Disclaimer: I do not own the YYH cast but I do own the OC's!
Blaze: But all of my friends know I wish I did own them…. sighs
Lyra: Yeah… Mainly Hiei…
Blaze: I said no such thing!
Lyra: Right… Suuuure ya didn't… whispers: We all know you're lying…
Chapter One
A girl no older then 16 was sitting on the edge of a lake. The winter wind was making her skin feel like ice. Her extremely long maroon hair; if she was standing it would reach the back of her knees. Her piercing grey orbs with specks of crimson stared at the lake with no emotion. Her hand was holding something on a leather string around her neck.
She wore a tight long sleeved black shirt and a black zip up shirt with the sleeves neatly rolled up to above her elbows, tight blue jean pants with one of the pants legs neatly rolled up to her knee and black tennis shoes. There were two belts at her waist. Each was looped into a single belt loop on a side of her waist and made into an 'x'.
If someone looked at her they would think she was crazy to be sitting there in the cold with nothing warm on.
But she wasn't cold. She didn't feel the cold.
That was her curse. She thought her gift as a curse.
She was a kajihenge, a fire apparition. Her mother and father hated her for it. They were human and they thought of her as the devil. All of the kids at school made fun of her because of her hair and her eyes. She was always the laughing stock of the show since she got into school.
The kajihenge was always quiet, always emotionless. She never spoke a word to anyone unless it was if the teacher asked her something, which was extremely rare. The only time teachers did call on her was when other students would volunteer her and try to make fun of her because she was always day dreaming. All of the students thought she wasn't paying attention and they always do.
Her name, Blaze. Her parents gave her that name because when she was born she was the warmest thing in the winter and her optics were crimson red.
As she grew older, the kajihenge's eyes became silver with only specks of crimson.
Her life had always been bad, she knew it was, and she didn't expect it to get better. But then her parents died. She was in class when it happened.
She was taken out of class and the students just watched her. There were four new students then, and they watched after her with worried looks, well all but one who never showed emotion.
The teacher told her that her parents died in a car accident. Blaze only saw that as a light of hope, but she didn't show any emotion.
The teacher was worried about where she would stay and volunteered to let Blaze stay with her, but Blaze simply gave a fake smile and shook her head.
After that day she's been living in a cottage near the lake.
Her birthday was coming up and she had no one to spend it with. The only possible friends she had were the four new guys that went to her school almost a year ago, but they left last month.
They left Blaze feeling alone in the world again. Blaze wasn't depressed, well in most people's eyes she would be. People even accuse her of cutting herself even though her school uniform shows her bare unharmed arms.
The wind grew colder and stronger.
Blaze looked up at the dark clouds in the sky. It's going to snow…
Just as she thought that, snow flakes began to softly fall. The clouds were too dark for just a light snow. There was going to be a snow storm.
Blaze looked back at the lake that would soon freeze over. There's not going to be any school tomorrow.
Blaze stood slowly and dropped her hand from the necklace to reveal a gem. It was a strange gem, a one in a kind gem.
It was on the door step of her cottage the day those guys left. It was an almost pure black gem.
Blaze had walked out of the cottage door that morning ready for school and looked down for some odd reason. She saw small blood red handkerchief with a letter beneath it. She had picked it up and found in the handkerchief the gem. On the white parchment was a short poem.
The Poem read:
I see her crying, her tears break my heart.
I know that sadness in her soul is deep,
But I want to stop those tears.
I don't want to see her crying, nor sad.
How can people be so cruel to a broken soul?
How can people be so cruel to a beautiful woman?
Someday I will stop those tears of hers,
I will make her happy.
That is what I will do.
That is my vow to her,
I will stop her tears and replace it with a smile.
It is not like me to love; it is not like me to feel,
But for her, I will do anything.
I only wish to make her happy.
Blake walked to her little cottage and walked in. She closed the door and went to her small room. She plopped onto her bed and brought the thick black comforter around her body.
Her eyes closed and she lay down on her side, curled up in a little ball beneath the comforter and fell asleep.
The wind rattled the windows. The snow started to pick up; it fell onto the ground in a thick blanket.
The streets of the city were deserted; everyone went home to be warm and safe with their family.
Only not everyone had gone home.
There were four teenagers walking down the middle of the street. They all wore a dark brown or a black cloak with the hood off. There were three males and a female. The two males were twins and they were on the outside. The girls were fraternal twins and they were in between the boys.
