NOTE!!! To Storm31, I read your review, looked over my story and realized
"Wow, she is right! And this sounds like shit!" (my personal thoughts on
the subject, not yours) so I went back and added a few things to the
chapter to explain it more. As for Hiei being OOC, he is actually relaxed
for once. That is why he was acting different. Thank you for the advice, it
did really help. I went into a part of the story that I had not posted yet,
chapter 9, and changed a whole lot to make it better. Your review was
really helpful, thank you,
THE GREAT APPOLOGY: I do have an excuse for not updating this or any story lately. No, it's not the almighty writers block excuse but a half decent one. I have not had much time to write or update lately because I have been too busy filming my movie that I am making with my friends. (The Green Sword, watch for it to win every award that there is! Ok, maybe not) we have been training extras in movie style sword fighting, locating chain mail, searching for dresses, working on trailers, hiding our main character's new blue hair, and spending immense amounts of time searching tirelessly for a Sir Lawrence, the main bad buy and evil knight that has gone insane. It takes up a fair amount of time. We are also working on an add for more extras because we just don't have enough people. We are also still looking for sets but we may have found them. If I do not update quick enough for your liking, please take some pity because apart from that I would also like to continue passing high school
Is it just me, or does Hiei seem a little OOC in this chap? Oh well.
Shall we cut the crap and get to the story, I think so
Chapter 8
Joining the Team
"I suppose that you are all wondering why I called you here." Koenma stated, not getting up from his chair. He looked around the faces of the Spirit Detectives. Kurama had no clue what was going on and did not seem to mind. Yusuke was clearly angry about missing his date. Hiei looked like he knew what was coming and did not seem happy about it. Kuwabara clearly had no clue and was fearing that it was another mission. "Rumors of another tournament (no, that will not be covered in this fic, nor shall it ever) have been spreading around. I am adding two members to your team. One because Genki can no longer fight for you and another for your alternate."
Outside of his door, Jin and Sky Fire sat on a bench, talking about all that had happened when they were apart. Sky Fire had told him of tales in which demons had been so humiliated that they killed another demon just to be sent into solitary confinement and Jin told him about the dark tournament. He explained in great detail all of the battles he fought. Sky fire sat there like a little child listening to his grandmother tell him stories.
Koenma had sat them out there long before Yusuke had arrived and Sky Fire was beginning to get sleepy. He slowly started to lean on Jin's shoulder, eyes closing and then opening again.
"Jin." the sleepy demon said dreamily "I hate Touya"
"I know, but you will never see him again" Jin could not stand to think of Touya hurting Sky Fire. It was easy for him to tell that last time they had been together Touya had the intent to kill Sky Fire.
"Yay" although it was supposedly happy, it did not sound like it due to just how tired he was.
Jin did his best to make Sky Fire comfortable. Just as Sky Fire drifted off to dreamland the door opened. "Sky, Sky Fire" Jin said, shaking him lightly. "It's time to go Sky. Wake up!"
"Brrrrring, Brrrrrring..I am away from my desk, if you would like to leave a message, please do so after the beep.beep" Sky Fire mumbled, not looking as though he planed to go anywhere or do anything.
"well, the lights are on but nobody's home. I suppose I will just have to leave" Jin stood up causing Sky Fire to fall forward and crack his head on the hard floor
"Huh?" he managed to say, looking up at Jin and truly not knowing what was going on. "Hey, Jin, the door is open, we should probably go inside"
Jin and Sky Fire walked into the room to be stared at by Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Kurama. "Sorry 'bout that" Jin apologized "Sky Fire fell asleep and when he takes a nap he practically hibernates"
"Sleepy" Sky Fire agreed. "Stayed up late last night to have fun on my last day in prison for some time." He suddenly snapped to attention, realizing where he was and who was staring at him. "Lumpy!" he shouted as he ran over and hugged Kuwabara, just to see what sort of response he would get. "Last time I saw you, you were down for the count!" he let go after seeing the perfectly horrified face that 'lumpy' was making. Once satisfied, he turned to Yusuke "Greasy!" he yelled once more approaching his defenseless victim. He never got to hug him though. Yusuke jumped behind Kurama to hide.
"Fine, be like that then." He said before turning around to look for more potential prey. His eyes fell on Hiei "Shorty!" he yelled, not even knowing that that was Kuwabara's second favorite nickname for him.
