Chapter 13
Secrets and opening the heart,
Hotohori continued to kiss Bella passionately, his fingers intertwined into her soft curly hair, he finally released her for air,
Bella was breathless and she thought it was the most perfect kiss she ever had, and she glade she finally got what she wanted, and waited for, and was so afraid to asked, hotohori looked at Bella and felt smug,
"are you ok Bella?," he asked, Bella snapped out of cloud 9,
"oh Yes I am," "I never been better," she smiled up at him,
"I've been waiting for that for awhile," "what took you so long," Bella blushed and hid herself in his chest afraid that she would be hurt again,
hotohori was confused by bella actions then he remembered what her ex did ripped her heart out, he will never do that to her, he knew this will have to go slow with Bella he will not lose his angel, he all of a sudden felt Bella go stiff in his arms,
"What's wrong Bella?" Bella hushed him and stated,
"I feel a unwanted person here," "hotohori can you carry me to miaka's room," "I have a feeling that there is a unwelcome person in there," "and they need to be stopped,"
"Yes," he scooped her up and ran with her in his arms bridle style,
meanwhile with Nuriko
*Yawn,* "what a long day," "time to get my beauty sleep," "my bella won't come to me with wrinkle's," "the day was just so stressful,"
"I'll get wrinkles at this moment,"
"Nuriko!," nuriko turned Around to see his Bella being carried by his majesty, and asked
"What's going on?" Bella stated,
"go to miakas room now," All they heard was a,
*Bang!*
They ran strait toward's the room where miaka and tamahome was in, chichiri met up with them, bella jumped out of hotohori arm's and flashed in to the room and yelled,
"Be careful," "there is something vary evil in this room," stated Bella as she leaned against the wall, she used a lot of energy to flash in like that,
Tamahome and miaka were startled at her bursting through the door, they looked to see hotohori come in and help Bella and leaned her against him, a vary jealous nuriko and chichiri came in after that, chichiri tried to pinpoint where the person is, all of a sudden they hear a dark evil laughter,
"Kukukuku," miaka was freaked and scooted to tamahome, Bella snuggled to Hotohori because the laugh reminded her of nuraku, then they all started to scan the room, and realize that no one was in the room,
"Who the hell are you?" Demanded tamahome,
"I am a assassin from kuoto," "my master send his regards to the shikon miko for defeating all out men at the boarder," "but however we do have a advantage over her," Bella growled as her eye's flashed from red to pink, hotohori held onto her,
"What are you talking about?"
"It is common knowledge that your army is weaker than our's," "no matter how much the twit you call the shikon miko will fight," "we will keep fighting the villages," "oh yes," "in addition we have poisoned the shikon miko," "Hahahahaha!" "We hold the twit's life in our hands," "Hahahahaha!"
Everyone looked at Bella after hotohori figured to let her go, they saw her sparking with energy and her eyes glowing bright pink then red, she let out a pained yell, she started to shake and collapsed from the energy she used in her condition, she fell to her knees and panted in pain, hotohori rushed to her and picked her up in his arms, miaka ran up to her cousin in worry,
"Oh no Bella!" "Please be ok!" Miaka fretted worried over her cousin in hotohori's arms,
"What do you what!" Nuriko yelled, the invisible man spoke again, no one hurt's who he wanted,
"If you send me the suzaku warrior tamahome to kuoto tonight at midnight," "we will spare your twits life," miaka gripped Bella's arms in fright and looked over to tamahome,
"Send tamahome to kuoto?" The assassin laughed darkly again,
"Yes," "send him to kuoto and we will spear you twits life as meaningless as it is,"
"I love tamahome more than you do!" "And I'm going to take him for myself!"
yui's threat flashed a crossed her mind, "oh yui,"Chichiri located the assassin,
"He up in the ceiling," warned chichiri, everyone looked up and saw the assassin made his self visible,he was wearing the normal black assassin uniform, Bella snorted and rolled her eyes and thought sarcastically "wow don't they all look alike bravo," and rolled her eyes again,
"The assassin trying to take off," nuriko went right after him,
You hold it right there! When he didn't stop, nuriko grabbed a piece of the railing of the palace and through it at him, but luck failed on nuriko throwing skills, The assassin dodged the railing and it hit the side of the wall,
"Oh dear," "how awful," "he broke the side of the palace wall,"while wiggling his whole body and trying to look like he didn't do it, tamahome popped up next to him,
"You broke it you Moran!" While punching him in the head,
"The idiot got away," stated Bella
Miaka looked at tamahome in worry,"would he leave?" "Would he go to kuoto?" "But if he didn't," "bella might die,"
"But what do they want me for?" "That's not what I'm getting?"
