Chapter Ten
"So I heard you got tutorials with Kyle." Tyler asked Yohina the next day when the two of them arrived in class.
"Yeah, sure. Don't tell me your are going to tease me about it too. I got enough from Kevin this morning." Yohina yawned as she said those words.
"Didn't sleep well?" He asked with a handsome smile.
"No! I tried, but couldn't sleep. Couldn't do anything lately..." She yawned again.
"Well, I hope you have better luck tonight." Tyler remarked and then talked to his other jock friends.
The day passed quickly. Yohina was finally able to concentrate on something. She had less trouble that day and she felt great, except for the fact that she had to go to Kyle's place for tutorials that afternoon.
She walked out of the school building gloomily and wished that she could go before Kyle could spot her. "You are not trying to dump tutorials, are you?" Kyle caught up to her and asked with a smirk.
She wished that she could use her powers on him and burn him into crisps.
"No, I'm not." She answered.
"Then come on. Let's go before Janice could see me. She's bugging me lately. You know, I dumped her and she's totally annoying about it." Kyle kind of whispered and the two of them headed to the student parking lot.
"Why did you dump her? I heard she's a nice girl. Well, much nicer than all of the others snobs." Yohina muttered. Kyle looked perplexed for a moment. Then he gave out a handsome smile that showed his white teeth.
"I found someone else." His answer was short and simple. Yohina wondered who could be the unlucky girl.
Even though they moved as fast as they could, Janice was still standing by Kyle's convertible when the two of them arrived. When Janice saw Yohina, she looked dismayed and angry. "So she's the new girl? What's she compared to me, Kyle? What is wrong with you?" Janice shouted before any of them could say anything.
"What are you talking about? I would die before I go out with this flirt! What is wrong with you?" Yohina shouted without waiting for Kyle to explain.
"Girls, there is no point fighting. I'm not dating Yohina or you, Janice. Stop wasting your time on me. Go get Scott. I'm sure he'll be happy enough to go out with you." Kyle criticized.
"I'm not going unless you tell me who that girl is! Who could be a better girlfriend to you than me? We've been together for the past three years! Kyle!" Janice looked as if she was going to cry like a baby. That kind of surprised Yohina. She never was sure about human relationships. To her, they didn't seem to love each other. They only seem to be friends. Maybe Janice really did care for Kyle, but how can you explain that feeling? How do you know when you are in love?
"Janice, you are over estimating yourself. You are not perfect. No one is perfect. Yet, when you are in love, you see an imperfect person as perfect. That is what love is and now, someone else is the perfect person for me." Kyle said with his arms crossed.
"I hate you, Kyle! How could you do this after so many years? I loved you!" Janice ran off crying, which was really pathetic.
Kyle didn't say anything but got into the car. "Wait! Aren't you going to chase her and make sure that she's OK?" Yohina asked with worry.
"No. She'll be fine by herself. She's always fine." Kyle's description reminded Yohina of herself. She thought back to the time when she told Tyler and she's always fine. "But am I always OK?" She asked herself as she got into the car and buckled up.
No one said a word in the car. Yohina was thinking about what she had just seen. She wondered who could Kyle like. "I feel sorry for whoever it is." That was the thought that Yohina was able to settle on.
"So what do you need help on?" Kyle asked once the two of them were settled in his house. His house was much bigger than Yohina's. It was a two-story house with five bedrooms. The house's interior was decorated with expensive pictures and also furnitures. The study room had three bookshelves in there. Yohina examined them with interest.
"Did you read all of the books?" Yohina asked with amazement.
"Not really, but I've read most of them. It's mostly my older brother's books. I'm not a bookworm like him." Kyle answered carelessly.
"That's cool. I want to have all of these books. I've wanted some of them for some time, but my parents wouldn't buy me them. They said that I could just borrow them from the library." She complained.
"Who cares. So, what do you need help on?"
"Nothing. I need help on nothing. I just need to do my make-up works. Once I get them done, we won't have tutorials anymore."
"And how much make-up works do you have?"
