Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Summer Time ❯ Chapter Forteen ( Chapter 22 )

Chapter Fourteen: Two Weeks Respite and the Jagen Sword

I woke up early for the first time in over a week. It was six in the morning, and Kurama was awake, just like me. I was on my back, and he was on his stomach right next to me.

"Morning, Kurama," I said pleasantly, smiling gently at him.

"Good morning," he replied huskily, giving me a very passionate kiss.

When he broke off the kiss, I giggled. "Ready to get up now?"

"Not quite yet," Kurama responded, moving so that he was right above me.

I looked at him, wondering what he was thinking at the moment. He had the most intriguing expression on his face. "So what do you have on your mind?" I asked him, very curious.

"This," he answered, leaning down and kissing me again. The kiss was hard, and it surprised me at first, but I soon relaxed into it. Eventually, Kurama sunk back onto the bed so that he was on his side right next to me. He continued to kiss me, his hand wandering to my stomach and under my shirt.

I gasped softly in surprise. Kurama had never been so forward. It was almost unbelievable... almost like Kurama was letting his passions carry him away.

Kurama took advantage of my open mouth, his tongue delving in. At the same time, his hand began to slide up my stomach farther and farther.

Even though I was enjoying myself, and even though it felt really good, I wasn't about to let it go any farther. I pulled Kurama's hand out from underneath my shirt and I lightly pushed him away, breaking off the kiss.

"Kurama!" I protested. "What is going on with you?"

I was beginning to think that a demon had possessed him. Kurama had never acted so strangely, and it worried me. What was even stranger was that his eyes were golden and glowing... literally. His hair was still red, and he didn't have fox ears or a tail. Only his eyes had changed.

"Kurama?" I repeated, frowning when he didn't reply. Something wasn't right, and he wasn't responding.

The fox demon was breathing hard, his breath raspy. He stared at me, showing me with his eyes that there was a war going on inside of him. But what the war was about, I couldn't tell.

My worry level rose instantly. The chance that something was very wrong with Kurama increased.

I came to a decision. If Kurama couldn't tell me what was going on, then I would just have to enter his mind.

"Kurama, do your best to hold still I'm going to take a look inside your brain," I informed him, placing my fingers on his temples. To enter someone's mind, I had to be touching them; but to read someone's thoughts, I merely had to concentrate.

"But!" Kurama protested right as I entered his mind. Arguments weren't going to do him any good since I was inside.

What I saw when I entered his mind shocked me. Right before me was the dominant thought on his mind... a fantasy... that included me. The fantasy was basically what would have happened if I hadn't stopped Kurama.

I covered my eyes, not wanting to see anymore.

There wasn't anything wrong with Kurama besides his hormones and his raging desires. He had controlled them very well until the moment when I had woken up. I wasn't sure what had sent him out of control, but I quickly got my answer.

Since I was in Kurama's mind, I could sort through his thoughts. One of the thoughts when he had woken up had been the fact that I was in heat. To me, being in heat was just the time right before my period, but that was it. I didin't feel any differnt. To Kurama though, things were very different. My smell had changed, which had caused his demon instincts to kick in very, very strongly.

I blushed furiously, far more than shocked by what I had seen and learned. My smell had gone and made Kurama's instincts go out of control. The fight I had seen in his eyes had been between him and his demon instincts. Kurama wasn't possessed, but he was having problems dealing with what his demon side was telling him.

When sounds began coming from where his fantasy was occurring, I fled from his mind. I had seen and heard more than enough. It was time for me to get out of Kurama's head.

I was back in my own mind a moment later, a look of shock on my face. I glanced at Kurama, which reminded me of the dirty thoughts that had been in his head. I reacted to that memory by closing my eyes and blushing.

"Kaline... um..." Kurama began to say. I had a feeling that he knew that I had seen his little fantasy. "I am sorry."

I quickly scrambled out of the bed and gathered up my clothes to change into. "I am too. I should have realized the effect that it all must have had on you. You are the sweetest, kindest, most loving gentleman that I have ever met, but you're still a male... a demon male. You have hormones and instincts, just like any other guy. We both love each other... and want each other. We've even been sleeping in the same bed. You've marked me, claiming me as yours for all demons to see." I paused for a moment and took a deep breath. "Someday, if I marry you, then we'll let your little fantasy play out... but until that happens..." I didn't want to finish that sentence, so I went into the bathroom. I really, really needed a little time to think.