"Probably to lesson our odds?" Said hotohori,nuriko Joined in the conversation,
"But the question is why do they want tamahome and not anyone other of us?" Bella clutched the arm of tamahome,
"They have their reason's tamahome," "and I might know why," "and don't you dare think of leaving," "I can take care of myself," he looked at her like she a crazy chick,
"Um," "well you kinda can't walk properly," Bella narrowed her eye's Dangerously and motion for hotohori to move closer,
*Smack!* *Bonk!* *Smack!* *Bonk!* *Smack!*
"At least I can still hit you," "you baka!"
*Smack!* *Bonk!* *Smack!* *Bonk!* *Smack!* *smack!* *Bonk!* *Bonk!* Tamahome went over to a corner and sat after got his beating, Miaka and nuriko and hotohori, laughed at their interaction,
"There it will be worst if you do go!" Bella gave him the glare of death, tamahome could just cringe I'm the corner in fear,
"Well in any case," "we don't feel anymore arua's so," "let's all go get some sleep," "no da,"
"Yeah I agree with that," nuriko was gone in a flash and so was chichiri,
"Well miaka I guess good night," "me and his royal handsomeness here well," ",never mind," "heh heh,"
"tamahome remember what I said,"
"yes ma'am," while hiding in the corner still,
Miaka went to lay down and tamahome sat in a chair next to her,
"Don't you trust me?" Tamahome asked
"Yes?" Tamahome smiled at her confident answer,
"Then go to sleep," "I'll be here all night," "I won't go anywhere," miaka tucked herself in her bed while keeping a tight hold on tamahomes arm,
"I'm watching you," "and remember who Bella said also," tamahome sweat dropped and thought in horror,
"I thought you trusted me?"
He looked at her to only find her fast asleep, the steady movements of her chest, and the light snooring, his eyes stayed glued to her face and thought,
Tamahome pondered about Bella, "she saved them this time around but in her current state," "she can't do it again she can't afford to do it," "it was true that the scout said that there forces where stronger," "will they attack again," "would they take Bella's life," "this will be a small price he is willing to pay," "and signing his own death warrant,"
Closing his eyes, forcing the images of Bella evil glares in the back of his mind,and what she will do to him we she finds him, getting up he was preparing himself for what he was going to do,he started to leave, when something grabbed him,
"Oooof,,," Face planting the floor, looking back at his legs,he saw miaka clutching them like a life line, sighing stressfully, he pried her hands off his legs lightly, he placed a loving kiss and left,
meanwhile With Bella and hotohori
"Oh he is such a idiot gah!" "Sometimes I just want to beat him to space and back," "and knock some common sense to that man," "geez now I have a migraine," Bella *huffed* and crossed her arms, hotohori watched her in amusement, and couldn't help but think she cute when she angry,
They continued to was to his chambers, "he going to make sure that's going to be her new room," "smiling at the thought," "he got the woman of his dreams," "even though it's not the priestess of suzaku," "but he has the one he wanted," walking into Their chambers,
He placed Bella on the bed and covered her and crawled under the cover's with her, "Bella had her miroku thought's," "again and said screw it," "and just get it over and done with," when he was kissing her she pulled her miroku move and grabbed his rather fine backside,
Hotohori perked up in shock when he felt Bella grab his back side, "but it was more than welcomed that she did it," he saw her smirking at what she did and hid herself under the covers, and apologized,all he could do was giggle, he removed the covers from her head and saw her blush,
"Bella its ok," "I don't mind at all," "my body is your body," "so grab as you please my angel," "now let's sleep it's been a long day," "and by the way since you are mine now this is your chambers as well," Bella couldn't help but cry into his chest she was waiting for him to say that she was his and only his,
"Night my sweat angel,"
"night handsome," with a kiss they fell asleep in each others arms,
meanwhile The fallowing morning,
Hotohori awoke to find Bella's thing's and her weapon's in their chamber's, all he could do was smile, he looked down to see her messy pile of brown hair, he kissed her forehead, And continued to watch her peaceful feature's while she slept, "wondering how the god's blessed him with the feisty angel," he stroked her cheek gently,
Bella felt someone touching her her face, "and remembered that she is hotohori's girlfriend," "and he was her boyfriend," she smiled at her thought's and woke up, and thought again, now she knows why miroku enjoyed grabbing butts so much, "since she has hotohori," now she gonna have the cursed hand hehehe" "only with his backside hehe,"
"Morning Hansom," Bella smiled up at hotohori,
"morning my fisty angel," before he could kiss her ,and before she could grab his backside they heard miaka,
"TAMAHOME!"
