By: Mezi Matsuki demoncat@myshorelink.com
"Nikki!! Watch it!"
"I can take them!!" CRASH. "Ow..."
That was the sounds heard from the two girls who were supposed to be sparring with two of their classmates in the Martial Arts portion of their gym class. Nikki, the girl who got tossed onto the mat, laid looking up at the crowd, and Ami, the girl who had called for her friend to look out, stood looking straight down in the front of the said crowd.
"Are you alright, Nikki?"
"Yes Mihu-sensei. I'm fine..." After that, the crowd thinned, giving Ami the chance to help her friend up. A whimper of pain notified the teacher that Nikki was in fact, not as fine as she claimed.
"Nikki, to the nurse. Go on, Ami will take you down there." Leaning on Ami, Nikki limped out of the gym into the schoolyard. Standing up straight, Nikki began to laugh, with Ami laughing not long after.
"Gotta love your acts in gym, huh?"
"Oh yeah. I hate gym class. C'mon, I'm skipping again. Are you coming again today?"
"But of course. Let's go to the arcade. Maybe that gaijin that kept trying to play DDR is there again."
"Nah... Let's just wander around today, I don't really feel like anything else. Besides, I don't have any money. I used it yesterday."
"Ai'ight." With that, the two girls set out to find something free to do. Within a few minutes, they were off school property, and sitting in an old field that didn't ever seem to get used at all. As they were sitting there, they thought they saw something.
"Nikki, what was that? I think someone is in the field with us..."
"Whatever, Ami. Nothi—" Getting cut off, the thing that grabbed Nikki's mouth spoke in an oily voice.
"You're both gonna shut up. We don't like little ningens in our territory, especially when it's some of the Brat Prince's people."
"B-but what did we do? Who is "the Brat Prince"?"
"So now he's started making his spies lie. That's a new one."
"I don't get it. What are you talking about?" Ami asked once again.
"Don't try to lie. You two have Ki, Raggi said so." As the demon continued to argue with Ami, a girl who looked a year or so younger than Ami and Nikki with bluish-green hair and a boy that looked about 17 with orangeish hair and dark red eyes were behind a corner talking in hushed voices.
"Mehin, we ought to help them. They'll get hurt otherwise." Pleaded the girl.
"No, Keecha, we shouldn't. If we let them keep the youkai distracted, he'll make everyone's job easier by getting rid of them, and then we don't have to explain to Koenma or them how we got seen and who we are. Do you understand that, Keecha?" the boy answered her.
"But, the youkai said they have Reiki. Maybe they could help us, and Koenma could make them Tantei too?" she pleaded.
"No, Keecha—Meh, she's just like 'Touchan... Always rushin' into stuff..." Continuing with his grumbling, he went after his sister, who had decided to help the girls, and had come around the corner, letting a snowstorm start to kick itself up. "It got 'Touchan killed, but she didn't learn nothin', nothin' at all. DON'T HIT MY LITTLE SISTER!" He roared, coming out with an orange sword made of ice to begin slashing at the youkai that began appearing and had decided to attack the small girl. With a mild grin, she looked at him when he finished with the first youkai.
"Arigato, Niichan."
"Yeah, Kaasan'll kill me if you get hurt... what are you waiting for, help the two girls!" At this point, Nikki got tired of being held captive and flipped that youkai over her shoulder. Blinking, she realized she actually learned something in gym. After a few moments, Nikki sat down next to Ami to watch the two people attacking the youkai. A few moments after that, a flash of light went off and the youkai that had Nikki ripped a hole open that seemed to be full of pink light.
"Shimmata!!! He can't do that! He's only a C level youkai!! Gah, that means he's working for someone big..." yelled the boy, after the youkai disappeared seconds after opening the hole.
"Kaasan told you to stop saying that!! I'm tellin'!!!" called the girl, getting up and making the snowstorm stop as abruptly as it began.
"No you aren't. Get back here and deal with your little "victims", Keecha. You get to explain, it was your idea. Have fun." He answered, sitting down next to Nikki and Ami.
"Fine... meanie... I'm Keecha, and this is my niichan, Mehin. Do you know what Reikai is?" she asked. When the two girls nodded, she continued. "According to stories, there are two realms, Reikai and Ningenkai. In all actuality, there are three. The third one is Makai, were that youkai went. And sadly, Miss Botan will have to explain the rest, since Mehin and I have to go after him. Here. Push the black button. Not the red. The red calls Koenma, and we're dead if you do that." She handed the girls a mirror and began poking and prodding the air where the youkai ripped a hole. "I gotta open this one, Niichan. You're too ningen to do it." Looking at the two girls again, she began to explain a little more. "Our kaasan is a Koorime, and our Touchan was a ningen, so you would think we would both be half and half. But we aren't. I'm three quarters Koorime, and Mehin is only one quarter. Our Touchan died, but Kaasan is gonna be worried." Looking back at her brother, she asked whether or not they should let their mother know where they were going, or if they should call Koenma to dispatch a higher league.
"Don't call Koenma! He'll never get one here one time! Besides, we can do this! C'mon, we've wanted to prove we can, now's our chance! Let's go!" he said, marching through after Keecha got the portal open.
"Um..." This was the first thing either girl had said. "Can we come with you?" Nikki asked.
"No." and "Sure!" were the two answers they got. The girl had said it was fine, and the boy had said no.
"Why not?" asked all three girls in unison.
"Because Koenma would kill me for letting that happen. Besides, Uncle Hiei won't want to deal with any ningens. We're gonna get him to help us."
"No!! Uncle Hiei scares me..."
"Oh well." The boy was already climbing through. "Uncle Hiei is our best bet for help in Makai."
"Oh well! I wanna bring them. Meh!" grabbing the two girls arms, she followed her brother through the portal. Ami and Nikki, of course, were dragged along too. Thus, the girls got to see Makai for the first time.