Catse: Hello everyone! Here's chapter ten, I hope you like it! I also have another story coming along, but on another site. It's a co-op derived from the Kingdom Hearts game. Me and Kojika85(my cuz) got the idea of making an Anime version. We have so far added about twenty some worlds to it, including YYH and IY. The first three chapters will be up soon, and the story will be called Anime Hearts, so anyone that loves the game should like it. We start out with different characters of course, but we might put Sora and the bunch in later. If you're interested, check out the 'Holyhellwhatarewedoing' penname. Keep an eye out and things should be along shortly. Thanx!

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Disclaimer: Nope. Don't own YYH. But of course you've read this millions of times, so I'm just going to scoot onto the story. Enjoy! .

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Suta chuckled when she heard Hiei flip into a tree behind her.

She knew he would follow, and she fully intended on getting him to relax and have some fun.

She kind of liked it better when he was loose and hyper, like with the moolatte.

Her first stop was the book store, for her usual drop by for mangas and other books from her favorite authors.

"Hello Suta. Number three of D.N.Angel is in, along with the fourth copy of the circle opens from Tamora Pierce." (in case you didn't know, I love mangas and books from Tamora Pierce) The person at the counter said.

"Thanks Ryoki. I'll pick those two up along with a new bookmarker please. The last one just disappeared on me."

"Right Suta. Here you go." Suta walked out of the store after paying for her books, and walked a little while before she came to one of the cafés they had along the sidewalk.

Only then did she turn around and smile up at the tree.

"Hey Hiei. You want another moolatte? You look as if you need to ease up a little." About a moment later, Hiei jumped down onto the sidewalk, looking a little agitated at not being so well hid as he thought.

"Come on, what flavor would you like?"

Hiei chose the same flavor he had had last time, the French Vanilla and the two of them sat at one of the tables in the front, right under a large tree, so that they were shaded.

Hiei relaxed a little, just enough to actually allow there to be a conversation. Unfortenatly, it didn't seem as if he was going to become hyper anytime soon. The joke from ealier had really soured his mood.

"So Hiei. How've you been?"

"Fine."

"Okay...have you been practicing the techniques I showed you?"

He was quiet for a moment, before he answered.

"Yes."

"Good. I have a feeling that you're going to master it far earlier than any of the other students. You've already had experience with the sword, so it shouldn't be too hard."

They were silent once more.

The birds chirped, the wind rustled the leaves...and yet they didn't seem to have anything to talk about.

And Suta was running out of topics.

Except one...

"Hey Hiei. Would you like to visit town with me today? Then you could attend today's Sword Dancing class. The students are extremely friendly and open. What do you say?"

Hiei thought for a moment.

It wouldn't be too bad...

And he could actually do something for once...instead of sit around bored, and still be completing his mission.

Yeah, that could work.

Hiei nodded, and took another sip of his ice-cream drink.

Yeah...that could work out alright...

Suta looked rather happy then, and began to come up with even more topics.

She would talk about shows and animes she had seen (of course!) and then when Hiei would ask about them, she would giggle and explain the story line as they stood up to walk.

"Well, there's Inuyasha. That's a good one, and funny too."

"What is it about?"

"Well, there's this hanyou called Inuyasha, whom, some five hundred years ago, about the Feudal Era of Japan, went after a powerful jewel called the Shikon no Tama. He got caught by the woman he loved, the priestess protecting the jewel called Kikyo, and she pinned him to a tree for fifty years. But they had both been betrayed by this other evil force whom just loved to mess with peoples minds, called Naraku. Well, Kikyo was wounded when she pinned Inuyasha to the tree, so she died, but she had the Shikon burned with her body, so as to keep it out of demon hands."

"This Shikon, what is it?"

"I'm not quite sure. It has enough power to grant a demon a hundred times their normal strength though, that's what I do know."

"Is this a true story?"

"No. Just an animation."

Darn...he could really use a shikon no tama if it had that kind of strength.

"Anyways, about modern day Tokyo, Kikyo's reincarnation, Kagome, turns fifteen and falls into a well. Well technically, she's pulled into the well by a centipede demon, looking for the shikon. When she climbs out of the well, she's five hundred years in the past, and near Inuyasha's tree."

"What demon is he half of?"

"Dog."

"Curious how the dog species is so powerful." He was gesturing towards Kurama.

Suta had to smile.

"Yeah I agree. Well, upon meeting, Kagome accidentally woke up Inuyasha while the demon was chasing her, and found out that the jewel was in her own body."

"Makes sense. Her incarnation burned it with her body, so it should reappear in the reincarnation."

