WARNING: Nothing, you should know by now.
A/N: Touya and Sniper never met in the anime, or manga, but they did in here,
so that's all that matters, I guess. They could have heard about each other
and passed each other somewhere, or they could have met once after everything.
You never know. And it's fanfiction, so it goes MY way.
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~A Red Rose in the Darkness~
Chapter Eight
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Kurama's alarm clock rang. It's a good thing it ran on batteries, or else it
wouldn't have stayed set. He smacked it so it didn't wake up Hiei. The fire
demon in question turned over and faced him, awake anyway. "Hey."
"Good morning," Kurama said.
"'Mornin'," Hiei mumbled, burying himself in the comforter.
Kurama stood up, blinking the sleep from his eyes. He looked out the window.
"What!? All that rain and not one sign of a cloud in the sky!?"
"'Course not..." Hiei said. "I dried up all 'da puddles an' stuff..."
"Hiei..." Kurama said, turning his head to face the bundle. "You're so cute
when you're half-sleeping."
He said, "I know..." instead of "WHAT did you call me!?", so his fox knew
that he was tired. Kurama decided to let him fall back asleep and kissed
his cheek, entering the bathroom.
His jaw dropped. There was Jin, snoring loudly, in the BATH TUB. Kurama
rubbed his eyes and remembered the night before. And, just now, he thought
he could catch strains of a voice, but decided he had done enough eavesdrop-
ping last night.
"Jin!" He said, shaking the very tall Wind Master. "Can you get out of the
tub? I have to take a shower."
"Mm...yah..." He said and willed himself to float away.
Putting a towel atop his head, Kurama dried his hair after his shower, and
stepped back into the bedroom, where Jin was wide awake and sitting eagerly,
probably waiting for Kurama so they could open the door and see.
And Kurama wasn't just hearing things. He did hear a voice through the door.
So did Jin, because his ears were twitching and he had a big cheesy grin on
his face.
"Can we, can we!?" He asked excitedly.
Kurama smiled, put his hand on the doorknob, and opened the door. The site
just made the two red heads smile. Sniper was asleep, his head on Touya's
lap, and it was Touya's voice they heard, as he quietly sang.
"Darkness out of night, all sound becomes lost, falling out of existence..."
He turned his head and smiled, a small, genuinely happy smile. "Light
requests so much...and continues to fight every time...
"Night is more than night appears, deep within our souls," He continued,
probably using the "our" to refer to him and Hagiri. "When is it right to
turn back?"
He saw Jin, but didn't falter though he had a relieved look on his face.
"Blinking in an instant, to go running into the dim light. Grab a hold of it
...here's your chance to set yourself free.."
He yawned, interrupting the song.
"We talked all night..." He finally said. "Jin...you're okay?"
"I'm fine!" Jin said with his big toothy grin. "And you got what you came
here for, didn't you?"
Touya smiled, looking down upon Sniper with sleepy eyes.
In a smaller voice, he continued singing. "Light and shade keep company that
exits none too soon...unmelting ice...never ending..."
His voice faded, and his eyes closed.
"Aw..." Jin said loudly.
"Shh!!" Kurama hissed, bringing a finger to his lips.
Jin raised his arms in defeat and tiptoed to the armchair and sat down,
picking up the remote, and turning on the TV, quickly turning down the volume.
How did he know how to use the remote, anyway? Kurama shook the thought out
of his mind. He was going to be late for school if he didn't hurry up.
He walked back into his room, grabbing his schoolbag. "See you later Hiei."
"Nmm..." Hiei mumbled. "...bai..."
"I don't have work today, so you can meet me at school, okay?"
"...mm...? ...yah..."
Kurama giggled and walked out of the house, poking his head through the door.
"Jin, you staying a while?"
The Wind Master nodded. "Mm-hmm. Want to see my show on later today."
"Um..." Kurama sweatdropped. "Just ask Hiei where anything is, okay?"
Jin nodded, completely absorbed in what was on the TV.
Kurama passed Yusuke's door and knocked on it. "Yusuke, Keiko, let's go!"
"YUSUKE!! STOP EATING AND COME ON!!" Keiko shouted. "You forgot REI, you
stupid..."
She opened the door. "Oh, hi Kurama."
"Yo, Kurama!" Yusuke said, grinning and grabbing Rei.
