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The air in the room seemed to tense before Ryukiba tepped back and said with a dull, lifless tone, "Very well."
"Good." Was Rusty's reply before he turned to Kuroneko and asked, "Want some help getting all that stuff inside?"
"Yeah, thanks for offering Rusty." She said smiling, and Ronin stayed in the room while all the spirit detectives, new and old, walked out...Leaving Ryukiba and him alone...Or so Ronin thought.
"You know I'm allowed to be left alone." Ryukiba snapped after a moment of being wtached, and Ronin smiled as he said, "Same old you aren't you?...But that doesn't mean we can treat you the same..I mean, I can, and Kuroneko can but after-"
"Don't talk about it Ronin." She snarled and he stopped midsentance, it was smart to listen to Ryukiba when she used that tone...A threat was lodged deep in her voice when she snarled like that, lashing out with her tongue in a last atempted before violence.
And he wasn't going to push her any closer to the edge.
"Just...don't blame Ru-"
"I don't." She snapped back before walking back to the arm chair were Vine, her huge phython was waiting, wrapped arround the back of the chair. When she put her hand out he slivered to go up her arm but she grabbed his neck and the middle of heis body, moving him to daringly put him around her neck ontop of her white scarf.
He curled around her untill the tip of his tail was on her left thigh and her wond up her torso and her chest untill his head reached her collar bone were her scarf began, and then stopped.
She was left with what apeared to be a living mini dress as she stroked his head with her knuckles and walked into her room at the end of the hall.
"Relax Little One."
The silky voice said, dripping in bloody venom as it spoke inside her head with mock comfort.
"Shut up."
"Thats no way to treat me."
The voice hissed at her and a constriction began around her rib cage and she gasped and gritted her teeth, but the python around her was still hanging loosly...It was the dragon who was choking her...from the inside out.
"I'm sorry." She said as she entered her room and the constriction around her lungs ceased, letting her take a deep breath of air before she caught her own reflection in the mirror and turned to glare coldly at the eyes that shot daggers back at her.
Her left eye was bright flaming blue, and the right had once matched..but now the color had turned into a cloudy gray-black...
Her dragon's eye.
She watched the girl in the mirror as she ran her fingers through the soft chin length black hair that had the blue tips. And then the girl laughed, a cold, mirthless laugh.
"Fool!"
"Who are you talking to?" Kuroneko asked as she held the leashes that had been attached to the choke chains she had slipped over the puppies necks. She slipped the small silver chains off as each puppy was pushed into another, slightly roomier cage.
Soon alll teh animals had been put into a small room that seemed to seperate Ryukiba's room and another.
"No one Kuroneko..Just...thinking outloud." Ryukiba lied as she went to sit down in that same arm chair in the corner.
She seemed to just listen for awhile as they all traded stories of back when they had been detectives..and aparently from what she gathered there weren't spirit deteives anymore..some sort of law from the new ruler.
"And what of Mukuro?"
Everyoen turnd to look at her, as if they had forgottten she was there and after a moment she growled teh question again, "I said what of Mukuro?"
"That would be a question for Hiei." Kurama said but the fire demon did not need an invitation to answer the question about the demoness he worked with.
"She's fine..Better.."
"Better. By taht you mean she can control herself. Almost took of my left arm when we met." Ryukiba said before a sort of hissing and rattling began somewhere else in the house.
Ryukinba stood and Yusuke finally remembered to ask what he and Kuwabara had been wondering, "What do you do with all those dogs and rabbits and stuff?"
"You can see if you want." She said as she stood and walked out of the room.
She wallked tthrough her room wiith the othesr following ina line, through the smaller room with the animals to the room behind a door witha skull and cross bones over it.
Inside there was a many sizes of glass tanks that seemed to all hold so sort of serpent or another.
She got ouut some mice and rats to feed the smaller ones, and Kuwabara looked away when one snake ate a rabit live...
But what made Yusukes, Kuramas and Kuwabars eyes widen in horor was when she grabbed two puppiees by the scruffs odf tehy're becks nad leapt high to grabb teh edge of the bigest take what looked like it held a whole jungle inside.
She opened a hatch in the top of it and dropped one puppy into the cage, and with a small splash it fell into the mirky water taht took up half the cage.
It yelped, cryiing as its brother joined it and she tapped rythmicly on the glass untill a hiss started in the back of it, and then three more joined in as somthing moved in the large amount a vegitations.
The puppys were crying pathetically as they struggled to keep themselves a float, that is, before out of the water a huge water snake struck from below, knocking one out of the water before sinking its teeth into the other and dragging it with her as they both screamed in pain.
Vine dropped from above and started coiling around the fist puppy, cracking alerting to broken bones before another python hissed from the back of the cage and gripped it neck, and in a bloody dance the two puppies were distributed to the four large, and hungry snakes...
But when Hiei glanced at Ryukiba he was suprised..no..stunned..
A small devilish smile was staining her lisp and under her breath was a cold, hard, mirthless laugh...Too quiet for anyone but her to hear...
But still, a laugh.