RoseFire-shadow666: so glad you like it keep reading it gets better, seriously.
HL: The third chapter.
Disclaimer: same as last 2
"I can't believe you did that to your own cousin Kim, that's so mean," "oh give it a rest Gin, she deserved it, stealing my man," Kimiko said to her friend on the other line, "Kim, I love you, but aren't you trying to steal her man?" Gin asked as Kim laughed, "Well, when you put it that way, I guess you could say that. How's Rai doing?" "Rai? He's good…why do you ask?" "I don't know, I miss you guys," "and we miss you, look I got to go, I'll call you back in like ten or twenty minutes okay Kimster?" "Okay Gin, I'll talk to you later, hugs and kisses," "same to you, later." Kimiko hit the end button on her cell phone as she blew a piece of her bangs out of her face then turned the volume up on her CD player that was playing 'We belong together' by Mariah Carey. Kimiko looked at the radio, then shut it off, "That song can go to hell for all I care," she muttered laying face down in her pillow, then she turned on her back, placing her hands behind her head, "then again…that song does make some good points, I mean, why do I feel weird whenever I'm around that boy, his name was Kurama I think, or that girl, Dove. Maybe Hiroshi would know." She said to herself again as a girl with black hair, black fox ears tipped with silver, black tail with silver at the end, with bright blue eyes appeared next to her. Kimi jumped at the sudden appearance of the fox inside of her, "God Hiroshi, do you have to do that?" The fox girl smirked, "Yes, I enjoy seeing you jump when I do," "well...don't do it. Who were those two people that we met earlier?" "Who? Kurama and…Dovelin?" "Yeah," "ha, Dove's my cousin, Kurama, or Yoko as I knew him, was a great thief in the demon realm, his partner Kuroune, was killed years ago, I of course, was the one who wanted Dove dead, because she was getting way to close to Yoko. I sent Kuroune to kill her, but did he? No, the fear in her eyes probably killed him, so I took over you to do the job myself."
Kimiko stared with her mouth open, "That's terrible Hiroshi," "I know, but, Dove stole him from me, so are you going to help me or not?" Hiroshi looked at the girl, who closed her mouth and thought a moment then sighed, "I'll help, I guess, your so vengeful Hiroshi," "yes, I know, but I could tell you liked Kurama, he is a looker isn't he?" Kimiko laughed as Hiroshi smiled at the young girl. A knock came to the door and Hiroshi disappeared again, "Kimi! Time to eat!" Mrs. Hiroshi called to her daughter, "Kay mom!" She said jumping off her bed and started getting ready for dinner.
Akara and Kurama had finished setting the table for dinner, then came the real challenge, getting the other two to wake up. Akara got her Hiei proof net out along with anything else she could use to get her already out of control boyfriend to calm down. Kurama shook his head as Akara went upstairs, tiptoed into the bedroom, and saw the sleeping form of Hiei. Akara carefully nudged him with the end of the net as he groaned flipping over she did it again, he opened an eye, closed it, sat up, then stretched, "What?" "Dinner's ready." She said as Hiei swung his legs over the side of the bed, pulled on his pants and shirt, walked past Akara, opened the door, then slammed it shut behind him. Akara flinched then sighed going downstairs to join him as Kurama went upstairs to wake Dove up.
Dove was fast asleep, but was tossing and turning due to a bad dream she was having.
She was alone in a room, the doors were closed and locked, fire was around her. She tried to scream, but smoke was heavy and thick so all that came out was a cough. Before her the girl saw three figures, one was smiling, the other two seemed far away from her, but she could make them out as Yoko and Kuroune. The third was no doubt her cousin, Hiroshi, "Help me!" she yelled as loud as she could, but coughed instead, gasping for air as the smoke and fire engulfed her completely, her eyes filled with tears watching the one person she thought cared for her, watched her suffer in the flames. The girl shut her eyes still gasping for air like a trapped fish stranded on land, "Kurama…" she said helplessly opening her eyes again seeing yellow eyes look at her back, "you promised me that nothing else would happen to me…you lied, once again," she closed her eyes as tears ran freely down her face she breathed heavily before throwing her head back and screaming, "KURAMA!"
