Noise; the first thing you could successfully decipher. It was the wind, blowing calmly around you, slightly moving small bits of dust and pebbles near were you lay. The smell of burning wood and charred earth filled your senses as you became more aware of your surroundings. You opened your eyes slowly and blinked several times to try to bring then into focus. Finally being able to see properly, you looked around trying to figure out where you were, but all you could see was a wall of earth that encircled you. Huge gashes could be seen indented into the enclosement along with other various holes and indentations.
You wanted to get up from the increasingly cold ground, but as you tried to move you were met with a blinding pain at your side. Instinctively you reached your right hand down to inspect the pain only to feel a hot, sticky substance gushing from it. You looked down at your hand to find it already completely covered in blood. Everything began to go in and out of focus as you lost more and more blood from the evidently deep gash just below your ribcage. Your breathing became more labored and you grew increasingly tired; wanting nothing more then to sleep. Suddenly, voices that seemed to come from far away replaced the still silence of your impending death.
Only one came closer to you and distinctively said in a shrill, yet determined tone, "YEAH! IDIOTS! I've found the girl!".
Then you felt strong arms embrace you as you were lifted of the cold, hard ground from which you laid. With the last of your energy you turned to face the one who was now carrying you, only to be met with the most beautiful, yet cold crimson eyes you have ever remember seeing in your life. But everything soon faded into blackness as you passed out from blood loss.
It seemed like an eternity that you were immersed in darkness, when suddenly a tall figure appeared before you standing in what looked like a forest clearing. You couldn't make him out, but he was speaking to you; his words incoherent. Then suddenly you too were standing in the clearing, clearly able to hear what he was saying but still unable to make him out. But it was as if all of his words floated in one ear and out the other; when he finished a sentence you could not remember anything he had said. The only thing that seemed to stick in your mind was a name; Layana. 'Was that your name? Or was that another person?' You had no idea who he was or who you were for that matter. In a flash the strange figure had drawn his sword that hung at his side and began to attack you head on. You had no control over your own body as you avoided his assault with agility and skill. He suddenly stopped and a dim, blue light glowed around him in his stillness and then grew to surround the both of you. A strange sensation tingled throughout your entire body and an incredibly bright, white light replaced his blue light. And just as quickly, everything was immersed in darkness once again.
Your eyes shot open with a start as you sat up dripping in a cold sweat. Gasping for air, you tried to make sense of what you just saw, but the more you thought about it the less you remembered. Only that odd name seemed to stay in your thoughts; Layana. Was that your name? You couldn't remember if it was or not, but you took it for granted that it was. You looked around at where you were. You sat on a bed in a dark, sparsely decorated room of some kind with a door to your right, a large window to your left, and a couch against the wall in front of you. A little bit of light showed through a gap in the door, shining on a large amount of dust on the floor making the room seem as though it wasn't used much.
Feeling a sharp pain slowly spread throughout your side, your hand traveled impulsively to the previously discovered wound again only to find that it had been cleaned and dressed. It was then that you remembered the guy who had found you, what he said and his eyes. He was calling to his companions when he had picked you up from the ground. 'Who were these guys? And what did they want?' You had to find out, especially if they knew anything about you. Looking down you saw that you were not wearing the same clothes as before. All that covered your top was the bandage that covered your wound, which stretched from the top of your chest to just past the wound. You were also wearing a pair of baggy white pants that were the most comfortable thing out of all that you were wearing.
Looking toward the end of the bed you could see a white shirt, which you seized immediately and put on. You groggily crawled out of the bed and stumbled along to the door, kicking up dust as you went, on your weak legs. Peering out of the door you saw a dimly lit hallway with tile flooring and lime green walls. There were other doors against the opposite wall, each a different color; blue, red and dark green. The door you happened to come out of was white, but it had a few holes in it as if someone tried to put their fist through it numerous times. Shouting and muffled voices could be heard echoing down the hallway from the room next to you on your left. Using the wall for support, you made your way to the wooden double doors of the room next to you and sat to listen to what they were talking about.
You could hear a misty shrill voice coming from inside, not like the one you heard before, saying, "You told us you were going to explain why you sent us to get that girl when we got back! There was some crazy shit going on when we got there, SO TALK!".
There was a slight commotion as if the one yelling grabbed the one he was talking to. 'I wonder if they are talking about me?' you thought to yourself.
