Hello! I am so sorry. I can not believe how bad everything has been. At first I had to much homework to get this typed up and then my computer decided, 'Oh Rai needs to get something done. I am going to make everything on me not work.' And when I finally get something working, something else malfunctions and I cant do anything. Now my internet is working consistantly and I had to borrow my dads laptop to finish this. Here it finally is. I appologise for leaving you on such a big cliff hanger. My thanks to my reviewers: wolfgirl2.0, Rose of Death, Shorty Bay-B, arrowgirl23, Stelina Miko Kitsune, Thunder Ring, Levidicus. I know I let you guys down the most for talking like a month to get this up. Again, sumimasen. Here it is! Right after the disclamer.
I don't own any characters besides Emerald, Ginger, and any of their family that happens to be mentioned. Also the plot line is mine so no touchy!
Kurama jerked his hand away. "Why?" he asked.
"They have been dipped in a poison that will kill anyone but me or an elemental demon." you explained. You pulled all the arrows out of the wall with one hand and looked at them. "Water. Earth. Darkness. Air. Just as I thought." You crushed the arrows in your hand and then burned them. You opened your hand and the ashes fell to the ground.
"So that's why we couldn't sense them. They were form elemental demons." Yusuke said. You nodded. "I understand why we couldn't sense them, but how come you said you saw them?"
"Vision. Have them sometimes. No biggie." you shrugged.
"Those visions sure are helpful!" Botan exclaimed.
-I thought she only had visions of the Forbidden Child.- Ginger mulled to herself.
You noticed her thinking look. "Whatcha thinking about?" you asked her.
"Oh. Just why they sent those arrows." she replied.
"Eh. Supposedly they are mad about the demons we killed today and want revenge. They are going to send another note when they are 'ready' to fight me." you quoted in the air.
"How do you know that?" Yukina asked.
"The note thing that went into my head is called a Spirit Note. Elemental demons prefer this form of writing when they don't want anyone but the person the note was intended for to hear/read it. Convenient for wars."
"So that note wasn't meant for us to hear?" Botan asked.
"Nope."
"Then why are you telling us it."
"Cause I don't care if they wanted you to hear it or not. You are my team members. I have formed an alliance and I tell the members of my alliances anything important." You glared out the window. "I'm going to bed now. Be careful but I don't think they are here anymore." You walked past Ginger. "Oh. I just remembered. I had another vision earlier. Remind me to show you it tomorrow Ginger."
She nodded and you left the room. "Hey guys," Kuwabara said after contemplating for a little, "didn't Hiei say something like that after he showed us his dragon for the first time?" Everyone nodded. "See? They're an even better match than we thought. Not only are they perfect height for each other, they think alike!"
"You fool." Everyone looked at Hiei. "Thinking like that does not make us a match. Any demon who has experienced something knows that that is a smart thing to do." He got up and disappeared, supposedly going to his room.
Botan waited until she was sure that he was gone. "We should get them together. They are so alike. Come on. Let's plan how." Everyone sat up for another hour planning on how to get you and Hiei together.
Ginger and Kurama listened but they didn't really contribute. -Even if they end up starting to like each other, they are to stubborn to say it.- they both thought.
You put on a pair of blue pajama pants and a slightly large black t-shirt. You were about to climb into bed but decided to go outside. You opened the balcony doors and stood leaning against the railing. You sighed and closed your eyes. The wind slightly brushed your hair around. "I miss you mom but you were still distant to me no matter how much you told me you loved me." you whispered to yourself, not knowing that you had another set of ears listening. "But Gin… why did you have to die? You were my best friend and you understood me. You cared about me. You are the only person who has ever cared about me and understood me. I really miss you. You always seemed to know exactly what I was thinking." you smiled to yourself. "Why did you have to die, Gin, why?" you whispered, wrapping your arms around yourself.
"You can cry real tears?" you heard someone say.
You opened your eyes, dropped your arms, and turned around. "What Hiei?" you asked when you saw him standing near the wall, his face in the shadows.
"You are crying real tears." he repeated, stepping closer. You lifted a hand and touched your face. You felt water. "I thought you only cried acid tears."
