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Chapter 9: Hold me in the darkness

Kuwabara was panting again, dragging Osaka back was a challege. He didn't know what he meant when he said 'you can't use me again I won't let you.' Kuwabara sighed as he knocked on Raytora's door. Raytora answered and sighed sadly as he saw Osaka.

"WHY did you not tell me you're new moon was so soon?" Raytora growled, rubbing his temples to hold down his temper. Kuwabara let the cat go.

Osaka smirked, "Those who live by the moon should know it's phases."

"Aw don't you give me that bull. Now get to your room, nobody's going to use you and if you run away again I'll kick you're ass." He growled.

Osaka lowered to the ground. Raytora sighed, "Okay my room it is. NOW." Osaka slinked off.

Kuwabara looked at Raytora who was leaning on the closed door. He thought hard about what to say to calm the demon.

"Thank you." Raytora sighed looking back at him.

Kuwabara nodded, "He jumped off the roof."

"Yeah...Osaka's had a rough life. Not only is he a hanyou, thanks to his father's sick playing, he was used at a young age." Raytora held his forehead, "His mother and her friends used him for their pleaser while he was a weak human child. You saw him, and I image that you noticed the terror and beauty he has."

Kuwabara paled, "Used him?"

"That why he fears and hates humans. Every one that he met used him and due to that he hates going human. In fact I'm suprised you catch him before he tried to kill himself." Raytora sighed, "He a good spy but a total pain in the ass as a human."

"How often is the change?" Kuwabara frowned.

"Every new moon, now rest, you're going to need it." He disappeared in smoke, leaving Kuwabara alone.

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The next day Raytora was being held by the arm. "Osaka for the last time let go!" He growled. Suzaku was mostly the one Osaka clung to if Raytora growled at him.

"I don't want to leave." Osaka whinned.

Raytora packed most of his things into a backpack and Osaka's too. Suzaku was calming Osaka as Raytora packed his things too.

"We have to go to the tourniment for Bud. Now calm down and let's go see if he feels better." Suzaku suggested draggin Osaka away.

"Silence...finally." Raytora smiled and turned his head as he heard a small knock on the door. He opened it slightly and let Yukina in.

Yukina looked around his room before blushing, "Gekai-san says she wishes to see you about Bud. She's worried about him being afraid of fighting."

"I know but I've told her that I can't do anything. And since he found out about Alaras, he's being having trouble sleeping and eating. He can't hide his fear, and he has to eat something." Raytora frowned, "I just dunno was to do about him or Osaka. I've been taking care of them both for so long and yet even I couldn't dispel their fears."

Yukina gently smiled, "Maybe you're trying too hard." She knew it was a worthless effort but she hated how he was blaming himself.

He snorted, "I doubt that. Lombarian and Yang are conjuleing me and telling my that it's not my fault. I don't blame myself for their problems. I'm just pissed that I can't solve them." He paused, "I need to check on Bud." He stood and stretched.

Yukina took his hand, "Don't blame yourself anymore, okay?" She let him go and blushed at her boldness. 'Oh kami...what did I just do?' She looked up and saw soft gentle pale blue eyes.

"I'll try." He said softly as he left.

She blushed as she sat there stunned. Next thing she knew Lombarian was grinning at her. "You made him blussh." She laughed, oh how musical it was compared to her hissing voice. "Come now you need to pack, Yukina."

Yukina looked up, Lombarian never called anyone by their name. She knew them and if you asked she would tell you why. Yukina had asked about it once.

Flashback

Lombarian paused from walking, they were in the gardens together. She looked at the flower next to her. "My thornss sscare people maiden, and if you sshow me that with all the thornss and sscratchess I causse people, you can sstill befriend me. I sshall call you by your name."

Yukina looked at her, "Why?"

She sighed, "I wass wounded hard before Raytora came into the picture...and even though I recovered ssort of, hiss sscars came. My lady, he iss wounded more than I wass and wass in consstant pain. I sshared that pain by being in hiss concence. I hate him being in pain, I love him like a sson. I'm glad you came when you did."

Yukina blushed, "I know Lombarian. But I have Kazuma."

"Maiden, follow what your heart dessires and you will have the greatesst feeling in the world. Raytora resspectss you lady, and he won't sstand in the way of that." Lombarian smiled.

end flashback

She nodded and followed Lombarian. Lombarian was easy to pack for, all she had to pack was a change of clothes and sewing supplies. Yukina on the other hand had Botan and Lombarian suggesting this to pack.

"A ssweater Yukina, wolf child hass ssnow everywhere he goess." Lombarian suggested while sitting on Yukina's bed. Botan was beside her, and she was having trouble fitting everything in her bag.

Somone knocked on the door and Lombarian told them to enter. It was Suzaku. "We're leaving in ten minutes."

Lombarian nodded, "Thankss."

"He also need you to look at Saka's arm." Suzaku sighed.

"I sshall ssee you later Yukina." Lombarian hissed.

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Bud still couldn't eat, everything he ate made him sick. He couldn't keep anything down and was losing weight fast. Hiei was in the window of his bedroom, watching outside. Bud liked to just glance at the fire demon, he was so calm and quiet. Raytora had packed for him so he felt useless just sitting around wasting away.

"Can we go outside, Hiei?" Bud asked.

"No." He frowned.

Bud sighed, it was useless to argue. "Can we leave the room?"

"Can you walk?" Hiei growled.

Bud sighed, he'd beeen like this tons of times. He hopped out of bed and walked towards the door. Hiei was there before him. "Please Hiei!"

