Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Real Roses Have Thorns ❯ Unexpected Break... ( Chapter 7 )

Angeltiger: Ok, back again. Sorry to keep ya'll waiting!

Sabriel: We got in another tiff about pixie stix...

Angeltiger: You need to learn to stay away!

Sabriel: Nuh uh!

Angeltiger: Ya huh!

Sabriel: They're mine!

Angeltiger: You wish!

Kagome: Girls, please!

Disclaimer:

Angeltiger: I don't have time to own Inuyasha. I don't have time to own Yu Yu Hakusho. I don't have time to do anything! Or the money! Why is everything so damn expensive?!?! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

Inuyasha: What was that all about?

Sango: *shrugs*

Real Roses Have Thorns

Ch 7: Unexpected Break...

Bad days suck, and Kurama was starting to think that every day in THS was a lingering bad day just waiting to happen.

"Kurama?"

Stupid female half of the population. And that Kagome girl hadn't been at school all day. Her friends said something about...syphalis?

~That's not right.~

*Youko?*

~That girl is perfectly healthy~

*But her family called in for her...*

"Minamino."

Kurama snapped out of his conversation and slowly turned around to greet his principal. "Yes, sir?"

"How are you and you're friends coming along?"

Kuram shoved the images of his newly formed 'Fanclub of Doom' to the back of his mind. "Smoothly sir." Oh well, it's not like he could do anything about it anyways.

"That's good. And you're new guide?"

Youko inwardly shuddered, causing Kurama to clench his teeth. Their new guide, Candice, was...unsatisfactory. "What happened to the other girl?"

Takahashi looked worried, "Higurashi? You might not want to get too attatched to her. I'm afraid she's out more often than in, due to many illnesses."

Kurama nodded sympathetically, though inwardly Youko told him it was all a crock of shit.

The principal winked, "Don't worry about her, it's my understanding that she's with Hojo Mitachi anyways."

Kurama covered his blush with a cough, "I'm sorry sir, but that's not what I was implying."

He shrugged, "Suit yourself, though I don't blame you. It'd just be a shame if she died on you while you were dating her." He cast the redhead one last glance before turning around the corner and dissapearing from Kurama's line of sight.

He sighed, "Since when does a principal dabble in student's personal lives?"

"Since it involves that girl."

Kurma looked up to greet his friend. Or rather, down, "Hello Hiei."

"Hn." The kinomi closed his eyes and crossed his arms, taking in his thoughtful pose. "The idiot said there wasn't a stitch of irregular power all day. And very reluctantly," he stopped for a moment, sliting open one eye, "I'd have to agree."

Kurama nodded, "Yes, and from what I hear, this Kagome girl is absent frequently due to illness. Rather suspicious don't you think?"

Yusuke strode up, catching the conversation from down the hall. "I don't belive it. She was fine yesterday, there's no way she has leukemia."

Kuwabara joined him, thuroughly confused, "I thought she had hepititus?"

Kurama and Hiei just glanced to each other. All this made her case more curious, there was no way she had all these illnesses.

Kuwabara scratched his head, "And I don't feel the same energy anymore, now that she's not here."

Kurama nodded, "Do you thing she could be the one Koenma's after."

"Gah! How should I know!" Yusuke crossed his arms, "How are we supposed to help the toddler if the only thing he'll tell us about her is she has high spirit energy. Hell, anyone can mask that!"

Kurama nodded again, "True, but for now she's our best bet."

"Well yeah but..." Kuwabara bit on his thumbnail, "how are we supposed to find out?"

"We could stop by, being the concerned students that we are, just to see how she's doing."

Kurama smiled, "That's a good idea, Yusuke."

Hiei muttered something about stupid humans and how they managed to survive this long. "One thing geniouses."

Kuwabara and Yusuke glanced down, "Yeah?"

"How are we supposed to know where she lives?"

Thier previously lifted faces fell, "....oh yeah..."

"I'll be back." Kurama waved his hand and dissapeared around the corner in a flash of pink and red. Hiei stepped into one of the shadows and also dissapated, not wanting to be in the company of the two humans by himself.

Yusuke and Kuwabara stared after them. "Well Urameshi?"

"I guess we wait."

"For what?"