Hiei had no time to respond before he was wrapped up in SkyFire's arms. He struggled but it was like struggling in quicksand, it only made things worse. It was at this point that Kuwabara made a startling discovery.
"You two are the same size!" his jaw dropped. They had known that the new demon was not very tall but they Hiei and Sky Fire had never stood side by side before. Except during the fight. It was dark then so they had not noticed.
"I am not the same size as him! I am taller than him, way taller!" he advanced on Kuwabara. "Take it back!"
"No way, midget!"
"I am not a midget!" he yelled loudly but not as loudly as Koenma soon would. A paperweight off of Koenma's desk went flying and smacked Kuwabara hard in the back of his head. The glass broke and Kuwabara fell to the ground, knocked out by Sky Fire once more. Sky Fire stormed out of the room, followed closely by Jin.
"That was my favorite paperweight and my favorite detective!" Koenma shrieked.
"Stupid" Hiei commented to the now nearly awake Kuwabara. "Never, under any circumstances, piss off a telepath. Most of them can use telekinesis as well" (AN: Hiei can, think back to the fight with Yusuke. He used telekinesis to pick up the shadow sword once. Either that or Hiei is secretly a Jedi knight and he used the force)
Hiei also walked out of the room. Jin was already comforting Sky Fire but it did not seem to help much. Hiei sighed and shook his head. This was going to be a long day.
"Sky Fire, he is an idiot. He couldn't tell that an elephant was bigger than an insect. Things like that just don't register in his tiny brain."
"Really?" Sky Fire peered behind him to where Hiei was standing and then back at Jin who, even though he did not know Kuwabara, nodded in agreement.
"Besides" Jin started. "I can tell that you are taller than Hiei. Just in case, stand back to back for a moment."
They both did as they were told. Hiei was facing away from Jin and could not see that he was coming closer and closer to him with a bucket of water. Jin dumped the water on Hiei, flattening his hair. He made some smart remark about how that evened things out and began to measure them.
"Quarter of an inch taller" he proudly announced to Sky Fire, who smiled and turned to Hiei.
"Hear that, I'm still taller than you."
Hiei, who had been slouching slightly, nodded and motioned for Jin to back away for a moment. Once he was safely away, Hiei used his spirit energy to dry himself off. It was not because he did not want Jin to get hurt by the scorching heat that he used but merely because he did not want to have to deal with Sky Fire's reaction to Jin's burns. He was not very sure that his long time friend was all too emotionally stable. He, like Hiei, had not had a very fun past.
He went back into Koenma's office knowing that he needed to talk to everyone and warn them about Sky Fire's mood swings. He also figured that it would be good to give Jin and Sky Fire a little time apart from everyone else.
When he came in he saw that Kuwabara had fully recovered. The same could not be said about Koenma's paperweight. His return sparked only momentary interest. He knew that they were waiting for Sky Fire to come in so that they could yell at him for hurting him like that.
'it is my responsibility to talk to them. I have to do it, no chickening out. Why does it have to be me? Why couldn't he have broken down in front of someone else? Why did I have to trust that lunatic enough to break down in front of him? I believe that I am starting to hate him from the bottom of my heart'
Hiei used his death glare, as well as a small bit of subliminal telepathy, to get everyone's attention. "Sky Fire is not emotionally stable. If you send him off the edge again, you will be wondering why your head is rolling across the floor instead of sitting on your shoulders. Am I understood?" He spoke mostly to Kuwabara but everyone else knew that the same punishment would happen to them.
None of them knew just what topics to avoid but figured that they would get some sort of warning. Sky Fire walked in, not nearly as cheerfully as before. Kuwabara came towards him to apologize for what he had said and to tell him that he was not really that short. Before the words got out of his mouth he suddenly realized that he was on the floor again, looking up and the ceiling and Yusuke and Kurama's worried faces. He could not believe that he had passed out once more. This was somehow Sky Fire's fault, he knew it.
Sky Fire's head soon appeared between Kurama's and Yusuke's. He was grinning happily. "Your forgiven now and I will have you know that I am still a quarter of an inch taller than Hiei, without his hair that is."