As Dove's eyes flung open the door flung open hitting the wall, her head whipped round looking at a figure standing in the doorway, "Dove, are you alright? You were screaming," Kurama stepped into the room as Dove swallowed hard he walked over and saw her sweating, "Dove?" he sat behind her, pulled her up to him, and held her close, "I…I just had a bad dream," she said as she tucked her head under his chin and leant into the hold. Kurama noticed hat Dove was shivering, but she felt hot to the touch, plus her clothes were soaked with sweat, this could cause some concern for the health of his girlfriend, "Dove, your burning up," he said as Dove cuddled closer to him, "I'll be fine, I smell food, come on let's go eat." She said moving his arms from her waist, but he apparently had other plans because he yanked her back down on the bed and flipped her onto her back so he was above her. Dove looked into the green eyes above her, "Kurama, what are you…" she never got the whole question out before Kurama's lips came down on hers. Dove wrapped her arms around his neck as his hand crept under her shirt the door opened, Dove let go, as Kurama scrambled off the bed revealing a very pissed off looking Hiei, "Are you two going to come down and join us for dinner? Or are you two going to have your make out session?" he asked crossing his arms.
Dove and Kurama looked at each other, sighed, then walked out of the room Hiei following them. Akara was sitting in her seat and glared at the two foxes, "Its bout time, Hiei started eating the table," she said pointing to a missing half of the table, "then stopped after I hit him on the head a couple of times." Hiei scowled at her as she stuck her tongue out at him. The four sat down and started to eat as lighting flashed in front of the house making a cat make an angry noise knocking over something. Kurama looked out the window, looked at Hiei and they smirked, Akara and Dove eyed them, "Perfect night for a scary movie don't you think Kurama?" "Oh yes." The two girls eyes widened, stood knocking over their chairs, and ran into the kitchen with their plates.
It was customary for the boys to watch a scary movie on stormy nights then they'd have an excuse to get the girls into their beds. The two girls started cleaning dishes when the power went out, the two jumped in the air and clung to the counter. Dove's eyes searching the darkness, when she heard a noise she looked towards the doorway towards the living room hoping to see Hiei's red eyes looking back, but no such luck. Akara inched closer to Dove, but as she did, the two were picked up, and both screamed. Akara recognized the hold as Hiei's so she calmed down and wrapped her arms around his neck, Dove was the next to calm down, "I don't trust this storm," "your not the only one," Hiei said as the two walked out the house with the girls.
Kimiko looked out the window seeing Kurama, Dove, Akara, and Hiei in the storm walking out of the house, Kimiko, now's the time to move. Hiroshi said to her host body as Kimiko nodded, she grabbed her throwing stars, and took off into the storm.
The four of them went into the forest, and split up so that they had their own place in the forest to themselves. Dove lagged behind Kurama, something about the forest made her think about Yoko for some reason, maybe it was because it was where he had saved her many times or it was when the two of them realized that they had loved each other before Kuroune's death. After the death the two were constantly bickering and fighting so Dove had finally left, and met up with Akara. As the pair continued walking, Dove got a sickening feeling in her stomach, so sickening that her heart started pounding in her ears, and breathing became slightly harder. Kurama stopped looking over his shoulder seeing Dove starting to sweat again, plus her breathing was harder than it should have been, "Dove?" He looked at her as she held her arm out and leant against a tree, holding her sides, now wheezing, he went over to her, put her arm around his neck, and held her stomach, "Dove, can you make it a few more steps?" He asked as she nodded slightly the two started walking again.
