CotA: I have a few things to explain before this story starts. First of all, I use the Japanese Honorifics (-sama, -san, etc.) in this to help you guys understand everyone's relationships. For further explanation, I'm including a clip out of "Tsubasa" by Clamp. Trust me, these will help with the story.
-san: This is the most common honorific, and is equivalent to Mr., Miss, Ms., Mrs., etc. It is the all-purpose honorific and can be used in any situation where politeness is required.
-sama: This is one level higher than "-san." It is used to confer great respect.
-dono: This comes from the word "tono," which means "lord." it is even a higher level than "-sama," and confers utmost respect.
-kun: This suffix is used at the end of boys' names to express familiarity or endearment. It is also sometimes used by men among friends, or when addressing someone younger or of a lower station.
-chan: This is used to express endearment, mostly toward a girl. It is also used for little boys, pets, and even among lovers. It gives a sense of childish cuteness.
Sempai: This title suggests that the addressee is one's "senior" in a group or organization. It is most often used in a school setting, where underclassmen refer to their upperclassmen as "sempai." It can also be used in the workplace, such as when a newer employee addresses an employee who has seniority in the company.
Kohai: This is the opposite of "-sempai," and is used toward underclassmen in school or newcomers in the workplace. It connotes that the addressee is of a lower station.
Sensei: Literally meaning "one who has come before," this title is used for teachers, doctors, or masters of any profession or art.
(Blank): Usually forgotten in these lists, but perhaps the most significant difference between Japanese and English. The lack of honorific means that the speaker has permission to address the person in a very intimate way. Usually, only family, spouses, or very close friends have this kind of permission. Known as yobisute, it can be gratifying when someone who has earned the intimacy starts to call one by one's name without an honorific; however, when that intimacy hasn't been earned, it can also be very insulting.
Chapter One
"Sari-chan, I'm bored out of my mind," Tonya complained as she set her book bag on the cafeteria table her friends always sat at. She brushed her jeans off and adjusted her blue tank top. She gave a very dramatic sigh just for fun as she stretched out her five-foot four-inch frame. She was slender, almost petite with modest curves. Her eyes were a little large for her face, her nose was average, and her mouth was a little small.
"So? Do your homework or something," Sari replied as she rubbed the sleep out of her teal eyes. "It's too early to listen to you." She attempted to tuck some of her dark brown hair behind her ears, but it was a little too short for that. She had cut her hair to her earlobes just a week ago.
"What homework? We just got back from spring break," Tonya retorted, running her fingers through her shoulder-length auburn hair as she sat down by her brown-haired friend.
Sari yawned, still tired. She had spent too much time on the internet the night before. "Then work on one of your stories." She didn't feel like listening to her friend complain, especially since it was so early in the morning. She did not do mornings at all.
"Okay." Easy going and very easily distracted, Tonya opened her book bag and pulled out a large folder that had definitely seen better days. With a small smile on her face, she began editing a chapter she had just finished writing the day before. She was always working on some story or another; she even posted them on the internet.
As the minutes ticked by, other people sat down at the table. Most of them were seniors, but others were juniors. They were a motley crew with each person being about as different as he or she could be from the others. One was in agriculture, another was the future valedictorian, and a third was the local Star Wars fanatic.
When there were about three minutes until the teachers finally dismissed the students so they could go to their lockers and first hour classes, Tonya felt someone cover her eyes. No one had ever really done that to her before, so she couldn't help but feel surprised and curious.
"Yes?" she asked, trying to figure who it was. Everyone that she knew was already sitting at the table.
"Sorry, but you have to guess," a masculine voice ordered, still keeping her eyes covered.
Tonya knew that voice, but she hadn't heard it in over six months. "It can't be... Jake-kun?" she inquired, her tone laced in disbelief. Jake lived in Nebraska, over eleven hours away. He couldn't be at her school; there was just not any way.
The male uncovered her eyes to let her see that she had guessed correctly. "Hey, Tonya-san."
"Jake-kun!" she exclaimed happily, jumping out of her seat and giving him a quick hug. She had missed him so much. "Oh, geez, what are you doing here? Why are you here?" She felt like asking many more questions a mile a minute, but she held herself back.
