Ride like the Wind
Chapter 41
"Why do we always start with your eating scenes? Why can't I ever start off a chapter by eating?!" Yusuke complained as if it was important that Mukuro was eating at all.
Mukuro glanced at him and went back to shoveling down her pie as if she hadn't eaten in two years.
"And if you're diabetic why are you still eating pie?! You can't have sugar and…"
"Yusuke, I've been eating like this since I was seventeen. I'm not gonna suddenly fall over and die because I ate pie when I was diabetic. Now leave me alone. I'm eating…" Continues eating.
"Are you pissed off in any way?"
"Do I look like it?"
"…All the time."
"Yusuke." Raizen put a hand on his shoulder. "There's no such thing as a scene unless you're being metaphorical and referring to eating as a scene but in this case this whole moment is only an event of her life that really wouldn't matter either way. Also the reason why you never get eating scenes is because you're really not important but that's okay because you got the cool gun in your finger."
"…Are you high?" Yusuke narrowed his eyes.
Mukuro shot up. "Someone's coming." She ran out.
Raizen stared at where she was sitting. "…No but something tells me she is."
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"Hey, Shuichi," Kaitou greeted Kurama who was looking for crabs in a tide pool.
"Hey Kaitou," was Kurama's silent reply as he poked a small pink starfish.
"What's wrong?" He cocked his head questioningly. Kurama didn't seem to have that same bright glow that seemed to float around him. Now it just felt like he was wilting. All right, Kaitou. Something's wrong! Work your magic or your name isn't Yoshihiro Togashi. Wait… That's not your name. Guess you don't have to do it. No, you're the good guy. Work your magic, dammit! ...My subconscious is evil…
The redhead sighed. "I haven't been feeling too good."
"What happened in Mexico? Was it that Hiei again?"
"I'd rather not talk about it."
"I get it. You're trying to avoid me, aren't you? No one avoids me, Shuichi Minamino! I'm too irresistible to avoid!"
If he says so… Narcissist. "If you were too irresistible to avoid, I would have come straight to you for all my problems and if I were avoiding you I would have been at home because I know you don't know where I live."
No he didn't! He did not just pwn me! …Did I just say…? "He said something to you."
"You mean he didn't say anything to me."
"What happened?" More of a statement than a question.
"Something tells me to break up with him."
"Yeah! You should! Go over there right now and…." Kaitou was interrupted.
Kurama's eyes narrowed. "You're not helping."
"Well…" He pushed his glasses up his nose. "I had a feeling that he wouldn't do you any good but I guess…"
"Kaitou…" Kurama turned to him.
"What?"
Kurama pulled Kaitou to him and after a moment's hesitation… He kissed him.
Kaitou's hair once again turned white and he shoved the redhead away. "AUGH! SHUICHI WHAT THE HELL?! IF I WASN'T OKAY WHEN IT WAS YOU AND JAGANSHI WHAT MADE YOPU THINK I WAS OKAY WITH IT NOW?! I THINK MY HAIR'S GONNA STAY THIS COLOR AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT YOU HOMO!"
"I DUNNO! AND DON'T CALL ME A HOMO YOU…. You… HETERO!"
'WHAT KIND OF INSULT WAS THAT?"
"WHY ARE WE STILL YELLING?!"
"I DON'T KNOW BUT I THINK IT'S KINDA FUN!"
'…I feel like such a whore now!"
"Yeah well you better! Who else have you been torturing like this?"
"I… I'm going home!" Kurama ran away.
Kaitou frowned. So that bastard did something to him, did he? Hm… I told him… Kaitou remembered back to when he first met Hiei he confronted him when Kurama wasn't around. "You know that's my friend you got there. I know he's a book-smart guy but that doesn't mean he doesn't do stupid stuff too. And…. If I ever, EVER find out you hurt him in any way it'll be your ass. Got that?"
Hiei only replied with a smirk and "Sure. Whatever you say…"
So he did… "WELL I'LL MAKE YOU REGRET IT HIEI JAGANSHI! YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE BRITISH! WE KILLED OUR KING AND TOOK OVER CHINA AND INDIA! WE COULD GET YOUR SORRY ASS ANYDAY BECAUSE WE'RE…!"
