Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or any of its characters.
A/N: Linda: *is done chasing Lydia-chan* Okay, I'm not going to pretend that this is weeks after I finished the last chapter. Lydia: Umm, yeah. *pants* we just finished it, wrote the A/N, wrote the disclaimer and then now we're talking again. Linda: Right so, we have nothing new to say. Except for R&R please! Lydia: That isn't new. Linda: *angry face at Lydia-chan* on with the story!
Chapter Three: Friends?
Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama and Hiei all were speechless. Had that girl just asked to be friends? No, they must be hearing things. All was silent until Hiei said, "what?" And if Hiei was surprised, something really wasn't right.
"I asked if you wanted to be friends. You took a little longer than I thought you would with getting over here, but it doesn't matter. Want to be friends?" Mitsuko's hand was still raised up, waiting for someone to shake it.
"Friends? We don't even know who you are! And why would we be friends with the bad guys?" came Yusuke's voice as he regained his ability to act tough. Kurama added to the question by saying, "Yes, indeed."
Mitsuko sighed. "Ok fine. I'm Sagara Mitsuko and my friend is Higurashi Amaya. And you four are (she listed them off in order from left to right) Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara and Hiei." Again, the four boys were shocked that this Yokai could know so much about them. A slight giggle came from the shadows behind Mitsuko, and out came Amaya.
"It sounds so weird to have our family names first, and then our personal names." She said, still giggling. Mitsuko sighed again, and turned to Amaya.
"Amaya-chan! You're ruining the moment!" Then she whispered, although Hiei and Kurama could still hear her, "but yeah, it is kinda weird! Good thing I looked up our family history." She turned back to the spirit detective and friends. "So do you want to be friends or not?"
Kurama stood up straight, walked forward past Yusuke and asked, "Do you want to give us the artifacts?" A puzzled look came over the two girls, then 'oh yeah!'s came out and out of their pockets came the Forlorn Hope and the Orb of Baast. The two girls handed the items over to Kurama, and then Amaya unhooked the Shadow Sword from her belt and handed that over too. Kurama handed the objects back to Hiei and Yusuke, before turning back to Mitsuko and shaking her hand. "We'd love to be friends with you two."
Later that night, everyone had decided to sleep at Kurama's house. The two new comers had already fallen asleep in the family room, and the four boys were in the living room. Yusuke was hollering at Kurama in a whisper. "How could you do that?!? Just walk up to the bad guys and go 'sure we'd love to be your friends.'??? Come on kitsune, I thought you were smarter than that!"
Kurama who had the couch to himself simply replied, "They handed over the artifacts, told us their names and seemed quite friendly. They haven't tried to hurt us or kill us in anyway at all. I don't see what you're so worried about." He put his hands behind his head and lied down on the couch.
"What will Koenma think of this, Kurama?" asked Hiei. He had refused a sleeping bag and was now sitting on the windowsill. He had opened the window, letting a slight breeze blow across his face.
"Koenma will just be happy that he won't get a hundred spankings this time." Yusuke said, remembering what happened last time the artifacts had been stolen.
"Okay, so we got the artifacts back and made some new friends. What are they going to do when we go to school? They said they have no place to stay in our realm," asked Kuwabara.
"Well, I suppose we could enroll them into our schools." Kurama spoke softly as not to wake the girls in question. He then looked to Yusuke. "No harm in that, is there Yusuke?"
Yusuke just grunted. He seemed to be getting very sleepy, as were the other boys. "Well, good night then. See you all in the morning." Said Kuwabara as he drifted off into dreamland.
The next morning Kurama was the first to rise. Hiei somehow had managed to end up in the tree outside the window during the night. Yusuke was lying on his back. Kuwabara was crunched up into a little ball, and he was snoring. Kurama looked at them all, then got up and made his "bed."
Kurama walked though the family room to the kitchen. On his way, he noted that the two girls had moved from their places on different sides of the room to be together before they had fallen asleep. Kurama sighed and entered the kitchen. He of course had to make breakfast, because no one else in the house knew where anything was. Besides Hiei and his mother, that was. Kurama got out some eggs, bread and bacon and began to make breakfast.
