Chapter
3: Short Trip Ain't It?
Disclaimer: If I owned it, Yusuke
would've been committed to an asylum years ago…
"Does
anyone know where Toria went?" asked Botan. Hiei scowled at the
thought of Toria and shook his head. "Maybe we should go look for
her?" she suggested.
"No!" growled Yusuke. "Let her get
hit by a car" he was a bit peeved with her. She had hidden the
remote again. It was the third time this week and he was mad!
"Excuse
me?" Yusuke spun around when he heard me growl. "Let me get hit
by a car huh?" I glared at him and shifted into your demon form.
Yusuke went wide eyed at the look I was giving him that said "I
will set you ablaze then set you ashes ablaze!" (A/N: thank you
Bill Engvall a true realist with a sense of humor!)
"So Toria,
what were you doing?" asked Kurama as he put a restraining hand on
my shoulder.
"Oh! I got a job!!" I beamed, instantly going
back to my human form. Everyone blinked and waited for me to
continue. "I'm a tour guide! It was so boring here!"
Botan
sighed. "Can we please go now? Koenma's waiting" she asked,
slightly annoyed.
"Koenma?" I asked. Botan nodded and pushed
me through a portal. I yelped and let out a soft growl as I picked
myself up off the ground. I really hated portals!
"Hello Toria"
greeted a teenaged boy with the word "Jr." tattooed on his
head.
"You know, that's a really stupid tattoo" I said as I
began pilfering through his desk. Koenma scowled and nodded to the
two ogres that had appeared in the doorway. They grabbed a hold of me
and pulled me into the room they had come out of. "What the hell?!"
I screamed as they strapped me to a table. Koenma muttered an
incantation; and the next thing I knew, you were in spirit form. My
spirit solidified, being in Spirit World had its perks after all,
giving me a body…sort of. I also had all of my memories back.
"Alright Koenma!" I snarled. "What the hell happened? I should
not bleed to death while remembering something!"
Koenma cowered
under my death glare of DOOM! "Now Toria, calm down" he
pleaded.
"Calm down?" I whispered in a cold, chilling voice.
"What did you do to me?" The temptation to ring Koenma's neck
was almost irresistible.
"Explain." growled Yusuke.
I
turned around and bared your teeth. "Simple, I came back but
something went wrong. You really are a dumbass, you know that right?"
I smirked as he glared at me
Kurama and Hiei looked at each other
and a whole conversation happened between them, it wasn't lost on
me. I tapped my foot impatiently, waiting for an explaination. Kurama
sent me a sheepish grin. "Toria, we were wondering if you could
come back as you are now"
I sighed and looked down. "Apparently
I can't" I felt like crying.
"Well there is another way"
Koenma called from under his desk.
At least someone respects me
I thought "Spit it out already." I snapped, grinning as I spotted
Hiei's disapproving look. "What?"
I respect you he sounded
childlike as he defended himself.
I smiled yes you do I
agreed.
"Well, you can go into an unborn human child and grow up
again. You'd keep all your memories that way." Koenma peeked out
from under his desk.
"And wait sixteen years? What do you guys
think?" I looked at Kurama, Hiei, Yusuke and Botan. They all looked
at me, weighing the options. Then one by one they nodded. "Very
well, let's do it Koenma"
"Hey, you'll be the best
protected kid in the world" Botan said trying to cheer me
up.
"You're just trying to cheer me up so Lizzy and Evangeline
won't kill you" I muttered as I shoved Koenma out of his chair
and sat down. My eyes closed as I tried to prepare myself for the
upcoming transition. It didn't sit right with me. "Koenma, can
you swear under penalty of a slow and very painful death that nothing
will happen?" I asked.
"w-well…uh…n-not exactly" he
stuttered.
Very calmly, I stood up and walked over to the
trembling spirit world prince. "What do you mean, not exactly?" I
asked with a murderous glint in my eye.
"W-well…t-there's
always a r-risk" he stuttered
I silenced him with a glare. He
let put a terrified squeak and tried to make himself as small as
possible. "Forget it" I growled. Yusuke opened his mouth to
object, only to have Botan shove his head into the floor. "I won't,
I'll go back to the way I was and re-learn everything! There's
gotta be something to help me remember…" With cold determination,
I marched back over to my body and nodded to Koenma to put me back
in.
Koenma stuttered through the incantation and I went back into
my body. I woke up and looked around. "I'm hungry!" I
complained.
