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Raiu. Enjoy the first chapter!
(Chapter 1: Meeting and new friends)
Yusuke was wandering around the forest near Genkai's temple when he heard a rustle in the bushes next to him. He slipped into a fighting stance to see two girls push back the bush.
One of them had brown/red hair to her butt, green eyes, and was wearing a black shirt that said "Scorpio Don't like to hear "No." Unique in Every Way Hard to Scare " on it, black capris, a silver watch on her left wrist, a diamond set in onyx necklace with matching earrings, and had her hair pulled into a high-pony tail. The other one had dark brown hair that could be mistaken for black, brown eyes, was wearing a green watch on her left wrist, a dark blue tank top, and some blue jeans.
Yusuke looked the girls up and down. The first one was taller and was a little shorter than him. The second girl was about two inches taller than Hiei.
"Hello?" The first girl asked, waving her hand in front of Yusuke's face. "Anyone in there? I asked if you knew the way to Genkai's temple."
"Yeah, I do. Sorry 'bout that," Yusuke said, looking the first girl in the eyes. They danced with mirth and a hidden emotion. "My name's Yusuke Urameshi. What's yours?"
"I am Jennifer Rose Emerald," the first girl said. "But if you call me "Jennifer," "Rose bud," "Shorty," or anything like that, I WILL kill you. I prefer to be called "Baka," "Kitsune," "Kitsune-chan, or any other ending like that, I personally don't care, or "Jenni." Oh, yeah. You can call me "Baka kitsune," or anything insulting and I will reply to it. It's practically impossible to insult me. So, you can call me anything but "Jennifer," "Rosebud," or anything that implies that I am weak, short, or a hanyou in any way. Got it?" Jenni asked, her eyes narrowing slightly.
Yusuke nodded. The other girl whacked Jenni around the head.
"Ow! What was that for, Neko?" Jenni asked, glaring at her friend.
"Fun. Anyway, I'm Sandra Bara Neko. You can call me "Neko," "Bara," or "Sandra." I don't care. Just don't insult me. I can and will kill you or anyone else that insults me. Got it, dimwit?" Sandra asked, glaring hard at Yusuke.
Yusuke sighed and nodded. 'What did I do to deserve this...?' Yusuke silently asked himself, leading the two strange girls back to the temple. As soon as they got to the door, Yusuke was shoved aside as Jenni rushed past him.
"Genkai! Genkai-sensei, are you here?!" Jenni yelled, looking around.
Genkai came into the living room, looking at the two girls. "Hello, Kit," Genkai said, looking at her old apprentice. "I see you have brought a friend with you this time."
"Hai. I have, Genkai-sama," Jenni said with a slight bow. "Is it alright if we stay here for a while, Genkai-sama?"
"What did I tell you about the '-sama' thing?" Genkai growled at Jenni, who backed away a little bit.
"To drop it," Jenni squeaked.
"Right. And what did you do..?" Genkai asked in the calm-before-the-storm mode.
"I added it?" Jenni asked more than said. "I'll start doing laps now," Jenni said, edging towards the door.
Genkai sighed and waved her hand. "I'll let you get away with it this time, but next time, you're going to have to do 100 laps around the temple," Genkai said, smiling a little bit at her first apprentice.
"Whoa! Hold on a second! How do you know the old hag, Jenni?" Yusuke asked, getting hit in the back of the head by Jenni. "What was that for?!"
"You need to learn to respect your teacher, Urameshi," Jenni said. "I was Genkai's apprentice for a while. She helped me harness my demon powers when I first got them. I stayed here for about three years, then went off in search of my parents. I never found them. All I found was this necklace," Jenni said thoughtfully.
"Which she never takes off," Sandra added with a grin. "By the way, my name is Sandra Bara Neko, Genkai. It is a pleasure to meet you," Sandra said with a bow and a smile, but the smile did not quite reach her eyes.
