Shadowess: Another chapter. I felt like updating so ya. Not much to say here. I hope you enjoy this one!
Disclaimer: I do not own YYH, Wizard of Oz, phonebooks of Dukes of Hazard, the 'Ring-around-the-rosey' tune
Chapter 9: The Mission and Twists
That night, the girls were filled with brief dreams. Nyssa was in Hiei's room for the fourth night out of seven. Her mind was occupied with the giggling of a little girl again. Visually, there was a sword fight between two shadowy figures.
Their swords clashed with flashes and the clanging metal echoed in the unfamiliar area. The two were of similar height and moved at great speed.
One was loosing the battle and had their sword knocked away from them. The other struck their sword through their shoulder and the lights came on. Nyssa had the sword through her shoulder and the holder of the sword was Hiei, but his eyes were not red, but blue.
'H-Hiei…' she choked out as she started to fall. Nyssa hit the ground, allowing blood to flow from her wound. Her demon form flashed back to her human form in an instance.
The sword was pulled out and was about to strike her again but his eyes went back to their brilliant red. Hiei dropped the sword and looked at her with wide eyes. He fell to his knees and held Nyssa up.
'What have I done…?' the dream boy whispered in disbelief.
Nyssa reached up and put her arm around Hiei in a half hug. Before she could say anything, rapid footprints were approaching and out from the darkness jumped a giant demon spider and a shadow figure man with a sword glinting in the light.
Nyssa opened her eyes and turned over to see Hiei watching her. Since she was half asleep, she jumped back in shock and fell off the bed.
"Ow… shit…" Nyssa grumble and sat up from the floor, putting an arm on the bed.
"What's your problem?" Hiei asked her, propping himself up on his elbow.
"I was half asleep and thought I saw something that wasn't real." Nyssa got up and got back in the bed.
"What did you see?" He said with a tinge of curiosity.
"I thought I saw you with blue eyes." she grumbled as she put her head down on the pillow.
He raised an eyebrow at her. "What were you dreaming of?"
"I don't feel like saying it. Just go in my head and see it if you can." Nyssa yawned.
He nodded and went in to her mind. That dream sequence was played over again, causing his eyes to widen slightly. "Blue eyes… You get the strangest dreams, onna."
"I know. You ever dream of really odd things?"
"Rarely."
"Well…" Nyssa yawned. "I'm getting sick of remembering these dreams, and I'm getting sick of these spiders."
Hiei lied back down and glanced at her once more. "Dreams only prepare you for a situation that could occur; to lessen to blow."
"I know… see you in the morning, Hiei…" she groaned and drifted to sleep. Hiei dosed off soon after as well.
In Kyla's room, her dreams were filled with bits of scenes. The bleeding heart rose weapons were flying through the air and turned back in to their original sprouted form.
The view cut to Kurama holding out his rose whip, yet his eyes did not show the usual green… they were blue. Whip lashes were heard and flashes of the whip clouded her sight.
Kyla was in her fox form, running away from something. Another whip lash sound and she fell forward to the ground. It cut to her full of slashes, whimpering on the ground with her white hair, ears, and tail marked with blood. Kurama came up behind her and the scene cut to Kyla going human.
With tears in her eyes, she looked up at him. 'Kurama…'
His whip fell to the ground and his eyes went back to their emerald green. 'Kyla…!'
Falling to his knees, he lifted her up in to his arms, his hair hiding the look in his eyes. The scene around them changed in to one on a bridge, and it collapsed sending both of them falling.
Kyla shot awake and looked around. Her breath was shallow and she was trembling. "Only a dream… only a dream…" Kyla put her hand on her chest and her other hand slightly beneath the pillow. But… her fingers grazed something.
Her heart stopped. She didn't put anything under her pillow. Her mind flashed to what it could be and she panicked. Kyla screamed in dread, causing her door to fly open to reveal Kurama.
His hair was messy and his button-up pajama shirt was disheveled. "What happened?" he looked like he was ready to attack someone.
