*I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or X.*
This is my first cross-over fan fiction. I've wrote the story so the reader doesn't have to know anything about X to understand it, but if the story gets confusing at all, feel free to ask questions.
When Dragons Collide
Chapter 1
Gathering
A soft rap at the door caught Koenma's attention as he shifted through his papers, randomly stamping here and there across the black Kanji. "Come in." Koenma settled back in his chair as he steepled his fingers underneath his chin. All day he had a knot in his stomach, an over whelming feeling of dread making the day drag on longer than usual.
The blue ogre rushed in, his face a mask of worry. "I think you should get Botan to bring Yusuke here, Koenma sir. It's... The dragons of heaven are starting to move towards Tokyo." He said in a rush.
Koenma's eyes widened and for the first time in centuries, he almost dropped his pacifier. "What?!" His hand banged on a button then a picture of Botan, the pilot of the river of Styx, arose in front of the godling's desk. "Botan!" He almost smirked when the poor blue haired girl jumped enough to be knocked off the bed she had been sitting on. "Get Yusuke and the rest of the spirit detectives here on the double!" She had barely nodded consent before the picture of her faded.
"Uhm... Koenma sir?" The small prince glanced up at the blue ogre. "Can they really make a difference? I thought this was between the dragons of earth and the dragons of heaven."
The little prince sighed as he rubbed his temples. "I hope so. I don't much care for the fate of the world being in the hands of one boy..."
The blue ogre blinked a few times, a look of confusion crossing his face. "But Koenma sir, hasn't Yusuke-" A dark look from Koenma silenced him instantly.
"Since you seem to know so much about this, YOU can go to the record room and research it." Koenma smirked, knowing full well how much the blue ogre hated the records room. So did Koenma. That was the great part of being the prince of the spirit world, he could just order someone else to do it.
"Ye... Yes sir." The blue ogre hung his head and walked slowly out of the room, closing the door behind him and leaving Koenma to his thoughts.
"Yusuke is a different case... I know him, I know the good in him and I know that he eventually does the right thing. It's a much different story with Kamui..."
~-X-~
Botan raced to Yusuke's house on the floating oar, her long pony- tailed hair whipping behind her. Koenma sounded as if he was in a bad mood, or maybe this was just a really important case. Either way, she didn't want to make him wait any longer than usual. The spirit detective's apartment building loomed before her just as a flash of red below made her stop and retrace her flight. A wave of relief flooded through her as she hopped off the oar and ran towards the red head. He was looking as lovely as he always does, dressed in white silken robes with a red sash wrapped around his waist. His emerald eyes darted up as he spotted Botan running towards him.
"Kurama! Lord Koenma needs us immediately. Do you happen to know where Hiei is?" Every hair on her body stood on end as a voice sounded behind her.
"Hn. I'm right here." Botan blushed and nearly hid behind Kurama. Hiei always had the habit of scaring the living daylights out of her. He was dressed in his usual black tank top and black pants that fit well to his small frame, a katana at his hip and two white belts wrapped around his small waist. His red eyes glared lazily at her as he crossed his arms around his chest. How he ever got his black hair to stand up that straight was beyond her, his hair seemed to defy gravity.
"Oh! Yes well, that saves me a trip then. Could you two please stay here? I just need to get Yusuke and Kuwabara. And then we'll head to the spirit world." She sat down on the oar, making it hover as she waited for their response.
Kurama smiled and nodded as Hiei rolled his eyes and hopped into the tree that was behind Kurama, muttering "whatever". Not wasting another second, Botan directed her oar back towards Yusuke's apartment building. Dusk was now fading to a cold night, the light in Yusuke's third floor room acting like a beacon.
"Yusuke!" She yelled as she banged on the glass window. A large man opened the draperies quickly, staring at the window... and the floating girl sitting on an oar. Botan blushed and held up one hand in apology. "Ah! Uhm... Sorry, to bother you... Wrong window..." She beat a hasty retreat, rising two more floors. "I sure hope this is the right one." This time she tapped more timidly at the window. The draperies were flung back much like the first window, but this time it was Yusuke's smiling face that appeared.
