Author's Note: uhh…I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. there's my disclaimer. ok then. On with the story then. Oh yah, btw the chapter will be kinda confusing…but when you get the next chapter everything will hopefully be clearer. ok…
A solemn figure walked through the crowded streets of Tokyo and landed up finding itself lost amongst the crowd.
'What the hell did I just get myself into now?' it/he/she thought. The figure laughed softly to itself. The feminine laugh of one heartbroken.
Her name? Kasumi. Okay, that's all you'll know for now. The rest you'll have to figure out unless I tell you or not.
She sighs as she starts to walk again. She bumps into someone with black hair and brown eyes. Black hair. Brown eyes. Black hair. Brown eyes. Her eyes widen as she realizes it was Yusuke, her old friend. He looks back at her, smiles, and says sorry. He walks a few feet away saying, "Goddamnit, I'm late. Keiko's gonna kill me." He suddenly stops, turns to look back at the girl he ran into, and runs back to her.
'No, Yusuke, don't,' Kasumi thinks to herself.
'You deserve it you know. You complain about how lonely you are all the time. You're such a nuisance,' a voice replied in her head. (No, she's not psycho.)
'Shut up, Mizaru.'
Yusuke takes a look at her face and realizes something.
"Umm . . . hi?" she replies.
"'Umm . . . hi?' is all you have to say to me after how many freakin' years?" Yusuke hollers. This obviously causes people to look at them as if they were a couple with many issues. "Oh come here Kasumi!" He immediately flung his arms around her and held her. When he finally lets go, he says, "My, my, my, Kasumi. You have gotten hotter."
O.O "What the hell did you just say?"
"Nothing."
"Don't you have to see Keiko?"
"Oh yeah . . ." he says. He grabs her arm and starts running in the same direction he was walking in. Three minutes later they arrive at a park a couple of miles away from Tokyo.
"Damnit Yusuke, you bastard, let go of me!"
Keiko heard a girl scream this as she was her husband speeding towards her, obviously dragging someone along. "Yusuke, where have you been! And who is she!" she screams while pointing at the girl. She takes an angry glance at her, glances back, and slaps Yusuke. She immediately runs to her and hugs her. "Oh, Kasumi! How long has it been ? 4 or 5 years?" She lets go to look Kasumi over. "Oh my! Your . . . your beautiful!" She hugs her again, only tighter. Kasumi sees Yusuke smiling and waving at her over Keiko's shoulder. She smiles back and replies.
"It's good to see you too."
The three of them sit on the closest bench under a tree.
"Why did you leave?" said Yusuke in a serious tone.
"Umm . . . well . . . you see . . ." she replied.
"Oh, Kasumi, you don't have to," Keiko answers. "Do you mind if we take you with us to where we were going?"
"Umm . . . no . . . I'd like that actually." Kasumi replies as she plays with the blood-red pendant around her neck.
They get up and leave the park and walk to wherever destination Yusuke and Keiko were going to. Yusuke would crack a joke every now and then so that the humor would never really leave their conversation. It was very delightful to Kasumi seeing her friends happy and so in love. She wasn't all that surprised when they told her they were married, but no children yet. They didn't bring up any questions about her past 5 years, fearing that she might become angered and not tell them. She found the walk calming with all the trees. Ten minutes later she realized they had just begun to walk up numerous steps towards a temple. She began to slow her pace and kept staring at the temple up ahead. Yusuke realizes this and slowed his pace as well. He knew that it was hard for her to come back to Genkai's temple. Keiko walked up the steps alongside Kasumi. She brought up the topic of babies, but soon dropped it as she realized Kasumi didn't want to hear about babies, about love, or the other gender. The three of them stayed quiet for minutes until Kasumi finally spoke up.
"Hey Yusuke, I'll race you to the top."
"Okay, hold on. Let me get my beautiful wife to the top first," he said as he picked Keiko up bridal style and sped up the steps to the top. Keiko was laughing so loudly that anyone could practically hear it. Okay maybe not, but you get the picture. Yusuke sped back down the stairs to the next to where Kasumi was standing.
"Okay . . . one . . . two . . . THREE!" Keiko yelled from the top of the stairs. She immediately saw blurs speeding up the stairs, screamed, and got out of the way, but just barely.
