This is my first attempt at a Yu Yu Hakusho fanfiction so be nice and don't kill me for lack of knowledge on the anime or manga please (I am after a delicate writer lol.)
I Do Not Own Yu Yu Hakusho
'My head is freaking pounding. No aspirin around. I think my motion sickness medicine is wearing off. ARE WE THERE YET!' Fingers laced through the brunette's hair as she hunched over her knees, trying to suppress the feeling of nausea that threatened to take over her poor body. After more than three hours on the bullet train, the seventeen year old really wanted to get off of the damnable metal contraption.
Of course getting off the train would be greeted with more torture, or so she thought, as it would be another pleasant visit with her older female cousin and younger, stupid, arrogant, ignorant, doofus, male cousin. She sighed as she shifted into a slumped sitting position so she could look out the window. The graying sky, was covered in even darker clouds that illuminated the evening sky with lightening.
Exhausted the seventeen year old pressed her warm forehead against the cooler glass watching as raindrops fell onto the window. Slowly she nodded off into sleep listening to the pitter patter of rain, the soft chatter of the other train occupants and the ever ignored in-train movie.
"Miss…." Someone tapped the brunette's shoulder, "Miss, this is your stop…. Please wake up."
Tiredly, the seventeen year old opened her eyes, bringing her watch into view. 10:41 glared back at her. The train whistle blared at her, bringing her out of her daze.
"Miss, the train is about to leave, you need to hurry."
With wide eyes, the female sprang to her feet almost falling over the seat as she collected her duffle bag from the overhead compartment. "Thank you," she said with an almost yawn to the train conductor as she brushed past the last minute passengers climbing onto the train. As soon as she climbed off into the wet weather, the train door slammed shut behind her and the whistle screamed, telling everyone nearby that it was leaving the station.
'That was close. Good thing that guy woke me up, or I'd be on my way out of here.' Walking across the nearly deserted train station, the brunette reached into her duffle bag searching with her hand for her cell phone.
Pulling out the sleek black phone, she flipped it open and started to dial her cousin's number. As she pressed the call button and brought the cell to her ear, she heard the disconnected tone. Pulling the black miniature of a phone away in disgust and throwing it into a nearby trash can.
'So you already had my phone turned off did ya? Well, you're not getting your hands on my inheritance, heirlooms, or money because I already withdrew them from the bank, you bastard.'
Walking into the station, she walked over to the payphone that was hidden in the shadowy corner. Picking up the phone, she could hear the same disconnected tone that had rang from her cell phone. Clenching her hand into a fist, she carefully replaced the phone onto the receiver. It was already nine minutes after eleven and was only getting later.
'I knew I should have called Shizuru before I got on the train or at one of the other stops… now its past eleven, no doubt she would be asleep by now, after all she does work weekdays every week starting at seven.' The brunette heaved a sigh lowering her head, 'Sometimes I question why they bumped me up a year in school…after all I do lack a lot of common sense in times like these.' Again her hand flowed through her hair, an unfortunate nervous habit that she had picked up as she grew older. Shrugging her black bag onto her shoulder, the seventeen year old ventured out of the train station and into the pounding evening rain on her way to her older cousin's house.
Morning seemed to have come too fast for Shizuru as the annoying beeping of her alarm clock awoke her from her ever needed sleep. 'Five more minutes… just five more minutes of sleep is all I ask of you, you stupid piece of plastic electronics.' Glancing through sleep ridden eyes, Shizuru found that her five minutes had long ago passed, and that if she failed to awaken and leave right away, she would be late for work.
Stepping onto the cool hardwood floor, she started to search for her cleanest pair of pants, all of which were strewn across the floor. Coming to her brown pair she picked them up and held them an arm's length away from her so she could examine them.
"Good enough," she smiled slipping them on. Three minutes before she had to defiantly leave for work. Hurriedly she searched her dresser drawers for a shirt to wear while mentally trying to recall where in the hell she had taken off her shoes. Slipping on the sea green button up shirt, she proceeded to the living room to find her shoes.
On the way to her destination, she passed her younger brother's room. Kuwabara was off with Yusuke and the others, on a mission for Koenma and wasn't due back until the very end of summer vacation, in two days.
"Sure as hell glad that I don't have to deal with demon problems all of the time. I already have fussy old women screeching at me for cutting their hair the exact way they wanted it in the first place." Shizuru sighed as she poured her steamy coffee into her portable cup and snapped the lid on.
