Rose of Love

Chapter Six

“So, how was it last night?” Yusuke asked, smiling at Kurama. The two of them were waiting outside of the fitting room while Keiko and Rose tried on clothes. Yusuke was used to waiting outside for about two hours until Keiko finally found something she liked. Kurama however, wasn’t used to this kind of date. He never went clothes shopping with a girl before and it sort of made him feel a little uneasy.

“Yusuke I doubt this is the right place to be talking about that,” Kurama said, avoiding eye contact.

“Well, what else can we talk about. We’ve been standing here for about an hour and I’m getting tired and bored.”

“Be patient Yusuke.” Kurama smiled at his friend who had a bored look on his face.

“Okay, all done,” Keiko said, emerging from the fitting stale. She was wearing a blue skirt that ended above the knees and a white short sleeve shirt that had a huge heart in the center. “Do you like?”

“Yeah I like. I like anything that’s on you,” Yusuke said with a grin. Keiko gave Yusuke a hug and shortly after Rose came out wearing the same skirt that Keiko was wearing except in pink, and a v-neck short sleeve shirt that was black.

“Kurama! How do you like it?” she asked.

“It looks adorable on you,” Kurama smiled.

“Thank you so much!” Rose smiled and gave Kurama hug. Yusuke noticed this and looked at Kurama who had a blank stare on his face. Rose realized it too and stepped away. “I’m sorry Kurama. I forgot.”

“It’s okay. I didn’t feel anything, you’re safe.”

“That’s good to know. Hey, let’s go to the park and sit under the trees.”

“That’s a good idea,” Keiko said. “Let’s go Yusuke.”

“Fine, I need a break from standing.”

After paying for the outfits, the four of them walked over to the park, laughing and talking on the way. Only a few clouds were in the sky and the sun was shining above them. Rose picked out a hug tree so that the four of them could sit under. Keiko was sitting on Yusuke’s lap with his arms around her while Rose was sitting beside Kurama. Her head was on his shoulder as the two of them held hands.

“I’m sorry Kurama,” she whispered.

“Why are you sorry?” he asked.

“I can’t cuddle with you. It’ll be too risky being that we are out in the open like this.”

Kurama smiled and wrapped his arm around her. “Don’t worry about.”

Rose smiled to herself and moved in closer to him.

“We’ll attack tonight,” Fukai said, standing before tons of demons. “I will entrust you with this mission and you better succeed, or else!”

The demons shook with fear and nodded their heads.

“Good. Now go!”

“Yes ma’am!” the demons shouted and took off.

“Tonight, I’ll avenge you father. That half demon is no match for me,” Fukai thought to herself and a grin formed across her lips.


“It’s a beautiful night,” Rose softly said while holding onto Kurama’s arm.

“It is. But not as beautiful as you are,” he said with a smile.

“Kurama you say such wonderful things to me.” Rose smiled at Kurama and held him tighter. “I wish this night never ends.”

“So do I-“ Kurama stopped in his tracks and looked around the area.

“What’s wrong Kurama?”

“Shhh. We have company.”

“Huh?”

Kurama glared into the empty darkness while Rose was trying to figure out what was going on. The wind blew through the leaves of the trees and the moon was covered by the clouds. Kurama’s body stiffened and pushed Rose aside. It wasn’t long before a swarm of demons appeared from the darkness, heading towards Kurama and Rose. Kurama got his rose whip out and was ready to attack. The demons stopped a few feet away from the two of them, all with grins on their faces.

“Why are you here?” Kurama demanded. None of the demons responded. “Answer me!”

“We are here to serve our master,” said a demon.

“Do not interfere,” said another and charged towards Kurama.

The rest of the demons followed and surrounded Kurama to a point where he couldn’t see anything but the demons in front of him. He took his rose whip and started slashing the demons, a couple at a time. Meanwhile Rose was doing the best she could to help Kurama, but during the process, a demon grabbed her and took her into the darkness. Kurama stopped at the sign of Rose’s spirit energy gone. Kurama faced the demons with fire in his eyes.

“Where’s Rose?!” he demanded, his grip getting tighter around the handle of his whip.

“Why should we tell you?” said a demon.

“It’s simple. If you don’t, I’ll make sure I slice your bodies into bird food!” His whip flung through the air, slicing each demon into tiny pieces. Pretty soon, only two demons remained.

“Okay, okay. We’ll talk,” they said with shaky voices. “Rose was taken to the castle that is up high on the mountain. It’s one of the mountains towards the west. Fukai lives in that castle and wants to get revenge for what Rose did to her father.”

“Fine, I’ll spare your lives, but if I find out that you’ve been lying to me. I’ll hunt you down like the dogs you are.”

Terror formed in their eyes and with that, the demons fled the scene, leaving Kurama in the dark once again. Kurama stood there for a seconds, then headed toward the west, hoping that the demons were telling the truth and that Rose was okay.


AU: Wow. This is a short chapter. ^^;; I mean a really, really, really, short chapter. I am planning to have the next chapter to be longer so, that’s probably why this chapter is so short. Not to mention my brain is slowing down and I’m getting headaches. ^^;; Okay. I’m out.