Hello everyone. I am back from my long absence. I want to thank Jao Ensatsu Kokuryuha, Thunder Ring, Shorty Bay-B, arrowgirl23 for reviewing. You guys are so loyal to my story! Here is chapter 11.
"Sheesh!" you muttered closing your balcony door. "She isn't happy with me."
-I probably wouldn't be happy with you either if I was in her place.-
"Eh. I probably wouldn't be happy with me either. Oh well. Might as well start now." You went to the back of your closet and grabbed the bag that you had with you when the team brought you to Koenma. You pulled out something that looked like a chemical set and a box. You set it on the floor. Peeling off a little of your bandage, you collected a sample of your blood in a little bottle. You heated it up and separated the poison from the blood. You lifted the vial of poison up to your eyes. "Now we shall see what you are made of." You did a few quick tests and then snorted in derision. "How much more basic can you get?"
-Hiei's POV- You were sitting on your usual seat, the window sill, when Emerald finally came downstairs. "Did you make the antidote?" Ginger asked her immediately.
"Do hawks fly?" Emerald said putting her hands up. "Of course I did. See?" She lifted the back of her shirt to show Ginger. You closed your eyes.
"Dinner is ready. Oh, Emerald. You are finished?" Kurama asked stepping into the room.
"Yes. It was a very basic poison."
"Really? What was it made of?" he asked.
"A poison made out of a common plant in the area where earth demons live, a chemical that suppresses fire elementals immune systems, and another plant that is poisonous to birds."
"Why a plant that is poisonous to birds?"
-Yes. A very good question fox.-
"All three of those react weirdly in warmth when combined. My body also couldn't heal all three of them together so it was a smart combination. Except for the fact that all three are really basic. It took no time to make an antidote."
"Then why were you up there all day?" Kuwabara asked.
"Um…" You cracked open an eye slightly and glanced at her face. Emerald had a slight blush on her cheeks. "I… got lost in my bag while looking for my ingredients."
There was silence for a couple of seconds and then, "HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" The detective, the baka, and Ginger cracked up. The fox bit his thumb.
"Hn." You said and looked out the window.
-Your POV- Your eye twitched while they were laughing at you. Suddenly you took a deep breath and smiled. "Fine. If you guys are going to laugh at me, I am going to eat all the dinner by myself." You got up and walked towards the door. Your efforts only got you trampled as the two bakas raced over you and got stuck in the doorway. You sat up with a huge anime vein on your head. "You bakas!" you growled and jumped to your feet. You dashed after them and jumped into the kitchen through the space between their heads and the top of the doorway. "Nyah!" you stuck your tongue out and sat down in a chair.
Yusuke pushed Kuwabara down and took a seat at the table. Hiei, Ginger and Kurama walked in, sidestepping around Kuwabara. "That wasn't nice Urameshi!" he said sitting up.
"Whatever." Yusuke said. Kuwabara opened his mouth to say something. "Shut up and sit down so we can eat. I haven't eaten all day and I am starving!" Kuwabara closed his mouth and sat at the table.
-Eating dinner (Nothing really happened) You brought your dishes to the sink and started washing them. "Thanks for dinner Kurama." You said finishing your dishes. You glanced over at Yusuke's and Kuwabara's really dirty dishes. "Everyone has to clean their own dishes tonight since Kurama always makes dinner and washes the dishes." You grabbed Kurama's dishes from him. "You go sit down and relax. You are doing nothing tonight."
Kurama chuckled. "Okay. You win. I'll relax." Kurama left the room. You washed his dishes and then followed him out. You found him sitting on the couch reading. You walked past him and curled up on a chair. The rest of the group trickled in after they finished cleaning their dishes. Hiei sat on the window sill, Ginger sat next to Kurama, and the two bakas fought over the remote on the ground.
After sitting around for about twenty minutes or so, Kurama straightened up and closed his book. "Finished already?" you asked opening an eye a slit to look at him.
He shook his head. "I just remembered a question I wanted to ask you."
