Ch. 8: Home Sweet Dump
Author's Note: Well Happy Valentine's Day everyone. Here is my present to all of you, the next chapter in the story. We are finally finished with 'The Interrogation,' thanks SnowDucky for typing the last part of it. This is the first official chapter written by SnowDucky (SnowDucky takes official bow). I have now taken the role as editor for the next two chapters, but I will be back in the author's role along with my friends. Well on with the story.
Disclaimer: We do not own YYH.
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Aya drove the large U-hall down the old city street looking at the numbers written on the curb, '10339' she kept repeating to her self as she drove. "Look, I found it Aya," Alana said excitably pointing at an old brick three story apartment building. "That can't be it." Aya said in shock, while parking out in front of the building. She looked at the broken windows and the front door which looked like it was about to fall off. "That's it, see '10339.'" Alana replied while pointing out the numbers written in spray paint on the brick next to the door. There were five concrete steps leading up to the front door. The black metal railings that were bolted to the cement were twisted outward and one was completely broken off the cement in the front. Aya climbed out of the U-hall and stood in front of the house. She reminded Alana of some type of punker in her tight black flair pants and tight red shirt that said, 'i'm not crazy, I just do what ever the voices in my head tell me to.' Aya's hair was pulled back in to a long French braid that stretched down to the end of her back. "So that's supposed to be where we are going to live." Alana studied Aya and took a step away from her, for Aya's face was turning red and her she had her hands in tight fists at her side. "That little evil brat sent us here to this dump to live. It's bad enough that I have to work for him but this is just wrong. I am going to strangle him by that pacifier he took back from me." Alana smiled at Aya's harsh words. She knew that Aya was really angry that she had to give the pacifier back to Koenma. "Well maybe it will be better on the inside." Alana offered hoping to calm Aya down. "Yea right. Come on lets start to unload the stuff."
Aquim got out of the jeep and looked back to Antila, he flashed her his perfect movie star smile and ran his fingers through lighting struck hair. "I'll go help them unload, you can park, but be careful with my jeep, don't scratch the paint." Aquim said and started to walk toward the U-hall truck. He watched his little sister, Alana, struggling to catch the boxes that Aya unceremoniously threw down at her. He chuckled to him self, and stuffed his hands in to his jean pockets. Alana looked as young as she ever did in her over sized overalls and white shirt. Aquim's yellow button up shirt, moved with the small breeze, as is was untucked and open exposing his well built chest under his tight under shirt. Aya cussed and grabbed the boxes and dropped them down to Alana, who was setting them on the curb. "Stupid little kid can't even give us a decent place to sleep..." Alana struggled to keep up with Aya's quick pace for she felt like Aya was throwing the boxes at her faster than she could set them down. "Aya please slow..." Alana was cut off by the sound of her brother's voice calling her. "Aquim?" Alana said ignoring the boxes Aya continued to toss to her, which were now hitting the ground. "Hay, sis. So which apartment is it?" Alana pointed to the building in front of him and Aquim's smile quickly faded. "No way, we can't stay here. I could never bring a girl over, she would get discussed and leave if I did." Aya began to laugh. "Oh, well trust me the girl would get discussed with you before you even got her in a block of this place." Aquim gave Aya a dirty look while Alana stood completely oblivious to what they were talking about. Antila walked up to the group and looked them over. Aya was laughing so hard that she was holding her stomach while Aquim yelled threats at her. She smiled at the site of her team. She was leading two half demons, one whom was willing to do anything to protect his half sister as long at he didn't get distracted by anything with boobs, and the other whom was hot tempered and more concerned for her own affairs. Then there was Alana, a young priestess who couldn't fight, just discovered that she had some power, and was the most gullible and naive person that Antila had ever met. The girl was so weak and yet she had so much power. "Aya, Aquim, stop it now!" Both Aya and Aquim stopped and looked at Antila. Her hands were on her hips and her green dickeys, and purple top seemed perfectly straight. She reminded Aya of some type of manager who was yelling at her employees.
