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If you wanna know the truth… I actually stopped writing this series for a while because I didn't think anyone liked them, but I was wrong! J I even got replies from my friends at school! Hah, how odd. So.. here's the 4th Episode. I hope you enjoy!
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Episode terms:
IHOP = An American breakfast place.. guess what.. it serves breakfast foods! J
Duke University = The one in North Carolina.. ^.^
Yu Yu Hakusho New Age Season
Episode #4
Father of Fire, Heart of Gold
(Yusuke and Botan are at an IHOP restaurant very early in the morning. It's still dark out. The sun is barely showing its rays of light.)
"AH! BOTAN! Are you insane?! It's still night time!" Yusuke complained right after the waitress took their order.
"Yusuke! It's not night time anymore. It's almost 5am!" Botan corrected.
Yusuke's blood shoot eyes popped out of his head. "WHAT? 5AM?! IT'S EARILER THAN I THOUGHT!" Yusuke suddenly slammed his head straight onto the table trying to catch a couple seconds of sleep.
"Yusuke!" Tears began to fall from Botan's eyes. Her voice became very soft a gentle, but with a harsh tone deep inside. "Yusuke, how can you think about sleep at such a crucial time?"
Yusuke raised his head. "Huh?" He looked at Botan as she began to quietly weep. "Botan…"
"King Enma has disappeared."
"King Enma WHAT?"
"disappeared.."
"That can't be!"
"But it is, Yusuke. Not only that but they know.."
"Who knows what?" Yusuke's heart began to pound against all the sudden information while sweat began to fill his palms.
"Nigenkai. They're so very close to finding the answer about the portal. They'll find out any moment now and there's nothing we can do with King Enma gone like this." Botan starred at her cup of coffee as steam rose from it letting out heat to warm her hands.
"Why… couldn't we have done anything about it?"
"What do you think?" Botan looked straight at Yusuke with furious eyes and yelled into his face. "Everyone was so caught up in their own problems, kicking it back, and having a good time that they forgot all about it!"
Yusuke got angry at her comment. "Well you can't blame us! For cryin' out loud I've kicked demon's asses since I was 14, Hiei is encountering 'friendship' and a loss of a 'friendship' after thousands of years of torture, Kurama has some personal problem of only God knows what, and Kuwabara is planning to get married! What do you expect us to do Botan? Be the Spirit World's slave forever?! You know eternity IS a long time!"
Botan became silent. "Gee, I'm….. sorry…. Yusuke. I didn't realize this. I guess… with as much time as I have… you don't notice these things.." She sobbingly looked down.
Yusuke didn't reply. They both just sat there and watched the sun rise outside the nearby window keeping the bone chilling silence between them.
TITLE SCREEN:
"Episode 4, Father of Fire, Heart of Gold"
Hiei walked stiffly towards the portal to Makai down the Nigenkai streets, bumping into one person after another while hitting their shoulders trying to get through. Touching or even being close to humans would normally bother him but at this point he just didn't care. His heart burned with anger knowing he couldn't trust anyone. Finally he reached his destination. Really, he didn't know why he was going back, but then he remembered Murkuro. "Man, she's gonna be pissed since I've been gone so long." Hiei mumbled. He's been gone from his duty for over a week and a half. Hiei jumped into the crystal blue portal trying to reach the other realm. Suddenly the portal threw him back out landing onto his back. "What the hell.." he muttered. He just shook his head then tried again. This time, the portal took him to Mukuro's kingdom.
Once he arrived there Murkuro stepped right up from her throne. "Hiei, it's about time you showed up. Where have you been?"
Hiei closed his eyes quite annoyed at how the scarred faced woman talked to him as if she owned him.. wait.. she kinda did. But still, no one talks to him that way..
Murkuro continued, "Your father has been waiting quite sometime now for your arrival."
Hiei's head popped up and out of his mind. "Nani?" He knew what he heard, but she must be incorrect! It wasn't right. It just wasn't! His heart raced a mile a minute, hearing every heart breaking thump through his ears as he began to break a sweat.
Murkuro gave a small "hmp" with a smile.. "You heard me right, my darling."
Hiei snorted at her remark. "I'm not your toy doll."
"And what do you mean by that?" Murkuro raised her eyebrows.
Hiei quickly changed the subject. "Where is he?"
"Who?"
"You know who.."
"No… who?"
"My bastard of a father, damn it!"
"Oh," Murkuro grinned. "He's in the back room."
"Hn." Hiei quickly pasted Murkuro ignoring her presence as if she was never there, heading towards the back room.
The hallways grew darker and narrower. The clanking of his boots grew nosier and nosier. Thoughts were flashing through his mind so quick he couldn't concentrate on just one.
'Why am I going to see him?' 'Why is he here?' 'How could he still be alive?' 'Is he really my father?'
Hiei gripped the handle of his katana and squeezed it tight, making the sword shake. He was so nervous, yet he's never felt this way before, so he wasn't sure how to react. He was so confused. What was he going to do about the father who left his mother, his sister, him. Hiei heard that many, many years ago "the forbidden child's father" had died in a brave battle between some powerful youkai. At the time, he used to think his father was some hero or some powerful youkai and so important that he had to leave his mother, but of course, he knew none of it was true.
