The story of Rika part 3
A month after Rika had returned the boys came home victorious. Rika was very excited to see them. Over the past month she had decided she wanted to go to school again so she enrolled and had met a freshman name Lash. They had become very close friends and Lash would stay over to keep her company often. Unfortunately it was only on the weekends because her mother did not like that she was hanging out with a senior girl in some shrine all by herself. When the boys had returned Lash was there as well.
Lash was as far as Rika was concerned beautiful. She was tall with a flat stomach and thin muscular legs. Her face was perfectly Asian/American, her father was American. Her chin came to a nice point and her jaw line was smooth and had a nice curve. Her lips were big but not too big and her nose was a small and sloped. Her hair was long and wavy; it was a blonde with tints of red everywhere. Lash was knock out gorgeous and all the guys at school loved her, but she still had never had a boyfriend.
They all exchanged hugs and welcome to group to Lash. After a while Rika had found out about Genkai and how she was gone and the really upset her. Genkai was her teacher, the home owner, her friend that would always be there so she wasn't lonely. The boys promised to come by and stay with her every once in a while so she wasn't alone. They even picked straws on who would go first, second, third, and last. Rika told Kuwabara that he didn't really have to do that for him so he decided he didn't want in so he just went home.
Rika had never really liked Kuwabara he was just too weird and she let Kuwabara know it all the time too. Kuwabara by now had caught on and didn't really mind he thought was a stuck up brat and rather spend time with his Yukina then her.
KURAMA AND HIEI WERE STUCK STAYING the night with Lash and Hiei and they were all sitting around the living room floor just talking.
"So you decided to go back to school? Well that should give you something to do during the day," Kurama liked the idea of school he missed it so much, but what was he to do?
"Yeah but she never shows up," Lash laughed as Kurama's face went blank. They both looked at Rika who hadn't really said a word since everyone had left. She was still upset about Genkai and seeing Kurama she remembered what had happened when she had visited at the Dark Tournament. The last thing she remembered about Genkai was how she was sneaking around her back and being pissed off at her. The morning she left she hadn't said one word to Kurama, she had a feeling Kurama had known about Yusuke. She felt even worse when Yusuke had called a few days afterwards and told her that he was staying with Keiko but Kurama was really liked her.
"Rika are you okay?" Lash giggled looking at her, Kurama and Lash had been continuing their conversation while Rika moped.
"Yeah I'm just thinking," she said very quietly, she really just wanted to go to bed. "I think I'm going to go to bed, you guys sit and talk." She stood up and nodded to them and looked at Hiei on the other side of the room and nodded and headed to bed.
"What's wrong with her?" Lash wondered out loud concerned for her friend but she didn't really want to ask Rika what was wrong. Lash was enjoying her conversation with Kurama, she knew many things about him and now she got the chance to talk to him.
"I think she is just upset about Genkai or Yusuke," Kurama also waved it off finding Lash a very fun person to talk to.
"Oh yeah he's the guy that cheated on his girlfriend with her and then dumped her to be with his girlfriend? Does his girlfriend even know?" Lash began to butt into their lives. "She pretty much cried after that phone call all night. I had to beg my mom to come spend the night over here."
"She was really upset over it?" Kurama seemed surprised. He thought Rika didn't really care for people; she had never cared about him, at least in a friend's sense. She acted like she was some sort of player and didn't really care about people she messed with.
"Yeah she wasn't really that upset over Yusuke it was more of the fact that-," Lash paused and remembered who she was talking to. She didn't want to tell Kurama that she was upset over him, even though she knew Rika didn't have a crush on him or anything she just didn't want Kurama to think she did.
"The fact that what?" Kurama asked interested, he didn't know why he cared but he wanted to know.
"The fact that she knew he was just using her," she lied, she knew Kurama would bug the real thing out of her so she just lied right away and then he would act amazed and she would change the subject.
"Hn." Hiei said from the corner of the room, he had found that interesting. Lash looked at him wondering if he knew she was lying; she wasn't a very good liar. Hiei stood up and made his way to the back door and left to find a tree to sleep in for the night. Lash and Kurama sat in the room alone.
This is stupid she's such a liar Hiei telepathically told Kurama before shutting the door. Kurama looked back at Lash and lost interest in the subject of Rika. Lash turned back from watching Hiei leaving and looked at Kurama.
"Anyways, so tell me about this whole thing all of you guys do, it seems so interesting," Lash got out before they heard a scream from Rika's room. In an instant they both stood and in a flash they were in her room.