The boys had dirty blonde shaggy hair that they wore short, caramel colored skin and enticing dark blue orbs. One of the girls had short hair that was cut at the mid neck and it was a navy blue, and aqua orbs. Her fraternal twin had the same hair cut only her hair was a light blue while her eyes were turquoise.
They walked with a purpose.
Four cloaked figures walked out of an alley and got in their way.
The four teenagers stopped.
Snow fell on all of them.
"Well, it looks like the Spirit Detectives are here to stop us…" The twin on the left said.
"Or they're here to take the girl from us." The girl with the navy hair said with a smile.
One of the cloaked figures chuckled. "You got that damn right. We're not going to let you take her for your own devious plans. She's a friend of ours and we won't let you use her!"
The calm fraternal twin with the light blue hair looked at them calmly. "Use her? Doesn't everyone want to use her? Even the students in her class room use her. They use her for their own entertainment. I don't think you stopped them from hurting her."
"GET OUT OF OUR WAY!" The twins swung their arm and a gust of wind and snow went towards the cloaked figures. The hoods of their cloaks fell off to reveal their faces.
The tallest was an ugly looking guy with red orange hair and brown orange eyes. The next tallest had long bright red hair that spike a little at the ends, a slightly feminine face and piercing emerald green eyes. After the bishi was a guy with dark hair slicked back with so much gel his hair looked green and brown eyes. The shortest guy had black hair that defied all laws of gravity that looked blue and emotionless crimson red eyes.
They all stood their ground.
The bishi talked telepathically with the short one.
"Hiei, you know where she lives, go to her. Protect her incase we don't beat them. If we do beat them, we'll go to Koenma together, but again if we don't and you two beat them, go to Koenma's yourselves, we'll see you two there."
The short guy glanced at the bishi with slight worry but it was gone within a mille-second and he nodded. He ran and was only a blur.
At Blaze's
The kajihenge woke from her slumber with the knowledge of someone approaching her isolated cottage. She stood and went to the door.
She opened it to greet the short male from a few months ago and the blistering cold wind.
He looked at her a little surprised but that was gone quickly, replaced by his emotionless shell.
Blaze moved to the side and he walked in. She closed the door.
"I know why you're here." Her voice was soft and emotionless.
The guy walked to the window sill and sat down. "Then do you wish to go with them or to Koenma's?"
"I'm going to Koenma's." She said as she turned and went to her bed. She sat down and looked at the ground.
"Good, that makes things a whole lot easier."
The cottage fell into silence.
For twenty five minutes Blaze sat there and toyed with the gem.
The guy continued to glance at her and his gaze would always drop onto the gem in between her forefinger and thumb. After he noticed he was staring at it he would look back out the window into the white nothingness.
The kajihenge broke the silence first. "Hiei… that's your name isn't it? Why did you guys leave a few months ago?"
He looked at her to see that she was looking at him with saddened eyes. They stared into each others eyes a little longer and he looked away quickly. He looked at the white nothingness like it was the most interesting thing he saw.
"Hn… It's none of your business." His voice was cold and emotionless.
The girl looked at the ground again, her eyes going blank again. "But I would like to know. You four were… are the only friends I have. I don't have anyone… Never did and I don't think I ever will."
Hiei glanced at her for a moment and his gaze softened just a tiny bit. He looked out the window again. "Our boss, Koenma, he wanted us back. We had a tournament to fight. We won and when we came back, he gave us the mission of getting you. We came here the first time to watch you; there were rumors that got to Koenma. He wanted to make sure that the demon in the rumors wasn't any harm. He was planning on keeping us here for a while since there wasn't much disturbance, but then the tournament happened and we had to leave."
Blaze kept her emotionless gaze on the wood floor. "So you guys only returned because some demon was going to be used for some evil plans?"
Hiei walked over to her and kneeled in front of her. They looked at each other and he smiled at her. "I came back to see you. I was so determined to come back after the tournament. When I heard Koenma say that you were in danger, I didn't know what to do."
Blaze stared at him with no emotion. "Tell me one thing."
He nodded and moved closer to her. "Of course, I'll tell you anything you want to know." His lips were close to hers.
"Do you honestly think I didn't know this whole time that you weren't the real Hiei?" In a swift movement her nails grew into claws and she plunged her hand into his gut and the force was so hard that her hand came out of the other side of the guy.
