Bleah...I forgot to give my props for last chapter, so here they are now: A THANK YOU TO NISSI FOR THE WHOLE CHEEK THING. AND PROPS TO NISSI AGAIN FOR WRITING OUT ALL HER MOMENTS FOR ME, CUZ I KEPT FORGETTING. MAJORITY OF THIS CHAPTER WAS WRITTEN BY HER, SAVE THIS BEGINNING.

Chapter Nine

It is Tuesday afternoon and Nissi is walking down the lonely road to the library. The other Destinies stayed behind at the school to show Malia around but as Nissi has a very important paper to write…she sadly chose to stay behind and trudge to the library.

"Who wants to learn about syphilis anyway?" she asks a nearby tree. "Not me."

She enters the gloomy library, preparing to take a seat at one of the provided computers and start working. Alas, as she turns the corner to the computer section, every chair is taken, much to her dismay. Deciding to work on other homework for the time being, she plops herself onto a nearby seat and pulls out her history book.

It had not been a good day by anybody's standards. Her homework had been accidentally taken by one of her friends, thus she had spend her recess inside redoing it. And in detention a boy named R.T. kept hitting on her. And furthermore she learned that Hiei had come to visit them at recess and so she had missed out on tormenting the little fire demon.

"It can't get any worse than this at least," she murmurs.

Wrong. As someone finally gets up from the computer, they are instantly replaced with someone else who just came into the area.

"But I was here first!" she moans to herself. "Crap…"

She digs further into the back of her seat, preparing for a long wait.

It's been a long day. Nissi loves school and all, but what with recent events, it's been a bit hard to keep up. She enters the door and is greeted by Kurama. She says nothing and walks at him and plunks her head down on his chest. Kurama is a bit surprised and Nissi wraps her arms around his waist wanting comfort.

He understands and places a hand on her head, the other around her waist, "Tough day, huh?"

Nissi, being Nissi, again says nothing but begins to rub her forehead against him. For some reason, rubbing her forehead against something has always proven in the past to make her feel better, and today was of no exception. Kurama sighs and moves his arm to the back of her knees, lifting her up to carry her to her room. Nissi buries her head onto Kurama's shoulder and smiles. He smells like roses. They reach her room and they enter He proceeds to her bed, puts her down softly, and pulls the covers over her.

Leaning down, he kisses her on the head, "Goodnight Nissi."

"'Night Kurama."

A few minutes later, Nissi fumbles around in her sheets, trying to get comfortable. In irritation she flips onto her back, rears her legs up, and kicks the sheets off the bed. She rolls over and falls out of bed, as she has done several times before, moves tot eht other side of the room, throws the door open quietly. Crossing the hall, Nissi stops at a door. She slowly creaks it open and pokes her head in, "Um…Kurama?"

He opens his eyes at her voice and sits up, "Nissi? Is something wrong?"

She looks at the floor, "Can I…sleep here tonight?" She hastens before she can be misunderstood, "I mean, not do anything of course!"

He looks at her blushing face for a moment before smiling and nodding his head in approval. Nissi runs in and jumps under the covers, snuggling up to her boyfriend. The smell of roses once again comes to welcome her and she instantly feels better.

"Kurama?"

"Yes?"

"Thanks."

She rubs her forehead against his chest again and sighs.

"Ah!" Nissi winces and draws back.

"What?"

"Your feet are cold."

"Oh crap!" Nissi abruptly freaks as soon as she wakes up, the lack of Kurama beside her, "I've got school today and I didn't hear my alarm go off!"

The fact that she's in Kurama's room and her alarm clock is back in her own room, the situation is highly understandable. She quickly fumbles out of bed and rushes tiredly into the main room.

"Where is everybody?" she asks, only seeing Yusuke.

"It's twelve. They're all at school."

"What! Oh crap, I'm late!"

"Hold on Nissi," Yusuke grabs her by the back of her shirt, causing her to loose her footing and stumble. "You're not going anywhere. You're sick and you have to stay on the couch. Kurama's orders."

"But I've got school today."

"Stay there and sit. Kurama said to look after you, so I'm going to get you a blanket and a pillow. Nissi falls back on the couch and grumbles.

About two hours later, Nissi is once again fumbling around the house in search of food. In her current, tired state, it is kind of hard to find the kitchen. She enters a room with a wooden floor, enjoying the cold that seeps up from the floorboards to her feet. She collapses onto the floor, loving the cold feeling. It is here that Yusuke finds her.

"There you are! Kurama would've killed me if I lost you…what're you doing?"

"Shh! Coooold."

"Um…right. Well, I guess as long as you're okay."

Nissi hears footsteps that indicate his leaving and focuses on the coldness beneath her. For some reason, everything else feels so warm…she closes her eyes for a moment, snapping them back open as she sees horrible images printed on her eyelids.

"Why is everything so dark in here?" she mumbles, trying to pull herself up and find Yusuke.

No such luck. Weakly, she falls back to the ground and quits trying to get up after several attempts. Kurama…she slips into unconsciousness. Yusuke, worried about what she could be doing, returns to check on her, gasping when he finds her passed out.

"Oh crap…"

End chapter…nine. Yes. You'll love chapter ten, Kokoro. Nissi gave a wonderful HieiXMe moment. Heh. But you might hate the ending…review!