"Hey Botan, how's it going? I know you're not going to tell me that I have another mission so soon after getting back from the dark tournament." Yusuke's soft brown eyes glinted dangerously at her as he shifted his white undershirt and pulled up his blue jeans.
Suddenly Kuwabara's face appeared before the window, shoving Yusuke out of the way. "Hey Botan! Wanna come in and watch me beat the crap out of Urameshi at this new video game we just got?" He flexed his muscles and flared his nostrils. "Not that I need a silly fighting game to kick his butt, I am a stud after all." Kuwabara's face was suddenly shoved out of the way with Yusuke's foot.
"You wish! Jeeze, the man wins only TWO of his matches at the dark tournament and he starts acting all cocky like he won 'em all... So really Botan, what're you here for?"
Botan smacked at the window. "Well if you'd let me IN, Yusuke, I'd be more than happy to explain."
Yusuke dug at his ear with his pinky finger, a bored look on his face. "Yeah... Right... Well what ever is going on, tell pacifier breath that it can wait. I need a vacation." With that being said he pulled the drapes close.
"Yusuke you jerk! Open this window right now! Or I'll... or I'll... I'll sick Keiko on you!" Botan laughed as the drapes were thrown open and the window jerked up so she could enter. He was, if nothing else, consistent. Kuwabara found his reaction as funny as she had, he was holding his mid section and pointed at Yusuke as he laughed.
"The great Urameshi, the person most people in the Makai fear, and he's scared of one normal human girl!" Kuwabara nearly fell over as he laughed.
The spirit detective clenched his fists then hit Kuwabara square in the jaw. "Normal huh? You'd understand if you've ever been on the receiving end of one of her slaps! Besides, it's not like you don't have someone like that..."
Kuwabara's eyes glazed over as he smiled and sighed. "My lovely Yukina would never hit me." Both Botan and Yusuke rolled their eyes at the orange haired man while he gazed at nothing in particuliar, thinking most likely about the ice demon he had fallen in love with. The two must have met up after school since Kuwabara was still wearing part of his school uniform, blue slacks and black shoes. He had a white undershirt on like Yusuke's.
"Yes well, as I was going to say," said Botan quickly. "Lord Koenma asked me to bring you to him, and he seemed like he was in a hurry."
Yusuke rolled his eyes. "Of course."
"AS I was SAYING!" Botan glared briefly at Yusuke before continuing. "I've already got Kurama and Hiei waiting for us in the park down the street... So lets hurry before Hiei gets impatient." She fidgeted and looked around, as if expecting Hiei to appear suddenly in annoyance.
Kuwabara snapped out of his daze as he chuckled. "That shrimp is always impatient."
Botan pulled at Yusuke's shirt. "Look, I'M the one that gets in trouble of you don't make it to Lord Koenma's in time. So hurry up and let's go!"
Yusuke opened his door and peeked his head into the hallway. "Hey mom, you sober and awake?" He quickly yanked his head back as a pillow that was aimed for his head hit the door frame then slid down. "I'll take that as a yes... Look, I'm going out with Kuwabara and Botan. Can you tell Keiko that I won't be able to make it over to her house tonight?"
"Yeah sure..." His mother came back to retrieve her lost pillow when she noticed Botan. "Hey Botan, I didn't see you come in." All three in Yusuke's room blushed and stuttered, trying to think up an excuse.
"She flew." Kuwabara's eyes widened as he realized what he had just said, the others glaring at him angrily.
"She flew huh? Yeah well, lay off the liquor kid. It's not so good for you when you're as young as you are." Yusuke's mother winked at her son before wandering back to her room.
"I swear Kuwabara... You cannot possibly be any dumber than you already are." Yusuke mumbled under his breath as he headed out of his room and towards the door that led out of the apartment.