His orbs changed to dark blue and his whole appearance changed. It was one of the twins. His dark blue orbs were wide and full of pain. Blood seeped out of the corner of his mouth.
In her bloody hand were his intestines. She pulled her hand out quickly and pushed him away.
He fell onto the ground with dazed eyes. "How… did… you… know?" He managed to ask.
She stood and threw his intestines onto his bleeding stomach. "It's a gift… You should know my parents were human. Well my mother was a psychic. I got the gift of seeing from her, probably the only thing I did get from her."
She looked at her bloodied hand and her claws went back to their normal long length. She licked the blood and spit it out at him. "You have foul blood. And you're ruining my floor."
As if on cue he breathed his lat breath and his eyes went dull with death.
The door burst open and the four guys came rushing in.
All four of them looked at her and then her bloody hand at her side and then the twin on the ground in a very large pool of his own blood.
They looked at her again with wide eyes.
The real Hiei stared at her emotionless. His eyes went to the gem around your neck and his eyes went slightly wide. He returned to normal after a moment and stared at the guy now dead.
The bishi stepped forward. "What happened here?"
"She killed him obviously." Gel head replied under his breath.
Blaze looked at the guy and then back at the other four. "He pretended to be Hiei and tried to seduce me. I knew who he was before he got to the door."
They all stared at her as if she said something in a different language.
"He pretended to be the shrimp?" Gel head asked in wonder. He and ugly exchanged a look.
Ugly looked back at Blaze. "Why would he pretend to be the shrimp?"
From their comments they got a punch on the head from Hiei.
Blaze looked out the window into the white nothingness. "I wouldn't know…" She didn't finish her sentence. She didn't want to. But to the two seemingly idiots, it sounded like a finished sentence.
The bishi took her clean hand. She looked into his smiling face. "Don't worry; we're going to go see Koenma."
Blaze took her hand back softly and turned to get a bag that was near the bed. "I know. I knew before I opened the door to let Blondie in." She looked at her hand. The blood was still dripping from her fingers.
Her pupil's slited and her canines grew. She shivered slightly.
"Are you ok?" It was gel head.
The kajihenge forced herself to nod. A pain erupted in her head and grew with every noise. Although the guys weren't making any noise she was aware of the noise of someone breathing. It was a shallow breath and no one would notice this person breathing.
Blaze's eyes went wide as soon as the headache went away. She turned around quickly and glared at the dead Blondie.
"What's wrong with you?" Ugly asked. "He's dead? Why are you glaring at a dead body?"
"Because - -" She was cut off by the body coming to live and lunging at her in the blink of an eye. The force of the lunge was so strong that they flew over the bed and out the wall. The wood made a crack and then a burst as they flew.
Blondie was on top of Blaze with his dark blue eyes full of dead anger.
She struggled to get an arm free but he was strong.
"You won't catch me off guard this time little one."
Blaze glared at him and felt her face go hot. She willed the flame to arise and burn the flesh of Blondie's hands.
He yelped in pain and jumped away. The other guys rushed out and looked at the two of them in confusion.
"What the hell? That guy's intestines are on the floor in the room! He's dead! He has a damn hole in him! What's going on?" It was ugly.
Blaze was up on her feet in the blink of an eye. She felt the top of her head throb and her tail bone start to grow. She gasped and fell to her knees. She put her hands on the ground and clenched her teeth.
"Blaze get up!"
Her ears twitched, but they were the slightly pointed ears a top her head that twitched. The pain in her tail bone ceased. She looked up to see Blondie charging at her. She bared her canines in a growl and jumped into the air. Her left eye had gone pure crimson at this point.
She landed on Blondie's back and he fell to the ground. She jumped away and landed in front of the guys.
They stared at her blankly.
"You… You're…" The bishi started.
Blaze blinked. "A kajihenge neko." She turned and thrust her hand into Blondie's chest. Her hand escaped on the other side and his heart was in her claws. Blood splattered onto the white snow and dyed it. She pulled her hand back out and held his heart with a smirk. "Stop using a dead person's body to attack. Show yourself one day soon…" She said evilly before dropping the heart. The snow around the heart turned red with the blood and Blondie fell backwards onto the snow.
The blood that gushed out spread slowly and was extremely dark in the snow. A cracking voice was heard from the dead body. "You will die… You will die reincarnation of the Flame Goddess." Then all was silent.