Yusuke scratched his head, "For Kurama to come back..."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The office door creaked slighly when Kurama opened it. Good thing the crew had left early, he wasn't sure he would be able to sneak around if the rooms were full.

Creeping inside and slowly closing the door, he calmly walked to the principal's section of the front office. He allowed himself a small smile as he sat down in the old man's chair while typing away at the student files.

"Hmmm..." he licked his lips, more than a little nervous of the light that flickered on in the main office. "Hakaru, Hamuro..."

He briefly wondered just how many kids were in this school. The drag bar was no more than a speck as he pulled it down. Was it just him, or were there a few hundred "H"'s? Probably just him.

"Heramo, Heritoshi..."

He knew his mind wasn't playing tricks on him when he heard the sound of desk drawers opening just out side Takahashi's office. "Hibito, Hidoriashu...."

A bead of sweat trickled on his forhead, his eyes glanced to the doorknob that was slowly turning.

Principal Takahashi entered his office and closed the door behind him. "Thank God," he sighed, leaning on the door. "I thought that kid would never shut up. Didn't his parent's teach him anything."

He seemed to think to himself for a moment, "And he uses way to much gel in his hair, it really doesn't look right."

He shivered, suddenly realizing there was more of a draft in there than in the main office. A leaf blew by his head, and he turned his head to face the open window.

"Now how did you get open?" he asked. His answer was a gust of wind gently blowing the off-white curtains toward his computer desk. He shut the window with a thud, and turned around to his desk to get his...hey...

"That's odd." He mumbled, sitting down in his chair. His eyes trailed over the pulled up file of Kagome Higurashi, and the little pop-up that said: "printing complete".

Mr. Takahashi snorted, "This is nonsense," he muttered, shutting down the computer and grabbing his wallet off the desk. He'd left the stupid thing and had to come back for it. He stood to leave, giving the powerless computer one last curious glance, "No one would want to look her up."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The fire apparition had come back a few minutes after he left, claiming that it wouldn't abode well to let the two humans interefere with whatever Kurama had planned.

Yusuke thought he had figured out Kurama's idea when he realized which way he had gone: the office. So naturally when he saw principal Takahashi on his merry way back, he had to interfere. Thinking quickly, he ran up to the principal that asked any quetion he could think of to keep him busy, no matter how bizzare. He could've sworn the classic "Where do babies come from?" popped in at least three times. He only hoped he'd give Kurama enough time.

"Hey guys," Kuwabara stood from his crouch, "he's coming."

Hiei jumped down from his tree, "About time."

The red-haired fox in disguise strolled up nonchelontly, hand in his pockets.

"What took you?"

Kurama lowered his head and smiled, "I'm not exactly the most computer literate person in the world, Hiei."

"Hn."

Yusuke gave him a worred glance. "And Takahashi?"

"Got out right before he came in, thanks to you."

He breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."

Kuwabara stood confused, "I don't get it. What's all this about?"

Kurama removed a hand from his pant poket and reached inside his jacket, pulling out a few sheets of paper. "Simple my friend." He unfolded the top paper. "I printed off this Kagome girl's files, since she seemed to be the best guess as to the girl Koenma's after."

"And?" Yusuke prodded.

"We now have her address, phone number, date of birth, and attendance record...among other things." Kurama closed his eyes. There was a flash of something in his past life as Youko, but it faded away before he could grasp it. Youko promised to dig deeper as Kurama opened his eyes again, concentrating on the conversation.

"All right!" Yusuke grabbed the papers from Kurama's outstretched hand. His face scrunched in deep thought, as if he was having a bit of trouble reading the small font. "It says here she lives in a shrine..."

Kuwabara tilted his head to the side, glad to finally grasp the big picture. "So when are we going?"

Hiei adjusted his sword, "Now." He snorted at Kurama's skeptical look, "What?"

Kurama just shook his head, "It's getting late, maybe we should wait, until tomorrow."

Short-stuff's eyes narrowed, "If I go through too many more days of this school, I'm won't be held responsible for the deaths of ignorant teenagers."

Kuwabara chuckled and places a large hand on Hiei's petite shoulder, "Yeah, shrimpie's never been much of a people person."