Kyla jumped up and went over to him, whimpering. "There's something under my pillow that I didn't put there!" she hid behind him.
Kurama went up to her bed and lifted up her pillow. It was the seed that he gave her the first night. "It's the seed that I gave you." He picked it up to show her.
"But I put it beside the pillow." Kyla took it from his hand.
"It must have got under your pillow, because it is, after all, from the demon world." Kurama said. "It reacts to emotions."
"I kind of figured that out when it jumped after I talked to it. Right, seed?" Kyla looked at it. It jumped. "Gah! See?!"
Kurama laughed. "Well, that's all that was under your pillow. Go back to sleep, vixen." He kissed her forehead before heading back to his room.
She smiled and took the seed back to bed. This time, she put it under the bed sheet at the top corner. With a yawn, Kyla fell back to a tranquil sleep.
"Is everything set?"
"Ready and set." A woman purred.
"Very good, Natasha. And Amelia?" the man looked towards the small girl.
"Very ready."
"How are the half demons enduring the dreams?"
"Another night and their dreams shall be endless nightmares…" the little girl giggled. "Nothing can stop them now."
"And what of the other detectives?" he looked towards Natasha.
"They are in need of some stitches. A few of them have been ripped and clawed too much." She laughed hauntingly.
"You have guests arriving soon. Take caution and have fun, girls." He laughed as conducted them off.
"Hey, babes!" Yusuke greeted them as he went in to the living room.
"Hey, dumbass." Nyssa smiled at him.
"Hi, dickhead!" Kyla waved at him cheerfully.
Yusuke nearly tripped over his feet and gaped at them. "Dumbass? Dickhead!? What did I do?"
"Call us 'babes'." Kyla pointed out.
"Well, what do you want me to call you? Chicks? Hotties? Dolls?" Yusuke started listing off.
"Kurama, do you have a phonebook?" Nyssa asked.
"Uh… yeah.' Kurama got a phonebook and handed it to her. He looked to the giggling Kyla in question, but she just pressed a finger to her lips to keep quiet.
Nyssa went up to Yusuke. "Right or left?"
He stopped listing off names and looked at her confused. "Huh?"
"Right or left?" she repeated.
"Um… right?" he was unsure about what he was answering for. His response became clear when the phonebook she was holding was smacked across the right side of his face, causing him to fly halfway across the room.
"Thank you, Kurama." Nyssa handed the phone book back to him.
Yusuke sat up laughing. "Whoo boy! That's a hit Jin would fly to the cosmos and back for!"
"Jin? Who's he?" Nyssa asked.
"Trouble." Hiei said in disgust.
"Jin is a wind demon. We fought in the first tournament since we became detectives." Yusuke said. "Maybe I'll be able to introduce you to him one day."
"Why do I get the feeling that you would get along great with him... causing chaos and havoc to all humanity." Nyssa said to Kyla.
"Yeah, most likely." Kyla nodded.
"Well, where's that Grim Reaper?" Yusuke stood up, rubbing his red cheek.
"Right here!" Botan flew in on her oar. "Everybody prepared?" All of them nodded and she made a portal to lead to Koenma's office.
"So where are we heading, Koenma?" Yusuke put his hands in to his pockets.
"It's a different kind of environment… Like those toyland areas that you may have seen on cartoons that are meant for children under five years old." Koenma brought up a screen that showed a photograph of a lot of toys of dolls, blocks, and… things…
"Are you sure that's an environment? Looks like a baby-sitters nightmare." Kyla commented.
"It's an environment. Now be careful out there." Koenma pressed a button and a portal appeared right beneath them.
They all fell through with a light cry of shock. One the other side, they all landed on their rears. Hiei was up first and looked around. He didn't like the environment, all the color… It was too deceiving.
Everyone got up and heard the giggling of a little girl. Kyla and Nyssa looked at each other.
"Do all little demon girls have the same giggle? Even in dreams?" Kyla asked, whispering.
