Shade- I have got WAY to much time on my hands even though I don't cuz I have to make a poster, an essay and a presentation for my Night of the Notables not to mention get a costume and I only have, like, half the life of my Notable and the presentation is on the 22nd. And I'm going to need to answer questions on her I also have to set up a teaching lesson in science and read for L.A., I also have to practice for orchestra so I can get first violin, do I have math homework? Oh crap

Question: Was any one tricked by the title 'falling for you'? I tried to make it seem that Karuka would 'get with' someone but she really just fell, any one at all?

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Chapter 16: moon

Karuka was awake and thinking of the full moon.

'Crap, the full moon is tonight. I'm going to be with the stump. How am I going to explain? He'll probably find out by stalking me.' Karuka got out of her tree to wake Hiei up so they could start walking again.

"Hey stump! Get up, we need to go." Karuka had yelled into Hiei's ear which made him go wide eyed and almost fall out of the tree.

"Fine." Hiei stood up, looked Karuka in the eye then disappeared.

"Hm? Was it something I said?" Karuka joked and followed Hiei.

Walking Karuka was holding her head.

"Does it still hurt?" Hiei asked, a bit more interested then he normally would have been.

"What?" Karuka asked irritated.

"Your head stupid."

"Humph, no."

"Then why exactly are you holding it?"

"Care to not be pry into others more interesting lives for once?" Karuka walked faster to avoid more questions from Hiei. He stayed behind.

Walking, Karuka's head grew more agitated and she couldn't bare it. She stopped to treat her wound. Hiei never stopped his pace, he only smirked.

"I thought you said that it didn't hurt?" He said walking by.

"Shut up stump!" Karuka took a swing at Hiei but he disappeared. He didn't know that making Karuka move that fast would further worsen the wound, but they both ignored it.

"If you're going to be annoying for the rest of our little 'vacation' inform me so I can learn how to walk and sleep at the same time like you."

"Hn." Hiei said.

By the end of the day the two had covered seven miles since there were no weird demons trying to get them out of their territory. With the other five from the previous day they had 18 miles left. Whoohoo.

"I'm going to sleep." Hiei jumped into a tree and closed his eyes.

'I hope he means that. I need to do my stuff right now. It's almost midnight.' Karuka thought as she pretended to go to sleep and only waited for Hiei to.

*~ twenty minutes into the future whooooowhooo -BAM- shut up! Twenty minutes LATER ~*

'Let's see.' Karuka hopped over to Hiei's tree and waved her hand in front of his face. He did nothing. She clapped a bit. He did nothing.

'If he wakes up when I'm doing this I'm killing someone.' Karuka leapt down to the ground and walked over to the river and sat down.

'The full moon. Time for mom.' Karuka sat and looked up at the moon thinking of her mother.

"What are you doing?" Karuka sweat dropped.

"How in the heck are you awake?! I tested you." Karuka stood to face Hiei.

"I faked it. I also read your mind earlier and you were talking about the full moon so I decided to check it out. So, what are you doing?"

"I don't have to tell you." Karuka crossed her arms and turned around mad.

"I think you do." He said.

"Excuse me?"

"You need to, or I can tell the rest about the fish offering." It didn't sound like much, but to Karuka's ego/reputation she coulsnn't have it known that she offered Hiei food to live.

"Fine." Karuka looked away. "Every full moon I sit and look at it because..." She hesitated, "when I was a child, my mom told me to look at the moon in its full form and said that she was looking at it too, it was a thing to tell me that I was with my mom. Since she lived in the palace I practically never saw her, and looking at the moon was the only time I felt like... I was with her. Even after her death I still feel like she's looking at it along with me." Karuka felt weird because she had told someone she fought with plenty of times of this secret. Not even her father knew, and he took her to see the moon every month of her life before. Although, it felt good to get it out.

"Oh." Hiei could see Karuka's pain, in the way she stood, the way she breathed, in every factor of how she appeared. Did he actually feel... sorry for her?

"If you tell a soul about that I swear I'll rip out your tongue and replace that white headband with it." Karuka sternly said. She was covering her pain with anger, like she had done for years.

"I won't. I'm more honorable then you think."

"Hn, you better be, or it's soft foods for the rest of your life." Karuka turned to shadow form and left.

Hiei lowered his head thinking if what he had done was not the best thing to do. He looked around to see if he could sense her energy, he couldn't. The shadow form of Karuka's was covering her energy so Hiei would have to wait for her to change back. He went back into the tree to sleep.

*~ with Karuka ~*

Karuka was sitting on the other side of the river trying to cover her energy from Hiei.

'Why did I tell him? Damn, he's making me weak. But why him? I've encountered other people that TRIED to get that kind of information out of me and I never said a word. What makes him so different? Ow! Crap my head still hurts. That was two days ago how could it still hurt? Could it... be... that... no.' Karuka fell unconscious into a pool of her own blood that she hadn't noticed drip from the back of her head.

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