The tick in Hiei's eye was unmistakable, "I'd advise that you remove your hand, before I remove it for you."

Wisely lifting his hand, Kuwabara brushed imaginary lint off his shoulder before giving in to a wide-toothed grin. "Let's go see this girl now!"

"Shove it, Kuwabara." Yusuke sneered, "You just wanna go over to a pretty girl's house." He clasped his hands together and batted his eyes in an imitation meant to resemble a female, though he failed miserably.

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

And so the verbal battle had begun, leaving Kurama and Hiei to watch thier thick-headed partners in dismay. Everything was going normally until Kuwabara yelled, "I do not! Yukina is my only love!" Thus causing Hiei's eyes to flash a brighter red and nearly throwing him into a fit.

Kurama calmly grabbed his shoulder, effectivly calming him down. "Leave him," he commanded in a non-commanding tone. He leaned over to pick up the abondoned papers Yusuke had thrown down in anger. They were lucky the wind hadn't caught them.

But what was with that memory? It was like she was there with him, but he'd been trapped inside his own body for nearly 16 years now, so how was that possible?

He turned his gaze back to the quarreling boys, whose verbal fight had mutated into an all out war of fists. He glanced at the papers once more before neatly folding and placing them in his pocket. Giving one last glance to Hiei, he headed towards east Tokyo, "We have more important things to do."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Angeltiger: Ok guys, I'm tired and I'm sick. But just because I love you, I'm going to keep going.

Inuyasha: About time, all you talked about this chapter was pretty-boy and his friends.

Yusuke: We have names, dog breath.

Inuyasha: Whaddya say, human welp?

Yusuke: Spirit gun!

Angeltiger: *sighs as Inuyasha dodges and whips out his sword* Calm down you two!

Inuyasha: Tetsusaiga!

Yusuke: *dodges and heads toward the back studio*

Inuyasha: Coward! *runs after him*

Angeltiger: -_-'' Okey dokey, let's move on!

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Damn that fox!"

"Calm down, Inuyasha. We'll find them."

Inuyasha sent a glare to the demon slayer. "This wouldn't have happend if you'd stopped him. What the hell was going on in that head of yours? You were the closest!"

Sango hung her head, "I don't know...it's like, I was in control, but I wasn't. Like I knew what I was doing, but I couldn't stop it."

"So Kagome didn't go with him because she wanted to..." Inuyasha's blood began to boil, "She left because he did something to her!"

Miroku smirked under his bangs, "You were worried she left willingly?"

Inuyasha redirected his glare to the monk, intentionally ignoring the question. "And where wre you, Miroku?

He kept his bangs over his eyes, "I was thinking..."

"You should have been helping Kagome!"

Mioku jerked his head up, "I don't know what it was, Inuyasha. Something just told me to stay away."

Shippo jumped from Sango's shoulder to the top of her head, "He's a silver fox."

"Yeah, we gathered that much." Inuyasha crossed his arms and headed towards the fox, who jumped down and clung to Sango's back. Now that his protector wasn't with him, who knew what Inuyasha would do?

"I mean, his kind knows alotta spells. Maybe he used a few?"

The stunned hanyou stopped a few feet from Sango. "Whaddaya mean kit?

"What kind of spells do they know, Shippo?" Miroku asked, thoughly confused at how the little fox knew so much about silvers. Weren't they almost extinct?

Shippo, now excited to have all the attention on himself, reclaimed his position on the top of the demon slayer's head, ignoring her growls. "Silver foxes can use magic-"

"Yeah yeah, fox magic. We know the whole deal." Inuyasha waved his hand in dismissal, ready to leave the conversation behind and get back to what he did best, saving Kagome.

Shippo, however, would have none of that. Courageously he leapt from his perch landing on Inuyasha's own silver crown and began his merciless assault on the inu hanyou's ears, nawing and slobbering them into a nasty little pile of fur and goo.

"Dammit, Shippo!" Snatching the kit off by his tail, the hanyou shook his head roughly, desperatly trying to get the feeling of sticky saliva our from the hollows of his ears. Giving Shippo a threatneing shake of his own, he snarled while trying to claw the liquid out of his ears without scratching the delacate skin on the inside. "What the hell did you have to do that for?!"