Blaze licked the blood off of her hand and smirked evilly. "I want to see someone try to kill me." She blinked and her eyes went back to their normal state.
She tasted the foul blood in her mouth and coughed. She stared at both of her bloodied hands and then at the heart that was in front of her and her feet. Her maroon cat ears flattened against her head. Tears brimmed her eyes.
"I did it again… I killed again…" She said softly.
"Blaze, what are you talking about?" The bishi stepped towards her.
The kajihenge turned around quickly while backing away. Her eyes were emotionless and wide but filled with tears. "Don't… I might kill you as well… Don't come near me… I might…" The tears fell down her cheeks.
Hiei only glared at her while the other three looked at her a little worried.
"Blaze what are you talking about?" The bishi asked as he lightly took her bloody hand.
Her eyes instantly went dazed and the ugly guy smacked the bishi's back. "Way to go Kurama! You made her go all stupid!"
Kurama took his hand away from the dazed girls quickly as if horrified and shocked. At the same time the neko kajihenge's eyes went back to their emotionless self as she backed away even more.
"No… No more family… You'll just end up dead… Stay away from me… Stay away Youko…"
All three guys looked at the bishi. "What is she talking about? There's no way her and Youko are related!" The gel head explained loudly.
The bishi looked at Blaze sympathetically. "Blaze… Why are you so scared of…?"
"I'm not scared!" She yelled. Her claws retracted and her pupil's slited. "I killed them… That morning… We got in a big fight and I wished they were dead. Then the teacher tells me they died… I caused their death! I can cause anyone's death! And it seems that family will die…" She looked at the ground, her shoulders were shaking slightly.
The bishi's hair quickly changed to long silver, he grew taller and his emerald green eyes changed to gold. His clothes were now white garments, a pair of silver fox ears placed on his head and a silver fox tail flicked side to side once in a while.
The silver kitsune walked over to Blaze and wrapped his arms around her.
The small girl tensed. She only reached to about his chest, if that.
"I'm not going to hurt you, and you're not going to kill me. It's ok. I'm here for you Blaze…" His voice was deep but held a deep concern for the broken neko kajihenge.
The other three guys just stared at the silver kitsune in shock.
"He's not… trying to rape her?" Gel head and ugly had wide unbelieving eyes.
Hiei just glared at them. "Why would he rape his own cousin?"
Large sweat drops appeared on their heads.
The neko kajihenge un-tensed and put her arms around her older cousin and buried her face in his lower chest. "They treated me so badly cousin… I was scared… I didn't know if I'd live…"
"You're strong… You get that from me after all."
They pulled away from each other and Blaze forced a smile. "Are you still at your lecherous deeds itoko-san?"
The silver kitsune only shook his head. "If you weren't family I'd be to that job right now… You've really matured…"
Blaze glared at him, her fear and sadness long gone for the moment. "You are such a pervert Youko!"
The kitsune only smirked. "I'm telling the truth. Just ask those two idiots over there and the kajihenge… They'd sure tell you you're sexy."
Blaze only glared at him even more. "Give control back to your other self… Or I might just have to pummel you…"
Youko threw up his hands in defeat. "Fine… I don't want to get you mad…" He put his hands to his side and patted her head, messing her hair up.
Her ears flattened.
The kitsune smirked and changed back. The bishi only smiled at her. "So, I see we're cousins."
Blaze turned. "Yeah… And I want to get out of here…"
"Cold? I can warm you up." It was Kuwabara.
The neko looked over her shoulder and stared at him with no emotion. "I've turned you down how many times?"
"Fifteen times I think…"
"Good and how many of them had death threats?"
"All of them…" He shrank, actually knowing what she was going to say next.
"Right, and if you try to hit on me again, I will tear you limb from limb and cut you into little pieces. You get me?" Her voice was cold and filled with annoyance.
Kuwabara nodded. "Got it!"
The gel head stepped up and put his arm around the neko. "Blaze… You know we're here for you in more ways then one right?"
Blaze glared at him. "You can be there for me in more ways then one with you away from and off of me." Her voice was dripping with threats.
He backed off and had a large sweat drop. "I wasn't implying anything Blaze! Really! I just wanted to let you know we've got your back and lend you a shoulder to cry on!"