"Um..." Kurama smiled. "Hi..."
"Shizuru babysitting Rei today?" Kurama asked Keiko.
"Yeah. We've gotta drop him off." Keiko said.
"And pick up Kuwabara while we're at it," Yusuke added, locking the door behind
him, only to realize he didn't have a house key. Luckilly, Keiko did. "You seem
in space right now. 'Sup?"
"Oh..." Kurama answered. "I"m just thinking about the four people aside from
me that are in my house right now."
"Oh, okay," Yusuke shrugged.
It wasn't until they were halfway to Kuwabara's house that Yusuke noticed that
there was supposed to be only three others.
"Hey!" He wheeled around. "Who's the fifth?"
"Fifth what? Oh, Jin came last night," Kurama said. "He came to check on Touya."
Yusuke grinned. "How is he? Haven't seen him in awhile."
"Same as you can remember. He slept in the bath tub, so that would make him
still wierd. He made Hiei jump on the bed."
Yusuke's grin grew. "How did the little guy take it?"
"Oh, the usual," Kurama answered.
"As in, he brandishes his sword and threatens to decapitate Jin if he doesn't
stop, or he crosses his arms, huffs, and pouts?" Yusuke asked.
"The second option."
"Ah."
"Hey Kurama," Keiko said. "You passed the street to your school."
"What? Whoops. See you guys later then," Kurama said, turning around.
Keiko and Yusuke exchanged looks. "He's gotta be thinking about his mom."
"Wouldn't you if you hadn't seen her in two months?" Keiko asked.
Yusuke rubbed his chin. "Hm. I doubt it. Not my mom. She'd probably still be at
the bar."
Hiei was waiting for his fox outside in the tree, and Sniper and Touya stood
under it. Touya had, surprisingly, been dressed up as a regular person, although
there wasn't really anything you could do about his hair. He wore a pair of Hiei's
bigger jeans and an oversized white T-shirt that probably had been Sniper's once.
They had probably stopped at Sniper's house, because he was also wearing something
different, though still with his trademark jacket. Some people crowded around the
Ice Prince.
"Cool hair, where'd you get your hair dye?" Somebody asked him.
"I've had it since--"
"You went to America, right?" Sniper substituted.
Touya nodded in agreement, remembering that he had to be kind of "undercover".
After all, a demon with two colored hair in the Human World should kind of be
a secret.
Kurama walked around the tree to stand behind Touya and Sniper. Touya sighed.
Sniper looked relieved. "They won't leave him alone..."
"Typical humans," Touya scoffed, and, realizing his slip, blushed.
Of course, those "typical humans" didn't notice a thing, not even the cold that
was increasing rapidly.
"Why don't they NOTICE...?" Touya asked, a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"Why don't they go?"
"They'll notice if you drop the cold and they'll run home to air-conditioned
living rooms," Sniper whispered in Touya's ear.
Immediately the cold was gone. As was the crowd of humans, who started sweating.
Touya raised the cold once more, so that they didn't get hot. Touya couldn't
stand the heat.
"Hiei," Kurama called gently. "We're going to meet Yusuke. Come on."
The fire demon fell down from the tree and landed on his feet beside Kurama.
Yusuke had called Kurama on his cell phone during their lunch break, and Kurama
had called home, telling them that they were all going to watch a movie. Jin
had gone to greet Yusuke, who hadn't been too keen on having two villians come
with them, but agreed nonetheless. Buying all those movie tickets would be
expensive, so everybody(who had human currency) had to buy their own tickets.
Sniper bought Touya a ticket, and Jin and Hiei snuck in using their own methods.
Super speed and floating around quietly. Fun.
The movie they were seeing was very popular, so there wasn't seven seats in a
row for them to sit in. Sure, there was five in the middle all next to each other
but there wasn't another two close to them. Sniper and Touya took the two free
seats in the very front row. There were a bunch of previews, and then the movie
started.
"Hagiri..." Touya asked quietly. "How do all those people fit on that screen?"
Sniper smiled. "Well, they don't."
"Then how can they...?"
"Well, there's this stuff called film, that records in viewing what the people
are doing. So, if somebody wanted to see what they did, all they would have to
do is watch the film. Understand?"
"Not really."
