The Fox’s Miko – Return of the Miko

“Speaking”
‘Thoughts’


Chapter 5
Meet Kagome

The room was quiet as the rising sun cast its rays through the curtained window casting the room in a dull glow. A groan echoed throughout the room as the bed sheets shifted. Hands peeking out of the blanket to grasped the corners pulling it up and over his crimson head of hair. ‘I should get up, Yusuke will be here soon.’ the red head sighed while pulling the blanket down and sitting up. The cold morning air had him rubbing his chest in an attempt to warm himself.

He knew he did not have much time and so he got up and went straight towards the shower. As he was putting his last shoe on a knock sounded from the door. Once he tied his shoes he walked towards the door.


“Hey Kurama you ready to go?” Asked Yusuke as Kurama opened the door to greet him.


“Would you like a cup of tea or something before we head out?” The always polite Kurama asks Stepping aside should Yusuke except his offer. He knew he wouldn’t, but it never hurt to ask.


“No man, I want to get this done quick Keiko has some chick coming over early to help with everything.” Yusuke stated while scratching the back of his neck sheepishly while stepping back so Kurama could exit his apartment.


“Hmm” was the sound of contemplation that left the lips of Kurama as he grabbed his keys from the nearby table placing them in his front jean pocket. He locks the door knob and closes the door following Yusuke out.


They exited Kurama’s apartment building with no further conversation. Yusuke was a little worried to have a human that is not in their ‘inner circle’ attend one of his parties because there would be mostly all youkai. Some of them like Jin have things about them that would tell a person they were not human. No matter what his feelings on the subject was Keiko wanted her to be their and so she would. He could not bring himself to fight her on it. This girl was obvious one of the only friends that stood by Keiko’s decision to wait for him. So he could do nothing beside make sure to make it home before anyone shows up that way he could meet the girl.


Kurama knew what Yusuke’s worries were or at least he thinks he knows? “So am I correct in the guess that this ‘chick’ as you called her has no idea about who we are? Youkai I mean.”


Tilting his head just a little so he could look at Kurama sideways Yusuke answers “Yea that right. I tried to tell her that it was not a good idea, but she would not hear it. She said that she had no seen or spoke to her friend much since I returned, I kind of felt bad. Keiko had told me that her friend was the only one that would not pressure her into dating and would help her get out of them when her other friends tries to hook her up. I don’t get it, but they bonded because she was waiting for a long lost boyfriend too or something…. At least that was what Keiko thought.”


“So what are you going to do then?” Kurama asked curious knowing that Yusuke did not really want an uninformed ningen to attend a party full of youkai. “Is Shizuru and Kuwabara coming as well? It was help to distract the girl if she was interacting with only the humans of the party.” Kurama suggested looking for a way to help his friend.


“No Shizuru is not coming she has work, but Kuwabara said he’ll show up and if she is even remotely good looking then the fool would try to monopolize her time.” Yusuke said trying to think positive. Keiko never said if she was a looker or not and he would never ask. That was just asking for her to smack him.


“Ah, but that in itself could be a problem….Chu if you remember is also going to be attending. He is very much like Kuwabara when it comes to a pretty girl. Maybe even worse considering he is a youkai and all, youkai do have a different set of morals then ningen do.” Kurama warned they knew Chu’s behavior by now and he could be a problem because well, he’s a drunk.


With a groan Yusuke replies “Aw man, I forgot about Chu. He is coming too I heard from Jin, Touya, Rinku and Chu a few days ago saying they got the border passes to come into Ningenkai for the party.”


With a nod Kurama asks “So who is coming exactly?” he was curious and if he knew exactly who was coming then maybe he could help Yusuke out a bit. He knew that he would probably have to distract the girl from approaching any of the more colorful youkai.


“You, Me, Keiko, that chick, Jin, Touya, Chu, Rinku, Kuwabara, I invited Hiei but I don’t think he would show up. I have not heard back from him.” Yusuke answered back counting the names as he called them off with his fingers “So that makes all together 9 maybe 10 in Hiei shows up.”


“Hmmm” Kurama responded thoughtfully before he added half jokingly “Jin could always wear a hat” his tone sounded helpful as he smiled sheepishly at Yusuke.

