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Kurama heard foot steps enter the kitchen but didn't bother to turn around; the foot steps were light and made one sound. Which only meant that it could be Mako.
"Mako." Acknowledging her form in the kitchen; he heard a stool scoot from the island at the center of the kitchen and then a squish of leather as she must've sat on top of the stool.
"Boo." She stated; her cobalt eyes boring through his back.
"Is there something I can help you with?" He asked, his body still facing the counter, obviously caught up in whatever he was doing.
"Nope." She said. He heard her slide off the patch of leather and not long before he felt soft skin brush his right elbow with grace. Green orbs were torn from the vegetable he was slicing up to the blonde beside him to sported a loose ponytail slung over her shoulder; she stared at the vegetable like she was trying to read it. "Just wondering if you needed help." She stated her eyes then drug up body, over his black tee shirt and around the neck. As she cocked her head, she met his eyes and smiled.
"Sure. Help sounds wonderful." He said smiling back at her. The minute hand twirled in several circles before a question that was glued to her mind was dragged out of her mouth.
"Hey," She said getting his attention, she was rewarded with green eyes that questioned her ever opening her mouth. "You and Yoko. You two are two totally different people correct?" She hesitated, carefully choosing her words. The red head's mouth didn't move as he sighed and looked back to the item he was fixing.
"Technically yes. We have two different personalities, two different bodies. So yes." He stated, his eyes never reached hers during this.
"But?" His eyebrows rose as she received his attention again which caused him to turn and face her with a blank slated face.
"But," He finished, "Whatever happens to him happens to me."
"So if I stabbed him, then I would be stabbing you too?"
"Not exactly." He said chuckling a bit at her anger at the fox inside him earlier. "It's like I'm watching a movie when he's out, I'm in his eyes but I can't feel anything that happens to him." He said as he went on to say "So It would be like you were stabbing me but I couldn't feel it and it wouldn't be my blood that was spilled."
Mako's mouth circled in an 'o' shape as she nodded.
"So if I touch you. Then he can see it, but not feel it. Right?" She checked with him.
"Correct." He said turning back to the food. However little did he know that things were concocting in that little head with blue ears poking out. However maybe thinking added in with a knife in her hand was too much for her to handle because the next second she sliced her palm open. Yelping, she dropped the knife instantly causing a clamber about the kitchen and making Kurama eye her and her whereabouts.
"Oh my." She said as she rushed to the sink, holding her hand under water.
"You are definitely accident prone." Kurama laughed as he stepped to one side pulling a rag from it's designated spot on the wall. "Here." He said as he shut the water off watching the blood drip down the sink. His large hands wrapped around hers gently as she shifted uneasily to one foot, becoming oddly aware of her body and it's position. He blotted the blood dry with the rag as her watched it heal over slowly. She laughed to herself, watching his face. Coming to the realization that he was being watched brought his eyes north from the healing hands to land on bright blue pools. He briefly thought for a moment before lowering his head and did the unthinkable; he brushed his lips against hers and she froze, not expecting that move from him. Immediately his eyes widened as he came to his senses.
"I'm sorry." He said, very flustered from the previous moment; his face was the same color as his hair. He was mentally slapping himself as those emerald orbs faced another direction, away from her face. A small silence blanketed the two as Mako touched her lips with a single finger and looked up at the red head wondering to herself if what she felt was real or if it was just a fluke. But the blanket was torn by a velvet voice that belonged to a certain sandy headed, blue eyed demon.
"I'm not." Mako said as his eyes fell downward, once again, underneath his perfect red hair. Standing on her tip toes, her lips brushed his only to find a large hand pressing her lower back into his lean form, and another one tangled in her mane as he softly pulled her head backwards, intensifying the kiss. On instinct, both of her tan hands slid themselves up along his chest and over his shoulders where they lay; she felt the muscles ripple through his shirt as his hands shifted slightly on her back and head. Mako let a tiny moan course through her body as his tongue darted out and ran along her lower lip in a plead for entrance just as-
"HEY! I smell chicken!"
-a familiar carrot top broke through the door as the two youkai broke their embrace as quickly as Kuwabara entered. Kurama, being the sly fox he was, rebounded rather swiftly from the timid kiss turned ravenous as he gave a winning smile to the loud mouth.
"It's almost done."
Mako, who sprinted to the other side of the kitchen back to her duties before Kuwabara's slow eyes caught up with her, was still blushing like a mad woman and couldn't wipe the immense smile across her face away. She even tried to think of dying puppies in a sack that were laid to die on a railroad track but even that didn't even work; her face felt hot and her normally calm form was shaking as if it needed more. She was flushed, that was for sure, and this reaction was brought on by a measly kiss of all things. Her blue eyes scanned the counter as she turned feelings over in her mind. She's kissed guys before sure, and she's done things with men that she'd rather not admit to anyone but why did that kiss make her blush so much.
"What are you doing!?" Kuwabara snuck up behind her and poked his head up and around her shoulder, not that it was difficult due to her stature but still. She was shaken from her complex situation as she cocked her head to the side, blue eyes locking with his face. How did she not detect his energy and or hear him sneak up behind her; he's definitely not the quiet type nor is he the graceful type either. Her navy blue ears perked up before she had the opportunity to answer.
"She's stirring, you moron." Hiei said as he quietly entered the room and was sitting at the table.
