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Author's Note: The Italicized words is the telepathy between Serena and Chaos.
Somebody New
Chapter Four
A week later, the gang was back in Koenma's office, for a meeting he called. They were lounging around the room, waiting for him to arrive, while Boton assured them he would be there soon. Hiei, Kurama and even Kuwabara had pretty much forgotten about Serena and her insulting remarks about them. Yusuke on the other hand, still complained and bickered about it, even though they had all heard it a hundred times before.
"Can you at least tell us what were here for?" Yusuke asked.
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because."
"Because?"
"Because Koenma wants to tell you." Boton finished.
"Well that's stupid. I've got things to do." He said crossing his arms. She gave him a look. Soon after, Koenma entered the office, followed by his blue skinned assistant.
"All right, let's get this started," he declared, jumping into the chair of his desk.
"It's about time, toddler." Yusuke said carelessly. Koenma ignored him.
"I've called you all to this meeting, because we're getting two new people added to the Spirit Detective Team." He explained. "Now, this will only be temporary, so I don't want to hear any complaining out of any of you." He said looking at Yusuke, particularly. "Go get them, please," he asked his assistant, who scrambled for the door.
Two people entered, one familiar black haired, aqua-eyed girl and the other very tall, spikey red haired, gold-eyed guy unfamiliar. At the sight of the guy, Boton's eyes almost popped out. Yusuke glared daggers and turned to Koenma.
"What the hell is this?" he growled.
"It's nice to see you, too." Serena mumbled sarcastically, rolling her eyes. The guy, only looking about 18 or 19 gently elbowed her in the ribs. She looked up at him innocently.
"Yusuke," Koenma began.
"NO!" he replied, standing up. "If she is one of the new people, than I quit!"
"Yusuke," he repeated.
"I'm not working with someone who thinks I'm weak!"
"Too late," Hiei mumbled, looking away.
"Well if it makes you feel any better, I don't want to work with someone so arrogant and weak." Serena replied with a smirk. The guy gave her a warning look. She grinned sheepishly. She jumped slightly when the guy's voice echoed in her mind.
Serena! he thought sharply. Telepathy was another one of Serena and the mystery guy's powers.
She looked back up at him. What? she asked irritably.
Be nice. he chided. Serena rolled her eyes.
"-And I refuse to work under these conditions!" Yusuke finished in a dignified voice.
"Well I'm sorry, but if it makes you shut up-" she glanced at the guy. "- and make you feel any better...I don't want to do this either, so the best either of us can do is just try to get along."
Everyone seated at the table stared at her in blank surprise, their jaws slightly ajar. Silence filled the air and Serena began cursing herself for trying to be nice and make peace.
"Um..." the guy said slowly, trying to get everyone to relax. "I'm Chaos Starleen." He said, introducing himself. He extended his hand to Yusuke first since he seemed to be causing the most tension around the room.
Yusuke shook his hand. "Yusuke Urameshi."
"Sorry about Serena. She's not exactly a nice person." He whispered.
"I heard that!" Serena snapped, crossing her arms in annoyance, while Chaos looked back at her and smiled. Slowly, Chaos introduced himself to each of them while Serena stood with her arms still crossed.
Fraternizing with the enemy... she muttered to Chaos as he shook Kuwabara's hand.
They're not that bad, Serena. he replied.
Whatever.
"So I guess you've told them why were joining the Spirit Detectives?" Chaos asked Koenma politely.
"No, actually I haven't." Koenma said. "Please, have a seat." He asked his hand gesturing to two seat beside him and Hiei on his right. Serena and Chaos moved to sit down, Chaos by Koenma and Serena by Hiei. She was across from Kurama and beside him and across to Chaos was Boton. Yusuke and Kuwabara made the ends of the table.
As they settled, Koenma began the explanation of the portal between the worlds, and the two of them being there to help protect the world from anything that could end up from the other world.
"So I heard you're a demon, Serena?" Yusuke asked smugly after everything was discussed. He glanced down at his nails before bushing them off on his shirt than looking up at her. If looks could kill, he'd be dead right now.
"So what? Three-Eyes and Redhead over there are, too." She replied. "No offense," she apologized to them quickly. They both nodded quickly.
"They're full demon, though." He said, leaning forward towards her. She glared back at Koenma this time and Chaos frantically waved his hands in the air to stop Yusuke from perusing the subject. Serena was touchy on the matters of her being half-demon and half-human, and never liked to discuss it. He had tried once, and had ended up with a few scars of his own.
"Does it matter what I am?" she muttered through gritted teeth.
"I'm just curious if this is going to effect you anyway." He said with a careless shrug, noticing he was getting to her and ignoring Chaos' attempts to stop him.
"Why would it?" she snapped. This was going downhill fast.
"I dunno...killing your kind is awfully cruel." By now, not only was Chaos waving at Yusuke, but Boton and Koenma were now too.
Calm down, Serena, this idiot doesn't know what he's saying. Chaos told her. She ignored him.
"Wanna tell Hiei and Kurama about it, too, smart ass?" she asked. Don't talk about things you don't need or want to understand, got it, Yusuke? she telepathed to him, and he immediately shut up, and stared at her with a look of awe, anger and confusion. Without another word, Yusuke sat back in his seat and avoided Serena's eyes, leaving everyone except Yusuke, Serena and Chaos in a trail of confusion of why and how the conversation had abruptly ended.
You okay, Rena? Chaos asked her softly as Koenma tried to find another place to start the conversation and get back on track.
Yeah. I told him to bug off. she replied in an oddly calm response.
Do I need to ask?
...No. He got the point.
Author's Note: That's chapter four! Alrighty, thank you Phsycotic Neko, my beta reader for everything! I'm sorry to all you readers for taking so freaking long to update. Personal stuff got in the way. But now, I'll try my hardest to update on a regular basis. Anyway, please review!!
--Sharron--