Chapter 7!
Enjoy this one.
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I woke up in a familiar room, one of my rooms in Spirit World. Kurama leaned against the wall by the door, apparently sleeping. Guess they wanted someone to keep an eye on me. I looked outside the window at the River Stix, and recalled what happened before I blacked out.
I had decided to do what Koenma told me never to do. He did tell me there was I chance I would die if I did it, as my Spirit Energy would disappear for at least a week. Vincent was ready to attack me by the same lethal attack that killed my dad, and I decided to release my control on all my Spirit Energy. I carefully made sure I did not waste too much for my penetration of his attack. I had used up quite a sum for my right hand. In the end, I gathered everything I had left and formed my Spirit Weapon, only this time, it should be called the 'ultimate and never going to be seen again' sword. It's power was maximum, could slice the air molecules if I wanted to, most likely.
I swung my legs over the side of the bed and started to get up, but a hand pushed my shoulder back down.
"Don't move," Kurama said. "Your leg isn't healed up completely yet. You could reopen it by walking around. I'm going to get Koenma, don't run away."
Great, Koenma told them I would probably run away when I woke up as I usually did after getting in a serious fight. Before Kurama vanished from my sight, I asked, "How long have I been out?"
"A week in a half," he relied. "Today is Wednesday, four thirty-eight in the afternoon."
Four minutes passed, as I waited on the bed as told, and then Koenma rushed in, in his teenage form, behind Kurama. The rest of the boys came in after.
"Sana! What did I tell you about doing that?" Koenma exclaimed.
"I know, okay. And I did it anyway," I said, getting tired all of a sudden.
"You're lucky to be alive!" he yelled at me.
"Like it change anything if I wasn't!" I yelled back now. "I would have been yelled at the same!"
A silent pause came and went. Koenma sighed and told me he would come back again during the night. I was left alone with the boys, just great. An eternity passed before the question came. "Who are you Sana?" Hiei asked.
"The person you see in front of you right now," I replied.
Yusuke grunted and Hiei asked again, "Tell me something. What's your last name?"
What type of question is that? "Its Kouno," I replied.
Kuwabara exchanged a glance with Yusuke who looked uneasy. I was left clueless on why, but I didn't care, I did leave them clueless on who I was. I had a feeling though, they found out something about me I most likely did not want them to.
"Was your dad, by any chance, Miechi Kouno?" Kurama asked.
"How'd you know that?" I almost shrieked, but faked a cough and tried again. "What's it to you?"
"You're the girl that worked with Vincent then! Weren't you? Made a name for yourself in Demon World as a thief," Kurama said.
"How did you come to know this? Who told you?" I demanded.
"I remembered when you said his name. And his fighting style," Hiei said. "Vincent somehow changed and decided to go after you and kill you, except your father got in the way of his attack and sacrificed himself for your life."
I grunted. "Did your research well. So he did, what are you trying to say?"
"Your dad, was he aware of demons and the two other worlds apart from Human World?" Yusuke asked, and I nodded my head. "But he was human without any awakening of his Spirit Energy or anything, how'd he come to know of it?"
It seems that they really did do research on all this. Koenma planned this I bet, starting it off with those crime files he gave Hiei and let it go on its own from there. He made sure I had no escape, I had to tell them. Fine then, I'll tell them, and a word to outsiders and I would kill them.
"My dad met a demon, how else?" I said. "A Maiden, to be exact, who had a a boy a little older than me at the time, though now I know he was much older than he looked, with her. She said she needed a place to stay for night because she couldn't go back home. My dad told her to stay at our house. My mom though, interpreted the female appearance with a little child the wrong way and thought my dad double-crossed her. They got divorced. I went to live with my dad from there on, as my mom said she wanted nothing to do with me. The demon came to visit us often, and told my dad about Demon World and Spirit World. Then I got interested in it a little too much and actually went there, met Vincent and we teamed up and thieved places. When he learned I had no Spirit Energy of any kind, and was human to the core, about three months before we were to raid the vault, he turned on me and followed my back home. He planned to kill me, but my dad saw his attack and jumped in front, dying."
A pause to let them take it all in, then I continued my life story, somehow enjoying telling the tale.
