Author's Note: I just finished Chapter Sixteen, and now I'm working
on Chapter Seventeen! Call me hyper, I don't care, I am! And yet, kinda
mad...but that's a different story! I'm burning a CD for a friend, so if
some things end up sounding like something from a song, it probably is...
;; Anyways, the format of the previous chapters it messed up, and so
I'm wondering if that's because I was in the wrong formatting screen... lol,
anyways, hopefully this will work. If so, then this is how it should be
for all chapters...if this doesn't work—and you'll know in the next chapter
or so—then darnit, I gotta figure out how to get my computer fixed! goes
off mumbling
Kurama: While she's muttering away, I'll do the disclaimer. Yoshiko does not own Yu Yu Hakusho or any of the characters, except Kohana, Kusha, and Yoshiko. And Leon, and Kentaro, and others. Friends of hers own Hannah and others; don't' ask me, she's just telling me what to say... Oh yes, she also told me to say that she knows there are sever um...errors...particularly typos... that were in previous chapters. She printed off the chapters for her fanfic notebook, just like Hannah did, and she's allowing friends at school to read her story. Anyway, as she read through them again, she's noticed errors, but she's a little too lazy to go back and fix them right now. So if you run into any, just know she'll find them and eventually fix them...
The Demon Enchantresses
Chapter Seventeen
He knocked on the door. A woman answered, a man behind her.
"Mother?" he asked. "Father?"
The man pushed the woman behind him and looked into his eyes. "S...Son?"
Tears came to both their eyes. "Father! I'm so glad to see you again!"
"As I am just as glad to see you, my son! Please, come in and meet your mother!"
The man led him into the living room of the house, and sat across from him. The woman sat next to the man.
"My son, this is your mother. My darling, this is our son," the man said.
"Mother, it's an honor to finally see you again!"
The woman looked into the man's eyes, confused. "Since when did we have a son?"
"I do not expect you to remember, my darling. You were younger then, and we couldn't keep him. It does not surprise me at all," the man said.
"Hmm...you're sure you have the correct house?" the woman asked.
"Yes. If this man claims he's my father, for I still remember his looks, he is. He has visited me several times, but hasn't recently for the last two winters. I finally was able to leave the house I was staying at and found you."
"I see. So if you're our son, how many winters are you?" the woman asked.
"I am twelve winters."
The woman gave a small gasp, then punched the man in the arm. "How could you do that to me?!" She ran off to her room, crying...
He started to get up and go after her.
"No, my son. She must accept you for who you are. She may have been but a naïve little girl when she had you, but trust me, she'll get over it. She just needs some time."
He sat down again. "Please tell me you remember my name, Father."
"Of course." The man said what his son's name was, and he smiled...
Kurama started waking up. He felt a body next to him, so he looked over and saw Kohana there. He got up with a small start, waking her up.
"How did you get here?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Kohana said as she looked around the room, still lying down. "We're in my room. How did you get here?"
Kurama looked around. She was right: he wasn't in the guest bedroom he fell asleep in. "I don't know. Maybe someone moved me, or maybe I sleepwalked."
Kohana giggled. "Perhaps, but let's go see if Hannah is with Hiei, and Kuwabara with Kusha."
Kurama nodded, and the couple got dressed, then went to Hannah's room. Once they quietly opened the door, they found Hiei sound asleep with Hannah in his arms. They quietly closed the door, and went to Kusha's room. Opening the door, they saw her in Kuwabara's arms.
"That's weird," Kohana said after she closed the door. "I know we all didn't sleep walk into the other's room..."
"Oh, so nice to see you two up! Did you have good dreams last night?" a voice spoke from behind them. They turned around to see Kohana's mother standing there, a sheepish grin on her face.
"Yes, we did, thank you," Kurama said courteously.
"Mother, how did Kuwabara end up in Kusha's room, Hiei in Hannah's, and Kurama in mine?"
"Oh, you silly girl, you are! I moved them! You two seem to have good vibes together, Hannah with that Goth guy, and that girl in there with that carrot-head. It good match, it is!"
"Mother!" Kohana said, embarrassed a little. She forgot how well her mother was at matchmaking.
"It true, it is! I tell you what! You go out on date with red-head, and you get good things when you return! How 'bout it?"
"Mother, really! You can't just match people up like this..."
"Actually, she did have the combinations correct, you do realize," Kurama said.
"Eh?" the woman asked. "You mean you two already have gone on date?"
Kohana blushed and nodded.
