This is my first YU-YU HAKUSHO fanfiction but thanks to my dear friend who has the old SHONEN JUMP comics that I am using to follow the story line. I will continue my other stories this is just one that has been on my mind.
Yes, this is a Hiei love story but not really. Lots of but kicking and this is mature content. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE MATURE STUFF please do not read or flame. I will do my best to keep the characters in character.
My OC is mine! All characters belong to SHONEN JUMP and Yoshihiro Togashi.
Please do not kill me.
I INTRODUCE MY YU-YU HAKUSHO FAN STORY "FLAME TO FLAMES"! LET'S BEGIN!
-Radio
The Night Begins the Tale
The night was pitch dark and the stars barely shined in its wake. The forest was silent as a lone figure walked swiftly through it. Her frame was small but athletic. Her movements were delicate but carefully plotted as she moved easily in the dark.
'I am almost home.' She thought to herself.
A foreboding chill rippled through her spin as she held all alerts on and continued moving.
'Stay calm. Almost home.' She canted herself on. She was so close.
Her dark brown hair whipped around her head and faintly her red natural tones shimmered in the flicker of the crescent moon light. Her blue messenger bag thumped against her right thigh in her hurried movements as her jeans soundlessly beat against her legs. Her silver purple tennis shoes hit the ground quietly in her silent panic. Purple t-shirt hung to her flesh in the wake of her speed.
Suddenly, the forest began to change. The terrain moved, the tress vanished and all that was left was a sheer black cliff. She skidded to a stop and stared at the abyss her lungs gasping for precious air. The forest she knew her whole life was no more than an unknown frontier.
Her breathes came in short huffs as she turned in circles to find the unknown stalker that cashed her to this barren land. As she turned to face the cliff, she was grabbed by a tall black mass. Her screams were muffled by a large hand as her body was suspended in the air above the abyss.
"I bestow my powers upon you for you are the only one worthy my dear. Many troubles await you. Now return to the true realm where you belong. Learn and live. Your destiny has been rewritten." The mass's dark baritone voice chanted before going into a series of clicks and chirps. Then he tossed her into the abyss. Her cries echoed and resounded as she swirled into the darkness being swallowed whole.
The cliff and abyss disappeared and the forest returned to normal, leaving the black mass alone to stare at the spot where the cliff and girl had been.
"Good luck my dear. I hope your new life is much better than this one. Your mother would be proud." He stated as his body disintegrated into black specks.
The floor was cold to her swore body as she twitched, moving her arms to feel the floor but could not find the floor her back laid on. It was as if air, no space, was all around her. A straggling cry rippled from her throat as she spun around flailing for solid land. Snapping her deep TARDIS blue eyes open, she blinked rapidly at the dimmed light around her.
Her eyes adjusted quickly to the new light as she took in what was going on.
"It is morning but why am I floating in the air?" She shouted hands gripping her hair. Pulling her knees to her chest as she dug her nails into her scalp, she attempted to regain control as a panic attack threatened to take over her. Her blue pools rapidly glanced every which way. She began to take big gasp of air in failed attempts to calm herself.
"Am I dead? This looks like a city not a canyon bottom." She voiced her thoughts out loud.
"BINGO! Welcome to the spirit plane!" An overly cheerful voice exclaimed from behind the other girl causing the scared girl to jump away from the voice.
'No, no, no, no, no, NO!' Her poor mind panicky cried. 'Botan from Yu-yu Hakusho! No I am not! Am I? Why?' Her face showed her panic and fear as Botan began her introduction.
"I am Botan, the gatekeeper or senior shingami of this realm. Are you Mia Moon?" Botan asked cheerfully. She was in her pink kimono and had her boat ore with her. Her blue hair shimmered in the rising light.
'Must…draw..NOT NOW inspiration! This is not the time!' Mia cried mentally. Being an artist and how beautifully the colors danced on Botan had caused her artistic ways to pop up in this untimely time. Mia dully nodded her acceptance of Botan's question.
"Your case is very special, Mia!" Botan continued.
"How is it special Botan?" Mia asked suspiciously. "I am dead, I was attacked and then thrown off a cliff after some guy said some mysterious magic chant and now I am met with this! How am I special Madam Ripper?" Mia ranted as Botan just smiled and stared.
"My, my. You are just like your cousin. Yes you are dead but you will revive stronger than before! The book said you trained in a nearby dojo and with your father in fighting. Those skills will be put to good use here. Had a few fights with school bullies. Kept to yourself but was top of class. Graduated at age of 14 which is your current age. Always the observant one. Took care to guard yourself and loved and had a nasty incident when you were six involving the loss of your mother. Now that that is done please listen carefully Mia." Botan spoke sternly after devaluing into Mia's history.
