Barking Inuyasha: Hi everyone! This is a story that I, with some co-authoring from Raging Psyco, have come up with. I own all the characters, except for the ones Raging Psyco or Sasukeheartlover have made up, and the teachers; because they're anime characters from existing shows. Why do I have pre-existing anime characters as teachers in my story? Because I wanted to post it on to see if it was any good, so it's a crossover fic.

Disclaimer: I own everyone in the first chapter. YAY ME!

Normal POV

Ch.1 Sunday Morning, October 23, 2005: A Normal Morning at the Ryu Masion

A scream echoed through the large mansion at about 7 A.M. It was a female scream, loud and sharp, full of fear. Two young men shot simaltaneously out of their beds, each in separate parts of the house, both on the third floor. They ran out of their rooms, and up separate staircases. Once up the stairs, they were each running staight for the middle of a hall, heading for the door at the exact middle of the hallway. They were running at full speed, and...BAM! They ran into each other head first.

They were lying spralled on the floor. One had purpley-red hair with very visible purple highlights and dark blue eyes that looked like they were pained, not just by the force of his run-in with the other boy. He was handsome, but now his face looked very angry, he was dressed only in a pair of really baggy, black pajama pants. The other boy had reddish-blond hair with red highlights. He was handsome, too, except his eyes were closed in pain. He was dressed in a pair of teal colored shorts and a red t-shirt with a big orange s-shaped thing on it.

"Danmmit..." the purpley-redhead growled softly, rubbing his head.

The other boy sat up opening his silvery sky blue eyes. "Now , now Haru-kun. Watch your language." the blond said in a mock-stern voice, shaking a finger in the other boy's, Haru's, face.

Haru gave the blond an evil look as he got up. "Shut up, Botan." he growled menacingly, yanking the blond, Botan, up by the collar of his loose t-shirt off the floor. "What're you doing here anyway?"

"Because I heard Beauty-chan scream. A man can't just stand idily by while a beautiful girl is screaming in fear or pain." he replied dramatically.

Haru looked at Botan for a moment, thinking of how many ways he could kill him for thinking that way about his younger sister. "You're such a perv." Haru punched Botan in the head, just hard enough to sting for a while, then opened the door and ran in, right after dropping Botan to the floor.

"Ow!"" Botan yelped in protest, then followed Haru in.

Yumi's POV

I had that dream again. I hate this! My remaining family all think that I'm a nut job! My older brother and older cousin just came into my room. They looked really worried. Maybe it's because I'm shaking like crazy. Botan, my older cousin, ran up and hugged my head hard into his chest.

"It's alright, Beauty-chan. Everything's fine. No need to fear." he cooed, stroking the back of my head like a really weird Grandmother or something. Ugh... this is why I don't think that he's gonna live past the age of nineteen, I want to kill him! He's talking to me as if I'm a baby and invading my pesronal space bubble. And, to make matters worse he called me Beauty-chan! He's been watching to much Bo-Bobo (A/N: that show's really stupid. But I can't help but watch it.). I'm gonna hit him so hard...

"Get off, you weird-o Grandma!" my voice was muffled. Botan didn't catch it, but Haru did. He grabbed Botan by the back of the shirt and pulled him off of me.

"Get. Out." Haru said through gritted teeth, right before tossing Botan out the door. I heard an 'ow!' come from outside. I laughed a little at that. Botan is such a dork. While I was thinking about how much of an idiot my cousin was, Haru had made his way through my messy room. Did I mention that my room was messy? It's really bad, you can hardly see my floor! But, that's beside the point. Haru made his way through my room and sat down on the edge of my bed, and looked at me with a worrid expression. Wow! The Prince of Depression was actually showing an emotion beside sorrow and anger! I'm amazed!

"Yumi, did you have that dream again?" Haru asked quietly. I got up and crawled over to sit next to him.

"Yeah..." I answered, sitting down beside him and hugging my knees to my chest. I've been having this dream for about two months now. I don't want to talk about the details now.

"You've been having this dream on and off for the past couple months! Ever since-"

"Stop! Don't talk about that!" I interupted him angrily. I really don't want to think about that. It makes me think about the dream all over again, and I just want to forget about both of those things right now.

"But Yumi! You have to talk about it! Maybe you should..."

"Don't go there!" I interupted him, but he ignored me and continued on.