"I WIN!" Kasumi yelled as she stepped in front of Yusuke just before he got to the last step.
"Aww crap. I used to kick your ass so hard at this! DAMNIT!"
"I'm never going to do anything like that again!" Keiko screamed at them. She slapped Yusuke and walked into the temple.
"URAMESHI!" yelled Kuwabara as he ran out of the temple.
"Oh great . . . heh . . . joking," replied Yusuke.
Kuwabara ran up to Kasumi, held her hands, and actually stopped himself from saying whatever he was going to say. "Kasumi?" he said as he let go of her hands. She nodded in approval and smiled at him. "Really? B-But you're so . . . hot."
She glared at him. "What the hell is that supposed to mean!"
"I meant that you're hotter than before! Wait . . . yeah, that's what I mean." He picked her up by her waist and hugged her. "We missed you!" He put her back down and smiled at her like she was his little sister.
"Kazuma-kun, what are you—" said a small, calm voice. It was Yukina. "Kasumi-chan!" she yelled happily as she ran to her. "We missed you so much! We looked everywhere we could to find you, but . . ."
"I know. How 'bout we go inside and talk?"
Shizuru was standing next to Keiko, who was holding Puu, in the doorway to see what was going on. "Hey kid," she said as they walked past them and into the temple.
"Hey Shizuru," Kasumi replied. She gave her a reassuring smile and followed them towards the living area. They all took a seat as Yukina went to get tea for everyone. It was a quiet five minutes for them, but not until Kuwabara said that he had to go pee. When Yukina and Kuwabara came back, Kasumi finally spoke up. "Umm . . . so where's everyone else?"
"Oh, they went out to buy some stuff. I mean since they live here and all," Kuwabara replied.
"Umm . . . who exactly are 'they'?"
"Kurama, Naoko, and Izumi went out to buy some stuff. Genkai's been gone for a week and we don't even know the hell why," Shizuru answered.
"Oh, I see."
"Yeah, and you know about Hiei and how he decided to stay in Demon World after that stupid tournament that I didn't get to and that really piss—" Kuwabara was cut off by Yusuke. Yusuke nudged him hard in the ribs sharply with his left elbow. "Oww! Geez, Yusuke! What the hell was that for!"
"Oh will you just shut up?" Keiko yelled at the top of her lungs. She turned to Kasumi, "You probably know that we've been trying not to say anything about –"
"About carrots, and you see, the thing is, with carrots . . ." continued Yusuke. He glanced at now very furious Keiko.
"Umm . . . Kasumi-chan?" Yukina said questioningly. Shizuru tried to calm down the now quarreling threesome.
"Yeah Yukina? Oh, and by the way, Kasumi's just fine. You remember how I used to tell you that all the time, right?"
"Actually, I was going to ask if it were a proper time to call you 'sister' again." At once, the bickering stopped. "Umm . . . maybe Kasumi is just fine."
"I would prefer that. Thanks for asking, Yukina." She began to play with the zipper on her jacket.
"We're back!" someone yelled from the entrance as it was being shut. A girl with black hair that covered her entire back quickly walked into the room. Izumi, whose light blue were gone from her hair that was now longer than it had been before, noticed the new guest. Kurama and Naoko were laughing while walking into the room and quickly noticed the silence. They too turned their eyes towards Kasumi. Izumi spoke up, "Hi, I'm Izumi."
"Hi."
"What's your name?"
"Umm . . . I think I'll go now," Kasumi replied rapidly as she got up and ran past Naoko and Kurama, who now had his arm around Naoko.
"Wait, Kasumi!" Yusuke yelled as he got up and ran after her.
Kasumi? Is that what he just said?
"Kasumi? That was Kasumi!" yelled Naoko as she dropped the bags she was holding. Shizuru, Kuwabara, Keiko, and Yukina slowly nodded their heads as if it were the most obvious answer in history. Izumi smacked herself in the head and instantly cursed herself for being so stupid. Outside, they couldn't hear anything of Yusuke and Kasumi's conversation, so they went out towards the entrance to see what was going on. They unfortunately couldn't hear nor see any trace of them.
"Kasumi! What are you doing! After five freakin' years, you'd better have a good reason for trying to ditch us again," Yusuke hollered as he grabbed her by the shoulders.
