Thank you for reading so far and welcome to chapter four of my fic!! I would like to thank Azura for reviewing again and I would like to thank Akira-chan (Angel of Randomosity) for her fantastic and helpful first review! *hands both a slice of cheesecake* YAY cheesecake :P!!! I'd like to point out, yet again, that I do not YYH (and that I dislike disclaimers...I think it is obvious by now that I do not own the show sheesh) but I do own my characters that I've made. With a final thanks to my reviewers I shall start the fourth chapter!!
Chapter Four: Weapons
It had been two weeks since the two girls had landed themselves in the different realm and things were going smoothly. Yusuke and Kuwabara had adapted to having them around when they reached spirit world to hang and had even invited them on a few of their little excursions to the human world when they wanted to play real arcade games. Kurama, who was temporarily staying in Spirit World along with Hiei while the girls were there, had become accustomed to Asta popping in the kitchen during lunch and dinner times to help him cook. Hiei and Keaira didn't talk much, but a mutual respect had formed around them after the first night when Keaira had spoken so boldly to him, and while Asta and Kurama cooked they both would sit silently outside, Hiei in the tree and Keaira at the base. Botan had taken a liking to having girls company and had even taken them to a mall in the human world to go on a shopping trip to get them a few changes of clothes.
They'd also met Yukina and Keiko during the shopping trip and had become friends with them, Asta more then Keaira, but Keaira made a point to put up with them politely and played nice for Asta's sake. During that trip they'd gotten a few changes of clothes and some other of the necessities, though for a while Keaira had disappeared with the credit card that Botan had and when she came back she refused to let anyone know what she had been up to.
Both girls had also gotten into a routine where, before they went to bed, and without the aid or eyes of the guys, they would meet up in the training room and train for a while. At first they had stuck to what both of them had known, and afterwards Asta would lift weights while Keaira trained on her own with other forms that Asta had not taken to learning. It wasn't long, though, that Asta had Keaira agreeing to teach her the other martial arts, and after reviewing and training with the ones that they already knew Keaira would take up the part as teacher and teach Asta how to fight in another means; which was a lot easier then it would be normally seeing as Asta already knew the basics of fighting from the styles she already knew.
Then came the day that the routine was broken. Asta had woken up earlier, before Kurama even thought about going out of his room to start on breakfast, and had made everyone breakfast. After that incident, Keaira had announced that she was going to go shopping by herself, when normally if the word shopping was even brought up she'd jump up and head to her room and lock herself in until she was sure that she was in the clear. Yusuke and Kuwabara didn't seem to notice the difference though and just shoveled the food given to them into their overly large mouths, and had just thrown a few food items onto the list that Kurama had made up for Keaira like it was the most normal thing to do in the whole world. It actually seemed that the only people who noticed the difference was Hiei and Kurama, and even then they had no idea what it was that had brought on the change, though Hiei had tried to pry in Asta's mind only to be thrown out before he found out anything.
Walking into the shop, Keaira glanced around briefly for the owner and made her way over towards him casually. "Excuse me, you told me to come back today to pick up some parcels that I had ordered. Is it ready?" she asked calmly, shifting her stance slightly as she glanced around at the objects around her. The guy seemed to physically pause for a moment while thinking, then jumped slightly and snapped his fingers. "You're the girl who made that special order, the one who wanted the best, something that could stand up in a real fight." he said in a hurry, an excitement rushing into his eyes. It wasn't every day that he had an order like that. Keaira just nodded silently, turning her gaze away from the shinning weapons on the walls.
The guy bounced slightly again before asking her to stay put while he went and got it. While he was gone, Keaira went back to looking at the weapons on the wall. There were all obviously hand crafted, and they ranged in many different kinds, but only few of them looked like they would hold up in a real battle, the rest of them looking as if they were made for display only. It had taken her a while, but after having talked to an ogre and having done some of her own research, she'd found out that if asked for the shop owner could forge some of the greatest weapons of all time. With that in mind she'd come to him, with designs and asked him to make her something to fight with, something that would be just as strong as her, or stronger if he thought her to be weak like many did just because she was human and female. It had taken a while to convince him, but after having done so, and assuring him that she'd be able to pay, he'd agreed and they talked about what kind of weapons would be made in the end.