"Well! Then that means Hannah went on date with Goth guy and girl in there on date with carrot-head! True true, no?"
"Mother, really, you're embarrassing me, but yes, that's true."
"Good good! It be perfect! You triple date! Only the one gel-haired boy will be lonely. Why you bring him? He doesn't have a date! Unless..." She looked at the door which led to Yusuke's room. "Unless he come here to find good girl! Or if he has mission here. Me thinks he got mission here. Daughter! You bring him here on mission, no?"
"Well, kind of," Kohana said. "He wants Yoshiko back."
"Eh? Yoshiko? Well! Kentaro has Yoshiko. Even left here to go get her! That boy has a lot of pride in her, he does! Though I do loathe him, he still have good pride! He knows a good girl when he sees one. Gel-haired boy does too, he does! He go after Yoshiko, and woo! Either Kentaro will destroy him or he destroy Kentaro!"
Kohana sighed. She knew her mother was scheming and planning. She always did. At first sight, she seemed like a harmless, innocent old lady, but once you heard her talk, she was nonstop and wouldn't give up until her dream came true. She had a weird power that allowed her to do things in her sleep. If she wanted Kurama in Kohana's room, she'd make him move there without anyone knowing.
"Mother, please. Yusuke will get Yoshiko back. He cares for her, loves her. Kentaro just wants her for his own. Which remind me, we have to stop by and see them."
"That you do, that you do! Come! We wake everyone up and get her back!"
"Mother! We only need Yusuke and the others, not any of our family. I'm sorry, but really, we don't. Yusuke can do it all, anyway. He has that kind of power that lets him."
"Well, then I supervise him! I train him if I must, I will!"
Kohana rolled her eyes as her mother walked off to wake Hannah and Hiei. Kohana went into Kusha's room and woke the couple up. Then she went to Yusuke's room, with Kurama behind her, and woke him up.
"Yusuke, we're going to get Yoshiko back today. I know we are," she said as she tried to get him to stay awake.
Finally, Yusuke woke up. "Alright, alright, I'm up, I'm up," he said tiredly.
Kohana and Kurama left the room and went to the kitchen. They met Hiei and Hannah there. "Nice to see you guys up," Hannah said. "Mother came in and just annoyed us to no end. I just feel lucky Hiei and I left our swords in the corners of the room."
Kohana giggled. "Yeah, that was a lucky thing. Then again, she probably did that in her sleep."
"Yeah, probably. I know Hiei doesn't go anywhere without his katana."
"Uppity uppity! Time to get up!" a voice sounded through the whole house.
"Oh no," Kohana and Hannah both breathed.
"She's too hyped up for her age," Hiei said.
"Yeah, she wasn't very good at learning the languages correctly, and she just loved to shorten things up," Kohana said. "I'm up, I'm up!" They heard Yusuke calling. Then, they saw him running towards them. Hiei and Kurama had to quickly move in front of him to stop him from running into everything.
"Mother! Stop harassing our friends!" Kohana yelled.
"I just waking them up! Whole house must be up and supervise fight you have for Yoshiko!" And with that, she went back to wake up the rest of the house.
"She really needs to spend her time doing something else..." Hannah said.
"You know that's impossible. She constantly wakes the house up, then she wakes the whole village up!" Kohana said.
"Oh yeah...dammit!"
"Is she always this active in the mornings?" Kurama asked.
"Just in the mornings?" Kohana said, "More like all day! Every day! She can get pretty annoying, but it's just the way she is."
"Your mother loves to whack people with that staff of hers, doesn't she?" Kusha said, appearing from the hallway.
"Heh, yeah, she does," Kohana said.
An hour later, after everyone was up and had breakfast, the gang left to go see Yoshiko. They arrived at the house, and Kohana knocked on the door.
A boy answered. "May I help you, miss?" he asked.
"I'm looking for Yoshiko. Is she home?"
"Father is trying to comfort her right now."
"Fa...What do you mean, Father?"
"My father is trying to comfort her. She ran to her room after yesterday and hasn't returned since. I'm rather worried."
"Let us in, please, sir."
"Are you friends with Father as well?" The boy didn't budge.
"Kind of, now please, allow us entry. We must see your father and Yoshiko."
"Very well. Please, come in, but do not go any farther than the living room. Thank you. I shall inform Father you are here." He left down a hallway and entered a room at the end.
"He seems quite nice," Kurama said.
"I know, but why would he call Kentaro his father?" Hannah asked.
