Broken Angel: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE
CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! I'M RIGHTING THIS ON CHRISTMAS EVE!!!!!!! BUT YOU
WON'T GET IT TILL AFTER CHRISTMAS DAY!!!! :-P

Kori: Eh, I'll make this quick, she's been like this all day.
BrokenAngeldoesn'townYYH.

BA: I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!! LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!! I LOVE
CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!!! YAY!!! YAHOO!!! YIPEE!!!

K: Eh, on with the story I guess. ^_^*

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I'll have to get them out somehow. But how? I walk back to my home as I hear something. It sounds like Kori! My left ear gets a small little shock. She's scared.

I hurry to where I heard her, there's the spirit detective, but it's now too dark to see his face clearly. Kelonta's going along fairly easily, or at least he is until he hears a noise from Kori, they're being held by handcuffs made of energy, which explains why Kori's scared, she hates being confined in anyway, and from what I've heard those handcuffs hurt.

I summon one of my plants, and twine it through the bushes separating me from my friends and the detective, and my friends, heading for him. All I need is for him to get a whiff of its flower's fragrance. It's a blue rose.

Slowly, it twins itself up a tree, that is behind the detective, and then, too fast for him to react, it grabs him, and restrains him, not allowing him to move or breath through his mouth. It opens a flower in front of his face, forcing him to breath in its scent. Immediately, his movement stops, as he is now in a deep sleep.

I hurry to Kelonta and Kori, getting they're handcuffs off, by cutting the cords of energy with a knife I had bought in the demon world.

The knife is able to cut through anything, and it is able to cut and open dimensional portals. Since having the knife, I've learned to close the portals as well.

I close the portal that wasn't even ten feet from us, which led to the spirit world. I take a look at the spirit detective, still not able to see who he was, even when I took my plant from his form, the darkness hid his identity.

Oh, well, I have to make sure that Kelonta and Kori get back to the demon world, I can worry over who this guy is later.

I open a portal to the demon world, close to Chikusho (A major city in the demon world. *Made up*)

All three of us go through. I am going to have to stay for a few days; I hope Yuske and my mother don't worry too much.

Kelonta takes us to his home. While we walk, even though it is not within my character, I walk closely to Kelonta, looking meek. I do this so that no demon will give us any trouble, letting them know that Kelonta, if anyone threatens my well-being, will hurt them.

We walk to the outskirts, when unfortunately, one certain demon, a wolf demon named Okorippoi, I usually call him Okori, decides to stir up trouble.

"What do we have here, Kelonta? That little wench, and Tasty, walking with you again?" I wince at his nickname for me, Tasty.

"Please, Okorippoi, we mean no trouble, 'nor do we want any," Kori tries to plead with him, he just licks his lips, looking at me, and ignoring her.

"Let us pass, dog." Kelonta long ago had his patience with Okori disappear.

"I will if you just give Tasty to me." Eck. I hate him. He always talks about me like I'm an object.

"Over my dead body, dog." Oh, no. They're going to fight again! Where did Kelonta's good sense go? If a commotion is caused now, especially over a human, spirit world might send someone.

"Well, I guess we could try that again." Okori doesn't have any common sense, Kelonta has defeated him several hundred times.

"My pleasure," Kelonta calls out one of his rose whips, looks like the Red Rose Whip, this time. I watch, with mock-horror of coarse, as they fight. Kelonta has so far gotten twenty hits on his opponent, and his opponent has no hits on him.

Kelonta finally just puts Okori through a wall. Where he decided to turn tail and run, as he ran he called out, "I will have Tasty!" Yuck!

Kelonta turns toward me; I still, since peop-eh-demons are around, have the meek little girl act on. I hate it.

He walks to me, and both of us still with the act, him being the big strong demon, me being the small little weak human girl he's to protect for nobody's business. The only people that know of this act are people we trust. That's not many people/demons.

We walk on to his home on the outskirts of Chikusho; it's a large two- story tree house.