"Maybe… did you have dreams with giggling in the background too?" Nyssa whispered back to her.
"Ya. You had them as well? Good, then I'm not the only one." Kyla smiled.
"Let's start out that way." Yusuke spoke up, pointed down a yellow brick road…
"If munchkins come out, kill on sight." Kyla said.
"Agreed."
They all nodded and started down the rip-off path from Wizard of Oz. Looking around in caution, the giggling got louder and louder.
A little girl ran in front of their path around the corner. "That must be Amelia!" Yusuke proclaimed, running after her.
Kyla and Nyssa went in to their demon forms and followed with Kurama and Hiei. Around the corner behind an ABC block, Yusuke was looking at twin girls holding hands, dancing in a circle.
They were singing, "Ring around the rosy… pocket full of posy… ashes… ashes… we all fall down. We all fall down to hell… smell of burning flesh… No hope… no hope… we all scream NOW!!!" the girls fell down and combusted in to flames, leaving behind a puff of flowers.
Kyla blinked. "That is the best song ever! Dark, dreary…"
"Brings a smile to your face." Nyssa continued, nodding in agreement.
All the guys looked at them strangely. "You girls are… very very weird." Yusuke said with a tad of fright.
"You're the one calling girls by inappropriate names even though you have a girlfriend." Nyssa smirked at him.
Yusuke gave an innocent look. "Well, let's continue on."
After a minute, the guys heard the girls singing in a trance like tone.
"Ring around the rosy… pocket full of posy… ashes… ashes… we all fall down…" they sang dazed. Kurama and Hiei looked at them with concern. "We all fall down to hell… smell of burning flesh… no hope… no hope… we all scream now!!"
Kurama went in front of Kyla and grabbed her shoulders. "Kyla!"
She looked up at him with a smile. "What, Kurama?"
He blinked in confusion. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, why do you ask?"
"Um.. well… you were singing in a trance. I thought you were possessed." Kurama said.
"That's what the song sounded better like. It's catchy!" Kyla's tail wagged around.
Kurama looked at Nyssa. "You, too?"
"But of course, my fox friend." Nyssa tilted her head at him. She looked back ahead to see Hiei glaring at her. "You thought so too? Man you guys are paranoid."
"Let's just find Natasha and Amelia already…" Yusuke ran his hand through his slicked hair.
"Looking for me?" a voice above them echoed.
Their eye sight moved to the top of a giant block and saw a woman in a black Chinese dress with a slit all the way up her grey fur leg. Her hair was black and wavy and went down to the start of her tail. Her tail was fluffy. Her hands and feet were paws with long claws. Her eyes were green with yellow slits, and fangs stuck out elegantly and violently.
"Natasha Ptomaine, you are under arrest by order of the Spirit World." Yusuke called up at her. "Come quietly or we'll have to resort to force!"
"Such cute boys… you can be my first scratching toy, detective!" She laughed.
The little girl came up behind them and shot a ringlet beam at Yusuke. He didn't have time to evade and was engulfed in smoke with a 'poof'! When the smoke cleared, there was a standing little doll that looked like Yusuke on the ground.
Natasha jumped down and picked it up. "You should last a while. Amelia, you can have the others for playing house."
Kyla and Nyssa's eyes widened. "Not good! Run!" they yelled at the same time and grabbed the guys by the hand, running away from the little girl in a doll tan and black dress with near white curls and skull hair accessories. Her eyes were deep maroon purple with innocence and a creepy shine to them.
"Let's see how you deal with this." The little girl laughed and shot a beam towards the four.
The guys turned around and blocked the girls from the blasts. They sparked in the colors of the rainbow before the girls grabbed their hands and ran in to a giant hamster ball. The ball broke in half and a lid fell over top of them. Kurama whipped out a charm and placed it on the ball, causing Amelia to touch the ball and receive a shock.
She started crying. "Natasha! They zapped my energy!" she flew off, with single tears falling to the earth like drizzle.
