• Chapter Two
    The Pas    t

    tab As I got up out of bed and yawned Kurama smiles and walks out of the room. As much as I love him, he knows that mornings I like to have a lone. Yet today was some how different, I knew that he was going to Spirit world and going after the three artifacts so it wanted me to be with him more. I walked over to my dresser where all my school uniforms are and picked up the cell phone that my mother gave me. I sighed as I flipped it open to see that there was no new calls. Strange, normally she calls when I'm a sleep to wish me good night. Maybe they had other things going on last night and didn't want to call. I looked for her number and called. No one was home, or up in her case. I left a message for her telling her that I had a good nights sleep, which was a lie but I didn't want to worry her, and told her that I was up and going to go to school and that I would be waiting for her call when I got out tonight.
    tab When I was done, I closed the phone and put it down and sighed. As much as I love living here in Japan it makes me stop and think how things would have played out if I stayed in the United States. When I was there I always had a feeling there was some one here in Japan that would make me feel whole, but never knew why it was here until a few years ago. I was always the out cast in any school that I would go to there in the states. I was top of all of my classes and the teachers loved having me to show off to every one else. I always hated it, plus it didn't help that my foster father was in the Army so we always had to move around.
    tab I shuttered at the thought of being a foster childed I hated it. I was born here in Japan, and was sent to an orphanage here. The couple that adopted me was from Michigan, but again he always moved around and I went where ever they went. However at the age of 14 I asked if there was some way for me to go to school in Japan and take High school there and go to college there. I figured it would be best for me to go back to my home country and do schooling there. They let me, however I was to stay with a good friend of the family of theirs. That is how Kurama came to play.
    tab I looked up at the mirror and smiled lightly, yes all that time I knew him and little did I know who he really was, I guess Yana wasn't all the way to her powers when I first meet him. Now I know who he is and love everything about him. I looked at my mess of what my hair was and picked up the brush and brushed it out slowly. My hair is long and black, nothing really out of the ordinary, Yana was never one to be spotted out in a crowed, not like Yoko. Kurama has red hair because of Yoko. I however, look like every one else here. So not very many demons come looking for me, just Kurama.
    tab I put my brush down and change out of my pajama's and into my school uniform. I hated the colors of it but the skirt always looked good on me, or so says Kurama. I picked up my phone again and put it in my school bag. My homework was all done so there was no need to do last minute work before heading down stairs to eat.
    tab As I walked down the stairs I heard Kurama talking to some one. I stopped half way down and seen a man that was about half the hight of Kurama, I knew right there that was Hiei. He looked at me, a look of puzzled being on his face. He turned back to Kurama and pointed at me, “so that is Yana? She looks like ever one else here in this little island. I don't see any need to have her with us.”
    tab That's when something hit me, I hated being called that. I'm not Yana! I'll show you! Before I could even stop myself I took the rose that I always carry in my hair and summand the rose whip. I made a go for his leg which he jumped out of the way. He laughed as he landed, “alright, so I was wrong, that is Yana the demon fox. Well, now I know that she doesn't like to be called one of the humans, but she makes it hard to find her.”
    tab I nod, “yes, and its demons like you that I want to hide from. I don't really want to fight, but remember every where Yoko goes I go as well. However, this time he doesn't want me to go with him.”
    tab My whip turned back into the rose and I tucked it away in my hair. I walked back down the stairs and to the kitchen. I didn't like that he was here, I had a run in with Hiei some time ago in demon world, but I never told Kurama this. I didn't think that this was something worth telling him about, it was a minor fight and that was why I went to Spirit world to look for him.
    tab I started to make my breakfast as the two of them talked on how they would be going into Spirit world and breaking into the Kings vault. I didn't like how Kurama was going to risk his live for this low class demon. I hated to think that he might not come back, or the slim chance that he would if the King was gone.
    tab I sat at the bar and listen to the two of them talking, wanting so bad to sit next to Kurama and go in with the plan, but I knew I was the one that had to stay here and make up some reason on why he wasn't coming to school today and I always hated doing that. He wasn't one for skipping, but knew with this team of misfit demons he had to skip a few days and it was up to me to get him out of trouble.
    tab When I was done eating I cleaned the plate and put it aside when I got home from school. I put my hair up in a pony tail and put it up so it wouldn't be on my back all day. I looked over at the two still talking at the table. I picked up my bag and walked over to Kurama and kissed him softly on the cheek. “I'm taking it I get to walk by myself today then?”
    tab He looked up at me and nodded, “yes, sorry I won't be able to accompany you to school today. You know what is going to happen. But I will be back tonight and make up the work that will be doing for today.” He handed me his homework for last night and I put it in my bag with my things. “Just say that I was feeling ill today and that I should be back in tomorrow. And try not to be too flirty today with the boys, you know that is really cruel when you do.”
    tab I sigh and nod “fine, I won't. But it makes time go by a whole lot quicker. Just to see that I give them two seconds of their time to try, its some what funny that they would even try and hit on me knowing that I am with you.” I laugh lightly at the last time some one was hitting on me with him standing right there, that poor soul never seen it coming.
    tab I stopped and looked at him, his face was stern and I stopped laughing, I know that look all too well, he didn't like that thought that I had and I know that if I wasn't his love he would have killed me for that one. I took a step back, “alright, alright, I'll be good today.” I turned and went to the door, “try and be safe today, and come back alive,” I called over my shoulders as I went out side and made the walk to school alone.
    tab This wasn't my normal way of going to school, Kurama would always be by my side and we would be quizzing each other on home work that we had, or for a test that would be coming up today. I sighed as the thought of going back home was playing in my mind. I hated living in the states, I think Yana did too. We where one of the few that was ever in the school and stood out a little too much. That is why I wanted to come back to Japan. But to find the one person that I was looking for was always there as a good friend as well as a friend to the family was some what funny.
    tab He said he always knew that I was Yana. His mother and father, when he was a live, would come to the states and visit my family and Kurama and we would always play with each other. We both would joke around that some day it would be funny if we where to get married and bring the two families into one.
    tab There was one trip here that I will never forget though. This happened when I was
    about 12. We came here in the middle of summer and I fell in love with Japan. It was home to me, something that nothing could take away from me. I asked my mother and father if I could stay here. The look in their eyes told me that they didn't want to let me go. That was when Kurama's mother said that she would house me and Kurama and I could go to the same school and that way they would know that I was safe. Hearing that they where a little better, but still not fully wanting to let me go.
    tab There was a little deal that was with me and them however. I was going to be able to stay after high school and into college only after I merry to some one here to live here forever. I was to come home to the states on Holidays and when ever I could take the time to fly back. That was an easy one to keep. I left here every Christmas and for the summer holidays. So they only see me for a few weeks out of the year.
    tab But when ever I go back home, I just feel so out of place, here I fit right in. I told Kurama the deal that I made with my parents and he vowed that during our senior year of high school he will ask my hand and we will get married before starting college. That thought brought me back and sent shivers down my spine. I love Kurama so much, but some times I have the feeling that its just Yoko and Yana trying to get back together, yet again maybe not.
    tab It was amazing that I was able to make my way to school on time and not get lost with all the day dreaming about the past. I walked into my first hour class and told the teacher that Shuichi Minamino was at home and sick. I handed the teacher his home work for the class and sat down. I was glade that my seat was next to the window and could day dream about what the day had in store for both Kurama and myself.