"Shoot. I'll decide whether it can be answered."
"Why did you get lost looking for ingredients? You didn't get lost when you got bandages out of your bag."
"That is because I use bandages a lot so those were near the opening. I have antidotes and salve and pastes or whatever for everything so I hardly ever have to use my ingredients."
"Everything? That's impossible!" Kuwabara exclaimed.
"Not really. You name it, I have it. Poison antidotes, different salves for cuts, burn salves- I even have one for darkness flame burns."
Hiei sat up suddenly. "Did you say darkness flame burns?"
"Yeah." You nodded, your eyes darkening a shade.
"Why do you have that?" he asked.
"An elder of the fire elementals could summon the dragon of the darkness flame but he burnt his whole arm, at least, summoning it. I figured out something that would heal it fairly fast and with no lasting effects on the body."
"Effects?" Kurama asked.
"Paralysis goes away instantly and if it isn't ever treated, your control over your muscles where the burn was gets horrible as you age. You eventually loose control completely."
-Hiei's POV- Your eyes opened wide in shock. -Loose control completely…-
Kurama glanced at you and then looked back at Emerald. "Did you stop him from loosing control completely?" he asked her.
-Your POV- "Yes. I did manage to have him able to use his muscles but it wasn't very rewarding."
Hiei glared at the wall as if trying to burn a hole through it. He suddenly got up and stalked out of the room. "Hey shorty! Where are you going? The girls are gonna be here soon!" Kuwabara shouted at him.
"Shut up baka." He called back.
Everyone else shrugged off his abrupt departure and returned to the conversation. "Why wasn't it very rewarding?" Yusuke asked,
"That is something that I will not answer." You said. With a pop, you transformed into the white kitten with black stripes that they had seen before. You laid your tail over your face, signaling that you didn't want to be disturbed.
-Meet me on the roof, onna.-
-Hiei?-
-Yes baka.-
-Why do you want me to go to the roof?-
-… I need to talk to you.-
-Okay. Be right there.- you felt Hiei break the connection.
-Wonder why he wants to talk to me.- You jumped off the chair and trotted over to the door.
"Where are you going Em?" Ginger asked.
You flicked your tail at her and then continued on you way. "What did she say?" you heard Yusuke ask.
"That means she'll be back soon."
-Hiei's POV-- What is taking her so long?- You thought as you stood on the edge of the roof. You clenched your right hand. -Was it a mistake to ask her to come? But what she said…. Could I really loose control of my arm?- You stuffed your hands into your pockets. -Either way, if she comes, I am going to have her look at it. If I don't have anything wrong, all the better.-
You heard a meow and a pop and then saw Emerald walk up next to you. "So, what did you call me up here for?"
You turned slightly to face her. "You said that you have had experience with darkness flame burns."
"Yea. The elder in the fire elemental demons could summon it. But, as I said, he had consequences for it."
"When does it become too late to fix the damage?"
She thought for a moment. "Well, that all depends on the amount of damage and the health of the person before they used it. But it is not usually until they are really old." You relaxed and she noticed it. "Why are you asking me these questions?"
You looked at her for a minute. "Because I don't want to loose control of my muscles."
"But, you can't. Unless…' she trailed off as her eyes widened in realization.
"Yes." You replied unwrapping your bandages. "I can use the dragon." You showed her the black dragon wrapped around your arm.
-Your POV- Your first reaction to his words and the sight of the miniature dragon was fright. Hiei must have seen it flicker through since he looked at you funny. You quickly pushed away the fear and walked closer to observe his arm. You studied it for a second and then reached for it.
He jerked away. "What are you doing?"
"I'm looking at your arm to determine what the damage is. Now hold still!" You probed it gently with your fingers and quickly assessed the damage. "Okay." You released his arm. "There isn't much damage done and I think I have something that can fix the little there is. Follow me." You walked along the roof until you got to above your balcony. You jumped down and walked through the door with Hiei following. "Follow me closely," you said opening your bag, "or else you will get hopelessly lost."
