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Chapter Three: Meeting the Team
Ten years later
Faith sat on the couch, watching Wolf's Rain. Ayamae sat in her room, trying to do her English essay, but found more interest in making fireballs in her hand and extinguishing them, then repeating the process.
A knock on the door interrupted Faith's drooling over Kiba.
"Go away!!!" she yelled.
Another knock came.
"We don't want anything! If that's not why you're here, come back in 20 min.!"
Another knock, more persistent this time, sent Faith over the edge.
"That's it!! You won't leave a girl alone to watch her show then I'll just have to teach you a lesson!"
She opened the door to reveal two boys. One was taller, with long red hair. The other had short, black hair that was gelled back.
"Ayamae!" Faith yelled into the house, "There's a demon and a half at the door!"
"A half?" Ayamae questioned.
"Yep."
"Do I need to change?"
"Maybe… let me check." Faith looked the guys over from head to toe. "Yeah."
Ayamae walked into the living room, turning off the TV as she did. Her hair was bright red with black streaks and her eyes were a fiery red. She wore red eye shadow that matched the red glitter that highlighted her cheekbones. She also had on black eye liner that went well with the black glitter on her lips. Her outfit consisted of black fighting pants and a black shirt with red writing that read: 'Don't hate me because I'm Pyra…' On the back it read: 'Fear me!' "What do you want?"
"You two!" the black haired one said rather impatiently.
"Excuse me!?!" Ayamae and Faith said in unison.
"What he means is we need you to come with us to see someone," the red-head clarified.
"First of all, who are you?" Faith asked, turning serious.
"Oh, sorry, I'm Kurama," said the red-head, "and that's Yusuke."
"Thank you. Second, I'm not leaving until I know who we're going to see," Faith said.
Yusuke and Kurama looked at each other as if they didn't know whether to tell them or not. Finally, Kurama answered her question, "Lord Koenma, Ruler of the Spirit World."
"Koenma? Haven't talked to him in a while." Ayamae said, mostly to herself.
"You know that toddler?" Yusuke chimed in, now more curious.
"We're on what you would call Spirit World probation," Faith said with a small sigh, "Don't ask."
"So Faith, do you trust them?" (For those who can't guess that was Ayamae speaking.)
"Yusuke, I'm still iffy on but Kurama's a kitsune. Of course I trust him."
"How did you know," Kurama asked.
"I might tell you… later."
"Whatever. Let me get my stuff," Ayamae said as she left the room. A minute later she returned, sheathing her katana and then tossing Faith's to her.
"Wonder what Hiei will say," mused Yusuke aloud.
"Or what he won't," Kurama replied.
As they walked out the door, Ayamae was surrounded by an inferno. "Sorry," she said seeing the look on Yusuke's face, "I had to change to my human form."
-At Koenma's office-
They walked into a white room where the only furniture was a desk with a swivel chair behind it, which was occupied by Koenma, and six chairs. They also saw three other people, besides Koenma, in the room. One of them Faith knew.
"Hey, Kuwabara what's up?" Faith asked strolling up to the tall orange-haired one.
They did a handshake in greeting.
"Nothing but the ceiling, baby," Kuwabara answered.
"How do you know him?" Yusuke asked.
"Street fight," Ayamae said with a sigh.
"Street fight," Faith answered proudly as she ignored her friend's tone and sigh.
"Hn… I'd expect it from that baka but from you…" the black-haired one with the white bandana said, trailing off.
"You obviously don't know her very well," Ayamae said, turning to him. "…Yours isn't real…"
"What?" the boy asked.
"Your Jagan eye… it's not natural…"
"How do you…?"
"Mine is natural. That little fact makes it so I can sense the authenticity of others' as well… including yours, Hiei Jaganshi," Ayamae replied mysteriously.
Hiei stared openly at Ayamae, his mouth slightly agape.
Faith watched this banter and found it amusing, especially the fact that Hiei remained quiet after all Ayamae's assaults.
"I tend to know more than you think, fire apparition," Ayamae commented.
All of a sudden, they heard someone clearing their throat. They turned to where the interruption had come from and saw Koenma sitting rather impatiently.
"Hey Koenma! Long time no see!" Faith exclaimed. "So, why did you want to see us?"
"I want you to join Team Urameshi," he said simply.
Faith's jaw dropped and Ayamae just glared at him. Faith, a couple seconds later, regained her composure and shut her mouth.
"Does this mean we're off probation?" Faith asked seeing that Ayamae wasn't going to.
"If you join the team, yes."
"Well, I'm in," Faith said rather reluctantly and then turned to her best friend, "What about you Aya?"
Ayamae just continued to glare at Koenma then left the room.
"Great," Faith said enthusiastically, "She's in!"
"How could you tell?" Yusuke asked.
"I've lived with her for 15 years. I speak and understand fluent Ayamae."
"Well then," Koenma said, "You guys get the rest of the day off but have an assignment. You have to get to know Faith and Ayamae."
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