"I just moved here," Jake replied, chuckling. He had a great laugh... well, Tonya thought he did, but she was a bit biased. "I had totally forgotten that you lived here until I saw you this morning." The part about him forgetting had been a complete lie, but he wasn't about to tell her that... at least not yet. There was a lot of things he didn't want to tell her at the moment.
Smiling, Tonya introduced him to her other friends, enjoying the looks on their faces to no end. They had all seen pictures of Jake, but not one of them had guessed that he was so good looking. The photographs hadn't done him justice. His darkly tanned skin matched his black hair, and gorgeous aqua eyes studied the world through thick lashes that any girl would envy. His only flaw was that he was short for a guy-only an inch or two taller than Tonya. He made up for his lack up height by being perfectly muscled. He wasn't too bulky, which Tonya loved. He was just the right size.
"What classes do you have today?" Sari inquired, and Jake listed them.
"Hey! You have half of them with me." The auburn-haired girl clapped her hands. Her classes were going to be so much fun with Jake in them. "I can help you find them... if you need me to."
"Cool. Thanks." Jake smiled in thanks.
Tonya did end up showing Jake around school, and she later learned that he lived only two miles away from her house. That was pretty good, considering that she lived seven miles out of city limits and just outside the state park. During the day, they agreed to get together after school at the park and catch up on each other's lives.
"So, Jake-kun, why exactly did you move out here?" Tonya asked as she sat down on one of the benches, looking up at Jake. She crossed her legs, stretching her arms above her head. 'Ah... it feels so good to be outside with Jake-kun.'
The black-haired male shrugged. That was one of the questions he didn't want to answer just yet. "My dad got a job at the new factory, so here I am." While the answer had been the truth and his father had gotten a job at a new factory, his family had not moved. His family was still in Nebraska; only he had moved.
"Hey, there's nothing wrong with that. I moved here because my dad got a job on the military base." The girl gave him a small smile. "It's no big." She knew what it was like to move, and she hated that fact. She destested moving around.
"Geez, you're a compulsive liar, aren't you?" a boy asked as he walked up to them. He had obviously just come out of the forest on the dirt path. He kicked a small stick as he walked, his manner relaxed. "You didn't move out here because of your dad."
"Excuse me?" Tonya stared at the new boy, frowning slightly at his greased-back black hair and his chocolate brown eyes. He was about three inches taller than her, dressed in familiar-looking green clothes, and he gave out an aura that screamed "punk." 'He looks so familiar, but where have I seen him before? It's on the tip of my tongue, but why can't I think of it?'
"Hi, Yusuke-san," Jake said, waving slightly at the new guy.
The auburn girl nearly fell off the park bench. That boy greatly reminded her of a character off a television show, and the names even matched. "You know him?" she wanted to know, and Jake nodded his head, his cheeks a little red. 'Something's up,' she thought, frowning slightly. 'That can't be Yusuke Urameshi from Yu Yu Hakusho. There's no way. It's a cosplay; it has to be.'
"Yeah, we know each other. We're working together at the moment," Yusuke answered for the dark-skinned boy as he pulled a cigarette out of his pocket. "Now, why don't you ask him the real reason why he's out here?"
Tonya wrinkled her nose at the sight of the cigarette. "Would you please not smoke that around me?" she asked, tone one of annoyance. She hated cigarette smoke; it gave her headaches.
The grease-haired guy sighed and put the object of distaste away as a redheaded, green-eyed male came out of the trees as well, chuckling. "Well, Yusuke-kun, it seems that more than just Keiko-san detests your smoking habits." He put his hands in the pockets of his uniform pants, a small, endearing smile on his face. He had a kind of grace about him that Tonya instantly envied, even though the grace seemed unnatural.
At the sight of the new guy, her jaw fell. She easily recognized him. "Grande Dios sobre!" she exclaimed, eyes wide. "No, no, no, no, no!" She turned her blue eyes to Jake. "What in the flying flip is going on here? Are you trying to pull my leg or something? These guys aren't supposed to exist!" She shook her head in disbelief, frowning slightly. 'What is going on?'
"Not supposed to..." the redhead began to repeat, but he stopped himself and shook his head, his red hair gracefully swishing back and forth. Tonya almost instantly fell in love with his hair. It was so pretty and perfect. Her fingers twitched to touch it but she resisted the urge.
"What nonsense have you been filling her head with?" Yusuke demanded to know of the aqua-eyed boy. He did not look happy. In fact, he looked down right annoyed, which fitted him pretty well.