"DUDE JUST SHUT THE HELL UP!" Someone yelled from a nearby house.
My pride hurts now…
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Shuichi glanced at Kurama during dinner. "Shuichi… You look…" Eye twitch. "L33t! …Bad today…" Eye twitch. "T.T Is there…" Twitch. "3m0. Something wrong?" Twitch. "T.T"
"No, just one of those days where everything feels awful," Kurama replied silently as he poked a carrot with his spoon.
"Oh." Twitch. "3mo. Slaps j00! ROFL. LOLZ. XD"
"Shu-chan, have you been seeing that doctor I told you about?" Kurama's step-dad asked.
"Yes," Shuichi replied quickly. "WTF! OMG! OH NOEZ! ORLY?! YARLY! NO WAI! …I mean… No. O I C."
Kurama got up. "I'm going to bed."
"But you haven't touched your dinner, Shuichi…" Kurama's mom replied. "Maybe you should eat a little…."
"No, I'm just not hungry right now."
"I'll just leave it for you when you do get hungry."
Kurama nodded and walked out.
"…I'm worried…"
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Kurama flopped on his bed. Man…I hate having to lock myself up in here…
Youko's voice rang in his head. See? What'd I tell you Shuichi? That Hiei really was just a hot headed fool like I said!
Well, damn! It really says a lot to me if even I don't approve of him! Shuichi argued back.
Not my fault you were too busy being on fire to listen to me! Now you're back is perspiring! Fruit cake! Butt ache!
Hey! If I were on fire that would make you on fire too!
Hey I've done about a hundred women and you're telling me that I'm gay! You're the one in women's clothing!
…No I'm not. We share the same body and the same soul therefore you would also…
Shut it Tinkerbell!
Tinker… What?
Don't say anything. I wouldn't be stuck in you body if…
Kurama felt a force come over him. Not again…
Shuichi, you're a fool. You let people walk on you too much and you see what happens to you? Youko overcame Shuichi's resistance.
Youko growled. Why am I not getting my body…? Oh well. "So first I'll go to Mexico and twist that bastard Hiei's neck and then I'll rip his 'little Hiei' off while I'm at it."
Shuichi's voice rang in his head, Whoa! You're defending me!
"Hell no! I'll get you out somehow even if it means destroying part of my soul! Then I'll go to Boston and take Hiei's girl depending on how she looks and how big her…"
"Youko!" Shuichi gained control again.
"Shuichi… Is there something wrong?" Kurama's step-dad asked, knocking on the door.
"Oh, no! I was just practicing some lines from this play at school! I was thinking it would help me feel better!" He replied. "Nothing to worry about."
"U… Uh-huh…"
God damn you Youko! Shuichi growled.
Don't act like you could do better without me! You know you needed me from the start! I bet you'd be dead by now! If you keep letting that 'tard do this to you then you'll end up with a higher pole up your ass!
He won't put me in that much trouble…! He's…
He's not trustworthy as it is what makes you think he'll be better with you when he's got that girl? And then what're you gonna tell the kids he's gonna have with her when they see you? That their dad's bi and you're just there for when he gets bored with their mom?
Yeah well… You're… I guess… You're…
Youko didn't let Shuichi hear his last thought. How easily you are convinced…
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So Kaitou went by a week after his (disturbing) kiss with Kurama. Now he went on thinking that Italians weren't to be trusted… Of course he was thinking of Hiei who was actually Mexican but ironically is half-Italian. But that's not the point.
He had his nose shoved in a book when he saw Kurama grumbling to himself in Japanese. He stopped to clean his glasses to make sure his eyes didn't deceive him. He saw Kurama's eyes were gold. "Shuichi…?"
Kurama turned to his friend (Kaitou felt relieved to see his eyes weren't gold.) and answered dryly, "Hey Kaitou."
"What's wrong with you?"
"Feeling mad right now. Can't think of any way to blow off steam either."
"Well that's what you get for trusting an Italian! They can't be…!"
"Kaitou."
"What?"
"I AM half-Italian."
