Houki no Majo!
Chapter 2
~*~
Koenma straightened the papers in front of him, then looked at the Reikai Tantei.
"Here's the deal." He said. "There's a certain meeting that you all must attend. It's of the Athena Coven, and there's a certain witch there that you must capture. She's powerful, wants to destroy the world, and she's the leader of this coven. She's dangerous…"
"Fine. So why do you have to send all four of us?" Yusuke asked.
"Well, there's a problem. None of you can go." He said.
"Why not?" Asked Kurama. He was a tall, seventeen-year-old reincarnated fox demon. He had long, flaming red hair, and bright green eyes. He wore a magenta school uniform, and had one hand in his pocket.
"We're strong enough to take down the entire coven, I'm sure." Hiei said. He was a considerably shorter boy, and a demon, with gravity defying black hair with a white starburst near his brow. He had crimson eyes, and wore all black. A cloak, with baggy pants, boots, and a muscle shirt beneath his cloak.
"Yes, but you can't get into the meeting without a member of the coven letting you in past the spell barrier. You'll need to find a member of the coven by looking up the last name Athena in the local library. Good luck!" Koenma said.
The boys sighed.
This was going to be tough…
~*~
Yusuke stared at the door, and wondered what to say.
It was hard enough without Kuwabara breathing down his neck.
"Just knock, Urameshi!" He exclaimed.
He quickly knocked, then considered running away. Keiko would never know the difference…
The door opened, destroying that plan instantly. Keiko was there, and she gave him an odd look.
"Yusuke? Kuwabara?"
"Um, Keiko…" the tantei started.
Kitty poked her head out from behind the brunette, and she smiled at the two boys. "Hey!"
"Kitty's staying with you?" Yusuke asked.
The two girls nodded in unison.
Kuwabara elbowed Yusuke in the ribs, and said under his breath, "Athena Coven, remember?"
Kitty heard him and blinked. Athena Coven…?
"Oh, right! Um, Keiko…do you…uh…" Yusuke stopped and scratched the back of his head. "Um, we need to go to the library."
Keiko stared at him blankly. "Repeat that?"
"We need to go to the library!" He exclaimed.
"Are you…feeling alright?" Keiko asked slowly. "And where did you put Yusuke?"
He glared. "It's for a project."
"And since when do you care about-"
He cut her off. "It's a project on missions." He hoped that she would get his point.
"Oh! Oh, right!" She said, playing along.
Kitty snapped out of her daze. Athena Coven? Why do they want to know about it?
Keiko gave them directions, which neither seemed to be able to follow. Because of that, Keiko offered to show them herself. So, she and Kitty got on their shoes and they all left for the library. Ro went with them as well, because he didn't trust his mistress to not make a mess out of things.
~*~
Kitty knew that something was up. She knew that they had something about the Athena Coven - her coven. Why would they know about it…?
She peeked over at them from her spot in the fiction section. She was pretending to read a book, but she was really trying to get close enough to figure out why they were researching her coven.
She looked down at her familiar.
"Ro, go see what they're reading." She whispered, making sure that no one was watching her. If anyone saw her talking to him, they'd either think that she was crazy, or it might expose magic. That was something she couldn't risk doing. It would endanger her coven.
She noticed someone pick up a book beside her, and she looked at him out of the corner of her eye.
He was handsome, and about her age, with flaming red hair and bottle green eyes. He wore jeans and a white t-shirt, and had a bright orange coat slung over one shoulder.
He seemed to notice her gaze, and looked over at her. She blushed and pretended to read her book again, embarrassed that she had been caught staring.
The boy smiled, as though he got that all the time.
Probably does… She thought sarcastically.
"Excuse me, miss." He said.
She looked over at him. "Y-Yes?"
"I couldn't help but notice that you were reading Anne Rice's, The Witching Hour. That is, the English version. Do you speak English?"
It took her a second to realize what he was talking about - she had just picked up a random book off of the shelf.
