Nori: Well, I'm too tired to write a long disclaimer so here, I'll do it. I do not own YYH or any of its characters but I do own all the OC's and ideas….GET IT ON!
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"Kai," a young looking Kane said. "Come here."
Kai, who also looked younger, ran over to her brother.
"Yea Kane?" she said. Kane stood next to a younger Takeshi. Kai looked up at the two.
"We want you to have these," Takeshi said. Him and Kane both held up a dog tag. They both gave them to Kai.
She looked at her brothers in shock; these were the dog tags their mother had given to each one of them when they were born. They each said their name on the front and scribbled on the back it said "with love". They couldn't just give these to her!
"Why are you guys giving these to me?" Kai asked.
"Well, you know about the raid we're going on today," Kane said. "These are just in case something bad happens, you can look at these and always remember us." Takeshi nodded in agreement.
"I can't take these from you," Kai said holding them out in front of her trying to hand them back. "These were from mom!"
Takeshi pushed Kai's hands closer to her.
He knelt down to her level.
"Just take them," he told her. "They're a gift from us to show you how much we love you and how much our little sister means to us."
Kai looked at Takeshi and hugged him. Takeshi smiled and hugged her back. Kane looked down and smiled as well, he too, joined the hug.
Kai took off the chain on her neck that held her own dog tag and slipped her two brother's on there. She put the necklace back on and looked at them. She loved her bothers.
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"KANE! TAKESHI! DAD!" Kai called. They were at the raid and everything was beginning to go wrong. The Makai officials had showed up and everything was complete chaos. The crowd was separating Kai from her family
"KAI GRAB MY HAND!" Kane called. Kai reached for her brother and grabbed his hand. He tried pulling Kai towards him but it was no use, too many people separated them.
Then a demon came up to Kane and punched him, causing their hands to slip apart. The demon that attacked Kane pulled out a dagger and stabbed him in the arm.
"KANE!" Kai shouted. She saw Takeshi run over to him and then look up at Kai with worried eyes.
Then the crowd finally pulled Kai away. She was punched and kicked, sometimes it was on purpose, and sometimes she was just in the way of another fight.
Finally, after many cuts and bruises, Kai managed to escape the raid and village.
Kai was tired; she collapsed on the ground once she was far away enough. She knew her and her brothers and father were all separated now and she didn't have a clue of what to do. All she wanted to do right now was just scream and cry, but she was far too tired to do that, so instead she just fell asleep right there.
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Kai shot up from her restless slumber. She was panting and sweating. That fucking day, why did she have to relive it in her dreams?
Once Kai calmed down she looked around her. It was dark out and she was sitting in a tree. She could see the moon and stars through the branches and leaves. The only thing she could hear was the wind and every once in awhile a wolf howling.
A tear slid down her cheek. That howl sounded just like Kane's. What happened to him? She really hoped he was ok, but so far everything was pointing towards him being dead. More tears came.
Then Kai heard rustling and breathing on the branch she was sitting in. She looked over and saw Hiei sleeping peacefully. Kai smiled at him with tears still running down her cheeks. Even though the two hated to admit it, just over this past month they had really grown to care for each other.
Hiei began to stir again. He sat up and rubbed one of his eyes. He looked at Kai and noticed she was crying.
"Hn, what's wrong, onna?" Hiei asked. Kai quickly wiped away her tears, she shook her head.
"Nothing," she told him. "I'm fine."
Hiei raised an eyebrow. He knew right away she was lying…since he knew how much of a horrible liar she was.
"Tell me, now," he demanded. "I smell the salt from your tears. I know you were crying and I also know you aren't one who cries for no reason. Hell, I've only seen you cry once."
Kai looked down. She didn't want to lie to Hiei, but she wasn't sure if she was ready to tell yet…
She sighed. Maybe she should tell him what happened that day and what she thinks happened to Kane.
"I had a nightmare, that's all," she said, deciding not to tell him. "I'm fine." Kai smiled.