Rika was laying in her bed tossing and turning grabbing her head. Kurama was the first to her side, already looking all over the room for some sort of demon that could be causing this. "DON'T HATE ME!" Rika grabbed her hair as she screamed. Suddenly Hiei was next to Lash watching Kurama who was horrified.
Lash ran over to her and grabbed Rika's hand from her head, "Sweetie its okay no one hates you," she spoke calmly holding Rika's hands at her side.
"But he hates me, he wants me to leave him alone forever," Rika almost screamed but she was quieting down now.
"It's okay let him hate you, he is just a guy you can get over it and then when he changes his mind you can hurt him back just as bad," Lash reasoned as Rika finally fell back asleep. Lash stood up, "She does that every once in a while."
"Who is she screaming about?" Hiei asked extremely mad that Rika had wakened him up.
Kurama was still shaken, he assumed it was Yusuke she was screaming about, he wondered if she consciously didn't want him to never talk to her again or if it was just a dream that had different circumstances.
"I don't actually know, she has never told me when I ask her who her dreams are about," Lash confessed biting her thumb nail looking at Rika sleeping. That was the truth Lash had always wondered who she didn't want to hate her but Rika always told her that she doesn't have dreams where some says they hate her. She wasn't sure if Rika was lying or not; Rika was a pro at lying and had been lying her whole life. Lash grabbed her hair up in a pony tail and let it back down again sighing.
"Hn." Hiei said and left again in a flash and Lash and Kurama decided they would head to bed as well. Kurama didn't really want to leave her, he was afraid she would start screaming again and he wouldn't be there and she would hurt herself. An hour after he had decided to go to bed he laid awake staring at the ceiling. He couldn't stop thinking about anything and everything. Mostly it was about his mother and how he missed her and how he missed school. He thought about his fan club at school and why they never asked why he misses school so much. He then began to think about whether or not he was actually passing and how he would ever get diploma if he never graduated. He realized that he didn't need school he was over 200 years old. He started to think about his past as Youko and then remember the incident with Rika and how they were once really good friends and were partners in crime. He then remembered his old friend who had hated Rika and then he had never talked to Rika again because of him.
Kurama stopped thinking and was telling himself to sleep and not think but he couldn't, he was tired but couldn't sleep. He decided he would check on Rika and got up and walked to her room. As he entered he realized she was no longer sleeping but sitting in her bed and looking out the window. "Good morning," he said making her jump.
"Jerk don't do that," she whispered upset and feeling like she was about to have a heart attack.
"Sorry," he apologized and walked up to her. She patted the space next to her on the bed and he sat down. They both gazed out the window for a bit and Rika rested her head on his shoulder. Kurama was startled but didn't do anything; he never had a girl rest on him before. "It's pretty," he said after a few minutes and she took her head off his shoulder and looked at him and smiled. "What?" he asked her looking at her with moon light on her face.
"I'm just really happy you aren't mad at me," she said looking back out the window still smiling. She was sure he was going to be mad at her for leaving with out saying good bye.
"Why would I be mad at you?" He laughed as she looked back at him.
"I don't know I just had a feeling you were. I felt bad for not saying good-bye when I left and for being mean to you," she just shrugged and smiled more.
"Oh well I was but I got over it, and how were you mean to me?" He wondered extremely confused, he had no idea what she was talking about.
She looked at him but didn't say anything; she didn't want to tell him that she didn't really want to lead him on the way she did. "I don't know, it's just I thought I felt mean," she said trying to just end the subject.
"Oh, well I didn't think you were being mean, or at least not what I noticed," he said turning and getting off the bed.
"Where are you going?" Rika turned to face him not wanting him to leave.
"I just came to check on you," he said remembering the reason he had come there in the first place.
"Check on me?" She looked at him with one eye brow cocked wondering why he would feel the need to come and check in on her.
"Yeah you had a night terror earlier I just wanted to make sure you weren't having another one," he told her and she looked down at her hands embarrassed that he had seen her freak out in her sleep.
"Was I screaming stuff?" She asked laying down on her bed looking back out the window.
"Yep, something about some one hating you and you didn't want them to; but Lash calmed you down." He looked at her and he could tell her face was red even in the white light. "Can I ask you a personal question?" He walked back over to her bed and sat down.
"Depends," she looked at him and sat back up and he sat more up on the bed with her.
"Well who don't you want to hate you?" He asked hoping she would tell him. He had a feeling it was Yusuke but he wasn't sure, he knew she had had a bad life growing up and that could be it.
"Well I don't know, I think about my dream and I can't remember who the person is," she told him the truth, she had told the same thing to Lash and she had said she was lying.
"Oh, I figured it could have been Yusuke, but I wasn't sure," he said and she pfft.