"Have some..."

"Shut up , Haru!" I was getting ready to hit him, but he still continuned.

"Therapy!"

I shot up from my bed and stood in front of my brother defiantly, extremly angry. "I am not going to therapy! It's for crazy people! ... and Botan!"

"I'm still here you know, I can hear every word you are saying!" Botan yelled from outside the door. We ignored him.

"Well at least he got help! You can't keep hurting yourself like this!" Haru yelled, standing up and looming over me. I'm only about five foot one, and he's, like six foot four, so yeah, it's looming.

"I don't want to talk to someone who would ask me stuff about my life that's none of their bisness. I'll tell you when I'm good and ready!" I was already yelling. This how all our arguements turn out. It starts out calm, and one of us gets the other pissed off, and then we're all yelling. One biiiiiiig happy family.

"Well get ready faster, dammit! We don't like seeing you like this." he quited down after he said the last bit. He put his hands on my shoulders. "Sis..." he looked like he was about cry. "You have to tell me. If you don't then I can't make it any better."

My eyes softened as my heart broke in two. I put a hand on one of his and looked up at him. "Haru.. I just... can't yet. It's not your fault so don't blame yourself. Okay?" I took his hands off my shoulders and stepped back. "Now why don't you leave so I could get dressed."

Haru smiled a little, so small in fact that I could hardly see it. "Fine. You got off easy this time."

"Yeah, yeah. Now get out out of my room!" I pushed him to the door.

"Okay, okay! I know the way!" I stopped pushing him and went to my drawer to pick what I was going to wear. I heard the door open and shut, and Haru was gone. I sighed with relief. I thought that he would try to make me spill it this time.

I looked through my clothes and decided on an over-sized black shirt with a smiley face and 'I'm no longer a danger to society' on it and some baggy, dark blue jeans.

After I got dressed, went over to the full-length mirror and looked at myself. I put my reddish-purple hair into my normal behind-the-ears pigtails and put all my earrings in. In my right ear has one in the lobe (normal spot) and my left one had one there, too, but it also had two small hoop earrings in the cartilage (top part). I have bright purple eyes. People have mistaken me for a demon in disgiuse, because puprle is not a normal eye color, also for my violent tendencies but that's beside the point. Oh well... you can leave now, too.. I want to be alone right now. Go talk to Botan or something.

Botan's pov

Hello! I'm Botan! But you probably already knew that! But oh well, I'm Botan! Right now I'm walking down the stairs so I can get to the second floor. That's where the kitchen is. I like the kitchen. I cook everyone breakfast all the time. Well, mostly all the time. I like cooking. It's fun!

Why am I cooking all by myself? Well, that's a sad, but unavoidable fact. My parents are on longer with us. And I mean dead, not on vacation for life or something. They were murdered about two months ago, along with Haru and Yumi's parents, my dear aunt and uncle.

I bet you're wondering why they were murdered. We don't know. The only person who might have a clue is Yumi-chan, but she's not talking. Why would she know? Because she was there to see her parents get murdered, as well as her younger brother, Tomi. So Haru is the sole male left in the respectable Ryu line, who can inherit the eldest son's birthright. Which I'm keeping a secret for now. Why? (A/N: He likes asking questinons, don't he?) Well, I'm the evil younger cousin, so why not? And yes, Haru is older than me by one month, and one month only. We're related because our dads were twin brothers. Haru's dad was older.

Can you guess our little secret yet? No? Well, keep trying. You'll get it eventually. Eventually.

But I'm getting off subject. Or topic. Or whatever you want to call it. Yumi refuses to talk about what she saw. She won't even say if the murderer was a male or female. Or if there was more than one. So Haru has been trying to get her to talk about it in therapy, which convinced her that we all think she's crazy. By the way, we didn't live here when it happened. We were living in different parts of the kingdom before the murders happened. This is our childhood home. It's traditional for all the Ryus to live together in this mansion when there are new children in the family. That way we already know each other pretty well, and can form a strong family-friend bond early on.

