Disclaimer: I do not own Kurama but I share Sakaura and Sarah with my friend. (Waaaahhhhhhhhh!!!! I want Kurama-sama!!!)
Authors's notes: Bold italic are notes and thoughts.
Kurama & Sakaura…..a love more pure than any other....
Chapter 1: Roses...
One fine day in spring, a young lady by the name of Sakaura was walking in the market of a near by village. She was always happy when she got to go to the market because it allowed her to get free from her parents who treat her like shit.
As she was walking she noticed a stall selling roses. She walked up and looked at the roses; the attendant noticed her and watched her. He decided to play a trick on her.
As Sakaura looked at a white rose it started to glow and hover up wards. To his surprise, she just watched it with fascination. "Are these roses magical?" said Sakaura.
"No I was trying to play a trick on you. I see it didn't work, you are apparently smarter than the villagers here." the attendant said.
As he finished talking, the rose floated to Sakaura and he went up to her and introduced him self to her. "My name is Kurama, and what is yours?" Kurama asked.
"I am Sakaura." She replied. "Are you new here? I don't think I ever saw you here before" said Kurama. "I come here from time to time. I've never come out here this far or this long. My mother is most likely looking for me." Sakaura said.
"Then you should go. Here take this rose. If you can come back here please do then. I would love to see your beautiful face again" Kurama said sweetly.
"Ill try to come back when I can, I really don't think mother will let me come back anytime soon but I'll try as hard as I can to come" Sakaura said blushing as she took the rose. "Thank you for the rose Kurama." Sakaura said.
Just then Sakaura's mother yelled "SAKAURA YOU LITTLE BITCH GET YOUR ASS HOME RIGHT NOW!!! YOU ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE YOU LITTLE BITCH!!"
"I'm afraid that's her, I have to go sorry for my mother's foul mouth." Sakaura said as she left. "Goodbye Sakaura." Kurama said. "Hmm.. She's kind of cute.. That mother of hers must not be much of a lady though... To shout such profanity.." Kurama said out loud, just loud enough for one certain demon that happened to be passing by to hear.
"I see you've met that strange girl from the next village over." A voice said suddenly, from behind Kurama. "Nice to see you survived your trip across sea, Hiei." Kurama said calmly, arranging the display of roses while he talked.
"So did she just pop up next to you like she did to me?" Hiei asked.
"What do you mean by that? She didn't just pop up.. She walked up here, that's all" Kurama replied kind of surprised.
"I was selling some things over in the village where she lives and she just appeared next to me, after I had my back turned for about a minute." Hiei said blankly, "Nah she just magically poofs all over the place!" Hiei added sarcastically.
"So how was your trip? Find anything? Find anyone?" Kurama said quickly changing the subject.
"No, got nothing but fish, some old trinkets and why the bloody hell would I be looking for someone?" Hiei said, his short temper was very amusing to Kurama at times and it was obviously showing a lot today. Changing the subject didn't last very long because it seemed that all Hiei wanted to talk about was Sakaura and try to see what Kurama might know.
"Kurama, tell me what you know, please or I'll go to your home, then destroy that beautiful little garden of yours that is positioned so all the people coming in on the ships can see." Hiei said with an evil grin.
"Don't try it or I won't let you inside and I'll burn all your pictures of that mystery girl you have under your bed… That's what I meant by anyone." Kurama tried hard not to laugh as he spoke.
Hiei's eyes started to glow bright red at that and his voice got the tone that alerted Kurama that he should grab one of his best customers who was looking at the roses and tell her to watch the stand for ten maybe twenty minutes.
Kurama did exactly that and tore out of the stand carefully, making sure he didn't knock anything over while he made his exit.
Hiei however knocked over a large display of some very rare blue roses while he chased Kurama down the street yelling like a madman, all the villagers cleared the way because this usually took place once a week when the short one came back from a trip.
Hiei was running as fast as his demonic powers would let him yet he still couldn't catch him.
Meanwhile at Sakaura's home,
"SAKAURA WHY THE HELL DID YOU STAY OUT THAT LATE?!?!" Her mother shouted.
"Mother I didn't mean to I lost track of time I am really sorry it won't happen again I promise!!"
"THE HELL IT WON'T!! YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO LEAVE THIS HOUSE AGAIN YOU LITTLE BITCH!!!!!" Her father screamed. After this her father beat her then she ran to her room crying.
"Oh god.. Why do I have to live with them..? Why do they have to be so cruel? I'm never going to see Kurama again.. Why me..?" Sakaura said crying.
After awhile Sakaura cried her self to sleep dreaming of Kurama.
At the lighthouse....
It was dark and very cold outside, Kurama had sealed the windows shut when he got home first and then locked the doors with every lock imaginable.. He had sent out a message saying to the customer left running the shop that he wouldn't be able to come back till the next day and for her to close up shop and pick out one free rose bush for watching his shop.
