Chapter 13: Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
Waiting, that what everyone was doing at that moment. They were waiting for Jo, who had been apparently sneaking out at night and coming in around the time who ever was at the apartment would get up. Tonight however, she was to be caught and by the looks of it, she was running late.
The girls had given up with waiting for Jo, so they were all out, Kuwabara stayed by Jo's room in case she came in through there. Yusuke, Kurama and Hiei stayed in the livingroom if she came through there.
It wasn't until around four or so that Jo's footsteps could be heard. Although, she wasn't exactly trying to be quiet about getting back to the appartment either, she was running, obviously wearing her combat boots.
Yusuke, wanting to scare the, um, (LANGUAGE) shit out of Jo opened the door. Kurama and Hiei stood beside Yusuke. They watched as Jo ran and somehow managed to slip and fall on her butt right in front of the door way.
Jo didn't seem to notice the guys standing there in the doorway as she yelled at herself.
"First, ya go and get blind, now you keep falling down. What's next?"
"Try being grounded."
BUSTED!
Jo slowly turned her head to see her brother, Kurama, and Hiei standing there as she lay on the ground.
"Wow, jogging sure in dangerous in the morning," Jo said in her sad attempt to cover up.
Yusuke shook his head and walked back into the apartment smiling, Hiei joined him. That left Jo, still on the ground, and Kurama who was still looking down at her, but then shook his head and helped her up.
"Am I in trouble?"
Kurama smiled.
"I highly doubt it. This is Yusuke, he can't stay mad for to long."
"I hope you're right."
When Jo walked in, everyone was sitting there staring at her.
"There a really good reason I went out tonight."
The stares continued.
"Seriously, there is."
More...staring.
"See, I got this lead from my visions and um, well you see, I uh, had to go out and well...the squirrels chased me and I ran home."
It was really obvious that Jo was lying, so to get out of it Jo rolled her eyes to the back of her head and "fainted". The others rolled their eyes.
Jo opened one eye and saw that the group was still staring at her.
"Okay, who's gonna yell at me?"
Yusuke went to say something, but Keiko put a hand over his mouth before he could make an idiot of himself.
"Jo, no one's nessicarily mad, we're just concerned, that's all. Try not to sneak out so late at night, you do have curfew you know."
Jo sat up and nodded. The silence came back and Jo yawned.
"Well, I'm gonna try and sleep, too much excitement going on in here."
Kurama watched Jo walk towards the her room, but stop at her door and shake her head.
Jo felt someone watching her and looked back into the living room and saw Kurama watching her.
'It's okay, don't worry about it.'
Then she walked into her room, shutting the door behind her.
Back in the livingroom, everyone except Kurama and Hiei were confused as to Jo's comment on visions and yet, they let it go.
The next morning Jo walked out of her room and found everyone scattered around the around the apartment sleeping.
'...Weirdos...'
As she went to walk into the kitchen, a voice stopped her.
"I can tell you that I'm not a weirdo."
Jo turned around and faced Kurama who was sitting up on the couch with his arm resting on the back.
"Oh, but Kurama you are indeed weird."
"How so?"
"Well, you're a kitsune, that's not normal, that's weird."
Kurama raised an eyebrow.
Jo sighed, "Well, it is unusual."
"Uh-huh, I want to talk to you."
"'Bout what?"
Kurama didn't use any word, but pointed to his eyes. Jo imediatly understood, so she pointed to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, they well, talked.
"Did you really have a lead?"
"Yeah, but a dead end since the shaman I went to see was dead."
"You went to see a shaman?"
"That's what I saw, the vision practically screamed 'GO TO THE SHAMAN'."
Kurama smirked.
"What?"
"It amuses me how you can go from very serious to childish in no time at all."
Jo rolled her eyes, "Heh, I bet you think of Yusuke when I do that."
"No, with you it's a bit different. It's cute when you do it."
"Am I supposed to blush?"
"Not nessicarily."
A groan from out in the livingroom made Kurama and Jo's conversation come to a stop.
Before anyone could go look for the two, Jo got up and went to walk back into the livingroom, but before she made it out, Kurama grabbed her by the arm.
"Is this mainly between the two of us."
"Yeah, Hiei doesn't even know what I've seen, only that's I've had visions."
Strong arms wrapped around Jo's waist.
"Always the flirt?"
"Just to you."
"Good, now I've gotta go, Buffy's on."
Kurama let go of Jo and was a bit confused as to when Jo started watching Buffy of all things.
"Yusuke, give me the damn remote."
Kurama walked into the livingroom to see the two siblings fighting over the remote.
Jo bent over and bit Yusuke in the arm thus winning the remote.
"Jo, that hurt. Do you even know what episode is on?"
Jo turned to Yusuke smirking.
"As a matter of fact, I do. It's episode nineteen of season six called 'Seeing Red' which aired May 7, 2002. It's the episode where Willow goes evil and she goes after Warren. When she finds him, she catches him with vines or something and tells him 'bored now', then she flays him alive. It's really cool."
Everyone sat amazed at how Jo knew that and left her alone to laugh at Warren get killed by Willow.
Kurama on the other hand watched Jo as the girl who sees everything.
Uh-oh, could Hiei have competition? Hehe, I'm so evil. Who knows what I could possibly do with the couplings, I mean I am the authoress.
HEHE, that Buffy thing, I can mentally go through every episode start to finish, but I go to my one book to get the air dates, that's the only thing I don't know.
Ugh, school starts Tuesday, so who knows when I'll get the next chappie up, but I'll try my best to get one up ASAP. School...--cries hysterically--...it starts again.
Oh, as for the title of this chappie, don't ask. That song just got jammed into my head for some reason. HAHAHA!
Anywho, yeah, that's it for now, so I'm outie.
-Jen