Listens to Wolfs' Rain OST Oops… sorry, I wasn't listening! HA! So where does this leave us? Ah yes, two boys down, one to go! I just noticed that asterisks don't show up anymore… Did I spell that right? Well the little math multiplication doodads don't show anymore so I may have to use something else… DAMN!

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UnBREAKable

Chapter 24

There is no one who does not carry scars on their heart, if there were someone who were like that, they would be a shallow soul.

Kurama shifted and suddenly felt himself sliding away from the warm spot he had just been. His eyes shot open and his limbs flailed to grasp the nearest rock. He saw Kat, still sleeping, begin to slip out of the cave and he blinked in confusion before managing to grip her arm before she fell off the cliff's ledge. The pounding water of the falls woke her in an instant and her golden eyes shot open, claws extending in defense to grip onto something before she fell.

Kurama hissed in pain as her claws dug into his skin. Kat recognized who she was gripping onto and she instantly let go. "Do you have any idea how much I hate being woken up like that?" Kat laughed.

She noticed that he was in human form and guessed, "Use up all your energy last night?"

He turned red and muttered an apology. His emerald eyes darted to her rear and Kat instantly reddened about to call him a pervert when she saw it too. "I HAVE A TAIL?!" she freaked, hands instantly going to check on her ears. "My. Ears. Are. FUZZY!" Kat growled as soon as she recognized that they were placed on top of her head instead of on the sides.

Kurama noticed something else, "Your hair turned colors."

"What?" indeed it had, her white strands now had streaks of red and violet. Kat sighed and grumbled, running a hand over her hair watching as it returned to normal. Her hands glided up to her ears next and she felt them return to normal then her hands drifted to her tail.

"Don't," Kurama stopped her.

Kat lifted an eyebrow, "I don't want a tail thank you for giving me one!"

Kurama looked a bit dejected. Kat glared at him just a bit, "I'll talk about this later…" She noticed that her kimono wasn't tied and that it had slipped off completely. She was totally drenched with water too.

Kurama pretended he didn't noticed and Kat guessed it didn't matter, not after what happened last night anyways. "Are you feeling better now?"

Kurama smiled and his eyes sparkled with the sun that shone through the falls, projecting odd wavy shadows across his features, "You didn't have to do what you did just for me. Although, I suppose your powers are at their peak now."

Kat shrugged but could feel the power tingling through every inch of her body, "I did it for me too… You're a good friend of mine."

"A friend?" Kurama asked stunned.

Kat's eyes widened at her mistake and he could almost see the mental slap she gave herself. "No, more than a friend. You're my mate for life and I hope you don't mind sharing me. I love you Kurama," Kat said as she kissed him.

"Of course I'll mind sharing you," he whispered. "But if it makes you happy, I'll tolerate it."

Kat smiled against his bare chest and yawned, "We'd better get back to the others."

He nodded and slipped on his shirt. Kat was the first to leap out of the entrance and Kurama caught her bridal style halfway down. Just like Dark, he noticed that his speed had increased. Kat squirmed and got free of his arms then landed, and silently challenged him to a race. He knew that she would win but he gave in to her plea. He blinked and her figure seemed to float away, she was so fast that her speed created an after image.

Kurama decided to test his own new speed out and in no time he had caught up with Kat. It had snowed again the night before and the ground was covered with fresh white powder. This didn't slow them the slightest bit though and Kurama continued to plow through it at top speed.

Kat smirked and noticed that she hadn't left a single print on the snow; she was fast enough to create an air pocket under her feet to keep from falling through. By creating the pocket of air, she was able to step on it and move before it broke, never staying in one place long enough for it to happen.

Within five minutes the hut was already in sight and Kat gave herself just a small extra burst of speed to win the race. Kurama saw her blow past the hut nothing more than a small ripple completely undetectable if you weren't looking directly at her. His red hair swirled about his face as it was pulled from the incredible force that was dragged after Kat.