"It's not him, he's a jerk I wouldn't mind it if he did hate me. When he told me he was staying with Keiko he even had the nerve to tell me that you liked me and that I should try and hook up with you!" She yelled softly upset saying something that she probably shouldn't of. Her face turned red she thought she would embarrass him.
"WHAT?" Kurama almost yelled he had no idea Yusuke had said that, and then he remembered that Yusuke wanted Kurama to make Rika fall in love with him to get her mind off of him. He looked at Rika who looked a little scared. "He really told you that? That brat, the night you guys came home from doing whatever you guys were doing, I'm sure it was farther then I saw, but he came to me and told me he was going to push you away and he wanted me to make you fall in love with me!" His secret side was starting to come out; he had never thought Yusuke would be so immature.
"Wait, he wanted me to fall in love with you so that it wouldn't hurt me as much when he GRRRR…" Rika's red face was now out of anger then out of embarrassment. "So you don't like me?" She jumped out of bed and headed to the door. Kurama was quick up to and grabbed her before she could run out and attack Yusuke in the middle of the night. "Kurama just let me go," she squirmed in his arms and suddenly stopped and he let go. She gave him a questioning look, "You saw me and Yusuke?"
Kurama had forgotten he had something like that. "Um….yeah Hiei and I were in the woods when you guys came up." Rika's face went back to normal and she mouthed the word 'Oh'. She walked back over to her bed and sat on it. Her hands laid in her lap and Kurama walked up and sat next to her. "I'm sorry," he said not knowing what he was sorry about but he felt he needed to say something.
"Naw its okay, it's just I thought you liked me and I don't know it was weird," she said putting her hands behind her to prop herself up.
"How's that weird?" He asked her wondering what could possibly be weird about him liking her he did at one point in time.
"Well you know the whole gay thing," she started laughing out loud joking around with him. He didn't think it was very funny and he just looked at her. Her laughter died down, "Sorry I just haven't made a joke about that in a while."
"You better be sorry, I'm really not gay," he said with a stern face which didn't seem to bother her.
"Oh yeah, then why won't you go out with one of the girls in your fan club?" She asked using her hands from behind her to pull her up on the bed more.
"Because I'm not attracted to them and why would I go out with an annoying little girl anyways. I already can't stand being around you," he laughed getting back at her for the gay thing.
She laughed and lightly slapped her knee. "See you are funny, I understand I really hate immature kids."
Kurama pushed himself more up on the bed as there conversation came to a halt. "You know I used to like you." He said for no reason at all, he had liked her and he had no idea why he felt so comfortable telling her this.
"Oh yeah. What happened?" She asked as if she wasn't surprised. She wasn't sure either why he had told her that but at the moment she felt a strange warmness inside of her. She had never had a long conversation like this with Kurama, she liked it.
"I don't know, I just don't," he stumbled not knowing what to say to her. He could tell her that it was because of Yusuke but he wasn't sure if that was the reason or not. He looked at her and for probably the first time in his life he didn't know what to say, for the first time he didn't really know. His life had been him knowing almost everything and knowing exactly how he felt at all times.
"How can you not know, was it something I did to turn you off?" She felt like giggling but couldn't, she just seemed very serious, even to her self. She knew he was pondering in his head when exactly it was or what it was, he looked like he was at a loss.
Kurama just wanted to say something but he didn't know, then he thought what if it was because he still liked her. They were friends and even though it was weird that they had once shared a bed together he hadn't minded, was it the fact that he really did like her? He started to confuse himself more and more thinking had he really lost interest in her or had he just told himself too. By the time the question had been in the air for about 10 minutes he had forgotten what the question was.
"You think too much," Rika said tried of the silence knowing that he didn't have an answer.
Kurama welcomed the change in conversation, "I've totally confused myself! That never happens; I really can't tell you an answer."
"Oh well, no biggie that stuff happens to me all the time," she said smiling understanding he had no idea.
"It does?" He asked not sure of what she meant, was she really at a loss all the time? She didn't really act so stupid, all the time.
"I never know when I stop liking someone, it just seems to happen in my sleep and when I wake up I realize how stupid I was for liking them. It's just a mystery why people fall in and out of love in an instant." Rika looked back out the window the sky was starting to get lighter.
Kurama thought about it, he looked at her, 'that sounded very intelligent,' he thought to himself moving his eyes back out the window. "The sky is turning red, today will not be a pleasant day," he felt his eyes getting heavier. "I was going to see my mom but you've made me to tired to go home. By the time I wake up it will be to nasty outside to go home," he tried to get his eyes open but he couldn't and he felt himself falling backwards on the bed. In instant he had passed out and Rika just looked at him.
