Question and answer:
Q:
Fujiwara Rie: So, will there be fluff? Will there?
A:
Of course... later on though, after I've gotten a few reviews and the such. I can't tell you who it'll be between because... well... I like to surprise people.
Previously:
another memory. yup... definately on a roll...
I smiled rather sadly at my mother, knowing that she had only been trying to help when she said that Shippo's body was not among the massacred. She sighed heavily and drew me into a tight hug, "you're father's coming to visit tonight, maybe he can help us to find Shippo."
I felt my throat constrict at the thought of this night's events, this would be the night of horrors. "Mother-" I choked out, burying my face in her shirt.
She suddenly began to breath shallowly, "Your- father is here, Kuro, go to your room now!"
"Mother," I whispered so softly that she couldn't hear me, "I will prevent this from happening, somehow..."
Quickly I hid, just out of my mother's sight, and watched as my father made his way towards her. He raised a clawed hand, and just as he brought it down, in an attempt to kill her, I leapt between the two. I screamed in pain as his claws raked across my back, leaving deep, gouges where his claws had struck. "Kuro!" My mother wailed as I collapsed, "Kuro, I told you to go to your room, why did you do that!"
"Mother-" I gasped, "This event has played itself over and over in my mind since I was three, I can't stand the thought of the deaths of either of you... you'll end up leaving Aki-Akimoto and me alone. We won't have anyone!"
I watched as father lifted mother away from me and tore at the flesh of her wrist with his teeth before throwing her to the ground, where her body began to jerk. Her eyes dulled, "no, mother!" I screamed helplessly from the ground as I saw her last breath escape her.
Quite suddenly the older woman sat up and stared at her hands uselessy, "Nooo..." She moaned, pulling herself to her feet, her empty gaze fell on me, "Kuro, kill Kagome."
My shoulders shook as I crawled to my feet, "Mother-"
She shook her head, "It only way to deplete Naraku's forces, do now."
I raised my hand above my head, "I-I'll bring you back mother, save both you and father from this fate."
Squeezing my eyes shut, I brought the hand back down and felt it break mother's skull. The woman collapsed, a relieved smile on her face as I sank to my knees.
A shadow loomed over me, and I saw father's look of horror at mother's body, "Kagome!" He shouted, running to her side, "Kagome, no!"
"F-father?" I whispered, placing my hand on his shoulder.
"Get the tetsusaiga, Kuro." He said, keeping his gaze on mother.
I ran for the sword, and brought it back to father. The world began to reel around me and I collapsed. Sometime later, unsure as to how much time had passed I sat up. "Father?" I called, my mouth feeling as though it were filled with sand.
"Kuro!" Akimoto exclaimed kneeling over me, "I thought that I had lost you too!"
I felt his shoulders shaking as he grasped me in his arms, "Where's father?"
"Kuro... father is d-dead, and so is mother." Akimoto's voice sounded forced.
"Dead?" I sqeaked, "No!"
Now:
Yuki sat up, beaded in sweat as the dream ended, returning him to the reality of Kagome's living room. He stood up and stared unconsciously at the frail looking girl that slept on the couch, "K-kagome." He whispered sadly, remembering the last instant of his dream, both she and Inuyasha had died.
"Damn it Naraku! Why the hell do you have to ruin everyone's lives!" He growled under his breath.
He saw Kagome stir and his mouth slammed shut, he would not wake her up no matter what, she was deprived of enough sleep without having to listen to his worries of the future. Quickly Yuki ran to the front door, and out onto the lawn. He took in the fresh, dew filled air. "Kuro, what is happening? Where are you?"
With Kurokawa:
She was pulled out of her restless sleep, and into a world of pain. Kurokawa was still aware that both Yamashita and Sakamoto were looking down at her with mild concern. They were no longer in the streets, Kurokawa felt the softness of a bed, bed… she hadn't slept in a bed in ages.
"Where am I?" She whispered hoarsely, "What happened?"
