Chapter 3
Kurama P.O.V.
I walked home after we tried to look for Hiei. He would show up sooner or later. I fell on my bed, exhausted. Yusuke's abrupt phone call had woken me up from what had been a very good sleep, and I intended to make up for the missed part of it. I slumped on my bed, and fell asleep.
* Kurama's Dream *
I'm running, my silver hair and fluffy ears moving in the wind, after the retreating back in front of me. The same style of hair, the same ears, on the head of the young female kitsuine whose face I cannot see, race away from me through the bamboo; we laugh and shout happily. She runs out of view as I avoid hitting a big cluster of bamboo shoots. Suddenly, I hear a high scream, and the sounds of arrows and spears hitting a body. I can't stop, and I run into the clearing. I see the kitsuine falling with spears and arrows in her back, and her gushing blood sprays everywhere on me as I catch her. I throw blood-sucking plants at them and not caring where they land. I ignore the agonized screams of the bounty hunters around us, as I turn the body of the kitsuine around to see a beautiful face with golden eyes like mine. She weakly smiles at me, touches my forehead with glowing fingers, and she then goes limp, her golden eyes turning a dull, dark yellow. The last thing I remember before waking up is, "I'm s- sorry...cousin."
* End Dream *
The dream haunted me as I went into the kitchen and peeled an orange. Who was the other silver kitsuine? I ate and watched TV, and then got up and started to walk toward the park where we were to meet.
I got there, and to my surprise, found Hiei and the blue girl there. More surprising was the fact that they were in the same tree, and most surprising was the fact that they were talking. Hiei was almost always silent to strangers. They became silent as I walked toward them. The girl looked down at me, and I felt a strange shiver go done my spine. Her blue eyes looked into mine, and for a second, I saw them turn golden. Then, I blinked, and they were like before.
Later On...
I sat down in a chair as Koenma talked to Yaru in his office. Hiei had already told him that her mind was blocked, but he insisted that Hiei and I stayed in cause he need 'interrogators'. I listened as Koenma asked Yaru about her family and other things that Yaru replied and/or got icy about. As we shuffled along the corridors of Koenma's buildings, I looked at the girl. She seemed quite short, almost like Hiei. In fact, I wouldn't blame Kuwabara for thinking that this girl-Yaru, as she wants to be called, is Hiei's sister if I didn't know that Yukina was.
The following day, I took a walk in the park, thinking about things, mostly the dream. It was a Saturday, peaceful and surprisingly, fan-girl free. Usually a few desperate ones would chase after me on the weekend. Then I thought of the things they might be plotting, and I winced.
Yaru (or YR from now on): Why did you wince?
I spun, looking at the figure in the trees amazed. Then, I realized, "Of course! She has a Jagan, so she's telepathic.
SK: Fan girls...
YK: Actually, I wouldn't mind if one of the more pretty ones and I got into-
SK: ANYWAYS...how are you?
She had gone.
Yaru P.O.V.
A silver fox ... hmmm.
I ran in the trees, and stopped in a small clearing, and walked down a dark path into an area was much more forbidding then the other. There was no path out of the place except behind me. No one could climb the trees into the clearing ahead of me that was my home. Even the animals avoided this area. The words for this gate were secret, and in a language to complex for hand signals or writing. I said the phrase, and the trees in front of me moved aside. I entered, brushing past my barrier allowing only people invited by my trusted friends or me. I sat down in a chair and waited for someone.
Hiei P.O.V.
I walked down a dark path into a very...weird feeling clearing. I remembered the words Yaru had told me...very complex, but for some reason...it sounded easy when I said it right now. The trees in front of me suddenly pulled away from each other, and I found myself gaping at a quite pond and grassy area surrounded by trees. Yaru stood at the base of one particularly large one. She jumped into the higher branches of the tree, telling me to come with her. We jumped up, and I suddenly found myself in a quite tree house well equipped with a kitchen, bedrooms, a room with TV and many of the things that Yusuke called "video games". I followed her onto a flat tree branch.