"And I thought my sister was a cry baby…" Kyla said.
"Uh… Kyla?" Nyssa said with a tone of uneasiness.
Kyla turned around and gasped at what she saw. The two guys were no longer their teenage selves, but they were… little boys. She sat down with Nyssa and observed the guys.
Kurama was in a toddler version of his red and yellow uniform but his hair was cut short, like BamBam off of The Flinstones. His eyes were larger and a brighter green with shine. He looked up at her and looked down at himself.
"Uh oh…" his voice was small yet so cute. He spun around to try and look at himself better.
Kyla squealed and picked Kurama up, sitting him down on his lap. "You are such a cutie!" she ruffled his hair, causing him to laugh.
Nyssa was just blinking at Hiei, who wasn't facing her. Hiei was about waist high, was still wearing all black, and his hair was the same, only a bit droopy. He had his arms crossed. (A/N: I have no clue how Hiei was as a little kid. So I'm making it up.)
"Hiei." She said to him, to try and get his attention.
He turned around and looked at her. "What do you want, lady?"
Nyssa's eyes widened at how cute he was! His eyes were innocent yet trying to show some toughness that didn't work. His bandana was gone, showing more of his face except for his bangs.
"Oh goddess…" she gasped. He blinked at her.
"What? Is there something on me?" he looked around him.
"No… You're adorable!" Nyssa said with a smile.
He froze. "I'm… what!?!?"
Nyssa picked him up and sat him down on her lap. "You are cute as a little kid. See Kurama? Same thing happened to him." She pointed at Kurama and Kyla.
Hiei looked around and crossed his arms. "Stupid girl… I should have let you get hit by that stupid beam…"
"Then why did you do it in the first place?"
"…I'm not listening to you, lady!" Hiei stuck his nose up in the air and turned away from everyone.
Kyla and Kurama laughed at Hiei. Nyssa laughed as well. "Cute, huh? I just hope he doesn't try to kill me when these guys go back to normal."
Kurama and Hiei had that same lightening around them again, causing them to shrink and change… in to cats? (A/N: Why not?)
They had their teenaged appearance with hair and eyes, yet they were cats with tails, ears, paws and fur. Kurama was light grey and Hiei was black.
Kyla and Nyssa looked at each other and hugged the guys with light squeaks. "Kawaii!!!"
"Can they get any more cuter?" Nyssa smiled, playing with Hiei.
"This is degrading, onna!" he yelled at her. He stopped and saw her hand dangling over him like a mouse on a scratching post. He instinctively pawed at it.
"I must admit though… Being a feline is far more different than a fox… Hm?" Kurama saw something behind Kyla and jumped off her lap… slowly approaching the object with ninja kitty stealth!
Kyla laughed when she saw what he was going towards. Her tail moved back and forth, causing Kurama to jump at it. His claws went in to her tail, causing her to yelp in pain. She picked Kurama up by his scruff and held him in front of her. "You are better as a fox, kitty Kurama."
His ears flattened. "Sorry, Kyla… I couldn't help it."
She set him down on her lap and started to pet him, hearing a satisfying purr from deep in his throat. She looked towards Hiei and laughed. Nyssa got Hiei on to his back and was playing with her hands, gnawing and pawing.
Nyssa picked him up and set him on to her lap, scratching behind his ears. "I wouldn't mind if they stayed like this for a while."
"At least Kuwabara isn't here." Kurama said in between strokes. "He adores cats."
"I'd scratch that moron's eyes out if he came near me…" Hiei mumbled, giving a deep purr.
They sat there for minutes before they heard a light tapping on the hamster dome. The cat dudes turned to see Yusuke in his doll form, yelling with his cotton mouth, "Let me in!"
Kyla and Nyssa set Kurama and Hiei down and move to lift up the transparent cage. Yusuke scrambled in.
"You escaped from being a cat toy… now you're in danger of being a kitty toy." Kyla informed him, picking up Kurama.