"No. I cry normal tears as well." you said lowering your hand.
"You looked surprised when I said that you were crying."
"I didn't know I was crying. And it had been so long since I cried that I forgot that I could cry normal tears." you looked to the side. "Heh. You'd think that after 113 years I wouldn't be sad still." you said with a wry smile. Hiei didn't say anything. "So why were you listening to me?" you asked looking back at Hiei.
"Hn."
"I'll take that answer to mean you don't know why." Both of you studied each other for a minute. You broke the silence. "I can see that you want to ask me questions. Go ahead. I have a weird feeling that you can be trusted with certain information."
"What makes you think that I have questions?" Hiei asked you.
"Your eyes." You said locking your gaze with his.
"What about them?" a small flicker of uncomfort came into his eyes.
He obviously isn't used to people reading him like this. "As much as we try to hide it, our emotions still mangage to make their existence obvious in our eyes. I have learned how to read demons easier through their eyes. It is hard for them to lie with their eyes. At least, harder than lying with their voice. Go ahead and ask." You waited for him to speak.
"Why did you scream earlier?" he finally asked.
Your face darkened slightly but you answered despite it. "I had a nightmare of my past." You replied simply.
He raised and eyebrow but didn't question it. "What happened to your mother?"
"She was killed by a demon when I was 3."
"Who is Gin?"
"My older brother." You said quietly.
"Why is it him you miss more than your mother?"
"He was my best friend and only friend. She never cared as much about me as he did. He always seemed to know what I was thinking before I even finished thinking it." You smiled. "He knew me inside out. He is the only person I respected then. And he is the only person I have ever really loved."
He studied you for a second. "From your attitude, I would have said that you felt the same way about love as me."
You looked into his crimson eyes. "How do you feel about love?"
"It is a four letter lie." He sneered.
Your lips curved into a smirk. "Yes. It seems like that when it hurts you, doesn't it?"
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"When you love, it is the greatest feeling ever. But when you get hurt… there really aren't sufficient words to describe how your heart feels."
"You really send contradicting hints to your personality, don't you?"
"Yup. Always trying to confuse. Is it working?"
"I don't get confused."
"And let me guess, you don't love or feel any emotions either.'
"You have that right. Emotions are weak."
"It is easy to hate them after you have been hurt by them."
"You don't hate them?"
"No. I don't hate them or think they are weak but I don't want to have to experience the pain they bring when they are concerning someone who is close to you. I prefer to observe and experience for afar." You walked over to your door. "Like you do with Yukina. Good night Hiei." You opened your door and closed it softly behind you. You climbed into bed and closed your eyes.
-You still owe me fighting time.-
You smirked. -Don't worry, Hiei. I won't forget. We will fight tomorrow morning.- You rolled over and fell asleep.
(Hiei's POV) You watched Emerald walk into her room. -That baka onna is more observant than I gave her credit for. She has only seen Yukina and me together once and already can see so much. She must be stronger than I thought. Fighting against her again will be interesting if she was holding back like I though she was.- You paused in your thoughts. -You still owe me fighting time.-
-Don't worry, Hiei. I won't forget. We will fight tomorrow morning.- You heard her reply. You turned and jumped off the balcony into the darkness below.
(Your POV) You rolled over and fell out of your bed. "Ouch!" you exclaimed sleepily. You struggled around for a few minutes in vain, trying to untangle yourself from you blankets. "I GIVE UP!" you yelled and unsheathed your claws, slashing your blankets to pieces. You stood up and brushed scraps of blanket off you.
"8:30? And I'm not tired? Interesting." You said when you saw the clock. You heard someone talking outside and looked out the window. You saw the guys and Ginger talking in the practice field.
-Oh yeah. I told Hiei we would fight this morning! Got to get dressed!- You ran over to your closet and grabbed some clothes and went to the bathroom to change. You took off your sleep shirt and started to unwrap your bandages. You hand touched something warm and sticky. "What the-" you cut off when you was that your hand had a good deal of red on it. (For all you slow people, your wounds on your back are still bleeding." -There is no way that I should still be bleeding. I had my neko side out for so long that that should have at least stopped the bleeding. Even if the cuts were on my wings it should have healed some. I know that my wings heal slower but this is absurd!- You thought frantically as you took off the rest of the bandages. You examined the gashes in the mirror. -Hm. They look like they are not infected but maybe there was poison on their blades.-
-Most likely there was Neko.-
-Great. And I was so looking forward to sparring with Hiei.- You whined.
