Disguises
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AekaAnime - I like the song too. These chapters are short. The whole story has already been written to tell the truth. Only expect 9 chapters...cause that's all there is. Anyways, I like what I put at the bottom of this chapter. -smile-
Chapter 2 - Another meeting which brings up questions
Kurama woke up the next day with a clear and rested head, ready for the day. He didn't remember the strange boy from the street, or his questions about the boy from the night before. He decided to go outside today and maybe build a snowman so that their house had some decoration on it.
He looked out the window, covered in frost and playful designs as if a very small finger had been playing in the snow. He could barely see out of it and when he opened it he immediately closed it for a ice cold breeze had swept in and through his shirt to his bare skin.
Kurama sneezed after closing the window. "Well, I learned my lesson. Do not open the windows unless you are dressed for the occasion." he laughed. Then his mother called him and he went down for a warm breakfast.
"Good-Morning Shuichi." Shiori greeted. "I made oatmeal for breakfast. It's cold outside so don't go out without first putting on the clothing I've set by the door." She pointed. There was a warm looking red shirt, red sweater with a smiley design, and a red jacket with a picture of the head of a white wolf on the shoulders. Kurama sweat dropped as he looked down and saw red pants that looked like snowboarding pants and large, thick boots with thick socks next to them. He like the red and black gloves though. "Um...thanks mother..." she smiled at him and after he finished breakfast Kurama changed into the clothing his mother gave him and left.
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"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Yusuke and Kuwabara laughed when they saw him. "What's wrong Kurama? Afraid you're gonna get sick from a little cold? Come on! Look at us!" Yusuke and Kuwabara were wearing jackets that looked like sweaters without holes, and jeans with sneakers.
"You all look like idiots." Hiei said. "Kurama for wearing to much clothing, even in this weather. And you two idiots because you're not wearing enough clothing in this weather." Hiei was wearing his usual attire and a blue scarf.
"Oh yea? Look at you! You're wearing less warm clothing than us!" Yusuke yelled.
"The cold doesn't bother me..." Hiei said in a voice that suggested he was off in his own world. Yusuke and Kuwabara sweat-dropped, Kurama suspected that Hiei was now thinking about Yukina and left it at that.
They spent the day in the park, where most people were avoiding due to the temperature. Yusuke and Kuwabara were having a snowball fight, Hiei was sitting under a tree in a shallow hole in the snow that he had dug and Kurama sat on a bench that had icicles hanging from it.
"Doesn't that bother you fox?" Hiei asked, poking his head out from his hole.
"All this warm clothing keeps out the cold. I don't even feel it." Kurama answered. Indeed, he looked as if he were sitting on the beach in Hawaii. Hiei glared at him and ducked back into his hole.
Kurama smiled and turned his head. He saw a girl with short/medium brown hair wearing a warm looking brown jacket with white ruffles at the end, long warm looking pants, and small black boots. She had no gloves on and was reading a book. Kurama looked closer and saw brown eyes that looked distant and that the book was about fox mythology. 'Fox Mythology...' Kurama thought.
The girl's head popped up. She looked around, Kurama returned to looking at the sky and the girl got up and left. "Strange." Kurama said softly.
"What's strange Kurama?" Yusuke asked. Him and Kuwabara looked like snowmen, Hiei had Kuwabara by the neck and was threatening to strangle him. Seemed Kuwabara had hit him in the head with a snowball. Kurama looked at Yusuke.
"That cloud up there looks like your hand when you use your spirit gun." he said, pointing. The other three looked up and saw that there was a cloud shaped like a pointer finger with a large blast looking cloud coming from it. 'Coincidence...' thought Kurama. They bought it and Yusuke smiled wide.
"Looks like I'm popular with the clouds." he sniggered. Kurama sweat dropped.
"Yes...because that's all your head is filled with." Hiei scoffed, punching Kuwabara once more before dropping him to the ground. They began to fight.
Soon after, Yusuke and Kuwabara seemed to start coming down with colds and so they left. Kurama headed home, passed all the noisy stores and large crowds.
He was walking, thinking more about the book she was reading than the girl herself, when a boy with bright red hair barely missed hitting him. In one swift motion they neared, the boy turned slightly as if he were water, and flowed passed, glancing back at what appeared to be Kurama's strange hair. Kurama glanced back to see the boy disappear with the crowd.
Kurama thought no more of it. Nothing special had happened, all that was strange about that boy was his hair, it looked like fire. So Kurama walked home, and once inside stripped off the sweater, jacket, and shirt, to reveal a thinner shirt underneath. He took off his boots and walked around in his socks. He took off his gloves and set them on the table.
"Mother! I'm home!" He looked around "Mother?" a note was on the table. "Dear Suichi, I've gone shopping, I bet you know what for." he read. "I'll be back around 6, you can eat anything you want as long as it isn't junk food or that cold stuff you like me to get. Thanks and be good, Mom" He laid it down and picked out some leftovers from last night. "Thanks mom" he mumbled, heating it up and eating it.
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The red haired boy was walking towards the same house as the dirt blonde haired boy lived in. It was getting late so he opened the door and went in. "I'm home!" came the same voice as yesterday. As the two fox ran up, the boy's hair became long, black, and glittery. His eyes became black spheres which rarely let slip any emotion, and his nails became longer. He was now a girl.
The red fox looked at her. "Well, you asked me yesterday why I always kept myself looking like a boy before you went to bed." Jasmine nodded and asked.
'What's for dinner? I don't want spaghetti again.'
'Why not? Spaghetti's good. But how 'bout we have rice balls tonight? Fill mine with cherries, ripe and lush.' Buster thought.
'I'll have fish, any kind, I'm not picky.' Jasmine thought.
"Ok, Rice balls it is." She made 5 rice balls, one for each fox and three for herself. After dinner she went to her bag and dumped it on her bed upstairs.
"Ok...Fox Mythology...The common fox...Unnatural stories of foxes...Dessert life...Fox, a great animal... and Rare foxes. If there's anything about foxes becoming human in here, I'll get my answer. If not, then I'm probably imagining things." She picked them up, leaving one 7th book behind. 'Demons, mythology or truth. it got flipped over onto it's back when she stood up.
'Demons, are they real? Or just in stories we tell kids? This book holds many stories of demons, or what people think they are. The accounts are real and the opinions of the people in here were actually expressed. Your decision, besides whether you believe or not, is as such. Are demons the evil things we think they are, or are they just misunderstood?' it read on the back.
A wind blew open and the last page of the book was shown. A small note was there. 'Now, after reading this book, I once again ask you what you believe. Do Demons exist? Are they evil?
I myself believe they exist, though some of these stories seems preposterous. I also believe that demons are just misunderstood, not evil. I think they are trying and failing at fitting in, though some may have succeeded. But if they did, you wouldn't know, now would you?'
Gah! I know...It's short! Don't hurt me! And I wanna make this clear. All the titles of those books were of the top of my head. If those books actually exist...I don't know. And that whole "Demons:Mythology or Truth" thing...Came from me and me alone. I own it! Unless...someone else also wrote it...in an actual book...-swirly eyed-