"Meeting the Kiddie Prince"
I thought of doing something like this for a while now, but I'm not doing the entire series. I'm mostly sticking to the Saint Beasts saga, Yukina's rescue and the Dark Tournament. After that, I'm not sure what to do. And as for the pairings…I'm thinking maybe Kurama or Hiei unless you guys have a better idea for which of the Yu Yu boys Dai should be with. Please enjoy and review!
A girl with mahogany hair sat in class with her head down on her desk as it started to throb painfully for some reason.
It had been happening for a week now, the pressure being centred in the middle of her forehead as it built up, creating more pain.
The teacher, a man in his forties with a balding head and brown hair looked over at the girl with a bit of concern on his face.
"Motomiya-san, are you feeling unwell?" he asked the girl.
The girl, Dai Motomiya, looked up at him, but kept her bangs over her eyes to keep the light out of her eyes.
A blonde haired boy and brown haired girl both looked back at their friend to see that she had tears in her red rimmed eyes.
"No, Haru-sensei." Dai said quietly.
The man sighed as he sat down and wrote up a hall pass for her.
"Come take this and go to the nurse's office. She should send you home if you're not feeling well." Haru-sensei said.
Dai stood up as she gathered her books and was careful to not trip and fall as her vision blurred a bit as she walked over to the teacher and accepted the pass and then she walked out into the hallway, her green skirt swishing as she went.
Before she went to the nurse, she stopped in the bathroom to check herself out to see if she was as bad as she felt.
Looking in the mirror, she saw her tanned skin was a bit pale from the sickness caused by the pain and her dark crimson brown eyes were rimmed with red, her face was flushed and her shoulder length mahogany hair was messier than usual.
"Great, I look like the walking dead." She sighed.
She brushed off her green uniform shirt and took off her blue neck tie to tie her hair up into a messy bun, her bangs and two fringes still down.
She then walked out to go see the nurse, the kind old woman reading a romance novel at her desk when she heard someone enter the room.
She looked up with a smile.
"Hello, how can I help you? Oh, Motomiya-chan. Still not feeling well?" she asked when she saw the girl.
"Sadly. Nothing I take will make it go away." Dai said as she stumbled over to the bed and sat down on it.
The nurse walked over and started taking the girl's temperature, but the girl was tensed up as this went on.
She never did like doctors or dentists because of how they would always touch you without your consent and you couldn't do anything about it since it was a part of their job, but this old woman was too kind to not trust, so Dai tried to not be rude to her or freak out.
It didn't mean she liked being in a hospital room or nurse's office though.
"Oh, my. You should go home and talk to your parents about going to a hospital for a real check up." The nurse said.
"You go on home. I'll tell the principal you're singing out. Will you be all right to go home alone or do I need to pull your sister out of class to take you?" she asked.
"No, I'll be fine." Dai said.
Within twenty minutes, Dai was walking out of the school with her backpack slung over her shoulder and dark sunglasses over her eyes to protect them from the sunlight so the pain in her head wouldn't worsen.
'Why do I keep getting these headaches? I can barely sleep with them especially I keep having these weird dreams, too.' She thought.
The girl had also been getting strange dreams of demonic creatures walking around her, but no one could see that.
They only saw ordinary people and were unaware of the dangers that surrounded them.
'Damn, I need to get home.' Dai thought.
As she was walking, she felt a shiver go down her spine and looked off to the side to see what was causing it.
A young girl dressed in a pink summer dress with her black hair pulled up in pigtails was walking into an alley followed by a tall man.
What caught Dai's attention was the fake that the man's skin was blue and he had yellow eyes along with fangs poking out of his mouth.
Without a second though, she quickly ran across the street to get over to the alley and was in time to see that the man was about the slash his clawed hand at the girl and kill her.
"No!" Dai yelled.
She dropped her bag and ran, making it just in time to grab the girl, wrapping her arms around her protectively as the creature swiped his claws down and wound up hitting Dai instead.
She gritted her teeth to ignore the pain as she felt blood flowing from her shoulder blades where the four large marks were.
"You little wretch. How dare you interrupt me?" he snarled.
Dai pulled away from the girl and gave her a small smile when she saw the fear in her blue eyes.
"Everything will be all right. Just let me take care of this jerk, OK?" the 14 year old asked.
The little girl nodded as the teenager stood up and glared at the man.
"Why did you come after her?" Dai demanded.
"Because…I was looking for a snack." The man said as he licked his talons that had Dai's blood on them.