"A lot." Yohina wished she had done most of the work before. Because once she took them out, it made a thick stack on Kyle's desk. He eyed her with disbelief.
"How long haven't you been doing your homework?"
"About two or three weeks." Yohina was embarrassed. Kyle thought she looked cute when she was embarrassed, much better than the one who acted like a savage all the time anyway.
"Then get started on it. I have to do my homework too. Just ask me when you don't understand something." Kyle said and then left to get his stuffs.
Yohina worked as fast as she could because she didn't want to come to tutorial with Kyle for the third time. Well, she didn't want to come for the second time either, but she knew she had to. She will never get through all of the works in one day. "You are doing pretty good." Kyle remarked, which shocked Yohina.
"Don't do that. You are making everything worse." Yohina complained. Luckily, she wasn't using pen, so it was easy correcting everything.
"So I heard about the disappearance. Where did you and your friends go?"
"Nowhere."
"You are a bad liar, you know."
"I know, but it's none of your business. Besides, if I could tell anybody, it wouldn't be you. I didn't even tell my dearest friends, do you think I would tell you?"
"Yes, kind of." Kyle shrugged.
"You are being very stupid."
"I didn't say I'm smart."
"Quit it, Kyle. You are not being yourself. If I was right, you would have said 'you are stupider.'"
"Quit making me look so mean!"
"But you are mean, especially to me."
"Oh really, what would you say if I stop being mean to you?" Kyle asked and put his right hand over hers. Yohina was confused. She looked up and saw him looking at her with care and gentleness. In other words, she thought that he looked scary that way.
"What...what are you talking about?" She pulled her hand out and stammered with a panicky feeling inside.
"Nothing. I was just joking." Kyle kind of smirked and then walked away again.
Yohina punched him on the face. "It's not funny."
* * * *
Wednesday passed swiftly. Nothing troubled Yohina except for the fact that she needed to go to tutorials on Friday again. Thursday night, once she got home, instead of doing her homework like the past few days, she opened the TV, started the computer, and relaxed. Even as she sat there, her heart wouldn't stop bugging her about all the works she has left to do. Sighing, she took out the dull purple necklace and a thought entered her mind.
"If only I could go back..." The thought stunned her, but then...
"It wouldn't be so bad. Anything is better than going to tutorials at Kyle's place. If only I could get this thing to work..." She muttered to herself thoughtfully.
Then she started trying to get to the Saiyuki world using the necklace. She kicked it, begged it, threw it, washed it, rubbed it... She even prayed to it, but nothing would work. In the end, she finally gave up when her mom came back from work.
However, the next day, just as she was meeting Kyle in the parking log, Machi rushed over to her.
"Hey, got a minute?" She asked casually.
"Well, depends on what you want. I'm going to tutoring now, you know." Yohina answered slowly, acting as if she was impatient when she was very happy to make Kyle wait by his car and be bugged by Janice.
"I got a portal." Machi whispered mysteriously.
"What? Here? In school?" Yohina would've screamed if Machi didn't cover her mouth.
"Shut up, will you? Don't be so stupid. I wouldn't leave it where people could see it, but it is in school. I was just thinking that since you hate Kyle so much, we could go together. Besides, you necklace can't..." Machi trailed off as if realizing that she had said something she shouldn't have.
"My necklace can't what?"
"Never mind that. You wanna come? You know this is an exciting part, don't you?" She asked with an impatient smile.
Yohina's mind wondered back to when Vessica and she met Chin Yisou days ago. It was such a scary feeling, but she asked, "You sure it leads to Saiyuki?"
Her friend nodded without another word.
"Let's go then." Yohina said and turned around after Machi. As she turned, she saw Kyle staring after her with disbelief, but without giving him another thought, she ran off after Machi.
Five minutes later, she two of them was walking downstairs to the old chemical storage room. It was dark and cold. Yohina found herself hating the cold. It gave her a bitter memory of the time when Chin Yisou took away her powers and wrapped her in coldness.
"If I ever see that demon again, he's dead." She swore under her breath.
