-----Author's Note-----
Miss Rawr: Hey everybody! The fourth chapter is finally up. I apologize for the delay on this, but my school had standardized testing all week. I'm so drained. This chapter, I would have to say, is probably the most humorous so far. I really like it and I had my good friend niko5290 read it and she loved it. So I hope you enjoy my story! Now back to your scheduled programming.
Chapter4: Vines With A Mind Of Their Own
Rei tossed and turned as she slept. She was having a reoccurring dream.
She was running and trying not to trip up a flight of stairs. Her breath hitches and she reaches the top. There standing before her, is Fuzen, the demon who once enslaved her. He has a wicked grin on his face. "Come here, Reicheru. Come see your lover." There in the distance, it was normally fuzzy, but now she saw who it was as clear as day. There before her, was Kurama, her Kurama, incapacitated. "Let him go you monster!" "Not until you are with me again, my dear. Whether you like it or not, you will never escape me!"
Rei woke up sweating and a horrible headache. She whispered to herself, "I'll spend as much time with him as I can until the inevitable happens."
She looked around and realized that she was put in her room. She showered and got dressed and decided to go to the temple so she could talk to Genkai. When she finally got there, she found Genkai meditating. "Genkai, I'm sorry to bother you, but could I please speak with you?"
Genkai led Rei into a quiet part of the temple. "I know of what you wish to speak with me for, Rei. These dreams of yours, the one in particular you keep having over and over again, it's not a dream, Rei. It's foresight."
Rei shuddered. "I was afraid of this. Is there any way to prevent what is to happen, Genkai?"
"I don't know, child, I just don't know. It will take a lot of spirit and heart to battle something as strong as the future. I wish you good luck, child. Yusuke, be a dear and show Rei to the kitchen."
A thump could be heard from behind a door. "Damn, grandma, how the hell did you know I was there?"
"It wasn't that hard, you idiot, I am a psychic you know. I'm sure Rei knew you were there too."
"Why yes, I did. It was pretty obviously actually."
Yusuke sighed and had Rei follow him to the kitchen. "So…what was that dream you had about?"
"It was nothing, Yusuke. I'd rather not talk about it."
Yusuke and Rei strolled into the kitchen where everyone was eating lunch. Kurama stood up and greeted Rei. "Ah. My darling. I see you're feeling much better."
Rei smiled. "Yes, I'm feeling much better, thank you."
"Well, then come here and eat something. You look famished. When you're finished, come meet me in the forest, dear." With that, Kurama left the room.
Rei wondered to herself, "What on earth is he scheming?"
Before she could get any more thoughts in, she found herself being dragged to the table by Yusuke. "Yusuke! What are you doing?"
"Umm. You look paler than a sheet of paper. You need to eat."
"I'm fine really. I'm not too hungry actually."
"Well that's too bad because you're going to be eating anyway."
Shortly after that, Rei had been stuffed with all the breakfast food she could think of, and she was now heading towards the forest. She felt, for some reason, as if someone was following her, but she couldn't quite place the person. Suddenly, she felt something at her leg. Rei jumped and looked down but saw nothing. She turned around to see if anyone was following her. Nothing. While her back was turned she felt something again brushing at the back of her neck this time. She quickly whirred around to see that is was a vine tickling her.
It took her a couple of minutes to realize that it was Kurama's doing.
"Very funny, plant boy. Now where are you?"
She searched for Kurama telepathically and all she could hear him say was, "If you want to see me so much, darling Rei, then find me."
She huffed and puffed and trudged along looking for her fox. What she didn't know was that the whole time she was looking for Kurama; he was merely about 10 feet away from her. He made sure that she was in seeing distance. He didn't want anything to happen to her during his little game of cat and mouse.
Rei searched for his mind again. All she got was, "Darling, you're so close it makes me chuckle."
She then heard a hearty chuckle echo throughout the forest. She jumped slightly and then regained her composure. "He is just trying to get to me," she thought as she continued on. Rei finally came to a creek where there was a tree with its limbs hanging over the water. "How pretty," she thought. She sat down underneath the tree and began to think of where that sly fox of hers might be. Then out of nowhere, the limbs of the tree started to move. Rei sprang up from where she sat, but she was too slow for the speed of the limbs.
The limbs were flexible enough to curl around her arms and suspend her in the air.
Rei started to scream. "KURAMA! I know this is your doing! Get me down from here! Now!"
Kurama made himself visible to Rei. He had a smirk on his face watching his love dangle in the air. "Why darling, what seems to be the matter?"
Rei started at him coldly, which would make any other being cower, but Kurama, he smirked even more.
"I see. So Rei. When do you plan on getting down from there? I hope sometime soon."
Rei looked at him puzzlingly. And then she had an idea. "Well, Kurama. I was going to give you a present when I found you…but I guess you really don't want one."
Kurama stopped smirking, thinking Rei was going to give him some sort of affection. He stood beneath her and willed the limbs to let go of her. He caught her as she fell.
With Rei still in his arms, Kurama asked, "Well now, what is this little surprise you want to give me, my darling?"
Rei smiled at him innocently and replied, "Well you're going to have to put me down first, love."
Kurama complied and put her down. Rei stared at him lovingly and said in a husky tone, "Close your eyes and I'll give you your surprise, my love."
Kurama quickly closed his eyes and slightly puckered his lips.
"Ouch!" Kurama had cried. Rei had kicked him in the shins and took off running. When Kurama opened his eyes, she was out of sight.
Kurama thought to himself, "That was very cunning if I do say so myself. I do believe I am rubbing off on her."
But not in the way we both wish we were rubbing off on her.
"Youko! Stop that! It's nauseating."
We both know it isn't.
"Well even if it isn't, it's still rude."
Nevertheless, dear boy, we both know what we want. And I don't feel like waiting any longer. Rei is mine, she is yours, she is ours. And we must make everyone aware of that. Especially her.