"The demon had come to visit us at that time, and came to see my dad fall. I guess she sensed it coming cause she told the kid to stay back and she rushed to my aid. You can guess what happened pretty much, I awakened my Spirit Energy and lost control of it, as you saw, I had too much for a little body of a ten year old to handle. It sent Vincent flying back and the demon too, but she was unhurt. Everything from then I don't remember, only that I had to go live with my mom again," I continued. "But she was pretty horrible to me, so I usually left the house and went to Demon World. About a year later, I planned to raid the vault by myself, so I prepared myself. You know what happens from there."
A brief pause and Kurama asked, "What happened after you turned youself in?"
"Koenma yelled at me which almost brought down the ceiling on us. In the end, he didn't put me in jail, but put me on probation for eight years. Yeah, I'm still on probation," I answered.
"What do you do here though? Gotta pay off the crime somehow," Yusuke said.
"Can't tell you, its confidential," I said.
Hiei grunted, "Quit the crap confidential stuff. I'm getting annoyed by it."
He went up to me and grabbed my necklace and continued talking, "This is from the vault. Why do you have an item from the vault?"
I smacked his hand away, "Its not from the vault. I made it. Using what I learned from the vault, I made my pendant. Okay? It allows me to open up portals anytime I want to wherever I want. Good enough for you?"
"I don't believe it. I saw it in the vault when I broke into it," he said.
I smirked a little. "Baka. You didn't see it on a shelf or table in the vault. I don't think you didn't see it, afterall, I wore it since the day I made it, which was about eight months after I turned myself in. What you saw was me."
"Impossible!" Hiei growled.
"But you said it would be the stupidest thing to raid the vault after turning yourself in. Why then, do you think Hiei saw you in the vault?" Yusuke pointed out.
That's confidential! Why can't they stop asking me the same thing again, just in different words? "Confidential, the millionth time," I said.
Koenma came back into the room, saying something about an orge messing up a code. He didn't realize that the boys were still here and went on to tell me, "One of the orges found another object that should be locked up in the vault Sana. Stupid orges these days, I told him to wait for you but he went on to do it himself anyway," he said. "He activated your trap thing. The one where you, uh, sucked into, was that it? But he's getting 'sucked into' the door or wherever they go."
"Koenma!" I yelled.
He looked up and saw the boys still here and listening to every word. "Oh, didn't know they were still here. But Sana, you need to deactivate the trap. I wouldn't mind losing an orge that dumb, but he's one my dad's."
I wanted to jump out the window. "Koenma! Can you stop talking about that stuff with them here? It's dangerous."
"What's more dangerous then my Spirit Detectives is your trap. It's devouring, sucking in, whatever, not only the orge but all the paintings on the wall and everything. My dad's going to kill me Sana if you don't stop it."
"A malfunction? No, a bug?" I thought it through. "Those creeps then, they bugged my system!"
I immediatly stood up, angry and not aware of the stares from the guys. I went over to a shelf with weird little stuff and bottles and pushed things here and there. I took out a little computer and a bunch of wires from the box set up in the wall behind all those gadget things.
I sighed and went over to the desk on the other wall, next to my bed and sat the computer on and turned it on, then took the wires and connected them from the computer to slots in the wall. "I want to know who the leader of those demons I killed were Koenma! I'm going to show him a little bug," I said and typed fast away on the computer screen.
"Sana, what are you doing?" Kurama asked.
"That looks cool, wish I could type like that!" Kuwabara said.
"Isn't it obvious? I'm dewiring my system to stop the trap and the death of Koenma. Then I'm going to find the bug and smash it and shove it down the demons' leader's throat," I told them.
Hiei went over what I just said and what Koenma said in his head. It made sense now, "You're that person who got in the way in the vault."
"Bingo," I said, immitating Botan.
"The pendant then. I know what you mean now, when you said Hiei saw you in the vault," Yusuke said.
"You were the only one who saw me clearly Hiei, cause of your Jagan Eye. The only reason you didn't recognize me right away was because I was all covered up... Man, I thought Koenma would never stop yelling at me, letting you three get away with three items," I told them, continuing to type things on the screen.
Kuwabara still didn't get it. He asked Koenma to clarify.
"Sana is the vaults guardian, dimwit," Hiei growled.
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Yay! We now know why the title is Meet One, Meet Again! Celebration.
But Hiei didn't meet Sana the first time at the vault, he met her long before, just doesn't remember that yet, so don't tell him.
Hmm... I wonder why the vault's trap system was bugged. And who the 'dimwitted' leader of those demons that broke into the vault was. Next time!
Disclaimer: I do not own YYH, but I do own the original characters. (Sana, the dead Vincent, and othes to come.)