He moaned at the sweet taste it had like fine wine and eyed the teenager as she stood ready to fight even though her eyes were a bit glazed from what appeared to be an illness.
"That's not gonna happen, bastard. Come after me instead." Dai said.
"As you wish." He said.
He then charged at the girl, but she slipped under his legs and kicked upwards, getting him in his private.
"You bitch!" he roared as he held his private and the girl quickly got up and grabbed a tin garbage can lid and hit him over the head.
That just annoyed him even more as he grabbed the girl and threw her to the ground in front of him.
As for the little girl, she was hiding behind the wall so that she could watch the fight.
She was too scared to move, but didn't feel like leaving the kind lady who saved her from the scary man.
Unknown to Dai, she was being watched by someone else who was soaring above in the skies.
"My, this is interesting. I hope that girl can handle herself." The figure said.
Dai got back up, but was kicked down by the man as he bared his fangs and was about to swing his talons down.
"Now you die." He said.
As his hand got closer to her chest to rip her heart out, Dai closed her eyes and thought hard on some way to protect herself.
"STOP!" she yelled.
Suddenly, all of the pressure that had been building in her head for the past week rushed out of her and blasted out in a wave.
The man yelled as he was knocked back from the teenager and slammed into a building, hard enough to leave an imprint of his body.
"Whoa." Dai breathed.
"My, that was good luck." The figure watching commented with a grin.
Dai stood back up and was pleased to see that the pressure had lessened, but it was still there.
The man pushed himself up and glared.
"You…I don't know how you did that…but you won't be able to do it again!" he roared.
He then charged at her, but Dai smirked as she focused on what she had felt before.
Another wave of energy was sent out at the man, sending him back into the wall.
She then looked over to see a large green garbage container and bit her lip as she tried to force the waves she created to make it move.
"Come on." She groaned.
The container started to shake as the man stood up and charged at the girl again.
Dai held her hand out facing the container and then swung her hand at the man, the container following.
The man screamed as he was hit by the large metal container that was filled with all kinds of trash, his legs and pelvis being shattered from the impact.
"Ah! She did it!" the figure squealed delighted.
Dai was panting a bit as she leaned back against the wall of the alley as she watched the man try to move, but he was stuck unless he was helped.
"Next time…don't pick on little girls." She advised.
"Miss?" the little raven haired girl called.
Turning around, Dai saw that the girl was holding her book bag out to her as the girl smiled at her.
"Thank you for saving me." She smiled.
"Sure. Let's get you back to your mommy." Dai smiled softly.
Even though she felt a bit tired, she still had her adrenalin pumping from the fight and took the girl's hand as she walked the girl back to her home.
The figure that was watching swooped down from the skies riding on oar, her baby blue hair blowing in the wind.
Her candy pink eyes took in the body of the man and smiled as she looked back over to where the teenager had walked off with the child she had saved.
"Someone like that is hard to find. I'll need to tell Koenma about her." She said.
A few weeks later after that incident, Dai was sitting in her room on a Saturday afternoon.
After she found the girl, Akiza's mother, the woman brought Dai to her friend Jyou's house so that he could patch her up.
The dark blue haired male scolded her for being impulsive and racing out into danger like she did, but was proud of her for helping the child.
When she got back home, she decided to try and control her new gifts to see what she was able to do.
Her hand was hovering above an apple she had placed on her bed in front of her and she was focusing on using her powers like she had been for a while now.
The apple then floated up making her smile as with only her thoughts she made it float around her in different shapes.
When she was done, she held out her hand as the apple fell into her palm.
"OK, let's see…" she said as she thought of other things to try.
Suddenly, she grinned like a child as she picked up her pillow and tore it open to reveal all of the fathers inside of it.
"Let's see how this goes." Dai said.
With only the thought in her head, all of the feathers floated off of the bed and floated around the room.
The light was coming in from the window making the white feathers look angelic as they circled around Dai, making her smile even more and giggle at the sight.
Suddenly, she felt something approaching her, but ignored it since it didn't feel threatening and thought it may be a mouse or something.
Jun did complain to their parents about seeing one before and that they should get a cat to catch it, but the two didn't listen to their eldest.
"Oh, how beautiful!" someone gushed.
Dai gasped as she turned to see that a girl dressed in a pink kimono sitting on an oar that was hovering in the air was in her room.
There wasn't a hostile presence when Dai looked at her, so she calmed down, but was still a bit wary.
So it wasn't a mouse after all.
"Don't cha know it's rude to enter someone's house without permission?" she scolded.