Akara was in the makeshift "house" for the night waiting for Hiei as a black cape appeared at the door she looked up slightly, but didn't say anything to him. Hiei gave little notice to her, but was still bothered by her silence, in fact, it was killing him, "Alright, what's wrong Akara? And don't you dare say nothing's wrong," Akara said nothing, "Akara, tell me, I'm going to go insane if you don't," "Hiei, I don't have a good feeling about tonight…I mean, Dove seemed really sick, how she got sick I don't know, but, I just don't have a good feeling." Hiei leaned against the tree, "the last time she got sick was the Tournament wasn't it?" "Yeah…when…oh my god," "Yoko appeared," "could this mean that," "he's appearing again? Probably." Akara looked at the ground. Hiei hated it when Dove got sick and Akara was always placed for the blame from about everyone except him, Kurama, and Karin. Kelly, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Koenma, and Botan had blamed Akara for Dove suddenly getting ill in the middle of the tournament. Hiei closed his eyes only to open them again hearing something, he went to the doorway and looked out, Akara looked at him, "Hiei, what is it?" "We're not alone, there's something else in this forest, something that feels familiar, but I don't know what it is." He said as Akara stood going over to him looking out the door. Call it girl intuition, but she had a feeling something extremely bad was about to happen.
Dove was leaning up against a tree, still breathing heavily as Kurama kept an eye on her, she occasionally groaned in pain, from what, he didn't know. Dove seemed calm, but then her eyes flew open sensing something near her she looked up in the tree then screamed as Kurama turnt a blur knocked him backwards.
Akara grabbed her katana, "Hiei, did you hear that?" she asked as Hiei grabbed his katana, "Yeah, I did, it sounded it came from the direction Kurama and Dove went," "we should go check on them," "I will. You, stay here." He said taking off, Akara glared at his back then crossed her arms and sat down again. She hated it when she was left out of things and she hated it when her own boyfriend told her to stay put, to behave herself, to keep herself out of trouble, 'blah blah blah…I'm not four-years-old.' She thought to herself sighing as a blur whizzed past her she stood and drew her katana out of it's sheath, "Show yourself," she said her hands shaking slightly as she looked around her breathing became slightly harder as it felt like something was tightening itself around her she looked down to see vines wrapping around her and she went wide-eyed. Akara struggled to get loose as a chuckle came she looked around for the source, "Akara, you fool, the more the struggle the quicker the snare will kill you, we wouldn't want Hiei's girl to have an unfortunate 'accident' would we?" Akara saw two yellow eyes looking at her and she growled, "I should of known it was you Hiroshi! Where's Dove? What have you done to her?" Akara asked glaring at the kitsune before her.
Hiroshi smirked then chuckled again, "Dove? I know no one of that name." She gave a cold laugh as Akara went wide-eyed then she shook with fury, "You killed her didn't you?" "You could say that," "you bitch Hiroshi!" Hiroshi laughed again then gave Akara an amused look, "Thank you for making that known to me Akara," she said as she clenched her fist tight the snare tightened around her chest as she screamed Hiroshi laughed.
Hiei stopped hearing a scream, considered turning back to Akara, but took off again towards Kurama and Dove, "Kurama!" he called seeing the red haired boy and he turned his head towards Hiei, "Hiei! Where's Akara?" Kurama asked not seeing her with him, which was unusual, "I left her back at the shelter why?" Kurama's eyes widened as he stared at him they heard a scream come from the direction Hiei had come from, "Akara!" both said at the same time then took off. When they got to the makeshift shelter they found Akara lying face down in the wet grass and the two boys flipped her over to see her face scratched and bleeding, Kurama stared as Hiei showed no emotion, but Kurama could tell he was going to get back at whoever did this to her, "We should take her to Genkai's temple," Kurama said as Hiei nodded, "what about Dove?" "We'll look for her later, right now it's not good if Akara's cuts get infected." Hiei picked her up gently noticing she opened her eyes, "Hiei…" "We're taking you to Genkai's temple, Kurama, get the others, I'll meet you there." Kurama nodded then took off towards Yusuke's house as Hiei took off towards the temple.