Slipping her shoes on, she opened the door preparing to enter the overly bright world for the first time today, but stopped short finding a familiar form slump onto the floor from their position leaning against the door.
Hitting her head on the ground, the brunette woke from her sleeping position that had once been her leaning against her cousin's apartment door. "Ouch… maybe leaning against the door wasn't such a good idea." She rubbed her throbbing head with a slight smile on her face.
"H-hotaru? What are you doing here?"
"Oh. Good morning Shizuru. Sorry I didn't inform you at an earlier time but um… do you think that I could stay with you for a little while?"
Shizuru raised an eyebrow as she helped her younger cousin to her feet, "Why?" her eyes narrowed, "What did that selfish bastard say this time?"
"Uh.. It was something along the lines of 'Get out of my house you fucking selfish bitch…. If you want anything that you currently own grab it on the way out because by the time its two o'clock you're no longer going to be my daughter' or something like that, I think."
"So he finally disowned ya did he?" Shizuru sighed giving her younger cousin the once over, "I guess I can let you take on the family name kiddo." Her hand mussed the seventeen year old's hair playfully once before she walked out of the door.
"Where you going to cousin?"
"I've got work right now Hotaru. But you know where that is, so just go inside and clean yourself up. You are such a mess right now, I don't think you wanna be seen walking around at the moment."
And true to her words, Hotaru was a complete mess. Her clothes were wrinkled and covered in drying dirt water, her hair was strewn with leaves and tossed about like crazy sex hair, and her face had several streaks of mud across the bridge of her nose where she had rubbed it in her sleep.
"Thank you Shizuru, I'll see you at work in a little while." Shizuru waved as she disappeared around the corner of the building, leaving the seventeen year old and her bag to the ever empty house.
Venturing indoors, Hotaru found that the place was quiet…. Very quiet. Walking through the hallway to the bathroom, Hotaru glanced into her younger cousin's bedroom to find that it was empty of the crazy orange haired freak. Finding her cousins gone, she happily moved to the bathroom to take a quick shower and change her clothes.
Kuwabara stumbled into the apartment his sister and him shared exhausted from all of the demons he fought along the sides of Yusuke, Hiei and Kurama. The rest of them followed in after him, none of them not as tired as the tallest member of the spirit detectives.
Opening the refrigerator, Kuwabara silently offered everyone a drink, Kurama silently declining, Yusuke nodding enthusiastically and Hiei plainly ignoring him.
Hiei stared down the hallway, at the bathroom door as if someone were about to come out when Eikichi sprinted out of Kuwabara's room, hearing the electric can opener working its magic on a can of cat food. "Hello Eikichi-kun, have you been a good kitty? Did you miss your daddy?" Kuwabara said gleefully cuddling with the cat.
Kurama bit his thumb in order to stifle a laugh that was trying to escape from his mouth, while Hiei and Yusuke had the similar thought of, 'Can he really be that much of an idiot for that cat?'
"Kazuma, you're doing that thing again with the cat where everyone questions the height of your intelligence." Kuwabara jumped from his cat to stare out Hotaru, who had just come out of the shower and was towel drying her hair. Hiei and Kurama both sat silently feeling that there was not a threat to come from the unfamiliar female, while Yusuke remained silent, using his extremely bad memory to try and pick out who's voice belonged to this body.
Eikichi jumped from the counter to press against the female's bare calf, purring contently. Hotaru sat down on the couch next to Yusuke, as she freed her hair from the towel and let the damp locks fall into place. Hotaru and Kuwabara stared at each other from across the room.
"Aren't you even going to say good morning to your older cousin?"
"Hotaru? When did you get here and why are you here?"
Before the seventeen year old could answer Yusuke had her in a headlock and was giving the brunette a nogey. "Hey Hotaru, haven't seen you in forever, what have you been doing?"
"Nothing at all. I've been a very good girl. Let go my neck already hurts from sleeping in the apartment's doorway last night." Hotaru complained, trying to free herself from the younger boy's grip.
"Why were you sleeping in the doorway last night then idiot?" Yusuke yelled releasing Hotaru from the headlock.
"I got in late last night on the train and my cell phone was dead, not my fault!" Eikichi jumped onto Hotaru's lap and rubbed against her arm, asking her to scratch behind her ears. Hotaru looked up and blinked noticing that Kuwabara and Yusuke were not the only ones in the apartment. "Oh… Hello," she said with a slight smile, "My name is Hotaru Kuwabara, Kazuma's older cousin." Hotaru stood up and offered her hand to Kurama who took it into his grip.
