Void (The Youngest, Book 3.B.)

Chapter 十 (B)

3rd P.O.V.

Kira was sitting on Scott's bed as she flipped through the book until she got to the section on Kitsunes. Scott sat down next to her as he looked over an illustration of a multi-tailed fox. Around the fox were streams of lightning that seemed to be coming from it.

"That looks like what happened to you at the power station," he said to her as he looked at the picture.

She nodded. "When a kitsune rubs its tails together it can create fire or lightning. It's called foxfire." Scott gave the picture another look, specifically towards the tails. "I don't have any tails," Kira told him.

Scott scoffed. "What? How'd you know what I was thinking?"

"Because, kitsune are also psychic. I can hear all your thoughts." Scott's face fell at that one while Kira smiled at him. "Just kidding." That made the two of them share a small laugh. But Kira's smile faded when she saw that it was a little darker than it was before. "The sun's setting."

It was almost time.

"Yeah, I know," he huffed out before he looked at Kira. "Are you scared?" he whispered to her.

She eyed him and shook her head. "Not right now."

Scott felt his heart start beating faster and it had little to do with the fact that supernatural ninjas would be coming after them. Scott found himself leaning in closer to Kira and it looked like she was coming closer to him too.

But Kira pulled back and stared down at her hands. "I'm supposed to be back before dinner," she told him.

Scott knew that Kira couldn't leave. Not with those things after them. Her parents could end up getting hurt. "Tell them you can't make it," he suggested.

"What should I say?"

"Uh, say...you're going on a date," he said with a bit of a mischievous smile to himself.

One that Kira returned. "Are you sure that's a good idea? You know, foxes and wolves don't really get along." She looked back at her book and flipped the page to show a picture of a multi-tailed fox being surrounded by growling and fang bearing wolves and ready to fight them.

But Scott went and shut the book closed. "That's just a drawing in a children's book," he muttered to her. He was even closer to her than before and this time, Kira wasn't pulling away. They were close to kissing when they heard the sound of a car pulling in and that made them pull away from each other again. "My mom's back," he said, feeling a little annoyed at her timing. They moved off and headed downstairs but Scott froze. It wasn't his mother that had come home, it was his father. "What are you doing here? And why do you still have a key?" Scott said shortly to him.

But his dad just shrugged. "Funny that you mention keys, because while I have a key to this house I'm not exactly sure how you got a key to my office." He then flipped open his laptop and revealed a picture of Scott with Kira in the evidence office.

Scott sighed at the sight of it. There had been a security camera in his dad's laptop that they must've triggered when they used it to charge Kira's phone. And, his father couldn't have picked a worse time to come here with all of this.

Scott and his father just stared at each other with Kira off to the side feeling awkward with how the two of them were looking at each other.