"Well, there was this blue explosion and Naraku's puppet was obliterated. There was nothing left of it." Sakamoto said in awe, "You never said anything about having priestess powers."
Kurokawa's already flushed face grew redder, "my mother was a priestess."
"Really?" Yamashita appeared to be impressed, "I didn't know that a demon could have priestess powers as well as it's own demonic ones."
"Well, I guess now you do." Kurokawa sat up and was suddenly overcome with dizziness.
"You shouldn't get up!" Sakamoto said aghast, "Whatever Naraku did to you really hurt your body, you need to rest."
"I need to get back to my group before the new moon." Kurokawa said tiredly.
"Well, you ain't going anywhere!" An angry voice called from the doorway.
Kurokawa's head twisted towards the sound and she gasped as she recognized Yusuke, "I'll go whenever the hell I please!" She said defiantly.
"Please, just rest for a few days." Sakamoto pleaded, "You'll end up killing yourself if you keep this up."
Kurokawa sighed heavily, her head fell back against the pillow and she squeezed her eyes shut. She didn't have the time, did she? Yusuke's voice cut in on her thoughts, "Koenma is angry that you left his care."
"Well, fuck the damned toddler." Kurokawa said nonchalantly, "I've said it before, I take orders from no one."
Her eyes narrowed as Yusuke began to laugh heartily, "You're the only other person that I've heard call him that… and when you poked him in his office, that was hilarious!"
Kurokawa's eyes grow distant as she thinks about Shippo, was he okay with the others? Was he worried about her? "Yeah… haha… it was funny." She said nonchalantly.
She lost herself in her thoughts, and was unaware that Yusuke had spoken again as she slipped back into oblivion, away from the pains of consciousness. "Yusuke, what is it that Koenma wants with her anyway?" Sakamoto asked softly, blushing when his gaze shifted from the unconscious hanyou to herself.
"She is one of the two that journied back to our time from the future, she is determined to prevent a certain event that has plunged her world into darkness." Yusuke took a quick breath, "Koenma is unsure as to how she managed to manipulate the fabric of time, but it would be a great advantage to us if he figured it out."
Yamashita glanced at the frail looking girl that lay on the bed, "What did Naraku want with her anyway? What the hell was he doing?"
"Naraku wanted to taint her in order to obtain the Shikon no Tama." Yusuke said simply, "as you can see, she is no ordinary demon..."
"Well!" Said Sakamoto, "I'm going to watch over her and make sure that no harm comes her way!"
She said this with determination and was surprised when a reply came from the doorway, "That's good, this child needs all the help she can get." Kurama stepped forward, "but tell me, what is your reasoning for wishing to protect her?"
Sakamoto stared at the floor for a moment, "It's just that I have this feeling that I should, you know? Besides, when Yamashita and I attacked her, she didn't try to fight us, merely dodged our attacks and assured us that she wouldn't hurt us..." Sakamoto's gaze rose to Kurama's face, "if she had wanted, she could have killed us, but she didn't!"
Kurama stepped farther into the room, "That's because her goal is to save mankind, not destroy it..."
Yamashita stood up and stretched, "So, she managed to run away from Koenma's high tech hospital?" His eyes were laughing, "in the condition that she's in?"
"Yeah, it's strange..." Yusuke said, "She leapt out the window and disappeared into a purple energy portal according to the nurse that was with her at the time."
"Interesting..." Sakamoto said softly, "who was the other that traveled with her anyway?"
"His name... was Akimoto, her brother." Kurama said, "It appears that she has lost everybody that was close to her..."
"What do you mean?" Yusuke turned to him curiously.
"Hiei and I did some... digging... it turns out that she lost her mother, father, and a close friend all on the same night..."
"Aw..." Sakamoto glanced at Kurokawa, who's face appeared to be contorted with pain, as though she herself were listening to the conversation from the depths of her mind, "that's really sad... to lose everyone that you held dear..."