-Didn't you get lost earlier in there?-
-Yes but I know where this is. I used it so often that I could walk there in my sleep.- you replied as you crawled through the opening.
"Walk?" he said to himself.
He stood there waiting. You head popped out of the opening. "You coming?"
Hiei blinked in surprise. "I am supposed to come with you?"
"Well yeah. I want to give you something so you can make and antidote in an emergency. Come on." You backed up and stood up as Hiei crawled in. He stood up and looked around. "You weren't expecting to be able to stand up in here, huh?"
-Hn. Who would? It is a bag after all.-
"Yeah. I found it some time ago and thought it would be a good something to steal.' You walked down and 'aisle'. It was really just a tiny path in all the junk that you had on the ground. You came to a shelf that was filled with different colored bottles. You quickly grabbed a small red bottle that had a black stopper in the neck. After sniffing it to check if it was still good, you handed it to him. "Drink this all now." Hiei looked at it suspiciously. "It isn't poison. Drink it." He almost spit it out immediately but choked it down. "Yeah. I know it tastes nasty but it will heal the muscle and nerve damage that you have accumulated." You searched through the bottles and pulled out two more. "Drink this one tonight before you go to sleep." You said holding a clear bottle with a mixture of blue and brown liquid. "This is a preventative and it will hopefully keep any major damage from happening next time you have to use it. It will make you sleep for two to three hours so you need to make sure that you take it at a time that you want to sleep."
Hiei nodded and slipped it into his pocket. "What is that one?"
"This one is for you to take directly after you use the dragon next time." You answered. Putting the black bottle in his hand, you continued. "It just stalls the damage so you can still do things for anywhere form 48-72 hours. But," you started walking back towards the opening. "you need to come to me as soon as possible so I can give you something. Most likely it will just be an ointment to put on your arm because you drank that but there is no reason not to be cautious."
You crawl out of the bag and are followed by Hiei. You closed the bag and shoved it into the closet. "You really like this."
"What was that?" you asked turning to face him.
"You really like working with medicine, don't you?" he repeated.
"Yeah. How'd you guess?"
"You kept going on about what this stuff does even though I didn't ask for an in-depth explanation." He smirked.
"Eh. Sorry about that." You said sweat dropping slightly. "You can tell me to shut up if I am rambling. I won't try to totally kill you."
You both exited your room. "Why medicine?"
"After being faced with multiple mass deaths, you start to wonder if you can do anything to prevent this seemingly inevitable thing. That's how I started." He raised an eyebrow but didn't comment. "Yeah. I know it seems that I enjoy killing but I don't, not that much, unless it is killing earth demons, but only then. I just like the feeling of being stronger than others." You stopped abruptly. "Listen to me rambling!" you hit yourself on the forehead. "You are dangerous Hiei. You're to easy to talk to. See ya." you turned into a kitten and ran downstairs.
Hiei watched you go. "To easy to talk to?" Hiei snorted and walked downstairs himself.
You scampered through the doorway to the T.V. room and launched yourself across the room to hide behind a chair. While you are a kitten, your personality and actions become more feline like. You peeked your head around the edge of the chair and looked at the newcomers to the room. -The girls have arrived.- The still sensible part of yourself told your kitten self. You was the you had created a little disturbance with your mad dash across the room.
Botan was the first to recover. "Was that a cat?" she asked.
"Yep. Ginger answered. The rest of the girls shrugged and continued talking.
Just then Hiei came into the room. Your eyes gleamed and as you got closer to your chair, your butt raised in the air above your head and wiggled in anticipation. Hiei passed your chair and you pounced! His hand immediately went to his katana when you latched onto his leg. When he realized it was you attached to his pants, he growled lowly. You were picked up and flung across the room behind the couch. There was a little thud as you hit the wall.
The girls, minus Ginger, were shocked. "Hiei! You didn't have to throw that poor defenseless cat!" Botan exclaimed.
