Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho isn't that obvious, but I do own Lucy.
A/N: This is my idiot story. Please forgive any stupid thing you may come across. Most likely it was induced by extreme hunger also it was late at night, like midnight. Plus the co-author (Scooperchan) made me do it.
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Chapter one: Who are you?
Shuichi was in his room helping a human girl, by the name of Erica, with her English. As they were working the girl's stomach loudly rumbled.
"I guess I'm hungry" she said sheepishly.
Shuichi stood, "I'll be right back." He said leaving the room.
Erica glanced around the room. A binder on the desk caught her eye. She walked over and picked it up, looking at the front. "What's this on it?" she said aloud.
'LIFE"S DECEPTIONS' was written in bold neat writing.
"'Life's Deceptions'? Huh…" She opened is and glanced through it.
On one page it read, 'My name is Shuichi Minamino. I am 6 years old. I am not normal. In fact I am not even human….'
"Someone sure has some imagination," she thought aloud.
'…I am Youko Kurama, King of Thieves. The most feared fox demon of Makai.'
Surprised at the writing, Erica put the binder back on the desk and turned to her work. 'Some people are crazy'
Shuichi walked back into his room carrying a snack. He looked around his room before handing the food to Erica.
"Thanks…Kurama"
"Pleasure" he replied, absently looking over at his desk
'He didn't even notice the name. I wonder if it's his real one' she thought to herself. She looked down at her work. "Ah, what's an adjective again?" she asked.
"It describes a noun."
"Oh yeah, thanks," she continued writing.
As Erica worked she had the feeling of being watched. Turning to Shuichi, who was now sitting next to her, she questioned "Are you going to just sit there all day?"
His green eyes had a hard edge as he stared at her, unmoving. "What were you doing while I was gone?" he asked.
"Nothing." she lied.
He opened and closed his mouth then stood up. With eyes on the window he said, "Excuse me for a moment." He turned and left the room.
As soon as Shuichi left Erica strode over to the widow and looked out. She saw Shuichi walk up to the tree next to his window and look up in the branches. He stood there for a moment then turned around and walked back into the house. 'Ok then' Erica thought and went back to her homework. After five minuets Shuichi still had not returned when the phone rang. Being extremely curious and trying to be helpful Erica picked up the phone.
"Mos-"
"Kurama what took so long wait find Hiei and meet us at toddlers place in an hour." A voice Erica recognized as Yusuke's said.
"Ah pardon me Yusuke but this isn't 'Kurama'. This is Shuichi's house" Erica cut in.
"Hey, who are you and what did you do with Kurama?"
"This is Erica. Who's Kurama?"
"Uh could you have Kur-Shuichi call me?"
"Sure." She said and hung up.
Ten minuets later Shuichi came back into the room
"Yusuke called and he wants you to call him back." Erica said off handedly continuing to write.
"Okay. How far have you gotten on your informative essay?" he asked sitting next to her.
"A paragraph." She depressingly said.
"The subject is relatively easy. Surly you can comp up with more to write about than that." Shuichi said.
"I don't know anything about demon myths. Also I'm not that creative." She replied.
Shuichi walked over to his bookshelf and selected one of them.
"Here is a book on demons. Just pick one and write about them. I'm sorry but I can't help you more tonight." He said handing Erica the book.
Erica sat in her room reading the book that Shuichi had loaned her. She flipped through searching for the 'Youko Kurama' mentioned in Shuichi's binder.
"Raizen, no…Mukuro, no…" she read aloud as she searched. Finally Erica found the page she was looking for.
'A legendary fox demon, who was known through out Rekai and Makai… led the largest band of thieves in demon world…some of his most common titles…believed to have died sixteen years ago.'
'Hm.' Erica looked over to the one picture given. There was a man with fox ears and tail. Both were silver in color as well as his waist length hair. He looked to be about seven feet tall and was running in the picture.
'Well so far he's the best looking demon in this book' she flipped through the rest of the book and finished her paper.
Shuichi sat his desk leafing through a binder. The window opened and a short person wearing all black stepped in.
"Fox, that girl read your confessions."
"I know Hiei but she thinks I'm nuts."
"Hn Kurama." Hiei said lying down on Kurama's bed.
"Staying here tonight?" Kurama asked smiling.
Erica was walking to school carrying a bag of sewing supplies with her.
"Stupid Home Ec class. Why do I have to bring in supplies?" she mumbled to herself after dropping some thread for the fifteenth time. Since she was running late she had cut through a park.
