A lot of people said they were sick of Kari's 'drooling over Kurama'. Let's face it, any girl who's enamored by that guy acts the same way. Even worse when he goes Youko… Mm…Youko…
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2) Sunglasses
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As you can see, neither Digimon nor Yu Yu Hakusho is on that list. So obviously I don't own either one. Bleh.
Digimon Hakusho
Chapter 3: Kidnapping
Kari quickly packed up her things into her bag. She didn't want to miss Kurama again today, she was excited. There was a little extra money in her bag, she wanted to see if he'd go to a coffee shop or something with her. It certainly was…sophisticated enough.
"Kari!" someone suddenly grabbed her by the shoulders and she found herself looking into T.K.'s bright blue eyes.
She was taken aback by her friend's sudden appearance. "T.K.?" she gasped. "What's the matter?"
"Kari, you can't see that guy anymore!" T.K. insisted. "That…that redhead and his friends…they're freaks!"
Kari pushed him off of her, glaring angrily. "You don't know anything about him!" she snapped.
"I'm telling you!" T.K. exclaimed. "Last night…I saw him and his weird friends…They were talking about you, they're all…"
"You were following him?!" Kari yelled. They were really lucky they were the only ones in the general hallway, or they'd be getting several strange looks. "I can't believe you'd do that, T.K.!"
"But I…"
"I mean, Davis, maybe…" Kari went on, furious. "But you? I meet a guy I really like to talk to and you get jealous? I really thought you were more than that!"
"Kari, listen to me!" T.K. cried, but she brushed past him angrily, clutching her schoolbag tight.
"Just leave me alone, T.K.!" she snapped. "I've got control over my own life, and I'll thank you to stay out of it!"
T.K. stood there a moment, speechless. "She's just being stubborn." his mind told him. "She doesn't know…She has no idea…But when that guy pulls something, she'll see…"
"I can't let that happen…" he muttered, following after her slowly. She wouldn't know he was there, but he'd make sure she was safe.
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"Keiko, please!" Yusuke begged, following after his steaming girlfriend. "I swear I couldn't…"
"Shut up, Yusuke!" she yelled, spinning on her heels and shouting in his face. "I don't want to hear your excuses! You've been almost completely ignoring me all month! The least you could have done was called yesterday, but no, you just blew me off!"
"Keiko, I'm sorry!"
"'Sorry' doesn't cut it, Yusuke!" Keiko snapped.
"Well, whattya want me to do?!" Yusuke exclaimed. "I've done everything you've said since the last mission! I've gone to school, taken you out whenever I could, told you everything that's happened…"
"Just shut up." Keiko muttered quietly. "Look, Yusuke, I don't know if I can keep this relationship up much longer. You say you're telling me everything, but I still feel like you're hiding something and if you're not gonna tell me…I just need a little time alone right now, okay?"
She spun on her heel and stomped around the corner. Yusuke stared after her a moment, then sighed, turning away as he stuffed his hands into his pockets. "Jeez…What does she want from me?" he muttered angrily. "I can't tell her everything…She knows too much already…Koenma would fry me…"
A familiar scream sounded from where Keiko had disappeared. Yusuke's head snapped up. "Keiko!" He gasped, sliding around the corner.
"Stay back!" Keiko was screaming, whacking the creature wildly. It wasn't like any demon Yusuke had ever seen. It looked like a gigantic abominable snowman, white and hairy, wielding what looked like a huge bone. It looked almost too cartoonish to be a demon, but still dangerous.
"Get away from her!" the street punk shouted, pushing spirit energy behind his punch. The thing looked at the boy and growled. Yusuke jumped back, surprised. "Not…even…a scratch?"
For a moment, the demon turned its attention away from Keiko. She should have run, but she was frozen in fear and the monster probably would have hit her anyway, it was too close. The monster glared at Yusuke, then pulled the bone back behind its head. "Bone Boomerang!"
The bone came flying at Yusuke. The boy jumped back, pushing off a wall, which was instantly demolished as the bone crashed into it. "Yusuke!" Keiko screamed as he stumbled to a halt.
"Alright then…" Yusuke pointed his finger at the monster, it started to glow warm. "Try it raw! Spirit Gun!"