-Did I say you couldn't spar? Just use a spirit bandage or two. No problem!-
-Good idea!-
-I never have bad ones.-
-Yeah yeah.- You got a towel wet and washed off the dried, old blood and then new blood. You made two spirit bandages and smoothed them on your back. The wounds seemed to close up and disappear right away.
-Remember that it is only there if you have enough spirit energy.-
-I know that. I am not dumb!- You put your clothes on and went to get your bandana. You looked into your full length mirror as you tied your bandana on your head. (You know, in a triangle with two ends under your hair. The rest of your clothes look like this: black slacks/sweats… kinds fit like jeans with flared ends. Blue and green flames go up the sides. You have a blue spaghetti strap shirt with black flames around the bottom to about the middle of the shirt. You have blue tennis on. On your left arm you have a black leather wrist band and on your right you have a green leather wrist band.)
You switched your eyes from the green that they had changed to at night to your yellow cat eyes. -Hm. My clothes have been really out there lately.-
-They look really cool, Neko. I like your style.-
-Thank you. Now I am going to go keep my promise.- You stepped on your balcony railing and hopped onto a tree. You jumped form limb to limb until you were standing on a limb next to the clearing.
"Okay. Let's warm up." You heard Yusuke say. You stepped into the shadow cast but the tree trunk and settled down to watch.
"Just use light attacks at the moment. It is a warm up." Kurama said as he faced Kuwabara. Hiei and Yusuke faced off on the other side of the clearing. You watched as they started attacking each other like they had you.
-Light attacks?- you growled to yourself. -They fought against me using light attacks?!-
-According to them, they did Neko.-
-No one goes easy on me and gets away with it!- Your energy swirled against your barriers. Your anger escalated your energy level so much that it burst through your barrier and spilled out everywhere.
The guys stopped in mid attack and turned to face your. Yusuke lifted his hand a pointed his finger at you. (They don't know it is you.) "SPIRIT GUN!" he yelled. The tree you were standing in burst as you flipped over their head and landed on the other side of the clearing. They turned to face you, tensed and ready for an attack. They relaxed when they saw that it was you.
"Hey Emerald. What's up?" Yusuke asked. You glared at him, still to mad to answer. "If you are mad about me attacking you sorry. You can't be to careful." He said waving his hands in front of him.
"You were holding back on me." Your voice was as cold and hard as steel. Your energy was still high, so you gave up on talking and focused on stabilizing your barriers.
"Holding back? What does she mean?" Kuwabara asked looking at Hiei and Kurama.
"You are to dumb to even think of what that means?" Hiei mocked Kuwabara.
"Shut up shrimpy! At least I'm not short and ugly like you." Kuwabara shouted.
"If I am ugly, then what does that make you? To hideous for anyone to see?"
"I believe," Kurama interrupted the fight. "She means that we were holding back on her when we were fighting her the other day."
"Well of course I was holding back on her. She is a girl and its against my code to fight her."
You got your barriers back up and spoke again. "Then why did you fight me the last time?"
"Because you dared us. A man always does his dares." He tried to look macho.
"A man? Where?" you asked looking around. "All I see are some geeks who are stupid enough to go easy against a former assassin." You looked at the guys. "Maybe one of you would like to spar with me before I fight with Hiei."
"I won't fight you because you are a girl." Kuwabara said crossing his arms.
"And you're not?" you retorted. You gave up fighting with them for the time being. "Ginger? Will you warm up with me?"
"Sure." She said stepping out into the middle of the clearing.
"Uh… Ginger?"
"Yeah?"
"I am going to be warming up like this." You said as the red belt appeared on your waist and red flames engulfed your hands.
"Oh. I probably need my armor, huh?"
"Wait, why does she need armor? She can just dodge the flames right?"
"These flames wont burn anyone until I want it to."