"Crap." She yelled as she dropped a ball of yarn. "I hate sewing from now on."
As she reached down to pick it up a small fox came out of a bush and ran up to her. She looked down at it for a moment before if pounced on the yarn and ran off with it.
"Hey come back." she yelled and chased it.
Erica sat in Home Ec brooding.
"So your clothes are ripped. Why" a girl beside her asked.
"I don't want to talk about it Lucy." Erica answered holding up a torn piece of yarn. Lucy turned back to finishing her English assignment.
"What did you do at Shuichi's?" Lucy asked offhandedly.
"Nothing, I didn't even finish my paper there. Shuichi ended up giving me a book and sending me home. I'll probably fail that English assignment."
Lucy glanced suspiciously at Erica. "You know I don't really believe you. I know how much you liked him. Speaking of which there he is." Lucy said as Shuichi walked to the desk adjacent to Erica. Bored with the useless yarn, Erica attempted to throw it into the garbage can near the door, and missed. Shuichi had followed the yarns progress and picked it up when it landed. Erica had gotten up when she missed the trashcan and walked up to Shuichi to get it. "Can I have that back?" She asked him, pointing to the yarn.
"If you really want it so badly ill give it to you"
She raised an eyebrow, "…okay, then, yes I would like it back."
'It's just yarn; it's just a yes or no question.' She thought.
"Then just yes." he said holding out the yarn after 'hearing' Erica's thoughts.
"Thanks" she said going back to her seat. 'Did I say that thought aloud? No, must be a coincidence'
-It is not-
A harsh voice sounded in Erica's mind.
Erica looked around the room. 'I must be going crazy, because I think I heard a voice in my head.'
"Cooper-san ignore the voices." A voice whispered in her ear.
Erica turned to see Shuichi walk to the back of the classroom. "How'd he know?" she said aloud.
"How did who know what?" Lucy asked Erica.
"Never mind" Erica said as class started.
Erica sat in her room looking through the demon book that Shuichi loaned her.
She flipped to the page with Youko Kurama on it. She had decided to reread the section.
"Maybe he's not that crazy." She thought aloud to herself.
'…he is thought to have the power of telepathy however he most likely did not make use of this ability while making one his raids. No matter the truth of this he could not have the same amount as the Forbidden Child1.'
Erica stopped reading, "Forbidden Child?" She glanced at the bottom of the page.
' 1 go to page 678'
She flipped through and landed on the page. The first thing she saw was a picture of a child like person. He had blood red eyes and gravity defying spiky black hair and white starburst. He wore all black and had a katana in his hand by his side.
'He sure looks friendly…' Erica thought sarcastically.
She started to read,
'…one of the most bloodthirsty demon assassins. there is little known about him.'
'…And his description is even friendlier' she thought.
'…cast from the Koorime Isles for being born of fire heritage Hiei has become known as forbidden. the influence of his Jagan eye has increased his power. He is a strong telepath and telekinetic. His strongest rival is Youko Kurama.'
Erica closed the book and put it on her nightstand and got ready for bed.
Knock Knock Knock
The door opened hesitantly, "Hello?"
"Hi, Shuichi, I came to return your book." Erica said and held it out
the door opened fully to show Mrs. Minamino.
"I'm sorry. I thought you might have been someone else. But never mind come in come in. Shuichi is in his room." Shiori said stepping aside.
"Thank you, and sorry for mistaking you, I can't see through the door." Erica said, walking into the house behind the older woman.
"It's quiet all right dear. Go see him most likely he's doing homework you may interrupt him if you must." Shiori called out as Erica climbed the stairs.
Erica pushed the half-way opened door, "Pardon me Shuichi, I jus-" she trailed off as she spoke to an empty room. A black shadow outside the in the tree caught her attention. She walked over to the open window and looked out right as a black blur took off in the direction of Erica's house. Curious to what she saw, Erica left Shuichi's room and ran downstairs.
"Please excuse me Minamino-san, but I must go now, good bye." She said to the woman as she grabbed her shoes and bolted out the door before she could respond. Erica ran down the street towards her house.
'What was that?' she thought.
As Erica came into sight of the front door she saw Shuichi standing outside. A short person clad in black stood with him.
Erica slowed to a walk as she came up to Shuichi.
"…stupid ningen girl. She was messing about in your room, Kurama. We should kill her now before she gets suspicious."
"Hiei for a cold bastard you sure are worrying a lot. Besides what's the worst that could happen?"
"Ohayo, Shuichi," Erica cut in, " I was just looking for you." She held out the book. "Here's your book back, and thank you for letting me borrow it, it was very…informative" she ended.