"Oh no he didn't," Bella jumped out of bed and flashed out of their quarters to her cousin's side, "that man is going to be dead,"
"Miaka?" "What's wrong?" Embracing her cousin in a hug, while she broke down,
"T-tama-home he left this letter in one of my note books," "and I can't find him," "and i can't read what it says," "oh Bella!" "What am I going to do!"
Miaka shook her cousins shoulders and sobbed into her, Bella held her shaking cousin tightly and tried to calm her down, hotohori and nuriko and chichiri came near them and asked what was wrong, hotohori picked up the letter and read it,
Nuriko peaked over his shoulder and read it as well,and had a *oh shit* look on his face, and so did hotohori, Bella and miaka was already kneeling on the floor,
"so I guess it should be safe enough to tell," "may suzaku rest tamahome soul," "the man signed his own death warrant with Bella," said person looked up at them with hard eyes and asked,
"Well what dose it say?" "With the *oh shit* look on your faces?" "it must be bad," "so do tell," hotohori handed the letter to nuriko, and stated,
"He went to kuoto to fulfill the bargain," "he had asked miaka to find the suzaku seven in his absence," "he will return when miaka completes her duty," miaka removed herself from her cousin and looked up at him pleadingly,
"No!" "You can't be right!" "You must be reading it wrong!" "Read it again! and you better read it right this time!"
"Miaka!" "Stop being rude," Bella lectured, she stood up and glared at her cousin for her rudeness, Miaka take a deep breath and chilled,
"your not getting anywhere the way your going," "I would go in and get him back," "but I can't at this moment," "just think about this carefully," "he just brought us some time," and I will kick his rearend for it to," "but we have to do what we need to do to get him back," miaka was depressed, he had lied, he promised that he would stay, he told her she could trust him,
"TAMAHOME!"
A little while latter in hotohori study,
Hotohori propped his elbow on the table and placed his head on his head, deep in thought,"
he had no idea how tamahome come to this idea," "he knew Bella was right when she said she could handle the pain," "he just hates seeing her in pain," "but with out the aid of the shikon miko," "they would defeat us effortlessly," *sighing* deeply, he resumed his work until he heard a knock on his door,
"Come in"
Not to his surprise to see nuriko, miaka, chichiri and Bella, miaka was wearing her normal uniform,
Bella was wearing her usual red and purple and pink fighting kimono, the top was up to her breast and showed her tone'd stomach, as her pant's her tight,as her vest over coat had to tail come down behind it in red, with her sword's on her back and her bow along with some kind of satchel a crossed her shoulder and is has the family *V* that miaka and Bella has, and nuriko in his pink traveling kimono, well chichiri looked the same, he raised a eyebrow in question,
"What brings you here?" He turned to look at his angel, who merely shrugged and smirked and winked at him, miaka was the one who answered,
"Well um," "I just wanted you to know that we talked about this," "and this is the best course of action we are going to take," "we are going on to look for the remaining three warriors,"
"Are you sure that this is what you want to do?" Asked hotohori,
"Well," "Bella and the other's are with me," "so yeah I think we can pull it off,"
"And how are you supposed to find the other three?" "You lost the scroll in kuoto?"