0ooo0

Knock Knock Knock


Kagome knocked on the apartment number that Keiko had given her yesterday as best as she could considering both hands were occupied with a bag. Luckily she did not have to wait long before the door was opened for her and Keiko welcomed her in.


“Hi Kagome come in!” Keiko said as she hugged Kagome.


Returning the hug as best as she could she responded in the like “Hey yourself. It seems like it had been forever since I seen you last” Kagome said with a smile as Keiko moved aside to allow her passage.


“I know I’m sorry I have been really busy what with getting to know Yusuke again and moving in together” Keiko replied sullenly feeling bad for neglecting her best friend while she showed Kagome to the kitchen.


Placing the bags on the kitchen table Kagome responds “Its no problem really, I understand. You have waited to so long to see the one you love again that everything else just doesn’t seem so important anymore.” Kagome responded with a smile happy but envious of her friend after all she would never see the one she loved again.


“Hey what’s this?” Keiko asked motioning towards the bags Kagome had put down.


“Oh they are home warming gifts.” Kagome responded with a smile as she took the smallest package out of one of the bags.


“You did not have to do this Kagome!” Keiko said as she excepted the gift all the same it was bad manners not too.


“Its nothing special. Just a few things that you should have now that you’ll be cooking the meals now. Well that one is more of a decoration. It was so cute I had to get it.” Kagome said as she motioned to the box in Keiko’s hand.


Opening up the gift Keiko laughed “Oh this is cute, but why the fox?” she asked curious of the selection.


“it was the cutest one they had. It reminds me of someone. I got one for myself and knew you’d like It too so I got it.” Kagome said with a nostalgic smile on her face as she pictures Youko in her minds eye.


“Really? A fox? So the guy you are waiting for reminds you of a fox huh?” Keiko asked curious despite herself she wondered what it was about this person that would make Kagome think of him as she looked at a fox.


“Yea I guess. He was very foxy” Kagome tried to stop that line of questioning with that statement and a naughty grin to tell her friend that her mind was in gutter with that sentence.


Chuckling “I see” Keiko responded a light blush on her cheeks. “Oh um, Yusuke has not come back yet with the food to cook so we can just clear out the fridge and make room for beers then we can chat until he gets here. I had finished everything else.” Keiko responded as she walked to the table to open the other gift.

0ooo0

“Keiko I’m back!” Yusuke yelled as he opened the front door Kurama following closely behind his hands full of bags as well. “I’m putting everything down in the kitchen.”


“Ok Yusuke we’ll be there in a second!” Keiko called back from the spare room where her and Kagome were talking. This was were Yusuke went when he wanted to play his video games so there were tables and chairs so they could talk without being over heard should anyone come inside the apartment quietly.


Yusuke remained in the kitchen when he heard the call from Keiko shifting through the bags making sure to separate the drinks from the food so Keiko could come and do with it what she will. He also wanted to this meeting the chick business over with. He just had to figure out how hard he had to actually try. Odds are this girl would not be stupid, being friends with Keiko was proof of that enough. Keiko rarely hung out with other girls so this one would have to be able to understand her if they were still friends after high school had finished.


Kurama watched as Yusuke put the bags down and began to sort through it. He could feel it, the moment they entered the apartment. The feel of muted power, it was a feeling he had not felt in so long. He knew the feeling anywhere because a kitsune converted the feeling to a sense of home. A kitsune family has an open bond that allows feeding whenever and wherever, but when you are near the one you have this link with it leaves you feeling like you had just come home. Those, however, are not the only bond that would produce this feeling. The bond of Intention also permits this same feeling, so he was either near a member of his clan; or he was near an intended.

Kurama knew that he had no living family, he being that last of his clan. He also knew he had no opened Bond of Intention either; he would have felt it more profoundly when he had transformed back into his original form, but he had not. This leads him to believe, someone was trying to trick senses somehow. Fanning his senses to feel out this girl that was suppose to be Keiko’s friend he gasped at the answer his prodding received.


Hearing the quiet gasp Yusuke turns to Kurama “Are you alright man?” He asked concerned while reaching over to grasp Kurama’s shoulder.


