Me and the Penguin Army
Disclaimers: I do NOT own Yu Yu Hakusho
Thoughts // (insert words) \\ Telepathic talk / "(Insert words)" \ *~* Means change from the story to Ixi, Chloe and Rayden or from the three to the story
Chapter 3 Artistic Talent
*~* "You ran away?" Chloe asked. "Why?" Rayden asked. "Well, a lot of things had happened to me by then and at 14 this was the best thing I could think of doing. Stupid yes, but not without good reason."
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I readjusted my backpack full of my things and quickly began to walk. By now I knew someone was following me. I looked up to the tops of the buildings and I swore I saw a shadow running with me. //That looks like Hiei! // I thought as I ran. //Why won't they just leave me alone!? // I wasn't looking where I was traveling and I ran into somebody. I fell on me butt and looked up to the person I ran into. "Sorry." I muttered as I stood up. "So you're going to run away?" Kurama's green eyes met my blue ones. My surprised look turned into a death glare. "BUG OFF!" I screamed and ran off. I felt the same presence following me. I looked up again, but this time nothing. I looked ahead of me and slid to a stop. I didn't stop in time and I rammed into Hiei. He grabbed my arm so I didn't fall.
Instead of letting go after I got up, Hiei gripped my arm tighter in my attempt to get away. Kurama, Yusuke and Botan came running into view, soon followed by Keiko and Kuwabara. There was also a young girl with gorgeous aqua hair with Keiko and Kuwabara. "Hn! Lemme GO!" Hiei just rolled his eyes at my attempts to escape. "Come on, we have to talk to you in private." Yusuke said in a serious tone. I couldn't get out of Hiei's grip so I walked along, resisting pretty much every step of the way. I was eventually led to an old and dusty apartment, seemingly abandoned.
"Okay listen Ixi, "Yusuke started, "We have recently found out that several strong demon gangs in Makai are after you. Don't ask why, because we don't know yet. All we know is they are after you and they are willing to do anything to get to you. We have been given orders to protect you by our boss." Yusuke paused to let this sink in. I sat there speechless. "Uh . . . eh." I tried to come up with an answer for them. "Well, every since I was little a lot of weird accidents happened around me that always went unexplained." I offered the only thing that seemed related to this topic.
I took my backpack off and opened it. I took out a manila envelope and handed it to Kurama who was the closest other than Hiei, who I doubt cared. Kurama took it and opened it, pulling out several newspaper clippings. "Huh?" He said as he read over them. "That's what the newspapers reported after each event that went unexplained happened, as soon as my mother saw them we would move." I softly whispered. I brought my knees up under my chin and looked over the group reading each article. Hiei seemed to be the only one uninterested in the articles. He had taken a seat by the windowsill and hadn't moved since. I wanted to ask him a question but I was just too scared right now. The scar on his arm, the one that symbolizes the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, resembled the scar I had gotten during one of the unexplained accidents.
In fact, it was the one where Kyle died or at least disappeared. As I thought about that night, hot tears began forming in the back of my eyes. I sighed and tried recalling the details of that night. It was rainy; we had just come from one of my concerts. I had recently joined a band and was their main vocal and guitar player. Since I couldn't drive, Kyle had gotten his older brother Marcus to drive us both there on the condition he got a free ticket and a kiss from me. He was always joking with us and we could pretty much get him to do anything for a kiss from me. The concert went fine, nice turn out and a perfect performance. What was better, the rain had come after the concert was done. About half way through the after party the plink, plink of raindrops were heard on the roof. Soon after, crashes of thunder were heard. That's when we decided to get going, Kyle, Marcus, and me because we had the farthest to go. Everything was fine until we were out in the stage area. Then the storm began to get weird. Lightning struck center stage but instead of being electrocuted the lightning fanned out in a black web pattern. It began to take form, how was the unexplained portion of it. However it happened, the lightning took the form of a dragon and it attacked the three of us. Marcus pulled me to safety but Kyle got trapped. I never saw him again. The lightning has singed my skin and left that scar.