"My name is Shuiichi Minamino, a friend of Kuwabara's, it's a pleasure to meet you."
"Same." Hotaru offered her hand to Hiei, sat with his arms crossed over his chest staring at Hotaru venomously.
"And that's Hiei… he's not really the talkative type as you can tell."
"Hn."
"I see… well nonetheless, nice to meet ya Hiei."
"You never answered my questions Hotaru."
"Oh yeah, I guess you want your answers don't cha Kazuma? Well, let's see. I got here last night about eleven forty-seven, and I'm here because I can be wherever I want to be so there." In a childish habit, Hotaru stuck her tongue out at Kuwabara, who fumed angrily behind the kitchen counter.
"Well, how long are you supposed to be staying?"
"Dunno," she said shrugging her shoulders, "I guess until I can afford a place of my own."
"Well, that should be right now then since he's the vice president of that one company or something."
"Oh yeah. That's right, I didn't tell you the good news."
"It better not be that you're pregnant, cuz if it is, forget the honor code I'll beat you myself."
"Psh… me? With kids? Ha, that's an absurd thought. No, its even better. I've been disowned."
"How in the hell is that a good thing!"
"Well, I suppose its not so good that I no longer have a source of money and such, but I also don't have to deal with my father and I don't have to live so far away from you and Shizuru. That's always a good thing." Hotaru took a seat next to Yusuke again. "And where were you this morning?"
"With my friends of course."
"You have friends?" she replied sarcastically.
"Yes, I have friends, they're sitting in the living room with you or are you blind as well as disowned?"
"Oh, I thought they were the people you decided to torture with your abhorred presence."
"Abhorred?"
"Look it up in the dictionary, I don't have to tell you everything I know, get out and do some learning on your own."
"Well-" the argument continued in this fashion as Yusuke and Kurama watched on in mild interest.
Kurama leaned in towards Yusuke motioning for him to do the same, "Are they always like this?"
"Yeah, they always act like this around each other, but they can be fun too."
Kurama nodded, "So how do you know each other?"
"We met through Kuwabara when I entered the third grade, she came to pick him up. She was in fifth grade at the time. It was probably the funniest thing, because Kuwabara was screaming the entire time while she was trying to bring him home. You could bear him five blocks away." Yusuke snickered watching as the cousins stomped right up to each other yelling in each other's face.
Kuwabara pulled his arm back, his fist clenched as he prepared to strike the shorter female. As his fist went forward, Yusuke and Kurama stood to stop him from hitting Hotaru, but the brunette surprised them all by moving slightly out of the way and flipping the taller red haired male over onto his back. "Now, now Kazuma, don't want to break that silly code of yours do you?" She offered her hand to her cousin putting on a smile that seemed to throw Kuwabara' s anger.
"Thanks for that, Hotaru." he mumbled accepting her help.
"No Problem, after you seemed a little tense when I saw you. Stay up all night or something?"
"You could say that I suppose."
"Hmm. Well I told Shizuru that I was going to go see her at work, so you get some sleep and I'll talk to you later when you aren't so short on anger management," the brunette replied lightly punching his shoulder.
"Yeah, later sounds good cuz."
"Good," Hotaru turned to Kurama, Yusuke and Hiei, "and I'll see you guys around." With those final words, the seventeen year old slipped out of the house on her way to Shizuru's work place.
"Is that ningen always so…. Bipolar?"
"Bipolar isn't the word I would use to describe her, more along the lines of… comforting and understanding."
Yusuke laughed, "So you like that psycho girl, Kurama?"
"She's interesting, I suppose. More so than most humans."
"Heh, you like her like a crush don't you?"
"Whatever made you think that Yusuke?"
Yusuke smiled a cheesy smile before running out of the house yelling at the top of his lungs, "Shuiichi likes Hotaru!"
"Idiot," Hiei mumbled as he exited the apartment, disappearing from sight in a Hiei-like fashion.
Kurama sighed closing the door behind him and shook his head with a smile on, "What an interesting morning so far today." Placing his hands into his pants pockets, he walked casually away from the Kuwabara's apartment.
A/N: Was it good? Bad? ShouldI just give up the idea of continuing this fic?Please review and tell me what you think of it.
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Note: To the readers of Ten Years in Sand Country, I've hit a bit of a bump in the chapter that I hope to overcome soon so don't worry about it because I will be continuing quite soon