"Oh! Yeah, I'm from America. I speak Japanese, but it's a little bad."
"No, it's rather good. But what brings you to our humble country?"
"Visiting friends." She replied, smiling slightly. And checking out all the hotties that Japan has to offer. She added mentally.
"Ah. And are you interested in the occult, then?" He asked.
She nodded. "Yeah. Witchcraft, mostly. Are you?"
He shook his head. "No, not witchcraft. But the occult does fascinate me." He stopped and looked past her. "A black cat…"
She turned around, and saw Ro trotting over to her.
"Oh, he's mine."
He smiled at her. "You enjoy witchcraft and you own a black cat. If I didn't know any better, I'd think I was talking to a witch."
She laughed nervously. "Y-Yeah, I get that a lot."
Of course, she could tell that he was only joking. But she wasn't supposed to tell anyone about her heritage - not only was it a coven rule, but it would endanger the magical world.
"Well, I must be going now. Could I bother you for your name, miss?" He asked politely.
"My name's Kitty. Kitty Athena." She said, smiling and trying to hide her blush. Maybe her sixteen-year dating slump would get broken!
Something flashed across his face, but he was smiling again before she could catch it.
"Minamino Shuichi. It was a pleasure to met you." He said, giving her a polite nod and walking away.
Kitty grinned, and crouched down to Ro's height.
"Did you hear that? A pleasure to meet me…"
He scratched her on the leg, snapping her out of her daze. "Ow! What was that for?!"
"They're looking up people with the last name of Athena." He said discretely.
She looked over towards the boys, and narrowed her green eyes. "Missions my ass."
"Kitty!" He exclaimed.
She looked over at him. "What?"
"Never mind." He said quickly. For a second there, her powers had started to show. Her true powers. The ones that were dangerous…
She stood and started to walk towards Kuwabara and Yusuke, Ro trailing not too far behind. She sat down across from the two boys, and they gave her odd looks.
"What?" Yusuke asked.
She opened her mouth to ask why the hell they wanted to know about her coven, and then remembered that that would mean that she would have to admit to being a witch.
"Just…checking on you two!" She lied cheerily.
"Well, we're done now, so we can leave." Yusuke said, closing the book and standing.
"Oh. Okay."
They put their books away, and got Keiko, who said that she would take them all out for ice cream - her treat.
~*~
Kitty sat and watched the people walk by the window of the ice cream parlor. Ro was sitting in her lap, cleaning his front paws, his tin pink tongue darting in and out slowly - he was a bit of a clean freak.
"Kitty?"
She looked over at Keiko, and smiled. "Yes?"
"You zoned out there…" She said. "You okay?"
Kitty nodded. "I just haven't been here to Japan in quite a while. It's really cool to see so many people. It's different from America…"
Yusuke wasn't listening. He was too busy watching a group of five boys at another table. They were giving off you-ki, and that worried him. Would they attack…? He considered getting Keiko and Kitty out of there, but then realized that that would only draw attention to the two girls. It would be too dangerous…
Kitty blinked when Ro suddenly bristled.
"Ro…?"
He only did that when there was a demon around…
She stood, and Yusuke said, "Kitty, sit down!"
She glared at him. "I don't take orders from people I barely know."
She looked over at the gang of boys, who had stood. They all turned to face their table. They all looked like human boys, with the exception that all of them had red eyes - that was including the pupil and the white surrounding it.
"Ah, if it isn't the little witch from earlier." Cackled one of them.
"Witch?" Yusuke echoed, staring at her.
Kitty set Ro on the table, and put her hand on her hip. "And you must be those cowards that ran away from the fight."
Ro glared at her in warning. "Kitty…control."
Yusuke and Kuwabara gaped at the cat.
"He just…! He just talked!" Yusuke exclaimed.
"You little bitch!" One of the other demons exclaimed, diving at her. She dodged easily, forming a fireball in her hand. She threw it at the demon, and he caught on fire and then burst into dust.
Kitty smirked and looked at the other youkai. "Who else wants some?"