"I'm sorry, but I just had to come meet you. I saw the way you so courageously saved that little girl without even caring for you own safety. It was a bit impulsive, but so heroic." The bluenette said as she flew over to the girl.
"Uh, what? Who are you?" Dai asked as she blinked.
"Oh, I'm Botan. I'm the guide to the River Styx, assistant of the Prince of Spirit World and the Grim Reaper." She said.
The mahogany haired girl kept quiet at that as she looked at the girl.
"So…you're the Grim Reaper? Remind me again why people are scared of death." She said making Botan giggle.
"Anyway, I've come here to bring you to meet my boss. After I told him about how you beat that demon, he wants to meet you." Botan said.
"Demon? That freak was a demon? Makes sense." Dai nodded as she made the feathers settle down in a pile on the floor.
"So who's this boss guy?" she asked.
"He's the Prince of Spirit World, like I said before. Just hop on and I'll take you to the Spirit World to meet him." Botan said as she patted her oar.
Dai weighed her options to figure what would happen if she went with the Grimm Reaper, but just shrugged.
After all, this may be her only chance to find out why she had these powers in the first place.
"OK, let's go." Dai said as she hoped onto the oar.
"Now, off we gooo!" Botan cheered.
The two girls took off into the air and soon entered a portal that had them come out at some strange yellow snake like river under them as they made it to a room that was filled with different colored ogres.
"Here we are." Botan said.
"Dude, that was awesome. Can we do it again?" Dai asked with a smile.
The Grimm Reaper giggled as she led the younger girl off down the palace as they walked by the ogres.
"Why are these guys running around like this? They look like chickens with their heads cut off." Dai said.
"Koenma makes them work very hard." Botan said.
"I have a feeling we won't get along." Dai muttered with a pout.
They came to a door and Botan announced their arrival as the two girls walked inside of the room to see a large chair at a desk in the office with a television screen and what looked like a VCR.
"Here is Daisuke Motomiya just like you asked, sir." Botan said.
"So where is he?" Dai asked as she looked around the room.
This Koenma person sounded like he was some tall, rich person who was bossy and pushed everyone around from what she had seen of those poor ogres.
"Down here." A voice said.
Dark crimson eyes looked down and found a toddler dressed in blue and pink with brown hair and eyes sitting in the big chair with a pacifier in his mouth and he wore a large hat with Jr. written on it.
The three people in the room were silent as they waited to see who would make the first move.
Dai suddenly shot over to the toddler like a streak of mahogany and was found sitting in the chair with the toddler in her arms as she hugged it.
"Aw, you are so cute!" she squealed.
Not known to many people, she had a bit of a weakness for cute things such as animals and children even though she always hid it.
The toddler looked stunned from the girl's speed as it seemed like only a second he was in the girl's arms while Botan was trying not to burst out laughing at what had taken place.
"Are you Koenma's baby brother? Where is he?" Dai asked.
"Actually, Daisuke, that is Koenma." The bluenette said.
The teenager looked at the toddler and sweat dropped as she sat him down in his chair and backed away.
"Uh, sorry about that." She chuckled nervously.
Koenma cleared his throat as he tried to force back the blush he had from the hug.
"It's fine. Although, at least you aren't mocking me or insulting me like the last teenager who was here. He had a hard believing I'm the Prince or that I'm the boss of Botan and the many ogres out there." He said.
"So are you a prodigy or something? I mean, it's not that weird if you were a kid genius. I actually know one in America who graduated from college when he was only 8." Dai stated.
"Actually, Lord Koenma is over 700 years old." Botan explained making Dai nod in interest.
"Yes, now…the reason we have called you here is because you took out a criminal demon that normally feeds on small children. You knew he wasn't right and then you activated your powers that took him out." Koenma said.
"Uh huh." Dai nodded as she was unsure of where this was going.
"Strange enough, you don't have any heightened spirit energies or any youki, so we dug into your family history." The Prince said.
A blue ogre then stepped into the room carrying a file and set in down on the desk.
Koenma took it and opened up the file to read from it.
"As it turns out, the women in your family happen to be witches. The power you used was actually magic." He said.
Dai's eyes widened in wonder as she thought over what he had just said.
She was used to things that happened in the Digital World, but to find out that the tales of demons, witches and such were real and had nothing to do with digimon was just amazing.
"So I'm a witch? A real live witch?" she asked excited.
Blinking, Botan was sure the girl had just grown kitty ears and a tail from her excitement.
