Chapter 12: In a rush
"HIKARI, AKIO!" Rokuro shouted down the well trying to get the two to answer his loud echo.
"Face it they're back in Hikari's time by now and there is nothing you can do about it." Daisuke laughed floating above the ground.
"You damn bastard I'm going to kill you." Rokuro stated turning around and running towards the dark angel.
"Are you really capable of killing me?" Daisuke questioned jumping out of the way.
"I'm a demon slayer I'm positive I can kill you." Rokuro answered throwing some kunai at the demon.
"Pathetic." Daisuke laughed grabbing one of the kunai as it flew past. He threw it right back at him.
Rokuro threw 6 shuriken to block the kunai two shuriken where able to block the sharp pointy object that was flying towards Rokuro.
"Did you think that you could actually hurt me?" Daisuke laughed dodging the suriken.
"Think again Daisuke." Rokuro shouted jerking his arms back. The suriken flew back at the blue haired demon and spun around him.
"Why are you after Hikari?" Rokuro questioned.
"At the moment you're my target." Daisuke answered.
"Why?" Rokuro asked tightening his grip on the wire.
"Because once I get rid of you and that damn wolf demon then there will be no one in my way of taking Hikari for myself." He replied.
"You damn bastard I'll never let you do that, and besides if you do beat me and Akio then Zen will still protect her."
"I've already taken care of him." Daisuke exclaimed snapping his fingers and a picture slowly formed next to him.
"Ah man that hurt." Akio groaned placing a hand on his mouth.
'We're still in the feudal era but how? When we fell down the well we should have gone back to the present.' Hikari thought brushing some of her silver ends out of her face.
"Hikari are you ok?" Akio questioned with a look that was more concerned about her than himself.
"Yea, I'm fine. We should start heading back up the well though." Hikari answered trying to stand.
"What the hell is going on? I can move." Akio shouted not able to get off his knees.
Zen's wrists and ankles were chained and he was pale. His eyes showed on emotion. Rokuro staired at the picture before him in disbelief.
"No it can't be Zen. THIS IS ALL A TRICK." Rokuro shouted.
"This is no trick that is Zen's soul. He is under Naraku's Control now. All he wanted to do was protect Hikari."
"WHERE ARE YOU KEEPIING HIM?"
"Oh you already know where I'm keeping him."
The picture faded and a new picture came into view. It was a picture of the blonde haired kid that saved Hikari from being sucked into his father's wind tunnel.
"WHAT?"
"That's right Rokuro Zen's soul has let out the dark side of his heart, and his dark side wants to stay in control, so in order to do that he has to kill the one he loves the most." Daisuke smirked breaking free of the wires.
He flew right up to Rokuro and was three inches away from his face.
"And one more thing this conversation never happened." Daisuke said blowing dust into Rokuro's face.
As Rokuro went into a coughing fit Daisuke made his escape.
"Finally." Akio sighed jumping out of the well.
"Rokuro what's wrong with you?" Akio said watching his friend.
"Rokuro what happened to Daisuke?" Hikari questioned placing a hand on his shoulder.
"I-I don't know. I can't remember." He replied shaking his head.
Daisuke walked into a dark room with only the light that was sneaking past the curtains. "Lord Naraku." Daisuke greeted bowing.
"Did you find the girl?" Naraku questioned never looking at Daisuke.
"Yes sir but unfortunately I was unsuccessful in capturing her."
"That will be all."
"Yes sir." Daisuke muttered with a bow then he left the room.
"Wow you really can't get any job done can you?" The blonde smirked leaning against the wall.
"What the hell do you care Zen, and besides it's none of your business any ways." Daisuke replied walking past.
"Naraku told me to go after her." Zen said.
"Hold on let me put on my gosh I really care face." Daisuke sighed rolling his eyes.
"I think you do care, you're in love wit her."
"Shut up." Daisuke whispered threw his clenched teeth.
"Let's face it you don't want her to see the dark side, you want her to stay in the light."
"I said SHUT UP. I swear one more word about Hikari and I'll break the chains on his heart, and if the really Zen can't get back into control then I will do what ever I can to help him." Daisuke snapped and then he walked away.
"Hiroshi." Inuyasha yelled from form the house.
"Dad I'm right here you don't have to yell." A kid in his late teens moaned as he lazily looked up at the blue sky.
"Well there's someone who wants to see you." Inuyasha stated.
With a groan Hiroshi jumped down from the roof.
"Hiroshi it's so good to see you again." Kagome said hugging her son.
"All right lets try this again I'll be back in a couple of days, don't kill each other and with that I leave you." Hikari laughed falling back into the well.
"Where did she go?" Akio asked puzzled as the blue light faded.
"She went back to her time."
