Chapter 4

Tamahome wakes up and decides to go to Christie's room to check on her and to see if she slept alright. She was gone when he got there.

"Damn where could she be, I wonder.?" he said to himself going to look for Kat to ask her where Christie was.

"Hey Kat do you know where Christie is this morning?" Tamahome asked her hoping to get a clue.

"She is probably practicing by the pond." Kat had replied half awake.

Tamahome left for the pond. "I wonder why she is up so early in the morning? Christie... Where are you?" he yelled as he was out of breath.

Christie was at the edge of the pond practicing her martial arts. Tamahome had got behind her once again and tapped her on the shoulder, but this time he did not get hit instead Christie turned around and greeted him.

"Good mornin' Tamahome, I hope you slept well" Christie asked him with concern.

"Good morning Christie, I slept alright and yourself?" he replied her.

Christie looked down and said "I didn't sleep at all after you left."

"Why is that?" he said looking puzzled.

"I keep havin' this same dream over and over again!" she explained.

"What is it about?" he asked, but Christie had turned a way and walked off.

"I am sorry Tamahome, but I am not ready to tell anyone about my dream." Christie said to

herself. "I am sorry Tamahome please forgive me." she said as she ran off.

Tamahome just decided to ask Kat about this dream. "I wonder if Kat knows anything about the dream it might be very important!" he said as he ran back to the palace to find Kat. He went to the emperor.

"Hotohori have you seen Kat?" Tamahome had asked.

"No Tamahome. I have not, why?" Hotohori asked him.

"Sorry no time to explain" he said running off and into Chichiri.

"Chichiri have you seen Kat?" he asked the monk.

"No sorry, no'da"

"Chiriko have you seen Kat?"

"No sorry Tamahome." the young man said going back to his reading.

Nuriko and Mitsukake were having an arm wrestling match and Tamahome walked up to them.

"Have you guys seen Kat."

"No sorry Tamahome she might be with Tasuki again." said Nuriko. Tamahome ran off in search of Tasuki and/or Kat. Meanwhile Tasuki and Kat were at it again.

"Alright Fangboy! Do you wanna to start hallucinating again?" Kat said with a grin.

"Come on Kitty, here kitty kitty kitty" he said with a grin telling her to come forward with his finger.

"Grrrr...Your gonna pay for that Fangboy!" she said with hate in her eyes staring him down.

Kat getting more madder than ever was about to kill him until Tamahome butted in and asked her about Christie.

"Kat! Wait I have to ask you a question about Christie." he said almost out of breath.

Just as Kat was about to hit Tasuki for the ...(oh I forgot how many) times she stopped and asked him what did he wanna know about her.

"Huh.. what do ya wanna know, I'm kinda busy here." she said looking at Tasuki with an evil grin.

"Well she started to say something about a dream and ran off, do you know what is wrong?" he said to Kat who was only paying a little attention to what he was saying to her.

"Well did she say anything about her scar." asked Kat staring at Tasuki.

"I asked her about it, but she would not tell me. What did happen to her?" Tamahome said.

"Well ... it happened just before we had met again after three years of no contact...

FLASH BACK

Christie had just got off an airline in New Bern, NC. She had decided to rent a hotel room for the night and then go to visit her dad and her best friend in Morehead City. She went to the nearest one she could find, because she was so tired and wanted to lay down to sleep. Christie had been in Japan for the past three years learning all she could about the architecture and any other art projects she could. Christie had called a cab to take her, because the streets were worse now, than they were when she left. "Hey! This isn't the way to the hotel. Where are we goin', Let me out of here!" Christie yelled as the driver only laughed at her. She was sitting up front so that when he had stopped the car to try and grab her, she flew open the door to run and felt a cold blade go into her shoulder. She had fell to the ground passed out. Christie awoke in the hospital. "How did I get here? Where is Katrina, I want her here, please get her, Ahhhhhgrr it hurts please find her, please." Christie had said with tears in her eyes, little did Christie know that Kat was already there for her own trouble. Later that night Christie had a visitor.