Genkai smiled a tiny bit. She then looked at Jenni, who nodded, and Genkai walked away.
"What was that all about?" Yusuke asked, looking from the back of his teacher to Jenni, then back and forth and back again.
"Genkai's going to meditate and wanted to know if I still knew my way around this place. I know this place like I know the back of my hand!" Jenni said, going down one of the many corridors and motioning for Neko to follow her.
Jenni stopped in front of a room. "This is my room," Jenni announced proudly.
"No wonder the old hag wouldn't let anyone in this room," Yusuke muttered, but Jenni still heard and shot him a death glare.
"If I'm correct, the room on the right of mine should have remained unoccupied, right, Yusuke?" Jenni asked, looking up slightly at him. Yusuke nodded and led Sandra to the other room.
Jenni's room was, to say the least, rather freaky. Half of her room was black and had weapons all over the walls. The other half was white, showing a few pictures. The bed was split down the middle. There was a couch on the white side, a TV and a few bean bags and comfy chairs on the black side, and a closet that was also half on each side. Her room was on the second story and had a window on the white side, that had white curtains, and a window on the black side, that had heavy black drapes. When Yusuke came into Jenni's room, his eyes bugged out.
"How did you manage to get Genkai to allow you to do this?!" Yusuke asked, amazed.
"Well, I was her trusted student for three, four years. I trained long and hard, sometimes too hard, pushing myself too far and into unconsciousness. She allowed me to rearrange my room and I went on a small shopping spree. I painted the room, bought a few of the chairs and all the beanbags, and just about every weapon you see in this room. Except these two," Jenni said, motioning to the katana and scythe that hung above the bed. "Those were the first, and only, two weapons that Genkai gave me. The couch and one of the chairs were also in here when I moved in. Everything else, except the bed, I bought. Now get out of my room, please. I need to make sure that they made it safely here." With that, Jenni ushered Yusuke out of the room.
In Sandra's room, Sandra was looking around at the purple and blue walls, drapes, everything. She looked out the already-open window and saw something in the distance. She looked closer and saw that it was their pets, finally here. She knocked on the wall leading to Jenni's room twice, and got three knocks in reply. 'Good,' Sandra thought. 'She knows. Hopefully, she can convince the others that live here that they are fine, and won't hurt anyone unless we want them to. Oh, boy. This is going to be a joy ride. Besides the fact that we have to keep everyone else out of our rooms, we have to keep our secret from them as well. Oh, joy,' Sandra thought sarcastically. She felt a small presence in her mind and knew it was Jenni.
/Neko?/ Jenni called out telepathically.
/Yeah, Kit?/ Sandra answered.
/We are going to have a hard time explaining why we disappear every full moon/ Jenni said.
/We are just going to have to cover it up. Oh, have they arrived yet?/ Sandra asked.
/In a moment they will have. Oh, by the way, I think that we will have to keep mental barriers up all the time, 24/7, Neko/ Jenni said. /And we cannot let them know that we are halflings, or we will have to leave..... Again, for me. I don't know if I can bear that./
/I know, Kit, I know/ Neko said, and closed the link between them. Neko opened her window a bit more and saw Kuro fly in and Raiu jump in the window.
Next door, Ryu flew in the window, with Kori right behind him. Jenni gazed at her pets, sitting on the bed, and sighed.
Kuro was a bat, a little larger than a normal vampire bat, and had rather large-looking fangs and red eyes and claws. Raiu was a cat with white fur and black streaks. She had stunning lavender eyes and her claws were lavender as well, which is why she kept them retracted all the time, unless she had to climb something. Ryu was a black dragon with blood-red eyes with silver pupils. He had silver claws and the tip of his tai was blood-red as well, making it look like the end of his tail was dipped in blood. Kori was a silver fox with ice-blue streaks along her back. Her claws were amber/gold, as were her eyes. She also had three tails.
Jenni sighed when she heard Genkai holler up the stairs, "KIT! NEKO! DINNER'S READY!"