Then she saw it the shift in the air. She first saw it and then felt its power brushing up against hers. Before Machi could touch it, she did, and it became obvious. The colorless portal turned to dark green swirling in darkness just like Hakkai had described to them once. It was about six feet tall and 2 ft wide.
Yohina put her hand into the portal, but it didn't feel any different. Then, something, a hand, from the other end grabbed her. She felt panic rushing through her as she sent a handful of flames out of her hand that was in the portal, but it didn't let go. The other hand pulled with force and dragged her in. While falling through, she felt Machi grabbing her other hand, the they fell in together.
When she opened her eyes again, Yohina saw that the Sanzo party was around her. Machi, Ves, Nuriko, and Sakura were also there, but instead of being worried, they all looked very angry.
"What are you looking at? What happened?" She asked with bad temper as she sat up from the ground, feeling sore all over.
"Look at your beautiful handiwork." Vessica said with sarcasm and pointed to the left.
Yohina looked and saw that she was beside a prairie of some kind, but the prairie was all in flames. The heat of the burning fire touched her face, and she felt connected to it somehow. There were animals running from the flame as it moved forward, but away from where she stood.
"How's that my handiwork? And aren't you guys going to do something about it?" She asked with confusion.
"You are the one who sent out such a strong fire at me when I grabbed your hand. You could have turned all of us to ashes. I had to blow it away, but then it caught on the grasses. I'm using my powers so the fire wouldn't come at us." Vessica complained.
"You were the one who grabbed me? How should I know? I just did it to protect myself. It's your fault." Yohina said it out straight.
"What do you mean my fault? Your hand was hanging in the air alone. I just grabbed it out of curiosity."
"Whatever," said Yohina, dismissing the matter. Then she turned to Machi and inquired, "How did you get the portal to open?"
"We...uh...kind of found a way, but we don't think yours or Ves' work for some reason." Sakura answered awkwardly.
"Psychic again?"
Sakura nodded.
"I don't want to know then. It just gets on my nerves when you can do it and I can't. Besides, as long as I get away from tutoring, I'm fine." Yohina shrugged.
"We can't just leave the fire like this." Nuriko suddenly said when they were about to go.
"What do you propose we do? Why do you girls have to interrupt everything we do? Go home! There is no need for you to be here!" Gojyo had completely ran out of patience.
"This'll be a piece of cake." Yohina stepped out of the jeep and looked at the fire. First she thought about taking it back, but it would be harmful to herself if she do that, so she decided to put it out with the water that Chin Yisou "gave" her those days ago.
Separating her powers, she held back the fire and called upon the water at the same time. Seconds later, the fire diminished. There was no way to tell that it had existed at all except for the destroyed prairie.
Wow, that was cool. How'd you do that? Teach me! Teach me!" Goku was really excited and asked her once they were on the road.
It seemed that Hakuryu had trained himself in turning into a bigger jeep, so now, the car has three rows of seats, and the 9 of them barely fitted into the car. At least no one was sitting on the trunk like before.
Hearing his question, Yohina smiled since she was kind of in a good mood. "Oh, it was easy, but I doubt if you could even learn to do that. Your powers has more to do with brutal strength than magic." She answered.
Goku looked hurt, but he was soon in a deep fight with Gojyo, so it was no big deal anymore. It's ironic how some people's minds could change so quickly. When the fight got so annoying, it was only with a sound "thwack" from Sanzo's fan that stopped them.
Uh..., this chapter is pretty much pointless, but I have to write it to make a connection to the next chapter. Had a hard time naming it, so if I thought up of another title, I'll change it. I'm also debating on what to do about Yohina and Kyle. Anyway, next chapter will be more interesting with more the focus on the five girls, Sanzo, Goku, Hakkai, and Gojyo. In addition, I'm going to cut out a lot of extra things to the story won't be so long-winded. So, I'm going to update soon as long as there are some reviews! I'm so sad that the front chapters didn't receive any reviews, but I hope it would get better! Gotta sleep now, bye!