Aya watched Antila struggle with the keys to open the front door of the building, she moaned in her impatience. Finally Aya pushed Antila out of the way of the door and kicked it open. The door fell to the ground, with a crash and a wave of dust arose from the floor. Alana sneezed and fell back in to her brother's hard chest. "Oh, sorry," she said and stepped in the apartment with Aya and Antila. "This isn't ours; we get the top two floors." Antila announced and started to move to a set of stairs at the end of the hall. The four of them each carried a box up the old wooden stairs of the apartment. "Ok so maybe the inside isn't better." Alana said to herself as she followed behind Aya. "Don't worry ducky, we can fix it up before school starts again." Aquim said to her hearing her depressed words. Aya pretended to gag while listening to Aquim's kind words of hope to his sister and at the mention of going back to school.
Once reaching the second floor the group set the boxes down and looked around the large room. The room, like the whole house has oak floors that could hardly be seen under the dirt and dust. There was an island on one side of the room with a sink attacked to it and counters with a stove. "Wonder if the stove and dish washer work." Antila said while looking over the place. "I think this is the living area, like in dorms." Aquim said. "What do you mean?" Alana asked. "In collage the living area is a floor set up to be the kitchen, dining room and living room. If this place is set up like a collage dorm than the rooms down stairs are bedrooms and the rooms upstairs will be the same. On the paper work Koenma gave me, we are able to use the second and third floors." Antilla said and started walking to the stairs. Alana rushed in front of her and ran upstairs "I want to claim the first room." Aquim followed but slowly as did Aya while muttering "then at least we won't have to clean up the bottom floor."
Alana opened all the doors to the rooms before she stood in the middle of the biggest. "I want this one." Aya stepped in to the room and looked around, "this one is at least 3 feet bigger than all the others, and you can't have it." Alana's arms folded across her chest, "and why not?" she asked in a pout. Antila walked to the window slightly paying attention to the conversation going on. "Because you are too short." Aya said in "a matter of factly" manner while Alana's mouth dropped open and Antila laughed to herself. "Yes much too short, it would be a waist of space for you to have so much room to your self. Such a big waist, you will have to take a smaller room, but even then you will have too much space... let me see," she said while making a thinking face." Oh yes, you could stay in a nice closet or under the sink down stairs. Now that would be perfect." Alana's face turned to worry and she rushed to her brother who had entered the room. "Oh, Aquim. Do you think that I am short?" she asked while hugging her brother's stomach for she only came to just above his elbow while standing up straight. "Well I... well I... Tall compared to what?" her brother asked with the sweat drop on his forehead. But to his relief his attention was elsewhere.
"ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS." Aya and Antila said in unison. "Hah, paper beats rock. The room is mine!" Antila said, running to look out the window, which to her relief looked out to the park. "Best out of three?" Aya pleaded. "No! You won the pacifier, I won the room." Antila said strongly. "But that didn't count I had to give it back to the brat remember?" Antila listened to Aya's complaints will no pity; "We didn't know you would have to at the time so the room is mine." Aya left defeated, as did the others who were going to go looking for a room to claim.
Each bedroom was rather large, for each room had its own bathroom, with a tub/shower, sink and counter, and walk in closets. The third floor was set up with two rooms on each side of the hall. Antila, whom had the largest room, was next to Alana's, who ended up with the smallest. Directly across the hall from Alana's room was Aquim's, and next to him, across from Antila, laid Aya's room that was equally sized to Aquim's.
The group, after a long day of unloading the large U-hall sat on the wooden floor, which was cleaned by Alana. Aya used her "blankie" as a picnic blanket for the team to sit on while eating the recently delivered Chinese food. "Oh, now this is good Orange chicken." Aya said with her mouth full. "Yea, it's the best I've tasted." Antila agreed. "Could you believe gram's today ducky?" Aquim said using his pet name for his sister. "Yea she was a bit shocked when Koenma started to talk," Alana said.