"No duh short stuff! I was wondering what she was cookin'!" Kuwabara whipped around angrily as Hiei stood, no remorse to be found on his body.
"I'm fixing soup." Mako said keeping her cool as her best friend waltzed in, literally …waltzed. Kari seemed to be in a daze, completely unaware that everybody in the kitchen was studying her.
"Yeah. Soup!" she stated rather stridently as she sat down at the table across from Hiei who just stared at her form quietly. He smelled alcohol. So did everybody else, except for Kuwabara but that's because he's 'special'. Mako sighed inwardly as she walked over to the table that Kari was sitting at and kneeled down, silently laying her head on the polished surface next to Kari's arms. Blonde hair fell over her face as she took a deep breath and thought about what to do.
"What's up buttercup?" Kari stated ever so slightly with a slur; mind you, she was as happy as happy could be, and this was most certainly not Mako's best friend at her best.
"Did you get into my-"
"NO! I most certainly did-" She then hiccupped causing Mako to look up at her orange eyes in complete anxiety. The hiccup then led to a giggle which caused Hiei to raise a questioning eyebrow at the young girl. Her head lolled about her body as she shut her eyes smiling to herself. Kurama whom briefly turned around to glance sideways at the sound demon had turned his back and was no longer eyeing the two.
"Come on. No dinner for you." Mako said standing up, shedding a sad smile at her friend whom grinned from ear to ear like some idiot at the fire demon. She hiccupped again, causing the bow tied in her hair to fall lop sided. Hiei stood up with his arms crossed and 'hn'ed a single time causing anger to flare up in those burnt eyes of Kari's.
"That's all you do! Is 'hn' this and 'hn' that!" She said, shaking as she pushed her body from the table stood on her wobbly ankles. The black eyebrow raised a minute ago, never once left it's spot from the moment before as he just stared at the girl in a hopeless crazed emotion which he didn't understand. Mako, eyeing her friend carefully, forgot about the soup which was attended to earlier. Kari began to stumble forward in Hiei direction as Mako just shook her head.
She's a harmless drunk, please don't hurt her.
Mako sent the message to Hiei via telepathic connections and followed the pink headed girl forward, tugging on her sleeve.
"Come on, let's go Kari." Kari then whipped around turning her tail to Hiei and her now reddened cheeks were facing Mako. Her constantly burning eyes were now filled with some sort of bliss as Mako watched them rolled back into her head as she lost all sense of the world around her. Hiei swooped down and caught her falling body and stood erect once again, only with a girl in his arms.
"Goodness, she must've gotten into my alcohol." Mako laughed nervously as she rubbed the back of her head. Kuwabara turned and questioned the blonde demon.
"You have alcohol?" His eyes wide. Mako could only nod as she realized he was talking to her form.
"She doesn't hold her alcohol very well," A nervous laugh emitted from her tanned lips again as she went on to explain, "three sips of anything and she's on the floor." She then sat down on the table's surface putting her head in her hands. "But she can be quite a handful after the three said sips." She looked up as her deep blue eyes swirled with red ones, evoking another 'hn'. Hiei then walked out the door with her best friend still limp in his arms. Mako started to follow his form just before Kurama halted her with words.
"She'll be fine." He said, his calming voice soothing over every wild emotion in her body as she lazily walked back over to her former placement at the kitchen. "Hiei might seem ill tempered at first but he's really very concerned about humanity." Kurama finished easing away the last thoughts from Mako's head as she turned to Kuwabara and opened her mouth to speak.
"Where's-"
"I'M HERE!" Yusuke barged in, answering Mako's question before she ever uttered a second word. "Did you all miss me!?" Yusuke's face became daringly close to Mako's as he batted his eyes like a little girl's would. Catching Mako a little off guard, she only blinked her big blue eyes at him in innocence.
"Stop it Yusuke!" A young girl's voice was heard outside the room as Mako's tail swished in anticipation. Mako poked around Yusuke body to await the young girl's approach. She then gave up deciding that Yusuke was much too big for her liking and then crossed her arms across her chest like a child would.
"Hey Yusuke! Keiko's here!" Kuwabara screamed directly into Mako's and Yusuke's ear drums. Navy ears flattened on Mako's head while hunkering down into the floor, her back against the wooden cabinets. She could only massage her fuzzy ears into a soothing state while Kuwabara was taught to never scream in somebody's face unless they were already deaf.
"Owwie." Mako mumbled, gathering her bearings as two women walked in. Both were brunette and smelled of human. She wondered to herself if she should change into her human form glancing at her twisting tail.
"Hey I'll be back, I'm going to go change." She said to Kurama as he only nodded in approval. Mako basically skipped back to her room, passing Kari's room on the right.
Inside Kari's room, Hiei sat on the windowsill staring at the girl whom was undoubtedly in a deep slumber. Her chest rose and fell from beneath the sheets as slow and deep breaths filled her lungs with air and then pushed back out. Her hands rose to her rising chest, fingers wrapping around the hem of the covers and snuggling the warm sheets closer to her bubblegum hair. Her legs curled up next to her body, slowly as the bow in her hair fell loose from it's former position, causing her hair to fall from it's place on top of her head. She looked so serene, her eyes shut, moonlight dancing across her eyelashes, her mouth in an ever so sweet smile as she dreamed about god knows what. Yes the scene was extremely tranquil and the sound of her breathing almost put the fire demon to sleep. Except one thing kept him awake, the stench of alcohol.