We sat and talked with tea and more ice cream ( ^_^ ). I don't know why, but I talked about everything to her; my life as an abandoned child; finding the others; stealing; everything. She told me about her history too. She was born in a forest, and her parents had died at the claws of a silver kitsuine. I was surprised; maybe relative of Youko. She said to me, "From then on, no one was my friend. Everyone shunned me." Then, she said under her breath so softly, "I can't blame them. Who would want to be friends with someone who..." I couldn't hear the rest. But, for some reason, I felt sorry for her because of her downcast expression, and I hugged her...wait a second... HUGGED HER? How could I! I must think good thoughts. I did not hug her! ARGH!
She looked at me with a startled expression. I must have looked embarrassed that I had hugged her, because she laughed. Then, she hit her head, walked into the kitchen, and started to cook something that smelled really good. "I forgot about dinner." When she was done cooking, she put the food onto two plates, and gave on to me. I took only a small bite- Botan had once convinced me to eat some of her human food. I had unwisely taken a large bite thinking that all human food was as good as ice cream...unfortunately, Botan wasn't very good at cooking. However, I soon realized that Yaru knew how to cook. I started to shove it into my mouth, only slightly noticing the smirk on Yaru's face as she ate her food. Later on, I found out it was something called 'pasta'. It had much red sauce and cheese on it, and for some reason, I recalled one of the local ningen middle schools students call cheese the meaning of life. If cheese was as good as that pasta, then maybe it is the meaning of life.
I woke up abruptly the next day on a futon in Yaru's 'video game' room, at about 1:00 A.M. Yaru poked me again, and as I grumbled, she said, "Are you ready?" I growled at her in a sleepy way, and my head hit the pillow that I was using, and I sleep for about 5 more sec. Then, Yaru literally pulled me off the futon, and threw me into the bathroom where she splashed VERY COLD water on my face. The bitterness of the water woke me up completely. I glared at Yaru, who smiled at me, and then dragged me into the kitchen, where there was bacon and eggs waiting for us. Afterwards, Yaru threw me outside, and she landed next to me, sword drawn.
We trained for a long time. I found that I had gotten lazy over the time where I had had no one my level to practice with (AN: Nah, he just doesn't want to admit that Yaru might be better than him.). After training, Yaru showed me the video games that she had. We played on her 'Gamecube' for a while, and then, we had more pasta. After even more training and more delicious, new foods that were extremely good, we went to sleep. The next two weeks went on like this, in which Yaru and I got even more acquainted I learned about the forest around her, and everything in it.
One day, I went out to find the others. Yaru stayed at her place, and for strangely, as I ran through the forest, away from Yaru's place, I had a feeling of loneliness. I shook it off, and I landed on Yusuke's roof. When he came out, he googled at me, and then screamed, "WHERE WERE YOU, @##hole? WE SPENT THE LAST TWO WEEKS LOOKING FOR YOU!!!!!! AND WHERE IS THAT GIRL? WE NEED HER TO ASK HER SOMETHING!!!!!" As he stopped to catch his breath, Kurama and Kuwabaka came out of the house. The ugly one shouted at me for a while, which I ignored completely. Kurama looked at me strangely, amd he smirked in glee. I glared at him.
H: WHAT!
SK: I smell someone on you...
I sniffed at myself in horror. My acute sense of smell caught the evident odor of Yaru. Then, I forgot the fox as I caught a different scent buried in Yaru's smell of spring air...roses? I sniffed at it...not Kurama's, but whose?
You know, I think this chapter was considered long? REVIEW! Sorry, but it is. REVIEW! I can't update as much. REVIEW! Minu and I seem to have parents who have problems with our Internet access and keep us away from the net. REVIEW! Oh well. REVIEW! The meaning of life, as my friends say, is "cheese, pastrami, and lettuce." T.T. REVIEW!
Oh, and by the way, I kept on forgetting to put the disclaimer on the other chapters, so I put it in the description of the story. Oh, and here:
I DON'T OWN YU YU HAKUSHO! BIG SURPRISE THERE!!!! BUT, I OWN YARU, SO KEEP OFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!