Hiei knew Kai wasn't lying this time, but she still wasn't telling him everything. He decided he wouldn't pry though; it wasn't really any of his business anyway. Maybe she would tell him some other time, when she was ready.
"Alright, onna, you better be fine," he scolded her. Kai smiled again and nodded. She yawned.
"Let's get back to sleep," she said. Hiei nodded and leaned his back against the trunk of the tree. Kai rested her head on his chest and closed her eyes. She fell asleep quickly, leaving Hiei up to think by himself.
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"Amaya, Reina!" an older boy called. Two nine-year-old looking fox demonesses ran over to the boy.
"Yea, Nereus?" Reina asked. The two girls smiled.
"I wanted to show you two a new water attack," Nereus told him. Both the girls jumped up and down in excitement.
"Is it really powerful?" Amaya asked. Nereus nodded.
"If it wasn't I wouldn't teach it to you," he said. "Now, it's simple, take out your weapons."
The girls both did as their older brother instructed them to. Amaya had her scythe and Reina had her double crescent blades.
"Alright," Nereus told him. "All I want you to do is focus your water spirit energy on making your weapons longer."
The girls nodded and closed their eyes. Each of them gripped their weapon pouring all their water energy into them.
Reina was the first to open her eyes, they were glowing a bright blue, as were her blades. She blinked and her eyes went back to her normal bright blue green eyes and her blades stopped glowing. Now there were long drops of water floating in place around her weapons, extending them.
Reina jumped up and swung her water blades around.
"Yes! I did it!" she said.
Amaya opened her eyes. Nothing had happened to her scythe. She glared over at her twin.
Whenever their mother, father, or brother, Nereus tried teaching them a new fighting technique or demonic attack Reina would get it right away when it took Amaya forever to learn. Amaya despised that about her sister. She always got so jealous.
"I can't do it, Nereus," Amaya said and looked at the ground. She was still holding her scythe in her hands.
Nereus knelt down to look in Amaya's dark blue-green eyes. He places a hand on his sister's shoulder.
"It's ok, Amaya," he told her. "You'll get it in time."
Amaya rolled her eyes.
"But Reina gets it right away all the time!" she shouted. "Why can't I ever do that!?"
Reina looked at her sister. She felt sorry for her; she wished she could somehow help Amaya learn a technique quicker, but there was really nothing she could do.
"Sorry, May," she said. "I didn't mean to-"
"Whatever," Amaya cut her off. "I'll be practicing." With that Amaya stomped off and disappeared.
"I didn't mean to make her mad," Reina told Nereus. Nereus looked at his little sister. He hated picking favorites but if he had to pick his favorite of the twins, it would definitely be Reina. She was smarter and had less of a temper.
"It's ok," Nereus told her. "You know how she gets."
Reina nodded.
"Yea, but still," she looked down. Nereus hugged her.
"Don't worry about it," he said. "Let's go practice with your new technique!"
Reina looked up at him and smiled.
"Ok!" she said. "Let's go!"
With that the two ran off.
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Reina's new alarm clock woke her up. She looked over at it and turned it off. She had learned from Keiko how to use alarm clocks.
Reina sat all the way up, yawned, and stretched.
"Why was your alarm set?" a soft voice said from beside Reina. At first it startled her and then she remembered, Kurama had slept in her room that night.
"I'm not sure," Reina said. "I don't even remember setting it."
Kurama sat up and stretched as well. He kissed Reina on the cheek and got out of bed. All he wore were flannel pajama pants.
"I had a dream last night," Reina blurted out. Kurama turned and looked at her.
"What was your dream about?" he asked. Reina looked off to the side.
"About my older brother, Nereus," she said. "And about Amaya."
Kurama sat back down on the bed; he was interested in what Reina was about to say.
"It was about the first day that I finally realized how much Amaya got jealous of me," she started. "Nereus was teaching us a new technique, the one I showed you where water sharpened and made my crescent blades longer."
Kurama nodded.
"Well, he explained to us how to perform that technique," Reina said. "I got it down right away, he didn't even have to show me, but Amaya…she had a hard time with it. Ever since we were little Amaya would learn things slower than I did. I felt bad for her, but I could never seem to find a way to help her learn faster."