Hiei banged on the windows, tried knocking the doors in, breaking the windows… But each time he got a shock and was flung into the ocean… That's how powerful Kurama's magic was those days.
Eventually around midnight Kurama let Hiei in and told him not to worry about the pictures and then he left the den and went to his bed-room..
They lived in a little two story cottage partially hidden behind the lighthouse at the end of town next to the town's ports yet enough distance off for Kurama to have grown a garden. two bedrooms, two bathrooms, one kitchen, a living room and an attic which they didn't count as a room in the building. Behind the rest of the lighthouse was nonstop trees and garden everywhere you looked.
Hiei stormed off to his room as soon as he knew Kurama was in his, he waited for the lock to click and then went to the second story of the house and went to his room and climbed under his bed, pulling out a box of pictures which he kept in a little old rose box he had been given by Kurama as a late Christmas present.
He opened it up and music started to play the tune, The impossible dream.. Kurama somehow knew that tune reminded him of the girl in the photos.. He took one out and held it close to his heart.. His sister, Yukina was in the picture and so was one of her friends..
He couldn't remember her name but over the years he had encountered her, she hid her face and covered up so much that without seeing a mark on her hand, he would've never known it was her.. She had moved away shortly after Yukina passed away, the girl's parents had another child and it turned out that the child was allergic to something in the air in the city where the child was born. Hiei had kept his feelings secret for so long, before she moved away he persuaded her to get a tattoo placed on her hand.
She had only agreed to it only because he agreed to get one as well, little did he know that it would come in handy..
He had a rose minus its stem as a tattoo on his left hand; she had gotten a small bright blue butterfly on her right hand, the day they had gotten the tattoos her mother had given birth and was also furious that she had gotten such a thing without asking them first.
"Her name.. What was her name...?" Hiei thought, "It was something like Cara... But it wasn't Cara.. Her name..." He moved the pictures around in the box and picked up one of him, the girl and Yukina.. He let out a small sob and the picture slipped from his hands, it glided downwards and on the way down it flipped over to reveal three names on the back of the photo.
It read: Hiei, Yukina, Sarah.
"Sarah! So that's her name..." Hiei said loudly as he picked up the photo and looked at it..
After awhile he put everything back and put the box back under his bed, then climbed into bed and shut his eyes and went to sleep.
Mean-while a distance off.
Sakaura woke up and started to cry,
"Why me... Why do I have to live with these cruel people...?." Sakaura said sobbing... "Why don't I just run away like Sarah did... running away that's a good idea." Sakaura said, she had stopped crying for a moment.
When she completely stopped, she got up and went to her dresser and got out a locket that her sister had given her before she left, it had a picture of Sakaura and Sarah in it from when they were little.
She went to her window and opened it and listened for the snoring of her parents...
She knew it was late and that getting to the destination, she chose might take awhile but to her it was worth it. As she jumped out the window, she cut her cheek on a thorn bush below her window.
"Great another cut for my beaten body....I'm already in enough pain as is... "Sakaura said to herself quietly. When she completely reached the ground she started to run to a nearby village.
"Where can I go? I know! I'll just go to that lighthouse Sarah used to take me to!"Sakaura said as she ran. When she got to the lighthouse she saw a light on.
"Someone lives there?! That house has been abandoned for years." Sakaura said. She walked to the nearby beach and watched the ocean for a little wile before drifting off to sleep. Little did she know she know that she would meet someone later in the morning....
Next morning......
Hiei got up and wandered around the house for an hour unsealing the windows, making breakfast, taking the trash out front to a spot on the beach to burn it..
Before he left to burn the trash, he woke up Kurama and told him that he made oatmeal, grits and coffee and had already eaten so Kurama could have everything else.
As he walked along the beach with the trash in a sack looking for a good place to burn it, he found something like a walking stick in the water..
He put the trash down next to a giant lump in the sand and set it on fire after pouring paper all over it to make sure it would at least light up.
He poked the fire occasionally and pushed some of it over onto the lump in the sand..
Suddenly he heard a groan and a yelp of surprise and something sat up... It sat up directly in the fire..... Hiei jumped back, his face pure white.. "What the hell is it...?" he thought as he poured a little water to make the fire calm down..
It was threatening to spread to the waste among the beach and Hiei bloody well would've set the whole damn beach on fire if he had felt like it this morning.
It yelled very loudly this time, maybe it was a dying demonic fish of some sort...
Or maybe it was another demon that happened to get caught up in something and be disposed of... Kurama suddenly came running out of the house with great speed towards Hiei, perhaps Kurama had come because he heard the yell..
"Hiei put out the fucking fire! I know you heard that damn noise." Kurama shouted angrily as he ran towards Hiei.