Hotohori was really regretting his position right now he wanted to be by his Bella side, chichiri seemed to noticed his depressed look,
"Taiitsuku gave me a magical hand mirror to help me on the quest," "it would show the nearest suzaku warrior,"
hotohori could only nod depressingly and send them on their way, Bella gave him a good bye kiss and hug and walked out behind,
meanwhile Miaka, nuriko, Bella and chichiri,
Miaka and nuriko was trying to figure out what topic to talk about, bella was riding her horse along side chichiri,
"Hey chichiri?"
"Hm," Bella furrowed her brows and looked at the monk oddly,
"Are you plotting anything by any chance are ya?" Chichiri only could laugh nervously and rub his head, Bella eyes widen,
"Don't tell me your going to-," Bella was cut off by chichiri,
"Oh I think I have forgotten something important at the palace," "hahaha eh," "you guy's go ahead with out me," "I'll catch up with up," in a instant chichiri was gone in a pile of dust, Bella glared at him and thought,
"He better not be planning nothing stupid," miaka suddenly gasped and stated,
"Look!" "It's a symbol appeared in the mirror!" Nuriko look down at it,
"I think I means mountain," "ahead is mt reikaku," Bella came up next to them and said,
"Then we should go forward," nuriko and miaka nodded, miaka looked back to noticed someone from their party missing,
"Where is chichiri?" Bella shrugged and stated,
"He said he left something back at the palace," "don't mind him he can take care of himself,"
"Well I guess so," nuriko looked ahead and warned them,
"If we're going to mt reikaku," "we have to keep our eyes open," "and watch out for bandits," Bella nodded her head, Agreed
meanwhile with Hotohori and chichiri,
Hotohori *sighed,* "he really need to really need to get out of the palace," "suddenly he felt Like he was a caged bird," when he was about to emerge himself back into in work, a certain monk appeared under his desk,
"Chi-chichiri," the monk smiled up at him,
"I was thinking you could use a chat," "no da," bewildered, hotohori stuttered out,
"W-what do you mean?"
"Well I figured you would want to serve as their protector until tamahome returned," "look,"
*Poof*
When the smoke cleared a clone of Hotohori right in front of him,
"I can serve as your substitute for a while," "no da," hotohori snapped out of her shock and started to tell chichiri on how to look like him better,
"But... I'm much more handsome," "and don't be trying to use my copy to pick up on my Bella,"
"My eyes are more open," "the bridge of my nose if more finer," "my body is much more sexy,"
"Your majesty," "so down," "no da," "this is as good as it going to get," "no da"
meanwhile with Miaka and nuriko
"Um," "I'll have everything on this side," ordered miaka,
nuriko eye twitched in disgust as he watched miaka eat her meal happily, Bella stayed with the horses in the stable, she left her weapons here with them, they had reached here on their own way and miaka complained that she was hungry,
"Look,'' "I know your depressed in all," he stated
"I'm not depressed nuriko,"
"Yeah right!" "Of course you are!" "Your probably worrying your head off right now!" "How in the world are you eating right now!" Nuriko got a little carried away and broke their table,
"Ooopsie!" "They don't make table's the way they used to do they!" "Hahahahahaha!"
meanwhile With Bella
"Hey mama?" "Are you alright?" Shippo and shiori and rin and the nekkos peeked out of the bush's, they stared at their adopted mother, Bella felt her chest get tight again,
"it seemed that kuoto has tamahome there," "and still trying to kill her off," "their probably will doing it so she won't go after tamahome," she looked down at her pups,
"Don't worry my little ones," "this is only temporary," "I'll be good as new in know time,"
"Mew mew," Bella smiled down at them,
"Why are you guys hiding in the bush's for?" Shippo and shiori and rin blushed in embarrassment,
"W-we where worried,"
"and you looked like your where getting bad,"
"and we don't want to lose you,
"Mew mew!" Agreed the two nekkos,
"Don't worry my little ones,'' "I'll be fine so no worry,"
To be continued