"Shocked, Hell she fainted in to that dorky red heads arms. Your old lady freaked, once she woke up she began to try to kill the baby brat, and probably would have if it hadn't been for Botan protecting him." Aya said while laughing at the memory of the little brat running for his life from an old lady with a cane. "Well she let you go at least; I didn't think she was going to let you after Koenma finally told her what he was going to do." Aquim said rather disappointed that his grandmother had agreed to let Alana go. "I don't think she would have if she didn't learn that you were going to be with her. When were you adopted Aquim?" Antila asked. Aquim's face saddened a bit and he was quite. Alana didn't notice and spoke for him. "He was adopted a year after I was born. Though Gram's has taken care of him since the day he brought me to her." Antila's curiosity rose 'the day he brought Alana to her?' She studied Aquim's face, it had noticeably darkened and he looked unwilling and unwanting to hear or talk about his past. So Antila dropped the subject. Aya began to choke on a piece of orange chicken and the group laughed while Aquim preformed the Heimlich remover on her. Aya coughed up the chicken and laughed. "I almost was killed by a piece of the only kind of chicken I like. I told you the stuff was dangerous."
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Over the next few weeks the group had the two floors completely fixed, they had bought furniture for all the rooms, couches, a dining table and chairs. As for their bedrooms, the group had to buy their own things with their own money. For the money Koenma had given them was only enough to fix the repairs in the apartment, and buy the things for the living area. Alana's brother had paid for the supplies for her with money that none of the team knew he had. Alana ignored the unusual amount of money, assuming that he had gotten a raise from his job at the doajo, while Aya and Antila didn't push the topic after finding Aquim very reluctant to tell. Antila used the last of her money to buy her supplies, finding that she had little to buy after moving all of her things from her old apartment. But she decided that perhaps she would drop the school act and get a job, thinking that Aya would be enough protection for Alana during school. Aya found that her father was more than willing to loan her enough money to get what ever she wanted, adding to the jealously of her little half sister Ashten.
Author's Note: Well Happy Valentine's Day everyone. Here is my present to all of you, the next chapter in the story. We are finally finished with 'The Interrogation,' thanks SnowDucky for typing the last part of it. This is the first official chapter written by SnowDucky (SnowDucky takes official bow). I have now taken the role as editor for the next two chapters, but I will be back in the author's role along with my friends. Well on with the story.
Disclaimer: We do not own YYH.
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Aya drove the large U-hall down the old city street looking at the numbers written on the curb, '10339' she kept repeating to her self as she drove. "Look, I found it Aya," Alana said excitably pointing at an old brick three story apartment building. "That can't be it." Aya said in shock, while parking out in front of the building. She looked at the broken windows and the front door which looked like it was about to fall off. "That's it, see '10339.'" Alana replied while pointing out the numbers written in spray paint on the brick next to the door. There were five concrete steps leading up to the front door. The black metal railings that were bolted to the cement were twisted outward and one was completely broken off the cement in the front. Aya climbed out of the U-hall and stood in front of the house. She reminded Alana of some type of punker in her tight black flair pants and tight red shirt that said, 'i'm not crazy, I just do what ever the voices in my head tell me to.' Aya's hair was pulled back in to a long French braid that stretched down to the end of her back. "So that's supposed to be where we are going to live." Alana studied Aya and took a step away from her, for Aya's face was turning red and her she had her hands in tight fists at her side. "That little evil brat sent us here to this dump to live. It's bad enough that I have to work for him but this is just wrong. I am going to strangle him by that pacifier he took back from me." Alana smiled at Aya's harsh words. She knew that Aya was really angry that she had to give the pacifier back to Koenma. "Well maybe it will be better on the inside." Alana offered hoping to calm Aya down. "Yea right. Come on lets start to unload the stuff."