Everyone shook their heads. No one knew. No one except the three people that most likely wouldn't tell them, that is.
"I say we tear the house down, and get rid of those boys," Hiei said.
"There won't be any need for that," said a voice from the hallway. They looked over and saw Kentaro there, the boy standing next to him.
"Kentaro," Yusuke spat. "Where the hell is Yoshiko?!"
"Patience, boy, patience. She is in a better place than you could ever give her."
"I swear, if you did anything to her, I'll—"
"I didn't do anything but comfort her, thank you. I'm not as self-centered as you think. In fact, I'm not self-centered at all. I truly care for her, but you can't see that. That only proves how much you know," Kentaro said, smirking a little.
"Who is that, Kentaro?" Hannah asked. "He claims that you're his father..."
"And that," Kentaro said, a little too happily, "is true. He is my son."
"Then you cheated on Yoshiko while she was up here! You bastard!" Kohana yelled.
"I did no such thing! I love her! I always have, always am, and always will!" Kentaro defended.
"Father, who are these people? Why do they seem so shocked that I'm your son and why are they trying to take Mother away?" the boy asked.
Everyone but the boy and Kentaro stared wide-eyed at the boys.
"Hang on, hang on! This isn't making sense!" Kohana said in Plutonian, knowing the boy wouldn't be able to understand. "Yoshiko doesn't have a son, or daughter! She's only dreamed of it, and I know for a fact! It was another thing I overheard her talking about with Hannah..." she added more softly.
"Kohana, if we weren't in this situation, I swear I'd kill you," Hannah said through gritted teeth and in English.
"You can beat me up later. I don't care," Kohana said. "We have to get Yoshiko back, and about the only way we can do that is to get rid of this phony and his son."
"I tell you the truth, ma'am. I am son of Sir Kentaro Truceny and Madam Yoshiko Taki, Toby Truceny." He bowed. "Now please, before you awaken my mother, do go—"
"What's going on?" came a voice from the shadows of the hallway.
"My dearest beloved, please go back to bed. You are in no condition to deal with this," Kentaro said to the figure.
"I insist upon knowing what is happing." At that instant, everyone saw Yoshiko emerge from the shadows. The Yu Yu gang stared wide-eyed once again. They didn't expect to see her in only an overlarge T-shirt and very short shorts.
Once Yoshiko spotted Yusuke and Kurama, her eyes flashed red. "I thought I got rid of you two."
"You will have to do better than that to get rid of us," Kurama said.
"Then perhaps your friends shall want a taste as well?"
"Please, my dear, we needn't fight in our own home," Kentaro insisted.
"Fine, then kick them out. I wish not to see those puny weaklings." And with that, Yoshiko turned to face the boy and kneeled down to his level and started talking to him softly.
"Why that little...!" Hiei muttered. He was angry now. He unsheathed his katana and raced towards Yoshiko. "If it's the last thing I do, I'll—"
He was cut off by a giant animal attacking him from the side and slobbering all over his face.
"Hiei!" Hannah cried and ran over to get the huge animal off.
"What the hell is that thing?!" Kuwabara yelled, surprised.
"Skittles! Down!" Yoshiko told the creature. She stood up again.
"Skittles?" Yusuke quirked a brow.
"That's her name. She's quite tame. Too tame. She'll attack anyone and slobber over them just because it grosses everyone out," Yoshiko said. Her tone was still an unhappy one.
"So what kind of beast is it?" Kuwabara asked as he poked it in the side.
Skittles turned her massive head to look at Kuwabara. She stuck out her tongue and licked his face. He drew back in a scream. Then Skittles' eyes flashed black and she growled low, and finally pounced on Kuwabara and bared her teeth right into face.
"Skittles! I said down!" Yoshiko commanded. With one last growl, the huge creature slowly got off of Kuwabara, her eyes back to their normal violet color. "Heel!" Yoshiko commanded. Skittles walked over to her and lay down, but was ready to pounce on anyone daring to attack her owner. "Good girl," Yoshiko said, and pulled something out from a jar sitting on the counter nearby. She gave it to Skittles, patted her on the head, and returned her own attention back to the group.
"I think we're all curious as to what that huge thing is," Kusha said.
"Her name is Skittles, and she's a Shinguari."
"A what?" Hiei asked.
