Legacy

Chapter three: Of meetings requests and newbies

Summary: Twenty-five years after the Three Kings arch, the position went world wide as demons spread farther. Now there's multiple Sprit Detectives in different countries. One of these Detectives is Akane Urameshi. She has to balance her school life, her Detective life, her personal life, and her growing love life, all with a new threat on the horizon. And when Yusuke Urameshi, a man she calls "father", gets involve with the Detectives again, her life is about to come crashing down.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho. If I did, more then likely there would be a bit of Yaoi in there (Not much. Probably just Hiei and Kurama getting together.)

Akane brushed her hair out of her eyes as she stared at the Ferry Girl that hovered in front of her.

"Koenma wants me to go to the Reikai? Has his brain gone screwy? To much of that pacifier, I say." The Ferry Girl opened her mouth. "Tell him I said 'no'. I'm missing to much school, and my dad is threatening my nights out. If I don't have nights out, then I can do the work he forces on to me. And I just got off punishment, so he had a close eye on me, so I can't go after school."

"Very well," The Ferry Girl, one that normally relayed information to Akane. "You'll be missing out on the giant meeting. All of the Detectives are gonna be there."

Akane frowned at her. "Why are they all coming, Sen?"

"Well, there's a giant new case that you, Komaru, and the newbie can't handle him all by yourself. The guy is insanely powerful, so their calling you guys in from all over the world. I hear the old Detective, the one before we went Global, is coming to help, too."

That peaked Akane's interest. "Really? You mean, the one Kurama-san worked with?"

"The same." Sen smirked. "I know you went over all the case files of his, watched the Dark Tournament and everything, and I know you idolize him, even if you think he's an idiot for starting the Makai Tournaments. Shame you won't get to meet him."

"I do not idolize him." Akane snorted as she leaned against the wall. "And I told you. I can't miss anymore school."

"Aren't you missing school now?" Sen asked, poking her arm playfully.

"It's only gym." Was the reply. "Worse class ever invented. It's only there to torture students even more then school already does." She pushed herself off the wall. "Look, I gotta get back. Gym is gonna end soon. I got one more lesson until Lunch and I don't wanna get caught. I get to see Haru and Itsuki again. Their back from suspension today, and it won't do for me to be caught ditching. "Tell the newbie to call me tonight, will ya? What happened in The Three Kings last night is not OK. She's gonna ruin my name and get me kicked out of the loop."

The door opened and Akane pressed herself against the wall, pulling Sen with her.

"And this is the rooftop."

"Why are we up here?" A slightly familiar voice asked. Akane struggled to place the voice. Where did she hear it before? She knew she heard it really recently!

"Teachers sometime come up here to get a break from the kids. Teenagers can press on the nerves sometimes." Dazai replied kindly.

That's when Sen decided to push Akane out from behind their little hiding push, grinning widely.

Akane stumbled as she struggled to right herself. She wanted to scream at Sen for doing that, for giving her cover away, but that would alert Dazai to Sen, and she couldn't have that.

"Urameshi!" Dazai snapped.

"Akane," The young women, about twenty-four with pretty chocolate brown eyes, gasped. Akane could see where she took her piercings out. There where two small holes in her lip, one in her nose, and another set by her perfectly plucked eyebrows. Her black-and-red dyed hair came just under her chin and pushed behind her ears where Akane could see even more holes. Nine in the left ear, eight in the right.

"Who are you?" Akane asked, eyeing the new adult warily.

"Urameshi, this is the new technology teacher and librarian, Seto Akiko."

"Nice to meet you, Seto-sensei." Akane bowed before her eyes widened and she bolted straight up. "Seto Akiko? As in the Seto Akiko Koenma had…" Her eyes darted to Dazai as she remembered that he was there.

"Oh yeah, the Spirit Detective Corps." Akane wanted to smack the older woman. At Dazai's questioning look, Akiko explained further. "I volunteer some time at a Youth center that involve the kid's in cases. They don't go out and actually investigate, and most of the cases are old and already solved. But it keeps them off the street… most of the time. I'm starting as a researcher, who get the information for the kids." Akiko smiled sweetly at Dazai, who accepted her lie.

"I… did not realize Urameshi was involve in something like that."

"Yeah, I don't like advertising it, so try and keep it quite, will ya?" Akane huffed.

Dazai nodded.

"I hear Akane is one of the kids that comes in the most, and sometimes she brings along her friends." Akiko had a look of pure innocence.

"Speaking if Urameshi's friends, shouldn't you be in class with them?" Dazai directed a stern look at Akane.

Akane gulped. "We where heading for gym, and then I thought I saw somebody up here on the roof! I told a teacher, and they didn't believe me. At first I thought it was just a trick of the light, but then I saw the figure again." Her eyes went wide. "When I came up here, I swore I saw something duck behind the wall, but when I checked, there was nothing there."

Akiko sighed. "I'll esscort her to her class, Dazai-Sama. Come on, Akane." Akane hastily bowed to Dazai respectfully before following Akiko. The moment they hit the bottom of the stairs, Akiko turned on her.

