An: Well, it's that time of year again. Actually I don't really have a reason for saying that, I just had a sudden erge.
I had all these things I had planned to say and of course be outrageously funny, but I forgot. So yeah. That totally sucks. I hope you enjoy this chapter, it is super long. It like 2000 and something words. You better enjoy it because my hands and eyes are killing me. I really need glasses.
Again, I couldn't really find a super duper quote, so I just used this crappy one.
You never really know what being alone is until
You know what love is
That's real romance.
- Can't remember where I got that.
"Kohana snap out of it!" Ryoichi said and Kohana snapped out of her daydream of Kurama.
"Sorry." She said and Ryoichi rolled his eyes.
"It's nice to know that I haven't seen you in what, 5 years? And you can't even seem to focus on me." Kohana glared at him.
"It wasn't like you were saying anything interesting." Kohana said and the only response she got was Ryoichi sighing.
"Whatever. Where do you want to go? A restaurant or something?" Kohana shrugged her shoulders and saw a rose bush. The sight of it made her both excited and angry. Excited because it reminded her of the kiss that her and Kurama shared 4 days ago, and angry because of how he handled the situation. Another reason it made her angry because it's the 10th thing in the last half hour that made her think of Kurama.
"Here we are." Ryoichi said and held the door open for Kohana. She smiled at him and walking into the dimly lit restaurant.
"Hello, a table for 2 please." Ryoichi asked the waitress that was standing in front of them.
"Can it be outside?" Kohana asked and the waitress nodded her head and grabbed 2 menus.
"Of course. Please follow me." She said and led them to their table outside.
"Can I get you both something to drink?" She asked as they sat down.
"I'll have a beer and Kohana will have…" Ryoichi said and looked at Kohana.
"Water please." The waitress nodded her head and left.
"So what have you been up to?" Ryoichi asked and Kohana looked him over. He was leaning back in his chair and looked like he didn't have a care in the world. It really pissed Kohana off. Was he this care free when he left her? Was he taking girls to restaurants and smiling at them while she was cold and lonely?
Kohana was over come with the desire to hurt him. Not physically but emotionally. She wanted to be the one to make him stop smiling, just like how he made her stop smiling 5 years ago.
"Stuff. I was either being forced to cry by means I don't want to talk about, or I was sitting in the dark wondering when They were going to kill me. You know, the usual." Ryoichi stopped smiling and sat up in his chair. Kohana felt an odd sense of pleasure. They sat in silence for awhile and Kohana felt as if she was going to drown in it.
"Why did you leave?" Kohana whispered and before Ryoichi could answer the waitress arrived with their drinks.
"Are you ready to order?" She asked as she sat down the drinks. Kohana grabbed her glass and took a sip of water.
"Soon." Ryoichi said and smiled nicely at her.
"Ok, I'll be back in 5 minutes. If you are ready by then, just asked someone for Jordan." Ryoichi nodded his head and Kohana picked up her menu.
"Kohana, I didn't want-"
"The cheese burger sounds good." She said, cutting Ryoichi off.
"Yeah, it does." He said with a sigh and picked up his menu. Both of them were to stubborn -in a way- to say anything for the next 5 minutes.
"Have you decided?" Jordan asked and they both closed their menus.
"I'll have the cheese burger." Kohana said and zoned out.
'Maybe this was a bad idea. Maybe I should have stayed at home.' Kohana thought and Jordan left.
"Kohana. I think we seriously need to talk about why I left."
-With Kurama-
Kurama looked up at the clock. Kohana has been gone for about 45 minutes already.
'Why did she have to go out with him? What if he is hurting her right now?' Kurama thought and scenes of Ryoichi hitting Kohana flashed through his mind. 'What if she is calling my name for help right now?' Kurama closed the book he was attempting to read.
'What if Ryoichi is kissing her right now?' The scene of Kurama kissing Kohana flashed in his mind, but instead of it being himself kiss her, it is Ryoichi. Kurama stood up and his book fell to the floor.
'I should go and save her.' He thought and was about to leave when Suki came into the room and stopped him.
"Kurama, Let's go on a date!" She said and Kurama was about to say no but 2 things stopped him. Hiei and Youko.
-You are not leaving our woman because you think that thing is kissing another man.- Needless to say, Youko didn't approve of Kurama's feeling for Kohana.
'Youko is right. You stay with your woman and I will follow Kohana.' Hiei taunted Kurama in his head. Before Kurama could agree or disagree, Hiei left.
"Where did Hiei go? Probably to follow Kohana right? I swear, he must have a thing for her or something. Just between you and me, I think she likes him back." Suki said and watched Kurama's reaction. Sadly for her, all she saw and anger and jealousy.
"So, what do you say? Let's go out, just you and me. Like old times." Suki said and Kurama nodded his head. Suki squealed and hugged him.
"I'm ready when you are." Suki said and Kurama smiled slightly.
"I'm ready."
-With Kohana-
"I already know what happened. You left, it's pretty simple." She says and crosses her arms over her chest. Ryoichi slams his hand down on the table in frustration.
"No. It is not that simple. You think I wanted to leave?" Kohana looked at him like he was stupid.
"Well, yeah." She says and Ryoichi glares at her.
"Well then you are really stupid." Kohana gawked at him.
"Excuse me?"
"Why would I want to leave you?" Kohana glares at him.
"I don't know! You just suddenly left! I had no warning or anything. You just left me all alone, even though you promised me you wouldn't." Ryoichi stopped smiling and frowned.