"Then why-"
"Here. I'll show you." You interrupted Yusuke. You lifted you flaming right hand and punched the ground. A cloud of dirt blew out of the area.
The guys blinked and way you standing in a 1 ½ feet deep hole that had a 5 feet radius around you.
"And I didn't even try.' You commented stepping out of the hole.
"So we are not the only ones who have been holding back." Hiei said.
"Well of course I have to hold back. I'd kill you if I didn't."
"We'll make a deal. You don't hold back when sparing us, and we won't hold back on you. Deal?" Yusuke asked extending his hand.
"Deal." You agreed, deflaming your hand before shaking his.
"I thought you said your flames wont burn unless you want them to."
"That's right. They won't. I just made them go away because it is harder for humans to get used to the fact that their hand is engulfed in non-burning flames." You flamed your hand back up.
Ginger brought out the choker and light engulfed her. In a matter of seconds, she was covered in something that looked like a ninja assassin's suit with protective goggles on. She nodded to you and raised her fists.
You vanished and appeared behind her. You rapidly punched her until she turned around and started attacking as well. You both started punching and dodging so fast that they really couldn't see much more than a blur of mostly black, some red, a little white, green, and blue too.
Suddenly the red disappeared and the fight seemed to get faster and harder. In a minute, a large amount of brown was added to the mixture of colors. Half of the blur seemed to speed up even more. There was a lot more grunts of pain coming form the fight now.
Slowly, Ginger became visible as she stopped attacking and blocked rapid puches coming from a colorful blur.
You appeared behind her with now emerald green flaming hands and punched her in the back. Hard. She flew forward to the opposite side of the clearing. You appeared beneath her and kicked her up ant towards the guys.
She went up, up, up, until you couldn't see her. You waked to the center of the clearing, still looking up. "Won't she die if she hits the ground form that height?" Kuwabara asked.
"Maybe." You replied unemotionally. Kuwabara looked worried. "If she falls." You eyed the fast growing black blob in the sky. "15 seconds to touch down." You said. You whistled loudly.
It seemed to reach Ginger through her shock. She tucked herself into a ball and rolled toward the ground. Ginger bounced off a tree and landed on two legs and a hand. She stayed in that position for a second. Her armor developed millions of cracks and fell to the ground in pieces. Ginger stood up and brushed herself off.
"Glad we drilled that so many times?" you called to her.
"Yep. So much better than getting broken into many pieces." She replied. "I think I am getting better at making the armor."
"You are. Thanks for helping me warm up." You deflamed your hands and looked at the guys who hadn't said anything. Kuwabara and Yusuke looked confused, Kurama thoughtful and Hiei didn't have any emotion on his face.
"How come your flame is now green? It was red and now it is green! What is going on?" Kuwabara said in a panicked voice.
You heaved a sigh. "Do I have to spell everything out for you?" you asked, exasperated. You walked over to them. "You have seen the red flame, right?" you held out a hand that was flaming red. They nodded. "That is the first level. Then there is black. Then brown. And then green."
"How strong are you with the green flame?" Yusuke asked.
"I am not stronger. The flame just enhances the effect of my attack." You corrected him. "I'll show you." You turned around and punched the air. Nothing happened and then 20 trees burst.
"Wow. Haven't seen that attack in a while." You heard a new voice say.
You leapt in the air, spun around, and showered the new person with kunai. Ginger jumped back ½ a second behind you. She pulled her said out. You landed next to her and glared at the silver haired kitsune. "Kuso." You growled.
"What? Not happy to see me?" he asked, not harmed at all by your kunai.
"Hell no." you spat at him.
"What's wrong neko?" he asked mockingly.
"Hm. Let me think. You almost killed me and tried to do something with ginger almost a hundred years ago. I wonder what the problem is." You replied sarcastically.
"Oh. Is that what I did?" Youko asked. You growled and threw several kunai at him. He knocked them aside with a plant. "Did you really think that would hurt me?"
"No but I had hoped." You said
"Fine. If you don't want to talk I won't either." Youko put a seed in his hand and a plant wrapped around his arm and spread out.
"Death tree!" Ginger whispered form next to you.