"A Shinguari. Shingas are legendary creatures originated from Pluto. They're thought to bring good luck. The legend used to be that whoever found one would decide the gender of it, and as long as they didn't keep it, they would have good luck. But if someone did keep one, they would have unfortunate luck. They bring joy and happiness, yes, but they used to always bring trouble behind them. The persons would have luck, just not a much. If you only ran into one and did not do a thing to it, you would have unbelievable luck," the boy filled in.
"That's my boy! A good little bugger you are, ain't ya?" Kentaro said in a language the spirit detectives didn't know.
"I am only telling what I know, Father," the boy stated. "Oh, their name means shin for small and guari for many features. Their name really means "lucky one," but people mostly call them Shingas, Shingus, Shinas, and so many more names, I could go on, if you wish."
"Eh, that's okay. Thanks for the info, though, kid," Yusuke said.
All of a sudden, Yoshiko's eyes rolled back in her head and she took in a deep gasp, and collapsed to the floor, unmoving.
"Yoshiko!" everyone cried. Yusuke, Kentaro, the boy, and Skittles were the first to reach her. Kentaro glared at Yusuke, and Yusuke glared at Kentaro. Skittles softly licked Yoshiko's face and nudged her a couple of times, obvious worry in her eyes. The boy gently shook Yoshiko's arm and called "Mother," trying to wake her up.
The others stared at the four surrounding their friend, too shocked to move. Hannah, Kohana, and Kusha had tears starting to roll down their cheeks. They couldn't believe this was happening. Was Yoshiko dead? Or just unconscious? They didn't know, and Kusha had a feeling that they wouldn't know for a while.
'No, please, don't let it be!' Kusha thought. 'Please don't let her be gone! She's too young! She has too much energy! Perhaps it's just the waves of Kentaro's control that has gotten messed up and it was a little too much, and she'll wake up any second now! Yeah, that has to be it! Damnit, I know it's not true, but please, oh please, let it be!'
Yusuke and Kentaro carried her to a bedroom and lay her on the bed. They refused to leave the other alone with her, so they both stayed in the room. Kurama and Hannah stayed to make sure a fight didn't break out between the two. The rest went back to the sister's house. The boy went to stay with some friends he'd made on one of his visits. Skittles lay next to Yoshiko on the bed and would whimper occasionally.
Night came slowly, and Oern was full this night. Once the rays crept through the window and touched Yoshiko's skin, she started floating up and transforming into her demon form. Everyone watched in amazement. Before, there hadn't been a silver glow surrounding her, and there hadn't been streams of color running from the source to the possessor.
Finally, Yoshiko was gently placed back onto the bed. The only thing that had changed—that they could see—was her appearance. But they all knew something was different, but they couldn't tell what. Not even Hannah. Skittles sensed it, and got up and started doing something similar to a dance. She got a few stares and weird looks from the five conscious people, but she continued anyway.
What they didn't know was that this dance was a commemoration dance to bring out something they would regret. Only Skittles knew. And only Skittles could revive Yoshiko from her evil demonic sleep...
Author's Note: Well? What'd ya think? Not good? I know...lol but I'm workin on it! Shinguaris are actually a creature I made up. And there will be a lot of association with Pluto in here because in seventh grade, some of my friends and I claimed planets—except for earth—and we claimed to be from those planets. We set up governments and everything. Rithanka is a planet in a different galaxy that I decided to create just for this story. Also, Padastrion (I know, that's corny...but I was in seventh grade!) is a planet I created. Anyways, I had Pluto, and I decided to draw something, so I started out with a few lines and it turned into this awesome creature and I decided to name it. Well, give the whole species a name, that is. I named the Shinga in this story Skittles mainly cause I was eating skittles while finishing it...;; yeah, I know, I'm a dork... oh well! It's better to have the Shinga named Skittles rather than the boy! Oooooops...
Kurama: What did you do this time?
Yoshiko: Umm....i kinda forgot I put his name as Toby...
Hiei: baka ningen...
Yoshiko: HEY! WATCH WHAT YOU SAY, YOU GIANT BAFOON! huff huff puff puff
Hiei: Hn. You need to take typing classes.
Yoshiko: Oh shut up, will you?! pouts Yusuke, Hiei's bein mean!
Yusuke: So beat 'im up.
Yoshiko: throws a rock at Yusuke
Yusuke: Ow! What was that for?!
Yoshiko: Some help you are! pouts more I'm finishing this... I can't get online right now, so I can't do any review responses...I'll get on that! Next time my computer works and ff.net will load, I'll write down the reviews so that way I can put them in! I'm so smart!
Hannah: Smart as in intelligent or smart as in Kellie's smart?