A loud crash sounded as Kat slammed full force into a large rock in her path. It instantly turned to nothing more than dust. Kurama ran over and saw Kat sitting on her knees cursing like crazy.

"Oi! I misjudged the distance! I should have been able to figure out when to stop!" Kat complained.

She had gotten a large gash on her forehead from slamming into the rock and Kurama guessed she had broken most of the bones in her body but by the time he had arrived she had healed herself. All that was left was a trail of blood from a non existent gash above her left eye.

Dark appeared beside them, a black blur against the scenery and Kurama noticed that his speed had improved. "What happened? Are you ok?" Dark asked as he hoisted Kat to her feet.

Kenshin appeared, straddling Rei. He fell off as soon as they came to a halt by the shattered rock. He sat up and spit out a mouthful of dirt, "What the hell?!"

Kat grinned sheepishly, "I misjudged the stopping point."

"I'd tell you to be careful," Dark said. "But I suppose it doesn't make apply to you does it?"

Kat smiled and rubbed the back of her head still grinning sheepishly. Her stomach growled.

"I made dinner," Kenshin offered. "But I don't know if there's enough for all of us…"

"That's ok," Kurama said, "Dark and I aren't hungry."

"Speak for yourself fox boy," Dark muttered.

Kat took the hint and dragged Kenshin in the direction of the kitchen, "I can't wait to try out your cooking! It's been years since you've cooked anything for me!" She kneeled on a cushion on by the low table and the first thing she spotted was a plate of fish. 'They're arranged so perfectly, it looks as if the two fish were swimming upstream on the plate! Look at the way he did the crabs! The salt suggests the sand they once lived in.'

"You look pleased," Kenshin commented.

"I never knew you were an artist," Kat replied. "You make it look as if everything here is still living! I love the stalks of bamboo you used in the sushi."

Kenshin smiled ruefully, "It was Tomoe who taught me to cook the way I do. She was the real artist when it came to cooking."

Kat tried to change the subject a little bit, "But why create something just for yourself… Or well, whoever this was going to be eaten by? I might sound dense, but I don't see the point if going through all the trouble to make something like this when in an instant, it's all been destroyed."

"Let me answer your question with one of my own. Why do you spend so much time tying your obi every morning when it comes off so easily?" Kenshin asked.

Kat smiled, "You never struck me as anything more than a swordsman but perhaps you're wiser than you appear?" 'Flirting is beginning to bore me…'

"I assure you, I am much more than a swordsman," Kenshin said as he tore off a small piece of fish from his elaborate display.

'I know from experience that you are more than that.' After a while Kat became edgy and kept thinking of the fact that she had just eaten dinner with another Kenshin just a few nights ago. Eventually Kat begun to fiddle with the wings of her furisode and look everywhere around the room but straight at Kenshin. 'I must seem childish but I can't help this feeling of nervousness.'  

"Can I ask why you wear a furisode?" Kenshin broke the silence. 'Don't women wear them at formal occasions or on their twentieth birthday?'

"I like the long wings," Kat confessed. "It reminds me of the wings I can sprout from my back. These are less troublesome than real ones so I suppose I like them just a bit more than the real thing." She stroked a sleeve whose fabric pooled around her creating a miniature ocean of waves. Her obi was tied in the shape of a flower and a few ornaments dangled from it. A few matching ornaments were tucked in her hair as well.

Kenshin admired the pattern of water on her kimono. It made it look like Kat was sitting in a puddle. Little white flowers were also painted onto the delicate fabric. It was dyed pale blue at the top and faded to navy at the bottom where a few river grasses were stitched strategically.

"You're feelings are so mixed not even I can unscramble them," Kenshin finally said. "Would you like to tell me what's bothering you?"

'I must be giving him a headache from all this fidgeting.' Kat sighed, "I don't know how many times people have asked me that question but it never ceases to be hard to answer."

