Chapter 9

Illusion of the mind

TOPIC: Sumiko becomes something or someone because her body has coped
up with her spiritual power. The start of Hiei falling for her and
Sumiko's past is revealed one by one at the upcoming chapters.

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Chapter 9

Illusion of the mind.

Kurama was standing more to the side because of the cuts Commander Toothpick gave him. The toothpick was right. He moved fast.

"B-be careful with him." Sumiko warned to Kurama, Hiei, Yusuke, and Kuwabara who were all around her. She was having a hard time to talk already. "I have heard the story of a man named Commander Toothpick before."

"He was a commander of a small army of troops here in the Philippines. Even if his enemies had guns and cannons and he only had a knife, he manages to sneak into the enemy army itself and unknowingly, the enemy of his troop diminishes one by one. He must be a master of silent killing."

Kurama, Yusuke, and Hiei looked at the silent forest. Where was he? they thought. If we don't finish this soon, Sumiko will really die.

Hiei was already using his jagan that was frantically searching for the Toothpick. (they have adapted to calling him the Toothpick)

He must not be that fast. Hiei thought. The last time he hit me, I managed to see where he came from.

However, how did he hit me?

"Is something wrong my friends?" Commander Toothpick said, "I have been sanding in my position for the past few minutes and you still haven't found me."

This was getting irritating Hiei thought, He has been mocking us for the last fifteen minutes!

That is it! Yusuke thought, If that Toothpick wont come out in three minutes, I am going to fire my reigun everywhere and I don't care who gets hit with it.

Where is that Toothpick Kuwabara thought, It is like finding a toothpick in a haystack...

That does it! Kurama thought, I will turn to my youko form. This man is driving my nerves.

Kurama was about to change when was hit by Commander Toothpick, again.

Immediately, the other three came crashing to Commander Toothpick and immediately hit the trees again.

Sumiko shouted in agony as blood spurted out of her mouth. She tried to stand up but only ended up in supporting herself in all fours.

It is getting hard to breath, Sumiko thought as she coughed out more blood. That poison seems like it is in my brain. It is making me regret being here.

Why am I even thinking like these?

Not again, my energy is draining away... Why now...

I do not yet want to die...

"Sumiko!!!!" Kuwabara shouted as he ran to Sumiko. The others followed the suite.

"She is still alive, thank goodness." Kuwabara said.

"I want to give her some of my power but you see I am still to weak." Kurama said. Hiei and Yusuke did the same.

Sumiko was breathing and it would be a matter of seconds before the rough breathing would end.

"You will pay for this Toothpick!" Kuwabara said as he called for his sword. Hiei shifted to attack position. Kurama took out a new rose whip and Yusuke prepared to fire another reigun.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me toothpick!" he yelled from the shadows.

"There!" Hiei, Kurama, and Yusuke shouted as all four of them ran towards a tall tree, a dark figure was there who looked surprised.

***
"Don't drop him!" Hina shouted, trying to escape the two other women's grasp.

Rui closed her eyes as she slowly let go of the baby...

Why am I dreaming this again?

It must be the fortieth time I have seen this.

"Don't drop him!" Hina shouted as she tried to escape the two women's grasp.

Rui closed her eyes as she slowly let go of the baby...

That makes it the fortieth time...

Is this not going to change?

As if on cue, it did and Sumiko lost control of her dream.

She started remembering everything.

No. She was not really someone special but she remembered things that she did not want to remember.
Evil eyes. Eyes of hatred and fear. Eyes of empty feeling...

She was standing in front of a the classroom that was now empty since the class was out in P.E. The other student's skirts were there and in those pockets were wallets. Many wallets with money...

Greedy eyes.

"Mother! Listen to me!" a shadow of Sumiko shouted, "Why are you always busy! You never listen to me!" tears fall down her face as she tried to talk to her mother...

Pleading eyes.

"Why do you keep butting in my business?" a young student about Sumiko's age said before leaving her alone.

Angry eyes.

"Leave me alone!" Sumiko said as her mother tried to comfort her.

Hurt eyes.

"I don't care." a young Sumiko said as her father slapped her on the face making her fly across the room.

Emotionless eyes.

Next came the view of a young girl crying. She was Sumiko's sister. "I don't care if you're my sister!" Sumiko shouted to the young girl, "Stop crying this moment or I will make you wish you were never born."

Her sister keeps crying.

"That does it!"

Sumiko takes hold of her sister's hair and forced her up. The nine year old sister cried louder.

Sumiko was only twelve at that time.

She scratched her up on her face, angry at herself and angry at her sister.

She shakes her sister's head using her hair and pinches her in the arms. The nine year-old only cried louder.

"Sumiko! Stop!" her father said as he ran up to Sumiko and pushed her away.

Everything seemed to be in slow motion. She saw his father lean over to comfort her sister.

She started hating her sister. Why does she have to get all the attention? Sumiko thought.

She pushed her father away before she pushed her mother down the stairs and running inside her room.

Then she cried her whole heart out.

Scene fades and turns to black.

When did I give up my morals?

When?

I was happy, why did I change?

I was not like this.

Never. I changed already. I forgot of this things!

Stop! Stop!

Kill yourself.

No! STOP! NO!

Kill your-

NO! STOP! I CANNOT HEAR YOU! STOP! STOP!

You can hear me. Kill yourself.

***
"Where is he?" Kurama said completely irritated to catch the toothpick.

"Where is that the toothpick!" Hiei shouted to the place. He looked around. There was a pond, a rock, grass around them and trees. WHERE WAS THE TOOTHPICK! His Jagan was frantically searching for him.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me toothpick!" Commander Toothpick said as he came out of the shadows. He was still in perfect order and not bruised. In fact, he was not even tired.

