Chapter 6: Fever
Flash Back…
"Good morning Zen." Kagome greeted walking out of the house to see Zen staring at the shrine.
"Morning Mrs. Tama." Zen replied not looking up.
"So she already left?" Kagome questioned looking at the shrine.
"Yeah I got here before she left, but you were still asleep." He answered. "Well I should get going, see you later Mrs. Tama." He continued standing up and walking away.
"Yeah see you." Kagome replied going back into the house.
She walked into the kitchen by the sink was a rainbow colored piece of paper. Kagome picked it up and started to read it.
Mom,
Sorry I left so early I just didn't want to you see cry. I didn't bring my guitar you can even go in my room and check. I know, the final exams are coming up so I remembered to take my school books. I'll try not to get in to much trouble, see you later.
-Hikari-
…
Hikari's amber eyes slowly opened. Her head was pounding, but she ignored the pain and sat up to get a better look at where she was. She was in a large room with pictures hanging all around the room a few feet away from her was Rokuro sleeping against the wall. Some of her hair fell in front of her face her silver ends were gone. She tip toed out of the room and shut the door behind her. When she got out side she realized she was wearing black shorts and a red tank top. She looked up at the sky the last quarter moon was out.
'So that's why I'm in so much pain.' She thought grabbing her bandaged arm which when ever she move it a throbbing pain went through her arm.
"You know you had every one worried." Came a voice from behind her.
Hikari quickly turned around, she stumbled slightly having spun to fast and gotten dizzy.
"What's wrong not felling very well." Said the same voice.
"What do you want Daisuke I'm not in the mood?" Hikari questioned slowly turning around to look at him.
"Please, do you think you can try and fight me in your current state?" Daisuke questioned with a smirk plastered on his face.
"Why are you following me, do you enjoy annoying me, or is it that you want something from me?" She asked looking up in to his red eyes.
"I guess you'll just have to figure that out on your own. Till we meet again my little angel." Daisuke said flying off into the dark night.
"I hate him… I really do." Hikari mumbled sitting down on the porch.
"So it happens to you as well." asked a mans voice.
Hikari looked turned her head and saw Miroku walking up to her and sitting down.
"Yeah unfortunately, I guess because of all of my injuries when the moon showed I fainted. Rokuro walked out and that's the last thing I remember." Hikari replied staring up at the moon.
"Well Rokuro brought you in and your shirt was blood stained so Sango took you out of the room and bandaged your cuts. We put you in Rokuros room… anyway enough about that, how are you felling?" Miroku questioned.
"I still feel dizzy and the pain in my arm is starting to calm down, other than that I should be ok." She replied.
"Well you should get some more rest." Miroku stated standing up.
"Ok… I will." Hikari replied standing up and walking back into the room.
Rokuro was still a sleep so Hikari took one of the pillows and a blanket over to Rokuro and put the blanket on his lap and the pillow next to him.
"I might as well put this back on." She mumbled to herself placing the yang necklace around her neck and went back to sleep.
'Who are you? What do you want with me?' yelled a girl with her hands bound behind her back.
A young man about her age with blond hair and blue eyes was standing there watching her.
'I asked you a question! And what do you have a staring problem?' She shouted her amber eyes glaring at him.
"Hikari do you even know my name?' He asked
'How would I know your name?' Hikari asked looking away from him.
' You still have that same gentle look of hope in your eyes, just like when we were little.' the teen smirked.
'That voice I know that voice… but it can't be… that means you're…' Hikari said.
Hikari shot up; it was morning "Thank god it was only a dream." Hikari whispered placing her hand on her head.
"Quiet down I'm trying to sleep." Rokuro groaned pulling the blanket over his head.
'Well someone's moody in the morning.' Hikari thought getting out of bed.
She walked out of the room.
"Morning Hikari." Yuri said running up to her.
"Hey." Hikari greeted walking up to Yuri.