"Exactly!" Suta agreed. "She woke Inuyasha up, and to save her life she pulled out Kikyo's arrow, the only thing keeping him to the tree. He killed the demon, and then tried to kill her to get the jewel. But Kikyo's younger sister was there, Kaede, now fifty some years old, and she put a spell on prayer beads that she threw around Inuyasha's neck. One word said to him would incapacitate him. Only one of Kagome's words. The only thing she could think up at the time was Sit, and when she says it, the beads pull Inuyasha to the ground. Then later, during a battle with another demon, she accidentally cracks the jewel into thousands of bits that fly around the entire island of Japan. She and Inuyasha have to team up to collect them before Naraku can, and so they begin their journey. But they meet tons of new people. There's Inuyasha's older brother Sesshomaru, the white dog and ruler of the Western Lands. There's Kouga, this wolf demon that's got a crush on Kagome. Then there's Shippo, a little fox demon whose parents were killed, Miroku, a lecherous monk with a curse in his hand done by Naraku he calls the wind tunnel because it can suck demons in, and then there's Sango, a demon exterminator whose family was assassinated by Naraku. Throughout the entire story, they fight, learn new things, and become close friends. It's so funny though! You should really see an episode!"

"Interesting. And these characters, what do they use to fight?" Hiei asked.

His entire mind was usually on weapons, but who could blame him.

"Inuyasha has a sword forged from his father's fang, Kagome uses a bow and arrows like Kikyo, Shippo uses illusion and fox fire, Miroku his wind tunnel and staff, and Sango uses her fire cat Kirara and her extremely large boomerang." Suta waved her arms around, trying to give Hiei an idea of the story by acting like the characters.

"Hmm." Hiei murmured to himself.

He might actually want to watch this Inuyasha show as she called it.

Sounded like a band of characters he could associate with.

"Come on Hiei! Let's take a picture at that booth!" She chided happily, taking a sip of ice-cream as she pointed to a small rectangular contraption on the corner of the street.

"Picture?"

"Yeah, so that we have something to remember each other by! Come on."

Remember each other by.

How disgustingly sweet.

Hiei wanted no part in it, but Suta didn't look as if she was going to allow for a refusal.

"Hn." He replied as he stepped into the contraption.

It was a small booth with one large lens for pictures and a velvet curtain to keep light in.

What was a picture anyhow?

He knew of drawings...but the way she talked about it was like it would be quick and simple.

Was there an excellent artist behind the lens?

Suta put the money in and smiled, staring at the lens with her fingers up in a peace sign.

Hiei glared at the glass lens, wondering what it was for, until the light flashed in his eyes and nearly blinded him.

Immediately the sword leaped out and he tried to slash it.

Suta tried to stop him of course, and several other flashes followed the first, taking pictures of them as they went.

Finally, after the flashes were finished, they stepped out of the booth and grabbed the pictures from the slot.

Suta nearly fell over laughing from the images.

First showed Hiei with a surprised look on his face.

Next was a flash of his sword coming from it's sheath.

The third showed him in fighting position as she grabbed his arms to hold him back.

The fourth showed him swinging the blade.

The fifth one was funniest, because Suta had managed to tuck the sword under the curtain to show a surprised yet glaring Hiei with a wide eyed face staring at where his sword was.

Suta clipped off the top picture and stuck it in her pocket, handing Hiei the rest.

He looked them over, and then glared at them again in agitation.

"Come on Hiei. Let's go to the Dojo a little early. We'll practice and wait for the students to show up!"

So they did.

They got to the Dojo, she changed into her uniform (the dogi) and prepared for an afternoon with her students.

She wasn't prepared for when the student that had asked her for help last Thursday, little Suki, came in an entire hour early to class.

"Hello Suki. You look depressed. What is it?" Suta asked, allowing the pale girl to walk into the dojo.

She looked up at her teacher, and the tears welled up.

Finally, unable to contain them, she threw herself at her teacher and cried, as if something about her teacher had made her extremely sad.

"I...I fought my father when he tried to hit me...and...and I won. He...he said I couldn't come back to class, but I wanted to sensei...I had to! And so he...he disowned me and so now I have nowhere else to go..." she cried and sobbed...and Suta comforted her.

"It's alright...there you go...just cry." Suta whispered to her, kneeling so as to see her student's eyes better.

"Why didn't you call the number I gave you?"

"I left it in the house and father wouldn't let me grab it before he threw me out. And I couldn't remember the number."

"Hm...Okay."

There was silence for a moment as Suki cried and Suta comforted her student.

Finally, Suta made an offer: "I'm sorry about what happened with you at home, but if it will make you feel any better you can come and stay with me. I'm sure Koenma wouldn't mind, eh Hiei?"

"Hn."

"See. You can stay with me." The girl looked up at her teacher, now crying even heavier than before.