Jake shrugged. "Nothing; I haven't told her a thing about you guys." He paused, a strange look in his eyes. "I didn't need to."
"Madre de Dios," Tonya whispered, standing up and walking over to the redhead. She almost couldn't believe what she was seeing. "You look just like Kurama-dono." She stared up into his green eyes, finding them clear and beautiful, just how they looked in all the pictures she had. No normal human had such beautiful eyes.
"I am Kurama," the green-eyed boy replied, frowning slightly. There was a small amount of confusion in his eyes, as if he had no idea what Tonya was talking about.
The female shook her head. "No, you can't be Kurama-dono. Kurama-dono is a fox demon who was reborn into a human body. Demons don't exist." She took a deep breath. "Besides, Kurama-dono is an anime character. He can't exist because he's only a drawing... a person that someone made up."
She had the utmost respect for the Kurama from the show; he was the greatest thief in all Makai, after all. Besides, he was her favorite character in the whole Yu Yu Hakusho series, with Hiei coming in close at second place. She adored how wonderfully polite, powerful, handsome, smart, and funny Kurama was. He was too perfect to describe, and she had yet to find any flaw in his character.
"I can assure you that no one made me up," the Kurama look-alike promised, his tone sincere. His voice sounded exactly like the one she adored so much from the show. "Although how you knew about my past, I do not know."
"Infierno no!" Tonya retorted firmly, turning to Jake, her tone becoming sarcastic. "Are the others coming? Hiei-sama? Kuwabara-san? Koenma-sama and Botan-chan, maybe?" She looked at Yusuke. "If you're Yusuke-san, then you went through Genkai-san's training, and I know that no one could survive sleeping with snakes for three weeks."
The greasy-haired boy shuddered. "Don't remind me of ba-san's boot camp. That place was a nightmare." He sounded like he meant it, and Tonya couldn't help but believe him for a moment.
"How much do you know about us?" the redhead inquired, his green eyes on the girl. 'It might be dangerous for someone so knowledgeable about us to wander around without any kind of protection.'
"A lot more than you guys could ever imagine," Jake answered for her. "And I've got one word for you-fan fiction." He grinned impishly, enjoying the brief teasing moment. It had been so long since he had last teased her, so he had some catching up to do.
Tonya paled, her face becoming almost pure white. "Don't you dare!" she snapped at him, blue eyes flashing dangerously. "Don't you dare say another word." She hated being teased when it came to her stories. In fact, she was downright protective over them, letting almost no one she personally knew read them.
"Did he hit a sensitive subject?" Yusuke teased, his brown eyes lighting up. He enjoyed few things more than picking on someone. It was one of his favorite things next to fighting.
"Urusai," she shot back smoothly. "Just shut up." She didn't want to deal with so much teasing, especially with all the other crap she was being thrown at the moment. 'My brain is going to go into overload soon. I just know it.' She could feel her heart rate increase as her head began to throb with the beginnings of a horrible headache.
"I've been faithfully reading your stories," Jake stated, still grinning. "And I have to admit, they're very good. Perhaps you should fill in the guys on what happens in them?"
'He had better shut up,' she thought darkly, not liking how far he was taking things. Anger welled up inside her, and she wanted nothing more than to make him shut his mouth. "Jake-kun..." Tonya narrowed her eyes at him as an invisible force knocked him back into a tree.
Jake rubbed his back as he walked forward to stand by the Yusuke look-alike. "Well, that was interesting." He continued to rub his back, pieces of bark falling to the ground.
"What the...?" She blinked, a confused expression on her face. "Are you okay?" She didn't have a clue as to what had happened, but she was willing to take a bet. She was going insane. That was certainly the only explanation she could come up with. Her mind whirled, her headache increasing.
"Yeah. Fine," Jake answered as he popped his back. "Just peachy." He stretched, hearing his back pop again. 'There... that feels better.'
Kurama chuckled, finding the whole situation amusing. "So she sends you flying and then asks how you are doing. Unusual." He had never seen someone attack another person and then sincerely inquire as to how they were feeling. The rest of the meeting would prove to be interesting.
"I did not do that!" Tonya protested, gesturing toward her friend. "I can't move things with my mind!" The very suggestion that she could do something so impossible was absurd. She had no magic, no power, and no special abilities. She was a normal human being. Someone was playing a trick on her.