Jenni went next door and walked down to the dining room with Neko right behind her. As soon as they entered, all eyes went to the two new girls. Hiei and Kurama sensed strange spirit energy radiating off of them in waves. Hiei's eyes narrowed while Kurama looked at the girls in a new light.
Jenni bowed slightly. "Kon'nichi wa," Jenni said, looking around at them. "I am Jennifer Rose Emerald, and you can call me anything but "Jennifer." This is my friend, Sandra Bara Neko. Don't insult her and you'll live to see another day," Jenni joked with a grin. Everyone, except Hiei, laughed.
"Hn. Baka on'na," Hiei snorted, glaring at Jenni, who merely grinned at him.
"True enough," Jenni said, completely unaffected by the fact that Hiei had just insulted her. Yusuke and Kuwabara were now on the floor, laughing so hard that they were crying.
Kurama smiled as he watched Jenni. 'She seems to be hiding something,' Kurama thought. 'I wonder where she got the necklace.'
"Jenni?" Kurama asked, looking at her.
"Hmm?" Jenni said.
"Do you really consider yourself an idiot?" Kurama asked, looking at her, playfully serious. (Did that even make sense?) Jenni grinned.
"At times. I've become so used to verbal assault and abuse that it's rather a habit of mine, I'm afraid." Jenni grinned up at Kurama.
"Where did you get that necklace?" Kurama asked. Jenni tensed up and pretended that she didn't hear him as she sat down for dinner.
"All right. Since Jenni doesn't know everyone, INTRODUCE YOURSELVES ALREADY!" Genkai yelled. Jenni smiled and shook her head.
"I'm Botan," Botan said, smiling at Jenni.
"Hiei."
"Shuichi Minamino, but you may call me Kurama."
"I am the great Kazuma Kuwabara and I will protect you from demons and the Shrimp!" Kuwabara yelled as he took Jenni's hands in his. At that instant, Ryu popped up over the table and dive-bombed Kuwabara, who ran out of the room.
"RYU!" Jenni yelled as the mini-dragon swirled around the table. Ryu obediently settled on Jenni's shoulder, glaring around at all of the people at the table.
"Is that a dragon?" Kurama asked with a small gasp.
"Yeah, he sure is. Darned thing is way to over-protective of me, though," Jenni said, scratching Ryu above the eye ridges. He made a sound that sounded oddly like purring.
"Well, you already know me," Yusuke said.
"I think we've met everyone for tonight, right, Yusuke?" Jenni asked, looking over at him. He nodded.
Genkai sat down at the head of the table, which happened to be about as far as you could get from Hiei and Kurama, who were on either side of Jenni. Jenni gulped slightly; she knew they were both demons and would try to get information out of them.
Jenni set her resolve and ate little by little, letting Ryu get most of her food. She put a bit of her food in her napkin and saw Sandra do the same.
"So, Jenni, where did you get that necklace?" Kurama asked, his hand resting lightly on Jenni's arm, preventing her from going anywhere.
Jenni didn't answer. Instead, she ignored the question and fed Ryu a bit more, then ate a little herself. She put the rest of the meat in her napkin.
She felt Kurama squeeze her arm as she moved to get up. She sighed; there was no getting out of the situation this time. Jenni turned to Kurama, looked him in the eye, and said, quite plainly, "It's none of your business and, frankly, I don't know why you would want to know about a little old necklace."
Kurama looked taken aback; he had thought that Jenni was going to be more soft-spoken than that!
Jenni grinned, as if reading his thoughts. "I am the more soft-spoken of the two of us, Neko and I, and I can be pretty soft-spoken. But I can also be the opposite of soft-spoken. It really depends on my mood and the topic. This topic is one that I don't venture into very much, but you may end up hearing my tale tomorrow if Genkai asks. Don't even bother asking me yourself; I won't answer. The only person that I respect and will listen to in this entire temple is Genkai. I was her student for three or four years, and I have only improved since her training. Now, if you will excuse me, I have a fox to feed."