"Hello? Earth to Ixi!" Kuwabara's hand waved in front of my face and I shook my head, snapping to attention. "W-what?" I saw a cell phone in Kurama's hand. "Call your mom, tell her that you'll stay the night at a friend of yours tonight." I took the phone and silently dialed the number. I put it up to my ear, the ringing echoing in my head. "Hey Aunna? Is mom there?" My sister replied, "No why?" "Tell her I'll be staying with my friends at their house tonight and tomorrow. And tell her I have clothes and stuff, so she doesn't need to bring anything for me." "Okay bye Ixi." "Bai." The phone clicked off and I pulled it down from my ear. The envelope had been refilled and I put it back in my bag, and stood up.
"Let's go." I said, and they led me a while through the city until we came to an ancient temple. An old lady that barely came to my waist walked out. She had grayish pink hair and brown eyes. The funniest looking thing I have seen followed her. It was blue, with two long flaps like ears that it used as wings, it had black hair on its forehead. "AWE! IT'S SOOOOOOOOO KAWAII!!!!" I screamed as it approached. I grabbed it hugging it like a stuffed animal. "Hey! Not so hard on Puu now, he's not a plushy." The old lady said. "Awe Puu, what a cute name!" I looked over to Yusuke who looked ready to explode. "Yeah, yeah, we all heard how cute the little booger is." He muttered stomping into the temple. "Huh?" I asked watching him stomp off. "I'll explain later." Kurama whispered in my ear. "Oh k' then?
I followed them into the temple and was led to the room I could stay in for a few days. I dropped my stuff in the corner and looked around the room. The group left and I pulled out one of my drawing books. I made my way through the halls to the outside garden I had seen on my way in. I took a seat by some foreign looking flowers, mostly likely from Makai, so I didn't touch them. I took out one of my pencils and began to draw. I had this gift to draw anything around me and have it look like it was alive on the paper. I put my pencil lead on the paper thinking of what to draw. The dragons came into my mind first, but what to draw them doing. Hiei and his attack came next. "I think I can work with that." I whispered to no one in particular and I began to draw.
"What are you doing?" Hiei had appeared behind me, shocking me from my spaced out state. I pulled the picture close to my chest to hide it from him. It was almost done, but I thought it looked stupid, he would too probably. I was my own worst critic. He snatched it from me and looked at it with a blank face. "Hey!" I said, pink blush creeping on my cheeks. "You did this?" I pulled my knees under my chin, not answering his question. Surprisingly he handed the book back to me without comment. I looked it over. I had drawn Hiei in the stance to release the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, but the dragon was in a circle behind him, its mouth opened in a snarl. The other blue dragon from today was faded as a background. I put my hand in the corner of the paper to rip it out of the book and then to a million pieces but Hiei's bandaged hand was placed on mine. "Don't, it's good." I looked up blushing. "No, I can't draw." "Says you." //Wow Hiei is actually being nice! \\ / "There is more to him than what is visible." \ //Not you again! Who are you and why are you in my head!? \\ / ". . . ." \ //Grrr, answer! \\ Silence only met my question.
"What else can you draw?" Hiei asked in place of the silence. "Uh, whatever pops into my head I can usually put on paper more or less." Hiei didn't respond, his eyes were still on the picture. "So why did you draw me?" I had to think about that one. "Uh, well I was going to draw the dragons alone but I needed a focusing point to bring them together, and you seemed to be the best choice since both the dragons were your attack . . ." I trailed off. "No, only this dragon is mine." He said pointing to the black serpentine dragon. "Oh, well then what was that other dragon?" Hiei shrugged and sat down. "Draw something else." He commanded. "Since when do I take orders from you? I'm sorry I didn't get that memo." I teased and jumped up. Running through the garden was fun, until of course Hiei appeared right in front of me, for the zillionth time. "Will you stop doing that!?" I exclaimed slightly out of breath. "Since when do I take orders from you? I never got that memo." He teased me back with my own line. "Well are we just little mister copy cat?"