"Of course not," the redhead agreed. "You sent out a wave of power that knocked him back."
The girl shook her head, whipping her dark red hair into her face. "No. You all are nuts. I won't believe it." She crossed her arms. "I'm going home now."
"You can't go unless at least one of us comes with you," Jake stated.
Tonya walked up until she was a foot away from him and glared. If a look could kill, hers would have. "I can, and I will." She spun around, her manner stiff. "I've got only one thing to say to you all-mocca-mocca su su." Scowling, she made her way back to her car, which was only twenty feet away. 'I'm going home. I refuse to put up with any more crap.'
She found a black-haired male standing by her car, dressed in all black, a sword in his hands. His red eyes watched her with an unreadable emotion. He looked remarkably like Hiei. It seemed that the cosplay convention was still going on.
"Would you mind moving away from my car?" Tonya inquired, ignoring the weapon that he had. She figured that he couldn't possibly know how to use it. Most people in America couldn't even hold a sword correctly, let alone fight with one. 'Unless he actually is Hiei-sama, and then I'm dead no matter what. He doesn't like humans,' she mused.
She had almost as much respect for Hiei as she did for Kurama. Hiei had been through so much, and she admired his will to survive as well as his love for his sister Yukina. The fire demon was a unique character with such a sad past that she couldn't help but feel he had a right to act so stubborn, rude, and arrogant. Of course, it helped that she found him cute as well.
"I suggest you turn back around and listen to what they have to say," he said coolly, red eyes impatient. It was easy to tell by his frown and unfriendly expression that he did not want to deal with her. It seemed like he wanted to be miles away.
"And what are you going to do if I don't?" she wanted to know, moving to climb into her car. The male was suddenly standing in front of her, blocking her way. She blinked in surprised. 'Geez, he moves fast. Just as fast as Hiei-sama.'
"I will simply cut apart your precious little vehicle like a loaf of bread," the male responded. He even sounded like he meant the threat, which angered her.
Tonya suddenly noticed that his eyes were barely below her eye level. She was almost as short as the Hiei look-alike. "This is too much." She shook her head. "Ya know what? Jigoku o ikamasu." Without warning, she smacked him, just for being a jerk to her. "Don't threaten me or my possessions, okay? I'm not in the mood."
The short male quickly reacted by putting the tip of his blade at her throat. "Do that again, and I'll slice off your head." The blade flashed in the light, the edge obviously deadly sharp.
She took a few steps back, sighing in relief when the black-dressed guy didn't move. "Bastard," she spat out before turning around and walking back to Jake and the others. It was a defiant move, almost as if she was daring him to attack her from behind. She didn't believe he would; she was willing to bet on it. Besides, she wanted to get away from him as quickly as possible. Anyone was better than the jerk who had just threatened her. Plus, Jake seemed to be the one who knew everything.
A carrot top had joined them while she had been gone, and the Hiei look-alike quickly reappeared as well. The boys talked amongst each other while Tonya scowled at them. She didn't know what was going on, but she planned on finding out. There was no way she was going to allow them to continue keeping secrets.
"Okay, I want an explanation now, Jake-kun," Tonya demanded. "You dragged me out here, brought out your little Reikai Tantei look-alikes, and pissed me off beyond belief. I want to know what in the flying flip is going on!" She stomped her foot to emphasize just how much she meant what she had said.
Jake sighed, raising one hand to rub his forehead. "You remember your Time series?" he asked.
"What's he talking about?" the Kuwabara look-alike wanted to know. He sounded just as stupid as the Kuwabara from the show did, and that was saying something. Tonya didn't think anyone could possibly sound that dumb.
"You should know, baka," Hiei retorted, sounding perfectly natural.
"Do you?" the carrot top inquired.
The short man snorted. "What do you think?" He really didn't, but he wasn't going to tell the stupid human that. His pride wouldn't let him.
Tonya rolled her eyes and ignored the other men. 'Although, they do act just like Hiei-sama and Kuwabara-san,' she thought with some intrigue. "Duh. I wrote it," she answered sharply.
"You're Kaline," he stated. "Actually, you're more like Kaline's daughter, but that's beside the point."