After a few minutes, the aging man came back with three parcels cradled in his arms and another one that two men carried out to her. Two of them were no longer then her forearm while another was about double the size, the fourth one was much taller then herself and was the one that had taken two guys to carry out to her. Once the guys had set the largest parcel to lean against the wall, they disappeared back into the back and the older man set his load onto the counter and opened them for her to inspect. The two smaller ones were one sets of daggers and one set of fans, the daggers were made with a metal that looked ebony and the small blades on the fans were made of an exceedingly shiny and slightly white metal. The middle sized package was a long sword that gleamed dangerously up at the two people who looked at it. It had a flower design that swirled up it etched into the metal but it still looked like it could strike fear into the hearts of many.
Once Keaira had picked up all of the blades and made sure that they were perfectly balanced, she turned to the largest one that was leaned up against the wall. Moving towards it she gently removed the top of the box and untied the cloth that was used to cover the weapon, as the cloth fell her breath seemed to catch in her throat. She was standing in front of a sword that was taller then her, even while leaning against the wall, and looked so beautiful and dangerous that it nearly brought tears into her eyes. The hilt was made of steal, but was wrapped in red, black and purple leather strips and on the end of it was a red ribbon that had the words "Till Death" embroidered on it. The blade itself was sharp and deadly and creeping up the flats of the blade was fire with a dragon flowing out of it in mid attack. In all it was amazingly beautiful. When she reached down and grabbed the hilt of the sword, she lifted it easily into her hands – which made the older man lift a brow in surprise – and gave it a small twirl at her side while she marveled at how perfect it felt in her hands. Putting the cloth back over it, she carefully closed the box, almost saddened by having to encase such a beauty, and turned back to the sales man. "They are perfect, thank you yet again for making them." With that she gathered them up, the larger one resting against her back at a small angle, two thick strings holding it in place, and left the store after having paid with a credit card that Koenma had given her in case she needed money. (Akira-chan had pointed out that they needed the cards, thanks for the idea!)
With the packages on her, Keaira quickly did the shopping that Kurama had given her the list for, ignoring the strange glances that she was getting, and then hurried back to the portal that was waiting for her to get her back to Spirit World. Thankfully they'd be leaving there soon, seeing as Genkai was coming back from her vacation within the week, so the shopping wasn't much so she didn't have to try and balance too much stuff, though she could have easily done it if she wished.
Asta was sitting on the couch watching TV with Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara when Keaira returned to the house, her arms ladened with shopping bags and boxes, the last one much to everyone's surprise. Kurama quickly jumped up and relieved her of some of the items, though she only let him take the grocery bags, and Asta followed his lead, Keaira letting her take two of the boxes. Once they were in the kitchen, Yusuke and Kuwabara having been more interested in the TV and thus not following, Asta started to hand things to Kurama who put them away quickly. "So what's in the boxes Keaira? I thought you were just getting food stuffs." Asta asked finally, glancing at the shorter girl while handing Kurama a box of noddles.
Nodding towards the two boxes that lay on the table near Asta, Keaira smirked slightly. "Find out yourself, those two are for you; think of them as a gift, for having done so well during training." she stated coolly, making Asta squeal in delight, which made Kurama chuckle lightly in amusement.
Once Kurama had put everything away, Asta picked up one of the boxes and opened it, her eyes growing wide, the opened the second box, which made her eyes grow even wider. In the first box the long sword stared up at her in all it's shininess and in the second the fans with the blade tips glimmered slightly in the lightly. Asta hesitantly picked up the sword and did a few moves that Keaira had taught her before setting it down and picking up the fans. It had been after the first training session that Keaira had agreed to teach her, that she'd realized that she was good at fighting with a fan; which they had borrowed off the wall of weapons. Keaira, seeing that she was right, had called the shop the next morning and had placed the order, which made the pick up time pushed back by a week.