But now I'm in the kitchen. Yay kitchen! But boy are my legs tired! Maybe we should get an elevator... Oh yeah, we already have one. But now, it's cooking ti-

"Onii-kun?" (A/N: Onii-kun means big brother) Kane's soft voice questioned form the room next to the kitchen, the third living room. Kane is my little sister. She's so cute, in her cute little teddy-bear pajamas, with her cute little bear tucked under her arm, and her cute little pigtails. sticking out sideways from her cute little head. (A/N: Botan likes to say cute) Kane has blondish-red hair, the exact opposite of mine, with blond highlights. Her silverey-dark blue eyes peered at me, with a nervous and anxious glint in them.

"Good morning, Kane-chan!" I said cheerfully, walking over and giving her a big hug, hoping to dispell the nervous anxiety in her eyes. "Where's Kari-chan?"

"She's still sleeping." Kane replied quietly. "What happened? Yumi-chan's screaming woke me up."

"Nothing top worry about, sweetheart, she just had that bad dream again." I replied quietly, stroking my little sister's hair softly.

"O.K." Kane said quietly. We sat like that in silence for a minute or two, then I couldn't take the gloom anymore, and lept up, with a cheerful, "Whaddaya want for breakfast, Kane-chan?"

"I want pancakes! A lotta lotta pancakes!" she replied, sounding more like her usual self. After all, she's eight years old, she shouldn't worry about those kinds of things just yet.

"Alright then, I'll make a BIIIIIG breakfast, with pancakes and eggs and bacon and sausages and cinnamon buns and donuts and milk and juice and omlettes, with a special fish omlette for Kari-chan." I laughed, thinking of my special secret surprise of the day. Not even Kane knew what it was, and I'm certanly mot gonna tell you. After all, a surprise is a surprise.

"Wow, Onii-kun, that's alot of food!" said Kane, laughing too, giving me a little nudge in the ribs.

"Yeah, and if all those lazy-butts don't come down here soon, we'll have to eat it all by ourselves." I replied, nudging her in the ribs and sending her a few winks.

"Even Kari-chan's fish-"

"FISH!" Well, well, speak of the devil. Or should I say, kitten.

Normal POV

An average ten year old girl streaked into the kitchen, leaping onto Botan's back. She clung there happily, repeating "Fishy fishy fish-y" in a cheerful, singsong-y voice. At least, she looked mostly like an average ten year old girl. She had short, purple hair, about chin length, but that was the least unusual feature. She had a pair of red-purple ears perched on her head, and a fluffy, red-purple cat tail poking out of her fish-patterned pajama bottoms. She also had two red-purple stripes curving along each cheek, and three coming from her chin up to her mouth.

"Well, well, look at what the cat dragged in." said Botan, pleased with his own joke. After all, Kari is a full cat demon. The Ryu family had taken her under their wing, once they found her rooting through their garbage one night, desparate for food. Her mother had disappeared a few weeks before hand, no doubt lynched by a group of demon haters. Kari had waited as long as she could in the house for her mother to come back, until hunger and thirst drove her outside to scrounge for food. But she was safe and sound in the Ryu mansion. They didn't care what kind of blood flowed through her veins or what she looked like. She was happy there. (A/N: Raging Psyco: I love Kari! But she's got such a sad story...)

Botan took Kari off his back and set her gently down on the ground. "Kari, I gotta make the fish omlette first." He gently nudged both girls into the dining room, on the opposite side of the kitchen than the third living room. (A/N: Yes folks, it's a BIG mansion. Hence the term MANSION.) "You girls play while I prepare our breakfast feast."

"O.K!" cried Kane, who then grabbed Kari by the hand and dragged her into the dining room. Kari was still happily singing "Fishy fishy fish-y" to herself, and let herself be pulled along. Botan then dove into the task of cooking the massive breakfast he had all planned out.

Some time later, Haru walked into the kitchen in all his wet and shirtless glory (A/N: SARCASM! Although all the Haru-chasers at the highschool would kill to see him like this), looking as gloomy as ever. (apparantly after that morning's incident, he took a shower, put on some pants, and went down to the second floor kitchen)

"Well aren't you just a bright ball of sunshine this morning!" Botan said in a cheerful 8mm voice. (A/N: Raging Psyco: The eight milimeter part got typed up when I threw Barking Inuyasha's rat on the keyboard, and it sounds cool, so we'll keep it. I'll put the rest of what the rat typed at the end of the chapter :-) )

"Well aren't YOU the most annoying person in the world!" mocked Haru, messing up his face in a ridiculous impersonation of Botan himself. Then he noticed all the food Botan was cooking and had already cooked. "Why the fugg are you cooking so much food?"