He shook his head, tearing his eyes from the sleeping girl and onto the floor, causing memories to flood his mind of Makai. And that woman. One eye watching him at all times while the other was mechanically watching her world fertilize beneath her feet. It made him sick, though he'd never admit it, to think of this woman and what she'd done for him. To him. He still wasn't quite sure whether he completely despised the ginger or was devoted to her in one way more than others. His eyes scanned the floor with masked concern just as a voice awoke him from his day dreaming.
"Oh my god. I'm dead." The smaller girl said sitting up in bed, the covers falling from her upper half and allowing the hair to run down her spine on to the bed beneath her. She swung her legs out from beneath the sheets and hopped off the cushion with one swift motion. She rubbed her temples as she kneeled to the floor in an attempt to find out where she was. "Oh god." She said as she flipped her pink hair behind her tiny frame, "Fuck vertigo."
"You're drunk, onna." Hiei spat at the girl who was now laying face down on the floor; her breathing slowed down to a pace that sounded like sleeping once again. She let out a moan as her hands lay flat on the floor below her shoulders and she pushed off the ground, back to a standing position.
"Must get to restroom." Kari said scooting her feet along the wooden floor. "Head hurts. Must change." She started to mutter something incoherent as Hiei watched the half water demon toddle to the bathroom on unstable knees. She almost made it, had her vision not have went blurry on her and she tripped over something causing her knees to give out underneath her weight. She readied herself for the fall with squinted eyes and tense muscles just as a fire demon caught her.
"H-h-hiei?" Kari said blinking her eyes in an attempt to un-blur them.
"Hn."
"What are you doing in my room?" Kari asked as she looked around franticly, "This is my room right?!" Panic began to set in as he dropped her, rather unromantically onto the bed and she landed with a bounce followed by a thud.
"Yes, onna, this is your room." Hiei replied with a toxic tone as he returned to his position, seated on the windowsill with his head bowed.
"Why are you in here?" Leaning up against the backboard of the bed for support she stated rather soberly before grabbing her head in agony.
"You were inebriated." Well that explained why her head hurt but that still didn't explain why he was in her room. But she decided to drop the question as it seemed like he yelled that last bit.
"Well, I need clothes." She stated as she let go of her pink hair and straightened her back trying to get his attention. He never acknowledged this fact. She cleared her throat as she thought to herself, Well fine. I'll just try again. She swung her legs over the side of the bed once again and proceeded to get up only to find herself staring into two vaguely familiar red orbs.
"Excuse me but I need clothes." She said, sitting on the bed her feet swinging from side to side like a child's would. But the fire demon just stood there, arms crossed, his eyes stern with a face to match. She then noted that he was standing rather awkwardly because her thighs were open and he was unintentionally between them, and he was at an arm's distance away so if that tells you anything. But she was too tired to do anything about it but just sit there and think.
"Well are you going to move? Or am I going to have to jump you and make you move?" She gave him the options as she then crossed her arms and dittoed the firm look on his face but with raised eyebrows. He raised a hand to her face and pushed her backward onto the bed with a single sound.
"Where are these clothes." He stated as she lay on the bed, chest up and feet still hanging off the side of it. She propped her self up on her elbows and opening her lazy eyes pointed and yawned. "I don't speak inexcusable idiocy. Directions." He demanded. She really wanted to battle but she was too tired and couldn't keep her eyes open to care about warfare at the moment. So she stated the directions to the drawer and the next thing she knew a blue and white striped button down shirt was covering her view. She smiled under the fabric, flopping her body back into the sheets of the bed. Mumbling a thanks, she laid there. And Hiei began to question ever following this girl into her room.
"I am not dressing you." He spat as he took her seat on the windowsill and bowed his head once again. She let out some words strung together in a half assed sentence before the shirt sat upright and she rolled over onto the bed and crawled back under the sheets, shirt still placed upon her head. She then pulled the covers over her head and wiggled beneath them until she wasn't visible, well her skin wasn't. Her body was though.
Wiggling some more she began to think about something as she poked her head out from beneath the covers and stated sternly "Don't lift up the covers.".
Hiei opened his hateful eyes on the pink hair puffing out from below the cover's haven and shut them again. The sheets were now giggling as orange eyes over looked from the blankets and she sat upright and started watching him in his mock sleep. She decided to have some fun as she wadded her lace shorts up in a ball and tossed them at him. They missed his body and landed beside him. He looked up only to see her in a giant shirt now fully awake and laughing.
"Hn." He stated as he got up and began to glide towards the door, her eyes widened in shock.
"No no no!" She franticly stated, her voice reaching a level of insecurity that he hadn't heard come from her lips until now. His body stopped as he turned his head to the side and she began to speak, "Please don't go. Not yet." He could still smell alcohol as he mentally huffed and walked back towards the windowsill, evoking a smile from the young demon's form. He was hoping to god she didn't do anything problematic to cause him to lose control. He watched her smile at him and then nestle back into the sheets, bringing the blankets up and about her body. Her pink hair thrown over one shoulder casually as she flipped on to one side creating a moaning sound rumble through her throat like a cat would during slumber. Her breathing calmed down to a slow pace as he listened to her quiet respiring and finally fell asleep himself, head bowed and one knee up.