"Christie is it really you!" a voice in the shadows had said.

Christie had opened her eyes, she knew that voice "Katrina is it really you!" she sad with tears. The two life long friends embraced, but not too tight. "I missed you so much Kat Iwanted to come back sooner, but I had work to do to get the money to come back home. I was goin' to go find you tomorrow. But how did you know I was here, they said they couldn't find you?" Christie said bursting into tears again.

Kat drowning in her own tears "I heard your plane was comin' tonight, but I was late to theairport, so I call the hotels to find the one that you would had booked and they said that youdidn't show up for the room and it had been two hours after you had ordered it"

"Still how did you know I was here?" asked Christie.

"Well I went looking for you around town and saw a cab and a man with a knife just gettin' ready to cut the other person who had the door open. I ran over there to see if I could help the person. I went up to the women she had a long slash on her shoulder and I noticed she looked familiar. When I realized it was you it made me mad. Just then I had got cut across the chest and then I took you up in my arms to carry you and began to run he sliced my back. I set you down and went up to the guy and used my power on him...and..."

"And What?" yelled Christie wanting to know what happened to the driver.

"He started to go crazy and died in an hour." Kat replied

Kat started crying "That's when I found this mark on me and it started to glow black with awhite outline."

"I wonder how that happened?" Christie said to her best friend.

PRESENT

"Well after that we decided not to leave each other again." Kat had finished.

Tamahome and Tasuki both were stunned and crying at the story.

"So that's why she runs from people asking about her past." said Tamahome.

"Ya'll can not tell her I told you, please!" pleaded Kat.

"Mitsukake can fix both of ya'." Tasuki said with a smirk.

"She knows that, but still she wants the scar to remind her of her carelessness." said Kat. "And I just think they're cool."

"Well, I am going to find her, ok" Tamahome said.

"Tamahome don't say anything about what I told you, please!"

"I will not, don't worry, I am going to ask a favor of her."

Tamahome run to find Christie. Tasuki is just staring at Kat wondering how she survived the attack.

"How did you live." he asked.

"I am death I can't die" she replied, with a grin.

"Stop with the death shit! I wanna know so I know what I am getting myself into." he snapped at her.Kat was shocked he looked concern over her and it soften her up.

"I asked Christie to heal me"

"How! she was unconscious, wasn't she?" he asked.

"Yeah, but her heart wasn't, it gave me the power I needed to live." Kat said looking down. "After she recovered I told her about her power." Just then she felt warm arms around her and she just felt safer than ever before. Before she knew it they were kissing. She had no clue Tasuki felt this way about her after all, all she did was beat him up and try to kill him, now this how was she gonna tell Christie. Meanwhile Tamahome heard screaming from Christie's room.

He ran to her to see she was having a nightmare.

"NO GET AWAY FROM ME ! SOMEONE HELP ME!" she was screaming. Tamahome runs to her side and holds her and she woke up. " Tamahome make him stop! Make him leave me alone! I am so sorry about earlier today, please make him go away!" Christie cried into his arms.

"Shhh.. I'm here, he will not hurt you." he said to her gently as he held her tight.

"Tamahome, why are you being so nice to me? huh?" sniff asked Christie in a low voice.

"Well sense my family died and the priestess left I have been alone and you showed up and I

decided that you looked very interesting, so I wanted to get to know you and fell in love with you!" he said as he pulled her tighter, then he laid her back down and told her to try to sleep again. "I will be right here for the night I will watch you, if that is ok with you that is." he said to her as he pulled the blanket over her body.

"Thanx Tamahome, for caring about me, but I know you love Miaka do you really wanna know how I got this scar?" Christie asked him while he looked at her deeply.

"Only if you want me to." he said and Christie told him the story. "So that is why you are so jumpy when people are around you." he said depressed like.