-With Hikari-
"I'm finally home." Hikari sighed opening the door to the shrine.
"I think I'm just going to take a shower then go to Zen's for the next couple of days."
She quickly went up the stairs into her room to grab a new change of clothes then went into the shower. About 15 minuets later she was out of the shower and back in her room to pack her things. Then she was out the door and on her way to Zen's house.
*Knock* *Knock*
"Coming." Said a voice from the other side of the door. "Oh good Hikari you're here maybe you can get Zen out of his room." Anko stated grabbing Hikari's arm and dragging her inside.
"O-ok." Hikari stuttered being dragged up the stairs.
"Zen open up."
No reply.
"Come on don't be such an idiot and open the door."
"…"
"ZEN, OPEN UP NOW OR I'M GOING TO BREAK DOWN THIS DOOR."
"…"
"1…2…"
"This is going to be fun." He whispered grabbing the knob.
"3!" Hikari yelled as she ran towards the door.
The door flew open before Hikari could hit it and she went flying in and landed on Zen's bed. Zen stood at the door laughing.
"What did you do that for Zen?" Hikari asked a little mad but happy to see that he was safe and sound.
"You wanted me to open the door didn't you? So I did, and you were coming at the door with enough force that you would land on my bed." He replied.
"Well come down for breakfast we can talk more later, okay?" Hikari laughed standing up and walking out of the room.
"Okay I'll be down in a minuet." He answered shutting the door.
'Damn it I was so close I could have killed her right there.'
Suddenly a faint image of Naraku showed up in front of Zen.
"Zen." Naraku said.
"Yes my lord." Zen answered with a bow.
"Do not kill Hikari. Just bring her to me." Naraku commanded.
"But why? Why can't I kill her? Isn't that the only way I can stay in control?" Zen shouted.
"Yes you are correct, but I need her alive for something."
"Yes my lord I understand." Zen answered with a bow and then he disappeared.
~After Breakfast~
"Anko would you like some help with the dishes?" Hikari asked bringing the plates over from the table.
"No that's alright there's not many dishes, but thank you for offering." She replied Starting the faucet.
"Okay, then I'm going to unpack." Hikari said walking out of the kitchen.
"She's a sweet girl Zen why don't you ask her out?" Anko question collecting the remaining dishes.
"Because." He answered looking out the window.
"Because why?" Anko pouted.
"Just Because." He sighed getting up and walking away before Anko could go on.
~Up stairs~
"Hey Zen what's up you were really quiet at breakfast, and you usually don't lock your self up in your room like that." Hikari greeted as she pulled her pillow out of her bag.
"I just haven't been feeling very well is all, it's no big deal."
"Ok I was just wondering, that's all. So what do you want to do?"
"I don't know what do you want to do?"
"This is getting us no where. How about we to the park?"
"… … … Sure why not, it sounds fun."
"Okay then lets get going." Hikari laughed running past Zen and down the stairs.
"Anko we're going to the park we'll be back in a few hours." Zen shouted putting on his shoes.
"Alright. Just be home before dark." She replied.
'Hikari… why are you being so nice to me? I'm pretty sure you know that I'm not the Zen that you know. So why? Why do you want to get close to me and never let me go?'
"Zen look the fair, come on lets go." Hikari laughed grabbing his wrist and dragging him along.
'You know what I'm going to forget my orders and just enjoy the day with her.'
"So Zen what do you want to go on first?" Hikari asked.
"How about the Fraise Wheel?"
"Are you coming or not slow poke?"
"H-hey come Hikari that's not fair." Zen shouted running after her.
~5:00~
"I'm good for the day how about you?" Zen said sitting down on a bench.
"Oh ya I'm beat, let's go home." Hikari answered holding out her hand.
"Yea." Zen said grabbing her hand and standing up. "Let's go home." then they started walking back towards Zen's house.
"Hey we're back." Hikari shouted taking off her shoes.
"…"
"Hello." She said again.
"I'll go and check the kitchen Anko will usually have a note laying around somewhere in the kitchen for me when she went somewhere." Zen sighed walking into the kitchen. He saw the note sitting on the table.
Hey kids I'm going out for the night I'll be back at 10:3. You two better be in bed and a sleep by the time I get back.
Love Ya,
Anko
P.S. Seriously you better be in bed by the time I get home. Don't teat me.
"Hey Hikari I was right she went out for the night. She said we better be in bed and sleeping by 10:30." Zen stated walking into the living room.
"Ok that's fine with me. Oh did I tell you another person joined Rokuro and I on my search for my dad. His name's Akio." Hikari replied.
"I hope he helps you as much as he can." Zen sighed walking back into the kitchen. "If you can ever get back to them." He whispered as his eyes turned blue.