'great' Yusuke thought to himself bitterly 'our new team member is psychic AND psycho, Hiei is defending him for some unknown reason, and Kurama has been acting all weird. Could things get any worse?'
"Trust me, they could" Sky Fire said, causing Yusuke to jump.
"What?" Yusuke was astonished. 'I was thinking all of that, wasn't I?'
"Yes, you were thinking it. I was just reading your thoughts, that's all. I can do it at any time and the only person that would be able to tell if it was reading their thoughts is Hiei, and that's only 'cause I have an agreement with him about that. Before you ask, I refuse to strike another arrangement with anyone. It's hard enough to keep this one as it is."
"Ahem" Koenma brought the groups attention back to himself. "I need someone to help with some sort of lodging concerning these two. Somehow I don't think that they would do well on their own."
"I, the mighty Kuwabara, will help!"
"Hey Jin, isn't this cute, Lumpy here is finding us an apartment."
Alright, next chapter promise: Sky Fire will talk some sense into Hiei and I will get the romance thing going. You will also learn more about Sky Fire's past, well maybe.
FLAME PREVENTION: (read below)
Now, unless you are about as smart as the average house fly, I am sure that you have noticed that Sky Fire is gay. (Hiei: I think everyone has figured that out by now. If they are reading a story about Kurama and I then they shouldn't have a problem with it! Devote your pathetic time to something else!) this was not originally intended when I created him. He was simply an original character in a game who knew both Hiei and Jin. He had a, shall we say "clingy" personality and was always bugging Jin to take him flying. Jin would cave in and pick Sky Fire up and fly out the window. He also hung on Jin even when they were not flying, hence the clingy part of his personality. Suddenly it hit me, Sky Fire was gay! My original character and main muse was in love with Jin who clearly reciprocated those feelings. Makes you start to wonder what they did when they went flying, doesn't it? Anyway, I have explained my reasons so you have no reason to flame me! Ha ha! You suck, I rock! Ok, not really. Anyone who reads my stories is cool, even if they do flame them, which they don't because only really really nice people read my stories
Hiei: Suck up!
Storm Elf: shut up!
Hiei: Make me!
Storm Elf: I am the author supreme! I rule over my characters with an iron fist. They do as I say because I am the one who writes down the words, so ha!
Hiei: you told me that they don't listen to you and seem to get themselves killed rather often
Storm Elf: I'm sure that everyone here would like a long explanation of your connection to Sky Fire
Hiei: shutting up.
THE GREAT APPOLOGY: I do have an excuse for not updating this or any story lately. No, it's not the almighty writers block excuse but a half decent one. I have not had much time to write or update lately because I have been too busy filming my movie that I am making with my friends. (The Green Sword, watch for it to win every award that there is! Ok, maybe not) we have been training extras in movie style sword fighting, locating chain mail, searching for dresses, working on trailers, hiding our main character's new blue hair, and spending immense amounts of time searching tirelessly for a Sir Lawrence, the main bad buy and evil knight that has gone insane. It takes up a fair amount of time. We are also working on an add for more extras because we just don't have enough people. We are also still looking for sets but we may have found them. If I do not update quick enough for your liking, please take some pity because apart from that I would also like to continue passing high school
Is it just me, or does Hiei seem a little OOC in this chap? Oh well.
Shall we cut the crap and get to the story, I think so
Chapter 8
Joining the Team
"I suppose that you are all wondering why I called you here." Koenma stated, not getting up from his chair. He looked around the faces of the Spirit Detectives. Kurama had no clue what was going on and did not seem to mind. Yusuke was clearly angry about missing his date. Hiei looked like he knew what was coming and did not seem happy about it. Kuwabara clearly had no clue and was fearing that it was another mission. "Rumors of another tournament (no, that will not be covered in this fic, nor shall it ever) have been spreading around. I am adding two members to your team. One because Genki can no longer fight for you and another for your alternate."
Outside of his door, Jin and Sky Fire sat on a bench, talking about all that had happened when they were apart. Sky Fire had told him of tales in which demons had been so humiliated that they killed another demon just to be sent into solitary confinement and Jin told him about the dark tournament. He explained in great detail all of the battles he fought. Sky fire sat there like a little child listening to his grandmother tell him stories.
Koenma had sat them out there long before Yusuke had arrived and Sky Fire was beginning to get sleepy. He slowly started to lean on Jin's shoulder, eyes closing and then opening again.