"You don't have to answer," Kenshin said and took a sip of tea.

Kat smiled, "That only makes me want to tell you more." Kenshin put down his cup with the white plums painted on the side and waited for her to say something else. Kat mock glared at him, "You know I'm going to tell you even before I say anything."

"Fine," Kat said. "But you won't like what I have to say…" She shifted into a better position to relieve her knees from the strain she was putting on them. "You probably must already have noticed that you're surrounded with demons but I'm sure you don't know why. I know that you can feel some connection to them even though you yourself haven't ever met them."

Kat paused and looked him in the eye, "But you do know them, at lease the older you does. These people are your best friends, me being your wife of quite a few years. I bet you didn't know that you've also made me a widow and a wife again did you?"

She watched the expressions play across his face and continued, "There are way more than two different sides to you. I happen to know all of them pretty well. There's the so-called 'cold hearted' Battousai who I married for his stunningly warm heart which I happened to melt. Then there's the psychotic Battousai who I haven't figured out. There's the sweet rurouni Kenshin I know so well and tough one I've lived with before you came along. There's the one who tries too hard to be sweet, one who hides his feelings, one who's extremely affectionate, and one who's callous and reserved."

Kat leaned against a support beam, "Right at the moment, I'm not too sure which one I'm dealing with but I don't really care. I'm no longer interested in making new relationships and truthfully, I wish the older you had never let me bring you back. I suppose it was my love for the other you that made me comfort you. I wanted to believe that you were the same as the Kenshin I loved but…" She paused, "I don't know."

Kenshin sat in silence, his bangs covering his eyes, an old trick he had learned to hide his emotions. The dinner before them remained half eaten and cold.

Kat decided he wasn't going to say anything and she continued, "I have the most screwed up life you can imagine. I've been passed around the block like a beer bottle and been smashed more times than I can count. I've had kids with the older you, which you killed. Kids with Vash who were killed and the blonde himself dying from a disease. Kurama has been my friend for as long as I remember, Vix being his former mate who was just recently killed. Now Kurama is my mate and lifetime companion. Then there's Inuyasha who's seemingly have ditched us to get over the loss of Tanya, my best friend, who was also killed."

Kat dug her nails into the wood of the support beam and her eyes caught her tail swishing back and fourth in agitation. 'I really need to do something about that.' "Then there's Dark who just out of the blue shows up and steals my heart like he has so many others…" Kat took a sip of her green tea and noticed that it was stone cold. "I've acquired my powers from everyone I've shared my life with, don't you dare be jealous of me, for nothing is worth what I went through to attain them. I suppose that leaves Rei to explain. The easiest thing I can come up with is that she's part of my spirit, kind of serving as a guardian and friend."

Kat brushed a lock of hair from her face and turned her attention back to Kenshin. She had an arm resting on Rei, who had wandered into the room in the midst of her ranting. The wolf was snoring just the slightest bit and Kat stroked the fur around her ears. She could hear Kurama and Dark talking about the weather outside and Kat knew that both were listening to the conversation she was having while pretending to have one of their own.

"I'm just a stand in?" Kenshin asked.

Kat could hear the tears in his voice and it was only then that she remembered that the Kenshin sitting in front of her was only a boy of about sixteen. "You're whatever you want to be," Kat told him. "I don't think anyone would mind if you stayed…" Kat paused herself before she could say 'or left.'

She frowned when Kenshin didn't say anything and Kat stood, joints popping, to walk over and sit next to him. Her long kimono sleeves draped over his shoulders and Kat pulled him into a hug.

'What do I do now? Where do we go from here?' Kat knew that Kenshin would eventually fall asleep in her arms and she would have to go and talk to the others but right now she just tried to focus on the boy in her arms. She sighed and stroked his hair. 'I'm sorry Kenshin…'

(A/N: Yeah, not sure where to go from here… Any ideas? PLEASE REVIEW!!!)