"Yep. I know." You darted towards the giant plant with giant teeth. Youko looked surprised that you were racing towards your death armed with a couple of throwing knives.
He smirked. "If you want to die so badly then I will be happy to help." A giant mouth came out to meet you as you sprinted forward. Just as it touched you, the whole plant went up in flames. Youko's eyes widened slightly as you came through the flames and tackled him to the ground, pinning his arms to his sides with your legs. You held your kunai at his throat, crossed in an X, with one point on either side of his neck. Youko looked up into your crimson eyes. "I see you have gotten stronger and smartert."
You gave a fake smile as you glared at him. "Yeah. A century of practice will do that to you."
"Heh." Youko chuckled as he faded back into a red haired Kurama. You blinked, surprised.
"Hello Emerald. Sorry about Youko." Kurama said calmly. You jumped off of him and backed up a little, warily looking at him.
"What is going on?" you asked, confused.
"When one of Youko's robberies was botched, he escaped to the human world with only his life and merged with an unborn baby boy to regain his strength. I am that boy and Youko at the sametime." He explained while standing up.
-… Sucks for you that you like Youko's reincarnation.- you said silently to Ginger. All you got in response was to be hit on the head by the handle of her sai. "Ouch!" you yelped as you face planted it in the ground. "What was that for?" you complained sitting up and rubbing your head.
"For what you said and you deserved that." She retorted.
"Yeah. Probably." You laughed slightly.
"For whatever I did to you in my past life, I am sorry." Kurama said walking over to you.
You looked at him. "Okay. I can forgive you. I did beat you twice now." You said smiling.
Kurama looked over at Ginger. She looked into his green eyes and nodded. "I'll forgive you if you promise to never try and take advantage of me again." He nodded with a small smile on his face.
"Aw! Group hug for all the forgiveness!" you said extending your arms. All three of your moved together and then with a small pop, you turned into a kitten again. Kurama and Ginger ended up hugging each other. They jumped apart and looked away, each of their faces tomato red. You ran over to the rest of the guys, dragging your katana along after you.
"Emerld!" Ginger yelled, sounding very embarrassed.
-You know you'll thank me for that later.- you told her, hopping up onto Kuwabara's head. That was the safest and highest place you could think of and you knew Kuwabara wouldn't mind.
-You did that on purpose.-
-Of course. Everything I do has a purpose.-
-Why you little brat! Get down here so I can pummel you!-
-Aww! Ginger is embarrassed. How cute!- Her face turned a couple shades of red deeper.
-You still owe me fighting time. Are you ready or are you going to stall your defeat longer?-
You jumped off Kuwabara's head and changed back into your normal form. "I am not stalling and I won't be defeated!" you glared at him.
"Could have fooled me." He said in a bored voice.
"Damn. I really hate your attitude at the moment."
-Not changing. Get used to it.-
"Augh! Get out of my head!" you yelled holding your hands to your head. Hiei smirked. "Fine. I am ready to fight anytime you are, bu if you think you are going to beat me, you are going to have to do it fast. You have fifteen minutes of fighting." You said re-strapping your katana to your waist.
"What do you mean 'fifteen minutes of fighting'? You are supposed to repay me for the fighting I missed."
"That is what I am doing. You only missed fifteen minutes of fighting."
"Then what took you so long to get back?" Yusuke asked.
"You try finding half a disk in a temple. That thing was a maze!" you exclaimed.
Ginger looked at Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei. "Hey, How come no tried to stop Youko and Emerald from killing each other?"
"Too sudden." Kuwabara replied.
"Bored." Yusuke said with his hands in his pockets.
"Hn." Hiei said.
"I'll interpret Hiei's answer for you. He said he didn't care."
"I gathered that much." She replied.
You turned to Hiei. "Are you ready to fight?" you asked.
"Hn." He threw off his cloak to reveal a blue shirt underneath it.
"Wow." You were surprised. "You wear colors?" He didn't reply but walked out to the middle of the field. "Eh. Whatever." You walked out to the middle of the field as well.
"I'll time!" Ginger said. You nodded silently, already in battle mode. Hiei got ready or so it seemed. The only way you could tell would be that his muscles had tensed slightly. Neither of you moved, waiting to see what the other one did.