Meanwhile Mako shut her door behind her and hurried down to the kitchen to meet everybody, no longer in demon form. Her blonde hair bounced by her face as she bounced down the steps like a bunny.
"He-ew, is that normal?" Mako asked pointing to Kuwabara's face.
"Is what norm-" Yusuke began as his eyes followed Mako's finger which led to Kuwabara "Oh that thing on his neck? Yeah, he was blessed with that since birth."
"Oh, okay because it was starting to creep me out."
"What is it?" Kuwabara asked the raven headed boy and the now brown eyed girl.
"Your face." Yusuke said as he started cracking up Mako could only snort a laugh over her shoulder as she walked across the room to meet the two ladies.
"Hi, I'm Keiko." The shorter girl bowed at the waist showing her respect as Mako stood back and just stared not quite sure what to do.
"And I'm Kazuma Shizuru." The older and taller girl simply waved a hand in the air as if to swat a bug away. Mako only smiled at the two girls before her.
"I'm Mako, it's nice to meet you both." The girls gave her an odd look; like she had four heads or something.
"Mako? Genkai didn't say there'd be a Mako here…" Shizuru muttered under her breath as the tall tan girl blinked in surprise.
"I know. Didn't she say a Kaminari and a Genevieve?" Keiko's eyes racked her brain for an answer as she asked herself that question.
"That's me, I'm Genevieve, but please call me Mako." The blonde girl mumbled something incoherent about an old hag before she flipped her blonde bob.
"Oh, well that makes sense." Keiko said as she watched the taller girl move about the room.
"You're not from around here are you?" Shizuru asked watching the girls big brown eyes blink before them. Her eyes were so innocent and huge; it was like they should belong to a puppy.
"No. I'm from America, but I'm like two thirds Cherokee Indian if you want my ethnic background." Mako shrugged as she stated the fact.
"Oh! I've read about those!" Keiko states as she inches closer to the taller blonde girl's frame. Mako could only pull her bangs from her face and watch the shorter brown girl in front of her.
"Do you guys do those tribal dances and sing Kum Bah Ya around a campfire?!" Kuwabara asked as he inched closer as well. Mako gave them both strange looks as she backed away thinking maybe she should've stayed in her room.
"Uhm, that'd be a negative on the tribal dances and the song, is only sung by girl scouts and specific African tribes in today's time." Mako eyed their two faces as she thought about what she just said. "Actually, that song was never sung by the Cherokee tribes…ever."
"What about buffalo?" Shizuru asked from afar making Keiko and Kuwabara back up and turn their heads, "Do you still hunt down buffalo?" Mako could only poke the top half of her face above the heads eyeing her as she spoke.
"No. You see, they have these things called grocery stores now. Yea, they come in handy when you run out of 'buffalo'." She said backing away from the harmless predators and using air quotes around buffalo. What did they think it was, 1763?
"Sorry, my friends like to learn." Yusuke stated as he took a seat at the table and kicked his feet up on the polished surface as he finished, "I'm so hungry!"
An hour or two passed as Mako learned that Shizuru and Kuwabara were related; Keiko and Yusuke were dating; Kuwabara had a thing for this chick Yukina and Kurama had a mother. At the end of dinner Mako started to worry about her friend Kari who was up in her room.
"Do you think Hiei and Kari are ok?" Brown eyes flicked to emerald orbs as she spoke.
"I'd say so," Kurama reassured her with a smile as Keiko flounced up behind Mako and raised a finger to tap her on the shoulder however Mako was completely unaware of this.
"Hey!" Keiko said rather loudly as she tapped the taller girl on the shoulder, the blonde girl jumped out of her skin causing Kurama to chuckle a bit at the sight of her face.
Okay, seriously, this whole 'Lets go scare Mako' thing, is beginning to eat away at my sanity. She thought while her eyes changed from horror filled to agony. She turned around to face the petite brunette with a smile.
"Hey Keiko."
"Hey, we are going to watch a movie and we were wondering if you wanted to watch it with us?" The happy girl said this time in a not so loud manner as Mako simply shook her blonde hair from her face as the smile returned.
"Thanks but I'm way exhausted, maybe next time, kay?" a genuine smile showing through, watching Keiko flounce back through the kitchen and into the sitting room. Turning back to Kurama she asked a question that's been bothering her for a while as everybody was gone and they were the only two left in the room.
"Kurama?" She sat down at the table and looked down at what she had on. A plain white tee shirt and great sweatpants God, this outfit screams ' interesting' Silently sighing to herself, her dark chocolate eyes filled the holes of the graining in the table.
"Yes?" He asked, also sitting at the table however across from her. Her head flipped upward as did her chocolate gaze.
"That-" She began choosing her words rather carefully, "That-uh…kiss." She confronted him head on, eyes not leaving his calm gaze. "I…" She toppled over words in her mind as she scooted over them quickly, never finding the correct word, "Did…" Kurama laughed at her apprehensive eyes as he read her mind without ever opening a telepathic connection and then chose to answer.
"Yes." That smile, that god forsaken beautiful smile of his; it was perfect. "I did." A look of complete relief strung over her face as her back slumped forward and she opened her mouth in laughter.