Mia locked eyes with Botan's bubble gum colored ones and felt the sheer intensity of the importance of her next words. Running on pure shock from what had happened to her, Mia listened closely.
"You were blessed by a demon! A very powerful demon, might I add. Nowhere in the history of spirit world has there even been a definition of a demon blessing anyone of anything!" Botan spazzed. Mia blinked owlishly.
"Okay." She stated dully. "So this is what I get for eating my bread crusts. Short height and Oh, a demon blessed me!" Mia shouted slightly enraged.
"SHH! You mustn't inform others of this. Not unless you can trust them completely. You hold such strong power that many other demons will try to capture you or some greedy human for their own desires. Some demons may attempt to eat your heart to get your powers!" Botan elaborated.
Mia's face distorted from neutral to disgust at the thought of what others could do to her.
"EEwww! I will never in any universe or life be some gross being's play thing of snack! Eeeewwww!" Mia cried and flailed her arms as if to brush the invisible germs off.
"So how am I to use or make any usage of myself when I am dead? How am I even going to revive?" Mia asked going back to her professional outlook on this subject.
"Your body is far too weak at the moment to handle the extremely strong demonic energy you now posses. We were forced to separate your spirit from your body so you could have a body to return to and so you can learn how to master your powers." Botan explained.
"Makes some sense. So my body would be destroyed if I entered it with all this untamed energy in me. So what is the training and how do I return to my body?" Mia asked.
"You are strangely taking this well." Botan randomly noted.
"If you have not noticed, but there is not much I can do with what I have right now. It would be foolish to panic and waste energy that I could use to understand my situation." Mia explained.
"Wow." Botan replied.
"So how do I train?" Mia repeated herself.
"Oh yes!" Botan snapped as if in a dace and rifled through her huge sleeve of her kimono before pulling out a grey head band.
'I wonder if she has a body hidden in those sleeves.' Mia pondered before snapping back into focus on the strip of grey material.
"Just put this on and never take it off. It will transfer the rules, skills, know-how, and anything else you need to know to you once you return to your body. You can practice using the powers when you return. So for now, just wear it!" Botan cheerfully described.
"So, it is like a program being downloaded into a computer?" Mia questioned as she connected the dots.
"What?" Botan asked confused. Question marks danced around her head.
'Oh right. This is the past so some computer stuff is still new or not even existing yet.'
"Wait…..MY FANFICTIONS! NNNUUUUUUUU!" Mia cried out loud.
"Fanfictions?" Botan questioned.
"I'll explain that another time but in reference to the first question, when you download a program or computer upload it takes time to fully transfer codes into the hard drives so basically my body is the hard drive, my spirit is the coding and the headband is the new coding that needs to be copied into my spirit's coding to work in my body. Does that make sense?" Mia explained like a professor with a few hand gestures.
"Nope! Not at all!" Botan laughed causing Mia to sweatdrop in exaggeration.
'Well, I should not have expected anyone to understand in this time and place.' Mia thought to herself.
Botan quickly grabbed Mia's hand and pulled her on to the ore so they both sat side saddle. In fear, Mia clung to the taller blue haired girl's kimono as they blasted through the morning sky.
"BOTAN! Where are we going?" Mia shouted over the rawr of the wind that whipped her hair that was not held down by the grey headband around her head.
"I'm taking you to your cousin. He's here as well." Botan informed over the wind with a smile before kicking it into high gear.
"Cousin?" Mia cried.
"Yup! On his mother's side." Botan curtly explained while making a quick turn.
Sure, she was half Japanese and spoke it as a second language but she had no idea of any relatives living in Japan itself or this universe for the matter.
"Just remember-" Botan began but was cut off by Mia.
"Tell no one. I got it." Mia answered. 'I wonder where I am in the story.' Mia pondered to herself.
"Botan! Isn't it time for Suyake to pass on yet?" A whine came from up ahead as we slowed down.
"Play big brother Yusuke play!" Suyake cheered giggling. She looked just like in the manga. Bare feet, wearing a bluish lacey night gown, long black hair with long bangs, big brown eyes, and was on Yusuke's back staring at Mia.
Yusuke was in his green jumpsuit uniform, as seen in the series, and had his slick black hair and was eying Mia suspiciously with his dark brown eyes. To Mia's credit, she did have similar looks to his mother being that she was related to him by his mother's older sister.
Botan hopped off the ore and Mia followed in suit, floating over to sit cross legged in front of Yusuke and Suyake. Mia fidgeted with her bag's strap as the two new characters stared at her.