"Okay. Then I can't really explain it."
The man next to Touya snickered. "Damn, you're stupid."
A cold grew, a very angered cold that Kurama and Hiei could feel seven rows up.
Touya pulled back his fist and punched the man square in the jaw.
"Who's stupid, you ass!?" Touya shouted.
"Touya, Touya!!" Sniper said, restraining Touya from further beating upon the
man.
"Damn human!" Touya hissed under his breath.
Security ran down the aisle and grabbed Touya.
"Get your filthy human hands off me!" Touya hissed, voice spitting out male-
volence.
"Please," Hagiri said to security. "He's a little unstable..."
"Take it to the police station, sonny," One of the men said. He turned to
Touya, who had started to make icicles on surrounding things, including people.
"You are under arrest on account of assault."
"Isn't he supposed to get a warning first?!" Hagiri said angrilly.
"Probably," The policeman said, wiping icicles from his beard. "But I can
say that I warned him and he wouldn't knock it off. And the court will
never know."
"Yes they will," Kurama said, coming up behind the obviously nasty from
drugs policeman. He pulled out a tape recorder from his pocket. "It's a
good thing I forgot to give this back to my teacher."
Touya growled at the man who called him stupid, and the police officer, doing
all he could to restrain himself from flipping the man over his shoulder and
stabbing him with an ice sword. And he was let go.
"Pain in the ass smart kids," The policeman growled. "This is a warning. I'll
arrest you if you punch another person."
Kurama sighed as the man walked away. "It's a good thing I think ahead about
every possibility and coincidentally 'forget' to give the tape recorder back to
my teacher, hm?"
Touya gave the policeman's back an obsene hand gesture and thought he heard a
"Why is it so damn cold?"
The cold died down, as did Touya's temper.
"Thanks Kurama."
"Hey, down in front!!!" Someone shouted.
Touya and Sniper sat down and Kurama answered with a simple "no problem" and
walked back up the aisle.
Going to the movie theater was a bad idea, wasn't it?
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Hieica: I was originally gonna get Touya in jail and have Hagiri plead him
insane. Woo-hoo. Maybe next chapter.
Swissy: Same old, same old. R&R.
A/N: Touya and Sniper never met in the anime, or manga, but they did in here,
so that's all that matters, I guess. They could have heard about each other
and passed each other somewhere, or they could have met once after everything.
You never know. And it's fanfiction, so it goes MY way.
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~A Red Rose in the Darkness~
Chapter Eight
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Kurama's alarm clock rang. It's a good thing it ran on batteries, or else it
wouldn't have stayed set. He smacked it so it didn't wake up Hiei. The fire
demon in question turned over and faced him, awake anyway. "Hey."
"Good morning," Kurama said.
"'Mornin'," Hiei mumbled, burying himself in the comforter.
Kurama stood up, blinking the sleep from his eyes. He looked out the window.
"What!? All that rain and not one sign of a cloud in the sky!?"
"'Course not..." Hiei said. "I dried up all 'da puddles an' stuff..."
"Hiei..." Kurama said, turning his head to face the bundle. "You're so cute
when you're half-sleeping."
He said, "I know..." instead of "WHAT did you call me!?", so his fox knew
that he was tired. Kurama decided to let him fall back asleep and kissed
his cheek, entering the bathroom.
His jaw dropped. There was Jin, snoring loudly, in the BATH TUB. Kurama
rubbed his eyes and remembered the night before. And, just now, he thought
he could catch strains of a voice, but decided he had done enough eavesdrop-
ping last night.
"Jin!" He said, shaking the very tall Wind Master. "Can you get out of the
tub? I have to take a shower."
"Mm...yah..." He said and willed himself to float away.
Putting a towel atop his head, Kurama dried his hair after his shower, and
stepped back into the bedroom, where Jin was wide awake and sitting eagerly,
probably waiting for Kurama so they could open the door and see.
And Kurama wasn't just hearing things. He did hear a voice through the door.
So did Jin, because his ears were twitching and he had a big cheesy grin on
his face.
"Can we, can we!?" He asked excitedly.
Kurama smiled, put his hand on the doorknob, and opened the door. The site
just made the two red heads smile. Sniper was asleep, his head on Touya's
lap, and it was Touya's voice they heard, as he quietly sang.