He smiled and vanished again for the zillionth time. I walked back to the spot where my sketchbook was and it was gone. "Hey!" I exclaimed running to the spot where I left it. I looked around. "Really I wasn't joking this is good, these too." I heard Hiei and I looked above me. He was in a tree above me with three of my sketchbooks. "Hey! You're a little thief, give them!" I yelled holding out my hand. He acted like he didn't hear me. I walked over to the tree and repeated myself. Still he ignored me, flipping through the pages. I grabbed hold of a branch and climbed up, but when I was close enough to reach him he jumped higher. "HEY!" I yelled. My hand went up to grab the next branch up, but as soon as it began supporting my weight, it snapped and I fell to the ground. Before I hit the dirt and hand firmly grasped my wrist. Hiei had me in one hand, my sketchbooks in the other. "You're a klutz, you know that?" "Yep, since the day I was born. What's you point?" Hiei laughed and pulled me up. I snatched the books from his hand. "Thank you." Then I jumped down and landed like a cat on the ground. I took off at a dead run to the temple, closely pursued by Hiei, but he was only playing with me.
I reached the temple and scrambled into the hallways. I chanced a look back; Hiei was a few feet away from me. Before I could look ahead of me so I didn't run into anything, I collided with somebody. I fell hard on my butt and Hiei who couldn't stop in time was also thrown back. Sliding back into him I looked to see who I hit. Kurama was also on the floor with a surprised look on his face. My three sketchbooks were lying near him; two of them open to products of my creative fire. Rubbing his head, Kurama gingerly picked the nearest book up. I was still trying to focus so I couldn't stop him from flipping through it. "Hey!" Regaining focus I lunged forward, snatching the two books up and holding out my hand for the third. "You're a really good artist Ixi." Kurama said, handing the book to me. "No I'm not." I gently held the books running down the hall to my room. "She really is, why does she deny it?" I could hear Kurama ask Hiei, but by the time Hiei answered I was out of earshot.
An hour later a soft knock on my door from Yukina brought me out of my drawing space out. "Dinner is ready if you're hungry." I quickly put the sketchbook behind my back. "Uh, sure be there in a sec." Yukina smiled and left. I put my sketchbook on my bed and went out the hall. Yukina wasn't too far so I ran to catch up with her. A few feet later, the most delicious smell was coming from the dining room. "Mmmmmmm, it smells delicious!" I exclaimed. Yukina blushed and smiled. "Oh that would be dinner." "Really, I get to eat that delicious smelling food!" I ran the rest of the way to the dining room. Everybody was already there, waiting for me I guess to start. Hiei and Kurama were in deep discussion about something and unfortunately I was forced to sit next to them. "Ixi I never knew you could draw so well!" Keiko exclaimed. "W-what?" I stuttered surprised.
I looked over to Kurama who was showing a picture to her. "YOU LITTLE THIEF!" I yelled and lunged towards him. Yusuke and Hiei grabbed me by the waist so I didn't rip his head off. "What?" Keiko asked confused. "You should show them your other drawings Ixi." Kurama said leaning away from my hands that were trying to reach his eyes. "OVER MY DEAD BODY!" "That can be arranged." I heard Hiei mutter. I pulled back calming down once Kurama handed the picture back. "Listen, I don't know why you people think I can, but I can't draw. Excuse me." I stood up from the table and walked to my room without touching the delicious food on my plate.
Once to my room, I gently closed the door and looked to the several sketchbooks on my bed. I picked one out with the tittle of "Kyle" and gingerly leafed through the pages. "No, I can't draw." I looked to the open page. To some it looked, as real as a photo of the blond haired, blue eyed teen boy, but to me it was just a reminder of the past, something I had run from my entire life. I heard a soft knock on the door and I flipped closed the book as Kurama entered. I pulled my knees under my chin and watched him walk towards me. "Do you want to talk about it?" He asked softly, his green eyes filled with concern. I handed him the book entitled "Kyle". He flipped through it silently. "Who is he?" "His name was Kyle." "Was?" "Yeah, he died a few years ago." Kurama looked down as he closed the book without finishing it. "If you need to talk to someone, I'm always here." He got up and silently left the room.
A/N: I got a zillion sketchbooks at home too. My mom says I should plant a tree. ^-^ Hope you like it so far, if you do Review and tell me why and I'll try and have more of that. If you don't then Review and tell me why and I'll see if I can have less of that. Either way, you gotsta review ^_^ make me feel good inside.