But Kurama did not hear him he was to busy submerged in a vision that flashed before his eyes. A woman she was sitting in a clearing under a tree and she was a green sailor fuku, she had long black hair and dark blue. She was smiling seductively at him as she opened her legs and gave him a nice view of her panties while rubbing on something on her inner thigh. Shaking his head as the vision blurred he cleared his mind of the memory. Though he could not remember why the mere vision of this girl caused his heart to ache ‘who was she to me? I cant remember.’ he thought as he turned to Yusuke who was looking at him concerned. “I’m sorry Yusuke what did you say?” he asked politely with the tilt of his head.


“Are you ok Kurama?” Yusuke asked but he was never able to wait for the reply as Keiko was now walking into the room with a slightly shorter girl.


As Keiko and Kagome stood to greet Yusuke Kagome felt something familiar ghost over her. Freezing for but a moment Kagome decides to answer the call by pushing slightly at the aura prodding her. It was a youkai, and a very familiar one at that. The beating of her heart quickened, she would know the feel of this aura anywhere, even warped slightly as it was. Youko was near. ‘Please don’t let this Yusuke be Youko under a different name’ she thought with dread as she followed Keiko out the room. She almost sighed in relief when she saw Keiko walk up to the dark haired boy and give him a kiss. ‘its not him’ she thought in slight confusion. She knew she felt it, him, but where is he then? Kagome asked herself not seeing Kurama standing in a corner of the room on the far end of the kitchen.


“Yusuke this is Kagome Higurashi, and Kagome this is Yusuke Urameshi.” Keiko introduced with a wave of her hand.


Kagome smiled and replied “Nice to meet you Yusuke-san” with a slight bow to be polite.


“Yo. And just call me Yusuke, I don’t like all that san crap it makes me feel old.” Yusuke said as he replied to her greeting with that signature cocky grin of his.


Kagome’s smile widens at his attitude, it would seem like they would get along nicely. She was relieved. Before anything more could be said Keiko continued with the introductions “Oh and Kagome this is Shuichi Minamino, Shuichi this is Kagome.” Kagome introduced leaving her last name out knowing that he heard her when she introduced Kagome to Yusuke.

Kurama watched with slightly widened eyes as the very girl from his memory followed Keiko into kitchen. Backing into the shadow of the corner he observed her. The feel this girl gave off was one of a miko and on top of this point was the fact that she looked exactly like a woman from his past. Racking his brain he tried to remember anything he could about the girl in his memories, but nothing came up only that she was a miko and that he had indeed marked that miko with the Bond of Intention. That was 500 years ago and there was no way that she had gone 500 years without taking another lover.

There was only one way to find out for sure if this was in fact the girl from his memory, but in doing so he would alert her to who he was. Maybe if he played this just right he could make her think it was nothing. He mused as he approached the miko with a polite smile. After all he did not want to make her suspicious of him. So as he reached out to take her hand and bring it to his mouth he allowed the link if he had one to take a small taste.


Kagome watched flustered as he brings his lips to her knuckles and gasps as she feels a foreign energy roll in hers slightly.

“Are you ok?” Kurama asked with a smile his eyes taking on an innocent gleam while trying to look as harmless as he could.


Nervous and flustered under such an attractive smile Kagome blushed more “Yes, sorry I thought I felt something.” Kagome said the last part in a whisper more to herself then to anyone in the room, but they all heard her.


‘It’s there, but I know not how.’ Kurama thought to himself as he tried once again to remember anything he could about the girl. ‘maybe a reincarnation?’ he thought before dismissing that idea ‘even if it was possible to transfer the bond, she would have been likely to take a husband or lover before she passed.’ he thought as a low voice added ‘unless she died while we were lovers.’ mentally clearing his mind he knew he would not find answers until he could meditate on it and it was likely he would not get the chance to tonight so it would be best to not think about it he decided as he stepped back and away from the flustered girl.


A laugh could be heard behind the pair as they heard Yusuke say “Well damn Kurama I did not think you had it in you” he was joking of course, but it was strange to see Kurama flirt with this girl. Not once in all their years as friends had he seen Kurama flirt with anyone.


Of course that comment only caused Kagome to blush more before hurrying over to the table with the food and start putting things away. Keiko and herself would be cooking the food very soon.