"How cute," she said getting out of bed and rearranging his limp body on the bed more. She looked at him sleeping comfortably on the bed and her dark eyes felt heavier. She just wanted to lay down. She climbed back on the bed and laid her head on Kurama's chest and fell asleep as soon as her whole body was on the bed.
Lash walked past the door and peered in, "Aw that's cute," she cooed running and grabbing a camera and snapping a picture. She walked in and shook the 2 awake, but neither of them stirred. All of a sudden Lash heard the front door close and open along with Yusuke yelling "Hello". Lash ran to the bedroom door and leaned her head out. She saw Yusuke and Keiko standing at the end of the hallway, "In here come quick," she yelled down to them. Lash went back to the bed as Yusuke and Keiko rushed in.
"Awe isn't that cute," Yusuke laughed as Keiko stayed quiet holding his hand. Yusuke then gave a quirky smile hopping that Kurama had actually done what he asked. They all heard the backdoor slide open and shut as Hiei entered the house. Soon he to joined them all looking at the 2 sleeping. Rika's head and right arm rising and falling on Kurama's chest as he breathed.
"That's disgusting," Hiei remarked before trying to wake them both telepathically. WAKE UP YOU ARE IDOITS he yelled at them and only Rika eyes fell open. She turned her head to see everybody watching them. Shocked she screamed and fell out of the bed, she looked back up at Kurama who was still fast asleep.
"What are you 2 doing?" Lash exclaimed running to help her up.
Rika was still a little bewildered and a little tired. "Well we were talking and he kind of just passed out of exhaustion and it looked really comfortable so I laid down with him," she tried to explain as Yusuke gave her an yeah-right look. "You know what Yusuke you're lucky I'm to tired to beat your ass. I can't believe you would be such a jerk for saying that stuff to me and Kurama both," she yelled instantly remembering what he had done.
"What are you talking about," he said looking a little uneasy knowing exactly what she was talking about.
"Shut up," Kurama mumbled in his sleep. Rika ran over and started shaking him; he finally woke up looking very angry. "What?" he whined.
"Yusuke's here," she informed him watching as his face changed from tired to angry. "Yusuke can we talk to you alone?" She asked not wanting to yell at him in front of Keiko.
"Um, no me and Keiko just popped in to see how you guys were doing and we are leaving now," he turned but Keiko didn't move.
"Yusuke if they need to talk you then you can't run away we don't have to be to my parents restaurant for another hour," Keiko said simply not knowing what it was they needed to talk about but it must have been important if Kurama was mad.
"But Baby," he groveled trying to get her to let them leave. "They are going to hurt me."
"No, we just simply must talk to you, nothing physical," Kurama said through a yawn and he saw Yusuke look at Rika who still looked furious. "I'll make sure she doesn't pounce, though you deserve it." The other three left and they left Yusuke looking scared out of his mind standing in the middle of the room.
"What in hell makes you think you can control other people's lives? What makes you think you can convince a person to fall in love with another person? You are ridiculous Yusuke and it was the most immature thing I have ever seen you do the entire time I've known you." Rika shouted starting to rip him a new one.
"Not only is it immature but disrespectful and overall rude. Just because you would rather stick with Keiko doesn't mean you can hurt someone's feelings and try to make it less worse by trying to get me to go to her side," Kurama said calm but with much impact in each and every word. They watched as Yusuke went from scared to sad and apologetic.
"You can't just go and do stuff with me and go back to your girlfriend, what if she knew? How do you think she would feel? It's not fair or right for anyone, not even you," Rika yelled her loudest and Kurama grabbed her hand reminding her not to hurt him on the outside. "I don't know if I even want to be your friend anymore. It's not because you decided not to be with me but because you betrayed me," she calmed down and Kurama took his hand from him. Rika sniffed feeling the hurt come and anger leave.
"I'm sorry, I didn't think it would cause this much of a problem," Yusuke looked at Rika's tears feeling absolutely horrible for the first time in a long time. He had been insulted by many people before and even his mother but it had never hurt as much as he hurt right that moment.
"That's all," Kurama said freeing him to leave. But Yusuke didn't turn and run out the door, he walked up to Rika and gave her a hug and let her cry on his shoulder for a while. Kurama heard him whisper 'I'm sorry' in her ear about a million times. Finally Rika calmed down and Yusuke looked at Kurama.
"I hope we can all still be friends," he said grabbing Kurama's hand and giving him a quick hug. "I have to go but I guess I will see you guys in a few days," he said saying good bye and leaving the room.
