Well, now that it's been forever, here's a new chapter: ) Please don't kill me. If you're lost and hove no idea what's going on re-read the last chapter and tough it out till I explain everything, which I will do. Where they are and who the little kids are (so cute!) will be explained after this and the next to chapter. If you want to picture the old lady at the beginning here (Rose) think of her like Mrs. Pots from Beauty and the Beast, an old mother/grandmother person with the same sort of voice. Sorry if I mess you up a bit Bri! It's easy to fix so just tell me if I did! See you at the end!
Yuki turned her head to one side and opened her eyes. "Seth?" She asked.
"He hasn't gone anywhere, love." And old woman's warm voice answered.
"What?" Yuki sat up and the blanket covering her slipped down a bit. An elderly lady, not quite Kaede's age but close, was moving around the room straightening up 2 other beds in the room. The bed Yuki was on was in the middle and against the back wall and if Yuki wanted to she could lean against it.
"How do you feel, dear?" The lady was dressed in kimono minus the outer robe so it looked like was in a cotton both robe (Abby says that's called a yukata).
"I'm fine ma'am." ((Do you say ma'am?)) Yuki answered.
"That's wonderful." The old lady bent down and picked up a tray from nearby the only door and carried it over to Yuki's bed. She set it on the floor, but because Yuki's bed was also on the floor it could be easily reached by either of them.
"You might want to have some tea if you have a headache, it should help. If you don't it's still nice and warm to hold." She poured ac up of dark steaming liquid and handed the warm cup to Yuki as the girl offered her thanks. Yuki didn't drink it, but the lady was right, it was warm to just hold.
"You're probably wondering who I am, aren't you dear?" The old lady smiled and her face wrinkled, but not to a point of creepiness, just enough to make her face look welcoming. "My name is Rose, but you can call me whatever you want. Some of your friends are calling me grandma." Her smile got brighter. "But he," she nodded to Yuki. "Calls me mom."
Yuki shifted her foot and realized that there was something warm beside her. Yuki put down her tea and leaned over to see a patch of brown hair beside her waist. Lifting the blanket she saw that the hair was attached to a small head. It was the boy from the crowd that had grabbed her hand near the cat shop.
"Aww…" Yuki pet the boy's head. "He's so kawii!"
"Poor dear, he must still be tired." Rose looked at the boy's head as well.
"Is his name Seth?" Yuki asked remembering that the boy had introduced himself before grabbing her hand.
"Yes. Lilly said he was so happy when he found you."
"Is Lilly his sister?"
"Yes, shyest girl you'll ever meet but Seth can get her to talk for the longest time. No one else can, not even me. I'm glad you woke up, dear." She started to tuck the covers around the sleeping boy. "It means I get to know you seeing as how he tried to drag you to me before thinking about what he was doing, but it also means Lilly won't be left on her own." She sat back on her legs again. "He's so young, things this big…he's never done anything like it before." She handed the tea back to Yuki.
"Thank you, but what does Lilly have to do with me waking up?" Yuki was curious.
"The fact that you woke up means that sooner or later so will Seth, dear. You'll probably sleep a bit more because Seth had to steal some energy from you. You can sleep as you need to. If you get hungry, want more tea, or anything else just go out the door there most of the time that's where I'll be." She stood up. "You look asleep again already, child."
"Thank you, Mrs. Rose." Yuki said handing back the untouched tea.
"It's no trouble dear, just rest." Rose put the tea back on the tray and after Yuki had lain down she pulled the covers up and tucked them around her and Seth better. "Remember, I'm right through that door if you need anything."
"Thank you. Good night."
"God night loves." Rose left and closed the door quietly behind herself. Yuki was about to doze off totally again when Seth broke-out of Rose's tuck and started to hug Yuki like a giant teddy bear. Yuki pulled her arm from between her body and his and put it under Seth's neck in a one armed hug of sorts before blacking out again.
((And now, some recent additions to my list of things that sound strange out of context!
"That's huge!"---Sarah
"I'm just going for your nuts." ---Sarah again
"I wanna ride the pole!" ---Nicole))
Rose closed the door and turned to face everyone. Because her back room only fit 3 beds comfortably, the majority of the group was sleeping in here. The guys were too because 1) they were a minority and 2) with the exception of Miroku, they were all trustworthy. Everyone was now sitting on their respective beds except for Sarah and Clara who were on Kilanna's bed in a row braiding each other's hair and Kanji who was on Clara's for some unknown reason.
"She's gone back to sleep." Rose announced.
"That means she woke up right?" Claire asked.
"Yes." Rose sat down beside Sango and put the young brown haired girl that had attached herself to Rose's leg as soon as she had come out of the room where Yuki and Seth were, onto her lap. "Have Todd or Alicia come back yet?" She asked.
Kilanna and Claire shook their heads as the front door blew open.
"Jeez, it wasn't raining this hard in town!" GK complained as she threw her rain soaked jacket at the wall. It never hit and slid down, but went straight through the wall like it wasn't even there.
"It's raining?" Sarah asked.
"Pouring." GK fell onto Becky's bed. "I bet I'll never get fully dry." She closed her eyes and a few minutes passed with everyone looking at her.
"I think she's asleep…" Becky commented, poking GK's arm. She twitched but otherwise didn't show that she realized that anyone else was there.
"You know, I like GK's idea." Claire said yawning.
"Me too." Kanji said.
"Sleep!" Sarah cried flapping her arms before falling over laughing.
"Pile!" Erin yelled and then everyone fell on top of Sarah in a huge laughing mass. Sarah managed to pull herself out from the pile and after that everyone detangled themselves and crawled back to their respective beds. Sarah, Kanji, and little Lilly had to follow Rose into the backroom to get to their beds. As they were shutting the door they heard Miroku get slapped for not finding his own bed.
Lilly, clinging to Rose's leg again, yawned and leaned against her mother.
"Time for bed dearest." Rose picked up Lilly, straightened her blue sleep kimono, sat her up in bed, tied her brown hair back with a white ribbon and laid her down. "Good night, love." She brushed a piece of bangs away from Lilly from Lilly's dark blue eyes. The young girl was asleep in no time.
"Now, you both know what's going to happen right?" She addressed Kanji and Sarah, they both nodded. "Good. I hope neither of you feel uncomfortable with this, but dear (looks at Kanji) you especially don't have much of a choice. You'll fall asleep almost instantly. As for you…" She looked at Sarah. "I have enough power that I'll be able to stay awake after you fall asleep. That means you'll stay in here dear and I'll be in the other room watching your 'monk' friend." She winked. "Now it's already late and unless you want to wake up at 3 am tomorrow, I suggest we start this dears...Kanji dear, you can lie down with Lilly there, but don't you dare hug her until after you've woken up! Sarah love, you can just go to sleep. You don't have to worry about anything but kicking the wall and bruising yourself, but even then I can fix bruises…"
I hope you people all liked this! Again, if I messed you up somehow Bri (or anyone else for that matter) tell me and I'll fix you: ) Just tell me. I can't do anything else otherwise! Please review!
P.S. Please note that I did absolutly NO re-reading for this chapter after I wrote it. Bear with me if things are spelt worng or I've used weird grammer or left out a word. If you are a nit picker, tell me and I'll try and find it to fix it. If you're not, deal with it. It obviously doesn't bother you much anyway.