"I don't understand," Tonya responded, completely confused. "You're not making any sense." 'It's official... Jake-kun has finally gone off the deep end. All his screws are finally loose, and his mind is gone.' She shook her head to try and make some sense out of what Jake had said, but she just couldn't seem to do it. 'What does Kaline have to do with anything? How am I Kaline? I know that in a way I am, because I did create her, but that has nothing to do with this conversation.'
Yusuke decided to step in, knowing that Jake was making a fool of himself and not getting anywhere. He didn't understand what the guy was saying, because he had never even heard that the girl wrote stories. He also didn't know who Kaline was or what she was. What he did know was that Tonya needed to know that she wasn't a human. "You're a demon, and a powerful one."
"Supposedly," Hiei added.
"Bullshit," she retorted. "Complete bullshit. I'm not a demon, okay? Demons don't exist." She glared at Jake. "I don't know what you're trying to do, but I want you to stop this right here and right now. I want to go home, and when I've cooled off, you can explain what you were trying to prove to me." She had finally had it. She had reached her limit for the day, and she had no problem letting the boys know it. Her head felt like it was going to explode.
"You're in danger," Kurama informed the girl. "Koenma-sama sent us to bring you to a safe house and protect you."
Tonya snorted at that, and then she began to laugh. It was either laugh or scream until she devolved into insanity, so she chose to laugh. When she finally stopped, she shook her head at them. "Nande kuso? Do you think I'm stupid?"
"No," Jake replied.
"Yes," Hiei answered.
"Shut up, koebi," the auburn-haired girl snapped, eyes flashing in anger. She hated being called stupid. "I'm not stupid. I know the difference between reality and fantasy. Anime is fantasy. Demons are fantasy. All of you are real, but you're not the Reikai Tantei, and there's no way that I'm a demon. God, go back to the cosplay convention and leave me alone."
"I'm a demon," Jake stated, causing the girl's laughter to begin anew.
"Aren't you done laughing yet?" Yusuke shook his head at her, quickly becoming fed up with the girl's attitude. "I wanna get going soon, okay?"
"Then get going. I'm not stopping you," Tonya informed him.
He raised an eyebrow at that. "Yeah, you are."
She sighed. "If you want me to believe what you're saying, then you'd better show me some proof, like your attacks, Hiei-sama's jagan... or something." She sat down on the bench, crossing her arms and legs. "Go on. I'm waiting." She didn't expect them to do anything, but she was going to give them a chance. They deserved at least that for coming up with such a good prank.
Jake ran his fingers through his short hair, frustration evident on his face. "Fine." Black power began to ripple over his form, spreading out to form a translucent bubble around him. Black lighting snapped and crackled, making the female jump.
"Madre de Dios..." Tonya stared in shock as Jake grew black cat ears and a long black tail, his pupils becoming mere slits. His hair was a little longer and as well as straight. His aqua eyes practically glowed, giving a hint as to the power hidden within.
"Here is my proof." He held his hands out to his sides, his muscles rippling. For some reason or another, they were suddenly a little larger than normal. "Well?"
She buried her head in her hands. "No... I'm dreaming. It can't be possible." She shook her head a few times before taking another look at her friend. "I'm still dreaming." She pinched herself, but she didn't wake up. All she did was leave a red mark on her arm.
"Hn. Foolish girl can't even accept what her own eyes tell her." The Hiei look-alike suddenly found himself flying back into a tree, a loud crashing noise resounding throughout the area.
Tonya turned to the downed male. "Where's your proof?" she demanded, fury making her words sharp. She wasn't entirely sure why she was so angry with him, other than the face she just did not care for the situation. "Do you claim that you're Hiei-sama? Or are you going to be the first to give me your true name?" She continued to glare at him as he stood up, his red eyes flashing in anger.
He growled at her, the sound more animalistic than human. "I am Hiei." Without warning, he pulled off his white headband, revealing a closed eye in the center of his forehead. The eye suddenly opened and blinked at her, making her gasp.
"What in the...?" She looked at the other three males. "What about you guys?" 'Oh my dear Kami... I think that they just might be telling the truth.' She could feel her world begin to tip upside down as her beliefs were twisted and changed in a few painful moments that made her feel like she was losing her mind.
Kurama pulled out a rose and turned it into a long, thorny vine whip. Yusuke powered up his spirit gun without firing it, and Kuwabara summoned his spirit sword.
"There. You have the proof you want," Kuwabara said, dispelling his weapon. Yusuke and Kurama did the same.