As I got dressed, I went through all my options about sleeping arrangements. I couldn't sleep on the floor because it was too cold. Kurama couldn't do that either. I wouldn't let him. There was no place else I could sleep on the yacht, and the same applied to Kurama. If anyone got to thinking that there was trouble between us... problems would most likely arise. We definitely couldn't sleep in the same bed, at least not until I got out of heat.

The answer finally came to me. All I had to do was go home for a while, then when everything was okay with my body, I could go back through time and appear back on the yacht right after I had left. That would work perfectly. I would have time to rest, and I could get the jagen sword done at the same time. Kurama wouldn't have to go all that long without me, and no one else would be given enough time to suspect anything.

Smiling, I finished getting dressed. "Kurama, is it okay for me to come out?" I inquired loudly enough for him to hear.

"Yeah," he replied, sounding depressed.

I came out of the bathroom, still grinning. "Cheer up, Kurama," I told him. "I have an idea that'll fix our little problem. I'm going home for a while."

"I guess that makes sense," Kurama replied, obviously taking it the wrong way.

"Hold your comments until I'm done explaining," I ordered him softly. "Now, I go home for a while and wait for my body to return to normal. During that time, I talk to Botan and Koenma to see if he's missing anything. I'll also work on the Shadow Sword. Once everything's okay, I'll teleport back here, going back through time as I do so. That way, nothing will look out of the ordinary, and the situation will have resolved itself." I hesitated for a moment. "Unless you think that it would be unwise for us to try sleeping in the same bed again, even if I'm not in heat..."

"No," he responded, shaking his head. "That should work." He still sounded sad, like he thought that he was going to lose me.

"Oh, Kurama," I stated, very gently placing my hand on one side of his face. "I still love you. I'm just leaving you for a little while. I'm going to come back; I promise you that!" He still didn't look like he believed me, so I continued to reassure him. "You are my mate. I let you mark me, not because it would have blown our cover if you hadn't, but because I wanted you to. I wanted to become yours. I'm not going to leave you now. I've forgiven you because it wasn't really your fault. You tried so very hard for such a long time to not do anything like that, and you succeeded!"

Kurama was being so silly in my opinion. Why in the world did he think that I was going to leave him over something so small?

I glanced at my watch as I walked over to the closet and pulled out my suitcase. It was only half past six. "I'll be back by seven," I promised, taking the Orb of Baal and the Forlorn Hope out of my suitcase. "Take care till I get back, and don't worry anything. We can have another talk once I get back, if you like." I blew him a kiss. "Be good now." Then, I teleported home.

"Salova!" I shouted from my room. "I'm back for a little while!" I wasn't worried about waking her up. She was always up by five... six at the latest.

My guardian walked into my room, a book in her hands. "I thought that you were suppose to be gone for at least a month? It's only been a little over two weeks. What are you doing back so soon?"

"Long story," I replied. "And I really don't want to tell you it."

"That's fine," Salova said. "But once it gets a little later, you may want to give Cassie a call. She's been trying to get a hold of you for ages. She doesn't believe me when I tell her that you're at your cousin's house." She paused to smile impishly for a moment. "I said that your cousin was Amish."

"Ack!" I cried out. "You've got to be joking!" How in the world was I suppose to make up what happened when I didn't even know what I would do with Amish people?! Crap! I didn't know how to milk a cow or plow a field. I was going to have an interesting time telling my friends what I had done at my cousin's place.

"No, I'm not," she told me, still smiling. "But I need to get back to my book. I have a report due over it soon." Burying her nose back in the book, she walked off.

Sighing, I decided that I needed to get something done. I began digging around my room for the communicator compact that I had gotten from Botan a while back. It only connect me to Reikai from my home world. It didn't work in the other world. I wasn't sure why the communicator was like that, but it was.

I opened the communicator up and pressed a few buttons. A second later, Botan's face appeared on the little screen that was where the mirror was suppose to be.

What's going on, Kaline?! Botan demanded to know. Aren't you suppose to be on the yacht?! She didn't sound or look happy.

"Relax, Botan," I replied, rolling my eyes at her overreaction. "Something happened to cause a small change in plans."