Yusuke jumped to his feet and started fighting one, as did Kuwabara. Kitty stared as they used their rei-ki attacks to dispose of two more of the demons.
Someone grabbed her from behind, and she struggled to break free. "Let me go!"
The demon chuckled. "You killed my comrades - I can't forgive you."
The demon suddenly burst into dust as well, and Kitty fell back, only to be caught by someone else. She looked up and saw that it was the cute redhead from earlier.
"Yusuke, Kuwabara, the last one is yours." He said, standing Kitty back up again.
The two boys finished off the last demon, and Kitty stared at them.
"You're…"
"The great Kuwabara Kazuma, and the leader of the Reikai Tantei!" Kuwabara exclaimed loudly.
Kitty's eyes widened. "R-Reikai Tantei?!"
Yusuke elbowed him in the ribs. "Hey! I'm the leader, and you are not great!"
Kitty started to panic. Reikai Tantei?! They were the sworn enemies of her coven! If she was caught near them, or communicating with them, she'd be disowned and stripped of her powers!!
"Ro, quick!" She called. Her familiar was already quite aware of the fact that they needed to run, and jumped off of the table. He ran over to her, and she picked him up.
She turned and glared at Kurama.
"Sorry, but I'll have to leave now." She said.
"I think not. I know that you're part of the Athena Coven, and we need your help." He said.
"Like hell!" She exclaimed. "Now get outta my way, or I'll force you to!"
He got into a defensive position. "Yusuke, Kuwabara, block her exit."
The two other boys got between her and the other door, and she sighed.
"Always the hard way." She said, shaking her head. "Hold on, Ro. I'm making a run for it."
He shrank towards her, knowing full well what she was going to do.
"Congelo!" She said, waving her hand.
Kurama was surprised to find that his body was frozen - paralyzed.
Kitty charged at him, hitting him hard with her shoulder and knocking him to the ground. And of course, he could do nothing to stop her.
She jumped over him, and ran out the door, putting Ro onto her shoulder as she did.
"Hang on tight!" She called, a small blue light in her hand forming a broom. She mounted it as she ran, and she took off, ignoring the calls of Kuwabara and Yusuke who had run out after her.
She grinned as she went higher and higher, until she was well above the city, and was up near the clouds.
She smiled at her familiar. "I think I handled that rather well."
He sighed, and released his death grip on her shoulder. "Not the most graceful of exits, but I think it was well executed."
She laughed at his joke. "Well, I say we head back to Keiko's when everything cools down. We need to have a chat."
She started flying towards the park, where she could stay until later on.
~*~
Author's Notes : There's the second chapter! Also, Hiei won by a landslide! And I was amazed at how many reviews I got, just for the first chapter! I love you all to pieces now!! Also, for those who are wondering, when Kitty yelled, "Congelo!" she was saying "Freeze!" in Latin. All of the spells that she uses are in Latin.
two blondes plus a lightbulb : I'm glad that you did!
Kaze Tsukai : Hey! You can only vote once!
Mah : Sorry, but Hiei won. You'll still read the story though, right?
Story Weaver1 : Spinnel Sun IS kawaii! And Ro is supposed to be loosely based off of Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service, but Spinnel is a pretty good example too.
miyako14 : Your wish has been granted! She's going to go with Hiei!
Kaija Katake : That she did! LOL, I love Kenshin.
crimson7319 : I look forward to the next chapter!
Sun Priestess : Yeah! I love themes with witches! And the lame title is Witch's Broom. I know, I know. Nothing witty like Kokoro No Kaitou. And yes, familiars guide witches in discovering their powers and such, and giving advice. And later on, we'll discover something else about Ro…
rekka : LOL! There's the broom for ya! And yes, I did base this fic off of Kiki's Delivery Service. It's such a great movie!!
insert name here : LOL! How true!!
starry-eyed twit : Thank you so much! I'm glad that you like all of my stories!!
rain : Okay, she's going with Hiei!
