The story of Lash
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho characters, but the rest I do.
Rika walked through the hallways of Lash's school with her. They had been talking about Nigel and Asuya and unfortunately there was bad news. Rika was upset when she first hear about the two running away together. Then she wasn't surprised when she saw them at Lash's school holding hands in the hallway and all over each other. Now though she was worried, there had been a rumor going around that Lash was pregnant and Nigel might not be the father.
Lash had just heard the news that morning in first hour and was dying all day to tell her best friend Rika. When she told Rika the news her sudden bouncy mood changed instantly to troubled and slight depression. They wanted to make a plan to go and visit them at the apartment, though they were afraid that they wouldn't talk to them so they decided against it.
Now as they walked out of the school at the end of the day they saw the bright sun, almost instantly their mood lightened as they headed to Rika's apartment. As they walked the now extremely busy streets of Tokyo they changed their topic to the next person to be added to Genkai's already full crew. During this conversation Lash's cell phone rang and they both sighed when they saw it was her mother.
Lash picked up the phone and began listening to her mother yell at her once again. "Mom I told you I was going to Rika's apartment today. I promise I will be back at 5:30," she tried reasoning with an unreasonable person.
"Lash just telling me your are going over there is not enough you need to ask me. Also your not allowed over there bad things happen at that house, I don't like you hanging around a bunch of 20 year olds. They can drink and do whatever they want but you are not to be involved in any of it," Her mom rambled and yelled into the cell phone at her daughter while Lash just stood there and rolled her eyes and made a blah blah blah mouth with her hand. Rika giggled, Lash hated her mom and pretty much so did every body else.
"Mom I'll be okay I promise to call you if anything like ever happens and you can come take me away to a shrine to be a monk or something," Lash said cutting off her mother before saying goodbye and hanging up the phone. "Geez," Lash and Rika said at the same time as they reached Rika's apartment.
"Hello girls," Kurama welcomed them as they came through the door.
"Hey hon, do we have any alcohol? Lash's mom says she wants her to live life to its fullest and get drunk and go to school with a massive hangover tomorrow," Rika teased as Lash laughed and Kurama looked at her like she was a crazed woman.
"That better be a joke," Kurama said smiling, "We don't carry alcohol sorry your going to have to go somewhere else for that." Kurama laughed joking around with them. "I do have some X in the bedroom though."
Rika and Lash laughed along with Kurama as the two girls went into the kitchen to grab a light snack. Kurama wondered off somewhere to do silly little things elsewhere. Rika grabbed 2 apples out of the refrigerator and handed one to Lash. There moods had both gone back down and they were both thinking about Nigel and Asuya. They walked back into the living room and sat on the couch thinking as Kurama came back and started taking out the trash.
"What's wrong with you girls?" He asked abandoning his trash can and walking over to the girls who both looked like they were going to break out into tears. Lash started to tell Kurama the story and slowly his good mood faded as well. As Lash got done telling the story their big screen television turned on and toddler Koenma showed up.
"I see you all heard about Asuya and Nigel?" He gave them all a solemn look and you could tell he was upset too. "That's not what I came to tell you though. Rika I came to tell you the next and last person you need to gather up for Genkai's student." He announced his sad attitude stayed the same. He looked down for a second before looking back up and sighing. "I guess you don't really have to I can just do it right now," he sighed again and looked back down and paused. Rika looked confused as to what he was talking about he would just do it. Then all of a sudden she got a thought, maybe it was Lash. "Lash you are the last member," Koemna declared not looking back up before the screen went black again.
Rika looked at Lash who seemed mortified. Usually it was a good thing but, she had been around the whole time and she's the last one to train with Genkai. She also didn't like the fact that they thought she had a bad home life, sure her mom was crazy but she loved her and knew she was looking out for her. Then another scary thought crossed into her mind her mom wouldn't want anything to do with her fighting, or living at some shrine with an old lady and a bunch of teenagers. Lash took a big gulp and stood up with the shocked look still on her face.
"I got to get home now," she said taking her leave of the apartment and walked straight home with her face never changing.
When she got home she headed for her room but her mother stopped her. She looked at her mother. Her mom was tall, slim, and beautiful, she had sharp facial features and long blonde hair to top it all off. Though her mother sometimes acted crazy she was no dumb blonde. Lash looked up to her mother, she didn't have the same striking beauty, she had inherited most of her characteristics from her dead father, the only thing that people noticed about the two of them was the same long, thick, full, blonde hair that ran to the middle of both of their backs. Her mom was also a very successful vice president of the top gaming company of the world, she was famous.
