I DO NOT OWN YYH, I DO OWN YUKI AND ANYONE/THING THAT IS NOT IN THE ANIME/MANGA! READ ON!
When Fire and Ice Collide
Ch. 6
Koenma sat in his office with about a billion stacks of papers. "We can't find the sprit of Yuki Hakuhen!" George said frantically.
"Where could she be?!" Koenma banged his head on the desk and then jumped five feet in the air at the sound of Botan's voice.
"HI KOENMA SIR!!!" she smiled as he landed on his back, "I'm sorry to bother you right now, but I have Yuki and-"
"YUKI! YUKI HAKUHEN!" George leaped up and down and helped Koenma up, "WE'VE FOUND HER!!!" he grinned and Koenma rolled his eyes.
"More like Botan found her." he said dryly.
"Yes…I will get back to work now…" George ran out of the office and left Yuki and Botan blinking.
"Anyway…Yuki, do you want to live?" Koenma asked and Yuki lifted a brow.
"But I'm dead…" Yuki said.
"I know…but do you want to live?"
"But I'm dead…" she replied again.
"I think you are missing the point, Yuki…" Koenma said slowly.
"NO! I think YOU are missing the point." she said a bit aggravated.
"So much like him, am I right, Botan?" Koenma asked her and she blushed.
"Yes, Koenma sir. She is very much like him."
"Who is this 'him'?" Yuki was getting more annoyed by the minute.
"Why…don't you know?" Koenma was getting amused by her anger.
"No!" she said sarcastically. "I just felt like asking that to sound like a helpless girl that needs to be explained to about EVERYTHING!" she grinned.
"Um…we can't explain a few things...well…it just doesn't feel right if I tell you how do to…do certain things and-"
"Oi!" Yuki smacked her head, "Do you always take things so seriously!" she growled and Koenma shrugged.
"Do you want to live?" he was asking again.
"Are you serious?!" Yuki asked a bit astounded, "I didn't know you could do that!" she beamed.
"Why yes…but see these only happen once every 100 years…but this time, it's happened quite a few times in this century." Koenma sweat dropped, "I can give you an egg that you hatch and if it feeds off good energy, you live, if bad…you get devoured by It." he grinned and she raised a brow.
"Devoured?" she asked skeptically, "I'm going to be devoured by a chicken?"
"You are obviously not getting the point…" Koenma rubbed his temples and sighed.
"No…apparently not." she gritted through her teeth.
"It's a spirit beast." Botan added in and Yuki and Koenma looked at her, "Sorry Koenma sir…" she apologized and bowed.
"OH! A spirit beast?!" Yuki grinned, "Now I understand!"
"You do?" Koenma and Botan asked in unison.
"Yea…I didn't grow up in Koorime and not understand anything about demons and supernatural stuff like me!" she grinned, "I'm not as naïve as you think." she said proudly.
"Oh?" Koenma asked.
"Well…no...not really, but it sounded good, right?" she smiled and Koenma sighed.
"Very well…Botan will explain." he gestured his hand to Botan and she stood straight.
"Yes sir, Koenma….sir?" she thought about it and shrugged. "Yuki…come with me…" she said and Yuki followed after her.
"Wait! Botan!" Botan skidded to a halt as Koenma walked up to her in his teenage form and handed Yuki the egg, "You need this." he nodded and smiled some.
"Thank you Koenma, sir." Botan bowed, "It would have been most dreadful if we had left without that." she smiled back and Yuki and Botan flew out towards Genkai's temple again.
"So…this thing is supposed to give me a life?" Yuki asked.
"Yes." Botan nodded, "A spirit beast is hatched from your good or bad spirit energy." she continued when she had Yuki's attention, "If you let out good spirit energy, the spirit beast will let you live like Puu does to Yusuke. But if not, your spirit beast, as Lord Koenma said, will devour you!" Botan went all scary with dark clouds and lightning, cackling evilly. "Sorry."
"Ok…" Yuki shook her head, "Whatever you say…" she looked down at the egg, "When will it hatch?"
"When it has enough spirit energy…"
"That makes sense."
"Yea…wait, you said something I said made sense!" Botan was tickled to death.
"Um…no?"
"Oh…ok!" Botan chirped and they floated over the gang as Hiei slept from the antibiotics.
Yuki bit her lip, flew in by him on the bed and brushed her hand against his cheek. The only thing that hurt was that her hand went right through him. "Hiei…" she whispered sadly and laid her head next to his, kneeling by the bed and falling asleep.
Botan thought it best to tell the gang now while the two slept. She appeared and scared Yusuke and Kazuma. "I really wish you'd stop popping up everywhere!" Yusuke grabbed his chest and breathed heavily.
"Sorry! But guess what!?" Botan asked.
Kurama joined them and Kazuma asked, "My kitten isn't gonna get eaten by fox-boy!?" he grinned and Kurama shook his head.
"Um…yea and?" Botan asked.
"There's a new group of thugs in town that the all powerful Urameshi can kill!" Yusuke cheered and danced around.
"No…" Botan scratched her head.
"Damn!" Yusuke yelled and snapped his fingers. Keiko lifted a brow in confusion.
"Let me have a try." Kurama said calmly and looked at Botan, "Koenma is giving Yuki another chance at life?" he asked.
"BINGO!" (trademark…had to do it in this story)
"Well, I could've guessed that!" Kazuma said, crossing his arms over his chest.
"So could I!" Yusuke pouted.
"Men…" Keiko sighed.
"Indeed." Botan nodded.
Yusuke, Kazuma, and Kurama: -_-;;
"Anyway! Yuki has a spirit egg!" Botan grinned.
"Just like me!?" Yusuke grinned and Puu flew in on his head.