Kurama P.O.V.
I walked home after we tried to look for Hiei. He would show up sooner or later. I fell on my bed, exhausted. Yusuke's abrupt phone call had woken me up from what had been a very good sleep, and I intended to make up for the missed part of it. I slumped on my bed, and fell asleep.
* Kurama's Dream *
I'm running, my silver hair and fluffy ears moving in the wind, after the retreating back in front of me. The same style of hair, the same ears, on the head of the young female kitsuine whose face I cannot see, race away from me through the bamboo; we laugh and shout happily. She runs out of view as I avoid hitting a big cluster of bamboo shoots. Suddenly, I hear a high scream, and the sounds of arrows and spears hitting a body. I can't stop, and I run into the clearing. I see the kitsuine falling with spears and arrows in her back, and her gushing blood sprays everywhere on me as I catch her. I throw blood-sucking plants at them and not caring where they land. I ignore the agonized screams of the bounty hunters around us, as I turn the body of the kitsuine around to see a beautiful face with golden eyes like mine. She weakly smiles at me, touches my forehead with glowing fingers, and she then goes limp, her golden eyes turning a dull, dark yellow. The last thing I remember before waking up is, "I'm s- sorry...cousin."
* End Dream *
The dream haunted me as I went into the kitchen and peeled an orange. Who was the other silver kitsuine? I ate and watched TV, and then got up and started to walk toward the park where we were to meet.
I got there, and to my surprise, found Hiei and the blue girl there. More surprising was the fact that they were in the same tree, and most surprising was the fact that they were talking. Hiei was almost always silent to strangers. They became silent as I walked toward them. The girl looked down at me, and I felt a strange shiver go done my spine. Her blue eyes looked into mine, and for a second, I saw them turn golden. Then, I blinked, and they were like before.
Later On...
I sat down in a chair as Koenma talked to Yaru in his office. Hiei had already told him that her mind was blocked, but he insisted that Hiei and I stayed in cause he need 'interrogators'. I listened as Koenma asked Yaru about her family and other things that Yaru replied and/or got icy about. As we shuffled along the corridors of Koenma's buildings, I looked at the girl. She seemed quite short, almost like Hiei. In fact, I wouldn't blame Kuwabara for thinking that this girl-Yaru, as she wants to be called, is Hiei's sister if I didn't know that Yukina was.
The following day, I took a walk in the park, thinking about things, mostly the dream. It was a Saturday, peaceful and surprisingly, fan-girl free. Usually a few desperate ones would chase after me on the weekend. Then I thought of the things they might be plotting, and I winced.
Yaru (or YR from now on): Why did you wince?
I spun, looking at the figure in the trees amazed. Then, I realized, "Of course! She has a Jagan, so she's telepathic.
SK: Fan girls...
YK: Actually, I wouldn't mind if one of the more pretty ones and I got into-
SK: ANYWAYS...how are you?
She had gone.
Yaru P.O.V.
A silver fox ... hmmm.
I ran in the trees, and stopped in a small clearing, and walked down a dark path into an area was much more forbidding then the other. There was no path out of the place except behind me. No one could climb the trees into the clearing ahead of me that was my home. Even the animals avoided this area. The words for this gate were secret, and in a language to complex for hand signals or writing. I said the phrase, and the trees in front of me moved aside. I entered, brushing past my barrier allowing only people invited by my trusted friends or me. I sat down in a chair and waited for someone.
Hiei P.O.V.
I walked down a dark path into a very...weird feeling clearing. I remembered the words Yaru had told me...very complex, but for some reason...it sounded easy when I said it right now. The trees in front of me suddenly pulled away from each other, and I found myself gaping at a quite pond and grassy area surrounded by trees. Yaru stood at the base of one particularly large one. She jumped into the higher branches of the tree, telling me to come with her. We jumped up, and I suddenly found myself in a quite tree house well equipped with a kitchen, bedrooms, a room with TV and many of the things that Yusuke called "video games". I followed her onto a flat tree branch.