"Your welcome. But remember that this is just a book on myths. Demons are not real." He said taking the book.
"Goodbye then, I'll see you tomorrow at school, Youko." She said entering her house and closing the door behind her.
'Was that little person I saw actually Hiei? He resembled the guy in the picture. And if it was, then could Shuichi be Youko Kurama? I mean, he said in his binder he was, and he was born around the time that Youko disappeared . Well, if 'Hiei', or whatever his name is, is actually a demon, then it could be possible. Right? Hiei did call him Kurama, except he didn't look anything like him.' Erica lay drowsily thinking on her bed when she heard a tap on her window. She ignored it as she turned over and tried to go to sleep.
"Erica come open the window." Shuichi's voice said.
Startled, Erica quickly got out of bed and walked over to her window. She opted to wait before opening said window.
"Shuichi, why are you in a tree by my window? Actually, why are you even here?" she asked through the glass.
"Open the window on your own. You don't want to make me open it."
"How about I don't open it and you go away"
"Iie we decided we needed to talk to you."
"Who's 'we'?" she asked. "And If you need to talk to me, then come by normal hours through a door."
"Hiei and I." Shuichi replied opening the window and entering.
The short person from earlier came in as well and shut the window. Hiei then moved quickly to the door blocking the only escape route. 'Shuichi' stood by the window.
Erica looked from Hiei to Shuichi, "What do you need to talk about?"
"Finally the baka ningen gets it." Hiei said annoyed at the girl.
"How much do you know and how much do you believe." Shuichi questioned.
"A lot and all of it, why?"
"What are you going to do? Who are you planning on telling?"
" No one. Besides, it's not like anyone in their right mind would ever believe me if I tried to tell them."
"Should we trust her, Hiei? I have the dream pollen."
"No. demons can never trust a human, Kurama."
"I trust my mother. Or in case you've forgotten she's human."
"I told you leave her. Come back where you belong." Hiei argued. He turned to the silent Erica. "Well, what does the human have to say in defense. Kurama's opinions alone will not save you from oblivion. Speak up girl."
"Hiei you're scaring her. It's just a flower that makes the person forget certain memories."
"Hn"
"Forget certain memories? Look, I don't see what the problem is, I'm not some evil spy or anything, I can't tell anyone anything because they'd probably put me in a little white coat in some insane asylum. Please don't take my memories" She said, finally deciding to speak up.
"don't worry. Ill only erase the ones having to do with me." Kurama said.
"Hn. ALL of your memories of him. Demons and humans don't mix." Hiei growled.
Worried, Erica tried to reason with the two. "I don't care if you only erase the ones with you, I don't want to forget anything." 'Especially the ones about you.' She thought to herself. 'I like him, I don't want to forget him'
"Why?" Kurama asked her. " Why wouldn't you want to forget about the existence of demons?"
"I, I have my reasons." She said lamely, looking down at the floor.
"Do you still care even after finding out the truth?" Kurama asked walking over to her. He placed his fingertips on her chin forcing her to look up. His deep emerald eyes stared at her hazel ones waiting for an answer.
'Did he just hear my thoughts?' She stared back, "Y-yes." she finally answered.
"But why? What did I ever do?"
"Why not?" , she asked, blushing at his close proximity.
Kurama smiled, "Yes I agree." He said leaning closer to her.
"Answer honestly. Can I trust you?" he whispered in her ear.
"Yes." she said, motionless.
Satisfied with her answer Kurama stepped back away from Erica. He smiled and walked to the window. Silently Hiei followed and the two exited through and into the night air.
Taking a deep breath, Erica slowly walked over to her bed and flopped down. 'Great, now I'll never get to sleep.'
Scooperchan: Wow, we haven't even posted the story and we're already posting a prequel. We need better ways to spend our time.
SMK: 0 o thats lame. Any way hope you enjoyed. Please tell us what you think. Push the little blue/purple button marked 'go'.
sasuke: scooperchan go back to naruto fics
youko: no! scooperchan is mine!
Scooperchan?...Were are you people coming from? Youko, go back to your own story or kill you off in this one. And Sasuke, go back to your own anime period, or the next fiction I write will be a Yaoi, with you uke.
sasuke: poofs away
SMK: OKAY then. Actually that could be interesting.
Scooperchan: I know muh ha ha ha leaves to go plan next fiction
SMK: Matte I have some 'great' ideas. And readers review. ja ne minna-san leaves to help scooperchan