Hello Simply Hopeless and I'm wondering how I got suckered into making a sequel. This of course is the sequel of 'I'll Steal Your Heart.' Consequently I'll put my other story "You Only Hurt the Ones You Love,' one hold. I don't own YYH and I do hope you enjoy the sequel.
Anything for LoveChapter One: Why Can't things Just Stay Happily After?
"No don't go there!" cried out Sakura as she ran after little Kuronue. She picked up him up from the stairs he kept trying to climb down and wagged her finger at him. "No going down there," Sakura frown at him.
"No go down there," Kuronue repeated waving his little index finger at her, a small frown on his round little face.
"Yes, no going down," Sakura sighed walking away from the stairs only to place down Kuronue when she saw Jasmine scribbling all over the wall with crayon.
"Oh god no!" Sakura cried out and ran to snatch the crayons from Jasmine.
Jasmine looked at her mother for a few minutes before her blue-green eyes began to fill up with tears. She took a deep shuddering breath before she began to cry. "I want... I want color!!!!" cried out Jasmine and laid her head down on the floor. Her face was scrunched up and bright pink from crying.
Sakura stroked the frosty pink curls of her daughter's hair trying to calm the child down. Jasmine looked at her, blinked a few times as she sniffed. She tried to stop the tears, before she gave up completely and cried louder.
Sakura, who was already kneeling by her child, threw herself against the floor before she clutched her head after it thudded against the hard floor. 'Kami are you punishing me because I was a thief?' thought Sakura bitterly and then tears came.
They pricked and shimmered in her blue eyes and before she could stop them they were rolling down her face. She laid her head to the right so her daughter wouldn't see her cry but already she was sobbing from her massive headache.
She squeezed her eyes, swallowing the bile that formed in her throat. She combed her fingers through her hair and opened her eyes when she felt two somethings settling against her legs.
She sat up to see what it was only to look at her twin children who stared sadly at her, their heads lying in her lap. Jasmine sniffled as she looked at her mother and Kuronue was close to tears. "Please no cry," Kurounue said before popping his thumb into his mouth before standing up to hug his mother.
"I no cry, if you no cry," Jasmine said rubbing at her face before she stood up and hugged her mother.
"Okay I won't cry," sniffled Sakura trying to fight back the pain from her head.
"Would you like some aspirin?" came a voice from behind them. She turned to glare at her husband who was looking at her with a small smile on his face as he shook the small box of aspirin.
"How long have you been there? No forget that, why didn't you rescue me from these little demons?" Sakura pouted at her husband as she stood up with each child in her arms.
"We are not little demons," cried out Kurounue making a face. "Yes grandma says we are perfect angels!" Sakura cooed proudly.
"Well grandma hasn't been spending almost every waking moment with you so of course she thinks your angels," grumbled Sakura under her breath. She raised her head and smiled in surprise when she saw Kurama chuckling at her comment.
"What so funny?" Jasmine frowned, not liking to be left out. "Yes, we want know!" Kurounue.
Kurama gratefully took Jasmine and handed Sakura the bottle of aspirin before kissing her. Sakura smiled then frowned when he pulled back. "How did you know I was there unless you had seen me at my wits end!" grounded out Sakura.
"Oh daddy is in trouble!" cried out Kurounue happily clapping his little hands together.
"Yeah daddy is in trouble!" cried out Jasmine before kissing Kurama on the cheek. "You in trouble," she said happily.
"I see," Kurama said wryly. 'I told you we should have rescued her when we saw her running from left to right trying to keep with your offspring,' cried out Shuichi. 'You act like she didn't have a big hand in creating the offspring,' grumbled Youkai. 'But if you go blabbing that out to her she'll tell her how she was in labor thirty-eight hours and then she won't us near her,' Kurama thought reasonably and the others agreed.
"Yes you are in so much trouble," said Sakura smiling evilly.
"Wait... I know that look your not going to abandon me with the kids are you?" Kurama began to frown at the thought.
"Bingo but don't think of it as a punishment but as a privilege," smiled Sakura brightly kissing him before handing him Kurounue. Then she ran quickly to the stair and jump over the railing to land on the first floor below.
Kurama ran to the railing holding the twins, panic written on his face. "I used that line on you last time I left you with the twins!" called out Kurama.