Yoshiko: whacks Hannah SMART AS IN INTELLIGENT, YOU DUMBY!
Hannah: = P
Yoshiko: mutters something under breath Anyways, ignoring all them, please R&R! oh! And tell me if these little author's note thingies are better or worse for the story... heheh, I think it might be good to know... ;;;
Kurama: While she's muttering away, I'll do the disclaimer. Yoshiko does not own Yu Yu Hakusho or any of the characters, except Kohana, Kusha, and Yoshiko. And Leon, and Kentaro, and others. Friends of hers own Hannah and others; don't' ask me, she's just telling me what to say... Oh yes, she also told me to say that she knows there are sever um...errors...particularly typos... that were in previous chapters. She printed off the chapters for her fanfic notebook, just like Hannah did, and she's allowing friends at school to read her story. Anyway, as she read through them again, she's noticed errors, but she's a little too lazy to go back and fix them right now. So if you run into any, just know she'll find them and eventually fix them...
The Demon Enchantresses
Chapter Seventeen
He knocked on the door. A woman answered, a man behind her.
"Mother?" he asked. "Father?"
The man pushed the woman behind him and looked into his eyes. "S...Son?"
Tears came to both their eyes. "Father! I'm so glad to see you again!"
"As I am just as glad to see you, my son! Please, come in and meet your mother!"
The man led him into the living room of the house, and sat across from him. The woman sat next to the man.
"My son, this is your mother. My darling, this is our son," the man said.
"Mother, it's an honor to finally see you again!"
The woman looked into the man's eyes, confused. "Since when did we have a son?"
"I do not expect you to remember, my darling. You were younger then, and we couldn't keep him. It does not surprise me at all," the man said.
"Hmm...you're sure you have the correct house?" the woman asked.
"Yes. If this man claims he's my father, for I still remember his looks, he is. He has visited me several times, but hasn't recently for the last two winters. I finally was able to leave the house I was staying at and found you."
"I see. So if you're our son, how many winters are you?" the woman asked.
"I am twelve winters."
The woman gave a small gasp, then punched the man in the arm. "How could you do that to me?!" She ran off to her room, crying...
He started to get up and go after her.
"No, my son. She must accept you for who you are. She may have been but a naïve little girl when she had you, but trust me, she'll get over it. She just needs some time."
He sat down again. "Please tell me you remember my name, Father."
"Of course." The man said what his son's name was, and he smiled...
Kurama started waking up. He felt a body next to him, so he looked over and saw Kohana there. He got up with a small start, waking her up.
"How did you get here?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Kohana said as she looked around the room, still lying down. "We're in my room. How did you get here?"
Kurama looked around. She was right: he wasn't in the guest bedroom he fell asleep in. "I don't know. Maybe someone moved me, or maybe I sleepwalked."
Kohana giggled. "Perhaps, but let's go see if Hannah is with Hiei, and Kuwabara with Kusha."
Kurama nodded, and the couple got dressed, then went to Hannah's room. Once they quietly opened the door, they found Hiei sound asleep with Hannah in his arms. They quietly closed the door, and went to Kusha's room. Opening the door, they saw her in Kuwabara's arms.
"That's weird," Kohana said after she closed the door. "I know we all didn't sleep walk into the other's room..."
"Oh, so nice to see you two up! Did you have good dreams last night?" a voice spoke from behind them. They turned around to see Kohana's mother standing there, a sheepish grin on her face.
"Yes, we did, thank you," Kurama said courteously.
"Mother, how did Kuwabara end up in Kusha's room, Hiei in Hannah's, and Kurama in mine?"
"Oh, you silly girl, you are! I moved them! You two seem to have good vibes together, Hannah with that Goth guy, and that girl in there with that carrot-head. It good match, it is!"
"Mother!" Kohana said, embarrassed a little. She forgot how well her mother was at matchmaking.
"It true, it is! I tell you what! You go out on date with red-head, and you get good things when you return! How 'bout it?"
"Mother, really! You can't just match people up like this..."
"Actually, she did have the combinations correct, you do realize," Kurama said.
"Eh?" the woman asked. "You mean you two already have gone on date?"
Kohana blushed and nodded.
"Well! Then that means Hannah went on date with Goth guy and girl in there on date with carrot-head! True true, no?"
"Mother, really, you're embarrassing me, but yes, that's true."