The blast of Spirit Energy shot from the tip of his 'gun', the kick of Yusuke's anger pushing him back several feet. The white creature took it full-on and disappeared into a cloud of smoke. "Gotcha." Yusuke laughed.
From the dust, a giant bone came flying and sent Yusuke hurling into the remains of that wall. The creature emerged, singed and scratched, but more angry than wounded, and surveyed the crumpled form. Keiko was shaking visibly, tears splashing down. Was he even alive?
"…Not dead." mumbled the creature, turning back to her. "Good. Master not be pleased if dead."
Keiko gulped, stumbling back. That was the last thing she saw before it all went black.
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T.K. sat in a booth of a coffee shop, mixing a cube of sugar into his tea unemotionally. He'd managed to follow Kari and that Kurama guy in here, they were sitting two booths away, and it made him feel sick.
They'd both been quiet for a bit, Kari out of shyness and the redhead just being polite. He'd heard them go over various topics, school, family, that kind of thing… Nothing weird, he hadn't tried anything. It was all just so…normal.
T.K.'s muscles tensed suddenly. He felt something…he couldn't quite explain it, but he felt something coming. Whatever it was, it was big…and strong…and defiantly not friendly.
"Kurama?" he could hear Kari asking, and noticed the other boy had gone strangely rigid as well, he was staring out the window. "Is something wrong? Kurama?"
"Get down." the redhead whispered
Kari blinked. "What?"
"Get down!"
Kurama grabbed her by the shoulder and pushed her onto the ground, just as the window next to them exploded inward. Customers and waiters screamed and started to run. T.K. jumped to his feet, and Kurama was seconds ahead of him, clutching a rose he seamed to have pulled from his hair.
T.K. blinked, staring at the figure out the window in surprise. It was nothing like any Digimon he'd ever seen, although it didn't seam like it could be anything else. It had a vaguely humanoid shape, but more like Ogremon's than an actually human. That's what it most reminded him of, Ogremon, but it was twice the Digimon's size, packed with pure muscle and blood red skin. It had two horns, long, black hair and beard, and beady little, glaring eyes. It was wearing a tiger-striped loincloth, similar to Ogremon's, but at the same time you could tell it wasn't anything like the green Digimon.
"What is that thing?!" Kari exclaimed.
"Stay down." Kurama hissed, suddenly leaping over the table. There was a resounding snap and the rose he was holding was suddenly a long, green, thorny whip, cracking towards the monster.
Kari dropped back, shocked, as the red-haired boy knocked the creature back. She heard a breathless voice calling her name, but it was drowned out by another crash behind her. She barely had time to turn before her senses swam and it all faded to black.
"Kari!" T.K. exclaimed. Another…Digimon, or whatever…had struck her in the back of the head. This one looked rather like a giant, humanoid bat, carrying a huge club and sporting long claws. Two bat wings grew out of its back.
"Ah…perfect…" it hissed, gathering the girl up. "Masters will be quite pleased…"
This was one of the times T.K. really wished they didn't leave the Digimon in the Digital World in-between meetings. The bat-thing tried to take to the air, but as it left the ground T.K. grabbed onto its clawed feet and was taken up with it.
"What do you think you're doing?!" it yelled.
"You're not taking her…" T.K. growled, attempting to grab a hold of Kari's limp hand, not really noticing they were at least fifty feet off the ground.
"Annoying pest…" the bat growled as the boy managed to pull himself up next to the girl. The bat struck out, cutting a long gash above his right eye, but he responded by hitting it as hard as he could in the face.
The bat hissed angrily, slicing downwards. He caught the boy on the left shoulder, leaving a deep and bloody wound. T.K. let out a cry as the creature pulled him off and let him drop.
The demon Kurama had been fighting now lay in bloody ribbons on the street. He was attempting to chase after the bat demon that had Kari, but couldn't get high enough up to reach her.
He slid to a stop when he saw the blonde-haired boy thrown loose. Stumbling back a few steps, he managed to catch him to avoid any injury from the fall, but he was barely conscious and still bleeding heavily from a shoulder wound.
Kurama looked up after the demon, but it and the girl were both gone. He could hear the sirens of police and ambulances, and rightly decided to leave.
"Good lord." he muttered quietly, hoisting the younger boy over his shoulders. "What have we gotten ourselves into now?"
TBC.