-This is going to go on forever.- you started to think, when Hiei suddenly decided to move. He disappeared but you felt his presence behind you and flipped into the air to avoid a downward slash. You kicked his head while in the air and then jumped back.
"Is that all you can do?" Hiei asked. "I didn't even feel that." Before he was even done talking, you were in front of him. You swept your leg under his legs. He wasn't expecting that and fell down. You started rapidly punching his stomach with flaming brown fists. He let out a small grunt of pain before kicking you off of him.
"Kuso." You mumbled as you skidded to a stop. "He kicks hard." You dodged his attacks for a minute and then came back with a couple of your own attacks. You lifted your hand to block an attack when you tripped. You started to fall but put your hands on the ground and flipped back until you were a little ways away from Hiei. You pulled yoru katana out and cut the thin roe that had attatched itself to your ankle. "Is that your way of getting me back Ginger? Making it easier for Hiei to attack me?" you shouted at her as you clacked katanas with Hiei.
"No. Hiei doesn't need help. I just wanted to make you trip!" she shouted back.
"Thanks!" you said sarcasticly. You jumped to avoid another attack and you decided hat hit would be really fun to annoy Hiei. You used his head as a spring board and jumped into the tree behind him. "Can't catch me!" you yelled at him over your shoulder.
-Did you just challenge me to a race?-
-Kinda. I said you can't catch me and you won't!- you replied, lighting a leaf on fire with your flames. (Everlasting fire until you put if out.)
-Hn. Baka onna. I am faster than you.-
-We shall see.- you lit a leaf on 3 other trees while you were conversing.
-Hn.- was all you got for a reply before you sensed that he had moved. You jumped to the top of the tree you were on and jumped across the clearing. You lit a leaf on fire in a tree over there before Hiei appeared next to you. "I can't?" he said smirking.
"That's right. You can't. You only caught up with me. You still have to catch me" you said as you took off along the tree line. You lit a couple more leaves and then went to the middle of the clearing. Hiei came out of the tree line half a heartbeat behind you. "Try and catch me now Hiei!" you laughed and disappeared with a small spark of flame.
"Where did she go?' Kuwabara asked looking around. Hiei's eyes quickly scanned the tree line. Everyone had lost track of your energy. Everyone except Ginger, that is.
"You are really going to piss him off Em! And you only have 10 minutes left." She shouted.
"Eh. So what if I piss him off? That is what I am trying to do." You said from a tree limb behind Hiei. He turned around to face you. While turning he vanished for half a second and then reappeared and completed the turn. The branch fell out form under you as you launched yourself off it. You tried to spear him on the end of your katana but he moved and you just dug it into the ground. Growling, you pulled your katana out of the ground and vanished again. This time you appeared on the first tree that you had lit a leaf on and continued around the edge of the clearing until all the trees had a leaf lit on them. Hiei appeared beside you as you reached out to light the last leaf.
"So that is how you disappear." He murmured to himself as you vanished, yet again. HE jumped off the tree and stuck his hands in his pockets. He walked at an easy pace to the center of the clearing. He just stood there for about three minutes until your patience wore out.
"You know, it's no fun if you don't try and find me." You said sitting cross legged in the air above him.
Hiei turned slightly and looked up at you. He smirked. -I didn't need to 'try' and find you. I knew exactly where you were.-
"Augh!" you yelled clutching your head and closing your eyes. "I HATE WHEN YOU DO THAT!! STAY OUT OF MY HEAD!! SAY OUT, STAY OUT, STAY OUT!! You opened your eyes and glared at the smirking fire demon.
-If you had any strength you could keep me out. But you are weak so you can't.-
You dropped form the air and struck his blade with yours. Your katanas were locked at the hilts and it was now a battle of strength. Hiei had two slight advantages. 1- he was a little taller. 2- he knocked your feet out form under you. You mumbled intelligible curses as you fell to the ground and lost your grip on your katana. Hiei swiftly kicked it out of reach but when he brought his down towards your neck, your neck wasn't there. "I really hate you." You growled at him before disappearing.
Hiei smirked and vanished as well. He reappeared next to a buch and held his katana at your neck as you appeared. "What the hell!" you exclaimed, eyes wide.