We climb up the stairs, that Kelonta has just provided, to the home. We walk in and get comfortable, I go to my usual nook, a small hole in the tree that I had fashioned so that when I came and stayed with Kelonta, I'd have a place of my own. Kori has a place of her own in Kelonta's home as well, a chair in the corner of the living room with plants that were from her home region.

I snuggle into my nook, letting the wood collect my warmth so that it soon too, would be warm. Kelonta had gone to take care of a few scratches that he got from fighting with Okori. Kori and I started talking about the situation.

"What should we do?" Kori wriggles around in her spot.

"I think you two should keep a lower profile. Though that might have been blown. What caused Kelonta to blow up at Okorippoi anyways?"

"You know what caused him to blow up, Suisho!" I look at Kori, confused.

"No, I don't." She looks at me with a look that said, "I thought you were smarter than that!"

"He considers himself a father to you, Suisho. And with you starting to like boys, he's becoming protective. You're the closest thing he has to an heir. With his own son walking out on him in the middle of his teachings, his own son that-"

"That only used him. I know. But Kelonta knows that I have no real wish for romance. I might look, though that's it."

"Yes, but he still worries. He doesn't trust easily, and he's come to trust you." Kori picks a flower off a nearby plant, an ice blossom.

"If he trusts me, then he shouldn't believe that I'll walk out on him. I'm here to learn all he has to teach, not just part. I'll stay, to learn, then after, I'll stay to be a friend. I don't wish for anything else. I'm content just learning. If I could learn all my life, I'd be content, I'd be happy." I settle down in my nook, grabbing a stuffed animal besides it, and hugging the thing to my breast.

"You never want to have children?" Kori looks at me with an inquisitive eye.

"Have you heard of a sperm bank?" Kori laughs.

"But that's so impersonal! I don't see how you human's can do such a thing."

"Some of us just learn that it's not a good idea for us to have a mate, or whatever it is you call your partners in life. And personally, I don't see myself like that."

"Mate, that's the right term. And how can you say that! I've always seen you with several kids, and a nice strong man besides you. Some times I see the man being a demon."

"No kidding?" I smirk, trying not to burst out laughing at what she was saying. Things don't always end up pretty. Yuske and my father walked out on our mother before we were even born. Hmph. 'Man besides you,' yeah, right. Most likely, if I go for a man, he'll end up like my own father, or worse, he'll be like a father I had seen an old friend in the U.S. had. He had been her stepfather; he always hit her, and her mother. In the short time that I had known her mother, her mother had gone from a proud woman that wouldn't allow anything to bother her, by the end, after he came, she became a broken woman with eyes that would never stop crying, only when her eyes were dry, would her tears stop flowing, and then, she finally gave up, using a razor to end her suffering. I won't be my mother, and I won't be that mother. I'd rather start off alone, and end up alone.

"No. I'm not. You can't hide from your heart forever, Suisho. It'll find you someday."

"And if I haven't a heart?"

"Then you'll find one." She then got up and left the room, I could hear her and Kelonta talking in the next room. I don't know what they're talking about, and at the moment I don't care. I'm tired. I snuggle into my nook more, the now warm, smooth wood feeling so welcoming for a nap.

***

I look at her as she sleeps. How can she say that? No mate? No father for her children? I nearly cried when Kori told me what she had said. I know she's not had any good examples of men, but how can she not want that?

I remember my mate, Jenola. She was a beautiful silver kitsune. Our son had inherited her coloring. She was the kindest soul there was. I remember, when we were in bed at night, she would say that the most wonderful feeling in the world, was being held by the one you loved. I believe she was right, I loved holding her. Stroking her hair. Whispering into her ear, about how much I loved her. She would snuggle up closer just to be nearer. Inari, I miss her.

How could Suisho not want that? How could she not want to know what love is? I don't think I'll ever understand that girl.

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A little note: I'm sorry it took me so long to get this up, my computer's just been way to wacky. Every time I loaded it onto FF.net, the story was unreadable. Sorry, I hope this doesn't stop any loyal readers from reading!