When Hiei and Akara had arrived he set her down in a bed as Genkai healed her, she closed her eyes falling into a slumber as the others arrived, Hiei and Genkai left her to rest, "So, whoever attacked Akara can use plants like Kurama, this isn't good." Yusuke said afterwards. Kelly and Karin were looking in a book and kept flipping the pages to find the source of these attacks, "The only other person who can use plants like Kurama though is Dove, right?" Kuwabara asked as Kelly muttered, "I don't know, guys, we may not even be dealing with a kitsune after all, Hiroshi is probably using something that can use the power to manipulate plants, and how many people do we know that can do that?" Karin asked looking up from the book for a moment, "She's got a point. Akara's sisters can only manipulate water, snow, ice, sun, anything elemental, not plants," Yusuke said.
The group fell silent as the door slid open they looked up to see a dark haired figure there, "You don't know that anymore Yusuke, we have the power to manipulate anything we want," lighting flashed revealing five girls behind the one that had just talked, "Asuka," Kurama said, Asuka was the oldest sister out of the six demon girls, and probably the better looking other then Akara. Asuka walked in telling the others to stand outside and wait for her and closed the sliding door, Yusuke and Kuwabara eyed Asuka as Kelly and Karin glared at them, "Long time, no see Kurama, Hiei," Asuka said sitting down, "What seems to be the problem with my sister?" "She was attacked by something that could manipulate plants, but the only one we know is Kurama, well, Dove can too but she doesn't so we're kind of stumped here, do you know anyone who could manipulate plants?" Kelly asked as Asuka closed her eyes, apparently thinking. They didn't have to wait long because she grabbed the book out of Karin's hands and flipped through the pages before stopping on a picture of a blonde girl, and a dark haired girl, "That looks like Kimiko," Karin said pointing to the picture of the black haired girl and Kelly nodded looking at the girl with blonde hair and fox ears, "HIROSHI!" she exclaimed as the boys scrambled over the other to see the picture.
It was true, Kimiko and Hiroshi, the two were standing back to back, "Well, that's unusual, a fox using a human's body," "Not really, because it says here, 'The dark haired girl was born half fox, half human, Hiroshi occupies the body of her, and when Hiroshi was still alive this girl occupied Hiroshi's body.' So this could cause a BIG problem." Yusuke said as the sliding door flew open the group turned around then heard a scream coming from Akara's room, "Akara!" Hiei said standing and running out the door, "Hiei!" Karin said running after her brother, "Karin! Wait!" Kuwabara said running out after her. Kurama, Genkai, Asuka, Kelly, and Yusuke ran out after them and skidded around the corner to see Akara tangled up again.
"Akara!" Karin yelled seeing the girl limp in the vines, "Fire wheel!" Kelly and Asuka said burning the vines, making them retreat, then ran to Akara as she fell to the ground, "Akara!" Kelly said running over to the girl who was limp and knelt beside her and flipped her over putting her ear to her chest, no heartbeat. Kelly swallowed air then checked her wrist, no pulse, "Is she okay?" Karin asked as Kuwabara put his arm around her, "Akara, she's dead," Kelly said. Asuka fell to her knees and buried her face in her hands as Karin buried her face in Kuwabara's side, Kuwabara tightened his hold around her as Yusuke looked positively pissed. Kurama sighed and looked at Hiei, who had started to walk away from the scene, "Hiei!" Yusuke called as the fire demon kept walking.
Kurama watched as Hiei walked away then jumped up into the trees and kept going, "He's taken it harder then any of us," he said as Yusuke scoffed, "Well obviously, Akara was his girlfriend, now the only one we need to worry about is Dove." He said as Asuka nodded, "I'll have Taro join you," "Okay. Wait…who?" Yusuke asked raising an eyebrow as a demon with pitch black hair and red eyes loomed over Asuka. Kuwabara cringed and inched closer to Karin as she rolled her eyes at him, "Taro…right, he'll be joining us." Yusuke said as Kelly ran behind him and hid peeking from behind him.
HL: Okay sorry I've been MIA for awhile but I've been busy with my summer and stuff.
TBC…