"No one can ever defeat me." Commander Toothpick said. "I have heard of you four. You are the Spirit Detectives of Japan. Powerful they say but unluckily demons."

"What do you mean by that?" Yusuke said as he fired a reigun at him. It hit but Toothpick was not hurt.

"You should know better than that." He said, "No demon can defeat me in battle. No one demon."

Kurama looked at Kuwabara and Sumiko who were both humans.

"Do not even try." Toothpick said as he hit Hiei at the back, with his claws. "No human can defeat me with the help of a demon." he said as he disappeared again.

He grinned as he hit Kurama in the stomach with his knee and amusingly watched him cough out blood.

Yusuke and Kuwabara were at the other head, partially limp for the moment.

"Your next problem is that no human is stronger than me." He said as he walked towards Hiei.

Hiei immediately stood up and ran to the Toothpick with his sword thrust forward. Commander Toothpick held out his hand, which became longer and caught Hiei's head in it.

Slowly, he crushed Hiei's head as he lifted him from the ground. Hiei slowly dropped his sword as he tried to take away the hand that was crushing his head.

Blood trickled down his head. Commander Toothpick smacked his lips. "Mm, blood." He said as he pulled Hiei closer. He licked the blood off. "A fire demon's blood. Do you know how rare that is?"

Hiei was angry at the toothpick.

Sumiko slowly opened her eyes and saw Kurama a few distance away. On her right were Yusuke and Kuwabara and when she looked ahead, she saw Hiei, Hiei in the hands of the enemy. (It is true right?)

Commander Toothpick answered his question, "Very rare." Then he bit Hiei in the neck with very large fangs and started sucking out his blood. (No, he is not a vampire)

No... Hiei... Do not leave me...

I do not want... be... alone...

Hiei!

The baby that Rui was holding fell towards the cliff.

A young boy was smiling. He looked a lot like Hiei.

He just killed a demon...

Slowly, she saw pictures of Hiei but she could not piece them together.

Although, she only saw pictures... she understood one thing.

She did not like seeing Hiei getting hurt.

"HIEI-SAMA!!!" Sumiko shouted as she erupted in green glowing light. She was transforming.

Kurama forced himself to look up but the light was so bright he had to cover his eyes.

The same was with everyone else, even Commander Toothpick.
When the light finished, Kurama gasped at what he saw.

Sumiko was in the middle but she was different. She was still her regular height but had pointed gray ears and a long gray tail. Her hair turned green and in her forehead was a crystal., a tiny diamond crystal.

Her eyes were different. They were not the happy Sumiko he once knew but another one. It was full of anger.

Sumiko was a demon? Kurama thought disbelievingly.

He saw the same look on Kuwabara, Hiei, and Yusuke.

"Let him go." Sumiko, or rather, the Sumiko with a tail said.

Commander Toothpick grinned. "Why should I?" Then, to irritate her more, he bit on Hiei's arm and Hiei shouted in pain.

"I don't want to kill you." Sumiko said, then as an afterthought, she added, "Or then again, maybe not."

She quickly ran to him and stretched her claws. Sharp nails.

No one saw what happened. All they saw was Commander Toothpick let go of Hiei and it seemed as if Sumiko already hit Toothpick with her claws.

"H-How did you-"Commander Toothpick said as he fell to the ground, dead.

H-how did she do it? Kurama thought.

Suddenly a change overcame Sumiko. Innocence came back to her eyes. She blinked twice before looking at Commander Toothpick's corpse.

"AAAAAHHH!" she screamed, still in the demon form, eyeing him. Then she frantically danced on her spot. "Oh no! Oh no! I killed someone! I killed someone! I'm going to go to jail..." she said then Hiei stood up, holding his injured arm.

"Sumiko..."

"Hiei!" Sumiko said surprised as she saw Hiei in his wounded position. "A-are you all right?"

"What does it look like?" It did not sound out as mean as he expected.

She looks so pretty... She has cute little ears...

Oh, look it's twitching!

Hiei slapped himself in the face with his injured arm. He quickly regretted it. The pain in his arm was worse than before.

"Wait," Sumiko said as she held out his arm. Hiei felt himself go red. "I think I can heal you. I feel as if I have healing powers."

She held the injured arm and transferred some of her white blood cells into his. Soon, it could be seen that the wound in Hiei's arm and neck was slowly disappearing.

Her white blood cells regenerated Hiei's own before going back to Sumiko.

"Hn." Hiei said as he flexed his hand, the pain gone.

"Do you know that you look cute with that tail?" Kuwabara said as he, Kurama, and Kurama headed towards her smiling. It seemed as if it was three o'clock.

The fight took three hours.

"What tail?" Sumiko said as she looked at her back. Then she noticed something gray swishing. "AAHHHH!!" she shouted. "I've got a tail!!!" she tried to catch it but she couldn't yet control the tail.

"Will you stop shouting Sumiko?" Hiei said as he closed his ears when he stood up.

"Don't talk to her like that!" Kuwabara said as he ran to Hiei and held his shirt by the neckline, "She just saved you!"

"Hn."

Kuwabara tried to punch Hiei but he was too fast for him.
A slight breeze blew to them as they all smiled, watching the two of them fight, physically, this time.

Just then, Yusuke's communicator rang and a very relieved Botan appeared on the screen.

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Chapter 9 done! Review please! I really need to know it is bad.

Sorry, I cannot yet continue the dreamturtle part. I was watching StarStruck Kids. It is a show of kids that will soon be stars in a few more months.

Chao! I see Rainer on the TV. Bye! 0l^l0