Reina looked down at her hands. Even though she now hated her sister, she felt guilty for being more of an achiever than Amaya was. Maybe that's why Amaya turned out the way she did…maybe the jealousy just got to her.
Kurama put his arm around Reina.
"It wasn't your fault she had a hard time with things," he said. "You just picked things up quicker, that's all."
Reina nodded, maybe Kurama was right. She sure hoped. But, she didn't want to think of that right now. That was the past and this was now and right now, Reina, Kurama, Hiei, Kai, Yusuke, and Kuwabara all were thinking about how they were to kill Amaya and nothing would stop them!
Just then the two foxes heard the window open. There stood the two short fire demons, Kai and Hiei.
Kai's tail swished back and forth as she smiled evilly at Kurama and Reina.
"Seems that you two must've had an eventful night," the wolf demon said and laughed. Hiei even managed to let out a chuckle.
Both Kurama and Reina blushed a light shade of pink.
"Shut it, Kai," Reina said glaring at her friend. Kai just waved her hand and walked into the room and into the closet. Hiei silently walked over to her bed and just sat down, his back leaning against the wall.
Kurama, Reina, and Hiei watched the closet door as random items of clothing flew out.
"Kai…" Reina said. "What the hell are you doing?"
Kai peeked her head out of the closet.
"Getting dressed," Kai said and quickly slammed the door shut. Reina just sighed and walked into the bathroom.
"We really didn't do anything dirty, Hiei," Kurama said after a short period of silence. Hiei smirked.
"Right, kitsune," he said. Kurama just rolled his eyes at the hanyou.
"Something's wrong with, Kai," Hiei said. He was still leaning against the wall and had his eyes closed. Kurama looked at him.
"The same goes for Reina," Kurama told him. Hiei opened his eyes.
"Did the fox tell you anything?" he asked. Kurama shrugged.
"She told me about a dream she had about her older brother teaching her and her sister new techniques," he said. "And she said how her sister was always jealous about how she was able to learn things quicker."
"Hn," Hiei said. "Do you think that's the reason Amaya is the way she is today?"
"I'm not sure," Kurama told him. "But I think it might have something to do with that."
The two were quiet again.
"What about Kai?" Kurama asked.
"I don't even have a clue what's wrong with her," Hiei said. "We were sleeping in one of my trees and I woke up to find her just sitting there with tears running down her cheeks."
"Did you try asking her what was wrong?" Kurama asked, knowing his friend might've not said anything. Hiei nodded.
"She told me she just had a nightmare," he said.
"Did you ask her anything else?" Kurama asked. Hiei shook his head. Kurama sighed. What was up with these two girls?
Just then Kai walked out of the closet. She was wearing a pair of black baggy shorts and a black corset tube top. Her katana was at her hip and combat boots on her feet. Her metal ball necklace was around her neck.
She smiled at her friends.
"What are you guys talking about?" she asked.
"Nothing," Kurama said and gave Hiei the look telling him not to say anything. Hiei just shrugged.
Kai looked strangely at the two and then shrugged as well. She ran over to her bed and pounced on it. Hiei just looked at her out of the corner of his eye, not saying a word.
"What's up with you two?" Kai asked. "You're both so quiet."
"We're fine," Hiei said blankly. He stood up. "Come on, onna. We should get more training in if you want to be back to your original strength."
Kai nodded and stood up, too. They both walked over to the window. Hiei left before Kai did. She turned back to Kurama.
"Once you two are ready come train with us," she told him. Kurama nodded.
"We will," he told her and smiled. Kai smiled back at him and jumped out of the window.
Kurama got up from the bed and knocked on the bathroom door.
"I'll be changing," he called in to Reina. "Go to the training grounds when you are ready."
"Okie dokie!" Reina shouted from inside the bathroom.
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Nori: Eh, chapter wasn't too great, but oh well! I just wanted to thank my reviewers again! I love how people are actually reading this. Thanks you guys! Keep it up!
