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Chapter 4 The Mission(Tai's POV First Person)
I was standing in Koenma's office. It was pretty roomy for an office no matter how high or special Koenma is. I mean the office was big enough to be a kitchen, if you ask me. But you didn't ask, did you?
Koenma commented on our slowness. Botan continued to chatter and ask questions. Hiei stared at nothing; he made it look like the walls were extremely interesting. Kurama was breaking up Yusuke and Kuwabara's argument about something. If anything had anything to do with Kuwabara, I couldn't care less.
The room was in disarray and nothing was being done. Botan must've thought that I wasn't responding because of background noise so she suddenly whistled loudly and shouted, "You guys, BE QUEIT! I'm trying to talk here." I would think that was a bit extreme since she didn't really listen when I did respond.
"Botan's right," Koenma asserted, "We need to get down to business."
"Business?" Kuwabara asked. I was about to say the same thing and silently scolded myself for having the same train of thought as a stupid idiot.
"Yes," Koenma said calmly, "We need to find out who she is," he finished pointing at me. He sounded much like a baby, a toddler who just learned to speak. Hasn't anyone told him pointing was rude? Royalty getting to someone's head?
I decided to answer him though, "I'm Taikana; I used to live in a fairly peaceful part of the Makai and then my family was murdered," I said blankly and monotonously, "The people who murdered them told me that they hadn't succeeded in killing my older sister so now I spend all my time searching for her. I'm not sure how old I am, possibly 32 and half or so and my years are a little more than two regular years so I'm about 16 more or less. When I get really angry I tend to change my form,"
I was speaking very fast, just slow enough so that everyone could catch each word, but not slow enough for anyone to comprehend what I was saying, "I'm a successful martial artist and my fighting styles are unique to that of many demons in the Makai. I don't like the company of idiots and I haven't ever felt lonely except the first night my brother was gone. My brother says that my glare could kill and the recoiling of upper-class demons proves it. My brother is not alive and my sister might not be either. I don't have any friends and no one cares if I die or don't die." I paused for a second, mainly because of self-pity.
Everyone was staring. Hasn't anyone told them that staring was rude, too. "What?" I demanded.
"I didn't know you talked so much," replied Kuwabara simply.
"I talk when I want, where I want," I answered coolly.
Hiei smirked and Yusuke laughed, Kurama stayed emotionless. Interesting. And I thought Hiei was the emotionless guy.
"Would you like me to continue my tragic tale of my tragic life?" I asked, a smile on my face.
"Um… do you know why your family was killed?" asked Botan a bit uncomfortably.
"No. I don't," I looked at Botan. She was a bit fidgety. Sudden realization dawned over me, "Do you?"
Botan nodded slowly and recoiled slightly from my demanding voice, "What do you know? Tell me. Or else I'll kill you."
Tension was starting to mount. And everyone was staring at something, all a bit fidgety, except Hiei who wore the same blank scowl he usually had unless he was smirking.
"Um…" Botan started flinching at my sudden growl. I wasn't consciously growling, but I guess a sound escaped my throat. "…"
"They were wanted for attempted theft," said Koenma; Botan shot him a look that plainly read 'thank you'.
"What?!?!?" I screamed, "No way! That can't be right."
Koenma looked at me funny, "Why not? They could have done it behind you and your siblings back."
I laughed stiffly, "Mother was pregnant practically all her life. She and Father were, uh…how you say, extremely busy all the time."
Everyone had a trace of a blush on their face and I have to laugh again. I mean they did look a bit silly to me, not that that was a laughing matter of course.
"But the files…" Koenma mumbled.
Botan excused herself saying something about getting a drink of water, but burst back through the door just moments later. "Koenma, urgent news from the Makai," she said quickly, "Seems that two men got there and they claim to be bounty hunters; they're killing without reason. They just brought back a few demons dead telling me that they were wanted men and demanding a reward. The demons weren't wanted. And the men got away when I said so."
"Men," Koenma asked, "What did they look like?"
Botan paused to recollect, "They were big and… oh yeah, one had a sword and one had a bow."
"WHAT?!?!?!?!?" I shouted loudly. I felt my eyes turning red. Oh no, the transformation.
"Huh?" Botan questioned, "You know them?"
I had to answer before I changed, "They killed…" too late. Fangs struck out and my eyes turned red, a small black dot in the center of each. My nails grew and turned into claws. Ears grew from the top of my head and a furry tail appeared. Soon all of my senses were sharpened, and I was in my full demon form.
Suddenly I lost all thoughts, except some of the most disturbing ones, …must kill…want blood…want…taste…blood… I left the room and ran for the smell of the two men.
"Don't let her…" Koenma was shouting, but I didn't hear anything else. All I did was want to taste the men's blood.
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(Hiei's POV First person)
"…get away. We can't have her killing them."
I was shocked. Nothing more, and nothing less, just plain shocked.
"Hiei, we need to catch her," Kurama was saying. I nodded slowly and I ran after Tai. She was absolutely beautiful in her demon form, and she looked extremely strong. I would have told my mind No she's not, but even I, myself, couldn't deny the fact that she was gorgeous.
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Once we caught up to her, my touch changed her back. Talk about weird, huh? I touch her and suddenly the claws and fangs and ears and her tail all disappear. Once again, let me say weird.
"Are you ok?" I asked her picking her up gingerly. She was running so blindly that she was covered with blood, maybe ran into something, or someone, who knows? She moaned once and then fell unconscious.
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Everyone was back in Koenma's office and Tai was properly bandaged up. She was conscious and was explaining about her transformation.
"…Yeah that's right," she replied to Yusuke, "I turn into my full demon form whenever I get pissed off."
"How'd you turn back?" I heard myself ask.
Taikana blushed, "Oh, um… the one who I…" she paused looking for the right word. I wanted her to say the one who I love, but that was defiantly hoping for too much, "…trust or feel comfortable with has to touch me and… yeah."
"Interesting," started Koenma, "Well anyways, you guys, mission time."
Yusuke groaned audibly, "Man, now I'll have to blow another date with Keiko." He looked miserable; I'll never understand these petty human worries. "Ok so what do we have to do pacifier-breath?"
Koenma (AKA Pacifier Breath) said calmly, "Just shut up and do your job."
Yusuke was grumbling, "I never signed up for this job, you know…"
Koenma looked at Yusuke with a disgusted look and continued, "You'll have to tract down those two men, got it? We don't know what they're up to, and that is what you'll have to find out."
"What if they went back to the human world," I said seriously, "Wouldn't that mean that there is a hole in the barrier between the Makai and human world?"
Koenma nodded, "Yes, but let's hope that they're still in the Makai, because if they aren't. Well, let's just say one world is big enough. Oh yeah, Taikana, you wouldn't mind going with the boys, would you?"
"Of course not," she replied haughtily, "I've run with males all the time, and this ain't any different." And with that we left the office.
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Wheeeee chappie was about 1300 words long. Longest chappie yet, I'll make them longer and longer and longer… *evil grin on my face* MUHAHAHA
Dedicated to BLAZING KODACHI because this was the LONGEST CHAPPIE SO FAR.
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