"I... I..." Tonya stood up on shaky legs and walked over to Jake, timidly reaching out to touch his ears. She tweaked one and then the other, finding them both to be authentic. They were soft, warm, and fuzzy... not to mention absolutely adorable. "This is all real..."
"Of course it's all real," Yusuke responded, scowling in annoyance. The girl was causing more trouble than she was worth. He hadn't been expecting such a huge fight from her. "So can we go now?"
"Oh my..." Without knowing what to do, she did the only thing she could think off-she fell to the ground on her knees and shook her head.
"Tonya-san?" Jake knelt down to check her, worry clearly written on his face. "Are you okay?"
Blue eyes looked back at him. "I don't know. I just want to go home."
"Okay, but at least one of us has to come with," he replied, changing back to normal. He didn't want anyone else to see his demon form, mainly because it'd either cause people to panic or doubt their sanity.
She nodded her head dumbly. It was all she could manage to do under the circumstances. Her mind was having problems processing everything, and so it had partially shut down to give her time to fight back the feeling of instability.
"And I don't think that you should drive," the cat demon added, earning a mere nod once again from the girl. He sighed and turned to the other males. "Which one of you can drive?"
Tonya suddenly snapped out of her stupor, her unreasonable anger lashing out and breaking her mind out of the partial coma it had been in. "No one is driving me anywhere! I'll drive myself, thank you very much. I don't want any of you touching my car."
The men blinked at her in surprise. She had recovered much faster than they had expected.
"Now, who's coming with me? I don't want both Hiei-sama and Kuwabara-san in my car," she continued. "Jake-kun, you can take at least one of them." She knew what would happen if the two were trapped in a small space together, and she wasn't about to be present for that. Besides, she didn't think her car could survive having both of them in it.
"I'll go with the neko youkai," Hiei stated, walking over to the beat-up truck, which had definitely seen better days.
"Okay, the rest of you can fight over who gets shot gun." Tonya went over to her car and climbed into the driver's seat, finding Kurama beside her in the car a moment later. "You won the argument?"
He shook his head, a small smile on his face. "No. Yusuke-kun and Kuwabara-kun are still arguing over this seat. I felt it impolite to keep a lady waiting."
The girl chuckled. "Yusuke-san! Kuwabara-san! You two can get in the back!" she shouted at them. The two boys stared at the redhead in the front seat.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" Kuwabara wanted to know.
Tonya decided to cut off all discussions before they could begin. Her head hurt and things just were not going the way she had expected. She wanted to go home and talk to her parents so they could reassure her that she had not gone insane. "I don't care at the moment, so both of you idiotas can just get in the back seat of my car or you can walk, okay?"
They nodded and did as she asked, not wanting to delay things with another one of Tonya's outbursts.
Somehow, everyone made it to Tonya's house in one piece; however, the teal-eyed female had no idea exactly how. What was even stranger was that her parents were accepting of the five boys she dragged inside. Neither of the adults commented much. In fact, her mother even offered to prepare snacks for them all.
Tonya brought all the boys into the basement family room, sitting down in a chair as she glared at them all. "Okay, people, it's time for a more thorough explanation. I wanna know exactly why you're here." She felt safer at home, more in control. It allowed her to deal with the situation a little easier, especially as she swallowed a few Tylenol to help with the headache.
"We're here to take you to a safe house and protect you," Kurama answered.
"Protect me from what? Drunk drivers and rude, stupid underclassmen?" she retorted, blue eyes flashing in annoyance. "I don't need protecting. I'm fine on my own."
Jake sighed. "I forgot to tell you all; she's incredibly independent. She doesn't accept help very often."
"I only accept help when I need it, and I most definitely don't need it." She glared at all of them, trying to get her point across. She failed.
"You need help now," Kuwabara said. "You don't know how to fight."
Tonya shrugged. "Big deal. I don't like to fight, and I don't need to either." She saw no reason to learn how to fight. After all, she lived in a small enough town that the crime rate was low. Besides, she never went anywhere bad or dangerous, so she didn't need to know how to punch or kick.
"You will if a demon goes after you and you have no protection," Kurama informed her.
She rolled her eyes, refusing to agree with him. "No demon could possibly want me." 'Although, his reasoning would make perfect sense if a demon did want me.'
"Wanna bet?" Yusuke retorted. "We already know that at least three demons want you, and there're probably more."