"Are you and Rokuro going out?" Yuri asked getting on Hikari's back for a ride.
"What…Sweat Drop no, what would give you that idea? I just met your brother yesterday." Hikari replied.
"Well that's not what he said." Yuri stated.
"What did he say?" Hikari asked, her eye twitching.
"He said that he's known you for a long time and…" Yuri replied before being cut off.
"Do you always listen to what your brothers tell you?" Hikari asked setting Yuri down.
"Well yeah, aren't I supposed to?" Yuri asked.
"Well you are supposed to listen to your elders..." Hikari stated walking into the house after Yuri.
About 5 minuets later Rokuro walked in to the room. "Morning Hikari, how come your hair is still completely black?" He asked sitting down next to her. "And how come I don't sense any demonic aura around you any more?" He questioned.
"Why do you want to know? But if you've known me for so long then you should all ready know why." Hikari answered with a bit of tension in her voice.
"Whatever." Rokuro mumbled shrugging.
'I'm forgetting some thing I know it, but what?' She thought. "Oh no." She said out loud quickly standing up and running out of the room.
"Hikari what's wrong?" Roukro asked following her Yuri did the same.
"I have a state test tomorrow and I can't miss it." She replied grabbing her things from Rokuro's Room.
"Just one question what the hel-, heck is a state test?" Rokuro asked with a look of confusion on his face.
"It's a stupid test that every 8th grader has to take." Hikari replied walking past him and putting on her shoes.
"Well where do you have to go?" He asked.
"To the bone eaters well so I can get back to my own time, do you know where it is?" She questioned standing back up and grabbing her back pack.
"Some what." He answered.
"Good enough." She stated getting on Kyo.
About a half an hour later they were at the bone eaters well.
"Thanks." Hikari said hopping off of Kyo.
"No problem… hey Hikari if you don't mind me asking can I go with you?" He asked getting off of Kyo.
"I guess so I don't know if it will work but sure, why not." She replied sitting on the edge of the well.
"I want to come too." Yuri whined trying to get off of Kyo.
"No Yuri, you have to go back home with Kyo. And when mom and dad ask where we are please don't say anything." Rokuro said placing her back on Kyo.
"Ok, come back soon." Yuri said a little sad but she still had a smile on her face.
"How do we get there?" He asked walking over to the well.
"Give me your hand." Hikari said holding out hers.
"Okay now what?" Rokuro stated taking her hand.
"Now sit here next to me hold on and hopefully it works." She answered.
Rokuro sat down and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Jump." Hikari yelled pushing herself off the edge of the well.
"Holy..." Rokuro's voice echoed as he was pulled down into the well, being engulfed in blue light.
Their feet landed on the ground of the well.
"Rokuro you can let go now we're here." Hikari said looking up at him.
"Sorry." Rokuro laughed letting go of her waist. A blush formed on his face.
Hikari started climbing up the later, Rokuro followed. She walked into the house and took off her shoes. "Mom I'm home!" Hikari yelled walking into the Kitchen with Rokuro right behind her. "A note...?" She muttered picking up the paper lying on the table.
Hikari,
Sorry I missed you when you got home. I guess you did remember about your test. Well I won't be home till around 8 tonight. Your allowance is on the island. Well I will see you tonight.
Love,
Mom
"Ok then." Hikari stated looking at the note.
"Your mom sounds nice." Rokuro said looking over her shoulder reading the note.
Hikari looked over at the clock 10:00 am "I should go to school to get some studding in and see what I missed." She said setting the note down on the table.
"Will you be ok alone for a couple of hours?" Hikari asked.
"Yes don't worry I'll be fine." He replied.
"Ok." she stated walking up to her room to quickly put her uniform on. "I'll show you where your room is when I get back is that ok?" She asked coming down the stairs.
'Wow she looks good in a skirt.' "Yea that's ok." Rokuro blushed, luckily she didn't notice.
"See you later then." Hikari stated running out of the house.
