Friday, March 19, 2004- Computer Apps class with the Marine guy: (I really dislike this guy! I mean he is eww!)
Well, I thought last chapter went pretty well. Shiori and Kurama have an argument, much to Mychela's amusement, offer to argue in English, she refuses, and that's that. And her and Shiori actually became friends! (Kinda hard to think of someone who absolutely adores Kurama befriending the mother that just finished cursing him out, isn't it? Hey, it can happen, though!)
Anyway, this is chapter five of who knows how many. (No, even I don't know how many chapters there are, but for some odd reason in the middle of the night last night, I woke up and began writing the epilogue. Stupid, ne? But it's really cute! And sweet! )
Oh, and I've made it so that Youko and Shuuichi are sorta like two different people. (Even though some might say that they are one and the same, I disagree with that. There are just too many things that are not right for Shuuichi to be Youko, if you see my point.) To continue, if you see Shuuichi and Youko arguing in the story, no I haven't lost my bloody mind. I am just trying to make the story more interesting and complex.
Chapter Five: Reaching The Max
Devil's Own Luck- Three Weeks Later:
(Or thereabouts)
Mychela and Arelia swapped a tense glance as they boarded the ship that was to take them to Running Blood Island, the Devil's Own Luck.
"What is it, Mychela?" Kurama queried, looking down at her.
"Something here… It's alarming me and Arelia. That's not a good think, I assure you."
"You're not used to being around demons other than Hiei and myself. It's probably just that."
She nodded her agreement, though she knew that it wasn't that. Yuusuke was part demon, yet neither she nor Arelia had the response to him that they were having to something on this boat.
-You're still worried,- he stated.
-Yes. Something is… wrong… on this boat. Something spiritually. Something that doesn't add up. And it worries me. I don't like what I sense. It troubles me. Interrupts my thought processes.-
-Everything will be alright. You and Arelia have perfected that technique, so either one of us boys will fight first.-
-You know there is a formal reception once we reach the island, right?-
-No!-
-Don't worry. I packed you something to wear, just in case you hadn't heard.-
-You deliberately did that!- he accused.
-Yes, I did. Don't worry. It's not girly or anything. And I swear that it's not in the bag that has the 'weird' pictures on it!-
He sighed and decided that it was the best he could hope for. -What did you pack, just out of curiosity.-
-A tuxedo, what else?- she shot back.
He chuckled and decided to leave the subject alone. There was a chance that they wouldn't even make it to Running Blood Island, though he hadn't told her that.
She ran to the front of the boat to look out on the ocean, leaving him at the boarding platform.
How can she truly be of that mixture?
He was worried about that. If they didn't make it, then there would be chaos in the Makai and the Reikai would be held responsible.
Something Koenma was despairing over.
Yet, how could Arelia and Mychela be part goddess, part demon, part human!? It made no sense, considering how forbidden that mix was, no matter how many decades or centuries ago!
He was slightly confused as to this situation. Koenma had warned them that unless these two started to show the powers granted to both at birth soon, then Team Urameshi would be Team U-And-Me-Deadi.
Mychela looked at him and gestured for him to join her.
He did so without hesitiation.
-x-
She knew instinctively that she shouldn't get 'involved' with anyone on this ship. Most of them didn't even count as a near temptation.
But the emerald-eyed bishounen was a major tempter.
Mary, Mother of God, help me and preserve me. This is the last thing I need right now. Red-haired, emerald-eyed cuties who are too damned good to be true.
She smiled as an amusing thought hit her, interrupting her plea.
Maybe I'll get to see Youko Kurama. She shivered.
"Cold?" Kurama queried, wrapping his arms around her.
"Yes. A little, anyway," she lied without qualm. She would have lied to God Himself if it meant having Kurama this near her.
"Nervous?"
"Very much so."
He smiled down at her and propped his chin on the top of her head. "Yeah. I can only imagine. I was a demon, even though I was trapped in this body, when I first attended the Dark Tournament. I have no clue as to how you, a human, feel now."
"Something akin to terror and… Have you ever heard of the 'fight or flight' instinct?"
"Yes."
"Right now, I'm tempted more to flight."
She heard/felt his chuckle. "Don't. Then I'll be forced to chase you."
She turned around. "Why?"
"Because you inspire me to fight better?" he offered, eyes shining with humor.
"Glad to know you find me so useful," she quipped, turning back around to the ocean.
"We'd better not let Hiei and everyone else see us like this."
"Arelia already has," she informed. "She doesn't really mind. If she did, she would have already shoved her big stick very far up your butt."
Kurama smirked. "She'd have to catch me first, I think."
"She's caught Hiei. More than once, if what she told me was correct."
She felt proud to see Kurama stunned.
"Should I start running then?" he queried.
Mychela leaned back against him and shook her head. "Nah. I don't think so. Arelia has this weird belief that I'm never happy. So, obviously she thinks that you make me happy."
Kurama spun her around. "Do I?"
"Do you what?"
"Make you happy?"