"What where you really doing up there?"

"I was talking to a Ferry Girl. She was informing me about the briefing Koenma set up for the entire corps, and I was explaining why exactly I couldn't attend."

Akiko gaped at Akane. "You can't just not go to a meeting, Akane. We have a duty to protect the Ningenkai. You can't just not go to briefings!"

"There's a long complicated reason why I can't go, none of which I need to explain to you, Sensei." She stressed the honorific, giving the teacher a glare. "But you must remember I'm still a student, and I still live with my father, meaning I can't run off on Koenma's beck and call. So please, stay out of my personal life. I mean, I still have one. Unlike some detectives."

"Is that suppose to mean me, Urameshi-san?" Akiko growled at the younger girl.

"Yes, I mean you. I read your file, Seto-sensei. You use to be one of the best hackers out there. You could sneak into any data base you wanted, get any information you desire. Do anything you want. And you where living it large with all the money you and your brother ever needed. Then you took that one unexpected job, took a one-in-a-million shot to the heart and died. The only reason you're here now, Sensei, is because your twin brother believed that little dream you sent him and held off your cremation. Then you came back, Koenma tricked you into being a Detective, like he and his kind tricked the rest of us, and don't try to deny that. You erased your criminal files, faked a teaching certificate entered your name in a few data bases and here you are. A simple teacher. A fraud." Akiko opened her mouth to speak. "I know what you're gonna say. I'm a fraud to. No, I'm not. I may lie to my dad, but that's because I could never explain all this to him. I'm not pretending to be something I'm not. I'm not living a lie."

"Isn't there something you always wanted to do, something that you excel above all others in, Urameshi-san?" Akiko asked. "At first, the only thing I was good at was hacking, but that wasn't what I wanted to do. I always wanted to teach. But hacking was the only thing I could do. When I hacked my first database, it was like my future was written for me, and I became a criminal. But, this is my second chance. I'm determined to do what I always wanted to. And I'm doing this the right way. I know, it's starting off criminal. But I'm saving money to go to University and get my licenses to teach. The only other way for me is to steal the money. And I'm going to earn my way through."

Akane thought about the first thing she said.

"I gotta go." She pushed pass Akiko. The rest of her day, even lunch, was spent scribbling little drawings on papers and dazing off. By the end of the school day, she had five rough drafts and a plan, which she explained to Hikari on the way to the bus stop.

"So, you just decided to do this? Like out of nowhere?"

"I always wanted to do this, but I just needed a little push." Akane replied as her bus pulled up. "See you later, 'Kari." And then she was gone, just like that, leaving Hikari to stare at the bus growing smaller in the distance.

"That bitch is crazy." She muttered to herself.

After school, Akane locked herself in her room with a stack of unopened printer paper. By the time her father forced her out of the room for dinner, she was half way through the stack and narrowed down to three designs.

"Akane, I'm going to be out of town for a little while. An old friend called and he needs my help with a few things. I'll be gone four days, a week tops. I asked another old friend to look after you while I'm gone. He'll just be checking in on you, time to time. To make sure you're still breathing, you know?"

"Ok," Akane nodded. Perfect, She thought to herself. Enough time to carry out my plan, maybe, and I can go to the meeting Koenma called. Well, I gotta ask permission before I do anything. "Hey dad, you know how we have the basement just sitting there, empty, right?"

"Yes." Yusuke eyed his daughter.

"I was wondering if I could make it a place where me and my friends can hang out." She pulled the crinkled paper out of her pocket and slid it across the table to her paper. The floor plan of the hang out looked up at them "I'll paint murals on two of the walls, and I talked to Hikari. She said she knows a guy who can get me this material like a chalkboard for the third wall, and we can use that for like doodles or something. I know this place where I can get furniture cheap, and I can get new flooring. I have all the money, so you don't have to spend a penny."

"You're not going to leave this half done, like your manga thing, are you?" Akane winced when she was reminded of when she tried to draw a full manga. She realized how close it was coming to her, about a girl who was living a second life fighting supernatural crimes, and she just gave it up.

"I'll follow this though." She vowed.

"Alright. Then, I just I can't say anything that'll be a good reason not to. Just don't mess up the rest of the house, ok brat?"

"Got it." She beamed at him before hurrying through her dinner and running up to her room, pulling her phone out on the way up.

"Ok, so I'm gonna go get the paints and brushes tomorrow from the art store. Haru, can you get the white paint, rollers, and four tarps from the hardware floor tomorrow?"

"Of course, Akane."

"Are you really gonna go through with the hang out?" Hikari demanded.

"Yeah, I can't have the painting in a sad little basement where it'll never get seen."

"So, you're just going to build a room where we'll probably never go." Itsuki asked.

"We'll hang out. The whole point of the room is for us. But my dad'll probably be down there more the we will." Akane snickered. She loved her plan.

A/N: Akiko will be Komaru's "replacement". Let see how long that lasts. And what is Akane planning? Muwhahaha. Prepare for some cute little father/daughter fluff in upcoming chapters.