It wasn't out of sadness, or regret or any of those such emotions.

She was crying out of relief.

"Thank you Sensei! Thank you so much!"

Suta smiled and hugged her pupil once more, before standing up to prepare for class.

"Well then. We have to dry up those tears. You won't be able to see your katana if you're all teary eyed."

Suki giggled and wiped the droplets away.

She looked much more satisfied now that she could stay with her Sensei, and not with her father.

Hiei watched the two for a moment.

It was this that made humans different from demons.

If a demon was abused, and disowned, no one cared, and they had to fend for themselves.

Hiei was this such case.

But with humans, when one was disowned, the next took them in and took care of them, like they were their own offspring.

Where demons had their strength in solitary survival, humans had it in each other's comfort.

They practiced that hour to a number five song, and then the other students arrived, each one beaming with excitement.

"Welcome everyone!"

"Good afternoon Sensei." They chorused.

"Students, are you all ready for an afternoon of Sword Dancing."

"Hai!"

"Hiei, would you like to join the class this afternoon?"

"Hn."

"Yes or no. Come on, just say one."

"Fine." Suta giggled.

Hiei never said one of the options given.

He was just too stubborn for that.

Hiei took a position at the back of the class, so he wouldn't be watched by the other students and accepted his two wooden katanas.

They trained that afternoon, and for once, Hiei felt as if he was one with a crowd.

The students there weren't prejudice, nor did they care what he wore, or how he talked, or even how he worked with the sword.

Everyone was one for the short two hours that they practiced, and then, when the class was over, they would walk away same as last time: happy and excited and enthusiastic about the next class they would come to.

Suta waited until everyone one had left the Dojo, before she, Hiei, and Suki locked up and left themselves.

Of course, she had a few things to explain to Suki that she had learned with her stay at Koenma's palace.

"Now don't get freaked out when we get there. We have to go through a sort of portal in order to get there, and I'm sure it's rather unusual for you."

"A portal?! You mean it's possible to teleport?"

"Yes."

"You know how?"

"No. But Hiei does. He's been bringing me here since I went to live there."

"When was that?" Suki asked, looking interested.

"About a week or two ago."

"Why?"

Suta was silent for a moment, and the sorrow entered her eyes for a flick before disappearing again.

"Something bad happened to me. Something I don't want to repeat. I won't say anymore than that."

"Okay....What else is strange about your home?"

"The people for starters."

"The people?"

"Well, the owner of the palace is Koenma—"

"You live in a palace! Cool! Is your room big and luxurious?"

"It's fine for what I need. But anyway, back to what I was saying. You should not be surprised by Koenma when you see him."

"Why?"

"Sometimes he looks like a toddler, others he looks like a teen."

"And he can talk?"

"Yes."

"Whoa! He must be a genius if he's a baby and he can talk."

"No. He's just...older than you would think."

"Who else is surprising?"

"There is Botan. She's not that odd, but she is rather chipper. Oh, and she flies on a boat oar."

"She flies?!"

"Yes. So many interruptions! Quiet down and you might let me finish my statements."

"Oh...sorry."

"Yes, she flies. She is death itself. Koenma rules Spirit World and that is where the dead go to be judged. Botan is like the grim reaper. She flies around the world collecting the souls of those that die and bring them to Spirit World to be judged. There's also Yusuke, who's what they call a Spirit Detective. He runs around town defeating demons that have escaped from their world and saving the Earth from total annihilation. He talks tough, but in reality he's a real softy."

"Hn." Hiei replied, remembering when Yusuke had joked about his personality when he saved him from getting killed by Sniper.

It was around the time they were searching for the former Spirit Detective, Sensui, and Yusuke had been chased by an oil truck.

"Then there's Kuwabara. Not too bright in some spots, from what I've heard, but he can be pretty dependable when you need him. There's Kurama, you'll instantly make friends with him. He's the kind of guy it's easy to get close to. He's elegant, kind, understanding, and very very intelligent. He knows quite a bit about the world around him, and the worlds we don't know about."

"Wow."

"Then there's Hiei here. He's a demon straight from demon world."

"You are?! Cool! I would never have guessed! What's it like in Demon World? Are you in a disguise, or is that you're true form? Can you do magic—?"

"Enough Suki. My you are the talkative one aren't you? That's enough questions for one evening. Hiei, could you please take us home?"

"Hn." But nonetheless, Hiei did open up the portal so they could get to Koenma's palace.

He wasn't sure if he was going to like having Suki around all the time, asking him questions as she did.

Hell, demons were usually slaughtered in Demon world for being so talkative.

He probably wouldn't mind killing her if it would make things quiet again.

Hiei sighed.

This was going to be quite a long wait for the full moon.

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