Kurama ran into the store, carrying Ryoku.
"Kata!" Kurama yelled. "Where are you?"
"Shuichi!" yelled Kata. "Shuichi!"
"Where are you?"
"...Kata!"
SMACK
Kurama flinched as he heard this and ran further into the store. As he kicked the door open, he saw Kata and a younger-looking girl laying unconcious on the ground. Two shadowy figures looked bak at him. One of them looked like a male, the other a female. The female raised a hand, and smoke arose around her. Suddenly a cold gust of wind surrounded him, and a large ice shard caused him to jump back...
And land on his head.
When he awoke, he was tied up. He felt the blood (and some of the reiki, somehow o.O) was rushing to his head. He felt another icy gust surround him. He looked up and saw the female figure. She had very long, limey-green braided hair and a red kimono. Her face looked cold, so did everything around her. The other looked younger. He had messy black hair, a red T-shirt and a dark baseball cap. He looked cold as well. Kurama looked behind the two and saw Kata and the younger girl again.
He wanted to yell 'Kata!' but bhis voice was frozen and he felt his breathing was more shallow. He was practically gasping when he saw Ryoku was tied next to him, clawing at the rope, howling and mewing. He tried to gasp for air, but was getting less and less of it. Suddenly the male spoke up:
"Give us the cat, demon thief."
Kurama gasped more than he was breathing. Suddenly he just froze.
"We'll let you breathe in a moment. First, we'll introduce ourselves. My name is Cristal."
"My name is Rian," the boy said.
"and, you, Kurama, are going to give us that cat. Or face our wrath..."
"Wher's Kata!" Kurama yelled weakly. You have to be able to breathe to yell, you know. The female raised her hand, and Kurama felt the sweet sensation of inhaling.
"She'll get up when she's concious. We'll leave you here for awhile, but in the meantime..." Ryoku magically got untied and flew toward the girl.
"Later."
Kata and the little girl both woke up an hour later. Kurama was doing curl-ups in order to keep all the blood out of his head (and to keep his stomach in shape when the fangirls rip his shirt off ).
"Shuichi?" Kata asked quietly. "What are you doing?" Kurama stopped, looked at Kata, and changed the subject.
"Who is that little girl?" he asked, pointing to the little girl standing beside her. She had cat ears and a fox tail, blue hair, blue eyes, and was pretty thin.
"Oh, me?" the girl asked. "I'm Shikata's sister, Luna."
"..." Kurama said nothing.
He twitched again.
Kurama stared at them for a moment.
"Um, sorry for being a little too controlling but could you please help me?" asked Kurama. Kata and Luna looked up.
"Oh!" cried Luna. "So sorry, Shuichi!" She jumped up onto the wall where Kurama was. Two claws protruded from her hands as she used one finger to pick a lock on Kurama's feet, and did the same with the other lock. Before he could fall and crack his head open (wouldn't you just be traumatized?) Kata and Luna were at the bottom, prepared to catch him.
And catch him they did!
Kata caught him by his entire upper half, Luna by the legs.
"Thank you, so much," Kurama said, a little dizzy from the blood going to the rest of him.
The girls smiled. "You're welcome!"
"Come on," said Kurama, I need to get Ryo--I mean, Sammie back," said Kurama.
"Oh, you mean the cat you got today," Kata said. "Um, about that...there's a really big something about her past."
"I know," said Kurama. "He was cursed by a priestess named Yoshitikukama and he jhas some supernatural power and we have to find him" Kurama panted, considering they were running as fast as their legs could carry them.
"Ohhh," said Kata curiously. "I was just going to say that she was never housebroken, and the room they have her in won't be the main room, it's too onvious, and the room they DO have her in will smell like cat poo because I forgot to take her out!"
"..." Kurama twitched.
"Tell us, cat," Cristel said, slapping Ryoku as he was hanging upside down like Kurama, "tell us if he is the demon thief Yoko!"
"How the hell am I supposed to know?" yelled Ryoku. Cristel slapped him again.
"Tell us cat," she said. "We know you know."
It was true. Ryoku was able to look deep into a person's soul and find others within. Unfortunately for Kurama, Ryoku found out about his Yoko soul.
"We know you know how to transform one's soul into their other!" yelled Cristel. "If you don't tell us how...Rian, get your katana for a moment. I promise I won't break it like last time."
Rian nodded, and unsheathed his katana. He handed it to Cristel. She swirled her hand around it. A small blizzard formed, and SHING!
The katana was coated with ice.
She put it in front of ryoku's face.
"You'll experience a cold, bloody death," she said in a whispery voice.
Ryoku gulped nervously.
Suddenly, the door burst open. Kata and Luna walked into the room.
"You guys aren't that Yoko guy!" Ryoku shouted. He immediately clamped a hand over his mouth.
"So he is the yoko!" said Rian. The window of the room busted open and Kuramajumped in.
"Get the Yoko, Rian," said Cristel.
"You know," Rian said, a slight tone of frustration in his voice, "you can't always tell me what to do," he grabbed his katana and pointed it at her, looking straight ahead the whole time.
"Fine, let's BOTH get the Yoko."
"The...they know?"
"Hehehe," ryoku laughed nervously. Kurama shot a rare, truly enraged glare at him.
"I told you the place smelled like cat poo," Kata told Luna.
The two lunged at Kurama. He jumped off the windowsill just in time for Rian to fall out. Cristal raised her arms, and a cold tornado whipped him. She thrusted her arms forward, sending him flying back--
Right on top of Luna.
Luna and Kurama both jumped up. Luna blushed a little, while Kurama blushed the same color of his hair--bright magenta. Cristel rolled her eyes and grabbed a syringe filled with tranquilizer off the shelf and seized Kurama.
"Either of you move," she said, holding the tranquilizer up to Kurama's neck and injecting a little bit, "and I'll put so much tranquilizer inside him he'll be asleep forever."
Kurama felt the effects of the tranquilizer almost instantly. He felt dizzy and extremely tired. He felt like he was going to throw up all over Cristel. He couldn't just fall asleep now, right in front of Luna! Not here! He felt himslef drifting to a deep, painful sleep as Rian pierced him with a katana. He felt his soul slipping from his body, along with Yoko.
Not now...
Cliffie! Pleeeeeeease R and R!