Hiei sighed and flipped Kurama off which then earned Hiei a kick in the shin which got Kurama a punch.. While they were fighting the lump in sand quickly jumped out of the fire and into the water after tossing something to the ground quickly.. "You made me spill hot oatmeal on myself you jerk wad!" Kurama said after he stopped fighting and took several deep breaths of air..
Hiei grinned and spoke happily "Good morning to you too!"
Sakaura came out of the water and picked a small object up out of the sand and brushed it off and then put it back on her neck.. Hiei and Kurama stood there and stared at Sakaura. "What are you doing here Sakaura? Asked Kurama. "I ran away from home and came here." Sakaura said. "Why?" Hiei asked. "Because I don't want to live with my parents anymore." Sakaura replied with a scared look on her face.
Kurama kneeled down next to Sakaura "Where did you get this cut? It looks bad. Here let me take you inside and get you cleaned up." Kurama said as he picked her up and brought her into the house.
She blushed as he was carrying her and Hiei faked a cough to cover up something he said. "You say something Hiei?" Kurama asked. "No nothing at all." Hiei said trying very hard not to laugh.
Later on in the evening.....
Hiei sighed and muttered something ugly which Kurama apparently heard because he threw a seal at Hiei which sent him a shock and caused Sakaura to jump with surprise.
"You'll be sleeping in Hiei's room, Sakaura so I hope you don't mind." Kurama said while he made dinner..
"Kurama why the hell does she have to sleep in my room..? Why can't she sleep in your room?" Hiei said, another sigh coming shortly afterwards.. "Are you afraid you might do something in your sleep or something?" Hiei added.
"Do something in his sleep? Like what?" Sakaura asked even though it was pretty obvious Kurama was shooting a look telling anyone with enough common sense not to ask but she wasn't looking his way.
"So what's for dinner?" Sakaura asked, changing the subject faster than a starved dog on a ham sandwich.
"Biscuits, corn, rice, milk and beef stew" Kurama said as he turned around and smiled at Sakaura.
"Gee Kurama, you usually starve me" Hiei shot at Kurama.
"Yeah well we don't usually need big meals dufus..." Sakaura didn't seem to notice that they were fighting and the next word out of her mouth was "MILK!!!"
They both stopped and stared at her for a moment and then burst out laughing.
"What..? I like milk! Gotta problem with that??" Sakaura said suddenly.
"Nah" They both said in unison.
Kurama set the food down on the table and then got a small serving and Hiei only got small servings of Milk, rice and beef stew while Sakaura took down the rest of the stew and milk.
After dinner Sakaura went to the bathroom and washed up then went straight to Hiei's room before he could get in there in time to grab his box.
She closed the door right in his face and Hiei sighed, muttered something and went to Kurama's room for the night.
"Interesting room" Sakaura said as she walked around looking at the items like crystals and such.. Hiei's room was painted black with a white ceiling and it had several shelves of different items all shapes and sizes, his bed was by the only window in the room and had a small vase with a wilted daisy in it.. Hiei obviously didn't clean much, so Sakaura started to clean up the mess..
There was dust on almost everything so Sakaura looked in the closet for a shirt to change into for the night and a broom to clean with.
She only found a broom which she brought out and swept all over the room with and eventually swept under the bed. She found a shirt but it was wrapped around a box with roses on it.
"What is this?" Sakaura said as she opened the box. "Oh my god...Sarah. Why does he have pictures of Sarah?" Sakaura said as a knocking was heard on the door and suddenly Hiei appeared in the room.
"SAKAURA WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!" Hiei yelled. "Why do you have pictures of Sarah?" Sakaura said.
"How do you know Sarah?" Hiei said more calmly this time.
"Sarah is my older sister." Sakaura replied "WHAT?!?!?!?" Hiei shouted waking up Kurama along with almost half the village.. Kurama came running and broke the locked door down when he made his entrance..
"What the hell is going on here Hiei?" Kurama asked angrily. "I don't believe you." Hiei said totally ignoring Kurama.
"Fine then I'll prove it to you." Sakaura said while she pulled off the locket and handed it to Hiei, "Open it and have a look" Said Sakaura.
Hiei took the locket and opened it. "So you weren't lying. Sarah is really your older sister." Hiei said while looking at the pictures in the locket. "Go back to sleep you two" Kurama said half asleep. "I don't want her in my room anymore." Hiei said, his anger returning.
"Fine then she can sleep in my room. Come on Sakaura." Kurama said as he started to walk down the hall. Sakaura followed Kurama to his room. Kurama went to the closet and got out clothes for Sakaura.
"Here go change and you can sleep on the bed ill sleep on the sofa." Kurama said. "Thank you." Sakaura said as she left to change clothes.
Kurama was asleep on the couch by the time Sakaura came back. "Wow he falls asleep fast. Awww he is so cute!" Sakaura said as she climbed into bed.
She stared at the ceiling for a while before falling asleep dreaming of Sarah and how much she missed her.