"Hn." Hiei muttered as he took his place on the window sill.
There was a small pop and you stood up, dusting yourself off. "I wouldn't consider myself defenseless Botan." You sat in an armchair. "But really Hiei, did you have to throw me that hard. It's not like I hurt you or anything."
"Hn." was the only reply you got.
"I've been here to long. I'm getting used to Hiei never saying anything." you muttered.
Kurama, being the closest to you, was the only one who heard you. He chuckled softly.
"What's so funny kitsune?" Hiei snapped.
"Nothing Hiei." he replied.
You smirked and sat cross-legged in the chair. "How do you turn into a cat?" Botan asked.
"She's a neko demon, of course." came out of your mouth.
Your eyes narrowed as the girls looked surprised. "No one asked you Mica." you snapped.
"Does it look like I care?" she asked.
"I don't know 'cause I am not looking at you. And stop talking through my mouth."
"I can if I want to."
"No.
It is my body."
"Make me stop then."
"I will." you closed your eyes.
Inside your mind It was a completely black space. Not dark. Just black. You appeared in front of Mica. "You asked for it." you told her as you beat her to a pulp. "Ah, I fell much better." You stretched your arms above your head.
"Even if all that happened was that your mind beat up my mind?"
"Yep." you told Mica, "It's better than not beating up any part of you."
"You are too much Neko. Go back out there and socialize." she shooed you.
"No. I want to stay in here." you whined.
"If they come over often, you are going to need practice to endure it."
"But-"
"And I never thought you were a coward."
"Fine! I'll go back out! But if I get annoyed, it's your fault!" you got up and left your mind.
"You don't know how much is really my fault, Emerald." Mica whispered to herself.
Back with everyone You opened your eyes to meet very pink ones. You instinctively kicked out, but realized it was Botan and pulled it. She fell back and grabbed her stomach in pain. (Pulled it just means that you didn't use much force. You only had enough time to do that, not enough to stop.)
"Botan!" Kayko and Yukina shouted. They helped her sit up.
You were surprised that Botan was in front of you but you quickly erased that emotion. "WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" Kuwabara yelled at you.
"Reflex." you snapped.
"Reflex or not, you didn't have to kick her so hard!" Kayko scolded.
You stiffened at her tone. -Oh no! She did NOT just scold us.-
-I believe she did, Mica.- "Hn. The grim reaper is lucky her guts aren't splattered on that wall for being in my face. She should be grateful that I pulled that kick." you growled as you stood up and crossed your arms in front of your chest.
"That still doesn't make it right to try and kill her." she continued to scold you.
"I didn't 'try' and kill her," you disappeared and reappeared behind her with a kunai to her neck. "but I can 'try' and kill you." She didn't even breath as your kunai got closer to her neck. "And I would succeed." You leaned closer to her ear. "Don't annoy me. Baka ningen." you whispered, cutting a shallow slice on her neck that dripped some blood down her neck.
You stowed your kunai and walked away. "Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic." you remarked to yourself and to the room. "The girlfriend of Urameshi Yusuke can't even protect herself at all. What an easy way to defeat the great spirit detective."
"It's been tried before and it only made me stronger when I fought fore her." Yusuke growled at you, a little mad that you had just dissed Kayko.
You faced him, just before walking out of the door. "She must have been kidnapped by amateurs then." you leveled your frozen yellow eyes with his warm brown ones. "If if had been me or any other real demon, you would have been reduced to nothing." You turned around and left the room cold from your words.
The ones who weren't used to the cold, hard facts of demon life (the ones who are human and grew up in the human world first) looked scared and surprised at your words.
Ginger suddenly realized something. Although Kayko looked scared and surprised at Emerald's words, her eyes also showed that she was giving this revelation thought. "That old softy!" Ginger whispered.
"Beg pardon?" Kurama asked quietly.
"I said that Emerald is a big softy." she whispered to him.
"Threatening someone isn't exactly what I call 'being a softy'." he said.