Jenni stood up and walked upstairs, bidding Genkai a quick good-night. Genkai returned it, seemingly happy that there was actually a student that respected her.
Jenni walked upstairs with Sandra right behind her. They went to their separate rooms and fed their pets. Soon after, they changed and went to bed. All night, Jenni was haunted by dreams of her past, going back to before she had trained with Genkai.
Outside, Hiei watched as Jenni tossed, turned, groaned, and squirmed in her bed. He had tried to get into her head, but it didn't work. So, he decided to wait until Jenni had her guard down to get into her head.
(The next morning)
"Ohayo, Genkai-sensei," Jenni said as she walked into the kitchen, dressed in a white shirt that went to her mid-thighs, and a pair of white shorts that went down to her knees. She sat down, Kori and Ryu tagging along behind her.
"Ohayo," Genkai replied, not looking at her student.
"Genkai," Jenni said suddenly, looking at her teacher. "Is it alright if Neko and I keep out pets here? They only need to go out once in a while and the rest of the time they can be in our rooms. Please?" Jenni asked, imploring her teacher.
Genkai looked at Jenni. "What might they be?" She asked, looking around.
"Well, one is Ryu, the dragon you saw last night. One is a fox, Kori," Jenni said, holding said fox on her lap. "Neko's are a cat and a bat. Is that all right?"
"Fine, but you are responsible if they hurt anyone," Genkai said, looking briefly at her student.
Jenni grinned suddenly, and said, "When does training start?"
Genkai chuckled. "You know me too well. Tomorrow. I'm giving Neko a day to settle in, and I want to know what happened to you that you found your parent's pendant and that you are colder than you used to be."
Jenni sighed. 'I had hoped she wouldn't ask. Oh, well. I guess I'll just have to tell the half-truth. Leave out the secret, and tell her the rest of the story. Great plan, Kit!']
(End chapter 1)
(Chapter 1: Meeting and new friends)
Yusuke was wandering around the forest near Genkai's temple when he heard a rustle in the bushes next to him. He slipped into a fighting stance to see two girls push back the bush.
One of them had brown/red hair to her butt, green eyes, and was wearing a black shirt that said "Scorpio Don't like to hear "No." Unique in Every Way Hard to Scare " on it, black capris, a silver watch on her left wrist, a diamond set in onyx necklace with matching earrings, and had her hair pulled into a high-pony tail. The other one had dark brown hair that could be mistaken for black, brown eyes, was wearing a green watch on her left wrist, a dark blue tank top, and some blue jeans.
Yusuke looked the girls up and down. The first one was taller and was a little shorter than him. The second girl was about two inches taller than Hiei.
"Hello?" The first girl asked, waving her hand in front of Yusuke's face. "Anyone in there? I asked if you knew the way to Genkai's temple."
"Yeah, I do. Sorry 'bout that," Yusuke said, looking the first girl in the eyes. They danced with mirth and a hidden emotion. "My name's Yusuke Urameshi. What's yours?"
"I am Jennifer Rose Emerald," the first girl said. "But if you call me "Jennifer," "Rose bud," "Shorty," or anything like that, I WILL kill you. I prefer to be called "Baka," "Kitsune," "Kitsune-chan, or any other ending like that, I personally don't care, or "Jenni." Oh, yeah. You can call me "Baka kitsune," or anything insulting and I will reply to it. It's practically impossible to insult me. So, you can call me anything but "Jennifer," "Rosebud," or anything that implies that I am weak, short, or a hanyou in any way. Got it?" Jenni asked, her eyes narrowing slightly.
Yusuke nodded. The other girl whacked Jenni around the head.
"Ow! What was that for, Neko?" Jenni asked, glaring at her friend.
