I'm happy with myself, I'm actually updating before 3 months have passed. Alright so this story is sadly going to end pretty quick or so I think, so sorry, but plz don't stop reading my fics. Ya see I've just gotten this great new idea for a Botan/OC story and I'm EXTREMELY excited about writing it 'an all so... look just relax read this next chapter and we'll see what happens...
One month had passed since the whole 'book' incident and things were going great. It was finally spring and the sakura trees around the house were gorgeous.
Gem and Yoko were walking around them when she finally remembered a certain question that had been on her mind for a while.
"So... why was that hunter chasing you?"
"Oh, him, I had stolen something from him."
"Naturally." Gem jokingly stated knowing the fact that he was a thief, "So what was it?"
"Just gold and some medallion, I plan to trade it in for more gold or food."
"Good plan but don't you ever get tired of stealing and moving from place to place in the makai. I mean, you must get sick and hurt a lot."
"Not really." I can't let her know the truth. I mean I've lost so many allies to illnesses and injuries. I really don't want her to worry. He thought silently thinking about all the acquaintances he once knew.
"Something wrong?" The sound of the girl's voice broke his concentration and he looked to her worried face.
"Ah, no... it's nothing."
I can't believe it, I've been with him for almost three months and nothing bad's happened. Most rumors have it that he'd kill anyone who looks at him, steals anything he can get his hands on, and only gets close to women to sleep with them. But he hasn't done any of that. She thought watching the male take a few seeds from a sakura bloom and tuck them in his hair carefully. I completely trust him, unlike those other jerks that I knew. I think it'd be safe to tell him...
"Um, Yoko?"
"Yes Gem?"
Taking a deep breath, she continued.
"Now you're the only one in the entire makai who will know this and you can NEVER speak of it to another soul."
"Understood."
You trust him already... now relax.
"This is about my demon type... I'm a... ice-"
"ICEFOX!!! That's what the other half was..."
Confusedly, Gem looked at him and said, "What?! How did you know already? You psychic or somthin'?"
"No, I could just sense that you had half of the same type of ki as me and assumed that you were half kitsune and half something else... am I right? An icefox?"
"Yea, that's exactly it."
"That's cool... but you don't look it at all."
"Well that's easy to figure out... my ear's lay down under my hair and my tail... well it isn't all that thick so it's easy to keep in the back of one of my pant legs."
With that said two icy blue ears emerged from auburn hair and a rather small light blue tail circled around her waist.
"Oh... that's a clever way to hide it." Yoko stated slightly surprised at the female's brilliance.
"I guess so." She replied surprised that he couldn't come up with that plan on his own.
Right as the two kitsune's began to walk off again, a deep sound came from far off into the distance. The sky began to cluster with thick dark clouds and lightning flickered off and on occasionally and the once gentle cool breeze picked up into a rage of wind.
"Looks like a storm, guess we should be getting back huh?"
"Good idea." Retorted Yoko.
"It's getting closer... are you sure we'll get back in time?"
"Truth is Yoko, I can't find the path anymore. Apparently it snowed over here and so many different animals crossed through here... we're lost." She announced with fear clearly in her voice.
"So we're stuck out here with a storm coming."
"Yea, and from the looks of it, it's a bad one."
Just as she had stated that, a tree branch came flying out of nowhere and nearly collided with the two stranded foxes.
A mixture of rain, ice, hail, and snow poured down and animals everywhere were fleeing for their lives. Most of it seemed hopeless when...
"There Gem!!!" The male demon shouted over everything pointing to what was once a home to another creature made of tree branches, leaves, and sludge.
The female nodded and both ran into the shelter as fast as their legs would carry them.
"It's not much but it should hold out until the storm's over right?"
"Maybe, I'm not quite sure but it looks sturdy enough."
Almost two hours later, the wind died down, the rain stopped, and everything seemed calm.
"It stopped? Great, now we can find the way back to the cabin." The silver fox commented stepping back out.
"YOKO GET BACK IN HERE NOW!!!!!"
"What!?"
Right as he asked his question, another low rumble came, but it was nothing like the last one. It sounded like the creature from hell coming to take his soul.
Cautiously he turned around and the sight that he saw was so terrifying that his ears went down in an instant.
A tornado was swirling less than a mile away from his current position and from the size of it made him feel like the smallest being on earth.
His heart pounded so loud it was overcoming the rumble from the tornado. His face was so pale that it made his silver mane look dark. Fear crossed his golden eyes and soon he was frozen right there, all feeling gone from his body.
"GET BACK IN THE DEN!!!!" A father shouted to his son grabbing his arm and pulling him back to safety.
"Daddy!!" A small boy cried out. "Daddy! Hold on!!"
"Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere, I won't leave you! Just stay under me, my weight should keep you from being pulled away!" An older kitsune instructed putting his son below him as they laid in the ground.
The small boy didn't say anything but listened to his father and held on tightly to him.
The twister got closer and closer to where they were located and soon it was over them. The small male could feel his father being lifted. As he attempted to grab his father's shirt, it was too late. He tried to jump up to help him be pulled back down, but another arm wrapped around the boy's neck and stopped him from doing so.
"LET ME GO!!"
"YOU'LL BE KILLED TOO!!!"
"So what!? I want my daddy!"
"No! Since your father was the pack leader, you must take his place!"
"WHY!? I don't want that position!"
"Too bad! It's your position now!"
"BUT YOMI!-"
"NO!!! YOUR FATHER WANTED YOU TO DO THIS!!!"
Gem seeing that he wasn't moving sprung out of her safe location and grabbed him by the arm.
"Let's go!!!"
He didn't say anything and despite the fact that he felt extremely heavy to drag, she pulled him back under their safe area and began digging a hole to hopefully help the situation.
She nestled down into the cold moist ground and attempted to put Yoko below her.
"I'll weigh you down so you don't fly off!!"
Daddy! The boy's voice sounded in his head again.
"Not again!!" With this stated, he turned with his body protecting her.
"What are you doing!?"
"Shut up and hold on!!!"
The cyclone's vacuum crossed over Yoko's back and he could feel himself being lifted and his clothes being slightly torn by the pull. He shut his eyes expecting his fate to be death when something grabbed onto him, Gem's hand.
She had his arm tightly grasped in her own hand as in her other hand was a tree limb.
Both demons held on tightly for their lives and before they knew it, the storm had passed.
"Phew! That was one hell of a storm huh?" Gem asked sitting up and pulling a few twigs and leaves from her hair.
"Y-you saved me. Why?" Yoko pondered looking over to the girl in complete shock.
Gem didn't really know why she held on to him other than the fact that she thought they were friends. But another feeling was rushing around inside of her too, love.
As she looked over at the confused fox, she could feel her face getting warm and her pulse quickening.
Why am I feeling like this? She thought to herself. He's just a friend of mine and a soul I saved... I can't fall in love with him.
"Well?" He interrupted her thoughts.
"Well, I... I think I might-"
"Yoko!!" Another voice sounded behind them.
Both turned and looked.
"Who's that?" Gem wondered aloud.
Yoko was in shock once again and in his complete surprise shouted, "Yomi!?"
Does this mean I have to go back to my pack? But I want to stay with Gem...
Wee! Cliffhanger, don't cha just love 'em? And this is my longest chapter ever!! ::fireworks go off:: Anyway, school's starting up tomorrow and I wanted to update at least before then. So yea, this'll be my freshman year of high school so I'm not sure if I'll be able to write as much, but DO NOT worry, I swear I'll finish this book soon enough, k? Btw, I just found my love for this story again so I'll continue it till the end. Alright, ja ne!
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