Disclaimers: I do NOT own Yu Yu Hakusho
Thoughts // (insert words) \\ Telepathic talk / "(Insert words)" \ *~* Means change from the story to Ixi, Chloe and Rayden or from the three to the story
Chapter 3 Artistic Talent
*~* "You ran away?" Chloe asked. "Why?" Rayden asked. "Well, a lot of things had happened to me by then and at 14 this was the best thing I could think of doing. Stupid yes, but not without good reason."
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I readjusted my backpack full of my things and quickly began to walk. By now I knew someone was following me. I looked up to the tops of the buildings and I swore I saw a shadow running with me. //That looks like Hiei! // I thought as I ran. //Why won't they just leave me alone!? // I wasn't looking where I was traveling and I ran into somebody. I fell on me butt and looked up to the person I ran into. "Sorry." I muttered as I stood up. "So you're going to run away?" Kurama's green eyes met my blue ones. My surprised look turned into a death glare. "BUG OFF!" I screamed and ran off. I felt the same presence following me. I looked up again, but this time nothing. I looked ahead of me and slid to a stop. I didn't stop in time and I rammed into Hiei. He grabbed my arm so I didn't fall.
Instead of letting go after I got up, Hiei gripped my arm tighter in my attempt to get away. Kurama, Yusuke and Botan came running into view, soon followed by Keiko and Kuwabara. There was also a young girl with gorgeous aqua hair with Keiko and Kuwabara. "Hn! Lemme GO!" Hiei just rolled his eyes at my attempts to escape. "Come on, we have to talk to you in private." Yusuke said in a serious tone. I couldn't get out of Hiei's grip so I walked along, resisting pretty much every step of the way. I was eventually led to an old and dusty apartment, seemingly abandoned.
"Okay listen Ixi, "Yusuke started, "We have recently found out that several strong demon gangs in Makai are after you. Don't ask why, because we don't know yet. All we know is they are after you and they are willing to do anything to get to you. We have been given orders to protect you by our boss." Yusuke paused to let this sink in. I sat there speechless. "Uh . . . eh." I tried to come up with an answer for them. "Well, every since I was little a lot of weird accidents happened around me that always went unexplained." I offered the only thing that seemed related to this topic.
I took my backpack off and opened it. I took out a manila envelope and handed it to Kurama who was the closest other than Hiei, who I doubt cared. Kurama took it and opened it, pulling out several newspaper clippings. "Huh?" He said as he read over them. "That's what the newspapers reported after each event that went unexplained happened, as soon as my mother saw them we would move." I softly whispered. I brought my knees up under my chin and looked over the group reading each article. Hiei seemed to be the only one uninterested in the articles. He had taken a seat by the windowsill and hadn't moved since. I wanted to ask him a question but I was just too scared right now. The scar on his arm, the one that symbolizes the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, resembled the scar I had gotten during one of the unexplained accidents.
In fact, it was the one where Kyle died or at least disappeared. As I thought about that night, hot tears began forming in the back of my eyes. I sighed and tried recalling the details of that night. It was rainy; we had just come from one of my concerts. I had recently joined a band and was their main vocal and guitar player. Since I couldn't drive, Kyle had gotten his older brother Marcus to drive us both there on the condition he got a free ticket and a kiss from me. He was always joking with us and we could pretty much get him to do anything for a kiss from me. The concert went fine, nice turn out and a perfect performance. What was better, the rain had come after the concert was done. About half way through the after party the plink, plink of raindrops were heard on the roof. Soon after, crashes of thunder were heard. That's when we decided to get going, Kyle, Marcus, and me because we had the farthest to go. Everything was fine until we were out in the stage area. Then the storm began to get weird. Lightning struck center stage but instead of being electrocuted the lightning fanned out in a black web pattern. It began to take form, how was the unexplained portion of it. However it happened, the lightning took the form of a dragon and it attacked the three of us. Marcus pulled me to safety but Kyle got trapped. I never saw him again. The lightning has singed my skin and left that scar.