Then another voice replied, a little more calm then the first, he said, "Look Yusuke, she just appeared through a mysterious portal from god knows where. I called you here to retrieve her before she wondered too far. I'm afraid that's all I can confirm for now".
There was a short silence before this Yusuke replied, "All I want to know is who this girl is. Like I said, there was some crazy shit going on when we got there. I just want to be sure that she isn't dangerous or something".
The other one sighed and said, "If she is who I'm thinking of then you can rest assure that she is not dangerous, but her being here is completely imposable. Lets hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not then we are in more trouble then any of you can imagine".
His last remark hit a nerve inside you. 'Why was your being here going to cause trouble for these people?' The thought confused you and made you realize that you didn't want to hear any more. So you decided to return to the room, but before you could react a presence appeared behind you. You didn't remember feeling anything like this before. It was as if a great power was locked away deep inside; almost like a separate soul inside another one. You turned only to come face to face with the oddest-looking person you could remember. He was a very tall guy with bright red hair and deep green eyes. He was wearing what looked like a dress with slits up the sides that went up to the waist; only he had pants on underneath; very odd.
He looked down at you looking very shocked, but relaxed and smiled warmly before saying in a soft voice, "Your awake. When we found you, you were so badly wounded that I'm a little surprised to see that your strong enough to walk so soon".
You stared at him with a confused expression on your face not knowing what to make of him.
A saddened expression crossed his face as he stared down at you, "I fear you have some questions to address us?".
You nodded in conformation to his implication. He smiled warmly again and helped you off the ground.
"There is only one person here who has the knowledge to answer your questions properly. You may be surprised when you see him, but try not to laugh. He doesn't like that much...".
He then opened one of the double doors that led in to the room where all of the yelling was coming from. Once inside you saw a sight you thought you would never see and yes it did surprise you. There sat behind a huge desk what looked like toddler with a big, blue pacifier in his mouth. He was dressed very formally with a big hat on his head with the letters Jr. inscribed on the rim.
The guy from the hallway stepped forward and said while still looking at you, "May I introduce Koenma, ruler of the Spirit World".
You looked at him with even more questions then before, one that was newly included was; 'what is Spirit World?' But you held your tongue and bowed respectfully instead.
Koenma nodded and said, "It is nice to see that you have recovered...".
He stopped for a moment as if very surpised to see you.
"I'm sure you have many questions about were you are and such, correct?", the ruler asked.
You nodded while looking over at the other occupants of the room. The one closest to you was a slightly tall guy wearing a green outfit with slicked back, black hair. He had his arms crossed and was staring at you with suspicious eyes. Right next to him stood the tallest one of the bunch. He was wearing a blue outfit similar to the one the first one was wearing and had orange hair. He kept gauging at you as if undressing you with his eyes, which creped you out immensely. The last one, who seemed to be the only one about your height, was leaning against the back wall of the room with his arms crossed and his eyes closed, seeming to intentionally separate himself from the group. He was dressed in all black clothing and had jet-black hair except for the white highlights of the tip of his bangs. His presence was very hard to explain, it was like the other guys presence that you met in the hallway, but what seemed to be the hidden spirits true form. What ever he was, the other guy and him seemed to be the same.
"To start things off", he began again, "let me introduce the group to you. Seeing as you have already met Kurama in the hallway, I'll introduce everyone else. This is Yusuka Urameshii", Koenma said motioning to the one in green, who nodded while he continued. "This is...", he began motioning to the one in blue, but was quickly interrupted by him.
"I'm Kazuma Kuwabara...", the one in blue said in an overly cocky voice pointing to himself, "And I just wanted to say that you're the prettiest girl I have ever seen! Will you go out with me!".
He ended with a huge smile on his face with that same look of his that seemed to undress you. You shuttered under his gaze and were about to say something, but Yusuka beat you to it.
"You dumbass! She is barely recovering from her wounds and your asking for a date! Your pathetic Kuwabara!", he said punching Kuwabara so hard that he was sent flying across the room hitting the ground with a loud thud.
He sat up rubbing where Yusuka hit him saying with a big grin, "It was worth a try!".
Everyone sweat dropped at his persistence on making a foul of himself; the one in black seemed particularly irritated.
Koenma sighed and continued, "And over there behind me we have Hiei".
