Amy Blankenship - Cursed Hearts

“I’ve told you to stay out of my head.” Toya glared back at Kyou, “One day you’re not going to like what you find crawling around in there.” He jerked his shoulder, making Kyou let go of him. The last thing he needed was Kyou listening in on his thoughts. Having part of Tadamichi within him was creepy enough. He made sure his mental defenses were up then glanced back across the street as Tasuki’s car pulled away from the house.

“I wonder if she thought to stop and get something to eat,” Toya mumbled, thinking out loud.

“Why would that worry you?” Kyou asked curiously knowing Toya was not one to say random things.

“She almost passed out during drama class today. I overheard her tell Tasuki that she hadn’t been eating because of the move,” Toya informed him before adding, “Tasuki also asked her to go with him to the masquerade party Friday night at the school.”

Kotaro’s lips thinned as he pulled a long-bladed knife from the waist of his pants and started flipping it through his fingers like a baton. “I think Tasuki has appointed himself her bodyguard in hopes of being a little bit more.”

“If he’s not careful, he will be a little bit dead.” Knowing how that sounded, Toya quickly added, “He’ll only find himself a target for the demons if he becomes too close to her.”

“There are five of us… I think we could outnumber his advances if we tried.” Shinbe smirked.

“We failed today.” Kyou’s voice held no emotion, but the look in his golden eyes was angry. “We are her guardians and she is only a human girl that is more fragile than most. If she keeps putting herself in danger by disappearing, then we will have no choice but to reveal ourselves for what we are… her real guardians.”

“And tell her what she is?” Kamui shook his head. “She isn’t ready for that… think about it. Our priestess isn’t even eating right because her world has been turned upside down. Give her time to adjust to that first. In the meantime, maybe we should become closer to her so that when we do tell her the truth, she won’t think we’re crazy… or worse, see us use our powers and think we’re some kind of aliens.”

“I still think your wrong about that. She needs to turn to us if anything happens. Right now, the only person she would turn to would be the Shinbe wanna-be that she seems to like so much,” Toya pointed out.

“Hey, I resent that,” Shinbe said trying to hide his grin.

No… you resemble that,” Kamui elbowed him good naturedly.

Toya kept his gaze across the road, but in his mind he was remembering how she’d almost melted in his arms. “She’s our priestess. We’re drawn to her and I think she’s also drawn to us. I doubt she’ll freak out as much as you guys fear she will.”

“Let us compromise,” Kyou said. “In case something does go wrong… she needs to know we are right across the street.”

“Agreed,” Toya said.

“First… she needs to eat.” Kyou pulled his cell phone from his pocket.

Chapter 6 “What Demons Fear”

Kyoko had just finished putting away her new clothes when the doorbell echoed making her jump. Rushing downstairs, she looked through the peephole and saw a delivery guy holding five large boxes of pizza. Opening the door, she frowned knowing it was a mistake. Before she could say anything, the guy held a hand up to stop her.

“I know you didn’t order the pizza because the family across the street ordered it for you. It’s a welcome to the neighborhood gift.” He smiled and handed her the boxes. “And they already paid for the pizzas and left me a huge tip.” He nodded and headed back for his car.

Kyoko smiled nervously then looked across the street. Seeing long silver hair flashing in the porch light she knew that could only be Kyou. All the guys from school were out on the porch looking across the street at her. Kyoko’s lips curved into a real smile. She waved at them then motioned for them to come over.

“And we have our invite,” Shinbe nearly purred as he started down the steps.

Toya reached out and cuffed him on top of the head. “If you don’t behave over there, then it will be our last invite.”

Shinbe narrowed his eyes and turned on Toya. “Who died and made you the only one who could touch her? She’s just as much ours as she is yours, you prick.”

“We all died you stupid fuck.” Toya backed Shinbe the rest of the way down the stairs as silver started to swirl within his eyes. His voice became dangerously low as he growled, “You’re so damned horny that I can smell it.”

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