Sorry for not writing so long. I still have school and stuff so I... ok, you get the point. Anyways, thanks to animegurl who reviewed me so many times. Anyways, on with the story.

Chapter 17: Confused feelings; Teryo

Teryo stared from the rooftop of one of the buildings. He watched as Shara (whom he knows is Shamel) come out from her house running. Teryo grinned, She is late for work, he thought.

Swiftly, he followed her by jumping from building to building. She took a shortcut in an alley where some guys blocked her. Teryo was about to jump in and punish the bad guys when Shamel evaded the large man by crawling under his legs and getting away.

Teryo grinned. She sure has a way of getting things... he thought. Then he jumped down the building and went inside the backdoor of the bread shop he was working in. He settled himself behind the counter just as Shamel came running in panting and Teryo started teasing her for being so late.

Kurama walked up to Shara (the real Shara). Shara stopped reading a book and looked up from the porch.

"Kurama?" Shara asked.

Kurama 'ahemed'. "Shara," Kurama said, "Someone wants to talk to you." Shara looked in a confused way at Kurama.

Kurama looked around and ahemed out loud. "Aheeemmmm." Kurama said. Then when there was no answer, he went to a bush, pulled something out that was struggling not to get out. The 'something' turned out to be Hiei. Kurama pushed Hiei closer and closer to Shara.

"Ok, I guess I gotta go." Kurama said as he turned around smiling and ran the other way around, "Good luck Shara! Hiei!"

So the two were alone.

"Hey cool, what's that?" Shara asked when she noticed that Hiei had something at his back.

"Hn." Hiei said. Shara tried to run around Hiei trying to get to his back and seeing what he had for her. In the process of running around, Shara touched the area where Hiei's heart was. Hiei felt his heart thumping and him blushing while Shara continued following Hiei around, her hand over his heart. He hoped that Shara couldn't feel his heart thumping furiously. He wanted to take Shara's hand away from where his heart was but it felt so good. Hiei was blushing furiously as Shamel playfully tried to get the thing behind his back. Hiei reddened as a tomato and his heart pounded faster. And faster. And faster. Hiei felt his heart pump one last fast pump then...

Nothing.

Shara smiled as she stared around the colorless world. There was a butterfly paused in mid-air and a speeding car down there was a blur but it was stopped. Everything was still. No sound. Silence. She looked at Hiei who looked as if he had been blushing despite everything was colorless.

She looked behind Hiei and looked what Hiei was hiding from her. Her footsteps making no sound.

"How sweet," she said, "Flowers." But her voice was not a sound. She had said it but it was merely a memory. There was no sound in that place.

"Teryo, one more time you tease me and I'm going to obliterate that head of yours." Shamel said the next time that Teryo pulled a prank on her by pouring some flour in her hair.

"Oh yeah, like what can you do?" Teryo said. He continued teasing her while Shamel (the real Shamel) was limping around to catch Hiei. She just sprained her ankle that morning so she had to keep limping. The sprain wasn't so bad. It was just that a cat got in her way and when she tried evading the cat, she tripped. All in all, it was a perfect afternoon.

"Teryo's getting too kind!" Teng-yu, Teryo's sister, teased as she danced around her brother who was sitting in his chair trying to sort himself out. He couldn't believe it, he gave in to Shamel's kind smiles.

"This was not meant to be..." Teryo said angrily as he pounded his head in his hands.

"Teryo's co-onfused!" Teng-yu sang as she danced around and due to her giddiness, she did a ningen ballet.

"Stop teasing your brother Teng-yu." Mitohino said, "And stop singing! I can't concentrate in my works if you keep doing that!"

"Sorry father..." Teng-yu said meekly.

"It's ok." Mitohino said as he patted his daughter's head. Teng-yu brightened up and pranced away happily. Mitohino shook his head and turned to Teryo who was continuously banging his head in his hands. "I need you to go with me Teryo." Mitohino said to him as he wrote in the paper a list of this and that, "There will be a ball tonight and one of my most trusted companions will be there. Aleya will be there. She has invited you. You know what that means."

"Tell her that I sprained my ankle." Teryo said as he hit his head three times in a row.

"You can't escape this." Mitohino said, "They have arranged a marriage plan, Aleya's family. You know the customs. It's a marriage. You have to be there for she will be your future spouse."

Teryo stopped banging his head and looked at his father in a horrified expression, "But I didn't agree to anything!" he said exasperatedly.

"You can decline the invitation, Teryo, you know that." Mitohino said, "Tell it at the ball, tonight."

Teryo's horrified expression grew worse. "Tonight? Tonight???" Teryo said in a way that said 'are you mad????'. "Not tonight! It can be tomorrow night or the night after the night of tomorrow night, but tonight! This can't be! Not tonight! Tonight is the night of the nights! Why did it have to be tonight??? Tell me!"

"Calm down son." Mitohino said, "Ok, if you don't want tonight, then I can do something. Ok, go now before you drive me crazy."

The horrified expression on Teryo's face grew away. "You are the greatest oh great father!" Teryo exclaimed and went to the door, before he left, his father called him.

"Teryo." Mitohino said.

"Yes?" Teryo said as he peeped back in.

"Good luck."

"Ah, yes, er- what?"

"Where are you going anyway?" Mitohino asked.

"Um, she said that we buy ice cream and then go in a vacation in the province with her friends." Teryo said.

"Hmmm, is that so?" Mitohino said.

"Uh yes..." Teryo said. Then before he left, he looked back at his father, "Um, father, how did you know that I was wanting to see.... um... well..."

"Her?" his father completed, "It's something that a father knows the best."

Teryo looked confused and left.

Ooooooohhhohohoohhh! I can't wait to write the next chapter! The next chapters will be fun ( I hope it will be fun for you) but it will be full of twists and stuff. Tell me all your questions in the story and it might just be answered in a few chapters or more! Wheee, I'm so excited for the Semester break!