"Your home early," her mother said calm and collective, she had been drinking away the stresses of work it was visible. Her mother also had a drinking problem that is what mostly contributed to her trying to keep Lash on the straight and narrow. Even though she had been successful for a long time her mother hadn't started drinking until her dad had died about 8 years ago now due to a factory fire that trapped him inside.
"Yeah I was tired and I have some homework to do so I just thought I'd come home early," she sighed looking very down and sad.
"Okay sweetie," her mother shooed her away with her hand and turned and headed to the living room to watch some television.
Lash shut the door to her room and ran and jump stomach first on her bed. What was she going to do? How was this going to work? Why did this wonderful thing seem like such a disaster? The overwhelming thoughts took control over her and she began to sob. After a good 20 minutes of crying she began to take hold of her self again.
"Honey can I come in?" Her mother asked softly rapping on the door.
"Sure," she said knowing if she had said 'no' her mother would have entered anyway. She looked up from her pillow she had clenched in her hand and rolled over on her back to make room for her mom to sit on the bed. Now was as good of time to tell her.
"What's wrong with you?" Her mother asked almost mean like as she sat next to Lash.
"Well I have to tell you something," she confessed. "Would you like to know who those people are that I hang out with?" Her mother nodded her head. "Well they are the protectors of Japan, they fight away evil and protect us human's," she started when her mother jump in.
"You know the guardians of the land and afterlife?" Her mother looked at her surprised and Lash looked just as surprised that her mother had actually heard of these types of people.
"Yeah and right now they are gather new recruits and today I was picked as the last one," she tightened her face prepared for a good yelling or lecture about fighting, especially demons and how dangerous it is, and how she had been lying to her mother about a million things since she's come in contact with these people. Though the yelling never came Lash opened her eyes and her mother stood up and stared at her. Her mother looked at Lash for a few moments more before slapping Lash across the face. She grabbed Lash's hair and dragged her off the bed. All the while screaming "How can you do this to me, I've given you everything and now you want to leave me like your bastard father?" Her mothers rage continued as she threw her against the wall. Lash was defenseless her back was stinging with pain and her breath had left her. Her mother walked sternly up to her and spit on her in disgrace, "Go ahead go, but look at you, you can't even defend yourself against your mother." She walked out of the room as Lash began to cry again and fell sideways on the floor.
Lash had finally gotten her breathing back under control when Rika came in through the window. "Lash what happened?" She ran over to her and checked to make sure she didn't see any visible injuries. Visibly she looked alright and her pulse was still there and Rika could hear and see her breathing but she wasn't saying anything. "Come on I'm getting you out of here," Rika moved to pick Lash up but she moved.
"I can't do this," Lash sniffled and began to lightly cry again.
"What do you mean? Of course you can do this, you can live at Genkai's with everyone," Rika reasoned and tried to reach for her again but Lash sat up.
"I can not leave my mom like this, she will be all alone," Lash cried leaning on Rika's shoulder letting Rika hug her and comb her fingers through her hair.
"Lash we can figure something out, I'll go talk to her if you would like. You don't have to live with Genkai to train with her," Rika said rocking back and forth as Lash slowly stopped crying.
"Would you please?" Lash looked at her best friend wondering how she ever got lucky enough to befriending her. Rika shook her head yes and got up to go talk to her mother. Lash was worried that her mother would freak out on Rika too and hurt her as well. A few seconds later Rika came running back in the room.
"Call 911 we need an ambulance," she frantically shouted throwing the phone at Lash and running back out of the room. Lash caught the phone and stood up and followed Rika into the living room.
As Lash walked in she immediately went into shock, her mother was laying on the floor. A bottle of Sherry lay next to her hand and her face was lying in a pool of her own vomit. Rika was trying to move her mother out of the nasty mess and over to an open area. She yelled at Lash to call an ambulance again and began checking her mother for a pulse and to see if she was breathing. Lash called 911 and they told her an ambulance would arrive shortly, which it did and the men came in a whisked her mother away on a stretcher and trying to revitalize her. She had been breathing but shallowly as they took her mother away Lash and Rika just watched, Lash wanted to go with her but the police had arrived and they needed to talk to them.
After talking to the police Yusuke and Kurama showed up and watched the investigators and police take pictures. Lash began to cry again though she didn't have very many tears left to cry. Yusuke went up and hugged her while Kurama went straight to Rika who seemed to look as if her world was falling into a dark hole. She felt extremely bad for Lash and did her best to try to save her mother but she wasn't sure if what she did would have been enough to save her life. Kurama suggested they all go to the hospital to see what had happened to Lash's mother. Lash nodded and they all walked to Kurama's car and soon after ended up in the hospital.