"Eat." He pointed, those were Kurama's orders.

Bud closed his eyes and walked through Hiei and the door. Hiei growled, the kitsune was becoming a pain.

Bud walked down the hall, tail swishing side to side. He laughed as Hiei kept trying to grab him. He soon ran around Kurama and was caught. Bud sighed, 'this is bull crap'.

Kurama lifted Bud over his shoulder, he was so light and felt so fragile, like one wrong move and he'd break. Bud was trying to weakly pull out of Kurama's grasp. Bud sighed and fell through Kurama too.

He was going to get outside. He ran through the walls and smiled as the wind hit his face.

"You don't look good." A voice said softly.

Bud turned and bowed to his queen. She was in a white kimono, with her cherry bloosom amulet and pale long blonde hair. She was quite taller than him, at least seven foot tall. Her lavender eyes softly eyed his weakened body.

"My lady I am in fear." Bud grimaced, so she noticed how bad it really was.

She nodded, "I know, Alaras needs to be stopped and only you or the wolf-dragon can defeat him. I'd rather it be you. The wolf-dragon would be in bloodlust with that much power."

"My lady, why did you come to me?" Bud asked.

She sighed, "I was hoping to get you to eat." She handed him a potion, "Three drops in you're food and you'll keep food down." She paused, "Also Bud, the ghost white kitsunes can't be seen or heard by anyone but you. That's why you must win."

"I'll try my lady." He sighed as she disappeared into the wind.

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They had sucessfully got to the small island of the pheonix kitsunes. Raytora left them to feed his bloodlust quickly. Kurama stayed outside while the others went into their rooms. Something wasn't right. A fearful aura was in the air, and he felt he had to follow it. A kackle filled the air as he neared the source.

'I promised, this body to the one who loved me. You can't have it. Someone help me!'

He halted at the sound of these thoughts. He rounded the corner to find a female cornered with clothes shredded. She was crying. Kurama advance on the male demon and killed him swiftly. He saw her shaking, and it hurt him. Her green hair and lil green fox ears were dirty and her green eyes fearful. Kurama lifted her and took her to the room he shared with Hiei and Raytora.

He placed her on his bed and wrapped a towel around her. He noticed her green foxtail then. She was curled into a ball now on his bed, she stared at him. Her fear was so evident.

"I promise I would hurt you. We need to clean you up." He said softly.

She started crying, "He was my own teammate. He was just stronger than me. I was so stupid to think he loved me." She sniffed, "Can I have different clothes?"

"Just use mine Domovi." a voice said. Kurama looked at Raytora.

She blinked and stared at him, "Please tell me I'm seeing his ghost." She looked at Kurama.

"Tackle me later. Here." Ratora threw jeans and a black shirt at her.

After she was done changing in the bathroom she tackled Raytora crying. "Ray-ray! We thought you were dead! I cried and cried but Nat said she saw you speared and..." She sobbed.

"You look like hell Domovi." Raytora sighed as he just laid on the floor.

"I was...raped today." She said looking to the side. Raytora growled, startling her. She looked at Kurama, "He took care of me."

Raytora nodded, "Thank you Kurama. Now Domovi...get off."

"You're a lot more angry than used to be." She noted shaking still.

Raytora sighed, "Sorry I got to see about some friends of mine. Stay safe."

"Can...can I stay here?" Domovi asked, Raytora heard the plead in her voice.

"That's up to Kurama." He said and left.

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Kurama had let her stay and she never left his side. She was scarred that much was evident. She avoided the touch of the rest of the males in the gang. Kuwabara tried to talk to her and she ran and hid behind Kurama. She fixed lunch for them but got nervous when he wasn't around.

"Do you like cassorole?" She asked rumaging through the kitchen. She fought with Botan into letting her help with the cooking.

"That's fine." Kurama said. She smiled slightly and continued to rumage through the cabnates. Sometimes going in them and leaving her tail out. Kurama pulled her out, "Is it really need to go in there."

She flicked a cobweb off her ear, "Yes, I can't find anything. Can you put me down a sec my pants are falling down."

Kurama chuckled and set her down as she fixed her wardrobe problem. She was so innocent it made him so angry to think of what that male did to her. She was better but Raytora said she was acting. She was trying her hardest to seem okay. That hurt Kurama that she had to try so hard.

"What's the matter?" She asked.

"Nothing." He said quickly.

Bud came in the kichen and set down grocery bags. Domovi leaped back into her work and started cooking again. Bud started putting up the food. He ignored her for the most part, being senitive to how she feared males. Kurama also noticed how he would look at Kurama from time to time.

Hiei grumbled as he dropped his bags. Bud got along well with the easily-agitated fire demon. He was often calm and let Hiei do his own thing. Bud growled as he tried to reach the top shelf. Kurama couldn't help but chuckle.

Bud left after than and Hiei soon followed, leaving him alone with Domovi. She was attractive and smelled so sweet. He sighed and saw that she was watching him out of the corner of her eye.

She finished cooking and grabbed his shirt collar pulling him into a gentle kiss. As she let she turned red. Raytora was smirking, "Did I interupt something?"

She threw her spoon at him and whacked him in the forehead. Kurama hid a chuckle as Raytora rubbed his head leaving.

She smirked as she pulled him into another kiss.

Raytora:((rubs head)) Ow that hurt.

Domovi:((blushing))

Suzaku:((laughing at Raytora)) You deserve it!

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