"I know," smiled Sakura happily as she walked quickly to the front door.
"Wait when will you be back? Where are you going? You can't leave me with them!" Kurama said one after the other before running down the stairs to catch the running mother of his children, his wife.
"When I can. To steal something. And yes I can," Sakura answered every question quickly before she ran out the door.
"SSSSAAAAAAKKKKKUUUURRRRRAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" shouted out Kurama as he placed the children down to open the front door.
"Bye mommy!" shouted the twins waving happily at their running mother. Kurama sighed as he watched his wife disappearing into the distance, turning occasionally to wave at them. "She got us back."
NEXT DAY, AT SPIRIT WORLD
"I have all gathered you all here because I have a new assignment for you," Prince Koenma began as he stood on the desk so that everyone could see him.
"Really?" Kuwabara looked at Koenma surprised but then glared at Yusuke when he slapped him upside his head for his stupidity. "I deal with you later Urameshi!"
"Whatever Kuwabara," snickered Yusuke before turning to Koenma. "Go ahead in tell us the case its not like we can back out anyway. Wait can we?" said Yusuke hopefully but when he saw Koenma shake his head no he let out a sigh. "I knew but it still a guy can hope."
"Hope is a useless emotion. I thought you knew that Yusuke," Hiei frowned at Yusuke disappointed as if he actually expected more from the leader.
"And why did you make Hiei the godfather again?" Sakura whispered to Kurama her body leaned carefully against him.
"Hmmm? You know he's my best friend and he would protect the twins with their life," said Kurama nipping at her fox ear playfully. She looked up at him and turned slightly to kiss him.
"But still..." Sakura frowned before turning to look at Hiei. 'No mother in they're right mind...' she thought but snapped to attention as she heard her name called.
"Well actually one person has backed out and she is Sakura. I know that the ASA Squad has been dissolved a long time ago but we would really like it if you would reconsider your decision," Koenma said turning his eyes to Sakura.
"But that's the shikon jewel that had ended me up sleeping for more then a hundred sleep. Plus watch a miko who is the reincarnation of the miko that shot me with the shikon jewel and Inuyasha that jerk!" cried out Sakura as she stepped out of the protection of Kurama's arm to slap at Koenma's desk.
"That's okay Sakura I can see that you wouldn't be suited to the case," Koenma fell down and scooted away from Sakura.
"Man, Sakura do you think you can get me out of this case? Babysitting doesn't seem appealing to me at all," Yusuke said.
"Yusuke your going, Sakura you don't have to and that's final!!!" cried out Koenma who fell off the desk because he had kept scooting away from Sakura.
"Oh the toddler fell!" cried out Kurounue as he ran into the room followed by his sister and George the blue ogre.
"He fell, he fell!" cried out Jasmine before she made a beeline towards Kurama and hugged his leg. "Hi daddy!" she smiled up at him.
"So George is who you left are children with?" Kurama said amused as he picked up Jasmine.
"George is more then capable of handling them," smiled Sakura brightly.
"Um back to the case at hand. The person you are going to watch is names Higurashi, Kagome. She goes to the school twelve blocks away from you guys. She has been noted for disappearing for long periods of time claiming that she has one or another illness but we do not believe that's true," began Koenma and pressed a button to show the picture of Kagome on the screen.
"In fact we believe the that she has discovered a time warp that can take her to the past. The reason we believe she might be in fact traveling to the feudal era is because she is seen occasionally with this person right here," Koenma pointed out another picture this time of Inuyasha sitting in the god tree in Kagome's time.
"Oh doggy!!" cooed Jasmine jumping up and down excitedly in her father's arms.
"I want him!" Kurounue cried out and pointed to the teenaged boy on the screen.
Sakura growled at the picture and before she knew it she jumped over Koenma's desk and pulled out her stick before saying grow. She then stabbed it threw the big screen, directly where Inuyasha's heart would be before she allowed the stick to shrink.
"LOOK WHAT YOU DID!!!" cried out Koenma scrambling up from the floor and hugging at his busted screen with the giant hole in it.
"Um... uh..." she looked at the others and smiled sheepishly. "Come on children I think we should head back home," Sakura said quickly before grabbing the kids and ran.