Yusuke fell backwards and sat back on his polyester butt. "When did you guys become cats!?" He called in shock.
"If you came by earlier, you would have seen two little kids instead of kitties." Nyssa said. "They got zapped by Amelia's beam."
"Damn… Why didn't I get to be with you guys? Then I would have gotten petted by the girls." Yusuke crossed his stubby arms.
Hiei's fur stood on end as he hissed at him. "You are still a scratching toy target, detective!"
"Cripes!" Yusuke hid behind Kyla.
Not a moment longer, the shocking field of the dome was being zapped again. They all looked up to see Natasha and Amelia hitting at the dome with… tiny toy umbrellas…
"You. Can't. Stay. In. There. Forever!" Natasha yelled between whacks.
The little girl giggled and stopped whacking. "I almost forgot about the little trick I have."
Natasha looked at her and grinned. "That's 'purr'-fect, Amelia. Do proceed."
Everyone inside the dome was confused as the little girl closed her eyes and hovered in the air. Kyla and Nyssa heard giggling from her but… not from her directly. The noise was in their minds. Kyla's ears and tail drooped and her eyes went dazed and lifeless.
Nyssa held her head in pain and crunched over. It didn't last long though. Her hands fell to the ground and her eyes also became dazed and lifeless.
Both girls got up and lifted the dome up completely, throwing it off to the side. The guys yelled at them to try and snap them out of their trance. Natasha laughed and looked at the girls.
"Such obedient little girls… You're influence on their dreams does wonders, Amelia!" her Russian accent piercing through the air as her paws touched both the girls' faces.
Hiei sent a message to the two other guys saying that Amelia was controlling them. They formulized a plan; Yusuke would distract Natasha while Hiei and Kurama went to take down Amelia.
Yusuke ran up to Natasha. "Hey, flee-bag! Bet you get hair-balls from looking in a mirror!"
That got her attention. She hissed violently and pounced at the fleeing Yusuke toy. Kurama and Hiei snuck around the other side of the dome and used their temporary cat-like skills to jump up at Amelia from behind.
Claws extended and fangs open, the two got hold of Amelia's ankles, causing her to shriek in terror and pain. She started crying and flew down to the ground, landing next to Nyssa and Kyla.
Kurama and Hiei let go and were ready to strike the crying girl, but Kurama noticed something, stopping Hiei before striking.
Yusuke was just caught by the woman but he turned in to a human again. Both confused, Yusuke snapped out of it and pointed his finger at her in a gun-like motion and yelled. "Rei Gun!"
A pulsar of energy shot out from his finger and hit Natasha in the chest, knocking her back and hitting her head against a giant block. She fell limp and unconscious. Yusuke gave a cheer in victory yet stopped when he heard little Amelia crying.
"I…I w-want my mommy…!" Amelia cried, rubbing her tear-filled eyes.
Kyla and Nyssa snapped out of their trance and looked at the crying Amelia. Nyssa picked up Kurama and Hiei, having a little difficulty with Hiei though… Kyla knelt down beside Amelia and looked at her.
"Why are you crying?" she asked softly.
Amelia sniffled. "T-the kitties hurt m-my ankles… I w-want my mommy!"
Kyla looked at the little girl in sympathy and hugged her. "It's okay… We can take you to Koenma and he can find your mommy. They also have special people there who can make your ankles all better." She knew how to talk to good little girls, even though they were pure evil and tried to kill them.
"R-really…?" she stopped crying but was still wiping her eyes.
Kurama jumped out of Nyssa's arms and on to Kyla's shoulder. "We can if you allow my friend and I to become our original selves. I apologize for hurting you, but we didn't know what else to do."
"But… Natasha and him will get mad…" she whispered.
"Natasha and the mean man won't get at you if you come with us." Nyssa said.
"Yeah, cat lady won't get mad now since she's unconscious." Yusuke pointed his thumb behind him to the feline demon.