"I had to leave." He said and put his head in his hands.
"I didn't want to leave. My father mad me. I think he was scared about me being in love with you. He probably thought I would try to steal you away." He said Kohana looked away from him.
"Why didn't you?" Ryoichi sighed and looked up at her.
"Because I am a coward. I couldn't go against my father. You only go against him if you have a death wish or something" Ryoichi went to hold her hand but she moved it out of his reach.
"Shuichi didn't have a death wish and he saved me." Ryoichi snorted.
"Well he didn't actually plan on saving you now did he?" Kohana glared at him and was tempted to slap him.
"I guess not."
-With Kurama-
"So how did you save Kohana? I mean, I thought you were only going there to save Yukina." Suki asked as she and Kurama walked hand in hand through the park.
"Well, she was in the same room as Yukina. It was really unexpected that she was there. So we had to save her. We couldn't just leave her to die." Suki nodded her head and got the feeling that Kurama didn't want to talk about it, so she changed the subject.
"So how has life been lately?" Suki asked and Kurama looked at her strangely. She laughed bitterly at his expression.
"Well, I just don't know what's going on with you anymore. We hardly ever talk anymore.. or do other things." Suki said and smiled at him.
"Really? I haven't noticed." Kurama said and Suki's heart broke a little by hearing those words. Her hatred grew a little for her sister also.
"Oh." She said and they continued to walk in silence.
-With Kohana-
"I'm sorry. I should have saved you, or at least done something." Ryoichi said after Jordan brought them their food.
"No, I should say I'm sorry. All this time, I have been mad at you, when really I should be happy that you weren't there. In a way, I'm glad you didn't save me. If you had, I wouldn't have met everyone. I would hate to think what kind of person I would be if I hadn't met them." Ryoichi's hear hurt. Was she really that happy he didn't save her? Judging by the smile on her face, she really was.
"Yeah. I can tell. You never smiled like that for me."
-With Kurama-
"What was your childhood like?" Kurama asked and Suki licked her ice cream cone so he couldn't see her frown. Only one word jumped out at her. Lonely. Her childhood had been lonely.
"It was.. Good. My parents were great." Kurama smiled and bit into his ice cream.
"What was Kohana like?" This time, no word jumped out at her. She never really paid attention to how Kohana must of felt. She was always smiling, so Suki always assumed she was happy.
"She was a happy kid." Kurama grabbed Suki's free hand.
"I'm sorry you had to lose all your family. I bet you are glad Kohana is finally back." Suki almost gagged but some how managed to smile.
"Very."
-With Kohana-
"Well I should go back home now. We have been out for awhile." Kohana said as Ryoichi paid the bill.
"Come and live with me." He said and opened the door for her. Kohana laughed.
"What a silly thing to ask. I can't live with you. That would mean leaving Yukina." Kohana said Ryoichi looked at her.
"So? I love you." He said and grabbed her hand bringing it to his lips and kissing her hand softly.
"So very much." He said. Kohana frowned and look her hand away from him.
"But I don't love you like that. Shuichi said that when you love someone you want to touch them and make them yours. I don't feel that way for you. Maybe once, in a weird way, I did love you. But not now, to much has happened. All I can give you is friendship." He stared at her in shock and she stepped away from him.
"I will understand if you don't want to be friends with me." She said and Ryoichi shook his head.
"No! Being you friend is enough." He was lying but Kohana didn't pick up on that.
"Let's get you home before the short one kills me." Ryoichi said and grabbed her hand as she laughed.
"I don't know why you are laughing. We both know he would do it." Ryoichi said, making Kohana laugh harder.
"Oh. I know he would kill you. I am just laughing so that your last memory will be me laughing." Kohana said and started to laugh again causing Ryoichi to roll his eyes.
"Nice to know how much you care."
-With Kurama-
"Let's go home." Kurama said after checking his watch.
"Yeah, it's kind of starting to get cold." Suki said and they started to walk back towards the house.
"I had a lot of fun tonight. It's been so long since we have been on a date." Suki said and Kurama nodded his head.
He decided to not say what he was thinking at that moment. He didn't want to hurt her feelings, but the truth was, he probably would have enjoyed it much more if Suki was Kohana.
"Do you think Kohana will be back by now?" He asked, trying to make it sound like he was just making conversation. It didn't.
"I don't know." Suki said coldly. She looked around them and noticed that they were in her 'friend' Tsugiri's neighborhood.
"Oh. I forgot. One of my friends wants me to sleep over, they just live down there. I think I will go now." Kurama nodded his head.
"Do you want me to walk you to their house?" He asked, trying to be polite. It was how his mother raised him after all.
"NO!" She yelled quickly and he looked at her strangely.
"No, it's ok. Our house is in the other direction. It's fine, I will be there soon. You go home and get all the juicy gossip from Hiei." Suki said and ran off the Tsugiri's house. Kurama shrugged his shoulders and continued to walk home. He remembered what Suki said about Hiei liking Kohana, but immediately dismissed the idea. There was no way Hiei liked her. Right?
End of Chapter An: Just to make it clear, Hiei doesn't have feelings of that sort for Kohana. He just thinks of her like family, in his own weird way.
Now I remember what I wanted to say. I am so glad people are feeling the way I wanted them too when it comes to Suki. Please tell me if I being to obvious about the whole Suki thing. Am I laying it on to thick? Do my questions even make sense? If they don't then I am taking that as a good thing, it means that I am not being obvious. So yeah.