With the sound of his name, Hiei looked up at you revealing those same crimson eyes you remembered seeing as you passed out when they found you. You couldn't help but be slightly taken back by their depth as well as their intensnes which seemed to penetrate you. Not wanting to stare you quickly turned your attention back to Koenma, but couldn't help look back at him as he continued to stare at you with a very hard stare.
"And what, may I ask, is your name?", Yusuka asked suspiciously.
You struggled with the answer at first, but the replied, "Layana...I think...".
Yusuka went wide eyed and retorted, "What do you mean I think! Don't you know your own name!".
You looked away slightly ashamed at the accusation, but replied in a small voice, "No, I don't. I don't remember anything prior to when you guys found me".
At that moment you glanced over at Hiei who was still glaring at you and looked down almost immediatly to avoid his constant stare.
You shook your head to clear the image from your mind and continued, "The only reason I think my name is Layana is because of a dream I had while I was asleep. A man kept saying it as he preceded to attack me".
Koenma was very concerned at this pont, "Did you know this man? Why was he attacking you?".
You looked away from him again ashamed that you couldn't remember anything and said, "I don't know. He seemed dead set on killing me though".
Koenma sighed while crossing his arms and closing his eyes in deep thought, but then said, "Well your memory gap does propose a problem."
He sighed and looked up at you as if he was endurring an internal battle of his own.
He sighed again and began to preted to straiten his desk up while saying, "So, you said you had a few questions for us, corect? Well please feel free to ask".
You thought for a moment and said, "Well, most of what I wanted to ask you conserned wrether or not you knew who I am and why I'm here. But sence you don't know anything about me, I just wanted to ask one question".
You looked around hoping no one but Koenma was listening only to be met with disapiontment, so you continued, "What and where is Spirit world and how exactly have I come to be here".
Koenma gave you a hard look, but only leaned back in his chair saying, "A good question. Spirit world is basicaly a relm above the ...normal relm where the souls of beings come to dwell after death".
A horrible thought crossed your mind and you frantically asked, "Then am I dead or something!".
He looked a little surprised at your question and quickly replied, "Oh, good god no...", you breathed a sigh of relief, "...but that is also the problem. You came here through a portal that opened where they found you unconcious and half alive. But something like that is nearly immposable through normal means. I will have to look in to it before I came make any notions on how this happened. We will reconvene in the morning after everyone has had a good nights rest, ok?".
You nodded disappointedly and turned to go back to the room from which you came from, but was stopped when Koenma spoke once again, "You, Layana, will be sharing a room with Hiei, seeing as we don't have adequate lodging for you. I trust that HE will keep his hands to himself", he added looking at Kuwabara suspisiously, "And considering Hiei is rarly here, I'm sure he won't mind ...too much".
As you all left the room to go to bed, there was a slight growl from your roommate showing his displeasure for having to share a room with a woman even if he wasn't here much. A little while later, you were in the same room you woke up in sitting on the couch with Hiei sitting on the windowsill looking determinately out of it.
You suddenly had the urge to ask him a question, so you built up the courage and said, "Uumm, Hiei?".
There was, or what seemed to be, a long silence before he answered. "Hn", was all he said.
"I'm sorry to bother you, but may I ask you one question?".
Again a moment passed before he aswered. "Hn", you took it as a yes.
"This might sound stupid but humor me. You and Kurama... are not like me and the others...".
Guessing your question he replied slightly agitated, "That's because were both demons".
You were a little shock at his answer and sat quietly not knowing what to say.
Hiei became impatient and snapped, "You know what a demon is, right!".
Being suddenly very scared of him, you stumbled a little on your response, "Ohh...uumm...yes, of course".
You were surprised that you knew this considering how much you have forgotten about yourself. Hiei went back to looking out the window while you curled up on the couch feeling very tired and soon fell into a thankfully dreamless sleep. Hiei looked over at you after a while of complete silence to see if you were asleep or just being quiet. Seeing that you were asleep he went over to you, picked you up and walked over to his bed laying you down, covering you with a blanket. He stayed for only a minute studying your features. Your long brown hair was elegantly twirled around your face. He had a sudden need to look into your deep green eyes once again. Regaining his composure, he looked away and mentally slapped himself for what he thought. He went back to his windowsill and was soon asleep himself.
I revieved a suggestion from some that my stories were hard to read because they were just one big long paragraph. Agreeing I fixed they so that they are easier to read! Thank you who ever suggested it! Everyone else please message me and tell me what you think so far!