"Jin." the sleepy demon said dreamily "I hate Touya"
"I know, but you will never see him again" Jin could not stand to think of Touya hurting Sky Fire. It was easy for him to tell that last time they had been together Touya had the intent to kill Sky Fire.
"Yay" although it was supposedly happy, it did not sound like it due to just how tired he was.
Jin did his best to make Sky Fire comfortable. Just as Sky Fire drifted off to dreamland the door opened. "Sky, Sky Fire" Jin said, shaking him lightly. "It's time to go Sky. Wake up!"
"Brrrrring, Brrrrrring..I am away from my desk, if you would like to leave a message, please do so after the beep.beep" Sky Fire mumbled, not looking as though he planed to go anywhere or do anything.
"well, the lights are on but nobody's home. I suppose I will just have to leave" Jin stood up causing Sky Fire to fall forward and crack his head on the hard floor
"Huh?" he managed to say, looking up at Jin and truly not knowing what was going on. "Hey, Jin, the door is open, we should probably go inside"
Jin and Sky Fire walked into the room to be stared at by Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Kurama. "Sorry 'bout that" Jin apologized "Sky Fire fell asleep and when he takes a nap he practically hibernates"
"Sleepy" Sky Fire agreed. "Stayed up late last night to have fun on my last day in prison for some time." He suddenly snapped to attention, realizing where he was and who was staring at him. "Lumpy!" he shouted as he ran over and hugged Kuwabara, just to see what sort of response he would get. "Last time I saw you, you were down for the count!" he let go after seeing the perfectly horrified face that 'lumpy' was making. Once satisfied, he turned to Yusuke "Greasy!" he yelled once more approaching his defenseless victim. He never got to hug him though. Yusuke jumped behind Kurama to hide.
"Fine, be like that then." He said before turning around to look for more potential prey. His eyes fell on Hiei "Shorty!" he yelled, not even knowing that that was Kuwabara's second favorite nickname for him.
Hiei had no time to respond before he was wrapped up in SkyFire's arms. He struggled but it was like struggling in quicksand, it only made things worse. It was at this point that Kuwabara made a startling discovery.
"You two are the same size!" his jaw dropped. They had known that the new demon was not very tall but they Hiei and Sky Fire had never stood side by side before. Except during the fight. It was dark then so they had not noticed.
"I am not the same size as him! I am taller than him, way taller!" he advanced on Kuwabara. "Take it back!"
"No way, midget!"
"I am not a midget!" he yelled loudly but not as loudly as Koenma soon would. A paperweight off of Koenma's desk went flying and smacked Kuwabara hard in the back of his head. The glass broke and Kuwabara fell to the ground, knocked out by Sky Fire once more. Sky Fire stormed out of the room, followed closely by Jin.
"That was my favorite paperweight and my favorite detective!" Koenma shrieked.
"Stupid" Hiei commented to the now nearly awake Kuwabara. "Never, under any circumstances, piss off a telepath. Most of them can use telekinesis as well" (AN: Hiei can, think back to the fight with Yusuke. He used telekinesis to pick up the shadow sword once. Either that or Hiei is secretly a Jedi knight and he used the force)
Hiei also walked out of the room. Jin was already comforting Sky Fire but it did not seem to help much. Hiei sighed and shook his head. This was going to be a long day.
"Sky Fire, he is an idiot. He couldn't tell that an elephant was bigger than an insect. Things like that just don't register in his tiny brain."
"Really?" Sky Fire peered behind him to where Hiei was standing and then back at Jin who, even though he did not know Kuwabara, nodded in agreement.
"Besides" Jin started. "I can tell that you are taller than Hiei. Just in case, stand back to back for a moment."
They both did as they were told. Hiei was facing away from Jin and could not see that he was coming closer and closer to him with a bucket of water. Jin dumped the water on Hiei, flattening his hair. He made some smart remark about how that evened things out and began to measure them.
"Quarter of an inch taller" he proudly announced to Sky Fire, who smiled and turned to Hiei.
"Hear that, I'm still taller than you."