"Darkness out of night, all sound becomes lost, falling out of existence..."
He turned his head and smiled, a small, genuinely happy smile. "Light
requests so much...and continues to fight every time...
"Night is more than night appears, deep within our souls," He continued,
probably using the "our" to refer to him and Hagiri. "When is it right to
turn back?"
He saw Jin, but didn't falter though he had a relieved look on his face.
"Blinking in an instant, to go running into the dim light. Grab a hold of it
...here's your chance to set yourself free.."
He yawned, interrupting the song.
"We talked all night..." He finally said. "Jin...you're okay?"
"I'm fine!" Jin said with his big toothy grin. "And you got what you came
here for, didn't you?"
Touya smiled, looking down upon Sniper with sleepy eyes.
In a smaller voice, he continued singing. "Light and shade keep company that
exits none too soon...unmelting ice...never ending..."
His voice faded, and his eyes closed.
"Aw..." Jin said loudly.
"Shh!!" Kurama hissed, bringing a finger to his lips.
Jin raised his arms in defeat and tiptoed to the armchair and sat down,
picking up the remote, and turning on the TV, quickly turning down the volume.
How did he know how to use the remote, anyway? Kurama shook the thought out
of his mind. He was going to be late for school if he didn't hurry up.
He walked back into his room, grabbing his schoolbag. "See you later Hiei."
"Nmm..." Hiei mumbled. "...bai..."
"I don't have work today, so you can meet me at school, okay?"
"...mm...? ...yah..."
Kurama giggled and walked out of the house, poking his head through the door.
"Jin, you staying a while?"
The Wind Master nodded. "Mm-hmm. Want to see my show on later today."
"Um..." Kurama sweatdropped. "Just ask Hiei where anything is, okay?"
Jin nodded, completely absorbed in what was on the TV.
Kurama passed Yusuke's door and knocked on it. "Yusuke, Keiko, let's go!"
"YUSUKE!! STOP EATING AND COME ON!!" Keiko shouted. "You forgot REI, you
stupid..."
She opened the door. "Oh, hi Kurama."
"Yo, Kurama!" Yusuke said, grinning and grabbing Rei.
"Um..." Kurama smiled. "Hi..."
"Shizuru babysitting Rei today?" Kurama asked Keiko.
"Yeah. We've gotta drop him off." Keiko said.
"And pick up Kuwabara while we're at it," Yusuke added, locking the door behind
him, only to realize he didn't have a house key. Luckilly, Keiko did. "You seem
in space right now. 'Sup?"
"Oh..." Kurama answered. "I"m just thinking about the four people aside from
me that are in my house right now."
"Oh, okay," Yusuke shrugged.
It wasn't until they were halfway to Kuwabara's house that Yusuke noticed that
there was supposed to be only three others.
"Hey!" He wheeled around. "Who's the fifth?"
"Fifth what? Oh, Jin came last night," Kurama said. "He came to check on Touya."
Yusuke grinned. "How is he? Haven't seen him in awhile."
"Same as you can remember. He slept in the bath tub, so that would make him
still wierd. He made Hiei jump on the bed."
Yusuke's grin grew. "How did the little guy take it?"
"Oh, the usual," Kurama answered.
"As in, he brandishes his sword and threatens to decapitate Jin if he doesn't
stop, or he crosses his arms, huffs, and pouts?" Yusuke asked.
"The second option."
"Ah."
"Hey Kurama," Keiko said. "You passed the street to your school."
"What? Whoops. See you guys later then," Kurama said, turning around.
Keiko and Yusuke exchanged looks. "He's gotta be thinking about his mom."
"Wouldn't you if you hadn't seen her in two months?" Keiko asked.
Yusuke rubbed his chin. "Hm. I doubt it. Not my mom. She'd probably still be at
the bar."
Hiei was waiting for his fox outside in the tree, and Sniper and Touya stood
under it. Touya had, surprisingly, been dressed up as a regular person, although
there wasn't really anything you could do about his hair. He wore a pair of Hiei's
bigger jeans and an oversized white T-shirt that probably had been Sniper's once.
They had probably stopped at Sniper's house, because he was also wearing something
different, though still with his trademark jacket. Some people crowded around the
Ice Prince.
"Cool hair, where'd you get your hair dye?" Somebody asked him.
