At the end of the last chapter, Tsume and Kurama were about to…well…you get it…and the last word was 'Then…' and it ended. This chapter will continue right after 'Then…' so I put this so that you won't get confused.


Lightning flashed and thunder boomer. Kurama pulled away from Tsume, who was looking completely red in the face.

"You look sick. You must be catching a cold." The rain slowed its harshness and Kurama felt Tsume's forehead. "I'll walk you back to your home. Maybe we shouldn't go out tomorrow night. You are ill."

"No I'm not." She sneezed. "Ok, maybe a little. But we can still go."

"You should rest tomorrow. I'll tell the teacher at school that you took ill."

Tsume nodded, thanking Kurama silently, wishing she hadn't been careless and gotten sick. She looked up and saw Kurama leaving. She wasn't paying attention when he said that he had to leave. She remembered him saying something else about the next night, but she couldn't recall what it was. Tsume dragged herself back to her apartment and went straight to bed and slept the rest of the night and half of the next day, hoping to recover quickly.

It rained all last night, the whole day, and during the evening as well. About 5:00 PM, Tsume heard the doorbell of the apartment ring. She answered it and saw Kurama outside holding an umbrella. "Hello." He greeted her. He looked down at her and saw she was still in her pajamas. "That's not how you're going out are you?"

Tsume blushed. "What do you mean going out?"

"I said I'd pick you up at 5, and its 5 right now."

"What happened to 'You're sick.'?"

"I said if you rested and got better, we'd still be able to go. That's why I suggested you miss school for a day. Weren't you listening?" he said patiently.

"Of course I was. I just fell asleep just now and I slept through my alarm clock…! Can you wait and let me change?"

She changed quickly into something more presenting and something that looked less like she was going to be so bored, she'd fall asleep. She wore a red Tee, khaki pants, a green rose-like hair band to tie it up with, and of course, her gemstone. She began to act like she had just fallen asleep the whole time, and not that she didn't hear Kurama while he was talking the previous night.

They headed towards the park.

"I've never seen this place wile it rains. It very nice here." Tsume commented.

"I knew you'd like it here."

After walking around the park once or twice, they left, going to the same restaurant they were at the night before. Fortunately, they got the same waiter who wanted to apologize to what he did by serving them a free dinner and desert. He also asked them to do him a favor. "If you see your other two friends here again, tell them to have their next date here so I can make it up to them too."

"But they don't go on…umm…ok. Will do." Tsume grinned widely.

Kurama assumed the waiter meant that he was apologizing for interrupting the double date, though that wasn't it at all. He quietly drank his tea as the waiter continually apologized to Tsume. When she finally managed to get rid of him, the boy and girl ate their food in silence. They got up to leave soon after.

Outside, the duo noticed a stray umbrella on the street. Kurama picked it up and they looked for its owners. Soon they also heard some yelling.

"Where's the umbrella?" one of the voices screamed out. It was female.

"I don't know." A male replied.

"You last had it. I just left for a second and you end up losing the umbrella."

The two sounded like a married couple in an argument. When Tsume mentioned this, they saw that the 'married couple' was Hiei and Ume. Tsume and Kurama laughed when hey saw who the two were. He grabbed the stray umbrella and gave it to the two.

"Thanks Kurama."

"What are you two doing outside in the rain?"

"Hiei was still at my place because of the rain. My mother asked me to go get food and Hiei volunteered to go instead of me, so I don't get sick, I insisted, my mother suggested we both go, and here we are. I go inside to get the stuff and Hiei refused to go inside and dwell with humans, so he stayed outside with the umbrella and manages to lose it. Good day so far if you ask me." Ume said, only half sarcastic. Secretly, she didn't mind spending it with Hiei. Although, having Hiei lose their umbrella during a storm wasn't the best ever.

She saw Tsume and Kurama together. "What's your excuse?"

The two looked at each other. "Kurama bought me dinner to make up for yesterday…"

Ume burst out laughing as she held a bag of groceries. "That's it, is it?"

The rain began to fall even harder and all had to leave. They said their good byes and left. Kurama and Tsume left together.

As Ume and Hiei left together as well, Hiei grabbed the grocery bags that Ume was having trouble holding on her own. As they walked, Ume slipped on some water and fell on top of Hiei. They both dropped the groceries.

"I'm sorry Hiei. Clumsy me." She looked down to see where she had fallen and finally realized she was on top of Hiei. She got up hastily and nearly fell on top of the groceries. Hiei got up and saw their umbrella on the road. A car passed by and ran it over.

"This just isn't my day." Ume said to herself.

She helped Hiei up and they were both stuck in the rain, with a long walk ahead of them before they got back to Ume's house. Hiei grabbed Ume's wrist after she was done picking up all the bags. He led her to a cave hidden amongst the trees of the park.