"Good good! It be perfect! You triple date! Only the one gel-haired boy will be lonely. Why you bring him? He doesn't have a date! Unless..." She looked at the door which led to Yusuke's room. "Unless he come here to find good girl! Or if he has mission here. Me thinks he got mission here. Daughter! You bring him here on mission, no?"
"Well, kind of," Kohana said. "He wants Yoshiko back."
"Eh? Yoshiko? Well! Kentaro has Yoshiko. Even left here to go get her! That boy has a lot of pride in her, he does! Though I do loathe him, he still have good pride! He knows a good girl when he sees one. Gel-haired boy does too, he does! He go after Yoshiko, and woo! Either Kentaro will destroy him or he destroy Kentaro!"
Kohana sighed. She knew her mother was scheming and planning. She always did. At first sight, she seemed like a harmless, innocent old lady, but once you heard her talk, she was nonstop and wouldn't give up until her dream came true. She had a weird power that allowed her to do things in her sleep. If she wanted Kurama in Kohana's room, she'd make him move there without anyone knowing.
"Mother, please. Yusuke will get Yoshiko back. He cares for her, loves her. Kentaro just wants her for his own. Which remind me, we have to stop by and see them."
"That you do, that you do! Come! We wake everyone up and get her back!"
"Mother! We only need Yusuke and the others, not any of our family. I'm sorry, but really, we don't. Yusuke can do it all, anyway. He has that kind of power that lets him."
"Well, then I supervise him! I train him if I must, I will!"
Kohana rolled her eyes as her mother walked off to wake Hannah and Hiei. Kohana went into Kusha's room and woke the couple up. Then she went to Yusuke's room, with Kurama behind her, and woke him up.
"Yusuke, we're going to get Yoshiko back today. I know we are," she said as she tried to get him to stay awake.
Finally, Yusuke woke up. "Alright, alright, I'm up, I'm up," he said tiredly.
Kohana and Kurama left the room and went to the kitchen. They met Hiei and Hannah there. "Nice to see you guys up," Hannah said. "Mother came in and just annoyed us to no end. I just feel lucky Hiei and I left our swords in the corners of the room."
Kohana giggled. "Yeah, that was a lucky thing. Then again, she probably did that in her sleep."
"Yeah, probably. I know Hiei doesn't go anywhere without his katana."
"Uppity uppity! Time to get up!" a voice sounded through the whole house.
"Oh no," Kohana and Hannah both breathed.
"She's too hyped up for her age," Hiei said.
"Yeah, she wasn't very good at learning the languages correctly, and she just loved to shorten things up," Kohana said. "I'm up, I'm up!" They heard Yusuke calling. Then, they saw him running towards them. Hiei and Kurama had to quickly move in front of him to stop him from running into everything.
"Mother! Stop harassing our friends!" Kohana yelled.
"I just waking them up! Whole house must be up and supervise fight you have for Yoshiko!" And with that, she went back to wake up the rest of the house.
"She really needs to spend her time doing something else..." Hannah said.
"You know that's impossible. She constantly wakes the house up, then she wakes the whole village up!" Kohana said.
"Oh yeah...dammit!"
"Is she always this active in the mornings?" Kurama asked.
"Just in the mornings?" Kohana said, "More like all day! Every day! She can get pretty annoying, but it's just the way she is."
"Your mother loves to whack people with that staff of hers, doesn't she?" Kusha said, appearing from the hallway.
"Heh, yeah, she does," Kohana said.
An hour later, after everyone was up and had breakfast, the gang left to go see Yoshiko. They arrived at the house, and Kohana knocked on the door.
A boy answered. "May I help you, miss?" he asked.
"I'm looking for Yoshiko. Is she home?"
"Father is trying to comfort her right now."
"Fa...What do you mean, Father?"
"My father is trying to comfort her. She ran to her room after yesterday and hasn't returned since. I'm rather worried."
"Let us in, please, sir."
"Are you friends with Father as well?" The boy didn't budge.
"Kind of, now please, allow us entry. We must see your father and Yoshiko."
"Very well. Please, come in, but do not go any farther than the living room. Thank you. I shall inform Father you are here." He left down a hallway and entered a room at the end.
"He seems quite nice," Kurama said.
"I know, but why would he call Kentaro his father?" Hannah asked.
Everyone shook their heads. No one knew. No one except the three people that most likely wouldn't tell them, that is.
"I say we tear the house down, and get rid of those boys," Hiei said.
"There won't be any need for that," said a voice from the hallway. They looked over and saw Kentaro there, the boy standing next to him.
"Kentaro," Yusuke spat. "Where the hell is Yoshiko?!"
