"You really should've shown up last week." Genkai said in a scolding voice, sighing as she made her way to stand behind the seventeen year old girl. She looked down at the familiar skin, remembering back to when the girl was a young four year old sitting in the exact same place in the exact same way. The remembrance of that caused her face to relax and soften some.

"I couldn't get out of work to come up here." The young girl said softly, shutting her eyes as she prepared. She was hunched over, her hands cupping her breasts from the world. "As it turns out, it gets very busy at restaurants during the festivals."

Genkai let out a wheezy laugh, looking at the black gunk that was slowly starting to drip down the girl's small back. It was coming from scars that were in the shape of a bite mark, running from the small of her back, to the other side along her stomach. Genkai rubbed her hands together, as she slowly began to press her hands against the gunk. A light began to build up on her palm, small squealing noises coming from the black gunk, as it squirmed to get away. But the only way it could get away, was crawling back under the girl's skin where it belonged.

"There." Genkai said, obviously pleased with the work that she had done then. She grabbed the wet cold wash cloth from the ground and slowly wiped some of the remaining dead gunk off of her skin. The girl shivered a bit at the sensation, her skin a bright red from where Genkai had worked.

Standing up, the girl slid her bra back on in and momentarily looked at herself in the mirror. The skin around her scars was a light pink, but it would go back to normal soon enough. She knew it was dangerous not to go to Genkai immediately when the demon blood began to escape her, but she had been working nearly twelve hours a day, and hadn't had the time.

That was until she had woken up that morning with a heavy fever and dark blood staining her sheets where the blood had attempted to escape. But it needed her as much as she needed it, so it never got very far away from her.

She was pale, and sickly looking, but that was how she had looked since she was four years old. A constant battle inside her body between the human blood and the demon blood, one that she most of the time ignored. She didn't indulge her demon blood with doing anything with the demon energy that it gave her. Something that she suspected was probably why her blood was always trying to escape her.

She stood at around five foot four, and her pale skin was stretched across small bones. She had long grayish purple hair that fell around her mid back but it was currently put up into a messy bun on top of her head. Her eyes were large and had a bright teal color to them, with flicks of bright gold throughout the color.

When she turned around to grab her folded shirt, Genkai had already gone into the kitchen to pour them some tea. She picked up her black v-neck shirt and slid it over her head, sighing softly.

Walking into the small kitchen, she sat down across from the old woman. The sweet smelling tea was already poured for the two of them, and she sat down with her legs crossed on one of the pillows.

They sat in a comfortable silence, both of them enjoying the sound of the soft rain hitting the roof and the taste of Genkai's special tea. Until the conversation that always caused a rift between the two of them began.

"Aoi." Genkai started, putting a hand up when the girl was about to interrupt whatever she was going to say. When she was sure that the girl wouldn't speak, she began. "If you would just allow me to train you, you could control the demon side, and possibly become a very strong…"

"I appreciate your concern, I truly do. But what use would I have with power? Besides, I enjoy our visits." Aoi said softly, completely derailing Genkai's concern. At least for a moment, within all the time that the two had known each other, Aoi had somewhat become a daughter figure to Genkai.

So naturally, she wanted Aoi to at least become strong enough so that if a demon decided to attack her, she'd be able to defend herself. With all that demon blood inside of her, it was amazing that it hadn't yet happened.

They went back to their silence, enjoying the fresh air that was coming in from the window. Shutting her eyes, Aoi tilted her head back and just listened to the noises going around her at that moment. Birds were singing to each other, trees leaves were making soft noises as the rain hit their leaves.

A loud voice that clearly belonged to a teenage boy rang through the air, calling for Master Genkai. A second later a tall boy with curly orange hair fell into the room, flat on his face.

Aoi looked completely startled, and her heart was racing like she was about to have a heart attack. She was in her 'Quiet on a Mountain with Genkai' mode, not loud teenager mode.

Genkai was already on her feet, yelling at the boy apparently named 'Kuwabara'. He had this guilty expression on his face until his eyes landed on Aoi, someone he obviously took quite a bit of interest in immediately.