Hiei, who had been slouching slightly, nodded and motioned for Jin to back away for a moment. Once he was safely away, Hiei used his spirit energy to dry himself off. It was not because he did not want Jin to get hurt by the scorching heat that he used but merely because he did not want to have to deal with Sky Fire's reaction to Jin's burns. He was not very sure that his long time friend was all too emotionally stable. He, like Hiei, had not had a very fun past.
He went back into Koenma's office knowing that he needed to talk to everyone and warn them about Sky Fire's mood swings. He also figured that it would be good to give Jin and Sky Fire a little time apart from everyone else.
When he came in he saw that Kuwabara had fully recovered. The same could not be said about Koenma's paperweight. His return sparked only momentary interest. He knew that they were waiting for Sky Fire to come in so that they could yell at him for hurting him like that.
'it is my responsibility to talk to them. I have to do it, no chickening out. Why does it have to be me? Why couldn't he have broken down in front of someone else? Why did I have to trust that lunatic enough to break down in front of him? I believe that I am starting to hate him from the bottom of my heart'
Hiei used his death glare, as well as a small bit of subliminal telepathy, to get everyone's attention. "Sky Fire is not emotionally stable. If you send him off the edge again, you will be wondering why your head is rolling across the floor instead of sitting on your shoulders. Am I understood?" He spoke mostly to Kuwabara but everyone else knew that the same punishment would happen to them.
None of them knew just what topics to avoid but figured that they would get some sort of warning. Sky Fire walked in, not nearly as cheerfully as before. Kuwabara came towards him to apologize for what he had said and to tell him that he was not really that short. Before the words got out of his mouth he suddenly realized that he was on the floor again, looking up and the ceiling and Yusuke and Kurama's worried faces. He could not believe that he had passed out once more. This was somehow Sky Fire's fault, he knew it.
Sky Fire's head soon appeared between Kurama's and Yusuke's. He was grinning happily. "Your forgiven now and I will have you know that I am still a quarter of an inch taller than Hiei, without his hair that is."
'great' Yusuke thought to himself bitterly 'our new team member is psychic AND psycho, Hiei is defending him for some unknown reason, and Kurama has been acting all weird. Could things get any worse?'
"Trust me, they could" Sky Fire said, causing Yusuke to jump.
"What?" Yusuke was astonished. 'I was thinking all of that, wasn't I?'
"Yes, you were thinking it. I was just reading your thoughts, that's all. I can do it at any time and the only person that would be able to tell if it was reading their thoughts is Hiei, and that's only 'cause I have an agreement with him about that. Before you ask, I refuse to strike another arrangement with anyone. It's hard enough to keep this one as it is."
"Ahem" Koenma brought the groups attention back to himself. "I need someone to help with some sort of lodging concerning these two. Somehow I don't think that they would do well on their own."
"I, the mighty Kuwabara, will help!"
"Hey Jin, isn't this cute, Lumpy here is finding us an apartment."
Alright, next chapter promise: Sky Fire will talk some sense into Hiei and I will get the romance thing going. You will also learn more about Sky Fire's past, well maybe.
FLAME PREVENTION: (read below)
Now, unless you are about as smart as the average house fly, I am sure that you have noticed that Sky Fire is gay. (Hiei: I think everyone has figured that out by now. If they are reading a story about Kurama and I then they shouldn't have a problem with it! Devote your pathetic time to something else!) this was not originally intended when I created him. He was simply an original character in a game who knew both Hiei and Jin. He had a, shall we say "clingy" personality and was always bugging Jin to take him flying. Jin would cave in and pick Sky Fire up and fly out the window. He also hung on Jin even when they were not flying, hence the clingy part of his personality. Suddenly it hit me, Sky Fire was gay! My original character and main muse was in love with Jin who clearly reciprocated those feelings. Makes you start to wonder what they did when they went flying, doesn't it? Anyway, I have explained my reasons so you have no reason to flame me! Ha ha! You suck, I rock! Ok, not really. Anyone who reads my stories is cool, even if they do flame them, which they don't because only really really nice people read my stories
Hiei: Suck up!
Storm Elf: shut up!
Hiei: Make me!
Storm Elf: I am the author supreme! I rule over my characters with an iron fist. They do as I say because I am the one who writes down the words, so ha!
Hiei: you told me that they don't listen to you and seem to get themselves killed rather often
Storm Elf: I'm sure that everyone here would like a long explanation of your connection to Sky Fire
Hiei: shutting up.