-I cut all the leaves off the trees and placed them here while you were screaming at me with your eyes closed. The flames can't be put out for some reason.-
-Everlasting flame. Heard of it?-
He raised an eyebrow. -Not may use it.-
-I am one of the few.-
-Are you going to admit that you are defeated yet?-
-But that would be lying and lying is bad.- you thought in a mock astonished voice. While you had been talking, you levitated a leaf up into the air behind him. -I am not finished yet.- you smirked. Hiei caught some movement out of the corner of his eye. "Bye Bye." You said and vanished.
Hiei continued looking at the flaming leaves in a pile. -What is she doing? I have all of her escame routs.-
"Hey! Over here baka!" Hiei turned around and looked at you holding a leaf in your hand. "You are not the only one who can move things, remember?" you asked. You raised all of the leaves up in the air and grinned like a cat that ate the canary. (Which is ironic since you are part neko.) "Now I get to make sure that I annoy you."
Hiei came down at you from the air but you decided not to be there again. He landed lightly and glared at where you were now. You stuck your tongue out at him and appeared behind him. Your katana flew into your hand. You darted forward and cut Hiei's arm. You did that hundreds of times. There were all shallow cuts and bled hardly a drop but you knew from experience that they stung like hell! Hiei's eyes kept getting more and more pissed off. The next time you changed position, he attacked you. You swiftly changed form attacking position to defending.
"Told you I could make you get pissed off." You chuckled as you dropped to the ground. "Don't need these anymore then."
The leaves dropped also, no longer flaming. Hiei attacked at the same time that you did. (Remember when Hiei tested Yusuke before they got on the boat for the Dark Tournament? It looked like that at the moment.)
"2 minutes left Em!" Ginger called. A short blast of fire shot out of the fray, signaling that you had heard.
"Wow. They are going faster than him and Urameshi were!" Kuwabara exclaimed.
"I would hope so! We have been alive and in training a lot longer than Yusuke has." Ginger said folding her arms across her chest. They watched the exchange of blows for the rest of the time. "TIME!" Ginger yelled.
You and Hiei seemed to have not heard her. She waited for a couple of seconds and then motioned with her hand. An electric shock traveled through the air from her to the cloud of dust. You and Hiei sprang apart. His hair was standing up even more than normal (if possible) and had little sparks of electricity running through it. You had let out your cat ears and tail in the scramble. Your tail was 6X thicker than normal, the fur on your ears was standing up, and your hair was sticking out everywhere. "Ginger! What the he did you do that for?!" you screamed at her as lightning rolled down your sides.
"You didn't listen when I said time was up."
"SO?"
"So I had to get your attention somehow."
Hiei "hn"ed and slid his katana back in it's sheath.
"Same back." You retorted. You put your katana away and stretched. -Now might me a good time to stretch out and then figure out an antidote for that stupid poison.-
-You might be right neko.-
-What poison?- Hiei interrupted.
-None of your beeswax!- You and Mica coursed.
He glared at you fro a second. "What poison?" he asked again, this time out loud.
"What did you said Hiei?" Ginger asked.
You glared at him and then tried to jump into a tree to get away. You fell back to the ground. "Ouch." You mumbled quietly.
"Now I know it has something to do with you. Stay until I figure out what Hiei was talking about. What did you say?" he asked turning to him.
"I said 'What poison'?"
You slowly walked over to the barrier and poked it. It gave a little. -Must get out of here before she starts screaming.- you thought. You closed your eyes and focused on tearing a small hole in the barrier. You then reached out with your hand and set a small plant on fire. You vanished with a spark just as Ginger rounded on you to scream at you because you didn't tell her about the poison.
"GET BACK HERE AND TELL ME WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT!"
"Don't worry!" you called over your shoulder as you headed towards your room. "I am going to make an antidote now!" You dodged a lightning bold and jumped into your room.
There you have it. It was a really long chapter though and kinda worth the wait. The next one should be out within a week. You guys are starting to catch up with what I have written down. You know that the more people who review means that I will work on the story more, so if you want the chapters after the next three to come fast, you better review. Later- Rai