He finally approached the door leading to the back room. His hand surrounded the knob, but he didn't know if he should turn it to go in. He then decided if he ever wanted to know anything about why exactly he was born he'd might as well get it over with and see his father and find out why he just so happened to have shown up now.
The doorknob turned reviling a much older youkai resembling Hiei… a lot. Sitting in a chair at the near by table, the man was tall with a very big build, black spiky hair, a half-white star on his bangs, and droopy looking red beady eyes. Actually, he almost looked as if he'd been drinking some Makai alcohol.
"Hiei, that you?" The man asked in a deep, 'friendly' tone.
Hiei's eyes lowered. "Hn."
"My, how you've grown up!" The man gave an evil grin.
"You were never there at my birth." Hiei plainly stated, taking a seat across from him.
"Oh, yeah, well.. you know how it is."
"No, I don't. I don't have kids."
"You don't?" His father replied. "Well, it's a good thing. I hate kids."
Hiei hesitated at the man's comment. "hn. Why are you here? More or less I should ask how you can show yourself to me!?"
Hiei's father gave a short evil chuckle. "Easily.."
Hiei sat still in a puzzled look waiting for him to continue.
"I've been looking for a youki with strong power," his father began, "and once I heard of my son's great strength I decided to track him down. Here, let me spare ya' time. We need you.. I mean, my team. You see, we're getting a huge force of youkis to get ready for the invasion of Nigenkai. So far we have as much as 4 S Class youki! Amazing huh? Now to make the team perfect we need the youki everyone is afraid of.."
Hiei snorted. "Who? Youko Kurama?"
His father looked strangely at him. "No No No! Everyone knows he's dead. He's been dead for, what, almost 20 years? Yeah, I know there was some kid at the tournaments 'pretending' to be Youko Kurama but everyone knows he's a fake! Good riddance is all I have to say. He sure did cause a lot of chaos. He never gave someone else a chance to defeat an opponent! "
Hiei gave a slight grin at how stupid the man was. 'Boy, will he be surprised that Youko Kurama isn't dead!' J
"So whaddya' say? Wanna' join up?"
"Are you insane?" Hiei raised his voice as he stood up. "You don't even care about what you put me through and all you want from me is my strength!?! You bastard! I don't know why I even bothered to walk in here." Hiei turned his back towards his father and slammed the door before he could say anything.
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(It shows Shuichi's college as he rushes to his first morning class. He never wanted to be late.)
Kurama walked in as he quietly settled himself down and prepared for class. The class he was currently taking was on computer programming. The room itself was rather large. The seats were slopped upwards so the students would be able to look down into the semi circle below them to see their instructor. Each desk had a laptop computer, which just so happened to be one of the latest ones as well.
Finally, the students that chose to arrive for the class came in and the teacher began to start his lecture. The teacher was a rather short and bulky man that practically had to waddle when he walked. His hair always looked uncombed and his tie was usually a little messed up. "Before you get out last night's assignment I'd like to introduce a new student…"
Kurama was busy shuffling through his bag trying to find his disk containing his homework. He wasn't interested in 'a new student' at the moment.
The teacher continued, "Her name is Tamika Mindi. Please welcome her. She came here from Duke University in America."
The girl gave a slight giggle. "Please, just call me Tami."
Kurama dropped his belongings once he heard her the new student say that name. That… that… name meaning so much to him.. so much love and hate.. A chill went down his spine and his breath was cut short. He finally decided to look up and see the new student. 'OH NO! IT CAN'T BE!' he thought to himself.
****flash back:****
A shadow stepped in the middle of Hiei, Marori, and Youko Kurama. "I hate you.. yet I love you still.." The shadow turned into a figure of a young girl as her voice grew from deep and hateful to soft and sweet. The girl had short dark reddish brown hair with golden fox eyes.
(( kurama's thoughts: " She turned into her human form that night instead of showing her Youko form… but why? ))
****flash back end****
"Alright now. Go find a seat," the teacher instructed Tami.
Tami walked up to the empty seat right in front of Kurama. Right when she sat down he gulped and clenched his fist tightly together. He couldn't even hear the teacher talking because his thoughts were concentrating on how to act. Should he tell her who he is?
Tami quickly turned around. "Hey, do you have an extra disk? I wasn't informed about all the necessary materials for this class."
Kurama sat in awe for only just a half a second in reality, but to him it lasted longer. Her hair was loosely fasted in a braid down her shoulder covering her uniform. He noticed she still had her golden eyes that sparkled every time she ever looked at him, which gave him some bad memories as well. Ah, she's beautiful…
"Yes, I do." Kurama grabbed an extra disk out from his bag.
"Thank you very much! I'll repay you!" Tami smiled her sweet smile just like she always did.
"No, you don't need to."
"But I do." She turned her smile into a disappointing grin. "What's your name? So I'll know who to repay.."
Kurama panicked.
'Should I…… tell her?'
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Did you like? I hope so. At least I enjoyed it! J So far I like this one the most, but I plan for it to get better.. just like I said earlier ne? Sorry for those of you who were waiting 4 months for me to get this Episode out. Wai, gomen ne!
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Or a pic of Youko Tami and Youko Kurama ^^()
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