Rika looked at Kurama and smiled, "Well now that that's settled, I think I heard Lash take a few picture that I must go confiscate. You can sleep in my bed as long as you want. It's better than that 'throw bed' you had before."
"Thanks," Kurama smiled yawning and lying back down on the bed this time going under the covers and instantly he fell asleep.
RIKA WALKED OUT INTO THE dining room and noticed Yusuke and Keiko had left and all that remained was Hiei and Lash. "I hope you really yelled at him and didn't go easy like you usually do," Lash said as Rika sat the table on her square pillow. Lash had made a bowl of cereal and it was sitting in front of Rika. Lash walked over to the refrigerator and Rika began to eat the cereal. "Hey that's mine," Lash yelled as she came back and saw Rika. Rika quickly began to eat the cereal faster and Lash ran over. Rika grabbed the bowl and held it away from Lash as she screeched and tried to grab the bowl. Lash took a step back and glared at Rika with her best angry eyes. "You know I'm taller and my arms are longer than yours; I'm going to get it eventually," she quirked giving Rika a foolish grin. It was true Rika was about the size of Hiei if not a little taller. She was barely 5 foot tall. Her legs were short and her middle was short and slender. Her neck was the tallest thing on her, it wasn't huge but normal. She didn't look like a midget but just a very small person, her proportions were all correct.
"Whatever," she said handing the bowl back to Lash half empty. She stood up so that Lash could sit down and she started to pace around. She grabbed her brown hair and pulled it up into a pony tail, she was very bored.
"Girls," Hiei grunted watching her. Rika looked at him and ran over and sat next to him, she smiled at him and just watched him. Hiei looked up from his dagger in his hands and over to her. His eyes went squinty wondering why she was watching him. She was studying his face; she had never actually looked at it piece by piece before. Hiei looked over at Lash who was indulged in her cereal, he looked back over at Rika who was still smiling at him. "What are you looking at?" he finally said becoming extremely annoyed and paranoid.
"I see stumble," she said simply her smile never fading.
AFTER WHAT SEEMED FOREVER Kurama had finally woken up and made his way to the main room of the house. Lash and Rika were sitting at the small kitchen table talking about something he didn't know about. Hiei was a little ways away in the living room laying on the couch looking up at the ceiling. Kurama stood in the door way connecting the 2 parts of the house, he stretched his arms up and yawned. Rika and Lash continued their conversation ignoring him and Hiei sat up to look at him and then fell backwards again. Kurama wandered his way to the nearest window and looked at the bleak rainy sky. He watched as he saw a flash of lightning and then a few seconds later the rumbling of thunder. "What time is it?" He asked not knowing exactly how long he slept.
"It's about 2 in the afternoon," Hiei said from the couch still staring at the same spot on the ceiling. Kurama thanked him for the time and heard his stomach growl as loud as the thunder. He walked to the kitchen and grabbed a banana from the counter and sat at the table with the girls.
"I think he likes you, but he is a jerk and you know that," Rika was telling Lash and Kurama didn't know who she was talking about.
"I know that but I just want a boyfriend before I die," Lash complained about her single status that she thought would always be her status if she didn't do something soon.
"Whatever Lash it's your life, I like being single I can do what I want with any whom I please," Rika confessed not meaning to sound like a complete whore.
"Rika you don't do anything with anyone anyways," Lash laughed knowing all to well that Rika had never had a serious boyfriend either.
"I guess your right being single sucks ass," she groaned slamming her head on the table making a very loud noise as thunder clapped louder outside. "Creepy."
"Kurama do you like being single?" Lash looked over at him as he finished off his banana.
Kurama swallowed the last bit really hard, "Nope, but there isn't I can do anything about it."
"There's always something you can do about it, it's not that hard," Lash looked at Rika who still had her head on the table.
"It doesn't just happen over night when I wish it is what I meant," He clarified him self as Rika began to repeatedly bang her forehead on the table. "Stop your going to damage your brain."
"Not like there is anything in her brain to damage," Hiei commented from the couch and Rika looked up and glared over to him. He stayed quiet and Rika ran over and jumped on him and he instantly pushed her off. There was a loud thump as she hit the hardwood floor and more thunder boomed sounding closer than before.
Rika sat on the ground and threw her head back in desperation, "GAHHH," she screamed in anguish.
"Look at us, we are all pitiful," Lash said standing up and looking at everyone around the room. "Let's go do something about this, its clubbing time."
"Um," Rika said loudly getting off the floor and running to the window motioning to the storm raging outside. "Good idea though, stupid," she said as she began to cough.