Aquim got out of the jeep and looked back to Antila, he flashed her his perfect movie star smile and ran his fingers through lighting struck hair. "I'll go help them unload, you can park, but be careful with my jeep, don't scratch the paint." Aquim said and started to walk toward the U-hall truck. He watched his little sister, Alana, struggling to catch the boxes that Aya unceremoniously threw down at her. He chuckled to him self, and stuffed his hands in to his jean pockets. Alana looked as young as she ever did in her over sized overalls and white shirt. Aquim's yellow button up shirt, moved with the small breeze, as is was untucked and open exposing his well built chest under his tight under shirt. Aya cussed and grabbed the boxes and dropped them down to Alana, who was setting them on the curb. "Stupid little kid can't even give us a decent place to sleep..." Alana struggled to keep up with Aya's quick pace for she felt like Aya was throwing the boxes at her faster than she could set them down. "Aya please slow..." Alana was cut off by the sound of her brother's voice calling her. "Aquim?" Alana said ignoring the boxes Aya continued to toss to her, which were now hitting the ground. "Hay, sis. So which apartment is it?" Alana pointed to the building in front of him and Aquim's smile quickly faded. "No way, we can't stay here. I could never bring a girl over, she would get discussed and leave if I did." Aya began to laugh. "Oh, well trust me the girl would get discussed with you before you even got her in a block of this place." Aquim gave Aya a dirty look while Alana stood completely oblivious to what they were talking about. Antila walked up to the group and looked them over. Aya was laughing so hard that she was holding her stomach while Aquim yelled threats at her. She smiled at the site of her team. She was leading two half demons, one whom was willing to do anything to protect his half sister as long at he didn't get distracted by anything with boobs, and the other whom was hot tempered and more concerned for her own affairs. Then there was Alana, a young priestess who couldn't fight, just discovered that she had some power, and was the most gullible and naive person that Antila had ever met. The girl was so weak and yet she had so much power. "Aya, Aquim, stop it now!" Both Aya and Aquim stopped and looked at Antila. Her hands were on her hips and her green dickeys, and purple top seemed perfectly straight. She reminded Aya of some type of manager who was yelling at her employees.
Aya watched Antila struggle with the keys to open the front door of the building, she moaned in her impatience. Finally Aya pushed Antila out of the way of the door and kicked it open. The door fell to the ground, with a crash and a wave of dust arose from the floor. Alana sneezed and fell back in to her brother's hard chest. "Oh, sorry," she said and stepped in the apartment with Aya and Antila. "This isn't ours; we get the top two floors." Antila announced and started to move to a set of stairs at the end of the hall. The four of them each carried a box up the old wooden stairs of the apartment. "Ok so maybe the inside isn't better." Alana said to herself as she followed behind Aya. "Don't worry ducky, we can fix it up before school starts again." Aquim said to her hearing her depressed words. Aya pretended to gag while listening to Aquim's kind words of hope to his sister and at the mention of going back to school.
Once reaching the second floor the group set the boxes down and looked around the large room. The room, like the whole house has oak floors that could hardly be seen under the dirt and dust. There was an island on one side of the room with a sink attacked to it and counters with a stove. "Wonder if the stove and dish washer work." Antila said while looking over the place. "I think this is the living area, like in dorms." Aquim said. "What do you mean?" Alana asked. "In collage the living area is a floor set up to be the kitchen, dining room and living room. If this place is set up like a collage dorm than the rooms down stairs are bedrooms and the rooms upstairs will be the same. On the paper work Koenma gave me, we are able to use the second and third floors." Antilla said and started walking to the stairs. Alana rushed in front of her and ran upstairs "I want to claim the first room." Aquim followed but slowly as did Aya while muttering "then at least we won't have to clean up the bottom floor."