They stayed up most of the night waiting for someone to tell them that Lash's mother was alright and she just had a case of the flu. No one came for hours and they were starting to get worried, but finally a nurse came out walked over to them.
"Are you here for Mrs. Whisked?" She asked looking at her clipboard and then back at them.
"Yes, what happened?" Yusuke asked jumping right to the point, he had Lash's head resting on his shoulder; she still seemed out of it.
"Well she's had a bad case of alcohol poisoning but we pumped her stomach and she stood be fine, if her daughter would like to go see her she can, though I'm afraid she's the only one," the nurse gave them an apologetic look and then asked for the daughter to follow her.
Lash stood up and looked at her friends she had a deep frown on her face and Rika promised they would be there to take her to their apartment when she was done. Knowing that her friends would be at her side she turned and followed the nurse out of the waiting room and in to see her mother.
Lash walked in and saw her mother on a breathing machine and fast asleep. She walked up and grabbed her mother's hand. She looked at her mother with a sad face but was unable to cry, she had to be strong. 'Is this why they picked me? They knew my mother was an unfit person and would soon pass away?' She thought as she watched her sleeping mother lie as if she were dead. Lash sat there for a few more minutes then decided it was time to leave, she wanted to stay by her mother's side all night, but she had school in the morning and her mother would be very upset if she missed a day because of her.
When she entered back into the waiting room her friends were all talking silently, but when they saw her they stopped.
"Are you ready to leave?" Rika stood up and walked over to her giving her a hug. Lash looked her right in the eye when they pulled away and nodded.
They left that night and returned to Rika and Kurama's apartment where Yusuke also spent the night.
The next morning Yusuke tried to convince Lash to stay there and rest a little and not go to school. But Lash felt like she had a duty to go so she got dressed in some of Rika's clothes and sat down to eat some breakfast.
"What do you think you are doing?" Rika walked in after just waking up. She yawned and sat next to her at the table where Lash was eating breakfast.
"She's going to school," Yusuke said sitting across the table, he knew Rika would not allow this.
"What are you going to do? Lock me in Mace's room?" Lash said mockingly as she eyed Rika while taking a bite of her cereal.
"I could," Rika laughed standing up ready to move Lash into Mace's room.
"You can't do that he's asleep in there. Why can't I just go to school," She yelled as Rika picking her up out her seat and dropped her on the ground. Lash reached for the kitchen table leg and held on for dear life.
"Yusuke help me!" Rika shouted pulling on Lashes legs, Yusuke instantly stood up and grabbed one of Lash's legs while Rika pulled on the other.
"LET GO, LET GO OF ME!" Lash shouted trying to kick them off of her. Eventually Yusuke let go and ran up to her fingers and pried them from the table leg. He grabbed her from the front but she flipped and tried to do an alligator death roll. However, when she flipped they had her at the arms and her legs and she was dangling above the ground unable to do anything. Now she was in the perfect position to just carry, so they started walking and Lash tried wiggling free with all her might but she was too weak and eventually she was tossed into the room and Rika magically locked the door from the outside. Lash ran to the door and instantly began pounding on it and screaming to let her out.
"Shut up," Yaniki's voice came from Mace's bed. She had slept over and no one had noticed, she obviously was trying to skip school.
"Yaniki, Rika locked us in here," She looked over at Yaniki who was now sitting up in the bed.
"What do you mean?" She said groggily before yawning and stretching her arms.
"Rika locked the door from the outside, and we can't get out," Lash said frantically as Yaniki realized what she was saying and ran over to the door.
"Let me out at least she can stay in but I gotta PEE!" Yaniki screamed as loud as she could and began kicking and punching the door.
Rika and Yusuke stood outside the door laughing at the 2 little trapped bugs inside. Kurama came from his and Rika's room and walked towards them with a questionable look on his face. "What are you two doing?" He asked listening to Lash and Yaniki inside.
"I swear to God if you don't let me out next time I have to pee I'm going in your underwear drawer," Yaniki shouted almost screeching she really had to go.
"Lash decided she was going to school so we stopped her, and Yaniki spent the night without telling us so I'm punishing her," Rika said giving Kurama a big smile. Kurama looked over at Yusuke. "I just think it's hilarious," Yusuke laughed.
A/N: Well I guess I'm gonna have to do this in 2 parts because this chapter is way too long. So next up will be Rika's story part 2 and then Lash part 2 and then Rika part 3 if I need it. And I think I will be done. My next story I'm planning is a more in depth story of Asuya and Nigel.