Amelia looked in deep thought and nodded slowly. She looked at the kitties. "Your forms should return to normal in a few hours…"
"Then why did I change right back?" Yusuke asked.
"I hit you with a direct beam. I don't like doing the same one twice." Amelia smiled.
"What about what you influencing their dreams? Can you stop that, too?" Kurama asked.
"I'll stop sending them nightmares and I won't control them any more…" Amelia touched her ankle and flinched.
"Would you like one of us to carry you, Amelia?" Kyla asked. She nodded.
"I'll carry her. Hiei is clawing and if he doesn't stop, he could get his fur singed." Nyssa lightly glared down at Hiei, who only went 'hn!' and crossed his paws.
Kyla took Hiei from her and held both the cat boys in her arms. Nyssa kneeled down and allowed Amelia to climb on to her back.
"Can't she fly? She is a psychic demon after-all." Yusuke asked.
"Amelia is still a little kid and sometimes needs to be treated like one. You're a teenager yet you need to be treated like a toddler that needs to be grounded." Nyssa glared at him.
"Hey, can't get rid of the little kid inside." Yusuke put his hands behind his head and went to get the demon cat lady. When he picked her up, throwing her over his shoulder, he pulled out his communicator. "We got them, send a portal now."
In a few seconds, a portal appeared that allowed them to walk through. They passed through and Koenma was waiting with a pair of ogres.
"Good job team. Ogres, arrest the woman and girl!" Koenma ordered.
"Wait!" Nyssa and Kyla yelled, stopping the ogres.
"You can't take away Amelia. We promised her to have her ankles fix and to see her mom." Kyla objected, still holding the guys in her arms.
"It will take a while though…" Koenma opened some drawers, looking through them.
"Then I'll wait with her." Nyssa said.
Everyone looked at her then Koenma broke the silence. "Alright. It may take a few hours just to locate her file. Go left out the door and five doors down to bring her to the nursery office." Koenma pulled out a pair of cuffs and handed them to an ogre. "Arrest the woman and bring her to room 3." He told an ogre.
"Okay. I'll see you guys later." Nyssa smiled and went to go out the door with Amelia on her back.
"See you at the house, Ny-chan." Kyla waved to her.
Hiei scrambled out of her grasp and ran over to Nyssa, jumping up her on to her shoulder, opposite of Amelia's head. "I'm going with you. I don't trust this brat."
"Such a bad tempered kitty…" Amelia looked at him.
"That is true, sweetie. He's just paranoid about girls." Nyssa smiled. "Bye peeps." She called back one last time and went out the door.
Koenma looked back to the others. "Yusuke."
"Ya?"
"Keiko is waiting for you at your house. I'd advise that you go get home before she gets too impatient." He opened a portal for him, causing him to drop through.
Before the portal closed, they could hear the yell of Keiko on the other side. Koenma looked at Kyla with Kurama in her arms, still in kitty form. "I would advise you two to head back to the house and wait for Kurama to turn back to normal. But before you go…" he went through a drawer again and picked up a toy that made Kurama's senses spike up. "Here is a catnip chew toy for him in case you both get bored."
Kyla caught it when he tossed it to her, even Kurama tried to leap even though he was being held. "Thanks, Fred!" Kyla smiled at him.
"Uh… My name is Koenma."
"Oh! Well, I call people 'Fred' when I don't remember their name. So… bye, Fred! Er.. I mean Koenma!" Kyla explained briefly and said farewell all at once. A portal opened beneath her, causing her to fall through with grace and no style.
Shadowess: And now the guys are cats! What's up with that? And why the heck did Fre-- I mean, Koenma have that chew toy in his desk? Just what else does he keep in there?
Kyla: He also has gum, dog toys, eye drops, a few highlighters, and a rattle in there. Oh! And a broken watch.
Nyssa: Just how do you know that?
Kyla: I snuck in while he was talking with Botan and looked.
Shadowess: Okay then... Reviews are loved but not forced! Arigato!