An hour later, everyone was sitting at the table eating the breakfast Kurama had made. "This. is. really. good.. Kurama" spoke Kuwabara through mouthfuls of food. He and Yusuke seemed to be getting their fill, while Hiei seemed only to be able to eat the toast. Kurama had decided only to have some coffee himself. This left the two girls, who were picking around in their food. But they both seemed to have eaten only a small amount.
"Someone wrong, Amaya and Mitsuko?" asked Kurama as he watched them fork around in the scrambled eggs. Mitsuko looked up, remembering where she was.
"Oh no, nothing's wrong. Just I'm used to having pop-t. something different for breakfast." She took a forkful of eggs and placed them in her mouth, chewing on the food for a while before swallowing. "The food is wonderful, if that's what you mean." She said, eyes sparkling.
Kurama smiled back at her before taking a sip of his coffee. When he looked up, Amaya was stuffing her face with the bacon. "Um. Amaya? Don't you think you should slow down a little bit?" he asked her when she started to choke on the food.
"Oh." Cough. "No." Cough. "I'm. fine." And with that, she swallowed. "So have you four decided what we are going to be doing today?" Yusuke finished the toast he had put in his mouth, and then answered.
"Yup. You," he pointed to Amaya, "are coming to school with me and Kuwabara here. Middle school for us, yahoo. Mitsuko, you are going to school with Kurama."
"What about Hiei? Don't you go to school?" Amaya asked a puzzled look on her face. Before anyone else could answer, Mitsuko spoke up.
"No, he doesn't go to school. Thinks he's too smart and too old for that kind of stuff. Not to mention he just hates anything having to do with Ningens." She said, wiping her mouth with her napkin. Kuwabara dropped his fork onto his plate, and Yusuke started to choke badly on his food. Kurama just kept drinking and Hiei didn't know what to do.
"How do you know that?" asked Hiei, not moving his eyes from his plate. Mitsuko placed her fork down on the table and looked up. Her eyes met Hiei's, who quickly turned away to look out the window. "Okay, I guess we were going to have to explain this sooner or later. Here we go." She took a deep breath and started.
"Amaya-chan and I come from another realm. In our world, there is on spirit world or Makai world or anything. Just the living world. People in our world watch you four, and Botan, Keiko, etc, on television. You people are a TV series called Yu Yu Hakusho. People all over the world watch and everyone in our world know just about everything about you. Amaya and I knew that we were Yokai, somehow. Our religion had many spells that can transport people, so we decided to see if we could enter this realm. Obviously, it worked. We ended up here, and being the fools we are, decided to make a great entrance. We decided to steal the items from King Yama- sama's Vault. We really didn't mean any harm. It was harmless fun really." Mitsuko took another deep breath.
Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei and Kurama had all stared at Mitsuko during this whole speech. However, after looking at his watch, Kurama broke the silence. "Hate to say it, but we're going to be late for school if we don't get going. Here's the story. Mitsuko and Amaya, are you two sisters or really good friends or what?"
"We're not sisters" said Mitsuko, followed right by, "Just really good friends." from Amaya. It seemed that they had said this line many times before.
"Right, okay then. Mitsuko, you're my cousin from... wherever. Amaya you can be." Kurama left off, trying to think of who Amaya looked like the most.
"She can be my cousin," said Yusuke, still eating his breakfast. It was rare that he got such a good meal, and he was going to make the most of it.
"Right" said Kurama, placing his coffee on the counter. "Time to go, everyone grab your bags. Oh, and Amaya?" Amaya, who had stood up and started to walk to the door with the others turned around and looked at Kurama. "Can you change so that you, erm, loose the tail and fix the ears?" Kurama asked, hoping she could.
"Of course!" said Amaya, and with that, she made a 'POP' noise and her ears looked human and her tail was gone. The six of them walked out the door, and each went their separate ways.
A/N: Linda: Ok people, just so you know Amaya is supposed to act kinda like Milly from Trigun. Lydia: You mean she's stupid? Linda: *takes out her katana* NO! She's not stupid; she just acts a little child-ish. Lydia: yeah what ever. *about to run and hide* Linda: It's about 11 PM so, goodnight!