"I don't cry…" She knelt down and stuck her hands in the snow. It melted quickly and she quickly washed the blood off, causing the snow and water to turn a rusty and red color. She stood quickly and looked at them with a faux smile. "So, are we leaving anytime soon? I want to get this over with and get some sleep!" She went and picked her bag up from the snowy ground and looked at the cottage.
She summoned a fire ball and threw multiple fireballs at the cottage, setting it aflame in an instant.
One of the idiots were saying something but she didn't hear what they were saying. She blinked and gasped. She knelt down and started searching through her bag.
"You ok Blaze?" Yusuke asked after hearing her gasp.
The neko kajihenge stood quickly with a panicked look on her face. "I forgot something important!" She ran towards the burning cabin before anyone could protest.
"Blaze stop, you'll get hurt! Don't go in there!" They were all yelling at her to stop, even Hiei.
They started to run after her but she jumped into the large hole in the wall that was covered in flames.
It was extremely hot, but she didn't mind the heat. Almost everything was on fire, except for her nightstand. The fire spread quickly and the howl of the ragging fire filled her ears. There were cracking sounds from above and she knew she only had a short time in the burning cottage before she was really in danger.
The neko kajihenge got to the nightstand quickly and opened a drawer. She grabbed a wrought iron box and opened it. The blood red handkerchief and poem were inside. She grabbed them and dropped the box and stood quickly. She saw something pocking out from under the bed and grabbed it quickly.
It was a small flip sketch book. She held the three items to her bosom tightly.
A pillar that held up the roof broke and started to fall.
The roof collapsed and Blaze closed her eyes tightly and stood there.
Out Side
The roof of the cottage caved in.
"BLAZE!" Kurama went to run into the cottage but someone held him back. He turned around angrily to see Yusuke shaking his head sadly.
"No one could've survived that…"
Kurama looked down sadly knowing it was true. Tears formed in his eyes.
The three of them looked at the ground or at the trees trying to force back the tears.
Hiei on the other hand was staring at the burning cottage in hope. I know she's alive. She has to be. She has kajihenge blood in her. She's a neko, she has to be alive!
Time slowly passed and the fire started to die down quickly.
Hiei's hope started to die.
The others turned to Hiei. "Let's go Hiei. Koenma will want to know what happened." Kurama's normally happy emerald green eyes were now dull and filled with sadness.
Hiei nodded and turned to leave.
There was a noise over at the cottage but the others just ignored, thinking it was only some burning debris.
There was a soft thump behind them. "You guys seriously going to leave without me?"
They turned around quickly in shook and saw Blaze kneeling next to her bag. Her face was filthy as were her pants and leg. Her shirt was torn at the top exposing way too much cleavage and her black jacket was torn all over the place. Her pants were torn in many places so that it looked like they were intentional. She was clutching the three items to her bosom tightly.
She smiled wearily. "Thought I was dead did you? Well… sorry to disappoint you but… I'm alive and well. Well other than the fact that I'm tired and hungry… I used too much of my energy to… stay… awake…" She fell to the side unconscious.
All four of the guys rushed to her side(s) at once. They were all surprised that she made out of the destroyed cottage.
"How did she get out of that?" Kuwabara voiced the question on all of their minds.
"I… For once… I don't know…" Kurama hesitated to touch Blaze; scared his touch would break her fragile aura and leave her there dead. He softly touched her forehead. "She's extremely weak… There are a few internal injuries. We should take her to Koenma immediately."
Yusuke took out his communicator.
Within seconds after Yusuke called Botan the Grim Reaper appeared on her oar. She went wide eyed when she saw the near dead girl now in Kurama's arms. "I just lost her a little while ago! She was on her way to Spirit World when she just said sorry and went back to where ever her body was."
They all stared at her and then at Blaze.
"Well give her to me! I'm the one that can get her there more quickly!"
"Can't you just summon a portal?" Kuwabara asked with his eye brow raised.
Botan rolled her eyes and sat on her oar sideways and Kurama put Blaze behind her. The blue haired Grim Reaper put her arm around the near dead neko kajihenge and stuck her tongue out. "I'm taking her straight to the infirmary." She then flew off, both of them becoming transparent and then disappeared all together.
A portal appeared instantly after she disappeared and the four jumped in quickly, Blaze's things in Kurama's hand.
Blaze: I thank you all for reading and please R&R!
My muses this chapter and possibly other chapters: Lyra