"Riiiight." She snickered, shaking her head. "Like I'm going to believe that. Get real." She had never heard such a good joke, especially from Yusuke, and he had come up with some pretty good ones.
"We were telling the truth about who we are, weren't we?" Jake inquired, trying to make her believe them. "So believe us now. We're telling the truth, and you're in grave danger."
"Why would a demon want me? I can't do diddly," Tonya reminded them.
The green-clad black-haired boy scowled at her. "Haven't you been listening to us? You're a powerful demon!" he shouted. "Pull your head out of your ass and just accept what we're telling you without having to ask twenty questions! We don't have time to deal with your stupidity!"
The auburn-haired girl stood up and slapped Yusuke, not caring that he was the winner of the dark tournament and the most powerful spirit detective Koenma had. "Kisama," she muttered, stalking off to her room. No one made any move to stop her, and they soon heard a click. She had locked her door.
Music soon flooded the area, but it was not nice or even slightly pleasant. "ICP." Jake sighed. "She's beyond pissed off. I don't know what to call the state she's in right now." He glared at Yusuke. "And this is your fault. I don't know how long it'll take for her to calm down. The last time I heard her play this stuff, she was on the verge of snapping and killing someone... or so she claimed."
No one knew what to say to that.
Hiei just listened to the lyrics, actually enjoying what he was hearing. Kuwabara stared at the short spirit detective in shock. "You like this junk?" the carrot top asked, disbelief on his face.
"What does it look like, fool?" the fire demon retorted.
"Well, if you like this music, why don't you see if you can get Tonya to let you in her room so you can protect her?" the aqua-eyed boy suggested. He didn't want to leave her without a guard.
Shrugging, the koorime knocked on the girl's door.
"WHAT?" Tonya snapped over the loud music. She wasn't in the mood to deal with people, especially the boys outside her room. At the moment, she just wanted to be left alone to fume. She was tempted to being throwing things around the room just to vent some of her anger and make herself feel better.
"It's Hiei. I want to listen to this," he stated, being as blunt as usual. "Let me in."
The door suddenly opened and the girl gestured for him to enter; however, she quickly locked her room back up, leaving the other guys out in the family room.
Hiei looked around at the slightly messy room. It wasn't too bad, especially when it was compared to Yusuke's apartment. The mess revolved around her computer (which was on at the moment) and her bed. A beige carpet covered the floor, and sponge-painted blue walls complimented a blue bedspread with dark blue curtains covering the window.
"Have a seat." Tonya gestured towards the folding chair in front of the computer as she sat down on her bed, pulling a large textbook into her lap as she did so. She had allowed the fire demon to enter her room for two reasons. The first one was that he had actually asked, and the second one was that he was strong enough to break down her door. She very much liked her door and wanted to keep it where it was.
The fire demon sat down in the chair she had pointed at, his eyes going to the computer monitor. It was at the main screen. Curious, he put his hand on the mouse and moved it to click on one of the icons.
"Touch and die," the girl said firmly, not even looking up from her book work. "Don't mess with any of my computer files, comprendes?"
"What's in here that you're so protective of?" Hiei wanted to know, disliking the order from her. He suddenly remembered something. "Do you have your stories on here?"
A blush stained her cheeks, but she somehow kept her voice calm. "I said, touch and die. Remember that."
He smirked evilly, knowing that he had found a sensitive spot. "Perhaps I should have a look at some of your more recently opened files." He moved the mouse to click on the word pad, but the screen suddenly went black. The girl had turned off the computer.
"There." Tonya unplugged a few things and hit the power button on the surge protector. "That solved that problem."
Sitting back down on her bed, she began to sing with the music, her voice just barely audible over the boombox.
Hiei frowned at her, unamused by her actions with the computer. Eventually, he gave up on glaring at her. She just didn't seem to notice, mainly because she was concentrate hard on the book in her lap.
He slightly shook his head. 'I have a feeling that this girl is going to be very hard to protect.'
Grande Dios sobre - Great God above
Madre de Dios - Mother of God
infierno no - Hell no
Urusai - Shut up
mocca-mocca su su - fuck you
Jigoku o ikamasu - Go to Hell
baka - idiot
Nande Kuso? - What the Hell?
koebi - shrimp
idiotas - idiots
kisama - bastard or lord of the donkeys
comprendes? - Do you understand?