The First Chapter

Kurama then pulled Ketsueki close to his chest, and hugged her. He was terrified. He didn't want to lose Ketsueki. Kurama knew he was afraide of losing her, but he didn't know why.

Kurama suddenly felt that Ketsueki wasn't tensed up anymore. He though she fell unconcious again. But then he assumed the worst, that she could be dead.

He tried to pull her away and look at her but he couldn't. He felt Ketsueki's arms around him. "Ketsueki?" He said quietly. He felt his shirt was getting wet. He couldn't tell what it was, but at least he didn't smell blood. He then heard quiet sobbing, and it was coming from Ketsueki.

She was crying, and her tears were getting his shirt wet. He quietly called her name once more. Ketsueki stopped crying slowly then answered, "Promise me... That if I do kill Kohaku... Or anyone else... you'll kill me. And promise... you won't disapear... from my memories... promise you'll always be near."

Kurama who had losened his grip tightend his arms around her. "I promise." He whispered into her ear. Kazu and Hoshi had left the room. For reasons that should be obvious. Hiei, and Jin got up and left quietly. Kurama didn't notice since he had his eyes closed.

Ketsueki looked up to Kurama with an almost compassionate smile on her face. Kurama puled her away from him a bit and looked at her face. Ketsueki smiled at him one last time. Then her eyes closed and she fell limp. "Ketsueki?" Kurama said a little worried.

Kurama put his ear up to her chest and heard her heart beat.

She had just fallen unconcious again. But this time she was more asleep, the passed out. Kurama just smiled and laid her down in her bed. Before he left he kissed her on the forehead as she slept.

Two days passed, and it was now summer break. No more school for a while. Kurama and everyone else said their goodbye's to Kohaku. "We'll see you in about three weeks." Kazu said to Kohaku. They were going on a trip to a house that Kazu owned up next to the mountains.

Also, Yoru, Koriyami, and Hoshi live up there, in that house. It was actualy an old dojo that no one wanted. Kazu bought and her and Ketsueki and Yoru and Koriyami and Hoshi fixed it up, and even paid for renivations. They were leaving to make sure that Ketsueki wouldn't kill Kohaku, and to monitor her behavor change, if any, closley over the next few weeks.

They then climbed into the van and headed off. This van was pretty big. And it had to be. The people who were going were, Botan, Kayko, Shizuru, Genkai, Koenma, Kurama, Yusuke, Hiei, Jin, Kuwabara, Ketsueki, Kazu, Yoru, Hoshi, Koriyami, and even some Touya was going.

When they were halfway there Yusuek noticed they had 17 people. "Are you sure were all gonna fit in this dojo? Or do we share rooms?" Kazu answered back, "Everybody is gonna have their own room."

"But I though you only renivated once."

"Did I say once, I ment about 15 times."

"15!!!!??"

"Yea, I have a lot of spare money."

Ketsueki was sitting behind Yusuke but ingnored his surprisement. She somehow go stuck sitting next to Kuwabara. But she ignored it. She had her chin on her hand and was leaning on the window panel. She stared out the window and watched to scenery of trees and a lake go by.

Then she felt a hand slowly creep over to her breast. WHAM!!! Ketsueki out of reflexes punched the guy who did it. It was Kuwabara.

Everybody started laughing. They all saw Ketsueki take her right arm and punch Kuwabara in his face. Other wise her face seemed undisturbed.

Kurama switched seats with Kuwabara. Kuwabara was sitting next to Yusuke now. Kurama sat down and asked Ketsueki, "What'd he do to make you hit him like that? The only thing I saw was your fist slowly come in contact with his face." Ketsueki leaned over to him whispered in his ear what happened. Kurama looked down and slightly blushed. "That explains a lot."

"Well, that's what he gets. Hopefuly he'll learn his lesson. Or next time I'll kill him."

"Don't worry, I'm pretty sure he won't try that stunt again."

"For his sake he better not." Ketsueki continued to stare out the window. She loved the landscape out here. "It's beautiful isn't it?" She heard Kurama say. "Hm?" She answered back. "The landscape."

"Yeah, I love it out here. It's my favorite place in the world."

Then the buss stopped and Shizuru yelled out, "We're hear." Everyone jumped out and walked up to the fence, wich had a lock on it. Kazu walked over and unlocked it. Everyone practically poured in. They looked around and saw a hilly landscape with a few rocks piled on one another to form small cliffs. They couldn't see to boundary line, it was that big. "Before you all go wild, let me show you to your rooms." Kazu said.