"Hello? Earth to Ixi!" Kuwabara's hand waved in front of my face and I shook my head, snapping to attention. "W-what?" I saw a cell phone in Kurama's hand. "Call your mom, tell her that you'll stay the night at a friend of yours tonight." I took the phone and silently dialed the number. I put it up to my ear, the ringing echoing in my head. "Hey Aunna? Is mom there?" My sister replied, "No why?" "Tell her I'll be staying with my friends at their house tonight and tomorrow. And tell her I have clothes and stuff, so she doesn't need to bring anything for me." "Okay bye Ixi." "Bai." The phone clicked off and I pulled it down from my ear. The envelope had been refilled and I put it back in my bag, and stood up.
"Let's go." I said, and they led me a while through the city until we came to an ancient temple. An old lady that barely came to my waist walked out. She had grayish pink hair and brown eyes. The funniest looking thing I have seen followed her. It was blue, with two long flaps like ears that it used as wings, it had black hair on its forehead. "AWE! IT'S SOOOOOOOOO KAWAII!!!!" I screamed as it approached. I grabbed it hugging it like a stuffed animal. "Hey! Not so hard on Puu now, he's not a plushy." The old lady said. "Awe Puu, what a cute name!" I looked over to Yusuke who looked ready to explode. "Yeah, yeah, we all heard how cute the little booger is." He muttered stomping into the temple. "Huh?" I asked watching him stomp off. "I'll explain later." Kurama whispered in my ear. "Oh k' then?
I followed them into the temple and was led to the room I could stay in for a few days. I dropped my stuff in the corner and looked around the room. The group left and I pulled out one of my drawing books. I made my way through the halls to the outside garden I had seen on my way in. I took a seat by some foreign looking flowers, mostly likely from Makai, so I didn't touch them. I took out one of my pencils and began to draw. I had this gift to draw anything around me and have it look like it was alive on the paper. I put my pencil lead on the paper thinking of what to draw. The dragons came into my mind first, but what to draw them doing. Hiei and his attack came next. "I think I can work with that." I whispered to no one in particular and I began to draw.
"What are you doing?" Hiei had appeared behind me, shocking me from my spaced out state. I pulled the picture close to my chest to hide it from him. It was almost done, but I thought it looked stupid, he would too probably. I was my own worst critic. He snatched it from me and looked at it with a blank face. "Hey!" I said, pink blush creeping on my cheeks. "You did this?" I pulled my knees under my chin, not answering his question. Surprisingly he handed the book back to me without comment. I looked it over. I had drawn Hiei in the stance to release the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, but the dragon was in a circle behind him, its mouth opened in a snarl. The other blue dragon from today was faded as a background. I put my hand in the corner of the paper to rip it out of the book and then to a million pieces but Hiei's bandaged hand was placed on mine. "Don't, it's good." I looked up blushing. "No, I can't draw." "Says you." //Wow Hiei is actually being nice! \\ / "There is more to him than what is visible." \ //Not you again! Who are you and why are you in my head!? \\ / ". . . ." \ //Grrr, answer! \\ Silence only met my question.
"What else can you draw?" Hiei asked in place of the silence. "Uh, whatever pops into my head I can usually put on paper more or less." Hiei didn't respond, his eyes were still on the picture. "So why did you draw me?" I had to think about that one. "Uh, well I was going to draw the dragons alone but I needed a focusing point to bring them together, and you seemed to be the best choice since both the dragons were your attack . . ." I trailed off. "No, only this dragon is mine." He said pointing to the black serpentine dragon. "Oh, well then what was that other dragon?" Hiei shrugged and sat down. "Draw something else." He commanded. "Since when do I take orders from you? I'm sorry I didn't get that memo." I teased and jumped up. Running through the garden was fun, until of course Hiei appeared right in front of me, for the zillionth time. "Will you stop doing that!?" I exclaimed slightly out of breath. "Since when do I take orders from you? I never got that memo." He teased me back with my own line. "Well are we just little mister copy cat?"