THAT NIGHT
"I've come to tuck you two in," Sakura announced as she opened the door to the twins bedroom. She was slightly sad that Kurama wasn't able to come home with her because the spirit detectives had to figure out a schedule of watching their new target Kagome but it couldn't be helped.
Her eyes automatically expected to see her two children jumping up and down on the bed like they do every night since they got their beds but they weren't jumping... they weren't there.
"Are you two hiding from mommy?" Sakura said brightly as she knelt down to check under the beds to see if there would be small smiling faces under there, but there wasn't. She frowned then smiled as she noticed the closest.
"I know you two don't want to go to bed but mommy is tired and needs her sleep," Sakura said as she inched slowly towards the closest. "And so do you!" she cried out as she threw open the closes door to see if they were in their. But no giggling little children ran out to hug her legs.
"Where could they be?" Sakura said nibbling at her bottom lip, worried. She checked in the toy chest knowing they wouldn't be their but fear prompted her to check just in case. She left the room and looked down the long hallway before walking to the steps.
"Mommy is mad now and if you two don't come out this assistant then daddy won't be able to take you to the amusement park tomorrow!" she cried out, hoping they would run back to her. She waited a few minutes to see if they were just testing their boundaries but no one came.
She sighed and went into their room before picking up the twin's teddy bear that lay forgotten on the ground. She picked it up and frowned, fear knowing at her heart as she frowned.
"That's odd, they never go anywhere without Mr. Bobo the bear," she said to herself. And it seemed like for the first time she saw the thrown around objects in the room. At first she had thought that it was just the twins rough housing but this... this...
"Please no!" she whispered hoarsely as she bent down to pick up shards from a broken lamp. She threw them quickly in the trashcan and set the rest of the broken lamp on the nightstand that stood between the two beds the twins slept in.
She felt cold air teasing against the loose strands of hair falling from her high ponytail and laying on the back of her neck. She looked up to see that the window behind the nightstand was open.
She automatically went to close the window but as she was closing the window she spotted a note tape to the windowsill so that it won't blow away. 'To Sakura the Thief' was written in clear letters on the folded paper.
Sakura picked it up and was about to throw it out but decided against it curious to see what was in it. The note read as so:
'If you ever one to see those squealing things you call children again then you will do as I say. I will not ask you for money but simply your help and if you refuse to help me then you can have your children back piece by piece in the mail.
I know you don't want that so listen closely Sakura because I know about your first attempt in stealing the Shikon No Tama. I make it my business to know as much as I can about it.
I want you to sabotage your husband and friends' mission. Put Kagome at risk anytime you can and if you can steal the shikon no tama then the sooner you can see your children smiling faces.
I know you can do it Sakura. You are a thief, the protégée of the legendary bandit fox Youko.
p.s. here is a little something to remember your children by.'
And as Sakura pulled back the folded up corners a lock of pink hair and red hair fell into her hands. She clutched the two locks of hair tightly in her hand before she quickly put it in her pocket for safe keeping.
Sakura then let out a heart wrenching sob and fell to her knees crying, the note falling from her trembling hands. "Why kami, why!" she cried out as she crumpled the rest of the way to the floor clutching at the teddy bear that their twins loved to play with.
She then stared through bleared tears at the note and bit back another sob. 'I don't know what to do! I don't know what do!' she thought over and over again. She bit her lip and could the warm metallic bittersweet taste of it along with the bile that began to fill her mouth.
She stood their for she didn't how long clutching at the teddy bear as if it was her only lifelong from just killing herself know and ending her misery. As soon as she stopped crying she slowly stumbled up and picked up the paper.
She read it slowly, mesmerizing every word of it before she took a lighter from her pocket and burned the whole things. She put it quickly on the floor and stomped on it before it could burn her fingers then through the burnt up paper into the trash.
She swallowed the bile in her mouth and wiped at her tear-stained face with one of her hand. Her heart and mind was in turmoil but she knew one thing though. She could never tell Kurama about the note, not when it could risk loosing their children.
'Thrown Against the Ropes,' is the next chapter if you review me. Sakura can't decide whether she should trust Naraku or not. She's heard enough over the years to know that she would never willingly do business with him but this time she has no choice. Well hope you enjoy and remember to review.