"Who're you?" He asked, slowly scooting closer towards the girl, but moved back when there were more pairs of feet hitting the wooden floor. Genkai straightened herself up and gave Aoi a look that clearly said 'Don't worry'.

A few moments later, the door slid open and there were five new faces standing in the door to the kitchen. There was one girl, with light blue hair that had a big smile on her face, clearly pleased to be seeing Genkai. A full grown teenager with a binky in his mouth was standing by her. Right beside him was a teenage…Boy with long red hair and big green eyes. Next to him was a very short male with black hair that seemed to defy gravity itself. In front of the group of new comers, was a boy that Aoi did recognize.

It had to have been years ago when she first saw him, training in Genkai's back yard. Yusuke, if she remembered names as well as she liked to think so.

"Aoi, this is Botan, Koenma, Kurama, Hiei and you may remember Yusuke." Genkai said, being the gracious hostess and introducing her to the group that had just walked in.

"Oh yeah, I remember you." Yusuke said, blanking for a moment in his quick remembrance of her. "You should probably leave, we have business here."

Despite the rudeness that the boy had just given her, there was something about her voice that made her think that she should just trust him and leave. She stood up, and was allowed exit out of the room. Genkai was already getting wrapped up with whatever the group was saying, so she would just have to call on her another time when she needed her help.

Grabbing her bag, she slid open the door and let out a quiet gasp.

The rain had disappeared, and snow was now falling down from the sky. This was not something that happened in this time of the year, it was closer to summer then it was winter. It also wasn't terribly cold at the moment, so it surprised her further.

But strange things had been happening, so she slid her shoes on and took a step outside. But to her surprise, it didn't smell like snow, and it didn't' feel like snow either.

Ash.

It was ash falling from the sky, and as she looked up, she could see a figure. In a moment, the figure had jumped from the branch down to the ground, exposing itself for what it really was.

A fat frog demon was sitting in front of her, its many chins wobbling still from the jump.

"You smell delicious." He gurgled out, starting to waddle his way towards her. She instantly took a step back, but the terror of what she saw was stopping her from completely running away from him. Suddenly a pair of arms had lifted her up and brought her inside, a few inches from her face the door was shut.

Looking up, she saw the intense eyes of the one called Kurama, he was obviously waiting for something. His arms slowly unlocked from around her waist, as he pushed her back away from the door, him standing in front of her.

Kuwabara and Yusuke were both standing on either sides of her, and she decided to move back further to where Botan and Koenma were standing.

"What's happening?" She asked Botan, the most friendly looking person of the bunch. The girl looked at her and smiled a bit.

"Nothing we can't handle!" She said, smiling even wider. She clearly had much faith in these people. Genkai had moved up to the front along with Hiei.

There was dead silence around them, and it was kind of terrifying considering what was right outside the door. For at least three minutes it continued, until something broke it.

It sounded like someone was sucking the wind out of a pipe, and it got louder and louder. Soon enough there was wind whipping around the group, Yusuke yelling for everyone to move out of the way.

A burst of light filled the room as he shot off his spirit gun, destroying the front door. In front of them was a black hole, slowly getting larger. It wasn't large enough to envelope the whole house, just enough to take up the whole door way.

Maybe because they were the lightest, Aoi and Botan fell to the floor and were quickly sucked up by the black hole. Genkai was soon to follow, but she was mainly going to make sure that Aoi and Botan were going to be okay. Yusuke followed Genkai to make sure that she was okay. Kuwabara, Kurama and Hiei followed to not be left behind.

Before Koenma could be sucked up with the rest of the group, it disappeared, and he was stuck standing in the room with a surprised expression on his face.

"This can't be good."

Author's Note!:

Hi guys! I know it's been a really long time since I've written ANYTHING, but here you go! Yes, this is a chaptered story, so expect many more coming from me! I haven't done a non-slash/non-femslash story in almost six years! Which I think says a lot about me. None the less, I hope you enjoy!

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