"Good," Her blonde bangs, falling in her face as she beamed downward at the wooden surface. Emotion swimming through those eyes, those large profound coffee eyes; you could feel the emotion through them like she was making you feel the same sentiment with every set of blinks. "I liked it too." She stated her big brown eyes leaving his as she got up and sauntered to the fridge, removing an ice pack from the freezer, which was directly above the fridge. He watched her resume her position at the table as she stuck the icepack on her formerly injured calf.
"Is it tender?" He asked, his voice devoid of emotion except for concern. She has propped her calf up on her other knee where the limb was parallel with the floors surface.
"Yes." Her eyes left the backside of her calf as they floated to meet his. "Just a little.", she smiled at him as her eyes shut in on themselves in a tired sigh. How he wanted to take the pain away, if only he could place that pain upon himself. He didn't know why, but he hated seeing her like this, and it ate away at him on the inside so he decided to change the topic.
"So tell me about your Aunt, whom I suppose was your guardian." Kurama stated coaxing her orbs back up to his.
"Oh, my Aunt Rhea?" She asked, knowing herself what he meant but just asking due to her state of mind. He nodded and she ran a single tan hand through her hair as her eyes shut and her mouth opened to answer, "Yes, she formerly worked for Koenma and his father as a messenger of sorts, kind of like Botan, but very different." The hand running through her hair was partnered with another hand as they reached the bridge of her nose. "She became my guardian when my mother died, which left me 2 years old without a mother." The hands then came to rest upon the table top and start to rub slowly around in a small circle as she continued speaking, "My father was slaughtered before I was born by some demons that ganged up on him in Makai." Her coffee eyes stared very innocently back at him. "So both of my parents were dead before I ever came to know them; I'm not sure of their personalities but my Aunt Rhea always tells me that I have my father's personality and my mother's looks," a finger slipped up to the corner of her mouth as she looked up in thought, "which is a good thing I suppose." Those eyes were then laid upon him as her mouth opened in laughter.
"I'm sorry," He admitted, he wasn't sure what kind of life she had but there was something she was hiding within those eyes that held him in place and made him apologize. She only laughed more and waved her hand about the air dismissively.
"Please, don't be. You didn't cause this." A genuine smile was released, "I have several sisters that I don't necessarily get along with, but according to Rhea, they are half sisters." Her smile lost contact with her lips as it fell from her mouth to an unknown place. "But Kaminari is like a sister to me, even though she isn't really, but we live together and do anything and everything together so technically, in my eyes, we're sisters." The smile floated back up, gracing her tanned lips as her eyes danced with effervescence.
Kurama could only smile back at the wolf shadow demon and nod. She carried on explaining how much her aunt looked after her. And then carrying on explaining what her parents demonic supremacies were, "My mother was a wolf demon, who at her best, could manipulate even the best politicians into submission at a whim." She said those big brown eyes searching his for something as she spoke, "So my father, as you could guess was a shadow demon, but he, unlike the other shadow demons in his village, wasn't as flakey or as skirmish as the others." Her eyes smiled in time with her mouth, "Although I'm sure you know that all or most shadow demons can be very not helpful in battle due to their lack of trustworthy behavior." She chuckled as she spoke and he nodded returning the smile, "My dad wasn't like that, or so says Aunt Rhea, he would stand with the best of them and battle it out until the end. That's how my mother finally fell in love." She started to come out of her dream world as pictures flooded her memory like a History Channel movie would with recaptured scenes.
"Why am I telling you this," she giggled as she looked up at ceiling sighing at the complete and utter nostalgia she went through.
"No, I enjoy listening." Kurama let his smooth voice run over her body as lashes fluttered at him.
She cocked her head and with a crooked smile completed her story, "My mother wasn't exactly considered the romantic type of person, but she wasn't a whore either. She was the type of person you looked at and fell in love with instantly. No man, nor woman, had ever laid eyes upon her without first consulting themselves about having sex with her." She took a deep breath continuing her mini monologue, "She found lust mistaken for love more than once, but my father was her only love." Mako's brown eyes became rather foggy as she stated this her smile was gone replacing it with a thin line, almost as if her body was in the same room as Kurama but her mind was certainly far away. "That's why she killed herself; she held herself responsible for my father's demise and in bereavement…" her eyes became extremely distant at this point, so distant that Kurama was worried for her as he began to speak.
"Sounds like a tragic chain of proceedings." She came back to him, a smile replacing that thin line and clear eyes reinstating misty.
"It was."
"You talk about it like you were there, at the time it happened. Like you remember." He questioned, not really getting at anything, just being the curious fox he was.
"Well that crosses my mind too." The finger again lifted to her mouth's corner as she tapped it thinking, "I only have pictures racing through my mind," the finger, unknowingly, traced the outline of her lips as her eyes were still locked with the ceiling, "Aunt Rhea says that my mom, when she died, sent some of her memories to me. The last of her born children." Her brown eyes danced along the tiles in the ceiling, "I'm not sure why, though." Her eyes fell from the ceiling as the corners of her mouth upturned and the finger fell back to table's polished varnish. "But I'm never really sure about any things."
"You sound pretty definite to me." Kurama reassured her with one of those damned smiles again. She muffled a laugh as she felt a cold drop of water silently splash on the tan skin of her foot. She looked down to see the ice pack melting in her hands as it lay on her propped up calf.