"I've had it since--"
"You went to America, right?" Sniper substituted.
Touya nodded in agreement, remembering that he had to be kind of "undercover".
After all, a demon with two colored hair in the Human World should kind of be
a secret.
Kurama walked around the tree to stand behind Touya and Sniper. Touya sighed.
Sniper looked relieved. "They won't leave him alone..."
"Typical humans," Touya scoffed, and, realizing his slip, blushed.
Of course, those "typical humans" didn't notice a thing, not even the cold that
was increasing rapidly.
"Why don't they NOTICE...?" Touya asked, a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"Why don't they go?"
"They'll notice if you drop the cold and they'll run home to air-conditioned
living rooms," Sniper whispered in Touya's ear.
Immediately the cold was gone. As was the crowd of humans, who started sweating.
Touya raised the cold once more, so that they didn't get hot. Touya couldn't
stand the heat.
"Hiei," Kurama called gently. "We're going to meet Yusuke. Come on."
The fire demon fell down from the tree and landed on his feet beside Kurama.
Yusuke had called Kurama on his cell phone during their lunch break, and Kurama
had called home, telling them that they were all going to watch a movie. Jin
had gone to greet Yusuke, who hadn't been too keen on having two villians come
with them, but agreed nonetheless. Buying all those movie tickets would be
expensive, so everybody(who had human currency) had to buy their own tickets.
Sniper bought Touya a ticket, and Jin and Hiei snuck in using their own methods.
Super speed and floating around quietly. Fun.
The movie they were seeing was very popular, so there wasn't seven seats in a
row for them to sit in. Sure, there was five in the middle all next to each other
but there wasn't another two close to them. Sniper and Touya took the two free
seats in the very front row. There were a bunch of previews, and then the movie
started.
"Hagiri..." Touya asked quietly. "How do all those people fit on that screen?"
Sniper smiled. "Well, they don't."
"Then how can they...?"
"Well, there's this stuff called film, that records in viewing what the people
are doing. So, if somebody wanted to see what they did, all they would have to
do is watch the film. Understand?"
"Not really."
"Okay. Then I can't really explain it."
The man next to Touya snickered. "Damn, you're stupid."
A cold grew, a very angered cold that Kurama and Hiei could feel seven rows up.
Touya pulled back his fist and punched the man square in the jaw.
"Who's stupid, you ass!?" Touya shouted.
"Touya, Touya!!" Sniper said, restraining Touya from further beating upon the
man.
"Damn human!" Touya hissed under his breath.
Security ran down the aisle and grabbed Touya.
"Get your filthy human hands off me!" Touya hissed, voice spitting out male-
volence.
"Please," Hagiri said to security. "He's a little unstable..."
"Take it to the police station, sonny," One of the men said. He turned to
Touya, who had started to make icicles on surrounding things, including people.
"You are under arrest on account of assault."
"Isn't he supposed to get a warning first?!" Hagiri said angrilly.
"Probably," The policeman said, wiping icicles from his beard. "But I can
say that I warned him and he wouldn't knock it off. And the court will
never know."
"Yes they will," Kurama said, coming up behind the obviously nasty from
drugs policeman. He pulled out a tape recorder from his pocket. "It's a
good thing I forgot to give this back to my teacher."
Touya growled at the man who called him stupid, and the police officer, doing
all he could to restrain himself from flipping the man over his shoulder and
stabbing him with an ice sword. And he was let go.
"Pain in the ass smart kids," The policeman growled. "This is a warning. I'll
arrest you if you punch another person."
Kurama sighed as the man walked away. "It's a good thing I think ahead about
every possibility and coincidentally 'forget' to give the tape recorder back to
my teacher, hm?"
Touya gave the policeman's back an obsene hand gesture and thought he heard a
"Why is it so damn cold?"
The cold died down, as did Touya's temper.
"Thanks Kurama."
"Hey, down in front!!!" Someone shouted.
Touya and Sniper sat down and Kurama answered with a simple "no problem" and
walked back up the aisle.
Going to the movie theater was a bad idea, wasn't it?
______________________________________________________________________________
Hieica: I was originally gonna get Touya in jail and have Hagiri plead him
insane. Woo-hoo. Maybe next chapter.
Swissy: Same old, same old. R&R.