Suddenly she paused letting her ears stand up and swival listening to a distant noise. Sitting up fulling he also looked around as well curious to what she heard. In a startling swift movement she ran back towards him as an arrow promplty made its way into her shoulder as she fell to her knees in front of him grasping the arrow as obsentaties flowed from her mouth. For a moment he stared at the wound before jumping to his feet, standing in front of her he stood his ground as a small red rose emerged from his hair; grabbing it between his index and thumb finger he flung it into a long thorned whip. Suddenly stopping the persuer stood still for a moment before hermerging; smirking he turned around facing her" You'll be alright...I couldn't have my assasin die, now could I?" they both laughed a moment as she realized the sudden change in his kai. Stumbling for a moment trying to regain his balance, eventually gaining it as he stood streight letting the black hair fall from his head replaced by silver and his normal kitsune appendages shot snow white as his last tail, the eight tail split into another, the nineth, marking that he had become as powerful as a kitsune spirit could be. Stunned she watched in amazement then blushed twitching her ears, before she could say anything he turned around smirking and perceeded to say " My names Kurama...most call me Youko...." before he could finish his statement she burst out in a shrude yap " For godsakes put some clothes on!" he looked down sheepishly then blushed as he calmly walked over to the blanket wrapping it around himself.
After sleeping a few days she awoke to the dim light of a cave. Slowly she rose from a laying to sitting postion as a sharp sensation of pain reminded her of the shoulder wound. For a moment she paused before reaching up to touch the wound hissing in pain. " Your finally awake" a deep voice startled her as she saw the tall silver fox emerge from the darkness" Why did you clean out my wounds?" she snarled with hurt pride that she had to be saved by her assasination hit. She knew he had cleaned it, for it stunk with plant odors and there was no swelling or redness to the area. " Tssk.. thats no way to talk to someone who saved your life...besides I was repaying the favor for sparing mine... I normally dont bother with kindness or acts of friendship, but having you as a friend is more benificial then an enemy" he continued as he stooped down next to her with a cloth coated in foul smelling plant oil. She looked up at him slicking back her ears as a sign of gratitude, for she would never say such a thing as 'thank you'. With a gentle smile he dapped the cloth to her cut causing her scream out in pain " BAKA! what was that for" he snickered a little as she growled at him. " It needs to be clean so stop figiting" he said taking the pleasure of damaging her pride further. " Im still going to kill you" she sneered at him with a hateful pledge as he returned it with a cocked smile as if to accept the challenge.
A long pause of silence passed them as he tended to her wounds bandaging them, sitting back he leaned against the cave wall looking to her. " Your free to go you know, I was just returning the favor" he spoke in his normal low tone of voice as he handed her a bag of herbs. " These are what you'll need to take care of those cuts" he placed the herbs at her side. She continued to say silent watching twilight set in as it turned to night not responding to him. He glanced down at the dirt scuffing it a little as it durtied his white tunic, he was trying to ignore the stiff silence, then decided to ask a question. " Your the first kitsune I've seen with black fur...why is that?" he asked hopeful of a response but was met by silence again. Confused he looked down to the dirt again not sure what to do...he was not used to being friendly or plain nice in general. The silence was shattered as she glared back at him, her eyes gleaming a blood red color as she spread two large wings knocking him to the ground with wind wash as she continued sitting. " I killed an entire race, the ash from the fires singed my fur black... before I left an old preist put a curse on me...it did two things..." she trailed off taking her claws to her face scratching the skin until it revealed scars , then she pointed to her wings " The first is to prevent me from ever flying again.......and banish me from anything that brings me happiness" she trailed off then looked down as a few tears fell silently from her eyes " and.....the second was the bind of my heart.....I can never seach for love or friends...they have to find me....so I became an assasin for a high paying lord......but everynight he sealed me away because I did not love him....he would thrust me into the earth and bind me to sleep until he needed me.....I became his slave..." she stopped talking as the final light of the cave faded only being lit by the fire. His ears twiched as he looked at her not sure what to do.
Not knowing what to say he just nodded a little and perceeded to give her another blanket. " Its going to be cold tonight...I dont want you to freeze after all the work I've put into healing you." he said in a kinder voice then before as she accepted the blanket. Looking at her once more he turned and headed deeper into the cave to sleep. As he hit the cold dirt he let out a sigh, as he thought about his work. "Every day I steal, I steal some of the most precious gems and artifacts in all Mikai ......yet I'm never happy" he mumbled to himself. "And whats with this word love....I get tired of hearing it...about how much it hurts and such..to me it would seem a blessing to be cursed never to feel it..It's nothing more then a weakness and a fault..all you do is worry about someone all day" he continued rambling on about how stupid love was for a while before closing his eyes to think silently. Something had to have been wrong with him all night, for all he did was toss and turn and think of the next day, so when morning came he rose to his feet looking at the enterance of the cave only to find that she had left during the night. Sighing he looked down the muttered " I'm glad shes gone...now I dont have to worry about another tag-a-long" As the day continued he started to wonder where she had gone, if she had been kiddnapped or left on her own...was he to mean to her? he thought. Shaking his head he dismissed all of these thoughts to begin thinking about the next object he was to steal.