"I don't know, okay! After they died, I just couldn't go back. I went to college, got my damn Masters' degree, went places, you know? All because I didn't want to remember anymore! And then Mizaru had to go and kill her and I just couldn't. As much as I wanted to, I couldn't," she replied, ending in a cold tone. "And then you find me, and then Keiko, and everything else. I wanted to stay but then I realized that he would eventually come."
Yusuke sighed and looked at her with a half-understanding, half-confused look on his face. "He is here." Her head shot up when he said this. "And I don't know how Mizaru did it, but he's here. He's here and you know why, don't you?" Her head bent back down as she slowly nodded. "We'll protect you in the end, you know that. I know it's hard for you to even remember him, but please, stay here. This is your home, it always had been, and it always will be. Hell, you can kill him for all I care. Okay, maybe not, but he said he got a lead and left to check it out, so might not be back for a while."
It was nightfall by the time they got back and found everyone eating dinner. At once, Yusuke stormed over to the table and complained about then starting dinner without him. After dinner, they all went to the living area and talked for hours. This was partially because they wanted to get Kasumi up-to-par on things that were going on. Kurama and Naoko were engaged three years, Izumi got rid of her streaks because she was depressed about Kasumi leaving, Kuwabara just finished college and was currently looking for a job, Shizuru was just fine, and Puu was just being Puu. Yukina couldn't help but latch onto Kasumi because she was like her big sister. Kasumi told them of how she had been doing the past five years, along with what she had been doing then entire time. Kurama began to play with Naoko's black hair that still had the green streaks, but only because she had played with his hair. The sight of the couple in love brought a smile to her face, but then her thoughts would always go back to him.
"Okay," Yusuke said with a yawn. "I say we go to sleep. It's been a long day, literally." Everyone agreed and went to their rooms. Kurama led Kasumi to her room because he thought she might have forgotten, but she didn't. He opened her door and turned on the light for her (always the gentleman, kurama is! ). After their eyes got adjusted to the light, Kurama couldn't believe his eyes. All her stuff was already there as if she had never left, and her degrees neatly hung on the wall.
"Oh, I should have told you. Last week I brought me stuff over while no one was around. Heh . . . talk about great timing," she replied with a smile.
"Good timing's right," he answered back. "Well, good night."
"Good night, Kurama."
After he shut the door, Kasumi got changed and now laid in bed. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't go back to sleep. She looked at her clock and noticed how long she had been awake. The clock read 2:17. Three and a half hours ago was when she should have gone to sleep. She got up and decided to get a glass of water, so she walked out of her room and towards the kitchen as quietly as possible. It felt strange to be there again. She turned on the light and squinted as her eyes slowly got used to the bright light. She grabbed a pitcher from the refrigerator, placed it on the countertop, and proceeded to get a glass. Her palms were starting to get sweaty, but she ignored it. After getting a glass, she poured water into it and placed the pitcher back in the refrigerator. She drank some of the water as she walked to turn the light off and go to her bedroom. The glass slipped from her hands and broke, spilling water all over the floor.
"Shit," she said as she bent down to pick up the broken glass. She was hoping that no one heard that and just stayed asleep.
"Clumsy baka," said a voice from behind her as she got up and turned. It was him. That 'him' was Hiei. His expression was that of shock when he saw who she was. She stared back at him, he mouth slightly open, wanting to say something. She slowly began to grip the shards and not realize that her hand was soon bleeding. He turned his gaze toward her bleeding hand. She followed his lead, and immediately threw the shards on the floor right next to he drops of blood.
"Fuck," she muttered as she went to the sink and began to wash her hand off. Hiei bent down to pick up the blood-stained shards and threw them away. 'Damnit,' she though to herself as she continued to wash her hand. 'Why is he here now of all times!' she began wrapping paper towels around her hand and turned only to find Hiei wiping the floor clean from her mess. He got up, threw away the napkins, and faced her.
"Why are you here?" he asked her monotonously.
Yeah…ok. That was the first chapter. I know it might have been confusing, but it'll all be explained in the next chapter. Yea…ok…uhh…that's all. oOo! Review and tell me how it was! It sucks, doesn't it? -tear- yah ok. I'll update soon!