"Yes, but witches are very well hidden from Spirit World and Demon World now a days. If word got out about you, then demons would be coming after you for the pleasure of killing a witch. That's why I called you here." Koenma said.
"What, are ya gonna put me in witchness protection program or something?" Dai asked.
"No, no, no." Botan giggled as she shook her head.
"It turns out that you have only one living relative in your family who is a witch. You should go to her for training immediately so that you can protect yourself." Koenma said.
"OK, who is she?" Dai asked.
The Prince looked through the large file until he found something.
"Kaede Midorikawa." He said.
"That's my grandma!" Dai gasped with wide eyes.
"That's wonderful. It makes much more sense to learn the craft from your own family." Botan said.
"I assume you know where your grandmother lives? Then you may go and begin your training." Koenma said.
Dai nodded and followed Botan out after she waved at the toddler and ogre.
"She seems like a sweet girl. Not at all like those stereo type witches that are in horror movies or for Halloween." The ogre said.
"I just hope she can reach her true potential before she's taken away by a demon, George." Koenma sighed.
(Later on…)
As soon as Dai got home, she changed into a pair of jeans, orange tank top and black boots before she grabbed her wallet and took off to the train station.
She was going to visit her grandmother in Kyoto to see what if she could help her out.
In about an hour, she finally arrived and ran off an old Japanese styled house that was in the country side with many trees and a glorious garden filled with different types of flowers and herbs.
In the garden was a woman dressed in a kimono that was dark blue with cherry blossoms on it with a white obi.
"Grandma!" Dai called as she ran over.
Kaede looked up and smiled as she saw her youngest granddaughter running over to her.
"Dai, what a lovely surprise. I haven't seen you since you were nine. How are you?" the woman asked.
She embraced the girl as soon as she was close enough.
Although Kaede never said it, she had always preferred Dai over Jun since she knew that the youngest daughter had a special gift.
Also, Dai resembled Kaede from when she was her age.
The old woman's gray hair used to be mahogany and her old wrinkled skin still had that lovely tan.
"Now, come on inside and we can have some tea and cookies." Kaede said.
"OK." Dai nodded as she picked up the basket of herbs that she saw her grandmother using before.
The two walked into the house, sitting at the low table while her grandmother made the lavender tea fresh in front of her.
"Now what brings you here, dear?" Kaede asked.
"Well…I don't know how to say this, so I'll just come out with it." Dai said.
When her grandmother gave her a look to continue, the girl took in a deep breath.
"For a week my head really hurt and I was having dreams about demons, then this little girl almost got eaten by a demon, but I saved her by activating my powers and when I was practicing them in my room, a Grimm Reaper appeared and brought me to Spirit World to meet the Prince and he told me I'm a witch and I was wondering if you knew about this and could pretty please train me." Dai said all in one breath.
Kaede stared at her granddaughter in surprise, not at how fast she had said all of those things in one breath and didn't appear winded from it, but from what the girl had said.
The old woman set her grinder down to stop mixing the ingredients for the tea and stared at Dai with pride, worry and happiness in her dark crimson eyes.
"I should have known. One of these days I knew you would come into your powers, but I never expected it to be now. And to have already faced a demon and gone to Spirit World to meet the Prince? You truly are a miracle child. That or very unlucky." Kaede said.
"I get that a lot." Dai shrugged.
The old woman chuckled as she hugged her granddaughter and kissed her head.
"I'll train you. Now come. Show me what you've learned all on your own." Kaede said.
Dai nodded eagerly as she looked at the tea cup set and they all started to float around the room.
The woman watched with interest as the cups then were settled down gently on the table.
"Well done. Now, watch what I can do." Kaede said.
She lifted up a tea cup and tossed it up in the air.
The two watched as it started to fall down, but Kaede then raised her hand up making the cup freeze in mid-air.
"Whoa!" Dai gasped as she stood up and went over to check the cup.
"I'm not sure if you have this ability as well. You seem to be able to move things with your mind, so in the future you may be able to use astral projection." Kaede said.
"Astal what?" Dai asked curiously.
"Astral projection. It means you can move your soul out of your body to a different place. If you get very good, you'll be able to fight and use your other powers in astral form. Maybe even have your body still awake with your astral form to fight together. Now, this training will be hard. I won't cut any corners. Are you ready?" Kaede asked.
"You bet I am!" Dai cheered.
The cup then unfroze as it fell to the ground and shattered making the girl look at it with a small guilty smile.
"Um, what I supposed to catch that?" she asked.
To be continued…