Well I only gave you guys like a lil' less than 2 days to vote. But the reviews I did recieve in time all voted for Kurome to run away. (temporarily.) Which will be in this chapter, and I'll continue it into the next.

Chapter 8

Kurome woke up to the sound of birds singing their morning song.

'Why are birds always waking me up?' she thought.

She groaned and rolled in her bed. She covered her head with the pillow, and then remembered everything that happened the previous night in one big flash.

/\/\/\/\/\/\Flashback/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

"Those clothes you're wearing, the one that smell like roses..." Wolf began.

Kurome looked at her, "What about them?" she asked.

"You got them from Kurama right?"

"Yes, why?"

Wolf didn't reply, she just lunged towards the bushes where Kurama and Hiei were. Once the two noticed wolf coming towards them, they jumped away. Wolf managed to pin Kurama down using her hands and knees. (Hiei got away because of his speed.) Kurome stood up and ran to where wolf disappeared to in the forest.

"What are you doing here?" Wolf demanded.

Hiei unsheathed his katana, and Wolf put her claws to Kurama's neck.

"Move, and he won't be breathing much longer." she threatened.

Kurama started to focus his youkai to summon a plant to get Wolf off of him when Kurome's voice reached his ears.

"Don't hurt him!" she yelled at wolf as she ran up to the scene. Wolf looked at Kurome, then slowly got off of Kurama, who stood up and brushed himself off.

Kurome turned to Kurama and Hiei, "What are you two doing here?" she demanded.

Hiei snorted, "What does it look like? I knew you were hiding something. And I was right." he replied as he pointed to Wolf, who started to growl and show her fangs. Then everything went black.

/\/\/\/\/\/\Flashback/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Kurome sighed and sat up in her bed.

'Well Hiei doesn't trust me, that's tipical. But why was Kurama with him? Does he not trust me as well?' she thought to herself. She got out of bed, and then made the bed. Then she went over to the table in the corner of the room, and grabbed her athame off the table. She walked over to a window in her room. She opened it and quietly crawled, closing it behind her.

'I shouldn't stay where I'm not trusted.' she thought to herself as she headed down a large hill with trees all over the place.

A few minutes later she reached the bottom of the hill and kept walking into a deep forest. Kurome was deep in thought and didn't notice where she was going. (I really do that, i'll space out, even when walking, until sum1 says my name, bumps into me, or comes in close enough contact that it brings me back to reality.)

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\Back at the temple./\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Kurama woke up, Hiei was already awake & somewhere, just like normal. He stretched and got dressed. He looked over at a clock on the wall that read '10:00am'

'That's weird, it's not normal for me to sleep in so late.' Kurama thought to himself.

As he left his room he walked up to Kurome's room. He couldn't hear any sound coming from her room so he figured that she was soundly sleeping, or was awake, and somewhere in the temple.

'Well, might as well make breakfast.' he thought to himself.

He headed to the kitchen and started to make his normal breakfast of rice and an egg. (raw.)

(Yes I know that's nasty, but that's a traditional japanese breakfast. They have sumthin else, but i don't know wat my sis did with the lil book on Japan, so that's all I can remember.)

When he was done he went out to the living room to eat. Yusuke and Kuwabara were playing some of Genkai's older games. They had their heads in the game neither of them noticed Kurama enter, and sit down on the couch, watching them while he ate. After awhile of them playing whatever they were playing Kuwabara lost. Without the distraction of the game he noticed Kurama.

"Oh hey Kurama, whats up?" he asked.

"Nothing really." Kurama plainly replied.

Yusuke noticed that Kuwabara was talking to someone and turned around.

"How long have you been there, you're starting to be able to sneak up on people like Hiei." Yusuke remarked.

"It's because you're starting to slack off even more when your playing games." Genkai replied as she walked into the living room.

"Oi, this takes a great deal of consentration!" Yusuke defended.

"What do you mean Urimeshi, as much as I'd hate to say it, you can beat me with your eyes closed." Kuwabara commented.

"Shutup." Yusuke grumbled as Kurama let out a little laugh. Genkai sat down on the couch across from Kurama, and the other two started playing another round of the game.

"Botan came by while you, Hiei, and Kurome were out last night." Genkai stated.

Kurama leaned forward to be able to hear Genkai better. "What did she come for?" he asked.

"Koenma wants to see Kurome, he wouldn't say why. Botan said she'd come around noon today to guide you guys to Rekai." Genkai explained.

Kurama nodded and stood up. "Have you seen Kurome around anywhere today?" he asked.

"No, she's probably still asleep." Genkai replied.

Kurama nodded again, then left to wake Kurome up. When he got outside her room, he paused, taking in a deep breath before knocking on the door. There was no reply so Kurama opened the door slightly peering inside. He couldn't see anyone, so he opened the door to find the room vacant like no one had ever been there. Kurome's athame was missing from the table in the corner. He shrugged.

'She must be outside.' he thought to himself as he headed down a hall to get to a courtyard of the temple. When he got out there he found Hiei practicing with it katana.

"Ohayo Hiei." Kurama greeted to get a 'Hn' in response.

"You haven't happened to see Kurome yet today, have you?" Kurama asked.

"Hn, I'm not your tracking device fox." Hiei replied.

Kurama walked closer to Hiei, but keeping a 15 foot distance from him, and his katana.

"I never said that, I was just wondering if you had seen her." Kurama re-stated.

"She's in the forest." Hiei replied with another swing of his sword.

Kurama turned around after thanking Hiei, and heading back to the temple so he could go around to get to the forest.

"I don't see why you worry about the onna, she's not worth it." Hiei told Kurama, who didn't say anything to the koorime's comment.

Once Kurama had navigated through the temple he started to run towards the forest.

'A forest full of demons is no place for a human.' Kurama thought to himself as he also worried about Kurome's safety.

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I'm stopping there. Yeah I know it's short, but I'm having problems at home so I'm extremely limited to my computer time. I'm gonna try to get another chapter up before the weekend is over cause I'm not going to the homecoming dance, so that more free time for myself. So don't complain 2 me bout gettin' more done, cause I'm already on a "short leash"