New Friend Found
Chapter Nine
An Offer for Life
The large doors of Lord Koenma's office opened to reveal a smiling calm Botan with a confused Kayu hanging onto the Grim Reaper's pink kimono sleeve. The tiny lord looked up from his small stack of papers.
"Oh, Botan. Glad to see you're here, and with Kayu too, good." Botan bowed at the little ruler. Kayu felt Botan's sleeve pull downwards, so she too bowed down just to be polite.
"Well," The blue haired ferry girl gently urged on the hanyou, standing up straight once again, she lightly pushed Kayu's back towards the little ruler. "Go on, Koenma-sama wants to speak to you." Botan giggled. The azure eyed Kayu slightly staggered forward.
"Eh, hello." Kayu gave a nervous smile while trying her best to seem nice.
"Yo." Koenma replied flipping through a small stack of papers, "Well, I bet you're wondering why I asked Botan to bring you here, am I right?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I'm going to give you a choice." Kayu blinked, interested in what Koenma was saying.
"I'm listening."
"You can either take a job as ReiKai Tantei here and become living once again, or you can decline the offer and go on to where I was originally going to send you, which is Hell. It's your choice." Lord Koenma was quick to get to the point of what he wanted to say. He looked up at the female interested in what she had to say. The vixen was deep in thought. Thinking of what could happen when she chose one choice from the other.
"You don't need to-"
"I've decided." She cut off the lord right in the middle of his sentence, sounding as calm and as confident as she could be at that moment. "I'm going to Hell."
"What?!" The small ruler's soft brown eyes went wide in her answer. She wanted to go to Hell? "Why do you want to go there? I'm giving you a choice to bring you back to life! And you want to go to Hell?!"
"Yes."
"But why?"
"Because I want to." She answered quite simply. This was making no sense to either Koenma or Botan.
"Yeah, still lost." The Grim Reaper piped up, giving in her own opinion about this. "Again; why?"
"I don't know. . ." The hanyou confessed, trying to find the right words to express why, "I guess. . . I'm just tired of living. I don't want to continue with it anymore." Kayu had a somber face while her head hung facing the ground. Koenma took time to reply to this new piece of info.
"I see. . ." The little ruler finally answered. "You just don't want to deal with the problems that the living presents to you." Kayu lifted her head a bit so Koenma could see her content smiling face, showing that she was happy the he understood.
"Yeah, that's why."
"I see, but that's too bad."
". . .What?" The azure eyed hanyou answered back with a hint of annoyance.
'He doesn't mean. . .' She began to think.
"I mean, I'm going to return to back to the living world anyway." Koenma answered back.
"WHAT?!" Kayu couldn't believe it. She was being sent back to the living world? But she just explained why she didn't want to go!
"You're still going to bring me back to life after I told you that I didn't want to go?! Why?!" Koenma backed away sitting down on his desk at the dead Kayu's outburst with his decision.
"Well, because you'll listen to me." He began to explain. "You are quite powerful and are willing to do what I ask. You will certainly be more corporative than Hiei and I can use you when Yusuke and Kurama are busy with school. I could really use your help."
Koenma repositioned himself to stand back on his feet as he focused on Kayu. The vixen brought her head fully up as she idly lifted her head up to the ciling as if she was looking at it.
"You could really use my help, huh?" The little ruler nodded his head.
"Yes." The hanyou once again moved her head to face Koenma as she stared just above his head. She heaved a heavy sigh as she gave in.
"Ugh, alright. I guess I could help you." She answered back, resting her head in her hand.
'What have I gotten myself into?'
"Great!" Koenma happily replied with a smile on his face as he took Kayu's hand that she was resting her head on and placed a golden egg in it. The hanyou's face was expressing confusion to the thing that was placed in her hand. She withdrew it and began to run her fingers with her other hand on it, trying to figure out what it was.
"What is this... thing?" She finally questioned.
"That would be your ordeal to bring you back to life."
"It looks like a chicken egg." Koenma gave a yelp of surprise and jumped at the voice of the newcomer. He had his right arm draped over Kayu's right shoulder with his head resting on her left shoulder as he looked down at the golden egg. Unlike Koenma, Kayu seemed to react to this sudden intrusion quite calmly. She was not fazed by the new person who was hanging on her.
"H-how did you get in here?" Botan stuttered at the sudden appearance of the ghost.
"I came through the door." He answered the Grim Reaper, not bothering to turn his attention to her. He then took his left hand and gently picked up the egg from Kayu's hands and examined it while still hanging on her.