"That appendage seems to like your head." Hiei came out, wincing some and then looking at everyone, "What?"
"Hiei…you shouldn't be moving…Yukina will get angry." Kurama pointed out.
"Hn."
"HIEI!" Yukina whined and he looked at her all huffy and puffy. "You shouldn't be up! You need your rest!" she ordered which scared the shit out of everyone else.
He didn't want to make her upset, so he winced and smirked, pointing to Kurama, "I want to hear what is going on." he said blankly but Kurama knew what he was talking about.
Hiei walked painfully back into the room and laid down again. Sensing he wasn't alone, he looked around but saw nothing. He knew she was there but he didn't know where.
Yuki stood by his side and knelt down beside him. She blew on his hair, right behind his ear and was shocked when he turned to face her. 'He can feel me…I'll have to ask Botan about this…' she decided and watched his hand reach for her.
His hand was so close to her face that she thought her heart had stopped…again. -_-;;
His hand brushed her face…and past it. He felt the coolness and knew it was her and smirked to himself, but hid it from anyone…even her.
She could have cried when his hand went through her face but after the look in his eyes, she decided that it was best to not cry. She'd see him soon enough...that is if the spirit beast didn't get the best of her. 'I'll be back…I promise.' she thought and got up, and crossed the room to the window.
Botan appeared by her, invisible to everyone but Yuki. "How have you been fairing?" she asked cheerily.
"I'm fine…" she said sadly, "Botan…are you sure they can't feel me?" she asked and turned to Botan.
"Positive, why?" Botan asked, confused by her question.
"Because when I blew on Hiei, his hair moved slightly and he turned to look. It was as though he knew I was there." she said.
"Well…Hiei…um…" Botan wondered if she knew. "Did he ever show you what was behind the bandanna.
"I've seen him just put it on." she paused, "Why does he wear it all the time? A scar?" she asked.
"No…more like an eye."
"An eye!?" Yuki asked, confused, "Hiei didn't have an eye when he was thrown off Koorime…" she said.
"I know. A demon named Shigure implanted it on him. He was actually the first not to scream in pain. He didn't make a sound as it was implanted." Botan shuddered.
"Oh…so? What about it? He wanted a third eye, whoopee?" she said.
"Um…well, it's not a regular eye."
"Of course it isn't. it's a third eye on the forehead…not many have those implanted." Yuki said sarcastically.
"It's a Jagan Eye. Hiei is often known as Jaganshi Hiei." she pointed out.
"Jaganshi Hiei?" Yuki asked, a little confused.
"Jaganshi means the one with the third eye. Hiei, as you know, is his name."
"Ok…but why is the Jagan eye so much more different than a third eye?" Yuki asked.
"A Jagan Eye lets him see far distances and search for a certain demon. That's how he found Yukina."
"He found Yukina?"
"Yea. She was captured by a black market man named Tarukenay." she said and then looked at Yuki's shocked face.
"Yukina doesn't know Hiei is her brother?"
"No."
"Why won't he say anything? I know he knows…"
"He doesn't think he deserves her."
"That's poppycock!" Yuki was outraged and then looked at Hiei, not seeing the male she learned to trust, but the one that she grew to love.
"Yuki…you have to understand a lot about him…he's not very trusting."
"I know…I know that…really, I do. I just…wish he trusted me…" she said sadly.
"Oh! You're probably one of the only ones that he does trust." Botan said.
"No…he wouldn't have followed me to see what I was up to. He didn't trust me enough to leave me be with that…ruthless jerk!" Yuki felt tears slide down her clear cheeks.
"Oh…Hiei won't be too happy if you aren't happy."
"He's never happy, Botan."
"Well…I just hope your wrong." Botan smiled and thought, 'If only you knew…'
As if Yuki read her thoughts, Yuki stared at Botan, waiting for her to say something else.
"So…how's the egg coming along?" Botan saw the disappointment in Yuki's eyes but didn't say anything.
Instead, Yuki didn't argue, she took out the egg. "I don't know…what's it supposed to look like?" she asked and handed Botan the egg.
Botan looked at it, "It's coming on really well…" she said and gave it back, "You must have a lot of good energy."
"Um…well, I haven't done anything…" she admitted and Botan lifted a brow.
"I don't know why it would respond then-"
"Allow me to answer that." Koenma appeared and they both stared. He cleared his throat and continued, "It doesn't necessarily have to be what she does on this matter, more along the lines of what she feels." he said.
"What I feel?" Yuki asked.
"Yes." Koenma said and went on, "Because of whatever feelings you are experiencing now, you are feeding the spirit beast that energy." he said with a smirk.
"But that means…the beast will be sad?" she asked and Koenma shook his head.
"Is it a good or bad sad?" Botan asked.
"Um…I don't know." Yuki admitted.
"It's a good sad if it's what I think it is." he said and saw the confusion on Botan's and Yuki's face, "Love?"
"Um…I plead the 5th?" she said. (5th amendment says that you do not need to speak to officials to endanger your freedom…blah!)
"Then it's good love?" Botan asked and Koenma nodded.
"The spirit beast will hatch soon…and if you keep these feelings up, the beast will be as gentle as Puu." Koenma then vanished and Yuki's eye twitched.
"Puu? What the heck is Puu?!" she asked and Botan smiled.
"I almost forgot, you never met Puu…Puu is Yusuke's spirit beast."
"And it's gentle?!"
"Yes."
"Well…how is that? Yusuke would be the last one to have a nice spirit beast…wait…no, Hiei." she nodded.
"Yuki…there are worst demons out there than Hiei…worst humans as well."
"Yes…I suppose."
"At least you know Hiei will never take advantage of you." Botan pointed out.
"Yea…" and with that thought, a warm feeling came to Yuki's heart…love.
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