"Yes. I believe you do. True happiness is something that I don't think I'd be able to identify should it happen, but you make me forget my troubles."
His eyes darkened.
Okay. What did I say? Why is he angry? Wait a second! How do I know that he's mad!?
Then, his expression softened. "That's good, Mychela."
She gave him a 'What the hell were you just thinking?' look.
"Did I say something that angered you?" she queried after a quarter hour of silence.
"No. It didn't anger me. Well, actually, it did, but my anger wasn't directed at you. It was at your mother for stifling you as she did. You should have done more socially than you have."
She raised an eyebrow.
"Mother thought that she was doing what was best for me. Now that I know that Father isn't my real father, I've figured out what happened, I think."
Kurama looked at her with a clueless look.
"When I went out the other day, you know, the day Genkai gave Arelia and me those 'daypasses'?"
He nodded.
"Mother confessed to me that the man I thought of as Father wasn't in my DNA. She would say nothing more, but I managed to figure out that my birth was precisely six months after she met and married Father, so it was impossible for me to be his child.
"I believe that someone seduced her and abandoned her. I guess she wanted to prevent that happening to me."
Kurama was silent before saying, "That makes sense. I don't agree with it, but it is logical."
She nodded. "I don't like it, nor do I like her for doing it, but I guess that it was her motherly instincts."
He kissed her cheek and she heard, -Get a room, kitsune. You've been standing there for a half hour, so everyone's seen you.-
-Hiei, nice to hear from you. Where have we been quartered and I'll have a room.-
She choked. –I hope you know that I am hearing every word you've said so far!-
Kurama 'sent' a blush and Hiei merely –Hn.- ed. She rolled her eyes.
-I'm going below-deck. Make sure that you behave, boys. I need Kurama in one piece for the reception, Hiei,- she informed.
She twisted from his embrace and moved to go below when there was an announcement.
"All teams. Choose yer two fighters. Round one o' th' Dark Tournament is abou' t' begin."
Mychela turned back towards him, eyes wide with fear and worry. He recognized the emotions and drew her back to him.
"Calm yourself, Mychela. Everything is alright."
"Arelia and I want to go first. You guys are demons, dependant on youki. Arelia and I… you don't know where our energy sources are from, but they obviously work different than yours. Replenish quicker. We go first. You boys fight when we reach the Island."
Mychela walked away before he could do so much as think of a protest.
-x-
Mychela and Arelia swapped a glance of pure feminine confidence. There was no way they would lose this. No matter how many demons were sent at them.
"I wanna dirty fight, scum. Be quick 'bout it, though. I wanna clean m' deck up 'fore we reach th' Island," the captain drawled.
-Quick, yet dirty,- Arelia sent, obviously amused. –He has no idea what he asked for.-
Mychela chuckled. –You're more than right there. Let's wipe the stage with these idiot's faces.-
-Was that a suggestion or an order?-
-Both, I guess.-
-Will do and gladly 'cause man are they ugly!-
Mychela laughed and then realized something. If they were the first targets, their energy sources would be exhausted by the time they left the ring.
-Arelia, do you think that it would be possible for us to meld our energies and use them in one huge blast to destroy or disable our opponents.-
-You realized the 'I hate humans' attitude too?-
-Yeah. A little belatedly, but I noticed.-
-We should be able to do that. I haven't heard anything that says we can't.-
She nodded right as the cry of "Kill th' 'umans!" sounded.
Arelia 'flung' a telepathic hand in her direction right as she accessed her energy.
-Ready in three… two… one. Blast these assholes!- Arelia cried.
A grey blast of light, the mixture of her black energy and Arelia's white, hit the first wave of demons, killing them. The second wave was injured badly. The third and final wave was stunned.
-x-
Kurama was blinded momentarily by the blast. Then, his vision cleared and he saw Arelia and Mychela leaning on one another, walking from the ring, grinning foolishly.
He ran up to Mychela. "I swear, you do anything stupid like that again and I'll-"
He broke off when she fainted.
Arelia, though, was grinning wider. "You'll what, precisely?" she slurred.
"Take your stick and shove it so far up your ass that you'll be puking it for a month!" he threatened.
Arelia laughed and that laughter followed him down to his room for the remainder of the trip.
Dammit! his youkai side cursed. How could she be so foolish as to pull that particular stunt?!
:Calm yourself,: he replied. :She did that out of desperation, I think. If she had known how dangerous it was, she wouldn't have done it. So, I'll inform her whenever she awakens.:
Don't you mean if she awakens?
:No. When. She will awaken. She is merely out of energy. She over-estimated her reserves.:
Youko 'growled' something unrepeatable and left it alone.
-x-
Okay, end chapter. The Youko/Shuucihi conversation, though really twisted and slightly insane was cool. I mean, Shuuichi won, right? Youko backed out of the conversation.
But, what is Youko so worried about? Why is he even butting in?
Find out next time in What I Was Born For, Chapter Six: Running Blood Island!
Finished: Thursday, March 25, 2004- Computer Apps- No Marine guy.