"Fun. Anyway, I'm Sandra Bara Neko. You can call me "Neko," "Bara," or "Sandra." I don't care. Just don't insult me. I can and will kill you or anyone else that insults me. Got it, dimwit?" Sandra asked, glaring hard at Yusuke.
Yusuke sighed and nodded. 'What did I do to deserve this...?' Yusuke silently asked himself, leading the two strange girls back to the temple. As soon as they got to the door, Yusuke was shoved aside as Jenni rushed past him.
"Genkai! Genkai-sensei, are you here?!" Jenni yelled, looking around.
Genkai came into the living room, looking at the two girls. "Hello, Kit," Genkai said, looking at her old apprentice. "I see you have brought a friend with you this time."
"Hai. I have, Genkai-sama," Jenni said with a slight bow. "Is it alright if we stay here for a while, Genkai-sama?"
"What did I tell you about the '-sama' thing?" Genkai growled at Jenni, who backed away a little bit.
"To drop it," Jenni squeaked.
"Right. And what did you do..?" Genkai asked in the calm-before-the-storm mode.
"I added it?" Jenni asked more than said. "I'll start doing laps now," Jenni said, edging towards the door.
Genkai sighed and waved her hand. "I'll let you get away with it this time, but next time, you're going to have to do 100 laps around the temple," Genkai said, smiling a little bit at her first apprentice.
"Whoa! Hold on a second! How do you know the old hag, Jenni?" Yusuke asked, getting hit in the back of the head by Jenni. "What was that for?!"
"You need to learn to respect your teacher, Urameshi," Jenni said. "I was Genkai's apprentice for a while. She helped me harness my demon powers when I first got them. I stayed here for about three years, then went off in search of my parents. I never found them. All I found was this necklace," Jenni said thoughtfully.
"Which she never takes off," Sandra added with a grin. "By the way, my name is Sandra Bara Neko, Genkai. It is a pleasure to meet you," Sandra said with a bow and a smile, but the smile did not quite reach her eyes.
Genkai smiled a tiny bit. She then looked at Jenni, who nodded, and Genkai walked away.
"What was that all about?" Yusuke asked, looking from the back of his teacher to Jenni, then back and forth and back again.
"Genkai's going to meditate and wanted to know if I still knew my way around this place. I know this place like I know the back of my hand!" Jenni said, going down one of the many corridors and motioning for Neko to follow her.
Jenni stopped in front of a room. "This is my room," Jenni announced proudly.
"No wonder the old hag wouldn't let anyone in this room," Yusuke muttered, but Jenni still heard and shot him a death glare.
"If I'm correct, the room on the right of mine should have remained unoccupied, right, Yusuke?" Jenni asked, looking up slightly at him. Yusuke nodded and led Sandra to the other room.
Jenni's room was, to say the least, rather freaky. Half of her room was black and had weapons all over the walls. The other half was white, showing a few pictures. The bed was split down the middle. There was a couch on the white side, a TV and a few bean bags and comfy chairs on the black side, and a closet that was also half on each side. Her room was on the second story and had a window on the white side, that had white curtains, and a window on the black side, that had heavy black drapes. When Yusuke came into Jenni's room, his eyes bugged out.
"How did you manage to get Genkai to allow you to do this?!" Yusuke asked, amazed.
"Well, I was her trusted student for three, four years. I trained long and hard, sometimes too hard, pushing myself too far and into unconsciousness. She allowed me to rearrange my room and I went on a small shopping spree. I painted the room, bought a few of the chairs and all the beanbags, and just about every weapon you see in this room. Except these two," Jenni said, motioning to the katana and scythe that hung above the bed. "Those were the first, and only, two weapons that Genkai gave me. The couch and one of the chairs were also in here when I moved in. Everything else, except the bed, I bought. Now get out of my room, please. I need to make sure that they made it safely here." With that, Jenni ushered Yusuke out of the room.