"Why don't you just get out Kouji? No one wants you here." The hanyou stated while allowing the dead demon to observe her egg.
"No, I think I'll stay for a while. Besides, I couldn't help but come here. You do draw dead souls towards you; it's your specialty." He continued. The hanyou gave a sigh of annoyance.
"Shut up and gimme back my egg." She held out her hand as if expecting for Kouji to put it back in her hand. He continued to look it over for a while over before placing it back in her hand.
"Ahem." Koenma spoke up regaining his poise once again. "Yes, Kayu is right; you are not wanted here. Now, I know that there is a place in Hell for you that you need to go to. So please leave."
Kouji quickly turned his dark golden eyes at the tiny ruler as he glared at him. The demon began to stand up straight removing his arm from Kayu's shoulder.
"Don't bother Kouji. It's not like you would be able to do anything to him." Kayu spoke up before anything else could have happened. Kouji closed his eyes and smirked.
"True; that I will not disagree with." The silvery brown haired demon turned around ready to walk out of Lord Koenma's office.
"It's a shame," Kouji began to say, "I was really looking forward to going to Hell with you, but since you are going to be brought back to life; Oh well, I'll just meet up with you another time." The demon began to walk out of Koenma's office, walking right pass Botan and out the door. Both Koenma and Botan looked at the door from which Kouji had just exited out from, but soon directed their attention back to Kayu.
"What did he mean when he said 'you do draw dead souls to you'?" The ferry girl questioned.
"Exactly what he meant. I draw dead souls towards me and I use them in battle. It's one of my more powerful attacks, but he could never gain enough control over me for him to command me to use those attacks."
"Hmm. . ." Koenma began to wonder, "This is interesting. You use the souls of those who had past away to fight your enemies. Interesting. . ."
"Interesting? How is that interesting?" Kayu questioned the small lord.
"Well, the ReiKai doesn't exactly have any background information on you so anything about you is basically new information, and also it would explain the temporary disappearances in the other worlds."
"Hehe, sorry 'bout that. Self defense, you know." Her voice sounded apologetic as she gave a nervous smile in return.
"Uh huh. . ." Koenma replied as he eyed the guilty hanyou, but just shrugged it off and continued.
"But, I will need to know some more stuff about you in the future, so be surprised if you find yourself being interrogated by Botan or any one else."
"Alright, no problem." She answered back as she continued to play with her egg with her hands. "But, I have one more question."
"Ah, and that would be?"
"How is this chicken egg going to bring me back to life?" She held up the egg in front of her as she expressed a child like curiosity on her face.
"Oh, yes, I didn't tell you how that works did I? Sorry." He then went on about how the golden egg would how it would soon grow and bring her back to life.
"Interesting. I hope it doesn't eat me." Kayu confessed as she fiddled around with it more in her hands.
"Yes, let's pray not, because it wouldn't be a pretty sight for anyone to see either." Koenma then jumped back on to his chair, turned around, sat down, and began to look through the stacks of files that was there before Kayo and Botan entered the room.
"Botan, would you please began to interview Kayu for some information on her? Thanks."
"Yes sir." The ferry girl happily answered as she walked up and took the vixen by her arm and began to gently lead her out of Lord Koenma's office. Kayu was sort of taken by surprise at this sudden command. Botan noticed this and joyfully explained to her what was going on.
"Don't worry dear, it's not that bad! I'll just ask some questions and then you will leave! Simple!"
"Yeah, it sound simple, but I can't help but feel that I'll be stuck in one spot for a long time." Her voice sounded dull and you could tell she wasn't looking forward to this.
"Uh, yes well. . . We'll make it fun! It won't be that boring!" Botan was indeed trying her best to make it sound better than how it actually was, and Kayu appreciated it, but it was going to be long and dull for the next few hours.
FIN
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I'm done. It's over, and yes, I waited like a year to finish this but I'm not very good and finishing what I started so for those who waited till their death to come just to read this. . . THANK YOU!!!!!!! You made me happy that you wanted to read this!
Oh, and some facts. If you're wondering why Kuwabara isn't in this, it's because I always thought of this happening in the beginning like after Yusuke retrieved the Dark Artifacts and stuff, so yeah.
And I bet some of you thought I was going to pair Kurama and Kayu up, huh? Well, I didn't so, ha! I was a little different . . . a little. So yeah, that's it. Until next time, see ya!
-halfbreedfox