"So I heard you got tutorials with Kyle." Tyler asked Yohina the next day when the two of them arrived in class.
"Yeah, sure. Don't tell me your are going to tease me about it too. I got enough from Kevin this morning." Yohina yawned as she said those words.
"Didn't sleep well?" He asked with a handsome smile.
"No! I tried, but couldn't sleep. Couldn't do anything lately..." She yawned again.
"Well, I hope you have better luck tonight." Tyler remarked and then talked to his other jock friends.
The day passed quickly. Yohina was finally able to concentrate on something. She had less trouble that day and she felt great, except for the fact that she had to go to Kyle's place for tutorials that afternoon.
She walked out of the school building gloomily and wished that she could go before Kyle could spot her. "You are not trying to dump tutorials, are you?" Kyle caught up to her and asked with a smirk.
She wished that she could use her powers on him and burn him into crisps.
"No, I'm not." She answered.
"Then come on. Let's go before Janice could see me. She's bugging me lately. You know, I dumped her and she's totally annoying about it." Kyle kind of whispered and the two of them headed to the student parking lot.
"Why did you dump her? I heard she's a nice girl. Well, much nicer than all of the others snobs." Yohina muttered. Kyle looked perplexed for a moment. Then he gave out a handsome smile that showed his white teeth.
"I found someone else." His answer was short and simple. Yohina wondered who could be the unlucky girl.
Even though they moved as fast as they could, Janice was still standing by Kyle's convertible when the two of them arrived. When Janice saw Yohina, she looked dismayed and angry. "So she's the new girl? What's she compared to me, Kyle? What is wrong with you?" Janice shouted before any of them could say anything.
"What are you talking about? I would die before I go out with this flirt! What is wrong with you?" Yohina shouted without waiting for Kyle to explain.
"Girls, there is no point fighting. I'm not dating Yohina or you, Janice. Stop wasting your time on me. Go get Scott. I'm sure he'll be happy enough to go out with you." Kyle criticized.
"I'm not going unless you tell me who that girl is! Who could be a better girlfriend to you than me? We've been together for the past three years! Kyle!" Janice looked as if she was going to cry like a baby. That kind of surprised Yohina. She never was sure about human relationships. To her, they didn't seem to love each other. They only seem to be friends. Maybe Janice really did care for Kyle, but how can you explain that feeling? How do you know when you are in love?
"Janice, you are over estimating yourself. You are not perfect. No one is perfect. Yet, when you are in love, you see an imperfect person as perfect. That is what love is and now, someone else is the perfect person for me." Kyle said with his arms crossed.
"I hate you, Kyle! How could you do this after so many years? I loved you!" Janice ran off crying, which was really pathetic.
Kyle didn't say anything but got into the car. "Wait! Aren't you going to chase her and make sure that she's OK?" Yohina asked with worry.
"No. She'll be fine by herself. She's always fine." Kyle's description reminded Yohina of herself. She thought back to the time when she told Tyler and she's always fine. "But am I always OK?" She asked herself as she got into the car and buckled up.
No one said a word in the car. Yohina was thinking about what she had just seen. She wondered who could Kyle like. "I feel sorry for whoever it is." That was the thought that Yohina was able to settle on.
"So what do you need help on?" Kyle asked once the two of them were settled in his house. His house was much bigger than Yohina's. It was a two-story house with five bedrooms. The house's interior was decorated with expensive pictures and also furnitures. The study room had three bookshelves in there. Yohina examined them with interest.
"Did you read all of the books?" Yohina asked with amazement.
"Not really, but I've read most of them. It's mostly my older brother's books. I'm not a bookworm like him." Kyle answered carelessly.
"That's cool. I want to have all of these books. I've wanted some of them for some time, but my parents wouldn't buy me them. They said that I could just borrow them from the library." She complained.
"Who cares. So, what do you need help on?"
"Nothing. I need help on nothing. I just need to do my make-up works. Once I get them done, we won't have tutorials anymore."
"And how much make-up works do you have?"