A/N: Linda: *is done chasing Lydia-chan* Okay, I'm not going to pretend that this is weeks after I finished the last chapter. Lydia: Umm, yeah. *pants* we just finished it, wrote the A/N, wrote the disclaimer and then now we're talking again. Linda: Right so, we have nothing new to say. Except for R&R please! Lydia: That isn't new. Linda: *angry face at Lydia-chan* on with the story!
Chapter Three: Friends?
Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama and Hiei all were speechless. Had that girl just asked to be friends? No, they must be hearing things. All was silent until Hiei said, "what?" And if Hiei was surprised, something really wasn't right.
"I asked if you wanted to be friends. You took a little longer than I thought you would with getting over here, but it doesn't matter. Want to be friends?" Mitsuko's hand was still raised up, waiting for someone to shake it.
"Friends? We don't even know who you are! And why would we be friends with the bad guys?" came Yusuke's voice as he regained his ability to act tough. Kurama added to the question by saying, "Yes, indeed."
Mitsuko sighed. "Ok fine. I'm Sagara Mitsuko and my friend is Higurashi Amaya. And you four are (she listed them off in order from left to right) Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara and Hiei." Again, the four boys were shocked that this Yokai could know so much about them. A slight giggle came from the shadows behind Mitsuko, and out came Amaya.
"It sounds so weird to have our family names first, and then our personal names." She said, still giggling. Mitsuko sighed again, and turned to Amaya.
"Amaya-chan! You're ruining the moment!" Then she whispered, although Hiei and Kurama could still hear her, "but yeah, it is kinda weird! Good thing I looked up our family history." She turned back to the spirit detective and friends. "So do you want to be friends or not?"
Kurama stood up straight, walked forward past Yusuke and asked, "Do you want to give us the artifacts?" A puzzled look came over the two girls, then 'oh yeah!'s came out and out of their pockets came the Forlorn Hope and the Orb of Baast. The two girls handed the items over to Kurama, and then Amaya unhooked the Shadow Sword from her belt and handed that over too. Kurama handed the objects back to Hiei and Yusuke, before turning back to Mitsuko and shaking her hand. "We'd love to be friends with you two."
Later that night, everyone had decided to sleep at Kurama's house. The two new comers had already fallen asleep in the family room, and the four boys were in the living room. Yusuke was hollering at Kurama in a whisper. "How could you do that?!? Just walk up to the bad guys and go 'sure we'd love to be your friends.'??? Come on kitsune, I thought you were smarter than that!"
Kurama who had the couch to himself simply replied, "They handed over the artifacts, told us their names and seemed quite friendly. They haven't tried to hurt us or kill us in anyway at all. I don't see what you're so worried about." He put his hands behind his head and lied down on the couch.
"What will Koenma think of this, Kurama?" asked Hiei. He had refused a sleeping bag and was now sitting on the windowsill. He had opened the window, letting a slight breeze blow across his face.
"Koenma will just be happy that he won't get a hundred spankings this time." Yusuke said, remembering what happened last time the artifacts had been stolen.
"Okay, so we got the artifacts back and made some new friends. What are they going to do when we go to school? They said they have no place to stay in our realm," asked Kuwabara.
"Well, I suppose we could enroll them into our schools." Kurama spoke softly as not to wake the girls in question. He then looked to Yusuke. "No harm in that, is there Yusuke?"
Yusuke just grunted. He seemed to be getting very sleepy, as were the other boys. "Well, good night then. See you all in the morning." Said Kuwabara as he drifted off into dreamland.
The next morning Kurama was the first to rise. Hiei somehow had managed to end up in the tree outside the window during the night. Yusuke was lying on his back. Kuwabara was crunched up into a little ball, and he was snoring. Kurama looked at them all, then got up and made his "bed."
Kurama walked though the family room to the kitchen. On his way, he noted that the two girls had moved from their places on different sides of the room to be together before they had fallen asleep. Kurama sighed and entered the kitchen. He of course had to make breakfast, because no one else in the house knew where anything was. Besides Hiei and his mother, that was. Kurama got out some eggs, bread and bacon and began to make breakfast.
