A spell on my heart
a/n- THANK YOU ALL FOR REVIEWING! sorry for the long update! I had a little bit of a writers block. Please review!
She had to look. Curiosity was nagging at her to do so. It had been seconds since the ball had only been a few centimeters from her face… something had to have interfered. But what? She had to know.
Keiko cautiously opened her eyes, just in case her calculations had been incorrect. What she saw shocked her.
She opened her eyes as far as the lids would allow to make certain that she wasn't hallucinating. She wasn't. there was no way she could have been. But how could something like this happen? It was against all logic, all science, any reasonable person would have just thought that they had imagined it. Keiko however, had seen her best friend shot energy out of his index finger, so she had reason to believe that she wasn't imagining. Although, she could just be dreaming… maybe she did get hit and was dreaming… Yet…
Something told her that the ball that had stopped right in it's tracks and was currently spinning in circles wasn't just a dream.
"KIEKO!" someone yelling her name snapped her back into reality. She turned her head to the source of the voice and found it was the boy who hit the ball, tagging a small distance behind him, was the boy who threw it to him. Quickly, Keiko looked back at the ball that was still in the air just in time to see it make a 90 degree drop. She hastily picked up the ball and clutched it tightly in her hand.
"Are you okay?" the boy who had been bating asked.
"Y-yeah!" she stuttered excitedly.
"Are you sure? You look a little- shook up." The pitcher questioned.
"Of coarse!" she answered with a smile, a little more calm.
"Well, if you're sure…" The batter said as he and his comrade turned around.
"We'll get back to practicing. Sorry about that!" He yelled as they ran back to the empty lot.
"No problem!" She shouted after them. Once they were out of range she looked at the ball and whispered to herself,
"What the heck was that?"
"Keiko dear! I'm going to the store, do you need anything?" Mrs. Yukimora called from the kitchen.
"Yeah, I need some more stationary! Get the kind with the flowers on it!" she yelled back.
"Okay than, well if they don't have it I'll find you something else that is nice."
"Thanks! That would be great!"
"You're father's in the shop working if you need him."
"Okay mom!" Keiko yelled, starting to get frustrated. How long did it take to say goodbye? She had work to do for crying out loud!
"Oh, and by the way; you got a letter here! Well, I'll be off now, be good!" Keiko heard the click of the door meaning that her mother had finally left.
Wait, a letter? Could it be from Yusuke?! He had been gone for a couple of days, maybe he wrote to her from where ever he was. It wouldn't have been the first time, he had written her a few letters in the past after all…
she wasted no more time contemplating. She sped down the stairs and into the kitchen. Digging through the pile of letters on the counter.
Bill, bill, bill, bill, to Keiko Yukimora, letter from gran-, wait. She quickly reached back to the last letter. It had a return address. "Hogwarts" it said. The possibilities of Yusuke writing this letter dwindled. But, he still could have written it! Hope returned to the situation and she ripped open the envelope and quickly began to read it.
"WHOOHOO! One more mark for the good guys!"
"Geese Kuwabara, your enthusiasm is overwhelming…" Yusuke said sarcastically.
"Aw come on guys! It was all worth it, wasn't it?!"
"No. Nothing happened. We just went half way across the country!" Yusuke yelled in frustration.
"We did stop a potential demon though. Miro could have been a formidable foe." Kurama tried to reason.
"Could have yes. But was he? No. This whole thing was a waste of my time." Hiei complained.
"On the bright side, we found out that Yusuke has a secret admirer!" Kuwabara teased.
"Who? The crazy lunatic who lead us halfway across the country?" Hiei scoffed.
"Yeah, her." Kuwabara answered, no longer amused by the fact that the girl had the absolute giggles about his best friend.
"…"
"What about her?" Yusuke asked again, apparently, he hadn't been paying attention to the earlier comment.
"Nothing." Kuwabara said a little distraught at the lack of attention that Yusuke had.
"Wasn't her name Nuta?" Kurama asked
"Who cares?" Yusuke groaned.
"No one, I was just wonder-"
"CAN WE PLEASE DROP THE SUBJECT?!" The detective screamed.
"…"
"… It was Nuta, right?" The fox asked yet again.
"ARGH!" Yusuke screamed as he threw his head back and started to pull as his jet back hair. He shortly after went into a fast sprint.
"Hey Yusuke! Where are you going?" Kuwabara asked.
"Keiko's" He said simply.
"Hey! She was taking notes for me! I'll come too!" Kuwabara yelled after him.
"We should just all go." Kurama pointed out.
"Fine, just hurry up!" Yusuke yelled in the front of the group.
Yusuke, being the person who he was, didn't even bother to knock before barging into Keiko's house. She was just sitting there, reading a letter.
"Keiko?" He said questionably.
"Oh! Yusuke!" She said sounding generally surprised. Her eyes looked shocked, like a doe's caught in a cars headlights. She didn't say anything else. She just sat there. It wasn't like her. Usually she would run up and hugged Yusuke and/or slapped him, just adding to their love/hate relationship. But she just sat there. Wide eyed and clutching the letter in her hand.
"What's that?" Yusuke motioned to the letter.
"Oh. Just some prank." Keiko shrugged as she tossed it to the side. Her expression changed to quickly, Yusuke noticed. It went to worried and shocked to careless and annoyed.
"Oh really?" he rose an eyebrow.
"What about?"
"Aw, it's nothing! Really, just something by someplace called 'Hogwarts'. That's all."
"Hogwarts, I've heard of that name somewhere…" Kurama's voice came into the room as his body peaked out from the door frame, closely followed were the other two friends.
"Maybe you should ask that fool of a leader." Hiei suggested.
"Asking Koenma most likely would help." Kurama agreed.
"No! It' fine, really. Tell me about your mission." Keiko said eagerly.
All the boys had a clear image of what would happen if Keiko found out about that Nuta girl. And it wasn't pretty.
"Really, lets go to Koenma!" Yusuke urged.
"Well… if you're all sure…" Keiko said, still questioning the plan.
"We're sure!" all of them shouted except for Hiei. He actually thought it was quite amusing when the girl knocked down the almighty detective…
A/n- ok. It's kinda late. I need sleep. I'll update as soon as I can. In the next chapter, the group visits Koenma, along with a lot of other good stuff so be sure to R&R!