I'd like to thank everyone for the reviews! My mailbox has actually broken the record of 5 emails for once. '
Well to answer a few questions...I forgot that Yukina lived with Genkai...I might put her in, I dunno. I like her as a character, but nv planned anything with her cause it slipped my mind. Well life's becoming harder by the day. School, work, parents, chores, youth group, some fun time for myself. -- ' I can't wait till I have 2 study halls next semiester cause I'll have plenty of time to do my homework & other things. So who all wants 2 trick-or-treat? I DO! I want some free candy!I dunno who I'm gonna go with yet, I wanna go to fright fest as well, but don't have any1 to go with to that either. (Curse you fate, I wanna celebrate Halloween!) Well, I've been trying to read stories of my reviewers, but I'm sorry if I don't get 2 ya. I can only do so much with computer time limited. (I'm doing "Homework" right now.) & with all my other things to do. Plus I have a job now that takes up my free time after school b4 the parents get home. & Saturday mornings/noon time-ish. For school: the quarter is almost over & I gotta make sure I take care of my grades, or I'm grounded! . Blah, well onto the story!
Chapter 13
Kurome followed behind Kurama as he took the dirty rags out to the laundry washing area. Kurome had he hands in her pocket & was mumbling curses at the fox for the kiss on the forehead.
"So are you going to tell me whats bugging you?" she asked for the umptinth time. Kurama turned to face her with a smile,
"Nothing is wrong, I don't know what makes you think something is." he lied.
Kurome pointed a finger at him, "I may not be a fox, but I know how to lie easily & when people are lying to me. And I know that you're lying!" she shouted at him.
"You just keep thinking that." he replied casually turning back around.
"Stupid fox." Kurome mumbled, looking at the floor.
"Did you say that something?" Kurama asked her even though he heard what she said.
"I said your a stupid fox, you suck at lying too!" she yelled, then stomped off in fustration the way they came.
Kurama sighed, and continued walking.
A little later.
Kurama walked into his room. On his bed there was a white piece of computer paper with some writing on it. He picked it up reading what was written on it. The words: 'Dirty Little Secret' where written in big words at the top of the paper. Kurama sighed, knowing who it was. He skimmed through the lyrics written down before setting the paper down with a sigh.
'She won't leave me alone until she knows...but how do I tell her? How will she react?' Kurama thought to himself.
Back with Kurome
Kurome walked along the outside temple. She soon came to an open courtyard with a large tree in the middle of a garden.
'Probably done by Kurama.' she thought while examining some of the strange plants. Then her stomach started to protest for the lack of food.
'Ehh...I forgot I haven't eaten all day.' she remembered.
"Shimata." she cursed outloud at herself.
"You've got quite a mouth for not knowing much japanese." a voice remarked behind her. Kurome turned around to see Kurama leaning against a wall of the temple.
"You should hear me in english." she commented with a smirk.
"Would you like to eat? Or are you going to starve yourself?" he asked her.
"Common sense fox." Kurome replied. Kurama smiled, and stood up, going back into the temple. Kurome followed him to the kitchen, where he fixed her a bowl of ramen.
A tad bit later
Kurome and Kurama were sitting in the living room. Kurome was sitting on a mat, eating the ramen at the coffee table. Kurama was sitting on one of the couches, reading a book. After a little while Kurome set her chopsticks down & tightly closed her eyes.
"Something wrong?" he asked just peering over the top of the book.
"Just got a song stuck in my head." Kurome replied.
"May I ask which song?" Kurama questioned. Kurome looked at him.
"I'll keep you my dirty little secret, Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret, My dirty little secret, who has to know?" she recited the lyrics she wrote down on the paper earlier.
Kurama sighed, "You are very percistant, did you know that?" he pointed out.
"Hai, I'll bug the hell outa you until you tell me what's on your mind." Kurome replied with a scowel.
Kurama sighed and hung his head low so his eyes were partly hiding behind his bangs, partly behind the book. The next thing he knew there was a force pulling his book down away from him, and Kurome was kneeling on the floor in front of him, peering into his eyes with her eyes showing great concern.
"If it's that serious, you don't have to tell me." she softly spoke to him.
"No..I should..." Kurama started.
"Carpe diem?" Kurome inturuppted.
"Nani?" Kurama asked.
"It's Latin for 'Sieze the day.' " Kurome translated. (Dead poets society, had to watch that in 8th grade & in my first year of high school.)
'Not exactly what I was going to say, but it works.' Kurama thought to himself.
Kurome got up and sat next to him on the couch. Her tail curled around her waist.
'Well I'm this far, where do I start?' he asked himself.
"You know about your life in Makai right?" Kurama asked her. Kurome nodded her head in response.
"How much do you remember?" he questioned.
"To keep things simple, I lived in a village of wolves. One day a demon raided the village, and burnt it...after some things...I was taken to spirit world where my powers & memories were sealed & sent to the world where the sprite took you." she replied.
"Well...the demon that burned your village down was...me." he quietly stated. Kurome sat there staring at him for a few seconds until her brain clicked, and she understood his words.
"As Youko Kurama?" she asked.
Kurama nodded, "Yes." he replied, his hands starting to tremble. He was half expecting Wolf to take over or something and yell at him, since she is so protective of Kurome. Suddenly he felt a force lean on him, he looked out of the corner of his eye to see Kurome leaning on him, looking up at him.
"This is what you've been upset about?" she asked him.
He nodded in response, and Kurome stood up. He slightly looked up at her to see her giving him a half smile.
"You shouldn't let this bother you. We all do things that we later regret." she started.
Kurama stood up, "But if I hadn't done that then-" he began, but Kurome put a few fingers over his lips.
"And if you had not done that, I wouldn't be here today...where I'm happy." she finished.
Kurama wanted to object, but he knew it'd be better to keep quiet because no matter what he would say, Kurome would just look on the bright side of the situation.
"You're very opptemistic." Kurama told her. (I don't think I spelt that right, but it describes someone who looks on the bright side of a situation all the time.)
Kurome smiled at him, "Best to look on the bright sides, cause otherwise it'll be too dark to see." she replied.
Kurama gave her a half smile. 'Always has a sense of humor.' he thought.
"So we alright, ne?" she asked him, tilting her head slightly to the side, one of her ears flopped over.
Kurama nodded, "Hai." he agreed.
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I went from a chapter with a lot of humor, to a more sappy (for lack of better words) chapter. See, Kurome didn't really kill Kurama. (How many of you thought she actually would?)