"Are you sick?" Kurama asked watching her cough for another second before his eyes opened wide. Rika began to grab her throat and cough more and more she then fell her hands and knees coughing harder and harder. Kurama and Lash ran over and Kurama grabbed her waist and lifted her off the ground and began the Heimlich. After he thrust up once she stop choking, and he let go. "What were you chocking on? You didn't have anything in your mouth." All three of them looked at her as she turned toward him.
"I wasn't chocking on anything, I wanted to see how fast you would react," Rika began to laugh as Kurama's face went white.
"Rika don't do that you're such an idiot," Lash yelled not thinking it was funny at all. Hiei looked away again his eyes moving back to the same spot on the ceiling.
"I'm sorry I was just bored," she looked up at Kurama how just seemed to be staring at her. "What?"
"Your eyes," is all he said watching the change occur, he always loved to watch as her eye color began to swirl and then spots of another color began to come through until the first color was completely gone. This time her eyes were changing from yellow and as soon as it was done her eyes were a pure black and you could no longer find her pupil in the middle of her eye. Rika never moved and let him watch she knew he it always hypnotized him when he was able to see it occur. "It's all black," he said surprised he didn't know that it was possible to have black eyes, though neither were shades of purple she had sometimes.
"Is it done?" Rika asked her wide open trying not to blink.
"Yeah," he said coming out of his trance and looking over at Hiei who was still looking at the ceiling. "Hiei what are you doing?" Hiei didn't respond but they all started to hear a faint snore come from him, he was asleep with his eyes open.
"Creepy." Rika said again walking over to him and looking at his eyes, they were blank.
"Stop staring at ME!" Hiei finally shouted the only thing on him that moved was his mouth. Rika twitched and then ran back over to the table were Lash was also sitting again. Kurama made his way over to the phone and dialed his mother to tell him because of the weather he would not be able to return home until tomorrow. When he was done he looked over and saw that Lash and Hiei had both disappeared and Rika sat on the couch looking straight at the wall on the other side of the room.
Kurama walked over and sat next to her, "What are you doing?" He looked at the wall where her stare was concentrated. "Where did the other 2 go?"
"I don't know I think Lash went take a nap and Hiei a shower," She said looking at him. They sat in quiet listening to the rain and thunder outside. "Remember how nice the moon looked last night and now today there is an angry storm outside. I want that nice calm moon to come back. I liked last night it was nice." She was looking him right in the eyes and he felt a chill run down his spine but you couldn't tell from the way he sat.
"Yeah I don't think I've ever had a conversation like that with someone before," he said a little scared by the way she was acting.
"You know I only pretended to choke so that I could feel you touch me again," she stated looking down at her lap. Kurama's eyes squinted wonder what she meant. Why did she want him to touch her? "You looked so comfortable when you laid down to sleep I just wanted to lay on top of you and sleep." Her eyes never moving from her lap. Kurama's brain clicked as he realized that she liked him and was trying to tell him with out saying it. He smiled, she looked so cute all embarrassed and he remembered trying to think of when he had stopped liking her as well. He remembered the last thought he had before he passed out on her bed, 'I wouldn't mind having her to myself,' he had thought.
Rika never looked up at him; she sat not wanting to look at him. She didn't know why she had admitted it to him but she felt like she had to like she would be punished if she hadn't told him. She just didn't like him she loved him. She loved the way they could talk all night, how comfortable he was to lay on; she loved the feeling she had when she had confused him. She was too paralyzed to move, she wasn't sure what he was thinking she didn't want to know. If she looked up and saw he had the wrong face it would, she felt, break her heart. She couldn't lift her head, she didn't want to know.
She felt his hand touch her face and pull her face up to look at him. "The reason I couldn't answer the question last night was because I realized I still had feelings for you." He said smiling and soon she was smiling also. They both leaned in and let there lips meet, he could feel her sigh from underneath his lips. They broke apart and for the first time she looked up at him with the biggest smile.
Rika just wanted to shout to the world that she had just kissed the greatest guy in the world. Rika kissed him again and he kissed her back they were both smiling. Rika thought about how she wanted to run and wake Lash up and tell her.
"Rika, would also grant me the pleasure of being able to take your single status away?" He asked casually leaning his forehead on hers and kissing her again. She nodded with the biggest grin she could muster.
Rika wanted to jump for joy of course he could he could take it away forever if he liked. Now she really wanted to tell Lash but she didn't want to leave him. Suddenly the thought of Yusuke popped up, would he brag about making it happen? Would he yell at them for yelling at him about the whole situation earlier? "Can we not tell anyone but Lash and Hiei," she asked feeling selfish.