I'm not going to bore you with what rooms they were assigned with so we'll skip that.

"I'm going to eat some lunch." Ketsueki said, as she packed herself some food in her bag. "Where are you going?" Touya asked. "Out. I always eat lunch out side here." She ifted up the bag and threw it over her shoulder. "You know, if you want you can wander around wilderness." Ketsueki said then walked out the door. Touya smiled slightly then walked off.

It had been at least thirty minutes since Ketsueki left the house. She had been running swiftly through the trees, and leaping from rock to rock. She had finaaly found the perfect spot. It had large flat smooth rocks naturally piled on one another creating a small cliff, at least 10 feet high. She chose a specific rock, a reall large one, and sat down. She got out from her bag one of the sandwhiches she had made, and a soda. She bit down into her snadwich and stared out to the rolling horizon.

When she finished her sandwich she heard a disturbance, and the sound of a stick breaking. She snapped her head in that direction, and stared at it, waiting for the creature to reveal itself. She continued to stare until a pack of wolves came out of the bushes. They advanced toward her slowly. Ketsueki was not afraid of these wolves.

The alpha who was a silver colored wolf moved towards her. "Hi, Okami." (wolf) She said to the silver wolf as she petted it. The wolf pack who lived on this land was freindly. They really like Kazu and the others. They remained inside the fence. They weren't trapped, they could leave if they wanted to, but the area of Kazu's land was all territory of this wolf pack. Kazu had named this pack the Tsuki no (Lunar) Pack.

After the Tsuki no Pack left Kurama appeared. He saw Ketsueki hanging upside down from a tree branch. Kurama cleared histhroaght. Ketsueki bent to look behind her and saw Kurama, "Hi." She said. She then swung herself up onto the branch and jumped down. Ketsueki looke beyond and saw the wolf pack running hapily with Okami running in front of the pack.

hour later

"Hi, Swinzums." Kazu said as she poked her head out of the tree right next to Hiei. She jumped out of the tree then began to jumoed off, "Iam Not Swinzums!!" Hiei yelled out to her as she leaped off.

another hour later

Hoshi watched Jin fly through the air so freely. She wished she could fly like him.

Jin heard her say that to herself, so he fly over and picked her up. They were both now flying through the air. Hoshi really like the feeling of the wind in her face like that.

two hours later

Touya and Ketsueki were training against eachother. Touya using his ice sword, and Ketsueki using a normal katana. They moved swiftly and quietly. Hiei and Jin watched them fight. They were both actually a little surprised about their speed and balance. Not one move either of them made, fell out of place. Each one was timed perfectly. It was like they had reahersed it.

At sunset

Everyone wanted to watched the sunset on their first day of them being at Kazu's vacation home. There was a scertain spot everyone was at. It was another cliff made by large flat rocks piled on one another. This one was 30 feet high though. Also some rocks jutted outward making ledges along the side. Everyone was sitting on different ledges. Hiei and Kazu were standing on the highest one next to eachother. Ketsueki and Kurama were right below. Jin and Hoshi were at the same level as Ketsueki adn Kurama, but on a different rock. Everyone was scattered about on the cliff.

The sun was setting, and from up there it was a dazzling sight. Everything was paintied gold, roange, and even red. They sky was splashed with red and gold. Even the clouds were dazzling. An outline of gold made them look like chunks of gold. Some clouds even looked like rubies and fine ruby jewlery. Everyone was dazzled and amazed by the beauty.

Hiei was ready to leave. He turned around without a word. Then Kazu put her arms around him and slightly pulled him back, "Where do you think your going." She said, as she looked down at him smiling, with her arms still around his shoulders. Hiei wasn't angry though. He just looked up at her with a cute little look on his face. He stared into Kazu's eyes. They weren't at all what she acted like. They weren't exactly happy and carefree, like she always seemed. They were almost empty, but not evil empty. Just, empty. There was a void inside her. But there was also something else there. Theway she looked at him. It was comforting, to Hiei. She looked at him with love. Infact she had for a very long time now. But, he never noticed before.

Hiei looked forward to the sunset again. But this time he had a slight smile on his face. And he was blushing too. But nobody couldtell becuase of the colors casted by the sunset. Kazu still had her arms around him. She didn't let go yet, and Hiei didn't want her to any time soon. He took his hand and put it on her arm. Kazu blushed and looked down. She saw Hiei was holding her arm affectionatly. She smiled warmly and looked back to the sunset.

