I got more opinionated with this chapter. Anything in parenthesis are my thoughts on the subject. Oh by the way, it isn't all a cornball chapter. Just read awhile you'll see.
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After Sona was stopped by the gang, which took quite awhile since she had become submerged in slaughtering Botan, they sat around the mostly barren loft and ate the pizza they had brought with them for house warming. She completely ignored the irony of the situation, and devoured three slices.
"So," Yusuke started, while Sona sat back very pleased with being full at the moment, and questioned, "why are you wearing Hiei's pants?"
Sona glared angrily at Botan and replied "Lets just call it a long story so I don't go on a continuous homicidal rampage."
"Okay," Yusuke persisted, "but really why were you on top of Hiei?"
She was clearly getting pissed by now but a smile crossed her face "Well, he was very against 'us' doing 'anything', but I'm a pushy girl so I decided I just had to take it."
They stared at her weird obviously not understanding the joke. Sona began laughing at them. "You people don't get jokes do you? So serious. Lighten up. We were challenging each other. You just picked the wrong moment to walk in."
"Oh, I get it, sorta…" Yusuke laughed nervously.
"How about moving away from this topic and putting on some tunes?" Botan suggests while going over to the CD player.
"Best idea I've heard this evening." Sona agreed. Suddenly Kelly Clarkson starts playing very loud. Sona falls over. They seemed to be enjoying this crap! Sona goes over to her backpack and pulls out a CD carrier. She stops the American Idol waste abruptly and says "You have got to be kidding me. You guys like this? Cruel and unusual punishment! That's all that that is."
"What are you doing?" Botan protests.
"Introducing you to rock." Sona answered while putting her CD in and turning it up. "This is called Linkin Park." "Some where I Belong" blares in the background.
"Yay! Decent music." Hiei mumbles. Sona snickers. He adds "What are you laughing at?"
"You said 'Yay!', didn't take you for the 'Yay' type." she giggled.
"Ha ha…" he murmured sarcastically.
"I like my music better." Botan pouted.
"Sorry to dissolve your illusion but that isn't music." Sona laughed.
"But you can't dance to this!"
"Who dances? Here just do this." Sona starts doing the classic jumping while bobbing head and holding up her hand. Yes, she was a slight clubber. The kind of person that lives on rock n' roll, punk, and virtually any head banging music. Botan attempts it. (Yeah key word attempts…) Yusuke and the rest start making jokes about how Botan does the rock version of dancing.
"You think you can do any better?!" Botan challenges. So what do they do? They join in! Except for Hiei. Visualize team Yurimeshi punking out to Linkin Park. (Ha! Oh boy, that's a thought that will haunt me for a while)
Sona walks over Hiei "Do you really think I'm going to let you sit out so you can save face as a dark, brooding, mystery boy? Don't think so!" She grabs his hands as he protests. He is forced to start jumping up and down idiotically like the rest. (Woo hoo! Now it's a party! We got Hiei dancing! This is more comical to me than most things…)
Hiei seemed to actually enjoy it, for a bit., until the slower song "Easier to Run" comes on and people quickly forget how to slow dance.
"Oh come on people, grab a partner a dance!" Sona forces Hiei once again to start dancing, only this time with her. He starts blushing again. (Oh I love torturing him! *sigh* I have no life.) Yusuke pairs up with Kayko, Botan with Kurama, then Shizuru with Kuwabara.
"I don't want to dance with my sister…" Kuwabara protests until Shizuru kicks him.
The dance party continues until 9 o'clock and the gang has to head home.
"I'm going to go turn in." Sona tells Hiei after everyone leaves (No, this is not an invite for him to go with her! I don't write stories like that. Well not yet at least…)
"Hey, um, thanks for making me participate…" Hiei mumbles.
"Oh no, thank you for letting me make a fool of you." she laughs "Good night." (Oh come on Hiei, go with her! She wants you to! Damn me for thinking in slash story mode…)
"Night." he answers. (Wuss…your suppose to confess your love for her and… what am I talking about? I'm the one writing this. I need to stop talking to myself in mid paragraph…)
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Sona slept well, all except for Hiei's snoring down the hall. Besides that he likes to talk in his sleep. (Ha! Ha! So many options for embarrassing dream confessions!)
"Morning." she said to him as he walks out with bed head slightly confused about where he was. She had to laugh when he finally realized he was standing there in his boxers. "Nice. Never really wondered if you liked boxers or briefs. Guess the little Hello Kitty print with hearts answers my question." (At least he was wearing pants. Really could have gone slash in this scene. 'Hiei enters wearing no pants and Sona jumps him'. Yep, that will be my next story.)