Within ten minutes Yusuke and Kuwabara spotted the other two at the park, both deep in conversation which halted as the boy's approach was noticed by Hiei.
"Good, now that we're all here, let's head over to the spirit world and see what Lord Koenma wants." Botan smiled as she floated on her oar. This was possibly the quickest she had ever assembled the spirit detectives.
~-X-~
"This song of Eternal Parting was written by Kenji, upon the death of his younger sister Toshi. The portion of the poem, 'oraoradeshitoriegumo' is supposedly the words Toshi uttered from her sickbed and can be interpreted..."
A soft clank roused Kotori as she listened to the teacher. She looked down and found a pink mechanical pencil by her foot.
"Oh, sorry," said her friend.
Kotori smiled and leaned down quickly to pick up the pencil for her friend. "Here."
"..as showing Toshi's feelings." The instructor droned on. "Monou!" Kotori looked up at the teacher. "Read the sixth line on page 43."
"A-All right." She slowly rose from her seat, the chair's scraping along the flooring was only sound in the room. "I pray from the bottom of my heart as you eat these two bowls of snow. That this will become heavenly ice cream and will become sacred food for you and everyone else. I hope, humbly praying on my knees." Four bird flew past the window in a hurry, causing Kotori to glance their way. She gasped, bringing her hand to her face in surprise. Walking below on the pathway to school was a boy with black hair. He seemed to notice her and looked up, his soft pale gold eyes warmed her heart just as much as the smile on his face did.
Reluctantly opening her eyes, Kotori woke up from her dream. Being at school, seeing him... it all seemed so real. She sat up slowly. For some reason the dream made her feel a bit light headed.
"Why dream about him after so long? It's been years since we last saw each other..." Kotori glanced at the clock. The alarm wouldn't go off until another two hours, so she decided to lay back down. Her dream kept running through her head, but the part she thought of most was the happy look on his face. He looked so gorgeous.
"Kamui..."
This is my first cross-over fan fiction. I've wrote the story so the reader doesn't have to know anything about X to understand it, but if the story gets confusing at all, feel free to ask questions.
When Dragons Collide
Chapter 1
Gathering
A soft rap at the door caught Koenma's attention as he shifted through his papers, randomly stamping here and there across the black Kanji. "Come in." Koenma settled back in his chair as he steepled his fingers underneath his chin. All day he had a knot in his stomach, an over whelming feeling of dread making the day drag on longer than usual.
The blue ogre rushed in, his face a mask of worry. "I think you should get Botan to bring Yusuke here, Koenma sir. It's... The dragons of heaven are starting to move towards Tokyo." He said in a rush.
Koenma's eyes widened and for the first time in centuries, he almost dropped his pacifier. "What?!" His hand banged on a button then a picture of Botan, the pilot of the river of Styx, arose in front of the godling's desk. "Botan!" He almost smirked when the poor blue haired girl jumped enough to be knocked off the bed she had been sitting on. "Get Yusuke and the rest of the spirit detectives here on the double!" She had barely nodded consent before the picture of her faded.
"Uhm... Koenma sir?" The small prince glanced up at the blue ogre. "Can they really make a difference? I thought this was between the dragons of earth and the dragons of heaven."
The little prince sighed as he rubbed his temples. "I hope so. I don't much care for the fate of the world being in the hands of one boy..."
The blue ogre blinked a few times, a look of confusion crossing his face. "But Koenma sir, hasn't Yusuke-" A dark look from Koenma silenced him instantly.
"Since you seem to know so much about this, YOU can go to the record room and research it." Koenma smirked, knowing full well how much the blue ogre hated the records room. So did Koenma. That was the great part of being the prince of the spirit world, he could just order someone else to do it.
"Ye... Yes sir." The blue ogre hung his head and walked slowly out of the room, closing the door behind him and leaving Koenma to his thoughts.