Well that explains why he got mad when someone asked, "How's your day go?" "Oh… Really? N… Never mind! You wanna blow off steam, huh?"
Nod.
"Do what I do when I'm mad: SCREAM!"
In that case it must happen a lot. "Aiya! But scream what?!"
"I dunno. Curse at Hiei, yell your name out, something."
Kurama stared at him for a moment, talking in these words. He took in a deep breath and in the loudest scream his lungs could manage he howled, "HIEI YOU GODDAMN LITTLE SON OF A BITCH! I HOPE SOMEONE SHOOTS YOUR CHEATING ASS!" And after a moment's hesitation: "AND ARSONY IS NOT A WORD YOU BIIIIITCH!"
Long blank stare. "Good…. I guess…"
"…I gotta get out of here…" Kurama mumbled.
'What…?"
He ran away, resisting Youko's force.
The hell is your problem?! Youko growled at Shuichi.
I don't know! I just don't…
So he ran out of San Francisco… Then out of the county… Then the state… And on and on he went. He kept running in spite of the stares he gathered. He didn't stop except to catch his breath every once in a while and to get some water back into his body. He barely made it into the Indian Territory when he passed out from exhaustion.
God… This is… I feel like… I don't care if I die in my sleep… I just…Everything went black.
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He woke up from several dreams he could never remember and then he would fall back asleep before he had the chance to see where he was. In those few moments of consciousness he could only think back to the moments with Hiei but they never seemed to have meaning to them. Just lines from an unsung song laced with irony.
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In two days Kurama finally awoke and left without thought. Give me your strength…
Shuichi, you were half dead as it is. Go home. Youko growled.
I know the human flesh we share is weak but it is because it suffers under the weight of the heart, determined and full of will. I know I am only the soul of the human now but I refuse to be plagued by the empty heart of a demon. I want to finish what needs to be finished.
And I think you might have found what you call enlightenment.
So be it… So he continued his run. I have to make it to…
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He came to Boston feeling just as tired as he did when he came to Indian Territory but he refused to rest until he saw this person. The problem this time was that he didn't know where this person was or what they looked like. He only knew her name.
Kurama fell to his knees, out of breath.
I came all this way and I don't even know where to go… He wiped the sweat off his forehead. Weakness came over him but he resisted again and continued to run. He rushed through crowds, ignoring the familiar New Yorker's voice that gasped, "What the hell? Kurama?!"
He crashed into the door of a small house. I'm beat… I hope… The door open and he fell to the floor, panting. He glanced at the owner of the house.
"Are you feeling okay?" she (Kurama figured it was a woman because of the feminine sounding voice and her facial features.) asked in a German and British accented voice. "God, why am I even asking? You look like hell." He she carried him in. "Say something. Anything. Just let me know you're still with me."
He only stared back with unblinking eyes.
She shook him. "Hey…" No answer. Sigh. "What a way to meet, Shuichi Minamino."
End chapter 41
Notes:
1. "We killed our king… India!"-References to the English Civil war in which the English, led by Oliver Cromwell, charged King Charles I with tyranny and beheaded him. China and India were basically being influenced by the British. You'll get to this in freshman world history… Well at my school anyway.
2. "Shut it Tinkerbell!"-play on people calling gay guys fairies.
3. That explains… Go."- My sister has an Italian teacher who gets offended when people say "How's your day go." It sounds like some derogatory term for Italians apparently… So now everybody asks him that. It's funny. Just like you don't do the V for victory sign in front of a German. It's like flipping them off.
3. I know… finished.- I really like this line. That's why it's in bold. It won't happen again.
This was weird. That's all I have to say. Isn't yelling just so amusing.
Extra!
If you hurt my friend in any way it'll be your ass.-Kaitou"
Mexico.
Kurama tripped over Hiei.
"Are you okay?" Hiei asked.
"Yeah!" Kurama replied.
Kaitou appeared in the door. "I told you if you hurt my friend in any way..."
Ride like the Wind Summary 1
Kurama… And his desire to want to quit things.
Ride like the Wind Summary 2
Where the Three Kings actually get along… To a certain extent.
Ride like the wind Summary 3
Female harem where the guy goes after the girls.
Kurama: Wait what?
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