Asta picked up one of the fans and flicked it open, marveling at the design that was stitched into the fabric. It was of a garden of some kind, on a light pink material, and a single carnation seemed to be alight with electricity floating around it. Closing the fan, she put it back with the other one before tackling Keaira into a tight hug, making the shorter girl laugh softly and pat her head. "Thank you Keaira! These are the best, they are so pretty, I can't wait till tonight when I can actually try them out during training, They are amazing! Oh, I almost forgot what did you get?"
Keaira stepped back out of the hug, gently dislodging Asta from her, and pulled out the twin daggers, letting Asta look at them; the taller girl gasping in aw before she pulled the package on her back off and shed the box. At first Asta looked confused but then as she let the cloth fall the taller girl's eyes grew wide and another gasp filled the air. "You look so small holding that giant thing, but at the same time I think the weapon suits you Miss. Keaira. It looks heavy though, are you sure you'll be able to fight with it?" Kurama piped in before Asta could make a comment. Instead of answering him verbally, Keaira easily lifted the blade and rested it against her shoulder, only briefly looking down at her shoulder when a small cut appeared; she'd need to have a small shoulder armor made before she could do that again without fear of cutting herself. Kurama only smiled and nodded and handed her a small band-aid for the cut, silently impressed that she could easily wield such a large blade that he knew was going to be heavy.
After both girls put away their new weapons, they returned to the living room where they had left the boys only to find three extra additions, Koenma, Botan and Hiei, and a very serious atmosphere that wasn't there before. The goofy look that Asta had while she'd been regaling Keaira with a story, about Yusuke from when she'd gone to pick up the packages, fell and a slightly worried one pulled up in it's place. Keaira quickly guided the taller girl over to a seat next to Kurama then took a stand behind her, eyes quickly turning to Koenma. "Explain."
The prince, in toddler form, let out a strained laugh before nodding slightly. "A group of demons have some how found a way into the human world and have killed four people already, and two children are missing as well. I'm about to send the guys out to take down the group of demons and try to rescue the kids as unharmed as possible." Asta whimpered slightly when he'd mentioned that two kids had been taken, but other then that neither of them had made any sort of move or sound as to that they were actually comprehending what he was saying. Keaira nodded slowly and looked down at Asta, her eyes turning cold, if there was one thing that she couldn't stand it was when kids were taken from their families and put in danger. "Asta, hurry and get your new toy; we're going with them. No Koenma, you do not have a choice in the matter, we're going whether you like it or not." she stated calmly before walking down the hall with Asta.
Before they got too far down the hall, Asta popped her back back into the living room and glared at everyone. "If you're gone by the time we get back we'll kill Koenma and hold the girl's hostage." with that she left again, not letting them have time to question her on if she really meant it, though by the look in her eyes they didn't really doubt it.
Neither girl took too long getting their weapons and getting back into the living room. Once back, Asta announced that they were ready to go and that they should be getting a move one, if the boys had needed anything then they should have just gotten it while the girls were getting their blades. The guys didn't argue though, all of them serious, and Botan quickly made the portal that would drop them off in a park. "The park is the last place we know where they were, though they were also headed towards the woods so it might take a while to track them. Now GO!" Koenma then practically pushed them into the portal, not literally of course seeing as all six of them jumped in without question.
Not my best chapter, really it's just kind of a filler one in the end, but it does it's job! Review please please please please please! Next chapter should be longer, but school starts back up again here soon so I don't know how often I will be updating, though I'll try to bring you new chapters as quickly as possible. Anywho thank you to everyone who is reading and double thanks to anyone who reviews! I still am taking ideas for the powers the girls should have, so if you haven't left me a review with one then feel free to do so now! Or e-mail me if you have lots of ideas!!