"Good morning ." Mrs. Seahara said taking the late pass from her.
"Morning." Hikari replied with a little bow then she took her seat.
"Alright now back to what I was saying …" Mrs. Seahara was saying when Hikari started staring out the window.
'Why didn't I just stay home and study?' She thought.
The bell rang for lunch and every one rushed out of the room.
"Hikari can I have a word with you?" Mrs. Seahara asked.
"Sure." Hikari replied walking over to her teacher's desk.
"Are you ok you looked out of it to day and your one of my best students?" Mrs. Seahara stated with a concerned look on her face.
"Yea I'm fine I'm sorry if I worried you because I was out for a couple of days I wasn't felling very good." Hikari replied.
"Well here's all you have to do for this class is study for your test on Friday." Mrs. Seahara explained handing her s practice test. "Thank you." Hikari answered taking you papers and walking out of the room.
"Hey Zen what's up?" Hikari asked sitting down at there usual table.
"Not much, here are the rest of your assignments." Zen replied handing her the book of practice tests.
"Thanks." she laughed taking the book and putting it in her back pack.
"So what's it like?" He questioned breaking the silence between them.
"It's great except the part where I almost got killed by a giant boomerang." Hikari laughed.
Hikari's P.O.V.
The bell rang for free period.
"Wow this day is going by so fast." I laughed sarcastically.
"The only good thing about school is you get to see your friends." Zen smirked.
"Hey Hikari we missed you." Came a girl's voice from behind Zen and me.
"What do you want Shanel?" I replied with a why-the-hell-are-you-even- near-me look on my face.
"That's a cute key chain, who gave it to you?" She asked giggling.
I just turn around and walked away.
"Don't walk away when I'm talking to you." Shanel yelled running after me. "Hikari." She shouted grabbing my shoulder and turning my around to face her. She twisted the collar of my uniform and pushed me against the wall. By now a group of her friends formed around us.
"Listen Shanel I don't fell like fighting today." I sighed pushing her away.
Then a stinging pain went threw my check. I had a blank stare as I touched my finger tips to my cheek and took it off.
'Blood… she hit me hard enough to draw blood.' I thought laughing.
I picked up my books I had dropped then I slowly stood up. Some one grabbed my arms making me drop my books again.
"This isn't fair." I stated barely trying to get free of Ryo's grip.
"This is a nice necklace." Shanel stated pulling on one of the strings unitl the yang symbol came out of my shirt.
'You think I would learn to put it on a chain, but I'm to lazy do that.' I thought.
"Stop it Shanel!" Zen shouted.
But it was to late the next thing I herd was the yang symbol hitting the ground. I watched every body's faces as they watched my hair change and my pulpits slit. I pushed Roy off of me and bent down a grabbed my things and ran through the crowd and out into the court yard.
Back at the crowd of people every body stared at each other.
"Zen stepped out of the crowed "Shanel if you had one ounce of kindness in you do you think you could use it… that goes for all of you. Do you know how much pain she is in right now?" He shouted over everyone. Then he walked away.
"Hikari are you okay?" He asked in a gentle voice.
Tears were slowly streaming down her face. She wiped away the tears.
"Listen I know it's hard but if you want I can help you get threw it." Zen said holding out a hand.
"Then thing I hate the most was when they all stared at me like I was a freak." She stated putting the necklace back on.
"Look at it this way we have the rest of the week the party on Saturday and then you don't to see them for the rest of the summer." He explained trying to get her to stand up.
Hikari took his and stood up and hugged him.
"Thank you." She whispered.
"Any time." He replied hugging her back.
Hikari picked up her books off the bench.
"Where lucky it's free period or we would be in big trouble." Zen laughed opening the door.
"I think I should go to the nurse and ask if I can go home." Hikari stated shutting her locker.
Some 8th graders walked past Hikari and Zen.
"Come on let's go." Hikari said walking in the other direction of the 8th graders to the nurse's office.
