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Griffin D. Sage: yeah, I noticed the irony. You didn't lose a reviewer…. I just sometimes need to be reminded to review things more than once. Sometimes I get half a dozen new chapters on my updated list, and I don't have enough time to review all of them. I'll be sure to review people more often.
Chapter 3: At the Hospital and Relatives:
Yuki was sent to the hospital, and was seen to by Doctor Curtis, the same doctor who had delivered Kira. Seeing Kira walk in to see how Yuki was, he introduced himself, creeping Kira out slightly. I mean, how would it feel to meet the one who saw you being born?
Yuki was still unconscious, but she wasn't badly injured. Doctor Curtis said that she would be better in only a week, scratches and all.
Kira refused to leave her friend's bedside, even when Shessomaru told her that he was taking her home. It almost took literally grabbing her and dragging her away. Luckily for her, and Shessomaru's pride, she left, promising to be back first thing the next morning, given that school would be out again.
Yuki awoke in an unfamiliar place. All she saw was white, and she was under covers. She tried to lift her body to look around the room, but when she tried to move, he was in pain. She winced, but kept trying to get up. Then, she heard a sound on her right—a door was opening. In walked a doctor.
"You really shouldn't be moving," he said calmly, "That was quite a fight you must have been in."
"Fight? Where am I? Why am I here?" she asked confused, her mind still fuzzy from her unconscious state.
"You saved your friend Kira from that gang. I must say that you are strong young demon."
"How do you know about that? Who are you?"
"Doctor Curtis. I'm a demon myself."
"What about…"
"My spell?" he finished for her, "I specialize in spells that even hide themselves from their user. Kira, your friend is an example of my handiwork. Of course, her uncle is the one keeping it up now."
"You know that Kira's a demon!"
"Half-demon, to be exact."
"I knew that. So, she doesn't know, does she?"
"Of course not. Her uncle—Shessomaru—has seen to it that she doesn't know until she has to know. That time is coming up rather soon, in a matter of fact. He was planning on it being on her thirteenth birthday, but after what transpired today, I'm really not all that sure."
"I don't see why it has to be a secret! She has a right to know about her heritage. I mean, it never was a secret from me that I have a human in my background."
"Don't ask me how he thinks. I seriously don't know."
There was a silence after that, for Yuki was tired from the conversation. Doctor Curtis was leaving when Yuki asked, "How much longer until I can leave?"
"You should be fine by morning. Luckily for you, you won't miss any school because of the snow. Even so, don't go to school until the day after tomorrow."
The next day she left the hospital, and Kira who was sitting at her house waiting for Yuki, surprised her. It was only two days before Kira's birthday, and Shessomaru hadn't told her yet.
Kira and Yuki spent that day hanging out and talking about the party that Kira was going to have in two days. That night Kira was sure to walk home earlier, and they finished their planning on the phone.
It was the day before her birthday. She awoke to a doorbell ringing over and over again. Belonging to a rich family, she heard one of the servants open the door. She tried to go back to sleep, but sleep eluded her, and she sat in bed trying to figure out what was keeping her from her sleep. Granted, the day after the next was her birthday, but why would that bug her now?
Finally, she managed to fall off into dreamland, but she was awakened from it earlier the next morning than usual.
Her acute sense of smell, which she didn't understand, was telling her that there were family members in the house visiting. One smelled like lilacs, one smelled like the forest, and the last smelled like the woods as well, but it had a hint of cologne, such as AXE (my brother uses this stuff…I don't own!).
She didn't have enough time to analyze their scents before her maid, Veronica, came into her room to wake her up. She pretended to be asleep, and Veronica had to literally drag her out of bed. How that 5' 3" 30 year old maid could drag a growing girl of 5' 5" out of bed and across the room without struggling was always a mystery for Kira.
After 5 minutes of the regular routine, Kira was out of bed, though she already was when her maid dragged her around the room by her feet.
After becoming semi-presentable, she went downstairs to see what all the commotion was about. Apparently, her cousin and her husband were in town (1), as was their son.
She had never met the three before. They had spent Akio's, as was their son's name, entire life in the United States. (2). They were now just moving back to Japan.
First impressions stay for a long time. Needless to say, Kira was surprised when she saw Akio's face for the first time. Scratch that, she was surprised when she saw his whole body. He had tattoos on his cheeks in red. They resembled lightning. (3). On his forehead, he had another tattoo, but this one was that of a green leaf (4). Because he was wearing a T-shirt, she could see tattoos on his arms in the same color and designs as on his face.
His hair almost touched his shoulders, and she could see that his ears were pointed like those of an elf. Upon close inspection, she could make out claws on his hands.
Her cousin's husband had orange hair in a similar length, and her cousin had long dark brown hair that reached her mid back.
"Kira, glad that you could come. I would like you to meet your cousin's son (5). His name is Akio. I hope you treat him well. He will be staying here until his new house can be built across the street," said her uncle, giving his strict, formal appearance, but hidden in it was a look of kindness.
"Pleased to meet you," said Akio in a casual manner.
"Same to you," said Kira, acting politely.
"Kira, remember, you have school today. Will you show Akio to all his classes?" asked, rather demanded politely, Shessomaru.
"Yes, Uncle."
"Good. Now, don't be late. I'll have Ferdinand drive you both to school. Heaven knows that new chauffeur needs the experience. Kira, just don't pester him as much as you did the last one. Asking him to take you to the ice cream shop every time you go somewhere is no way to treat someone, especially when you are on a deadline to get where you need to be."
"Whatever, Uncle," she said as she walked back up the stairs to grab her bag. Akio was already by the door with all the books he needed by the time she came. She immediately noticed that the markings on his face and arms were gone. "Weird" she thought as she escorted him to the car.
Ferdinand drove calmly as the two teens—well, the preteen and the teen—talked in the back. Kira wanted to ask where the markings went, but she was afraid of the response, so she didn't ask it.
School flew by. Yuki was allowed to go to school, and amazingly, she had no damage done to her, and she looked perfectly normal. Yuki was quieter than usual, but it wasn't a bad thing.
Akio was in all of Kira's classes, except for English. She was in English I, and he wasn't even in English. Instead, he was learning Spanish. His old school hadn't taught it, but all of his non-school friends spoke it. He had felt out of the loop when he only knew English and Japanese.
He fit in perfectly. As a matter of fact, one could say that he fit in TOO perfectly. He was one of those people who could make a friend in a day, and earn their trust as a "good" friend in a week.
END CHAPTER
Whew….that took a while between school and all that. I have three projects for school due on three consecutive days! The teachers are all crazy!
1: her cousin is Rin, who was adopted the "demon" way by Shessomaru, making her a full demon. She married Shippou.
2: He lived in the Untied States because they wanted to get away from Japan sometimes to keep their identity a secret. Rin and Shippou would move every 15 years, but because they now have Akio, they will be moving a lot more often. In this story, demons and hanyous age like normal people until 16, and then they stop and age like demons.
3: Think Shessomaru's markings. They are the same ones.
4: The marking on the forehead is the marking of the father. Only royal blood has it, but the royal blood can come from the mother. Hence, Shippou has no mark, but Akio does because he has the royal blood. Rin also has a mark, but had had a concealment spell on.
5: What would that be? Would it be a second cousin? Or maybe a third? I don't know…. someone tell me in a review. If you don't know, then I'll go with calling them "cousins" just for simplicity. I may even start to call Rin her "aunt" and Shippou he "uncle", but for simplicity, I'll keep their "titles" in quotes.
How was it? I know, lots of explaining…..just little tidbits that you may need to know in the near future. I may incorporate them into the story later….but they are good to know where I'm going.