In Sandra's room, Sandra was looking around at the purple and blue walls, drapes, everything. She looked out the already-open window and saw something in the distance. She looked closer and saw that it was their pets, finally here. She knocked on the wall leading to Jenni's room twice, and got three knocks in reply. 'Good,' Sandra thought. 'She knows. Hopefully, she can convince the others that live here that they are fine, and won't hurt anyone unless we want them to. Oh, boy. This is going to be a joy ride. Besides the fact that we have to keep everyone else out of our rooms, we have to keep our secret from them as well. Oh, joy,' Sandra thought sarcastically. She felt a small presence in her mind and knew it was Jenni.
/Neko?/ Jenni called out telepathically.
/Yeah, Kit?/ Sandra answered.
/We are going to have a hard time explaining why we disappear every full moon/ Jenni said.
/We are just going to have to cover it up. Oh, have they arrived yet?/ Sandra asked.
/In a moment they will have. Oh, by the way, I think that we will have to keep mental barriers up all the time, 24/7, Neko/ Jenni said. /And we cannot let them know that we are halflings, or we will have to leave..... Again, for me. I don't know if I can bear that./
/I know, Kit, I know/ Neko said, and closed the link between them. Neko opened her window a bit more and saw Kuro fly in and Raiu jump in the window.
Next door, Ryu flew in the window, with Kori right behind him. Jenni gazed at her pets, sitting on the bed, and sighed.
Kuro was a bat, a little larger than a normal vampire bat, and had rather large-looking fangs and red eyes and claws. Raiu was a cat with white fur and black streaks. She had stunning lavender eyes and her claws were lavender as well, which is why she kept them retracted all the time, unless she had to climb something. Ryu was a black dragon with blood-red eyes with silver pupils. He had silver claws and the tip of his tai was blood-red as well, making it look like the end of his tail was dipped in blood. Kori was a silver fox with ice-blue streaks along her back. Her claws were amber/gold, as were her eyes. She also had three tails.
Jenni sighed when she heard Genkai holler up the stairs, "KIT! NEKO! DINNER'S READY!"
Jenni went next door and walked down to the dining room with Neko right behind her. As soon as they entered, all eyes went to the two new girls. Hiei and Kurama sensed strange spirit energy radiating off of them in waves. Hiei's eyes narrowed while Kurama looked at the girls in a new light.
Jenni bowed slightly. "Kon'nichi wa," Jenni said, looking around at them. "I am Jennifer Rose Emerald, and you can call me anything but "Jennifer." This is my friend, Sandra Bara Neko. Don't insult her and you'll live to see another day," Jenni joked with a grin. Everyone, except Hiei, laughed.
"Hn. Baka on'na," Hiei snorted, glaring at Jenni, who merely grinned at him.
"True enough," Jenni said, completely unaffected by the fact that Hiei had just insulted her. Yusuke and Kuwabara were now on the floor, laughing so hard that they were crying.
Kurama smiled as he watched Jenni. 'She seems to be hiding something,' Kurama thought. 'I wonder where she got the necklace.'
"Jenni?" Kurama asked, looking at her.
"Hmm?" Jenni said.
"Do you really consider yourself an idiot?" Kurama asked, looking at her, playfully serious. (Did that even make sense?) Jenni grinned.
"At times. I've become so used to verbal assault and abuse that it's rather a habit of mine, I'm afraid." Jenni grinned up at Kurama.
"Where did you get that necklace?" Kurama asked. Jenni tensed up and pretended that she didn't hear him as she sat down for dinner.
"All right. Since Jenni doesn't know everyone, INTRODUCE YOURSELVES ALREADY!" Genkai yelled. Jenni smiled and shook her head.
"I'm Botan," Botan said, smiling at Jenni.
"Hiei."
"Shuichi Minamino, but you may call me Kurama."
"I am the great Kazuma Kuwabara and I will protect you from demons and the Shrimp!" Kuwabara yelled as he took Jenni's hands in his. At that instant, Ryu popped up over the table and dive-bombed Kuwabara, who ran out of the room.
