Deadman Forest

Chapter Twelve

Kimiko's POV

I woke up to hearing voices and the door closing. I got up and noticed Yuuko and Rei we're gone, "Oh lala, where have those two run off to?~" I started giggling at how weird I sounded. "It's nice to see those two having some time alone." I muttered happily as I returned the blanket and pillows I borrowed.

Once that was done I looked at the time, 7 am... I'm sure Yuuko must have trained for hours, I looked over to where see slept, I saw a strand of hair on a pillow. The messy hair strikes again! I clean up her sleeping area too.

Then I turned to Nezumi. Sleeping like a baby, I couldn't help but notice how calm his expression was, my heart started beating a bit faster. I then remembered the kiss I gave him last night. My first was taken away from me when I was five.

Not knowing it was a kiss, Nezumi stole it when I had ice cream on my lip. I couldn't help but remember Yuuko and Rei's faces. They looked flustered and upset. I chuckled to myself lightly but that was enough to wake up Nezumi from his slumber.

"Good morning Nezu." I patted his head, I moved back a bit to give him space to sit up. "We slept in Rei's room?" He asked and I nodded. "Where'd they go?" He asked, "I don't know I'm only sure it was before I woke up. But yesterday Yuuko was acting a certain way around him~" I trailed off into my fantasies.

"She was probably training for hours." Nezumi chuckled, "That's what I said!" We started giggling, "Anyway I was going to go and sho- WOAH!" I slipped on a pillow that was on the ground and I landing with a thud. "Are you okay?" Nezumi said a bit loudly, "Yeah, I'm all good. Don't worry...about...it?" I trailed off at the look in Nezumi's eyes.

His was holding me up, my hand in his. My heart started thumping a bit more, before I knew it his lips were on mine. I nervously kissed back, when we separated I'm pretty sure my heart was about to pop out. His face turned a very deep shade of red, "I-i'm sorry Kimiko." He said hiding his face, I lifted his face up pretty sure I still had that blush.

"Don't be, it was nice. Didn't taste like vanilla and chocolate but it was still nice." He smiled, "So you remembered that but not me. Pervy Kimi-chan~" He mused as he helped me up. "The memory came with the vampire servent." I snorted and he blushed of embarrassment again.

"Whatever!" He stuck his tongue out as he started fixing Rei's bed. Pretty tightly I might add. "Huh! I  don't remember you being so organized." I gave him a smug look and he shrugged, "You have to be respectful to other peeps property." We tried our best to restore Rei's room to the way we found it.

We then walked to our rooms, The wardrobe changed, instead of having all kimonos I had a bunch of Kyudos. Breakfast isn't until 9:30...I heard their training ground manipulates time. Maybe I could ask Nezumi to train with me.

I changed into a kyudo and went over to Nezumi's room. I think he was a ninja. I wanted to test this theory and so I went into his room unannounced, soon enough he had a Tanto at my neck. I could feel blood beads forming, he suddenly let go. I was right.

"Oh gosh I'm so sorry!" He got some tissue and a bandage. "Don't worry. I heal really fast." I wiped the blood and showed him my skin was reforming already. "Woah! How is that?" He asked, "When I was younger bow and arrows always bruises my skin. So my parents felt terrible they decided to take to get a blessing that also turned into a curse. Bruises wash away easily on the skin but stay for every in the heart."

I told him and he nodded in understanding. "Anyway, I was going to train as you can see, I take it you would like to come along?" I said noting his attire, "Yeah of course I'll come." "Also what exactly is your weapon?" He smirked and whispered in my ear, "That my friend is a secret."

We walked down to the training ground and as we passed by we saw an amazing sight, "Rei kissed Yuuko's cheek!" Nezumi whisper yelled, "Look at how much she's blushing!" I replied. She got up and started to walk on our direction. I grabbed Nezumi's hand and we booked it to our destination.

When we got there I looked directly for the breast plates. "None of these are my size!" I groaned in frustration, "D-cup right? Here you go." Nezumi tossed one over to me, "Nice fit...pervert how'd you know?" He just shrugged.

I walked over the weaponry, searched for my name. Once I found it out came my celestial bronze bow. I was going to leave the poisoned arrows. Wouldn't want to get in trouble for paralysis. There was a secluded wood with targets already lined up.

Perfect! I looked over at Nezumi, he had a bunch of Kunais and Shurikens in between fingers. A competition it was and I won! I learned to be quicker with my release time. Then it was time for a stealthy attack. All was quicker as I was in one of the many trees in this wood. Listen to wind...*crunch* Ahah! I shot the arrow and had to quickly move as a kunai was being thrown at me.

"A tie it seems." Nezumi said as he moved his scarf off his face. "That was so intense!" I laughed. "Hand-to-hand combat now?" He asked as I slipped my bow over chest, "Yep! Up for it?" He nodded. This was a pretty fair fight, expect for the fact that he had more time to learning martial arts and before I knew it he had me in the ground.

"The score seems to be 1 win, 1 tie and 1 lost for both of us." He chuckled as he helped me up for the second time today. "Seems so." I replied, "Breakfast?" He asked, "Breakfast." I returned my weapon and took off the breast plate. I also put that in my weapon storage just in case.

Well I know who I'll be questioning at breakfast!