"Patience, boy, patience. She is in a better place than you could ever give her."
"I swear, if you did anything to her, I'll—"
"I didn't do anything but comfort her, thank you. I'm not as self-centered as you think. In fact, I'm not self-centered at all. I truly care for her, but you can't see that. That only proves how much you know," Kentaro said, smirking a little.
"Who is that, Kentaro?" Hannah asked. "He claims that you're his father..."
"And that," Kentaro said, a little too happily, "is true. He is my son."
"Then you cheated on Yoshiko while she was up here! You bastard!" Kohana yelled.
"I did no such thing! I love her! I always have, always am, and always will!" Kentaro defended.
"Father, who are these people? Why do they seem so shocked that I'm your son and why are they trying to take Mother away?" the boy asked.
Everyone but the boy and Kentaro stared wide-eyed at the boys.
"Hang on, hang on! This isn't making sense!" Kohana said in Plutonian, knowing the boy wouldn't be able to understand. "Yoshiko doesn't have a son, or daughter! She's only dreamed of it, and I know for a fact! It was another thing I overheard her talking about with Hannah..." she added more softly.
"Kohana, if we weren't in this situation, I swear I'd kill you," Hannah said through gritted teeth and in English.
"You can beat me up later. I don't care," Kohana said. "We have to get Yoshiko back, and about the only way we can do that is to get rid of this phony and his son."
"I tell you the truth, ma'am. I am son of Sir Kentaro Truceny and Madam Yoshiko Taki, Toby Truceny." He bowed. "Now please, before you awaken my mother, do go—"
"What's going on?" came a voice from the shadows of the hallway.
"My dearest beloved, please go back to bed. You are in no condition to deal with this," Kentaro said to the figure.
"I insist upon knowing what is happing." At that instant, everyone saw Yoshiko emerge from the shadows. The Yu Yu gang stared wide-eyed once again. They didn't expect to see her in only an overlarge T-shirt and very short shorts.
Once Yoshiko spotted Yusuke and Kurama, her eyes flashed red. "I thought I got rid of you two."
"You will have to do better than that to get rid of us," Kurama said.
"Then perhaps your friends shall want a taste as well?"
"Please, my dear, we needn't fight in our own home," Kentaro insisted.
"Fine, then kick them out. I wish not to see those puny weaklings." And with that, Yoshiko turned to face the boy and kneeled down to his level and started talking to him softly.
"Why that little...!" Hiei muttered. He was angry now. He unsheathed his katana and raced towards Yoshiko. "If it's the last thing I do, I'll—"
He was cut off by a giant animal attacking him from the side and slobbering all over his face.
"Hiei!" Hannah cried and ran over to get the huge animal off.
"What the hell is that thing?!" Kuwabara yelled, surprised.
"Skittles! Down!" Yoshiko told the creature. She stood up again.
"Skittles?" Yusuke quirked a brow.
"That's her name. She's quite tame. Too tame. She'll attack anyone and slobber over them just because it grosses everyone out," Yoshiko said. Her tone was still an unhappy one.
"So what kind of beast is it?" Kuwabara asked as he poked it in the side.
Skittles turned her massive head to look at Kuwabara. She stuck out her tongue and licked his face. He drew back in a scream. Then Skittles' eyes flashed black and she growled low, and finally pounced on Kuwabara and bared her teeth right into face.
"Skittles! I said down!" Yoshiko commanded. With one last growl, the huge creature slowly got off of Kuwabara, her eyes back to their normal violet color. "Heel!" Yoshiko commanded. Skittles walked over to her and lay down, but was ready to pounce on anyone daring to attack her owner. "Good girl," Yoshiko said, and pulled something out from a jar sitting on the counter nearby. She gave it to Skittles, patted her on the head, and returned her own attention back to the group.
"I think we're all curious as to what that huge thing is," Kusha said.
"Her name is Skittles, and she's a Shinguari."
"A what?" Hiei asked.
"A Shinguari. Shingas are legendary creatures originated from Pluto. They're thought to bring good luck. The legend used to be that whoever found one would decide the gender of it, and as long as they didn't keep it, they would have good luck. But if someone did keep one, they would have unfortunate luck. They bring joy and happiness, yes, but they used to always bring trouble behind them. The persons would have luck, just not a much. If you only ran into one and did not do a thing to it, you would have unbelievable luck," the boy filled in.
"That's my boy! A good little bugger you are, ain't ya?" Kentaro said in a language the spirit detectives didn't know.