"RYU!" Jenni yelled as the mini-dragon swirled around the table. Ryu obediently settled on Jenni's shoulder, glaring around at all of the people at the table.
"Is that a dragon?" Kurama asked with a small gasp.
"Yeah, he sure is. Darned thing is way to over-protective of me, though," Jenni said, scratching Ryu above the eye ridges. He made a sound that sounded oddly like purring.
"Well, you already know me," Yusuke said.
"I think we've met everyone for tonight, right, Yusuke?" Jenni asked, looking over at him. He nodded.
Genkai sat down at the head of the table, which happened to be about as far as you could get from Hiei and Kurama, who were on either side of Jenni. Jenni gulped slightly; she knew they were both demons and would try to get information out of them.
Jenni set her resolve and ate little by little, letting Ryu get most of her food. She put a bit of her food in her napkin and saw Sandra do the same.
"So, Jenni, where did you get that necklace?" Kurama asked, his hand resting lightly on Jenni's arm, preventing her from going anywhere.
Jenni didn't answer. Instead, she ignored the question and fed Ryu a bit more, then ate a little herself. She put the rest of the meat in her napkin.
She felt Kurama squeeze her arm as she moved to get up. She sighed; there was no getting out of the situation this time. Jenni turned to Kurama, looked him in the eye, and said, quite plainly, "It's none of your business and, frankly, I don't know why you would want to know about a little old necklace."
Kurama looked taken aback; he had thought that Jenni was going to be more soft-spoken than that!
Jenni grinned, as if reading his thoughts. "I am the more soft-spoken of the two of us, Neko and I, and I can be pretty soft-spoken. But I can also be the opposite of soft-spoken. It really depends on my mood and the topic. This topic is one that I don't venture into very much, but you may end up hearing my tale tomorrow if Genkai asks. Don't even bother asking me yourself; I won't answer. The only person that I respect and will listen to in this entire temple is Genkai. I was her student for three or four years, and I have only improved since her training. Now, if you will excuse me, I have a fox to feed."
Jenni stood up and walked upstairs, bidding Genkai a quick good-night. Genkai returned it, seemingly happy that there was actually a student that respected her.
Jenni walked upstairs with Sandra right behind her. They went to their separate rooms and fed their pets. Soon after, they changed and went to bed. All night, Jenni was haunted by dreams of her past, going back to before she had trained with Genkai.
Outside, Hiei watched as Jenni tossed, turned, groaned, and squirmed in her bed. He had tried to get into her head, but it didn't work. So, he decided to wait until Jenni had her guard down to get into her head.
(The next morning)
"Ohayo, Genkai-sensei," Jenni said as she walked into the kitchen, dressed in a white shirt that went to her mid-thighs, and a pair of white shorts that went down to her knees. She sat down, Kori and Ryu tagging along behind her.
"Ohayo," Genkai replied, not looking at her student.
"Genkai," Jenni said suddenly, looking at her teacher. "Is it alright if Neko and I keep out pets here? They only need to go out once in a while and the rest of the time they can be in our rooms. Please?" Jenni asked, imploring her teacher.
Genkai looked at Jenni. "What might they be?" She asked, looking around.
"Well, one is Ryu, the dragon you saw last night. One is a fox, Kori," Jenni said, holding said fox on her lap. "Neko's are a cat and a bat. Is that all right?"
"Fine, but you are responsible if they hurt anyone," Genkai said, looking briefly at her student.
Jenni grinned suddenly, and said, "When does training start?"
Genkai chuckled. "You know me too well. Tomorrow. I'm giving Neko a day to settle in, and I want to know what happened to you that you found your parent's pendant and that you are colder than you used to be."
Jenni sighed. 'I had hoped she wouldn't ask. Oh, well. I guess I'll just have to tell the half-truth. Leave out the secret, and tell her the rest of the story. Great plan, Kit!']
(End chapter 1)