Chapter 2
~*~
Koenma straightened the papers in front of him, then looked at the Reikai Tantei.
"Here's the deal." He said. "There's a certain meeting that you all must attend. It's of the Athena Coven, and there's a certain witch there that you must capture. She's powerful, wants to destroy the world, and she's the leader of this coven. She's dangerous…"
"Fine. So why do you have to send all four of us?" Yusuke asked.
"Well, there's a problem. None of you can go." He said.
"Why not?" Asked Kurama. He was a tall, seventeen-year-old reincarnated fox demon. He had long, flaming red hair, and bright green eyes. He wore a magenta school uniform, and had one hand in his pocket.
"We're strong enough to take down the entire coven, I'm sure." Hiei said. He was a considerably shorter boy, and a demon, with gravity defying black hair with a white starburst near his brow. He had crimson eyes, and wore all black. A cloak, with baggy pants, boots, and a muscle shirt beneath his cloak.
"Yes, but you can't get into the meeting without a member of the coven letting you in past the spell barrier. You'll need to find a member of the coven by looking up the last name Athena in the local library. Good luck!" Koenma said.
The boys sighed.
This was going to be tough…
~*~
Yusuke stared at the door, and wondered what to say.
It was hard enough without Kuwabara breathing down his neck.
"Just knock, Urameshi!" He exclaimed.
He quickly knocked, then considered running away. Keiko would never know the difference…
The door opened, destroying that plan instantly. Keiko was there, and she gave him an odd look.
"Yusuke? Kuwabara?"
"Um, Keiko…" the tantei started.
Kitty poked her head out from behind the brunette, and she smiled at the two boys. "Hey!"
"Kitty's staying with you?" Yusuke asked.
The two girls nodded in unison.
Kuwabara elbowed Yusuke in the ribs, and said under his breath, "Athena Coven, remember?"
Kitty heard him and blinked. Athena Coven…?
"Oh, right! Um, Keiko…do you…uh…" Yusuke stopped and scratched the back of his head. "Um, we need to go to the library."
Keiko stared at him blankly. "Repeat that?"
"We need to go to the library!" He exclaimed.
"Are you…feeling alright?" Keiko asked slowly. "And where did you put Yusuke?"
He glared. "It's for a project."
"And since when do you care about-"
He cut her off. "It's a project on missions." He hoped that she would get his point.
"Oh! Oh, right!" She said, playing along.
Kitty snapped out of her daze. Athena Coven? Why do they want to know about it?
Keiko gave them directions, which neither seemed to be able to follow. Because of that, Keiko offered to show them herself. So, she and Kitty got on their shoes and they all left for the library. Ro went with them as well, because he didn't trust his mistress to not make a mess out of things.
~*~
Kitty knew that something was up. She knew that they had something about the Athena Coven - her coven. Why would they know about it…?
She peeked over at them from her spot in the fiction section. She was pretending to read a book, but she was really trying to get close enough to figure out why they were researching her coven.
She looked down at her familiar.
"Ro, go see what they're reading." She whispered, making sure that no one was watching her. If anyone saw her talking to him, they'd either think that she was crazy, or it might expose magic. That was something she couldn't risk doing. It would endanger her coven.
She noticed someone pick up a book beside her, and she looked at him out of the corner of her eye.
He was handsome, and about her age, with flaming red hair and bottle green eyes. He wore jeans and a white t-shirt, and had a bright orange coat slung over one shoulder.
He seemed to notice her gaze, and looked over at her. She blushed and pretended to read her book again, embarrassed that she had been caught staring.
The boy smiled, as though he got that all the time.
Probably does… She thought sarcastically.
"Excuse me, miss." He said.
She looked over at him. "Y-Yes?"
"I couldn't help but notice that you were reading Anne Rice's, The Witching Hour. That is, the English version. Do you speak English?"
It took her a second to realize what he was talking about - she had just picked up a random book off of the shelf.
