Toge Aida de Bara (Thorns Among Roses)

Chapter 2:Oyogi Kangae





Yusuke just looked and grinned at the fuming fire demon as he came down the stairs. ”Where you going?” Yusuke asked still grinning.



“To burn some demonic trash.” Hiei replied as he glared daggers at Yusuke.



“Well, have fun,” he said as Hiei calmly stormed out of the room. Soon as Yusuke knew Hiei was out of earshot, he burst out laughing. “He’s so serious, its funny sometimes,” he laughed as he looked around the room. “All clean; I think I’ll go check on Kurama he’s been up there for awhile now,” he said as he started to walk upstairs towards Kurama’s room. He opened the door and saw the strange girl from earlier.

As he approached the bed, he got a sudden chill. “It’s kinda cold in here maybe I should cover her up.” Yusuke thought aloud as he took one of Kurama’s spare blankets off the chair in the corner and laid it over the girl. Yusuke just looked at her for a second he couldn’t help the feeling he had felt this aura before. He shook the feeling off and then walked out of the room, closing the door behind him, and started for his room. Not paying attention, he went to open the door to find it was already open and fell flat on his face. Kurama was snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Yusuke who was picking himself off the ground. Yusuke then noticed Kurama and stared back with a slight grin on his face, trying to regain his composure.



“So this is where you were,” he said to Kurama. “I went in your room and you weren’t there.”



“How’s the girl?” Kurama asked, his eyes deep with thought. Yusuke noticed this and smiled. “She’s still unconscious, it was cold in there so I put a blanket over her.”



“Thank you Yusuke.” Kurama said as he looked back down at the girl in Yusuke’s bed. Yusuke looked at Kurama strangely wondering what was going on in his head.



“Kurama.” Yusuke said but Kurama wasn’t paying attention he was too deep in thought. “Kurama.” Yusuke repeated this time snapping his fingers as he leaned in the doorjamb. Kurama snapped out of his daze and lightly shook his head to get rid of any lingering stray thoughts.



“What?” he said as he looked up at Yusuke’s worried face.



“Are you okay?” asked Yusuke a little concerned.



“I’m fine. Why do you ask?” Kurama replied simply.



“Never mind, it’s nothing.” With that Yusuke left the room and went downstairs to the kitchen leaving Kurama to ponder in his thoughts once again.



He looked at the girl in Yusuke’s bed and thought back to what she had said earlier. “Stay away from her!” she had said to him. “Stay away from who?” he thought aloud to no one in particular but himself. He thought this over for awhile replaying everything in his mind as it had happened earlier from start to finish. But his thought process was cut short when he sensed the presence of someone’s eyes staring at him. Thinking it was Hiei he looked up to find not Hiei’s crimson red eyes but someone’s jade green ones. To be specific the eyes of the fox demons mortal form staring back at him. She was standing in the doorway, he looked her over she was shorter than he was as he observed the young girl he noticed something odd. All the wounds he had inflicted upon her earlier had disappeared. He stared at her in a kind of daze. Her aura felt calm and serene. She started to walk towards him his emerald eyes getting a closer look at her jade green ones.



“I’m sorry about earlier when I’m in fox form I get a little mean and like to cause trouble.” She said politely bowing in apology. When she straightened up and looked at Kurama she smiled warmly at him. Kurama was still taking in how she now seemed like a totally different person then he had fought before. Her voice was quite perky yet calm at the same time, not at all like the demonic fox he had witnessed previously that afternoon.

(Yes Yusuke didn’t get up ‘til bout eleven o’clock.)



All the questions from earlier came swimming back into his mind. “Who are you?” he finally managed to say.



“My name is Kizuna pleased to meet you.” She said happily smiling. Kurama just looked at the girl that’s when he noticed that even though there were no gashes on her body her clothes were tattered. ‘She’s so familiar.’ He thought. His head was dizzy with so many thoughts. He was quickly taken out of it by a warm sensation on his cheek. He came back to reality to discover it was Kizuna’s hand. She looked at him with worry playing into her cheerful eyes.



“Daijobu?” she asked removing her hand from his face slowly.



“Hai, I’m fine” Kurama replied. He was still slightly in a state of shock. Kizuna was now a totally different person there was no way of getting around that thought if it weren’t for her aura he would have thought her an imposter. Kizuna stood up straight and stretched.



“I’m hungry.” She said quietly to her self not wanting to bug Kurama. Kurama looked at her hearing her “complaint” and got up from his chair he had been sitting in and put it back at Yusuke’s desk where he had taken from earlier.



“Come on I’ll get you something to eat.” He said as he took her hand to lead her downstairs to the kitchen. They were almost out the door when she stopped in the doorway turning back to look at the girl in Yusuke’s bed.



“Sakana-chan, daijobu?” she said worry evident in her voice. Kurama looked back at the girl in Yusuke’s bed and then looked at Kizuna noticing her still tattered clothes.



“She’ll be fine. And before I get you something to eat maybe I should get you some clothes.” Kurama said with a smile. Kizuna looked at her clothes and blushed feeling extremely inappropriate. What was left of her clothes didn’t cover much.



“Maybe that is a good idea.” She said with a slight laugh. Kurama took her down the hall to his room and led her inside. He opened up the dresser and took out a white shirt and a pair of jeans and handed them to Kizuna.



“There’s a bathroom to your left. I’ll wait right here.” He said as he took a seat on his bed. She took the clothes from Kurama and went into the bathroom, connected to Kurama’s room, and closed the door behind her. She took off all her clothes minus the bra and underwear. Put on the white shirt, buttoned it up, and slipped on the jeans. She picked up her clothes and her shoes and walked out of the bathroom. Kurama was still sitting there on the bed. She couldn’t help but blush. She felt so awkward to be wearing guy’s clothes especially clothes of a guy she just met and hardly knew for that matter.



“What am I supposed to do with these?” she asked, as she looked at Kurama curiously the tattered clothes in hand.



“Just put them on my dresser and leave the shoes on the side.” Kurama replied as he got off the bed. Kizuna did as she was told when shortly after a small growl was heard. Kizuna turned around and smiled at Kurama. Kurama looked at her curiously his emerald eyes wide.



“Gomen nasai.” Kizuna said with a bit of a laugh underlying her voice. At this point Kurama had it figured out and laughed as he took her hand again.



“There’s nothing to be sorry for. Now lets go get you something to eat.” With that Kurama led her down the stairs to the kitchen.