A new life starts in the closet [FINISHED]

[Arai]

Never had he slept so much. Well, honestly he himself could say that he wasn't so sure about that. Many times he was rendered unconsious for days... but that wasn't the point. The point is he had never was allowed to sleep this much. Either he was cold, in pain, or not left alone long enough.

He didn't notice when she finished. By that time he was sleeping peacefully. He was completely relaxed with his chin nearly touching his chest. The poke brought him back up but not completely awake.

"What that for?" he asked.

The water remained warm despite the long period of him being in the tub. It wasn't nearly as hot as it was before, of course. His body was heating up the water just as a low heat source would.

[Miyu]

"It's time to get up sleepy head."

She gave him a slight smile. "Heres the towel dry yourself off and put these on." She had stolen some of her fathers old cloths to. They would work until she could take Arai out to get his own cloths.

[Arai]

Sleepy head? Was he really sleeping enough to be titled that? He could only assume what sleepy head meant but he had the gist that it meant he was sleeping too much.

Arai nodded and without waiting for her to leave started getting up. After he was half way out his body let out a shake. The air was cold when one was wet, especially when the water was warm.

He took the towel that Miyu left and started to dry himself off. When the came to drying his hair enough so it wasn't dripping he was surprised. His hair felt much different then it did before. Honestly he didn't know which one was better. But if Miyu said it was better then...

Within a few minutes he came out of the bathroom dressed.

[Miyu]

As he got out Miyu retreated quickly. Obviously he didn't understand why she didn't want to see him with out covering. She went back to her room. and waited for him to come back out. Hopefully he would listen to her and get dressed.

He did and when he came out she could now see that he did look much better. Still not totally clean but better.

"feel any better?" She asked him.

[Arai]

Why did she keep leaving? He really didn't get it. He must not know a lot of common knowledge. But he wasn't going to worry about it for a while. If anything he will ask or be told the next time it happened. Or perhaps it will come up later.

"Arai does not know." he said. His fingers went through his hair again. It was weird feeling. He then shook his head which splattered water droplets everywhere and once again his hair was back in his face.

[Miyu]

And that whole incident was just the beginning of Miyu's troubles. There was a lot she had to teach Arai and she had to do it while hiding him from her family. Luckily he seemed to like it in her closet so she didn't feel to bad about hiding him in there.

The second problem was the fact that he needed to eat almost constantly. She was actually giving up meals for a long while, trying to feed him. So after a while she complained to Koenma.... his idea was put a cow on their door step and then that ended up in a trip to a farm with Arai riding the cow asking if they could keep it when an hour ago he had wanted to eat it.

Basically Miyu was exhausted almost every night. She flopped in to bed each night and fell straight to sleep then almost hit Miyo when her older sister tried to wake her up in the morning.

So today Miyu decided to play sick. She even got her sister to believe it was genuine. Now maybe she could have some peace. After feeding arai of course.

So Miyu came in to her own room with as much food as she could possibly carry.

[Arai]

Was there a better word then happy? Saying that Arai was happy in her closet was very much an understatement. He loved curling up under the blankets every night and sleeping. Now that he was getting a more steady flow of food he was awake much more often.

When he heard Miyu return, the gray demon crawled out from his bed and stretched. "Breakfast time?" he asked smiling. His grammar since he had came to live in the girl's closet had greatly improved though still had its quarks.

[Miyu]

"Yeah." Miyu gave a groan as she put down the food. Then she sighed as she sat down on the bed. With a soft thud she was laying down. "I don't get why I'm so exhausted..... it makes no sense. I should be fine..." She almost whined it as she turned over on her side to watch Arai eat.

There hadn't even really been any missions lately and that was a break she had needed desperately. Though she found she almost missed acting as spirit detective.

[Arai]

Food!!! Kindly he waited till it was all put down before he attacked the meal that he was most graciously proved. His table manners, or floor manners in this case, also greatly improved. While before he would just scarf down everything in sight, now he ate each individual piece.... really fast...

"Maybe it's Arai.." he said looking up to her. He made sure he swallowed all his food before speaking. "You do have to continually teach Ar-me."

[Miyu]

"Ug. Don't say that. Now I feel bad for giving my teachers hell." She sighed again. There was just no getting past this bad mood she was in and she just wasn't sure why. Was she really that bored with out the fighting that she was started to get depressed over it?


"Hey, I've been thinking. Maybe we should both do some training."

[Arai]

Training? He should know this word. Actually he does know this word but never could get a solid definition of it straight in his head. It was used in so many different sentences. He looked up at her confused.

He suddenly began picking at the rest of his food apparently not hungry enough to finish the rest (which was thought to be impossible). "Arai will do it," he said though he didn't exactly know what he agreeing to.

[Miyu]

"I'm not exactly sure what to do though... we'd need to find a teacher of some sort...... a martial artist at least... preferably a psychic...... I mean If I can't take you out what happens if we fight a demon stronger than you?"

She was mostly thinking out loud but it was about Arai too so he needed to know what was going through her mind. She glaced at him again and saw him not eating.

"You ok?"

[Arai]

He listened intently. Slowly he was gathering the definition of training form her context. She wants to get stronger. And it was because of him that she wants to be. It made sense, her definition. She was the first to ever hurt him as much as he was so he decided to go with her. IF it came down to it they both knew who would win...though Arai would never do it.


"Ara... I am fine," he said smiling back to her. But didn't eat any more of the food.

[Miyu]

"If you say so..." It was weird to see uneaten food infront of him. But then again it wasn't like he was just a midless eating machine or something, far from it.

"Maybe I should ask Koenma.... he might know someone... then again that last time I asked him for help....." she wasn't too keen to relive the cow incident.

She groaned. "I just don't know..... I wish my stupid powers came with an instuction manual or something."

[Arai]

He looked to the food but smiled. Kindly he pushed the rest of it up to her, he made sure that what remained was all packaged so that it could be used again. He remembered the description she gave the packaged food, how it would stay good longer than the food that she made.

"You can practice on me," the demon said smiling. "I won't hurt a friend."