"What is wrong Tamahome?" Christie asked, but then he reach his arms around her and kissed her with so much emotion and power it blew her away. This is wrong he loves Miaka, not me

"Christie? Can you do me a favor please?" he asked as he brushed her hair out of her face.

"Do you want me to bring your family back?" Christie said looking in his eyes knowing that was what he going to ask of her.

"Please? They hardly had a life, please?" he said with tears in his eyes.

"Alright I'll do it, now you need to go your room I'll be alright, if I need something I'll go to you ok." Christie said calmly. Tamahome left. Meanwhile Kat and Tasuki were getting pretty tore up on Sake.

"Hey Man I'm sorry about earlier, but you deserved it." Kat said with a giggle and a blush.

"It's alright my mouth gets me into trouble, don't tell anyone I admitted that alright." he said to her and passed out in her room.

She was too drunk to drag him out so she put him on the little couch in her sitting area and went to bed. The next morning Kat woke up with Tasuki in her bed.

"What the hell are you doin' in my bed!" she yelled.

"Oh sorry I was cold and wanted to be by you." he said looking in to her eyes and kisses her on the forehead.

"Well I would like it if you would ask next time." she said to him, feeling embarrassed.

Just then Christie flew into the room.

"Kat guess what!" Christie said and just noticing Tasuki in her bed. "Hey what the hell is this, huh. ya'll finally quit arguing. Well anyway we have to go to the lady Tai Itsukun to find out how to get back home."

"When do we leave? Next week?" asked Kat.

"No not exactly" Christie looking down.

"Don't tell me we are leaving tomorrow" Kat said.

"Well uh um ah yeah." Christie replied.

"Hey what is this pay back? at least I gave you a weeks notice." Kat yelled at Christie.

"Well it's not my fault...completely, blame Hotohori he wanted us to go." Christie said leaving her and Tasuki sitting in the bed.

"So was it good for you, Neko-chan" he said with a big grin on his face.

"You bastard, get out!" Kat said as she push him out of her bed..

Meanwhile the others were preparing for the trip that would be tomorrow. Tasuki ran to his room knowing that Kat was mad at his remark. Christie and Tamahome were getting there things together. Kat went back to bed and when Christie went to help her pack she was asleep.

"Kat wake up we need to get ready for tomorrow." Christie had said after shaking her for about ten minutes.

"What hell do you want? huh" Kat replied rolling over.

Just as Kat had rolled over Christie dragged her out of her bed and into the hall. Christie had grabbed anything that was useful for the trip. Kat falls asleep in the hall, just as she did

Tasuki walks up and wakes her up.

"Hey why are you in the hall?" Tasuki had asked.

"Will you leave me the hell alone I'm tryin' to sleep. Chris drug me out here if you really wanted to know, now go away Fangboy!" Kat replied. Kat had got up and looked into the room.

"Hey Chris What are you doin'." she asked.

Christie turned and look and said "I'm gettin' everything ready for tomorrow."

"Hey can I go back to sleep now?" Kat had asked as she fell on to her bed again.

"If ya want I was goin to look at the shops before we leave, I wanted to know if you wanted to come with me." Christie said as she packed more of Kat's stuff.

"Hell why didn't ya say so!" Kat said as she jumped out of her bed and on her feet, "But how will we pay for anything?"

"Oh yeah Hotohori has lent us some of their money." explained Christie as they were leaving.

"And you were gonna tell me this when?" asked Kat kind of mad for not knowing until she was leaving.

"Oh well you looked like you wanted to sleep." replied Christie as they walked down the hall.

"Yeah but still you could have told me earlier! Even if I didn't comprehend it." replied Kat with a yawn. Kat and Christie were at the market looking at all the neat things.

"Hey Kat look at this stuff."

"Dude this is totally awesome!" Kat replied. "Hey where are the little puppies!"