"A lot." Yohina wished she had done most of the work before. Because once she took them out, it made a thick stack on Kyle's desk. He eyed her with disbelief.
"How long haven't you been doing your homework?"
"About two or three weeks." Yohina was embarrassed. Kyle thought she looked cute when she was embarrassed, much better than the one who acted like a savage all the time anyway.
"Then get started on it. I have to do my homework too. Just ask me when you don't understand something." Kyle said and then left to get his stuffs.
Yohina worked as fast as she could because she didn't want to come to tutorial with Kyle for the third time. Well, she didn't want to come for the second time either, but she knew she had to. She will never get through all of the works in one day. "You are doing pretty good." Kyle remarked, which shocked Yohina.
"Don't do that. You are making everything worse." Yohina complained. Luckily, she wasn't using pen, so it was easy correcting everything.
"So I heard about the disappearance. Where did you and your friends go?"
"Nowhere."
"You are a bad liar, you know."
"I know, but it's none of your business. Besides, if I could tell anybody, it wouldn't be you. I didn't even tell my dearest friends, do you think I would tell you?"
"Yes, kind of." Kyle shrugged.
"You are being very stupid."
"I didn't say I'm smart."
"Quit it, Kyle. You are not being yourself. If I was right, you would have said 'you are stupider.'"
"Quit making me look so mean!"
"But you are mean, especially to me."
"Oh really, what would you say if I stop being mean to you?" Kyle asked and put his right hand over hers. Yohina was confused. She looked up and saw him looking at her with care and gentleness. In other words, she thought that he looked scary that way.
"What...what are you talking about?" She pulled her hand out and stammered with a panicky feeling inside.
"Nothing. I was just joking." Kyle kind of smirked and then walked away again.
Yohina punched him on the face. "It's not funny."
* * * *
Wednesday passed swiftly. Nothing troubled Yohina except for the fact that she needed to go to tutorials on Friday again. Thursday night, once she got home, instead of doing her homework like the past few days, she opened the TV, started the computer, and relaxed. Even as she sat there, her heart wouldn't stop bugging her about all the works she has left to do. Sighing, she took out the dull purple necklace and a thought entered her mind.
"If only I could go back..." The thought stunned her, but then...
"It wouldn't be so bad. Anything is better than going to tutorials at Kyle's place. If only I could get this thing to work..." She muttered to herself thoughtfully.
Then she started trying to get to the Saiyuki world using the necklace. She kicked it, begged it, threw it, washed it, rubbed it... She even prayed to it, but nothing would work. In the end, she finally gave up when her mom came back from work.
However, the next day, just as she was meeting Kyle in the parking log, Machi rushed over to her.
"Hey, got a minute?" She asked casually.
"Well, depends on what you want. I'm going to tutoring now, you know." Yohina answered slowly, acting as if she was impatient when she was very happy to make Kyle wait by his car and be bugged by Janice.
"I got a portal." Machi whispered mysteriously.
"What? Here? In school?" Yohina would've screamed if Machi didn't cover her mouth.
"Shut up, will you? Don't be so stupid. I wouldn't leave it where people could see it, but it is in school. I was just thinking that since you hate Kyle so much, we could go together. Besides, you necklace can't..." Machi trailed off as if realizing that she had said something she shouldn't have.
"My necklace can't what?"
"Never mind that. You wanna come? You know this is an exciting part, don't you?" She asked with an impatient smile.
Yohina's mind wondered back to when Vessica and she met Chin Yisou days ago. It was such a scary feeling, but she asked, "You sure it leads to Saiyuki?"
Her friend nodded without another word.
"Let's go then." Yohina said and turned around after Machi. As she turned, she saw Kyle staring after her with disbelief, but without giving him another thought, she ran off after Machi.
Five minutes later, she two of them was walking downstairs to the old chemical storage room. It was dark and cold. Yohina found herself hating the cold. It gave her a bitter memory of the time when Chin Yisou took away her powers and wrapped her in coldness.
"If I ever see that demon again, he's dead." She swore under her breath.