"Who's this?" Yusuke ruefully asked jabbing a finger at Mia.
"Yusuke be nice. This is your cousin Mia. She has a similar case to yours." Botan introduced.
"How the hell are we related?" He asked with a glower.
"Well, when two people, a man and a women, loooovvveee each other ssoooo-mmfffhhh" Mia began before Yusuke's hand slapped itself over her mouth. She sent a deadly glare his way that matched his glare and started a glare off.
"Not that kind of explanation." He growled before slowly removing his hand and sitting cross-legged in front of Mia with his arms crossed.
"How is she related to me? She's short! What is she? 10!" Yusuke ranted. Mia narrowed her eyes before answering before Botan could.
"Your mother. Genetics. I am 14, nimrod." Mia stated darkly. She really did not care much for her height. Being short allowed her to move differently than others. The only downside was how much she was bullied about it. At least she had a chest size that was real. Other than the bullying, she really only hated not being able to reach stuff on high shelves.
"What?!" Yusuke exploded.
"Should I elaborate or do you want to, Mia?" Botan asked.
"You do it please. He will believe you." Mia huffed.
"Yusuke, this is your cousin on your mother's side. One of the only relatives that kept in touch and sent gifts to the two of you. This is your mother's elder sister's daughter. She had lived in America with her husband until her death many years ago. Mia has lived in America with her father until his death a few years ago then she was sent here to live with her other relatives. A few days ago she was attacked by a gang of ten men where she was beaten ruthlessly and died in route to the hospital." Botan stated.
'I was beat up and died!?' Mia cried mentally in outrage.
"Only ten! That sounds too easy to beat! How did ten best me?" Mia growled. She had fought a whole football team and the reserves before and came out victorious and with only minor wounds.
"What you fought more than that?" Yusuke challenged. Suyake just watched the two cousins.
"Yes, in fact, I have. A whole football team with the extra players and I think a few of the cheerleaders. That would explain the claw marks I had at the end of the battle." Mia mused as pride welled up in her. Her dad had treated her to cake after that. The pictures of them were in her photo album.
"A football team?" Suyake asked puzzled.
"Oh sweetie, a football team is a bunch of tall-very tall for us shorties-hormonal dudes that have very big muscles and are very strong. There are about eleven fielders and another ten extra players. So over twenty guys and a few girls attacked me and I won. Does that make sense? It is an American sport." Mia explained as Suyake took a seat next to her.
"Were you scared?" She asked.
"Not really hon. I was more pissed off at them." Mia stated sheepishly.
"Why?" The little girl persisted. Both Yusuke and Botan leaned in to listen to the story.
"I was a couple years older than you. It was on a Friday afternoon. The football team was doing some light practice before the weekend game and the cheerleaders were practicing on the field as well. I, sadly, had to go past the field to get home. As I walked past the players, they started taunting me and calling me names. I had already been in trouble with the school enough as it was and was doing my best to ignore the guys that started to surround me. I lost it when they mocked my mom. I lost her a long time ago and was enraged at the slander they put on her name. It made me snap." Mia narrated her tale.
"What did they say?" Suyake asked
"They said she was a no good whore who ditched her pathetic whimp of a kid. Then everyone started calling her names and I was boiling mad but I did not throw the first punch." Mia explained.
"Why the hell not!?" Yusuke exploded getting in Mia's face.
"I was in deep shit enough as it was with school. So I simply told them 'At least my mom never slept with my friends' and next thing I knew it was a battle royal with me being the only force going against them. I ended up with bruises and scratches, a black eye, bruised jaw, and some other minor wounds while a couple of the players ended up with broken bones and major bruised egos! No one believed that the shy, little freak girl could beat the star team so no charges, no suspension, just a long lecture to never do that again. I have photos of the ambulance guys bandaging me up and my dad and I eating cake!" Mia cheerfully chirped while digging around in her bag before pulling out a black photo album.
She flipped it open to the page with the pictures. On two sleeves were pictures of the team splattered on the field with medical personal helping them and of Mia smiling at the camera just like she said.
"Damn girl." Yusuke whistled. "Where the hell did you learn how to do that?"
Mia smiled softly as she gazed at the picture of her dad eating cake and gently raced his smiling face with a tentative figure.
"My dad was a marine. After mom died, he taught me how to protect myself and survive." Mia answered softly.
"Oh, cool." Yusuke said awkwardly.
"He died in battle." Mia added closing the book and putting it back into her bag.
The rest of the day was spent playing with Suyake or getting to know each other.
TADA! Please review!