Instincts

By: Lady Ashiru

Chapter 3: The Truth

Now for some information on Ashley. Ashley is 5'3" with brown, waist length hair, and eyes the color of the ocean. She was generous yet conservative with her curves.

Now for what Ashiru looks like. Ashiru was the same breed of kitsune as Yoko, a sliver fox. She was 6' with knee length black hair with red highlights, crystal blue eyes; she also had very generous curves. She had silver fox ears and a silver fox tail. She wore black, red, and silver. Her shirt was black that ended just above her stomach; deadly beauty was written in blood red letters. Black ribbon was sowed to where the sleeves would be then also sowed to black arm warmers that had red flames all over them. She wore a black skirt that showed the toes of her black high-heeled boots in the front, but drug on the ground behind her with a silver sash around her waist, and even though you couldn't see them, black leg-warmers with flames except that instead of going all the way around her legs, they went halfway where she could lace them up like tennis shoes. She is also Yoko's former mate if you hadn't figured that out already.

Ashiru or now known as Ashley was lead to the same room that Kurama was in, but she didn't know that. She was in her human form of Ashley. She walked into the room and gasped in wonder. This place will do just fine for a week. From what she saw, there was a living room decorated the color of a red rose with a loveseat facing a fire place then another loveseat facing a big screen TV on the other side of the room, a bookshelf full of books and movies, and she caught site of several red roses all around the room. Remembering that she didn't want Yoko to kill her as soon as he came in, because of his disgust of the human race, she turned to her humanoid form.

She then walked into the kitchen. It was smaller then the living room, but still pretty big, decorated in white roses.

She then went into the bedroom. There was a king sized bed, two dressers, a closet, and a closed door which she thought lead to the bathroom. Everything was the color of her favorite flower, black rose, with several around the room, except for the bed sheets, which were white.

She was to busy looking around at the room to notice a certain someone walk out of the bathroom with something akin to worry in his eyes. That is until he found a certain someone in the bedroom. He walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist and laid his head on her shoulder breathing on her neck which received pleasant shiver going through her body. He chuckled.

She turned around and stood surprised, "Suichi, what are you doing here?" He then gave her curious looks. "How do you know my human name, Ashiru?" "How do you know about youkai?"

"Isn't it obvious? This human body harbors the soul of the very kitsune that died protecting you, your mate, Yoko Kurama. Now, answer my question, how do you know my human name?"

She looked down uncomfortably. "Well, ya see, it's like this: I died right after Yoko did, my spirit went to Ningenkai and took up residence of a certain foreign exchange student at your school. And she lives in your house. You know who I'm talking about. Now please prove to me that you truly are Yoko."

Kurama then transformed into Yoko Kurama. She gasped. Right then she knew that Kurama hadn't been lying. She jumped up and hugged him for all her worth. His eyes grew soft as he returned the embrace, glad that he had his mate back.

"Ashiru, how did you die?" She looked up at him. "I was morning at the loss of you when the spirit detective struck again. His goal was to kill me to weaken you, not to kill you, so he proceeded with his attacks until I lay in a pool of my own blood then left me there to die."

"I'm so sorry that I couldn't protect you like I should have." She kissed him, kissed him with all the passion that she had for him and Ashley held for Kurama. After that was settled and Yoko tried to regain his breath, Kurama took over, as well as Ashley. "Hey Suichi, I hope your not mad at me for the kiss between Yoko and Ashiru." She couldn't hide the hope that she had in her eyes.

Right before he could answer, the clock on the fireplace chimed nine, then they heard a click at the door signaling that it had been locked never to unlock again until one week had passed. He then laughed.

"Of course I'm not mad at you. Why with you being Ashiru, Yoko gets who he loves, and as do I." He then leaned down toward her lips for a passionate kiss. "Oh, one thing though. Yoko commands that we let our other sides have their fun as well." "Ashiru does as well." He repressed a shudder at the thought of Yoko having his way with any one. She laughed.