Kurama and Hiei sighed. The even more insane Toria
was back! Kurama headed towards the door. I ran over and glomped him.
"Hi Kura-kun! Where you going?" I asked.
Kurama blinked at the
new nickname. "Uh…crazy?" he asked.
"Oh…short trip ain't
it?" I asked. "Well while you're in crazy town, can you get
some chocolate for me?" I pleaded. "Pwease?" I pulled out the
puppy dog eyes.
Kurama laughed. "I'll see what I can do" he
promised
"Yay!" I cheered and bounced over to Hiei. "Can we
go home Hi-Kun?" I begged as I petted his hair.
Hiei pulled my
hand away from his hair and nodded. I grinned, but froze when I saw
the portal. Hiei sighed and somehow I ended up with him holding me
bridal style as he jumped through the portal. "You can open your
eyes now" I opened my eyes and blushed when I realized that my
nails were biting into Hiei's skin, causing bloody crescent moons
to appear on his shoulder.
I carefully removed myself from his
arms and went into the kitchen Hiei handed me a plate of food and a
fork. I frowned. "But those look funner to use" I said, pointing
to the chopsticks. Hiei shook his head no and I pouted.
"But
Hiei, man, those may be her way to remember everything." Yusuke
pointed out.
Hiei regarded Yusuke with a murderous glare, but
handed the chopsticks to me anyways.
I squeaked in delight and ran
over and patted Yusuke on the head. "Good boy, good grease monkey!
Do you want a banana?" I cooed. Yusuke just sat there, giving me a
'wtf' look, so I shrugged and went back to my seat. I stuck out
my tongue as I attempted to eat, but apparently some force on earth
didn't want me to eat. One of my chopsticks flew and hit Hiei in
the eye, while the other one hit Yusuke. I giggled nervously as Hiei
glared at me. I opened my mouth to make some really stupid excuse
when all of a sudden, my life flashed through my mind's eye.
Everything I had ever known came crashing down around me. I
remembered my death, and everything that had made me so insane. I
remembered Ninjara from when we were both little girls. She had given
me a severe case of amnesia when I gotten into an argument with her.
My father, a fox demon named Shu (who was an old friend of Yoko's
oddly enough), had gone after Ninjara to bring her back and apologize
to me, but he disappeared and was never heard from again. You mother,
who had been an amazing wolf demoness/spirit detective, disguised
both me and herself as humans to keep me safe. It was understood that
when a threat was no longer perceived, I would work with the current
spirit detective and hopefully regain my memories…
"Hey!
Toria! What the hell?! Is anyone in there?" Yusuke yelled as he
shook me.
I blinked for a moment, trying to absorb all of the
information. I looked at Yusuke, then down to the floor, then over to
Hiei. Without warning, I started bawling. All of the pain I had ever
known was starting to tear me apart from the inside out.
Hiei
appeared by my side. "What did you do?" I heard him
growl.
"Nothing!" Yusuke yelped.
What's wrong Okosan?
he asked.
I'm so old! I cried It's my 226th birthday! I
cried harder.
Please tell me you're joking… he said
softly
No! So what? You don't want someone my age as your
girlfriend?! I snapped. I turned bright red when I realized what I
had said. Without looking at him, I turned and left.
Where are
you going? he asked.
To work. DON'T follow me! I spat. I felt
guilty for treating him like this, but I needed to figure this out on
my own. What was I going to do now? I needed to find my father; I
needed to know if he was dead or alive. I also needed to get out of
this human guise. That required my mom's help. Inwardly, I groaned.
That required a portal, which meant apologizing to Koenma. 'Just
shoot me now' I thought
"Toria! Wait for...us!" I heard
Lizzy call. I turned around and grinned. It seemed that if Hiei
couldn't watch me himself, he was going to send someone else to do
it.
"What's wrong with you?" I asked as they both collapsed
at my feet. I nudged Lizzy with my shoe. "You didn't run all of
the way did you? That's just stupid. Almost as stupid as Mai." I
smirked as Lizzy scowled at me. "Well come on, I have to work." I
said as I turned to head into the rather large building before me,
labeled Tokyo Tours. Lizzy and Evangeline groaned as they pulled
themselves up off the ground.
End Chappie!
A/N: Well here we go. It's not much, but I'm working on it…..leave me a review if you want me to continue with this, and I promise that it'll only get more insane….