"I am only telling what I know, Father," the boy stated. "Oh, their name means shin for small and guari for many features. Their name really means "lucky one," but people mostly call them Shingas, Shingus, Shinas, and so many more names, I could go on, if you wish."
"Eh, that's okay. Thanks for the info, though, kid," Yusuke said.
All of a sudden, Yoshiko's eyes rolled back in her head and she took in a deep gasp, and collapsed to the floor, unmoving.
"Yoshiko!" everyone cried. Yusuke, Kentaro, the boy, and Skittles were the first to reach her. Kentaro glared at Yusuke, and Yusuke glared at Kentaro. Skittles softly licked Yoshiko's face and nudged her a couple of times, obvious worry in her eyes. The boy gently shook Yoshiko's arm and called "Mother," trying to wake her up.
The others stared at the four surrounding their friend, too shocked to move. Hannah, Kohana, and Kusha had tears starting to roll down their cheeks. They couldn't believe this was happening. Was Yoshiko dead? Or just unconscious? They didn't know, and Kusha had a feeling that they wouldn't know for a while.
'No, please, don't let it be!' Kusha thought. 'Please don't let her be gone! She's too young! She has too much energy! Perhaps it's just the waves of Kentaro's control that has gotten messed up and it was a little too much, and she'll wake up any second now! Yeah, that has to be it! Damnit, I know it's not true, but please, oh please, let it be!'
Yusuke and Kentaro carried her to a bedroom and lay her on the bed. They refused to leave the other alone with her, so they both stayed in the room. Kurama and Hannah stayed to make sure a fight didn't break out between the two. The rest went back to the sister's house. The boy went to stay with some friends he'd made on one of his visits. Skittles lay next to Yoshiko on the bed and would whimper occasionally.
Night came slowly, and Oern was full this night. Once the rays crept through the window and touched Yoshiko's skin, she started floating up and transforming into her demon form. Everyone watched in amazement. Before, there hadn't been a silver glow surrounding her, and there hadn't been streams of color running from the source to the possessor.
Finally, Yoshiko was gently placed back onto the bed. The only thing that had changed—that they could see—was her appearance. But they all knew something was different, but they couldn't tell what. Not even Hannah. Skittles sensed it, and got up and started doing something similar to a dance. She got a few stares and weird looks from the five conscious people, but she continued anyway.
What they didn't know was that this dance was a commemoration dance to bring out something they would regret. Only Skittles knew. And only Skittles could revive Yoshiko from her evil demonic sleep...
Author's Note: Well? What'd ya think? Not good? I know...lol but I'm workin on it! Shinguaris are actually a creature I made up. And there will be a lot of association with Pluto in here because in seventh grade, some of my friends and I claimed planets—except for earth—and we claimed to be from those planets. We set up governments and everything. Rithanka is a planet in a different galaxy that I decided to create just for this story. Also, Padastrion (I know, that's corny...but I was in seventh grade!) is a planet I created. Anyways, I had Pluto, and I decided to draw something, so I started out with a few lines and it turned into this awesome creature and I decided to name it. Well, give the whole species a name, that is. I named the Shinga in this story Skittles mainly cause I was eating skittles while finishing it...;; yeah, I know, I'm a dork... oh well! It's better to have the Shinga named Skittles rather than the boy! Oooooops...
Kurama: What did you do this time?
Yoshiko: Umm....i kinda forgot I put his name as Toby...
Hiei: baka ningen...
Yoshiko: HEY! WATCH WHAT YOU SAY, YOU GIANT BAFOON! huff huff puff puff
Hiei: Hn. You need to take typing classes.
Yoshiko: Oh shut up, will you?! pouts Yusuke, Hiei's bein mean!
Yusuke: So beat 'im up.
Yoshiko: throws a rock at Yusuke
Yusuke: Ow! What was that for?!
Yoshiko: Some help you are! pouts more I'm finishing this... I can't get online right now, so I can't do any review responses...I'll get on that! Next time my computer works and ff.net will load, I'll write down the reviews so that way I can put them in! I'm so smart!
Hannah: Smart as in intelligent or smart as in Kellie's smart?
Yoshiko: whacks Hannah SMART AS IN INTELLIGENT, YOU DUMBY!
Hannah: = P
Yoshiko: mutters something under breath Anyways, ignoring all them, please R&R! oh! And tell me if these little author's note thingies are better or worse for the story... heheh, I think it might be good to know... ;;;