"Well, now that my leg is nice and numb, I think I'll be going to bed." Brown eyes flashed with daring as she stood on one legs and walked a little awkwardly over to the freezer to stick the icepack back in and let it refreeze itself. She hobbled her way to the doorframe of the kitchen and stopped, cocking her head to the side slightly.
"Night." She said to the fox demon remembering the kiss they shared earlier with a minor blush of the cheeks.
"Goodnight." He replied rising from his seat and walking into the sitting room to join the rest of the crew.
Kari's eyes flutter open to the sting of the morning sun as its rays of death poked through the curtains.
"Oh my god. My eyes, they are burning." She said to herself as she rolled over onto the other side of the bed and remembered last night. Vaguely. But the good thing is, is that she remembered. "Let's see, drinking Mako's bourbon, kitchen, Hiei, clothes-" Orange eyes widened in fear as she groaned, "I slept with him, oh god!" but then she checked her body and her shirt was perfectly in place and her underwear was on…this was a good sign.
Okay, wait, wait…I remember the rest now…oh that's good, I didn't sleep with him…
A sigh of relief escaped her lips as another thought hit her mind.
I bet he's in here. Waiting for me to slip up and BAM! He's got me cornered…yeah… that's right.
She snickered to herself, catching on to his little scheme and prowled about the bed checking for a spiky haired nuisance. She crawled on hands and knees, slinking around the room; checking under the bed, in the closet, behind the door, under the covers.
Kari's pink hair was pushed back over her shoulder as she folded her legs underneath her body on the bed and sat on her butt.
Maybe he's not in here?
Shrugging she gave up and bounced to the restroom in just a long sleeved button down shirt, passing Mako's bedroom on the way. However Mako was already up and was sitting at the table talking to somebody on the phone. Running slender tan fingers through her sandy colored hair she sighed watching Yusuke stroll into the room whistling.
"Yes, I'm fine….No no, there's no need, Genkai came to check up on me yesterday…Oh? No, I haven't heard from her yet, is she supposed to call me?...Oh god, why does she pester me so much?" The shadow demon sighed looking at the ground and watched while swishing her socked feet over the tiled surface. "Okay then, I promise…Yes I realize that she has a serious temper and that it would be a great idea to not piss her off…Uhuh…Okay I'll call you later then," A smile formed on her face as she laughed into the receiver and said, "Love you too, buh bye." As she hung up, the smile which formed on her face was gone and instead was replaced with a new anxious face of sorts.
"Who was that?" Yusuke asked over his shoulder.
"Oh, that was Rhea, my aunt." Hands rubbed her face as if to massage it as she groaned in complete and utter agony.
"And?" He asked as if he had the right to know. But she couldn't blame him really, I mean after all, she was in their house and he did kind of have the right to know.
"Oh, my halfsister was looking for me yesterday and my aunt doesn't want me to talk to her. " a forced smile graced her face once again as brown orbs opened on the raven haired boy.
"OoOo! Sounds like some sibling rivalry!" He said, all of a sudden rather interested. However whatever her sister wanted was probably not as interesting as he thought. The last time she tried to get a hold of her all she wanted was to bash her little sister's face inside out. Mako could only snort in laughter at his reply.
"Yeah, only a little bit." Yusuke's face changed oddly fast as he strolled into the living room. It changed from a joking not so serious face to one of complete firmness.
"I need to talk to you and the others, so when you see them will you tell them to come down here." Yusuke said, not being himself entirely.
"Okay." Mako said through the doorway of the kitchen.
"Why the hell does he send us on one mission and then not 15 hours later send us on another one!" Yusuke complained as he strolled through the trees, hands behind his head.
"I still don't understand what this mission is about." Kuwabara stated as he looked upward at the blue sky.
"Well, Kuwabara, this mission isn't exactly for Koenma. It's for Genkai." Botan explained as she bounced through the trees on her toes, Yusuke eyed her warily.
"Oh great! The old hag will have something set up then." His eyes rolled back into his head as he heard the grass crunching beneath his feet. "Wonderful."
"No, I don't think she'd set something up in the spirit world. It sounds like she needs something from these demons that is very valuable." Kurama stated as he threw a glance at the raven haired teen. The red head suddenly halted his movements as his eyebrows furrowed. Hiei followed suit as he unsheathed his sword; Kari stopped walking as soon as she saw the glint in the air.
"I think we should split up." Hiei's eyes locked onto a log not too far off as he stated this.
"And leave Botan to fend for herself?!" Kuwabara screamed aloud, throwing Mako's focus off balance as her vivid stare moved to his carrot top.
"No, imbecile." Hiei spat, his eyes also shifted from the log to the taller boy's body.
"I think what Hiei is saying is that we make an easy target like this." Kurama nodded, his eyebrows still furrowed.
"Right," Mako stepped up and took the lead from there, "Kari and I will go this way." She pointed her index finger to the right as Kari nodded.
"No." Hiei argued, "I have a feeling that these demons are coveting more than just a desire for blood." Red eyes meeting chocolate brown.
"You think we're going to be raped?!" Kari said apprehensively. Hiei could only shift his glare to the smaller girl as her pink ponytail whirled about her in rage. "I think we can take care of ourselves." She literally stuck her nose up in the air and turned her back on the fire demon.
"No." Kurama's voice stopped Mako's voice from rising to levels unbeknownst to man,
"He's right." Mako had opened her mouth in reprove to Hiei but it then shut as she gave up hope.
