Tesse: Sorry about the short wait, I'm a little brain dead. But the story will be ending in the next three chapters, maybe.
Hero: But we'll be making a sequel!
Tesse: Yes there well be a sequel, but it well be much more tragic, in fact I'll include a preview at the end of the last chapter.
Hero: On with this story!
Tesse: I don't own yuyu hakusho, but I do own Somaru Nerugawa.
Shuichi talking
Yoko Talking
Fragile Flowers
Chapter 8: Will You…
Somaru walked home from school on her own for the first time since she meet Kurama. It had been three weeks since they'd had that chat about his demon half. She didn't feel uncomfortable around him, because she seemed to have known it all on her own.
She turned the corner to Spring's Blessing.
"I'm home!" she yelled as she entered the shop.
"Good 'cause I've got a date to night! Can close up the shop tonight?" her foster mother answered from the back room of the shop. She stepped out wearing a slinky red dress. Somaru gasped. Her foster mother was a younger woman in her early thirties. She had her black hair tied up into intricate knots and make up on her face, making her look ten years younger.
"Well? How do I look?" she asked expectantly.
"You look great!" Somaru said excitedly. "Who's your date?"
"Oh he came in a few weeks ago, this is our second date. He's taking me to the Sakura Sushi Bar!" she exclaimed.
"That place is really expensive! I hope you have fun."
"oh and 'Maru, there's some dinner in the fridge. Just put it in the microwave for a minute or two. Oh my god he's here!" the older woman said
Somaru turned around and jaw dropped, the man was easily twice her mother's age. "'Maru, get the door."
Somaru did as she was told. "Hello there, is Ms. Nerugawa ready to go?"
At first she thought that he was talking about her, but suddenly realized he meant her mom. "oh yes I'll go get her," she said quickly running off to get her mother leaving the man on the curb with a slammed door in his face.
"He's sixty-some years old!" Somaru yelled.
"'Maru, age doesn't matter! Besides how much older is Shuichi?" she said brushing it aside like it was no big deal.
"He's a year older than me!"
"One year, thirty years! What's the difference?" she said.
"The difference is twenty-nine years!"
"Somaru! You are being so rude to our guest!" she said and opened the door where a very confused look on his face, he peered in and stared at Somaru.
"I'm ready to go, just let me grab my coat," her mother said. He winked in Somaru's direction before taking her mom by the hip.
Somaru dragged her finger across her throat to give him a warning. He quickly retreated. Somaru smirked. "Bye 'Maru, have fun!"
Suddenly Somaru was all alone. She closed up the shop and fixed her self the leftovers from the fridge.
She jumped so much when she heard a knock at the door that she dropped her food on the kitchen floor. Without cleaning it up she rushed to the front, and opened the door. She was met with a pair of lips on hers, and she knew who it was without looking.
Kurama wrapped his arms around her waist and held her tight as she put her hands on the back of his head. Running her fingers through his fiery red locks.
They broke apart and stared into each others, "Where were you today Kurama?" she asked softly. He smiled.
"I was called off to the spirit world, and on the way back I had to pick something up," he explained. He suddenly picked Somaru up bridal style and carried her upstairs.
"Kurama!" she cried pleasantly surprised.
He smiled and set her down on the couch upstairs. "There was something that I wanted to ask you," he said.
"Oh really, what's that?" she said smiling.
He took a deep breath, I would rather face a thousand demons out to kill me than have Somaru say no!
She can't say no until we ask
"Somaru, Will you marry me?"
Tesse: Mwahahahaha! That's all you get! Will Somaru say yes or will she turn poor Kurama down?! You'll have to review to find out!