"Yusuke is a different case... I know him, I know the good in him and I know that he eventually does the right thing. It's a much different story with Kamui..."
~-X-~
Botan raced to Yusuke's house on the floating oar, her long pony- tailed hair whipping behind her. Koenma sounded as if he was in a bad mood, or maybe this was just a really important case. Either way, she didn't want to make him wait any longer than usual. The spirit detective's apartment building loomed before her just as a flash of red below made her stop and retrace her flight. A wave of relief flooded through her as she hopped off the oar and ran towards the red head. He was looking as lovely as he always does, dressed in white silken robes with a red sash wrapped around his waist. His emerald eyes darted up as he spotted Botan running towards him.
"Kurama! Lord Koenma needs us immediately. Do you happen to know where Hiei is?" Every hair on her body stood on end as a voice sounded behind her.
"Hn. I'm right here." Botan blushed and nearly hid behind Kurama. Hiei always had the habit of scaring the living daylights out of her. He was dressed in his usual black tank top and black pants that fit well to his small frame, a katana at his hip and two white belts wrapped around his small waist. His red eyes glared lazily at her as he crossed his arms around his chest. How he ever got his black hair to stand up that straight was beyond her, his hair seemed to defy gravity.
"Oh! Yes well, that saves me a trip then. Could you two please stay here? I just need to get Yusuke and Kuwabara. And then we'll head to the spirit world." She sat down on the oar, making it hover as she waited for their response.
Kurama smiled and nodded as Hiei rolled his eyes and hopped into the tree that was behind Kurama, muttering "whatever". Not wasting another second, Botan directed her oar back towards Yusuke's apartment building. Dusk was now fading to a cold night, the light in Yusuke's third floor room acting like a beacon.
"Yusuke!" She yelled as she banged on the glass window. A large man opened the draperies quickly, staring at the window... and the floating girl sitting on an oar. Botan blushed and held up one hand in apology. "Ah! Uhm... Sorry, to bother you... Wrong window..." She beat a hasty retreat, rising two more floors. "I sure hope this is the right one." This time she tapped more timidly at the window. The draperies were flung back much like the first window, but this time it was Yusuke's smiling face that appeared.
"Hey Botan, how's it going? I know you're not going to tell me that I have another mission so soon after getting back from the dark tournament." Yusuke's soft brown eyes glinted dangerously at her as he shifted his white undershirt and pulled up his blue jeans.
Suddenly Kuwabara's face appeared before the window, shoving Yusuke out of the way. "Hey Botan! Wanna come in and watch me beat the crap out of Urameshi at this new video game we just got?" He flexed his muscles and flared his nostrils. "Not that I need a silly fighting game to kick his butt, I am a stud after all." Kuwabara's face was suddenly shoved out of the way with Yusuke's foot.
"You wish! Jeeze, the man wins only TWO of his matches at the dark tournament and he starts acting all cocky like he won 'em all... So really Botan, what're you here for?"
Botan smacked at the window. "Well if you'd let me IN, Yusuke, I'd be more than happy to explain."
Yusuke dug at his ear with his pinky finger, a bored look on his face. "Yeah... Right... Well what ever is going on, tell pacifier breath that it can wait. I need a vacation." With that being said he pulled the drapes close.
"Yusuke you jerk! Open this window right now! Or I'll... or I'll... I'll sick Keiko on you!" Botan laughed as the drapes were thrown open and the window jerked up so she could enter. He was, if nothing else, consistent. Kuwabara found his reaction as funny as she had, he was holding his mid section and pointed at Yusuke as he laughed.
"The great Urameshi, the person most people in the Makai fear, and he's scared of one normal human girl!" Kuwabara nearly fell over as he laughed.
The spirit detective clenched his fists then hit Kuwabara square in the jaw. "Normal huh? You'd understand if you've ever been on the receiving end of one of her slaps! Besides, it's not like you don't have someone like that..."