"Oh you mean Tasuki and Tamahome? They're walkin' around here somewhere, Why?" asked Christie.

"Little puppies shouldn't walk alone they might get lost. Not like it really mattered they're ugly ones anyway." said Kat not noticing who was behind her.

"Who are callin' a pair of ugly dogs! Huh?" Tasuki implied.

"You! who else would I be talkin' about." Kat said in return with an evil glare.

"Alright you asked for it this time Neko-chan" Challenged Tasuki with a growl.

Just then Christie butted in and stopped Kat.

"Kat stop it you're pissing me off.!" yelled Christie at the top of her lungs. "And you stop it too Tasuki!"

"Oh shit! Ok I'll stop! I give! I give!" Kat said as she looked at Christie who was showing her other power. (she has super fighting power stronger than Tamahome after he got the boost)

"What the Hell! What's goin' on with her!" Tasuki said with a quivering voice.

Tamahome is just standing there staring.

"Don't make eye contact, move slowly away, and no sudden movements and she might not attack" replied Kat to Tasuki's remark.

"Ok now I'm officially scared" Tamahome said to Kat.

"Now I don't want to hear ya'll fighting anymore, do I make myself clear, you two act like children, now grow up ya'll are in your twenties. Now apologize to each other." Christie said as she was looking at Kat and Tasuki.

"I'm sorry Tasuki" Muttered Kat in a low voice.

"Huh what was that I didn't here you!" Tasuki shouted.

"I said I was sorry" yelled Kat.

"Now you Tasuki, and if you don't I will let her make you hallucinate again." Christie announced. Kat smiled him.

"Ok! ok! I'm sorry." Tasuki said in a normal voice.

"You didn't sound like you meant it." Kat replied

"Ok I am very sorry to the all mighty Kat goddess." he said with sarcasm.

"Now Kat come on we need to finish shopping" Christie said to her friend who was grinning "I'm sorry Kat, it's just you and Tasuki fighting all the time is gettin' old and it was pissingme off."

"Sorry" Kat said with still grinning. "I got him to call me the all mighty Kat goddess."

"Hey look at them over there!" Christie shouted as she pointed at Tasuki and the guy.

"What the hell are they doin'." Kat said.

Tasuki and his friend were dancing.

"It's Kouji, it must be remember the movies!" Christie stated. "Tasuki and Kouji danced like that when ever they saw each other."

"Yeah its a little bit strange ya' know the movies, being here is a little to freaky for me. The only good thing about being here is that I get someone to bet up" Kat said to her friend. Tasuki and his friend were done with their little dance.

"So Tasuki introduce me to your girl friends here." Tasuki's friend asked..

"What they ain't my girl friends, they are just two girls that ended up here like Miaka did, the one over there givin' me an evil look is Kat or as I like to call her Neko-chan." Tasuki announced.

"Ok who's the other broad?" he asked looking at the girl stand next to Kat.

"Oh yeah! That's Chris I almost forgot because I like Neko-chan." he had said giving Kat a stare back.

Tasuki's buddy takes him aside.

"So ah who is Neko-chan with?" he asked his bandit buddy.

"You stay the hell away from her she's mine!" Tasuki had told his friend.

"Genrou I didn't know she was yours beside you just said she wasn't your girl." his friend said.

"What! she's not mine!" Tasuki yelled. "I hate girls remember!"

Just then Christie butted in.

"Well while ya'll are arguing Kat and I are goin' shoppin', c-ya" Christie said walking away with Kat.

"What!" Tasuki said turning away from his friend to see Kat and Christie walking off.

Tamahome ran after them, but when they saw him they ran.

"Oh no! not the tag along again!" exclaimed Christie as she ran."he is nice and everything but can't they leave us alone sometimes."

"I told you they were like a couple of puppies." said Kat out of breath from running.

Exhausted from running the girls ran into a tavern, and got a shock.

"Ah ladies have you come here to work?" said the guy in front of the building.