Undaunted, Shippo crossed his arms and huffed, looking the inu straight in the eye, "I wasn't finished! Silver fo-"

"I told you I don't care!" Now somewhat free of his watery prison, he flung the poor kit right into Sango's unready arms, elicting a shocked 'oomph' from the pair.

Sango turned her now-deadly gaze upon the silver haired hanyou, who had just realized his mistake, but was too proud to back down. Sensing this, Miroku decided it would be wise to cut in, seeing as they weren't getting to far along the information train. Not that he knew what a train was, mind you, he had only heard the expression from Kagome a few times...

Clicking his tounge in annoyance, he then cleared his throat...loudly. Seeing as that gone him next to nowhere, he decided to take a more direct approach, "Shippo?"

The kit glanced away from his own imaginary death glare with the hanyou, who, in truth, wasn't paying a bit of attention to him. "Yeah?"

"What kind of magic do these silver foxes posses that is so different from yours?"

Puffing out his chest in pride, no doubt glad that someone still wanted to pay attention to what he had to say, he left the discomfort of Sango's tense arms in favor of Miroku's shoulder. Grinning from ear to ear, Shippo took a deep breath and licked his lips to begin, "They-"

"Ch. Why are you so interested, monk. It's just stupid fox magic, it's got nothing to do with us." Deciding to temporarily give up on the non-verbal spar with Sango, since he was obviously not going to win, he turned to his side and looked Miroku straight in the eye, avoiding Sango's at all costs.

Sango smirked to herself, knowing that while Inuyasha feigned annoyance and bordom with her, he had really called in a hasty retriet, meaning she had won.

Shippo, meanwhile, deflated like a balloon, the previously gathered air rushing out of his lung in such a manner that he would have fallen off the monk's shoulder had he not been holding on tight. He shook his head dizzily, deciding it would be better to correct the stupid half breed before he opened his mouth again.

"No Inuyasha, silver's can use real magic!" The kit's eyes aquired a rather dazed and dreamy look to them, his mind returning to his daydreams as a prievious child playing with his newly aquired fox fire. He had been so proud, having been able to finally conjour the blue flame. But he had soon realized it would be small fishins compared to what a sliver kit of his age could do. He had spend his entire 13 years of his life yearning for the abilities that would only come naturally to a silver. Yet, like all other kitzunes of different races, he would never be able to learn them.

Inuyasha, however, didn't care in the least. "And? What's you're point? So they can use magic, what's that got to do with anything?"

Having to be nudged from his stupor by Miroku's worried finger, Shippo shook his head to clear his vision, "That's got everything to do with everything!"

"Huh?"

Growing his frustration, the red-head curled his claws into tight little balls, wanting nothing more than to wipe the idiotic look off his face. Miroku, while thinking along the same lines, resisted the urge to bash his friend's lopsided face in with his staff

"The can do just about anything! Including charms!" The little kit sreeched, finally glad to get the obvious out of his system. Sango and Miroku's eyes widend in realization, quickly going over the previous encounter to determine weather the assumption fit or not. However, Inuyasha's look of utter confusion did not go well, clearly he had missed something

"And that's not all!" he nearly shouted, jumping up and down. "Supposedly, they are related to Mother Nature herself."

"Huh?"

A petite paw shot up to Inuyasha's face, "Lemmie finish." It seemed as if he ignored the dog's warning growl, but he decided his hand would be safer within his own bubble than the hanyou's face. So he wisely removed it. "It's like...when they need something in the wld, the plants will come to thier command."

Miroku hn'd, "So that's why it seemed as if everything in the forest were reaching out to him."

Nodding excitedly, Shippo lept from the monk's shoulder to his head. "Uh huh, uh huh! And, my papa told me that silver foxes have some sort of s...se-seductive aura. Whatever that means... But I guess girl will do whatever they say. Papa said lady silvers are worse."

"That expl-

"What are we waiting for!?" Inuyasha snatched Shippo off the houshi's head and placed him on his own shoulder, completely ignoring the look Sango was giving him for cutting her off. "If he can have her do anything he wants her to do, who knows-"

His tyraid was cut short by the familiar sound of buzzing, the familiar buzzing of insects....Naraku's insects. "Damn, we don't have time for this!"

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>