Here's Chp. 2! Hehe... short again... school takes to much of my time... *sigh* Anyway... I own nothing with the exception of my character Kasumi... WHO COMES IN THIS CHP.!!! YAY!!! Anyway... R&R and enjoy!
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The rain falls slow and steady on the small district of Sorashura. Smoke rises from the still smoldering piles of rubble, that had once been a prospering city. Bodies lay strewn in an odd pattern, as if they had been caught in a whirlpool or wind. Many lay holding their throats as if suffocating, while others clutched at gaping holes where they had been run through by what seemed to have been some sort of spear, even though there was no eveidence. Yusuke satnds surveying some of the damage. "Damn...!" He looks back at the hunched form sitting around the corner of one of the few remaining buildings, shuddering violently. "GET IT TOGETHER KUWABARA!" He yells, extremely pissed off. Kuwabara looks as if he's having a panic attack. They're everywhere! It's worse the the Genkai's field!" Hiei pops up just off to the left. "And so you just sit there like a frightened dog..."
"I'M NOT A DOG! I'LL KILL YOU PIPSQUEEK!!!" He shouts, jumping up and shaking his fist.
"Go ahead and try fool." Hiei replies calmly. Kuwabara turns crimson with anger as he lifts his hands and releases his spirit sword. "YOU DIE SHORTY!!!" He shouts rushing at Hiei and swining his sword with enormous power, only to find himself lying face down in the mud with Hiei standing on top of him. "Idiot."
"WHY YOU!!! GET THE HELL..."
"SHUT UP ALREADY AND CALM DOWN!!! I think I hear something..." Yusuke interrupts, starting to walk cautiously toward a half destroyed house. The sound of crying reached his ears as he came closer, abruptly stopping when he reached the broken door frame. "Hello? Someone there?" He asks, stepping caustiously inside. A shivering figure sat in the shadows of the corner, curled up into a tight ball. Yusuke takes a couple steps toward the person, holding out his hand to help them up, but pulls back when the figure cringes. Kuwabara had come up behind Yusuke and was looking at the figure curiously. Hiei stood watching silently from the doorway. "Hey... You okay? You're not hurt or anything are you?" Yusuke asks gently. The figure lifts their head, gazing at him with cool grey eyes that shone through the darkness. "Who are you?" The figure asks.
"Urameshi. Yusuke Urameshi. And you are...?" The figure lowers it's head, replying softly. "Ashura. Kasumi Ahsura." Meanwhile, Kuwabara looked like he was about to have another panic attack. Yusuke glances at him, raising an eyebrow. "I thought I told you to cool it. What's the matter this time?"
"I'm gettin' a creepy feeling off that girl man... it's sorta like the feeling I got off of Rando, only larger and ... different somehow... I can't pplace it though."
"Well you just keep an eye on her then!"
"That's what she's doin'!"
"Huh?" Yusuke turns, noticing that Kasumi's cloudy eyes were watching Kuwabara intently. Unmoving, unchanging they seemed to pierce right through as if staring into his very soul and judging what she saw there. Kuwabara shudders and Yusuke shifts uncomfortably as her gaze shifts to him and then Hiei. After a moment, Hiei's voice penetrates the unnerving silence. "That's enough. We didn't come here to hold a staring contest with some child." He snaps, scowling at them. Kasumi blinks a few times before looking back at Yusuke. "Who are they?"
"Oh, this is Kuwabara and the snapping turtle's name is..."
"None of your business, and if you ever want to live to see Kieko again Yusuke I suggest you watch your tongue." Hiei stops leaning on the door frame and turns to leave. "Come, we must finish this quickly. I have other things I need to be doing than playing detective with the likes of you," and with that he jumps up onto a nearby tree branch and disappears. Kasumi stares after him as the sky darkens and the rain falls harder. Yusuke looks slightly perturbed. "He's a real bundle of fun that one..." he says, looking back at Kasumi. "Ah... don't worry about it. We should probably get going though... Here, let's get you someplace dry, and... maybe get something to eat." He laughs slightly as his stomach growls. Kasumi smiles, but Kuwabara remains stone faced. There was something wrong about her, he knew it... Kasumi stands up, stepping from the corner revealing her to be a girl about their age. Her lengthy silver-blonde hair cascaded around her slim shoulders, framing her small, pale, and childlike face, making her eyes seem all the more distant and limitless. A white tattered rag that looked like the remains of a simple dress a small girl might wear adorned her slender figure. Since she had been sitting in the debris in the rain she was somewhat filthy, having deep gashes all along her legs and a large wound in her left shoulder. Despite this she was smiling softly. Yusuke stares at her a moment, mouth a gape, then snaps out of it and walks out, Kuwabara following shortly with a mummur that sounded like 'I don't know about this...' Kasumi stands there a few seconds more, still smiling softly, the her smile hardens, becoming a fiendish grin. Her eyes narrow as lightning flashes above her. "At last I've found you, Yusuke Urameshi, Spirit Detective of Earth..."