Hikari went up stairs and up to the spare bed room that she was staying in. It was twilight. Hikari grabbed her sword and hopped out of her window on to the roof that was out side her window.
"I'm going to have to watch the sun set with Rokuro and Akio sometime." Hikari sighed sitting down and pulling out her sword from its sheath.
"Hey what are you doing?" Zen asked looking out side the window.
"Just looking at my sword and watching the sun set want to join me?" Hikari asked placing the sword back in its sheath and setting it aside.
"Zen I'm sorry."
"About What?"
"That I've just been talking about Rokuro."
"Hey don't worry about it I'm fine with it."
"So… what do you want to do after we watch the sun set?"
"I don't know."
"I'm just glad that I get some time off from looking for my father and brother." Hikari sighed lying down to look at the clouds rolling by.
"Isn't your mom going to be furious with you?" Zen asked.
"I'm already in a lot of trouble for running away from Rokuro's house so I really don't see a difference if she's mad at me or not." She replied.
A rain drop hit Hikari's face.
"Oh it looks like it's starting to rain." She stated wiping the drop off of her face.
"Let's go inside." Zen said climbing back in the window.
Soon after they got back into the room it started pouring.
"I guess we got in just in time." Hikari stated as the rain slammed against the window.
"I'm going to figure out a new song hopefully I can think of something." Hikari sighed getting out a note pad and a pen.
"All right." Zen stated then he walked out of the room.
~8:00~
"So Hikari did you think of anything?" Zen questioned looking back in the room.
Hikari was asleep on her bed with the pen and pad in her hands.
"I guess not." Zen sighed watching her sleep.
'I remember watching her sleep before. It was at Rokuro's house the night of the dance.'
Suddenly the moment that Daisuke kissed Hikari popped into his head. Then just as fast as it image came it went away again sending a sharp pain through his head.
'Damn it.' He thought grabbing his head and leaning against the door frame to keep his balance. 'Why does this keep happening to me?'
Zen stumbled back to his bedroom and closed the door behind him. He just barley made it over to his bed before collapsing. He kept seeing things from the night of the dance.
No matter how much he would have rather of been passed out he couldn't the memories just kept coming back. About a half an hour later the memories finally faded.
'I'm so tired, why is this constantly happening? I don't want to remember what happened? I all ready know. That's why I'm in this mess that's why I wan to kill Hikari, but after spending time with her to day it feels weird wanting to kill her. Know I know why he loves her so much. Know I wonder why Naraku wants Hikari. Naraku wants something from her, but what?' Zen thought sitting at the edge of his bed looking outside the window at the pouring rain.
He looked back at the clock it was 9:00 he had an hour before Anko got home, but knowing her she would be back a half an hour early to make sure they actually listened to her. So he figured that he should try and get some sleep. With in the half an hour he was asleep. Zen was right and Anko did come home at 9:30 to see if they were asleep. Then around 10:30 the house was quiet.
It was just another boring day of school. The class went on like they normally did. "Hikari do you want to hang out after school?" Tori asked sitting down in her seat that was in front of her.
"Sure why not." Hikari replied with a grin.
Then Tori turned around right when the bell rang.
'I wonder where Zen is I haven't seen him all day.' She thought ignoring the teacher and doodling in her note book.
"Class pay attention we have a new student today." The teacher stated as she walked over to the door.
A boy with blue hair and red eyes walked into the room.
'I know I've seen him before but who is he?' Hikari thought staring at the new student.
"This is D- he's new around here so I'm going to assign someone to help him around the school for the week." The teacher announced.
'Why couldn't I hear his name?' she thought still staring at the new kid.
He stared strait back. A smirk appeared across his face.
"Hikari!" The teacher said snapping her out of her thoughts.
"Yes ma'am?" She replied standing up.
"D- Is going to be following you around for the rest of the week." The teacher stated allowing the boy to go to his seat.
'Who is that boy? Damn I know that I know him from somewhere but where?'
"Hello Hikari are you even paying attention?" Tori laughed waving her hand in front of Hikari's face.
"What? Oh I'm Sorry Tori I guess I just zoned out, what's up?" She laughed.
"The bell just rang for lunch lets go." Tori sighed getting up.
"You go I'll catch up." She stated collecting her books.
Tori sighed again and walked out of the room.
"Hikari." The boy said walking up to her.
Hikari stopped what she was doing. "I know that voice." She whispered slowly looking up from what she was doing.
Hikari shot up off of her bed. She looked around the room noticing that she was still in the spare bed room at Zen's house.
"It was just a dream." She told her self placing a hand on her head.
She looked over at the window it was still poring out side.
"If this keeps up the pool party will be canceled." she sighed laying back down.