We sat and talked with tea and more ice cream ( ^_^ ). I don't know why, but I talked about everything to her; my life as an abandoned child; finding the others; stealing; everything. She told me about her history too. She was born in a forest, and her parents had died at the claws of a silver kitsuine. I was surprised; maybe relative of Youko. She said to me, "From then on, no one was my friend. Everyone shunned me." Then, she said under her breath so softly, "I can't blame them. Who would want to be friends with someone who..." I couldn't hear the rest. But, for some reason, I felt sorry for her because of her downcast expression, and I hugged her...wait a second... HUGGED HER? How could I! I must think good thoughts. I did not hug her! ARGH!
She looked at me with a startled expression. I must have looked embarrassed that I had hugged her, because she laughed. Then, she hit her head, walked into the kitchen, and started to cook something that smelled really good. "I forgot about dinner." When she was done cooking, she put the food onto two plates, and gave on to me. I took only a small bite- Botan had once convinced me to eat some of her human food. I had unwisely taken a large bite thinking that all human food was as good as ice cream...unfortunately, Botan wasn't very good at cooking. However, I soon realized that Yaru knew how to cook. I started to shove it into my mouth, only slightly noticing the smirk on Yaru's face as she ate her food. Later on, I found out it was something called 'pasta'. It had much red sauce and cheese on it, and for some reason, I recalled one of the local ningen middle schools students call cheese the meaning of life. If cheese was as good as that pasta, then maybe it is the meaning of life.
I woke up abruptly the next day on a futon in Yaru's 'video game' room, at about 1:00 A.M. Yaru poked me again, and as I grumbled, she said, "Are you ready?" I growled at her in a sleepy way, and my head hit the pillow that I was using, and I sleep for about 5 more sec. Then, Yaru literally pulled me off the futon, and threw me into the bathroom where she splashed VERY COLD water on my face. The bitterness of the water woke me up completely. I glared at Yaru, who smiled at me, and then dragged me into the kitchen, where there was bacon and eggs waiting for us. Afterwards, Yaru threw me outside, and she landed next to me, sword drawn.
We trained for a long time. I found that I had gotten lazy over the time where I had had no one my level to practice with (AN: Nah, he just doesn't want to admit that Yaru might be better than him.). After training, Yaru showed me the video games that she had. We played on her 'Gamecube' for a while, and then, we had more pasta. After even more training and more delicious, new foods that were extremely good, we went to sleep. The next two weeks went on like this, in which Yaru and I got even more acquainted I learned about the forest around her, and everything in it.
One day, I went out to find the others. Yaru stayed at her place, and for strangely, as I ran through the forest, away from Yaru's place, I had a feeling of loneliness. I shook it off, and I landed on Yusuke's roof. When he came out, he googled at me, and then screamed, "WHERE WERE YOU, @##hole? WE SPENT THE LAST TWO WEEKS LOOKING FOR YOU!!!!!! AND WHERE IS THAT GIRL? WE NEED HER TO ASK HER SOMETHING!!!!!" As he stopped to catch his breath, Kurama and Kuwabaka came out of the house. The ugly one shouted at me for a while, which I ignored completely. Kurama looked at me strangely, amd he smirked in glee. I glared at him.
H: WHAT!
SK: I smell someone on you...
I sniffed at myself in horror. My acute sense of smell caught the evident odor of Yaru. Then, I forgot the fox as I caught a different scent buried in Yaru's smell of spring air...roses? I sniffed at it...not Kurama's, but whose?
You know, I think this chapter was considered long? REVIEW! Sorry, but it is. REVIEW! I can't update as much. REVIEW! Minu and I seem to have parents who have problems with our Internet access and keep us away from the net. REVIEW! Oh well. REVIEW! The meaning of life, as my friends say, is "cheese, pastrami, and lettuce." T.T. REVIEW!
Oh, and by the way, I kept on forgetting to put the disclaimer on the other chapters, so I put it in the description of the story. Oh, and here:
I DON'T OWN YU YU HAKUSHO! BIG SURPRISE THERE!!!! BUT, I OWN YARU, SO KEEP OFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!