"So this is where you go when it rains and you're not at my house?"

Hiei ignored her comment. "We should stay here until the rain clears up."

Ume laid down the bags and Hiei started a fire with some wood that was in the cave already. As the rain cleared up, they began to leave to Ume's room again.

Hiei looked back into the cave. "Why are you leaving half the bags here?"

"Well, the cave doesn't flood, so I guess you should keep some of the food. I just left the food that doesn't need to be cooked and is sealed up and some water bottles. I'll just say that the rain washed the food away. My mother won't mind. Come on, before they all get worried." Ume smiled.

Hiei was taken back. He noticed something. Ume's smile changed. It seemed genuine; it wasn't fake like most of the smiles he had seen before. The past ones had seemed empty.

He smirked. "You seem a lot better after last night."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Hn. Never mind."

Tsume led the way back to Kurama's apartment.

"Now it's my turn to walk you back."

"That's not how it traditionally works but…"

"Hey, I just got here from Makai about a month ago. You can't expect me to know every human custom and tradition."

Kurama couldn't argue with that, and he didn't really mind. He was just hoping to go to Tsume's residence because it was farther away, and the walk there would be longer.

As the two talked on Kurama doorstep, three girls from their school snuck by.

"I knew Shuichi was coming by eventually. But who's that with him?"

"It's that new girl!"

"And she's making a move on our man!"

"We'll take of that, won't we ladies."

Ume and Hiei decided to take a short-cut home and passed by Kurama's apartment. They saw the girls and eavesdropped to what they were saying. Ume got an evil look in her eyes. "Hey Hiei, Kurama's your friend right? And Tsume mines right?"

Hiei didn't think he'd ever get used to hearing that she and Tsume were friends but he nodded anyways.

"So you wanna help our good friends AND have some fun with a bunch of stupid humans?" She whispered into his ear and he nodded.

Ume whispered out to the girls, "Come here you three. I figured out a good way to get back at that new girl for liking Shuichi." She tried to remember to use her friend's human names.

The girls jumped at the voice but they listened to it for they didn't have any ideas themselves. The voice led them to some alley where they saw Ume and Hiei there on top of a building.

"Wait, you're not in our school. How do you know Shuichi?" one of them said.

Ume jumped down and the girls were surprised that she didn't break a leg. Hiei came next. He drew his katana in the shadows and threatened the girls.

"If you go anywhere near the two…"

"We'll make sure you pay for it." Ume finished off the sentence.

"Wait a second." The girl who seemed to be the leader interrupted in a tone full of terror. "That guy…he has a sword…and that girl…she's the toughest girl in the whole district. She's beaten up gangs and gangs of people from ours, and she hangs with that legendary Urameshi guy."

The other girls shuddered and ran for it. Hiei jumped over them and blocked the exit.

"Make sure you don't go anywhere near those two. Got it?" Ume barked from behind them.

"Ok! We swear!" the leader said, frantic.

Hiei let them passed and they ran, bumping into each other and screaming. Ume and Hiei looked at each other as the girls ran. They began laughing so hard they almost fell over.

"Would you like to step inside for a moment Tsume?" Kurama offered.

Tsume accepted the offer. He made tea for the two of them and they drank it.

"Where's your mother Kurama?"

"She's probably asleep by now."

"'By now'…?" Tsume looked at the clock ticking away on the wall. It was already past 9:30. "I can't believe how late it is. We must have spent at least an hour and a half on your doorstep."

"Yes. I suppose so."

"I had lots of fun tonight and it definitely makes up for last night. Thank you for letting me tag along with you."

"I invited you. You don't have to thank me for letting you 'tag along'. And I had just as much fun as you did."

"I'll see you at school tomorrow. I'll guess that you'll be the one swarmed by girls?"

"I'm hoping not. I'd be able to see you a lot easier if they weren't there."

"Shuichi, are you home now?" it was Shuichi's mother, looking slightly worried.

"Yes."

"You brought company. Nice to see you again Kami."

"Huh?" Tsume was so used to being called by her real name by her friends, she forgot about her human name. "Oh, of course. Same to you Mrs. Minamino (that's their last name right?). Well, I must be going now. Good bye Shuichi."

As she left Shuichi's mother turned to her son. "How was your date?"

"Mother…"

"It was just a joke Shuichi." She waved her hand playfully but slowly.

"Good night Mother."

He whispered to himself in the quiet, seemingly isolated room. "Maybe it was 'just a joke'."

He sighed and turned out the lights.


It's a miracle. I managed to fit romance with both matches in this last chapter and some humor at the end. This was probably my longest and most romantic chapter yet! Not only that, the ending was a good one, unlike my last story. Anyways, here's something important that you SHOULD read.

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