Alana opened all the doors to the rooms before she stood in the middle of the biggest. "I want this one." Aya stepped in to the room and looked around, "this one is at least 3 feet bigger than all the others, and you can't have it." Alana's arms folded across her chest, "and why not?" she asked in a pout. Antila walked to the window slightly paying attention to the conversation going on. "Because you are too short." Aya said in "a matter of factly" manner while Alana's mouth dropped open and Antila laughed to herself. "Yes much too short, it would be a waist of space for you to have so much room to your self. Such a big waist, you will have to take a smaller room, but even then you will have too much space... let me see," she said while making a thinking face." Oh yes, you could stay in a nice closet or under the sink down stairs. Now that would be perfect." Alana's face turned to worry and she rushed to her brother who had entered the room. "Oh, Aquim. Do you think that I am short?" she asked while hugging her brother's stomach for she only came to just above his elbow while standing up straight. "Well I... well I... Tall compared to what?" her brother asked with the sweat drop on his forehead. But to his relief his attention was elsewhere.
"ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS." Aya and Antila said in unison. "Hah, paper beats rock. The room is mine!" Antila said, running to look out the window, which to her relief looked out to the park. "Best out of three?" Aya pleaded. "No! You won the pacifier, I won the room." Antila said strongly. "But that didn't count I had to give it back to the brat remember?" Antila listened to Aya's complaints will no pity; "We didn't know you would have to at the time so the room is mine." Aya left defeated, as did the others who were going to go looking for a room to claim.
Each bedroom was rather large, for each room had its own bathroom, with a tub/shower, sink and counter, and walk in closets. The third floor was set up with two rooms on each side of the hall. Antila, whom had the largest room, was next to Alana's, who ended up with the smallest. Directly across the hall from Alana's room was Aquim's, and next to him, across from Antila, laid Aya's room that was equally sized to Aquim's.
The group, after a long day of unloading the large U-hall sat on the wooden floor, which was cleaned by Alana. Aya used her "blankie" as a picnic blanket for the team to sit on while eating the recently delivered Chinese food. "Oh, now this is good Orange chicken." Aya said with her mouth full. "Yea, it's the best I've tasted." Antila agreed. "Could you believe gram's today ducky?" Aquim said using his pet name for his sister. "Yea she was a bit shocked when Koenma started to talk," Alana said.
"Shocked, Hell she fainted in to that dorky red heads arms. Your old lady freaked, once she woke up she began to try to kill the baby brat, and probably would have if it hadn't been for Botan protecting him." Aya said while laughing at the memory of the little brat running for his life from an old lady with a cane. "Well she let you go at least; I didn't think she was going to let you after Koenma finally told her what he was going to do." Aquim said rather disappointed that his grandmother had agreed to let Alana go. "I don't think she would have if she didn't learn that you were going to be with her. When were you adopted Aquim?" Antila asked. Aquim's face saddened a bit and he was quite. Alana didn't notice and spoke for him. "He was adopted a year after I was born. Though Gram's has taken care of him since the day he brought me to her." Antila's curiosity rose 'the day he brought Alana to her?' She studied Aquim's face, it had noticeably darkened and he looked unwilling and unwanting to hear or talk about his past. So Antila dropped the subject. Aya began to choke on a piece of orange chicken and the group laughed while Aquim preformed the Heimlich remover on her. Aya coughed up the chicken and laughed. "I almost was killed by a piece of the only kind of chicken I like. I told you the stuff was dangerous."
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Over the next few weeks the group had the two floors completely fixed, they had bought furniture for all the rooms, couches, a dining table and chairs. As for their bedrooms, the group had to buy their own things with their own money. For the money Koenma had given them was only enough to fix the repairs in the apartment, and buy the things for the living area. Alana's brother had paid for the supplies for her with money that none of the team knew he had. Alana ignored the unusual amount of money, assuming that he had gotten a raise from his job at the doajo, while Aya and Antila didn't push the topic after finding Aquim very reluctant to tell. Antila used the last of her money to buy her supplies, finding that she had little to buy after moving all of her things from her old apartment. But she decided that perhaps she would drop the school act and get a job, thinking that Aya would be enough protection for Alana during school. Aya found that her father was more than willing to loan her enough money to get what ever she wanted, adding to the jealously of her little half sister Ashten.