He smiled and vanished again for the zillionth time. I walked back to the spot where my sketchbook was and it was gone. "Hey!" I exclaimed running to the spot where I left it. I looked around. "Really I wasn't joking this is good, these too." I heard Hiei and I looked above me. He was in a tree above me with three of my sketchbooks. "Hey! You're a little thief, give them!" I yelled holding out my hand. He acted like he didn't hear me. I walked over to the tree and repeated myself. Still he ignored me, flipping through the pages. I grabbed hold of a branch and climbed up, but when I was close enough to reach him he jumped higher. "HEY!" I yelled. My hand went up to grab the next branch up, but as soon as it began supporting my weight, it snapped and I fell to the ground. Before I hit the dirt and hand firmly grasped my wrist. Hiei had me in one hand, my sketchbooks in the other. "You're a klutz, you know that?" "Yep, since the day I was born. What's you point?" Hiei laughed and pulled me up. I snatched the books from his hand. "Thank you." Then I jumped down and landed like a cat on the ground. I took off at a dead run to the temple, closely pursued by Hiei, but he was only playing with me.
I reached the temple and scrambled into the hallways. I chanced a look back; Hiei was a few feet away from me. Before I could look ahead of me so I didn't run into anything, I collided with somebody. I fell hard on my butt and Hiei who couldn't stop in time was also thrown back. Sliding back into him I looked to see who I hit. Kurama was also on the floor with a surprised look on his face. My three sketchbooks were lying near him; two of them open to products of my creative fire. Rubbing his head, Kurama gingerly picked the nearest book up. I was still trying to focus so I couldn't stop him from flipping through it. "Hey!" Regaining focus I lunged forward, snatching the two books up and holding out my hand for the third. "You're a really good artist Ixi." Kurama said, handing the book to me. "No I'm not." I gently held the books running down the hall to my room. "She really is, why does she deny it?" I could hear Kurama ask Hiei, but by the time Hiei answered I was out of earshot.
An hour later a soft knock on my door from Yukina brought me out of my drawing space out. "Dinner is ready if you're hungry." I quickly put the sketchbook behind my back. "Uh, sure be there in a sec." Yukina smiled and left. I put my sketchbook on my bed and went out the hall. Yukina wasn't too far so I ran to catch up with her. A few feet later, the most delicious smell was coming from the dining room. "Mmmmmmm, it smells delicious!" I exclaimed. Yukina blushed and smiled. "Oh that would be dinner." "Really, I get to eat that delicious smelling food!" I ran the rest of the way to the dining room. Everybody was already there, waiting for me I guess to start. Hiei and Kurama were in deep discussion about something and unfortunately I was forced to sit next to them. "Ixi I never knew you could draw so well!" Keiko exclaimed. "W-what?" I stuttered surprised.
I looked over to Kurama who was showing a picture to her. "YOU LITTLE THIEF!" I yelled and lunged towards him. Yusuke and Hiei grabbed me by the waist so I didn't rip his head off. "What?" Keiko asked confused. "You should show them your other drawings Ixi." Kurama said leaning away from my hands that were trying to reach his eyes. "OVER MY DEAD BODY!" "That can be arranged." I heard Hiei mutter. I pulled back calming down once Kurama handed the picture back. "Listen, I don't know why you people think I can, but I can't draw. Excuse me." I stood up from the table and walked to my room without touching the delicious food on my plate.
Once to my room, I gently closed the door and looked to the several sketchbooks on my bed. I picked one out with the tittle of "Kyle" and gingerly leafed through the pages. "No, I can't draw." I looked to the open page. To some it looked, as real as a photo of the blond haired, blue eyed teen boy, but to me it was just a reminder of the past, something I had run from my entire life. I heard a soft knock on the door and I flipped closed the book as Kurama entered. I pulled my knees under my chin and watched him walk towards me. "Do you want to talk about it?" He asked softly, his green eyes filled with concern. I handed him the book entitled "Kyle". He flipped through it silently. "Who is he?" "His name was Kyle." "Was?" "Yeah, he died a few years ago." Kurama looked down as he closed the book without finishing it. "If you need to talk to someone, I'm always here." He got up and silently left the room.
A/N: I got a zillion sketchbooks at home too. My mom says I should plant a tree. ^-^ Hope you like it so far, if you do Review and tell me why and I'll try and have more of that. If you don't then Review and tell me why and I'll see if I can have less of that. Either way, you gotsta review ^_^ make me feel good inside.