"Yes, which is precisely why she is willing to die to protect these people, the two that she must prevent from death are Kagome Higurashi and the hanyou Inuyasha."
Sakamoto stopped, "Kagome was a student in one of the classes that I taught this year, she was always so very ill... poor girl."
"So, who is this Inuyasha anyway?" Yamashita asked.
"He is a hanyou from the Feudal era... Kagome traverses there rather often... I don't think that she was every ill, merely in the process of repairing the Shikon no Tama that she had shattered." Kurama said.
"What!" Sakamoto said angrily, "She maintained that she had been ill when truthfully she traveled back to the feudal era! Why, the nerve!"
With Yuki
He sat out under the stars for the remainder of the night, deep in thought, knowing that he had to confront Kurokawa whenever he managed to save her from Naraku's clutches as to why she was in the past and not at home with her mother and brother. The dream knawed at his mind for some time after the sun had risen, and only when Inuyasha came out to find him, did it bury itself into the recesses of his mind. "What are you doing out here?" Inuyasha asked, "and how long have you been out here anyway?"
"I've been out here since shortly after midnight..." Yuki said nonchallantly, "I couldn't sleep."
"Idiot." Inuyasha said, "it's dangerous to sit out here alone, one of those things could attack you."
Yuki was surprised, was that concern in Inuyasha's voice? Concern for him? "I can defend myself now, Inuyasha, I've trained under the best."
"Still, you have to remain with us." And then as an afterthought, "we're leaving now, it's time to search for Kurokawa, and that damned Naraku."
"She hates when people call her that, she prefers to be called Kuro by her friends..." Yuki said softly, staring at a distant building.
"Okay... but if you want to find her, you better come along now..." Inuyasha said, grinning.
"I'm coming." Yuki said, his words laced with sorrow, "I will not abandon Kuro again."
After nearly a full day of searching, it was nearing dark, Yuki had said nothing, eaten nothing for the entire day, it seemed as though he would remain entranced until- "Kagome, stop!" This being Sango's voice.
"You there, who are you?" Kagome had lowered the window and looked into the face of a pale girl, who had, it appeared, been deep in thought.
"M-me?" The girl squeaked, "My name is Sakamoto Ayumi."
"Why are you out here all alone?" This came from Ishimaru who had pulled himself up into Kagome's lap.
"Because I was looking for- a certain group of people. We picked up a girl yesterday-"
Yuki's ears perked up, "What is this girl's name?" He leaned eagerly out of the back window.
"She told us that it was Kurokawa." Sakamoto said.
"Kurokawa! Where is she!" Yuki had dived out of the van and was now looking down upon Sakamoto.
"Just- follow me, it isn't far, right down the street in fact." Sakamoto began to walk, eventually they came upon- a hospital, "we came here to hide because this was where we could get ahold of sterile medical equipment." She answered the unspoken question, "and the fact that it was big enough to hold many many people."
Yuki could hardly contain himself as they were led into the building and through several halls. They came upon a room- Sakamoto turned and said in a furious whisper, "don't wake her up- she is-"
Yuki burst into the room and dashed to Kurokawa's side, he looked down at her pale form and cursed himself for letting her go in the first place- he should have held on. He fell to his knees and lay his head gently upon the bed, Yuki was glad that she was okay. It wasn't long before the unconscious girl began to stir, and Yuki smiled for the first time in a long time as her eyes fluttered open, "Ship-po?" The words were heavy upon her tongue, "I'm so glad to see you."
A/N: Well, sorry it's so short and most likely badly written, I just haven't had inspiration for this one lately... I will try and make the next chapter lengthy, don't forget to review!
Chapter 7: In the darkness, a new romance blooms; New moon- Kurokawa and Yuki had never really been able to be together, on the night that they had admitted their feelings for eachother, there had been an attack and Yuki had disappeared. Now that they are together again, the feelings begin to well up freshly between them. And what's this? The new moon has arrived? Will Inuyasha be able to defeat his destiny and survive? Tune in next time to find out!
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