"That would be wise," he said kissing her again. He really did not want to leave but he already promised his mother that he would return after that night. He knew his mother would be happy, and would love Rika too. Then he thought, 'I could just take her home with me tomorrow and maybe she can stay at my house for a while.' He looked at down at her resting on his shoulder, a smile still on her face. "Would you like to come with me tomorrow and meet my mother?" He asked and she looked up at him.
"Sure, I've always wondered about your mother," she said truthfully, she had known him for so long and he seemed so close to his mother and never once had she seen her. He smiled kissing her excited that she actually wondered about his mother. He started to kiss her more passionately and they laid on the couch and continued kissing.
Lash walked in wondering where Rika and Kurama had gone. She heard a strange noise and walked over and looked over the back of the couch. "What is this?" She asked excitedly startling the 2 making out on the couch. Suddenly Kurama sat up off of Rika and Rika sat up as well, both had big smiles on their face. "Oh, I see, that's no fair." She pouted sliding over the back of the couch and landing in between them. Rika gave her sorrowful friend a hug. "Whatever, that's fine but my mom just called and wants me home so I guess I'm heading home. I am assuming you don't mind staying with her another night," she looked at Kurama who shook his head indicating he would be staying another night. Lash stood up stretching, "I guess I'll make my way home then while the storm is dying down for the moment," She turned to Rika and gave her a good bye hug and did the same to Kurama. She walked over to the front door and opened it. "Tell Hiei I enjoyed meeting him," and with that she ran outside and never stopped running until she reached her house.
Rika also stood up and head towards the kitchen, "What should we have for dinner?"
"It's already night?" Kurama moaned remembering that he had slept in for so long. "I don't care what ever you would like to eat, I'm so hungry I'll eat anything," his stomach growled as he thought about food.
"Alright spaghetti it is," she said pulling hamburger out of the fridge and a pan from the cupboard. She also grabbed a big pot and began to boil some water.
"I'll get Hiei, I'm sure he is out of the shower now." Kurama got up and walked down the hall to the bathroom. "Hiei," he knocked on the door and no one answered. He could hear the shower still going. Suddenly he thought Hiei must be hurt to of been in the shower for so long. He quickly opened the unlocked door (also unusual) he ran to the shower and saw no Hiei. He bit his lower lip looking around the bathroom wondering where he could have gone. He then heard Hiei's transmitter beep, Kurama found Hiei's clothes in the hamper and he dug through the pockets and grabbed the transmitter. He opened it and it was Hiei calling his own transmitter?
"Hiei where are you?" He asked completely confused.
"I really don't know anything except I was about ready to get in the shower and Botan popped up and dragged me to Koenma's, I'm still in my damn towel," he said looking elsewhere angry with a Botan giggling in the background.
"Why?" Kurama asked wondering what gave Botan the idea she could do that.
"I wanted to show him something that was happening," Botan said grabbing the transmitter from Hiei's hand. "Congratulation's you guys make a cute couple."
Kurama couldn't believe it, they were spying on them, "Thanks, let Hiei come back supper is going to be ready," he said sternly closing the transmitter. He walked over and turned the shower off, the water was cold.
THE NEXT MORNING Rika woke up and turned over; she smiled at Kurama who agreed to sleep in her bed the night before. She got up and walked to the bathroom. She was kind of mad when Kurama had told her what Botan did, but she wasn't surprised. Botan was notorious for watching other people's business; it was how she got to know someone that wouldn't talk to her. When Rika was finished Kurama was walking down the hall.
"Good morning," he said giving her a kiss. He walked into the bathroom and emerged about an hour later.
"What took you so long?" Rika asked from the table hearing his footsteps from behind her. She was busy eating her cereal. She was feeling anxious to meet his mother they hadn't even been together for 24 hours and she was already meeting his mom. He sat down across from the table and Rika sensed something weird. She looked up at him smiling, her eyes went WIDE when she noticed he no longer had his long flowing hair. "What did you do?" She asked jumping over the table and tackling?
"Do you like it?" He asked rubbing his head of short hair. It was shorter on the sides and a little longer on the top. Rika just started at it sitting on top of him. Finally she reached her hand out and touched it; a smile came to her face. "Do you like it?" he asked again laughing at her reaction.
"I guess, it's a very drastic change," she rolled off of him and they both sat up.
"Woah," Hiei said as if caught off guard as he walked in the room.
"Do you like it?" Kurama asked his best friend.
"It's not bad," Hiei said cool like walking and making a bowl of cereal.
"Do you think my mother will like it? She has been telling me for years to cut it, I thought it would be a nice gift for her," he said a little concerned thinking maybe his mother wouldn't like it.