"Oh! Yeah, I'm from America. I speak Japanese, but it's a little bad."
"No, it's rather good. But what brings you to our humble country?"
"Visiting friends." She replied, smiling slightly. And checking out all the hotties that Japan has to offer. She added mentally.
"Ah. And are you interested in the occult, then?" He asked.
She nodded. "Yeah. Witchcraft, mostly. Are you?"
He shook his head. "No, not witchcraft. But the occult does fascinate me." He stopped and looked past her. "A black cat…"
She turned around, and saw Ro trotting over to her.
"Oh, he's mine."
He smiled at her. "You enjoy witchcraft and you own a black cat. If I didn't know any better, I'd think I was talking to a witch."
She laughed nervously. "Y-Yeah, I get that a lot."
Of course, she could tell that he was only joking. But she wasn't supposed to tell anyone about her heritage - not only was it a coven rule, but it would endanger the magical world.
"Well, I must be going now. Could I bother you for your name, miss?" He asked politely.
"My name's Kitty. Kitty Athena." She said, smiling and trying to hide her blush. Maybe her sixteen-year dating slump would get broken!
Something flashed across his face, but he was smiling again before she could catch it.
"Minamino Shuichi. It was a pleasure to met you." He said, giving her a polite nod and walking away.
Kitty grinned, and crouched down to Ro's height.
"Did you hear that? A pleasure to meet me…"
He scratched her on the leg, snapping her out of her daze. "Ow! What was that for?!"
"They're looking up people with the last name of Athena." He said discretely.
She looked over towards the boys, and narrowed her green eyes. "Missions my ass."
"Kitty!" He exclaimed.
She looked over at him. "What?"
"Never mind." He said quickly. For a second there, her powers had started to show. Her true powers. The ones that were dangerous…
She stood and started to walk towards Kuwabara and Yusuke, Ro trailing not too far behind. She sat down across from the two boys, and they gave her odd looks.
"What?" Yusuke asked.
She opened her mouth to ask why the hell they wanted to know about her coven, and then remembered that that would mean that she would have to admit to being a witch.
"Just…checking on you two!" She lied cheerily.
"Well, we're done now, so we can leave." Yusuke said, closing the book and standing.
"Oh. Okay."
They put their books away, and got Keiko, who said that she would take them all out for ice cream - her treat.
~*~
Kitty sat and watched the people walk by the window of the ice cream parlor. Ro was sitting in her lap, cleaning his front paws, his tin pink tongue darting in and out slowly - he was a bit of a clean freak.
"Kitty?"
She looked over at Keiko, and smiled. "Yes?"
"You zoned out there…" She said. "You okay?"
Kitty nodded. "I just haven't been here to Japan in quite a while. It's really cool to see so many people. It's different from America…"
Yusuke wasn't listening. He was too busy watching a group of five boys at another table. They were giving off you-ki, and that worried him. Would they attack…? He considered getting Keiko and Kitty out of there, but then realized that that would only draw attention to the two girls. It would be too dangerous…
Kitty blinked when Ro suddenly bristled.
"Ro…?"
He only did that when there was a demon around…
She stood, and Yusuke said, "Kitty, sit down!"
She glared at him. "I don't take orders from people I barely know."
She looked over at the gang of boys, who had stood. They all turned to face their table. They all looked like human boys, with the exception that all of them had red eyes - that was including the pupil and the white surrounding it.
"Ah, if it isn't the little witch from earlier." Cackled one of them.
"Witch?" Yusuke echoed, staring at her.
Kitty set Ro on the table, and put her hand on her hip. "And you must be those cowards that ran away from the fight."
Ro glared at her in warning. "Kitty…control."
Yusuke and Kuwabara gaped at the cat.
"He just…! He just talked!" Yusuke exclaimed.
"You little bitch!" One of the other demons exclaimed, diving at her. She dodged easily, forming a fireball in her hand. She threw it at the demon, and he caught on fire and then burst into dust.
Kitty smirked and looked at the other youkai. "Who else wants some?"