"Look at the whole picture. Emerald always evaluates someone's strength and potent ional right away. And she usually is right. She just taunted Kayko into wanting to be stronger."
"And if Kayko doesn't do anything?"
"Then Emerald will keep treating her like the pathetic human scum she is. If she does do something… well, we'll see what happens. Something might and something might not. You can never tell with Em. She is about a predictable as and earthquake.
Back to your POV You stepped quietly onto the roof, still steaming over the fact that a human had been bold enough to scold you. You sat down on the edge and stared up into the sky for a while. The endless space of stars calmed you some. You always had enjoyed the sky. You were, after all, part hawk demon and the open sky meant freedom to you. Freedom to fly out of the reaches of anything, leaving problems behind, if only momentarily. The freedom to go where you wanted and the knowledge that no one could or would try and stop you.
-So beautiful. So open. Too bad I can't just leave here.-
-And why can't you Neko?-
-Well #1: I don't want to just leave Ginger. Not without at least giving her a warning. We have had each others backs for 107 years after all. #2: Incase you didn't notice, I GOT CAUGHT BY KOENMA! And #3: My wings still aren't healed completely. I couldn't just start running. Unless I used my full strength, I doubt that I could beat Hiei. And I'm not even sure I could access all my energy right now, with my emotions going hay wire like this. Do you see why now?-
-Sorry, did you say something? I zoned out after you said 'well'.-
-MICA!!- you screamed.
Someone inside the house flinched slightly form you scream.
-Calm down! Sheesh! Can't take a joke? I do see why now. I did listen to the whole thing.-
-You annoy me.-
-That's what I'm here for.-
You groaned out loud and focused on the stars again. (Important information: Hiei didn't start listening to your conversation until 'Unless I used my full strength' so he still doesn't know about your wings or you being a hawk demon. None of the Yu Yu gang does)
-Still love those stars. I remember when Gin and I sat on the roof of our house and watched stars all night. It was so cold that night.- You smiled at the memory and, for once, Mica stayed quiet. -Mom was so mad when she found us asleep on the roof in the morning. I thought her ehad was going to explode, it turned so red. Gin tried to take the blame but Mom blamed me. It was always my fault. But Gin always found ways to make me laugh after my punishment was over. He always looked after me, no matter what.- One tear drew a trail down your cheek and gently dropped onto your hand. You looked at it in surprise and then furiously wiped your hands across your eyes. -Why the hell am I crying! I never have cried this much since I was two!- A memory played across your thoughts and a certain fire demons was able to see a glimpse of your past.
-Memory- A very small, white blonde girl with a bandana around her eyes stood in a large dirt area. She was dusty and had multiple bruises on her arms and legs. Her breath was labored and her whole body was shaking. Two tears ran down her cheeks quietly, leaving a trail through the dust on her face.
"Are you crying?! You aren't allowed to cry." A large hand slapped her and she fell to the ground. A tall black haired man proceeded to beat her until she was hovering between consciousness and unconsciousness. "You are never to cry, ever again. Do you understand me?" the man barked at the girl. She managed a small nod before the memory faded out. End of memory
You shook your head slightly as if it would get rid of the memory. You took a last look at the sky and got up to go back to your room.
Hiei's POV You sat there, with your eyes closed, long after you felt Emerald fall asleep, with her memory playing across your thoughts. You almost felt concerned for Emerald, an emotion you didn't experience often. -I wonder who that man was who beat her up and what happened to him.-
You opened your eyes and gazed at the room full of sleeping ningen, the grim reaper, and your sister. -What has this onna done to me? I've never ever thought like this before.- The memory played through your mind again. -I still can't understand why he beat her up so young. I was told to hide my emotions but I didn't even get punished that much.-
You opened the window and slid outside. You settled down, your crimson eyes watching a sleeping Emerald through the window.
There you have it. Did you like it? I hope it takes some of the pain out of the wait. I will have the next one up within two weeks I promise. Ja ne - Rai