Everyone watched the sunset silently untill it dissapeared behind the rolling horizon. Kazu had taken her arms off Hiei just before anyone was able to notice. But Kurama did notice Hiei was blushing, and kept glancing at Kazu. But he didn't say anything. He knew Hiei would just deny it.

last night of stay

Hiei stood in the training room, alone in the dark. Just staring into nothing. Thoughts were running in his head, keeping him busy in thought. What was this feeling he had? He had never felt before. And why couldn't he stop thinking of Kazu? He then heard Kurama say, "When are you going to tell her?"

Hiei didn't even hear Kurama come in. Hiei turned and said, "What do you mean?"

"I know your feelings for Kazu."

"Feelings?"

"Yes, but it's something very new to you. You'r puzzled about it."

"And what are these feelings then? Why... can't I stop thinking... of Kazu?"

"Maybe becuase you love her. More than just like a sister like Yukina or Ketsueki."

"Love... yeah, right. Love just blind us and makes us weak."

"Hiei, even though love makes us blind... It can also open our eyes."

"To what?"

"That just depends Hiei."

"I'm going out now. i'll let you decide on your own. Sorry if I was prying." Then Kurama left, out the door into the night air. hiei stood there in silence still a little confused. But this time he didn't know weather to tell Kazu about his feelings or what. He was even more confused now.

Kurama walked over to a cetain cliff, just to get one last look at this place at night. When he got there he saw Keysueki sitting down with her lags up against her chest looking up at the moon. It was actually in a full phase. Ketsueki was undisturbed, she didn't even hear Kurama walk up behind her. Ketsueki was still and quiet, nothing seemed to disturb her.

Kurama slowly walked up to her, and sat down next to her. Ketsueki turned her head, and when she saw it was him she looked back up to the moon. "You like here at night?" Ketsueki asked. "Yea. Especially the plants. The shimmer of the moon seems to give them a certain beauty. And on the hroizon ow the clash against the stars in the sky."

"I love this place. Especially at night. I love the moon more than anything... But... there's one thing I love a whole lot more than the moon..." Ketsueki had put her hand on the stone as she said this. Right next to Kurama's.

Kurama saw her hand not even 1/4 of an inch away from his. He looked at their hands so close together. Then he made his move. He slowly moved his hand closer, a bit nervous. Until finally his hand was on Ketsueki's.

Ketsueki quickly glanced at his hand upon hers. She smiled and moved her hand to intertwine their fingers. they were both blushing. They saw it on eachother's faces, but neither of them really cared.

An hour later, they walked back to the house together holding hands still. When they were in front of the house they let each other's hands go and went to their rooms.

Hiei was still in the training room. He couldn't sleep at all, and the thought of if he should tell Kazu or not was still buzzing around in his head furiously. He was sitting down with his back leaning against the wall. He was so tired suddenly, but as he slowly fell aslepp the thought of Kazu still haunted him.

The next morning everyone was packing everything into the back of the van. "Where's Hiei?" Kazu asked herself. She hadn't seen him all morning. She wandered around the house looking for him. Until she reached the training room. She saw him asleep against the wall. She had never seen him asleep before. He reminded her of a kitten asleep. She watched him until she heard Botan yell out, "We're ready to go!"

She walked over to Hiei and said, "Hiei, get up it's time to go!" Hiei quickly woke up and grabbed Kazu by that next. She couldn't breath. Hiei then noticed that it was Kazu and quickly let her go. He had shock in his eyes. He then walked out of the room.

Kazu wasn't all to shocked. For she knew it was just a reflex.

As for Hiei walking through the hall way to the door leading outside though, "Now she hates me. I can't beleive I did that."

When everyone was in the van, Hiei sat alone. Until Kazu walked over and sat right next to him.

When they started off, it was aabout an hour since. Everyone was tired out though. Everyone was asleep. The only people awake were Koenma and Shizuru and Touya.

Kuwabara was practically falling out of the chair, Keiko was asleep on Yusuke, and Yusuke was asleep too, as was Puu. Hoshi was asleep on Jin, Ketsueki and Kurama cuddled as they slept on eachother. Hiei was actually awake. But barely. He hadn't even looked at Kazu yet. Not until, she leaned on his shoulder and fell asleep.

He glanced over. He smiled slightly and then fell asleep too.

Everyone slept peacefully. Tough unaware of the tradgedy that will soon strike them. Mainly Kazu and Ketsueki's hearts.