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Breaking in the parents.... How I dreaded telling
them what and who I was... Who my friends are. It had to be done.
So I decided to do it when I was training Robin. Amazingly, she
had an enormous amount of spiritual energy for her age. I don't
know where it came from, but she had it.
All of us got up, ate breakfast, and headed
to Genkai's temple (after a quick stop to feed the cats). By the
time we arrived, Genkai was ready for us. She had a room set up
for this kind of training and we all entered, seating ourselves
around the ring.
Botan and Keiko and Yukina stood off to the
side to watch. Yuusuke started to somewhat train Keiko in some
basics, but not since he found out she was pregenant with his
child.
"So, Yuusuke," my father leaned towards
him.
"Yes, sir?" he asked as politely
as he could. He got the drift of their nature last night.
"How long have you and Keiko been married?"
my mother leaned in on this comment and looked at Yuusuke inquiringly.
"Yes! I'm dying to know," she was
such a gossiper.
"Actually... We aren't married,"
Yuusuke replied with a nervous laugh. My parents' faces dropped
and my father's turned into a scowl and my mother's a look of
complete utter shock. She can't be so withdrawn that she hasn't
heard of teen pregenancy.
"Your. Not?" mom asked stupidly.
"We're planning on getting married after
the baby's born, to be honest," Yuusuke placed a hand behind
his head, giving another nervous laugh. Genkai must have noticed
since she called Yuusuke out first. Normally she calls on Robin
to see how her powers are developing.
"Hiei, I'd like to see you two battle
it out this time. Demon style as normal," Genkai winked at
me. I smiled nervously.
Yuusuke and Hiei took center and got into their
stances. My parents' eyes looked on curiously. Hiei started out
by pulling out his sword and Yuusuke with a small Shotgun. That's
when my mother's and father's eyes buldged out like saucers. Hiei
dodged a few but was hit with one. Nothing fatal or damaging though.
He grew quicker after the years. I had aqcuired more respect for
him though and Robin adored him.
Hiei undoubtly won the fight when he made his
mark with his sword at the heart of Yuusuke. Yuusuke froze with
his hand right before hitting Hiei's nose, spiritual energy surrounding
it. He stood up and smiled. Hiei nodded and they sat back down.
"What is this light show? Are you entertainers?"
my father tried to reason.
"Dad... This is real," I said slowly
for him to comprehend. He looked at me like I was a demon, like
Hiei or Yuusuke or Kurama. Yuusuke was half, but he still counted.
"Robin, why don't you and Kurama go at
it?" Robin jumped up enthusiastically and ran to the center.
Kurama shook his head and walked up and stood in front of her.
Robin grinned and turned to her grandparents, "Are you watching?!"
I couldn't help but feel something weigh on
my heart. I knew they were watching, and I knew they wouldn't
like what they saw.
Robin poised herself in her normal standing
position that always worked for her. Genkai didn't understand
how and why, but I guess even though she was young, she was very
aware. I can't get up to get water anymore without her knowing
and asking why I'm up.
Kurama made his stance and waited for the go
sign. He called his rose whip and Robin called her weapon. It
was a spirit weapon, and pretty good. She wanted to be like Hiei
and the weapon she could make was a medium staff like weapon.
It may look harmless, but it's got the feel of a blade to it.
She'd twirl it in one hand and could literally slice her enemies
apart in a spiral blade movement. It was pretty amazing.
"Ready?" Robin asked playfully, glancing
at her grandparents. She charged forward at Kurama who easily
dodged. He attacked with her whip. She countered spinning her
staff and destroying the whip. Kurama looked a bit shock but quickly
recovered. Robin landed in a pose that had her crouching on the
ground, one leg extended, one arm forward and her fighting weapon
in her hand in the air. She had determination in her eyes, I could
see it.
Kurama snuck a seed from somewhere... God knows
where.... and attacked. The vines hit and entangled Robin, making
her immovable, and making Kurama the winner.
"You cheated!!" she exclaimed.
"Your a sore loser," Kurama said
softly. Robin glared and stunned us all with what she did next.
She used her spirit energy to force the vines to break away. We
didn't know she could control plants. The next thing had Kurama
stunned the most. The vines turned on him and he could
have no control over them. Robin's eyes glazed a bit, as if something
was awakening. Hiei had to interject before the vines would kill
Kurama.
"Robin!" I ran towards her as she
fainted.
"What the hell was that?!" Kurama
asked. Yukina and the other women ran up to me and her.
"Is she alright?" Shizuru finally
came in the room. She was outside waiting for something, I think...
"I think so," that's when I noticed.
Something I couldn't tell my parents. I pulled off my white trench
coat I was wearing and wrapped it around her.
"What's wrong with her?" Yuusuke looked at me and then to her worriedly. I leaned over and whispered something very faintly. Yuusuke's eyes widened. He told Hiei and Kurama. I swear, Kurama looked funny with that odd expression on his face. So did Hiei.
"Can you do all that, too?" my father
asked me loudly. I flinched at his voice.
"Yeah," I said annoyed.
"Yes, sir!" he corrected and I rolled
my eyes.
"Don't start, you don't control me. You
weren't even around!" I yelled back.
"Your still my son, and you should respect
me!" he stuttered out. I had him, or at least I did for a
moment.
"Doesn't give you the right," I walked
away.
Shizuru met me up the stairs and handed me
a folder. Must have been what she was waiting for.
"May help a bit. Doubt it though,"
she said and walked off. I slipped the folder in a bag of mine
and picked up Robin off my old bed.
"Yuusuke?!" I called. He came with Keiko down the stairs. We decided to leave. My father and mother followed.
I sat on my bed, Robin fast asleep in her bedroom with her cat and hoard of stuffed animals. I held the folder in my hand and looked at it. I opened it and read the contents... I dropped them on the floor in shock.