"Fine." Mako's back straightened as Botan stuck very near Yusuke and Kuwabara.
"Kuwabara, you can take care of yourself, right?" Yusuke asked pulling Botan by the sleeve out into the forest.
"Yes I can!" Kuwabara stated rather proudly as he saluted no one in particular. You know, he was just being himself, saluting air, that's totally normal, right?
What are you planning?
Don't query me.
But what are you planning? Kari struggled with the fire demon about certain things but she needed to know this.
Do not question me.
And why the hell shouldn't I?!
Hiei's eyes lit up with fire as he twirled around on his heel, staring at the demon's mocking orange eyes. His mouth had formed an 'extra' frown on top of a frown as Kari's eyes danced with excitement at the new found anger in the fire demon. He muttered something under his breath, the flames taking their normal everyday position.
"Who's Mukuro? And why does that name sound familiar?" Kari thought aloud as a single finger raised to her lips in an effort to think. Hiei realized that he had said that name out loud amongst his anger, eyes widening at the all too familiar name. Mako looked at Kari as if she were a complete and utter bird brain.
"Don't look at me like that!" Kari snorted at her best friend whom could only raise her hands in defeat as she stepped behind Yusuke and out of danger. Hiei then stepped in front of Kari's view and latched onto her right wrist as he pulled her in the direction he wanted her to go.
"And what makes you think I want to go with you?" Kari said as she tried to writhe beneath his vice grip. The fire demon could've stabbed her right there, even scared her half way to death and made it a compulsory action to come with him. Yet, he didn't. Instead he kept pulling because they both knew that she would go with him.
"So who's Mukuro?" She pried as they left the others behind, storming off into the forest. Hiei only left a gruff sound behind as the question popped up again.
"Well?" This girl was persistent and wore on his nerves like a butter knife on a table.
"Not now." Was his short answer as he released her grip and readied his sword, latching onto it with both hands. His knees bent as his eyes locked onto something ahead of their status. Just as Kari's fans materialized her ponytail flipped over her shoulder as she shifted her eyes from one side of the forest to the next. She would hold the question to him like a promise to a small child, but after this thing was defeated. Not 3 seconds after this thought had left her mind a giant purple monster popped out from the distant trees and began hurtling at the two polar opposite demons.
Orange eyes focused on the ugly demon as it ran at them on six legs. Kari and Hiei swapped glances; the two demons finally coinciding on one subject at least. Kari sprinted in one direction while Hiei took off in a whole other direction completely, throwing the giant scaly monster off.
The ignorant creature ran towards Kari, just like Hiei imagined, giving the fire demon enough time to creep up on the giant purple blob of flesh. Kari was running as fast as she could through the green, dodging a tree here, and bush there, a demon squirrel right there and who knows she might've even have saw a demon bunny. But no matter what she saw, she was successively not so far ahead from the monsters gashing claws as its six feet trampled after her figure.
Shit.
The pink headed demon ran into the edge of a giant cliff as she stopped and turned around, keeping her eyes locked on the purple form chasing her tail. She took several steps back, the red bow in her hair tousled in the wind streaming off the mountain tops, as she turned around and found she was at the edge. Orange eyes scanned the forest for some way to get out as the creature was now at her toes three tongues leached on the inside of it's mouth as it breathed upon her tiny frame.
Well somebody needs a tic-tac.
Meanwhile, Hiei stood back watching the scene from a tree branch, silently analyzing every move she made.
Kari of course, saw him watching her. Those menacing crimson orbs scalded the back of her mind. He wasn't going to help her at all, he was just going to sit back on his haunches and watch her become a snack for this monster. Kari's mind reeled with anger as pink and black fans opened in her delicate hands and she twisted her body around, slashing the monster's nose in half.
Hiei's eyes grew wide as he realized that her fans weren't just a tool for creating energy flow, they were blades as well. Kari then pounced on the demon's back as she ran along the demon's spinal cord, slicing the skin under her feet every now and then, occasionally glancing up making sure crimson eyes were observing this, because what she was doing to this fiend was going to be magnified as her sights would turn on him. She reached the tip of the tail as she cut the final end of the monster with ease, allowing her fan blade to portion the end of the monster, the fluidity of her body shined through. Her water like movements whipped around as a sonic wave was sent through the monsters body, never fully giving it a chance to turn around and fight. The farthest it got to turning around was it's stout head was staring at her with wide eyes. She visibly let Hiei know that she knew he was watching her as a certain finger popped up from her hand while a smirk graced her pale face.
Hiei leapt down from the branch he was formerly perched upon as the monster fell apart at the seams, literally; the demon looked like a carved turkey on a thanksgiving. Kari's orange eyes were now blaring with rage as she spun on her heels catching Hiei off guard. She began to lash out at him with both fans, one blow after another; one fan barely missing the center of his abdominal wall, slicing through the fabric of his black shirt. He bounded backward, his eyes darting downward toward the cut in his shirt, before widening at her.
"Why the fuck did you sit there and watch like it was some kind of movie?!" Kari screamed at the gravity defying haired demon with so much anger that the birds in the forest flew away in fear. Hiei's eyes regained their angry nature as he prepared a comeback for the tiny girl.
"It was a test." Hiei simply stated with toxins reeking in the form of words from his mouth. This did not help Kari's anger in the least.
"A test, my ass." Kari spat out as she filled his eyes with hatred.
