Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ A soul, a life, a pendant... ❯ Care for me ( Chapter 2 )

Hoshi: Where'd Kuro go?
Kuronue: *not there*
Hoshi:...Kuro-kun? *sighs* I have to go look for him, I don't own YYH

The next few days I felt fatigued as I went to school, the day seemed like it couldn't end soon enough. My dreams of Kuronue became more vivid; everyday he seemed to become more real in my mind, and then I heard it.

"The answer is three-x squared-y to the fifth." A small whisper in the recesses of my mind told me. The raspy tenor voice shocked me, "By the gods' child, could you be any slower? the answer is three-x squared-y to the fifth!" Three things about this shocked me, one was that he was communicating with me; two was that he was doing algebra; three was that, after calculations, he was right.

"How did you...?" I thought, more confused as I wrote the answer down.

"One of the people who wore me was a math teacher. She was teaching algebra one that week.... I decided to learn a little more it might help me in the future." He sounded smug; I guessed that he had listened to the lessons as well, while I sat in my spot in the back drawing manga characters.

"Thank you...." I mentally mumbled, guessing that my energy drain and his ability to converse with me during the day were related. That night my suspicions were confirmed. "You've been draining me?!" I yelled at him in my latest dream; I had gotten bolder with the bat after I thought he couldn't do me any true physical harm.

"Yes, that's why I've had you go to sleep early. I can get more from you if you're sleeping." He was causally telling me that he was killing me slowly! "But I won't kill you; if I did I wouldn't have anyone to drain from!" he smiled at me walking over to my shocked form, lifting my face by the chin to look in his eyes, "And you're too cute to kill." those last words echoed in my mind for a good while; because that arrogant leech of a bat had told me what I wanted to hear, but never had... I was cute.
~*~
My friends had begun to notice the energy drain, "You have got to get more sleep." they'd all tell me. How was I supposed to tell them that I got more sleep then normal, but a dead bat was sucking it out of me. Laughing isn't the only thing they would have done, I did tell a friend... She told me to get mental help when she figured out that I wasn't joking.

Then Valentines day came, there was a boy who I had a crush on.... But crush is too gentle a word; I was almost obsessed with looking good for this guy. And I've never tried to look good.

Kuronue laughed, "If he doesn't like your normal look, he isn't good enough for you." but I kept on. That day I asked the boy out...

My heart was shot down like a duck during hunting season.

Kuronue heard me crying half the night, "It's okay kiddo, he doesn't know how great you are..." he got a wall of sobs as a response. Moments later I felt like something I couldn't see was hugging me, holding me close telling me the boy I liked didn't deserve me. I looked up and Kuronue was there, see through, but still there. "You don't need a guy like that. You've got me to break your heart for you." he stated, more sarcasm then real truth. I laughed, simply because it was true. "You rest now; I'll give you a day off the energy loss." I looked back at him shocked that he would even do that, "That's my gift to you, happy Valentines day Kiddo."

I fell asleep happy that night, and Kuronue didn't even toy with my dreams; he sat there, like a caring older brother... Just to let me know it was alright.

Kuronue: *comes back to the story telling place* Hoshi? where'd she go? Crud, is she in trouble?! *runs off to find her*
Hoshi: *Comes back* I can't find him anywhere...*sob*