Oh, and what was that? she asked, curious.

Of course, I told her almost the entire thing... minus the many parts with Kurama and I kissing. I just said that Kurama's demon instincts had been taking over and left it at that.

"Oh, and there's one more thing," I stated, holding up the Forlorn Hope. "There's no slaves, but the demons had this... along with the Orb of Baal and the Shadow Sword."

What?! That's impossible! Botan cried out, shocked.

"You're telling me," I replied. "I've been having to make copies of the things so the demons won't suspect anything. I gotten them all except for the Shadow Sword done. I need you to check with Koenma to see if the items are missing or not. The objects I've got might be fakes. We need to find out what's the deal with the real ones."

Alright, she replied. Just give me a few moments to talk with Koenma. She disappeared from the screen for five minutes, then she came back. Well, it's official. The Forlorn Hope, Orb of Baal, and the Shadow Sword have gone missing.

"I have two of them," I said. "I'll get them to you as soon as I've got my hands on the third."

You do know that you could just take the Shadow Sword right from under the demons' noses and come right back here Botan informed me. You really don't need to make a copy of it.

"Yeah, but what about all the chaos that would ensue? The demons would throw a huge, very ugly fit," I retorted. "Kurama and I can't teleport everyone to Reikai. Teleporting just ourselves is easy. If we have to, we could take one person with us. We wouldn't be able to do two. One member of our team would get left on the yacht to fend for himself."

I'm sure that Yusuke would enjoy having to fight all the demons, Botan commented, smiling.

"Enough, Botan," I told her, shaking my head. "I'm not going to abandon any of them... not even Kuwabara... despite the fact that I am rather tempted to do just that."

Botan laughed. Well, you'd better get started on making that sword. Koenma's going to be throwing a fit until all three items are back.

"I will. Bye, Botan," I said.

Bye! she replied, cutting off her line.

I turned off my communicator and set it down. I knew that I needed to begin on the sword, but there was no way I was going to. I was tired, and I wanted some time to nap.

Humming to myself, I hid the Orb of Baal and the Forlorn Hope in one of my dresser drawers. They would be safe there while I slept. It wasn't like anyone would take them from me anyway. Just in case, I placed a quick protection spell on my dresser.

With that done, I crawled into my nice, warm bed and its many blankets. Giving a sigh and missing Kurama's comforting presence, I fell asleep.

It took me a week to finally start my period and get out of heat. During that time, I was forced to explain to many of my friends what an Amish farm was like. After about the fourth repetition, I was about ready to scream.

Cassie was the best though. She didn't ask questions about the farm. In fact, she really didn't seem to believe my story. She did forgive me for spending so much time away though.

I spent the next week dealing with my menstrual cycle. I wasn't about to go back to the yacht and have to worry about fighting a demon with a pad or a tampon in. By that time, of course, the fake sword had been finished. I was delighted about that because it meant that the majority of my job was done.

Once the second week was over, I was finally ready to go back. After giving Salova directions to tell everyone that I was on a camping trip out in the woods, I gathered up my spirit energy as well as the Shadow Sword, and crossed the dimensional barrier back to the yacht and Kurama.

"I'm back!" I cried out happily, setting the fake sword down on the bed and giving Kurama a hug. It was seven in the morning, and I was back... just like I had promised. "And I even found out that the orb, mirror, and sword were actually missing. That means that we probably found the real ones." I kissed Kurama on the cheek. "I missed you so much while I was gone!"

"How long did you stay at home?" Kurama asked me, chuckling at my enthusiasm. He looked like he was back to normal, much to my delight.

"Two weeks," I replied, sighing sadly. "You should've heard all my friends complaining about how long I had been gone. What's worse is that they all thought that I had spent the last two weeks on an Amish farm!"

Kurama broke out laughing at that. He was definitely back to his old self. "Now that is interesting," he commented, then picked up the sword. "It seems that all I have to do is replace this with the real Shadow Sword. Once that's done, we'll just have to wait for the cruise to end."

"Yep, pretty much," I responded.

Of course, that night, Kurama did switch the two swords; and afterwards, he snuggled up with me just like he had been for the past two weeks. Happy that the mission was finally coming to a close, I went to sleep very, very content.