"Fine. I tried to kill you." Hiei said as he turned around to walk away. Only he heard something whizzing his way through high speeds and he dodged the oncoming object with ease as he turned and watched as Kari's golden fist whirled by his face. But he didn't hear the knee flying towards his back; the knee connected with Kari's aimed target as he landed against a tree not too far off. With a growl, the fire demon shakily rose to his feet knowing this girl needed to be put in her place, now.
"Bring it, short bean." She taunted, her fans were gone and she was holding her fists up like it was some fighting game. Hiei threw his sword to the side as he ran past her and latched his hands around her neck. She could feel his heartbeat through his hands as he wrapped his hands about her throat. He pulled her tiny frame to the ground, a satisfying thud as her back came crashing down onto the grass. The girl lay on the ground, gasping for breaths her lungs couldn't handle, her hands clawing at her throat begging for air. Orange eyes deepened the more they blinked after her lungs recovered from the shock of the blow, and a deep intake of air was heard with a strong inward sigh. Hiei just stood to the side and watched while the girl's breathing went from ceasing back to a normal smooth respiration.
"Hn." The fire demon turned his back to her and began to walk back to where he discarded his sword.
"Get back here." Kari was now crouched, still clutching her throat. "That was a dirty move, asshole." Hiei glanced over his shoulder at the girl, still on the ground, not capable of making a decent attack.
"And that move you tried the yesterday wasn't?" His hands pocketed themselves, while he played with danger on his tongue. The fact that he pretty much used the same tactic she used in their fight yesterday, infuriated the frequency demon to no end. Her eyes began to glow, as she plodded one foot on the ground, rising to a standing position. Her tiny hands balled into fists, while he entire body shook. Her spirit energy rising from the grassy floor beneath her.
"God dammit! You irritate me, you litt-"
She didn't finish her sentence because she lunged at him with such great force and speed that it sent both demons tumbling, like a snowball, across the mossy ground. Her claws dug into his sides, while her eyes burned with a fury for the man. She knew what he was doing, he was trying to show her, her faults and she hated that about him. She hated when people or demons alike helped her do anything. She was fully capable of doing things herself. And if she wanted to change, she'd do it on her own time. Only known him for two days and she already despised that smirk on his face and his emotionless eyes. Grunts coming from both parties their tumbling finally came to a halt. Hiei came out the victor of this battle as he sat atop the young demon's frame, his hands forcing the pink demon's wrists downward toward the ground. This girl made his body feel fatigued but his senses heightened at the same time, and he didn't know why. Red orbs were shut in fatigue while Kari intently watched his slacked body language. Her eyes drug down over his facial features, taking in each hitch she came across. Her face lost all it's tense emotion when she began to notice how serene he looked when he was focusing on something other than fighting. She wondered to herself why this man had a façade so crude and cold before she felt his grip slightly let up on her wrists.
Her next move caught both off guard.
She tilted her face up to capture his lips in a mind searing kiss, before a thought ran through her mind. What was she doing, Why did she do that?! His eyes shot open, not exactly sure what to do, his mind was over taken by his body's hunger for something more than blood lust. She decided to cover up her ridiculous move, by hooking her ankles together and slowly rolling them over in a tactic. Her lips left hi, red eyes opening to a complete, fake smirk as he realized that the two had switched positions. Her face was flushed but she had also found his weakness. Kari held his arms in place, which were by his side, through putting pressure on his shoulders as the core of her body was seated on his groin forcing her to straddle the fire demon. Hiei just blinked in the predicament he found himself in.
"Gotcha." Kari said in a breathy whisper, her breathing was very deep and slow. Hiei watched her half lidded eyes shut, as her breasts rose and fell with every breathe she took; her pink hair, disheveled from the tumbling they both underwent hanging in her face, silent wind blowing it every now and then. Her cheeks were red and a light mist of sweat covered her body while her eyes opened and shut again, the corners of her mouth upturning at the fire demon. Her mouth was faintly open as he felt her silent breathes brush and skin and then withdraw across and over as her head still hung very low and close to his face.
Kari arrogantly believed that physically and mentally, she beat him to the extreme. But emotionally, he had her beat down one side and back up the other. She shut her eyes in an attempt to gather herself after that stunning trick, but she wasn't sure exactly what this feeling was deep down inside her was, but she think she liked it. She felt his pelvis slightly rock with every breath he'd take in and release. She could feel his muscles grow tired with fatigue as her gripped tightened on his shoulders. But the frequency demon only tightened her grasp due to the fact that she needed to hold herself up and show her true dominance over him but as this thought passed through her mind, her eyes reopened and slowly shut again as she relaxed the muscles in her body letting go of all tension.
He felt her muscles unwind but her grip remained firm as he scanned her face once more over. Her hands then slid themselves off his shoulders and down over his chest, he still, watching her face with red eyes. Her nails dug into his loose fitting black top as if to hold on to something. They drug down over his abs, where they lay; palm down as she pressed some of her weight into his abdomen muscles almost as if to stabilize herself and remain breathing as she looked upwards towards the sky. Her pink hair falling down her back and shoulders. Kari felt the muscles underneath the shirt as she realized how toned he was. Every time her fingers would pass a muscle, that said muscle would ripple below her fingertips. She only released a small chuckled as a single thought scrolled through her brain.
What the hell was she doing here.
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