"'Fugg'? What the hairball do you mean 'fugg' in your thin-guy-ma-doober?" (A/N: Raging Psyco: I made this up on the spot, based on my favorite sayings 'Thing-a-ma-doob' and 'Thing-a-ma-boob' and other variations of the saying)

"What the fugg do you mean '"Fugg"? What the hairball do you mean "fugg" in you whatever-the fugg you just said?'" Haru then leaned closer to talk to Botan in 'his' language. Evilly he hissed in Botan's ear, "I'm trying to keep young ears innocent. Those kids are in the other room, so hell no, I'm not gonna fuckin' say fuck where they can hear it and ask their teachers about it later. Or anyone for that matter." Haru then raised his voice again. "And what do you mean by 'hairball'? What are you, a dumba- aaahh uuuhhhh... donkey..." Haru nearly swore when ' innocent ears ' could hear hear him, so his voise trailed dumbly off, leaving him with a slacked jaw, peering into the room with the ' innocent ears ' to . Botan laughed silently, but histerically, rolling on the kitchen floor, holding his sides in an attempt to control his laughter. It was all he could do to keep tears of laughter from running down his face. Haru immediately kicked him in the gut to shut him up, then walked off to sulk in his brooding silence at the dining room table.

Botan continued to cook more breakfast, once he had fully recovered from that kick and was able to stand again, checking the clock frequently. Just as he finished the last bit of food at ten o'clock exactly, the doorbell rang. Through some miracle, Botan had kept all the food at just the right temperature when he wasn't cooking it. When Haru heard the doorbell, he just sighed, covered his ears, and groaned "Here we go again."

As the doorbell rang, Yumi thundered down the stairs, making Kari temporarily think the house was falling down, and Kane thought Yumi was falling down all three floors, as well as all the stuff in her room, including her bed and dresser. Kari began shreiking "HOLY FISH!" and dove for cover under the table, Kane screaming "CALL AN AMBULANCE! HELP YUMI-CHAN!", while Yumi was yelling "I'LL GET IT! I'LL GET IT!" at the top of her lungs over and over as she stampeded down to the front door in her clothes, sliding to a stop just before crashing into the door.

"No matter how many times you do that, Beauty-chan, I'll never get used to it." Botan yelled from the kitchen, trying to preserve his remaining dignity as he stepped down from the counter, where he had leaped up in fear, armed with a ladle and a pot helmet. Once he noticed everyone was staring at him, he yelled, "Beauty-chan knocked them down on me when she ran down the stairs! I swear!"

"Uh-huh," replied Haru sarcastically, turning away from his cousin, with a sarcastic roll of the eyes. Yumi simply crossed her arms and cocked and eyebrow at her kinda pathetic older cousin. The younger girls had already forgotten about the morning crisis, and were sitting at the table. loudly chanting "FOOD FOOD FOOD" so everyone would hurry up and serve breakfast already. Then the doorbell rang again, drawing everyone's attention back to the original task at hand. Botan began to serve breakfast, but said you couldn't eat it yet, to the dismay of Kari and Kane.

Yumi opened the door and...

(A/N: Raging Psyco: CHOCOLATE AND LOLIPOPS!)

"Package for a Mr. Ryu Botan?" asked the postman nervously, looking around like an earthquake was about to occur. Well, he probnably thought one had. After all, Yumi's pretty dang noisy on those stairs. Botan politely signed for the packages and set them down in the third living room, even though he looked slightly disappionted at who was at the door. But before anyone had the chance to ask what was in the mysterious packages, the doorbell rang again. Botan brightened up and began serving the food happily again (A/N: He's a horrible actor) as Yuim opened the door again when suddenly...

IN LEPT THE FLYING DEATH NINJAS OF PLANET ZAGLUTHOBONUES! (A/N: Raging Psyco: JUST KIDDING!)

Na, just kidding with ya, this is the end of chapter one. And forget the whole death ninjas thing. That doesn't really happen. Well, I guess you'll have to wait until next chapter to find out who's REALLY at the door, what's in the packages, why we said Botan is such a bad actor, and pizzas for reviewers! Also, in your review, try and guess the secret Botan mentions earlier in his POV. Until next time!

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END OF CHAPTER ONE.