An hour later, everyone was sitting at the table eating the breakfast Kurama had made. "This. is. really. good.. Kurama" spoke Kuwabara through mouthfuls of food. He and Yusuke seemed to be getting their fill, while Hiei seemed only to be able to eat the toast. Kurama had decided only to have some coffee himself. This left the two girls, who were picking around in their food. But they both seemed to have eaten only a small amount.
"Someone wrong, Amaya and Mitsuko?" asked Kurama as he watched them fork around in the scrambled eggs. Mitsuko looked up, remembering where she was.
"Oh no, nothing's wrong. Just I'm used to having pop-t. something different for breakfast." She took a forkful of eggs and placed them in her mouth, chewing on the food for a while before swallowing. "The food is wonderful, if that's what you mean." She said, eyes sparkling.
Kurama smiled back at her before taking a sip of his coffee. When he looked up, Amaya was stuffing her face with the bacon. "Um. Amaya? Don't you think you should slow down a little bit?" he asked her when she started to choke on the food.
"Oh." Cough. "No." Cough. "I'm. fine." And with that, she swallowed. "So have you four decided what we are going to be doing today?" Yusuke finished the toast he had put in his mouth, and then answered.
"Yup. You," he pointed to Amaya, "are coming to school with me and Kuwabara here. Middle school for us, yahoo. Mitsuko, you are going to school with Kurama."
"What about Hiei? Don't you go to school?" Amaya asked a puzzled look on her face. Before anyone else could answer, Mitsuko spoke up.
"No, he doesn't go to school. Thinks he's too smart and too old for that kind of stuff. Not to mention he just hates anything having to do with Ningens." She said, wiping her mouth with her napkin. Kuwabara dropped his fork onto his plate, and Yusuke started to choke badly on his food. Kurama just kept drinking and Hiei didn't know what to do.
"How do you know that?" asked Hiei, not moving his eyes from his plate. Mitsuko placed her fork down on the table and looked up. Her eyes met Hiei's, who quickly turned away to look out the window. "Okay, I guess we were going to have to explain this sooner or later. Here we go." She took a deep breath and started.
"Amaya-chan and I come from another realm. In our world, there is on spirit world or Makai world or anything. Just the living world. People in our world watch you four, and Botan, Keiko, etc, on television. You people are a TV series called Yu Yu Hakusho. People all over the world watch and everyone in our world know just about everything about you. Amaya and I knew that we were Yokai, somehow. Our religion had many spells that can transport people, so we decided to see if we could enter this realm. Obviously, it worked. We ended up here, and being the fools we are, decided to make a great entrance. We decided to steal the items from King Yama- sama's Vault. We really didn't mean any harm. It was harmless fun really." Mitsuko took another deep breath.
Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei and Kurama had all stared at Mitsuko during this whole speech. However, after looking at his watch, Kurama broke the silence. "Hate to say it, but we're going to be late for school if we don't get going. Here's the story. Mitsuko and Amaya, are you two sisters or really good friends or what?"
"We're not sisters" said Mitsuko, followed right by, "Just really good friends." from Amaya. It seemed that they had said this line many times before.
"Right, okay then. Mitsuko, you're my cousin from... wherever. Amaya you can be." Kurama left off, trying to think of who Amaya looked like the most.
"She can be my cousin," said Yusuke, still eating his breakfast. It was rare that he got such a good meal, and he was going to make the most of it.
"Right" said Kurama, placing his coffee on the counter. "Time to go, everyone grab your bags. Oh, and Amaya?" Amaya, who had stood up and started to walk to the door with the others turned around and looked at Kurama. "Can you change so that you, erm, loose the tail and fix the ears?" Kurama asked, hoping she could.
"Of course!" said Amaya, and with that, she made a 'POP' noise and her ears looked human and her tail was gone. The six of them walked out the door, and each went their separate ways.
A/N: Linda: Ok people, just so you know Amaya is supposed to act kinda like Milly from Trigun. Lydia: You mean she's stupid? Linda: *takes out her katana* NO! She's not stupid; she just acts a little child-ish. Lydia: yeah what ever. *about to run and hide* Linda: It's about 11 PM so, goodnight!