Then she saw it the shift in the air. She first saw it and then felt its power brushing up against hers. Before Machi could touch it, she did, and it became obvious. The colorless portal turned to dark green swirling in darkness just like Hakkai had described to them once. It was about six feet tall and 2 ft wide.
Yohina put her hand into the portal, but it didn't feel any different. Then, something, a hand, from the other end grabbed her. She felt panic rushing through her as she sent a handful of flames out of her hand that was in the portal, but it didn't let go. The other hand pulled with force and dragged her in. While falling through, she felt Machi grabbing her other hand, the they fell in together.
When she opened her eyes again, Yohina saw that the Sanzo party was around her. Machi, Ves, Nuriko, and Sakura were also there, but instead of being worried, they all looked very angry.
"What are you looking at? What happened?" She asked with bad temper as she sat up from the ground, feeling sore all over.
"Look at your beautiful handiwork." Vessica said with sarcasm and pointed to the left.
Yohina looked and saw that she was beside a prairie of some kind, but the prairie was all in flames. The heat of the burning fire touched her face, and she felt connected to it somehow. There were animals running from the flame as it moved forward, but away from where she stood.
"How's that my handiwork? And aren't you guys going to do something about it?" She asked with confusion.
"You are the one who sent out such a strong fire at me when I grabbed your hand. You could have turned all of us to ashes. I had to blow it away, but then it caught on the grasses. I'm using my powers so the fire wouldn't come at us." Vessica complained.
"You were the one who grabbed me? How should I know? I just did it to protect myself. It's your fault." Yohina said it out straight.
"What do you mean my fault? Your hand was hanging in the air alone. I just grabbed it out of curiosity."
"Whatever," said Yohina, dismissing the matter. Then she turned to Machi and inquired, "How did you get the portal to open?"
"We...uh...kind of found a way, but we don't think yours or Ves' work for some reason." Sakura answered awkwardly.
"Psychic again?"
Sakura nodded.
"I don't want to know then. It just gets on my nerves when you can do it and I can't. Besides, as long as I get away from tutoring, I'm fine." Yohina shrugged.
"We can't just leave the fire like this." Nuriko suddenly said when they were about to go.
"What do you propose we do? Why do you girls have to interrupt everything we do? Go home! There is no need for you to be here!" Gojyo had completely ran out of patience.
"This'll be a piece of cake." Yohina stepped out of the jeep and looked at the fire. First she thought about taking it back, but it would be harmful to herself if she do that, so she decided to put it out with the water that Chin Yisou "gave" her those days ago.
Separating her powers, she held back the fire and called upon the water at the same time. Seconds later, the fire diminished. There was no way to tell that it had existed at all except for the destroyed prairie.
Wow, that was cool. How'd you do that? Teach me! Teach me!" Goku was really excited and asked her once they were on the road.
It seemed that Hakuryu had trained himself in turning into a bigger jeep, so now, the car has three rows of seats, and the 9 of them barely fitted into the car. At least no one was sitting on the trunk like before.
Hearing his question, Yohina smiled since she was kind of in a good mood. "Oh, it was easy, but I doubt if you could even learn to do that. Your powers has more to do with brutal strength than magic." She answered.
Goku looked hurt, but he was soon in a deep fight with Gojyo, so it was no big deal anymore. It's ironic how some people's minds could change so quickly. When the fight got so annoying, it was only with a sound "thwack" from Sanzo's fan that stopped them.
Uh..., this chapter is pretty much pointless, but I have to write it to make a connection to the next chapter. Had a hard time naming it, so if I thought up of another title, I'll change it. I'm also debating on what to do about Yohina and Kyle. Anyway, next chapter will be more interesting with more the focus on the five girls, Sanzo, Goku, Hakkai, and Gojyo. In addition, I'm going to cut out a lot of extra things to the story won't be so long-winded. So, I'm going to update soon as long as there are some reviews! I'm so sad that the front chapters didn't receive any reviews, but I hope it would get better! Gotta sleep now, bye!