Kuwabara's eyes glazed over as he smiled and sighed. "My lovely Yukina would never hit me." Both Botan and Yusuke rolled their eyes at the orange haired man while he gazed at nothing in particuliar, thinking most likely about the ice demon he had fallen in love with. The two must have met up after school since Kuwabara was still wearing part of his school uniform, blue slacks and black shoes. He had a white undershirt on like Yusuke's.
"Yes well, as I was going to say," said Botan quickly. "Lord Koenma asked me to bring you to him, and he seemed like he was in a hurry."
Yusuke rolled his eyes. "Of course."
"AS I was SAYING!" Botan glared briefly at Yusuke before continuing. "I've already got Kurama and Hiei waiting for us in the park down the street... So lets hurry before Hiei gets impatient." She fidgeted and looked around, as if expecting Hiei to appear suddenly in annoyance.
Kuwabara snapped out of his daze as he chuckled. "That shrimp is always impatient."
Botan pulled at Yusuke's shirt. "Look, I'M the one that gets in trouble of you don't make it to Lord Koenma's in time. So hurry up and let's go!"
Yusuke opened his door and peeked his head into the hallway. "Hey mom, you sober and awake?" He quickly yanked his head back as a pillow that was aimed for his head hit the door frame then slid down. "I'll take that as a yes... Look, I'm going out with Kuwabara and Botan. Can you tell Keiko that I won't be able to make it over to her house tonight?"
"Yeah sure..." His mother came back to retrieve her lost pillow when she noticed Botan. "Hey Botan, I didn't see you come in." All three in Yusuke's room blushed and stuttered, trying to think up an excuse.
"She flew." Kuwabara's eyes widened as he realized what he had just said, the others glaring at him angrily.
"She flew huh? Yeah well, lay off the liquor kid. It's not so good for you when you're as young as you are." Yusuke's mother winked at her son before wandering back to her room.
"I swear Kuwabara... You cannot possibly be any dumber than you already are." Yusuke mumbled under his breath as he headed out of his room and towards the door that led out of the apartment.
Within ten minutes Yusuke and Kuwabara spotted the other two at the park, both deep in conversation which halted as the boy's approach was noticed by Hiei.
"Good, now that we're all here, let's head over to the spirit world and see what Lord Koenma wants." Botan smiled as she floated on her oar. This was possibly the quickest she had ever assembled the spirit detectives.
~-X-~
"This song of Eternal Parting was written by Kenji, upon the death of his younger sister Toshi. The portion of the poem, 'oraoradeshitoriegumo' is supposedly the words Toshi uttered from her sickbed and can be interpreted..."
A soft clank roused Kotori as she listened to the teacher. She looked down and found a pink mechanical pencil by her foot.
"Oh, sorry," said her friend.
Kotori smiled and leaned down quickly to pick up the pencil for her friend. "Here."
"..as showing Toshi's feelings." The instructor droned on. "Monou!" Kotori looked up at the teacher. "Read the sixth line on page 43."
"A-All right." She slowly rose from her seat, the chair's scraping along the flooring was only sound in the room. "I pray from the bottom of my heart as you eat these two bowls of snow. That this will become heavenly ice cream and will become sacred food for you and everyone else. I hope, humbly praying on my knees." Four bird flew past the window in a hurry, causing Kotori to glance their way. She gasped, bringing her hand to her face in surprise. Walking below on the pathway to school was a boy with black hair. He seemed to notice her and looked up, his soft pale gold eyes warmed her heart just as much as the smile on his face did.
Reluctantly opening her eyes, Kotori woke up from her dream. Being at school, seeing him... it all seemed so real. She sat up slowly. For some reason the dream made her feel a bit light headed.
"Why dream about him after so long? It's been years since we last saw each other..." Kotori glanced at the clock. The alarm wouldn't go off until another two hours, so she decided to lay back down. Her dream kept running through her head, but the part she thought of most was the happy look on his face. He looked so gorgeous.
"Kamui..."