Yusuke jumped to his feet and started fighting one, as did Kuwabara. Kitty stared as they used their rei-ki attacks to dispose of two more of the demons.
Someone grabbed her from behind, and she struggled to break free. "Let me go!"
The demon chuckled. "You killed my comrades - I can't forgive you."
The demon suddenly burst into dust as well, and Kitty fell back, only to be caught by someone else. She looked up and saw that it was the cute redhead from earlier.
"Yusuke, Kuwabara, the last one is yours." He said, standing Kitty back up again.
The two boys finished off the last demon, and Kitty stared at them.
"You're…"
"The great Kuwabara Kazuma, and the leader of the Reikai Tantei!" Kuwabara exclaimed loudly.
Kitty's eyes widened. "R-Reikai Tantei?!"
Yusuke elbowed him in the ribs. "Hey! I'm the leader, and you are not great!"
Kitty started to panic. Reikai Tantei?! They were the sworn enemies of her coven! If she was caught near them, or communicating with them, she'd be disowned and stripped of her powers!!
"Ro, quick!" She called. Her familiar was already quite aware of the fact that they needed to run, and jumped off of the table. He ran over to her, and she picked him up.
She turned and glared at Kurama.
"Sorry, but I'll have to leave now." She said.
"I think not. I know that you're part of the Athena Coven, and we need your help." He said.
"Like hell!" She exclaimed. "Now get outta my way, or I'll force you to!"
He got into a defensive position. "Yusuke, Kuwabara, block her exit."
The two other boys got between her and the other door, and she sighed.
"Always the hard way." She said, shaking her head. "Hold on, Ro. I'm making a run for it."
He shrank towards her, knowing full well what she was going to do.
"Congelo!" She said, waving her hand.
Kurama was surprised to find that his body was frozen - paralyzed.
Kitty charged at him, hitting him hard with her shoulder and knocking him to the ground. And of course, he could do nothing to stop her.
She jumped over him, and ran out the door, putting Ro onto her shoulder as she did.
"Hang on tight!" She called, a small blue light in her hand forming a broom. She mounted it as she ran, and she took off, ignoring the calls of Kuwabara and Yusuke who had run out after her.
She grinned as she went higher and higher, until she was well above the city, and was up near the clouds.
She smiled at her familiar. "I think I handled that rather well."
He sighed, and released his death grip on her shoulder. "Not the most graceful of exits, but I think it was well executed."
She laughed at his joke. "Well, I say we head back to Keiko's when everything cools down. We need to have a chat."
She started flying towards the park, where she could stay until later on.
~*~
Author's Notes : There's the second chapter! Also, Hiei won by a landslide! And I was amazed at how many reviews I got, just for the first chapter! I love you all to pieces now!! Also, for those who are wondering, when Kitty yelled, "Congelo!" she was saying "Freeze!" in Latin. All of the spells that she uses are in Latin.
two blondes plus a lightbulb : I'm glad that you did!
Kaze Tsukai : Hey! You can only vote once!
Mah : Sorry, but Hiei won. You'll still read the story though, right?
Story Weaver1 : Spinnel Sun IS kawaii! And Ro is supposed to be loosely based off of Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service, but Spinnel is a pretty good example too.
miyako14 : Your wish has been granted! She's going to go with Hiei!
Kaija Katake : That she did! LOL, I love Kenshin.
crimson7319 : I look forward to the next chapter!
Sun Priestess : Yeah! I love themes with witches! And the lame title is Witch's Broom. I know, I know. Nothing witty like Kokoro No Kaitou. And yes, familiars guide witches in discovering their powers and such, and giving advice. And later on, we'll discover something else about Ro…
rekka : LOL! There's the broom for ya! And yes, I did base this fic off of Kiki's Delivery Service. It's such a great movie!!
insert name here : LOL! How true!!
starry-eyed twit : Thank you so much! I'm glad that you like all of my stories!!
rain : Okay, she's going with Hiei!