"I think she will love it," Rika smiled, she had dragged her bowl over to her and finished eating it.
"Well are you ready?" He asked her wanting to rush home and show her.
KURAMA OPENED HIS FRONT DOOR with Rika attached to his hand behind him. His mother was sitting at the bar reading the newspaper and eating a snack bar. "Suichi!" She squealed jumping off the stool and running to embrace her son. His mother was slim and as tall as Kurama, her hair long and the same striking red as her son's. She was wearing hospital scrubs, she must be a nurse, Rika thought smiling. "Who is this beautiful girl?" She asked looking at Rika and giving her a hug as well.
"My name is Rika," Rika said not knowing what else to say, "I wouldn't call myself beautiful," she added.
"Why not? Your hair is so pretty and your eyes are gorgeous," she said looking at Rika's now Blue, Green mixed eye color. "Don't you think she is beautiful?" She asked her son and he agreed. Rika was blushing from all the comments his mother was giving her. She was like a cheerleader. Quickly his mother looked at the clock above the door. "Suichi, I have to run, but I would like to talk more after work." She embraced her son again and whispered in his ear, "I'm so happy for you." She rushed and grabbed her coat and gave Rika another good bye, "You really are beautiful," she said before shutting the apartment door behind her.
"Sorry, she gets speaking fast when she is excited and can be a little embarrassing," Kurama confess laughing pulling Rika over closer to him. "Would you like a tour of my apartment? It's a little small but most of the time it's only my mom living here." He began to walk forward to a place that looked like it was a make shift living room with a couch a lounge chair and a television set.
"What is that thing?" Rika asked pointing to the TV. Kurama gave heard a weird look and remembered she probably never had a nice home growing up and she lived at Genkai's which had no televisions only arcade machines.
"That's called a television; it has a bunch of like programs and shows you can watch." He had trouble trying to explain it to her; he hadn't had to explain those things to people before. Explaining math problems or summaries of books were easy but explaining a television was something different.
"I didn't know people actually had those things in their house. I thought they were a luxury of the rich," she explained when they heard a knock at the door. They looked at the door and the knocking continued in a frantic rhythm. Kurama walked over and opened the door and Kuwabara ran in looking extremely disoriented.
"Kuwabara what is wrong?" Kurama's face had gone serious as he grabbed Kuwabara to help him stand.
"Yusuke's been kidnapped they gave me this note and told me to gather you guys," He said choking out the words; he was out of breath from running. He handed Kurama the note and he read it.
Kurama looked up at Rika with a sad face. "We have to go see Koenma," he said and in an instant they were there. Hiei had, they guessed, already gotten the message because he was there.
Koenma was sitting at his desk looking very grown up, Rika noticed, he asked for the note and read it.
"Do you think it is a trick?" Kurama asked wondering whether or not they should really go to the address written on the letter.
"Unfortunately, I don't think it is, you must go. Only you 3 it doesn't list anyone else." Koenma said looking at Rika who seemed disappointed. She had yet to go on any mission with the guys and she hoped maybe she could help save Yusuke. "But don't worry I have my own mission for you, but I will tell you later. Now it looks as if you guys are to be there any minute now so get going." The boys instantly disappeared and Koenma motioned for Rika to come closer.
"Will I be able to do anything great on this mission or is it just busy work?" Rika asked only part interested in what Koenma was going to tell her. She hoped the boys wouldn't be gone for long, she already missed Kurama.
"You see the thing is, the boys are being tested by Genkai, there is a great threat approaching and they need to be on there best. Genkai has told me that she wishes to take on some more apprentices. I will give you a name one by one and means of getting to them. It is your mission to bring them to Genkai's, would like to take this mission on?" Koenma asked knowing she was angry she couldn't go.
"Genkai I thought she was dead?" Rika inquired understanding every thing but the Genkai part. Yusuke had said Toguro had killed her before the last match.
"For winning the Dark Tournament, the boy's prize was they would get one wish granted and their wish was for Genkai to come back. I told them I would see if I could get it to happen and I did but Genkai wished I wouldn't tell anyone so she could test them," he enlightened her and saw a smile creep on her face.
Rika was happy; she knew that Genkai wouldn't be dead for long. "Well then I will accept your mission, when do I start?"
A/n: Finally, the last installment of this story. I finished a story finally, now to finish the others, UGGG, I really just want to write a love story with Rika and Kurama and do it in 1st person. Or something and I also want to write an love story for Ruroni Kenshin. BUT I HAVE TO FINISH THE OTHER ONES. This the first mulitple chapter story i've finished. Well if there is another chapter you wish me to write then go ahead and review and ask me to.