have ears like me?" She asked, tugging on one of her white ears.
"Because, I was reborn as a human," The youko explained, his irritated look disappearing and replacing it with a more calm appearance. The young lady nodded, signaling that she understood. A small moment of silence fell between the two of them, apparently the girl lost for words for a conversation. Kurama took that split second silence to ask his question.
"What's your name?" He asked, gesturing towards the girl.
"Hm? My name?" The female questioned, blinking her dazzling deep azure eyes a few times in obvious surprise. "It's none of your businesses." She retorted quickly closing her eyes and quickly turned her head some-what to the side.
"Alright," Kurama answered, shrugging a bit. The girl had opened one of her eyes in curiosity, wondering what the old youko was planning.
"I'll just have to take you to Koenma's office and search for you in his files." The girl sighed.
'Of course,' she thought with a small some-what irritated smile on her face, 'figures he'd bring this up again.' She turned her head to face him and opened her blank-like eyes. Her face had changed into a neutral expression.
"Alright, you wanna know my name I'll tell you." She had placed her hands in the empty space in between her crossed legs. Her back was completely straight in this position; she gave another sigh.
"My name is Kayu." She said, not so thrilled that this human-looking youko now knows her name.
"How do I know that's your real name?" He asked suspiciously.
"Because the last thing I want to do is meet Koenma," Kayu truthfully replied with an honest expression.
'And to be punished by him,' the golden brown haired demon thought to herself. Kayu had brought up her legs up to her chest, wrapped her arms around them, and rested her head on top.
"Anymore questions for me?" She asked Kurama, a small smirk crept upon her face.
"Actually, yes," he replied "You are a kitsune demon are you not?"
"Yes." The kitsune girl answered. She had a pretty good idea where this conversation was going.
"Then would you mind telling me the reason why you have no tail?" Once again, Kayu heaved a huge sigh.
"Yes, I would mind telling you." There was a hint of annoyance in her voice when she told this.
"Well then, we could always go to Koen-" Kurama began but was soon cut off.
"Fine, fine, fine, if you're always going to resort going to Koenma's then I'll answer." She hated this game of threatening to go to Koenma's when she didn't answer.
"You see, I'm not just a kitsune demon, I have something else in my blood that stops me from being a full blooded kitsune."
"And the thing that would be stopping you from being a kitsune would be?" The red head questioned.
"...The human blood within me." She answered. Her deep sapphire eyes stared right into his emerald ones. Kurama began to open his mouth to say something, but was cut off before he could even say a word.
"I was born like this if you were going to ask." Kayu had answered his unspoken question. Her tone of voice was neutral and quite witty.
"So your parents were-" Kurama began to say, but was once again cut off from his sentence.
"A demon and human, yes."
"I see." He replied, thinking of how this human-demon relationship went about. It seemed a little farfetched from his point of view, and probably didn't go so very far. It either resulted in death or separation to him.
"So, any more questions you feel you need to ask?" Kayu asked.
"Only one," was Kurama's reply. The half demon let out a breath of relief, glad that she only had one more question that needed an answer.
"Alright, ask then."
"Are you-?"
"Blind? Yes. Took ya long enough to figure it out for one who should exceed in intelligence." Kayu had a small grin upon her face.
"So," Kurama continued, testing out if what she said was true about her handicap, "that would explain why you didn't know about my human form."
"Yep" Was Kayu's only reply.
It did seem strange that she asked about his fox ears when she should have clearly seen that he was in a human body and hade no fox ears, if she was able to see.
"How were you able to evade the trees if you are blind?" He questioned while his thoughts were fixed upon the subject.
"The trees give of a scent that lets me know where they are. I also have a sixth sense that gives off an energy signal of living things." Kayu hugged her legs closer to her chest.
Suddenly, Kayu's expression of sly happiness went into a distortion of pain. She gasped for air as she positioned her legs so they crossed and clutched her throat with one hand and supported herself with the other. Kurama leaned forward to help to pain struck hanyou.
"Are you alright?" He asked with concern in his voice.
'He's getting close,' Kayu thought as the pain seemed to soften. 'I have to leave.'
"I must go." Was her reply to the youko as she let go of her throat and stood up. Kurama looked up at her.
'What the. . .?' He began to ponder, he swore he saw the black leather collar around her neck begin to loosen up around her neck, allowing her to breath. Suddenly, before he could be sure of what he saw the girl dashed away.
"Ugh, not again," He complained, leaning he back against a nearby tree, "I'm not going to chase after her again."