After running back to his room (Hiei on Baywatch. Bouncy, bouncy…), he enters wearing pants but lacking shirt.
"Sorry about that." he apologized blushing once again.
"Don't sweat it." she choked down a piece of burnt toast. "Only problem I'll have is having to deal with dreaming about Hello Kitty boxers."
"You like to embarrass me don't you?" he asked still blushing.
"You and everyone else." Sona said while grabbing her school bag.
Hiei noticed the school uniform. "You look like a librarian."
"Thank you. I would have hemmed it to have the sexified librarian look but I didn't have the time." she heads for the door. "By the way. Congratulations."
"On what?"
"The librarian joke. You made a funny." she snickered while closing the door.
~~Sorioski Jr. High (where all the thick headed males go to find other thick headed male to hit on. No pun intended. Hmm… sounds a bit like a gay bar) Note: when I say hit I mean seriously hit. If you don't know Yu Yu Hakusho you probably didn't get the pun.. ~
Sona walked about 10 feet into the school gates before someone had to mention her appearance.
"Hey baby, I love your combat boots." some guy yelled from in the distance. Well she was wearing boot and leather gloves with her school uniform but she didn't deserve this treatment. She decided against killing him and just let it go.
~~~~~~~~~~Koenma's Palace~~~~~~~~~
"Koenma Sir, the Shinobi blade you wanted is here." Ogre said while bringing it in.
"Thank you Ogre. Just put it on my desk." Koenma said offhandedly.
Ogre leaves.
"Hmm… that sword is very cool. Sona shouldn't care if I play with it a bit." he grabs it and unsheathes it. The sword has etchings of dragons and roses on the blade. Koenma is severely freaked when they start glowing red. "What the hell?" Slowly the sword lifts into the air and starts spinning rapidly. "Ahhh! Possessed sword!"
It suddenly stops and flings itself towards a map. The blade sticks into the wall. Koenma gets the courage up to check it out. He becomes uneasy as he find the tip pointing at a building in Tokyo. Sorioski Jr. High.
~~~~~~~~~~Back to School~~~~~~~~~~~
Sona stands in front of a mirror in the girls bathroom. She had to dismiss herself in 1st hour because she had suddenly become weak. Now that she had full view of herself, her eyes locked on something strange. Her hair was its old green self. Not only that, but her eye were glowing red. Something happened that she couldn't explain through her thoughts. Like she was losing everything but she could understand what 'everything' was. Her heart began to ache with this feeling of grief and anxiety, and her lungs felt like they were collapsing. Sona started coughing violently, now not sure why she found it so hard to breath. Without realizing it her hands had wrapped themselves around her neck. She was choking herself! Blood trickled down her finger tips, and through her nose. Why was she practically killing herself?!
Something had suddenly took over her actions. Finding herself without the ability to stop what was happening, she finally blacked out.
~~~~~~~~~~Koenma's Palace~~~~~~~~~~
Koenma now stood on a chair in his office. His face was pale. Not even a minute ago the symbols on the sword began bleeding. It was like a river flowing over the carpet with a sudden current. The blood started receding. Now it spelt out a message to it owner in a different world:
AMARA'S TRIALS BEGIN NOW
The tinny ruler made his help take a Polaroid and try to remove the sword. It wouldn't budge.
~~~~~~~~~Girls bathroom~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Before second hour bell rang she awoke after seeing a vision. My trials? She asked herself. Her hand were covered in her own blood. After forcing her body to stand she saw what her hands had done to her neck. A dragon shaped scar that was still bleeding shone on her neck, and it hurt so bad. The usual red eyes she was use to looking at each morning were now a distilled blue gray, and her green lock had turned black. Now more confused than ever she decided to run straight back to the loft and try to get Hiei to help her figure out what was happening.
She stepped into the hallway. Students passed her by without looking. After spotting Yusuke down the hall she ran to catch up with him.
"Yusuke!" she called from three feet behind.
No response.
"Yusuke!" She tried once again.
He didn't even look.
Finally she stepped in front of him. "Why aren't you answering me?"
He stalled for a second, as if a shiver chilled his spine, and continued walking, passing right through her.
"What the hell?" she demanded. Somehow she had become invisible. Still living, but ghost like. And every moment she stood awaiting a jolt from reality to bring her back, her spirit faded a little more. The trials had begun.