Chapter 4: Turmoil
Next thing Nami knew she was standing in front of a huge door in some really strange building.
" Is-Is this-"
" Yep." Botan interupted " This is Spirit World."
Suddenly, the huge door opened and everyone made their way inside after walking through a short hallway, Nami noticed a rather large desk with a chair facing toward the wall in which someone appeared to be seated in.
" Did you bring her?" said the person seated behind the desk
" Yes, Konema sir." replied Botan " She's right here."
Then the large red chair spun around and the person sitting in it almost made Nami break out in fits of laughter but she controlled the urge.
" Uh, This is your boss?" she asked to Botan " A Toddler?"
Snickers could be heard from the direction of which Kuwabara and Yusuke were standing as Konema jumped up on his desk and practically yelled " I am not a toddler!"
" Well, sorry but the pacifer would suggest otherwise."
" Will you follow me into the next room? We need to talk." he said ignoring her last comment, jumping off his desk, and walking into the next room. She took one glance back at everyone then followed Konema out of the room.
" Botan, what exactly is going on? I mean-"
" It's ok Yusuke, I know what you mean." She started " There have been new ocurrences. It has come to our attention that Nami has no clue she's a demon."
" How can that be?" Kurama asked
" I'm not quite sure, that's all Konema would tell me and that we shouldn't try to fight her or anything in order to bring her here."
" So, what's going to happen?" Kuwabara asked
" I'm not sure."
Nami found herself feeling really depressed as she took a seat in front of the wooden desk. She sighed heavily as she thought of her parents, Brendi, and Ryo. She hadn't even been gone that long and already she missed them. She began to rub the black gem on the end of her necklace and cast her eyes to the floor.
" Now, then." Konema said taking a seat behind the desk. " Namiko, right?"
She looked up and answered " Yes."
" Well, tell me about yourself?"
' Is he serious?' she thought to herself as she answered his question. " I'm 15 years-old, I go to school and live with my parents."
" Are they your real parents?"
Then suddenly a shock wave got sent up Nami's spine. ' Oh, god! Oh, god! He's gonna tell me I'm a demon. I know it! Oh god! What's he gonna do to me? Alright, calm down Nam, and just answer his question.' she thought as she started pulling nervously on her necklace.
" No, I was adopted at the age of four."
" Really?"
" Yeah, apparently my parents found me on their front porch after their first child died."
" Namiko-"
" No." she interrupted " I know what you're gonna tell me. I'm a demon right? Don't worry, I know thanks to your little demon hunter gang out there. At first I didn't want to believe it but then again it made things make more sense."
Konema seemed oddly intersted " Like?"
Nami didn't feel like pyscho-analyzing this guy like she normally would anyone who asked her strange questions, she was just to depressed to care.
" Like why I'm always having freak accidents when I'm around water. Ask, Shuii- I mean Kurama and Kuwabara they've heard the stories."
" So, it looks as if I don't need to convince you of your water demon heritage. You've come to grips with that on your own accord which is good. Except, there is something a bit weird...." he said casting his gaze upward in thought
That got Nami's interest " What?"
" Nothing, you really need to worry about."
" Ok, what-" she started " What are you going to do to me?"
" Nothing, but this does pose a problem. Now, that you know I'm not quite sure we can send you back to the Human world."
Nami's eyes popped out of her head in anger as she stood up knocking the chair in which she was sitting over. " What!?! You must be fucking kidding me!?! My family and friends are there!! You can't do that!"
" Calm, down Namiko. You can't control your powers yet and that can cause a lot of problems. But we can help with that and send you back to the Human world if you do something for me."
" What?" Nami asked still not sitting down
"Those boys out there aren't just demon hunters as you said. They are my spirit detectives."
" Your what now?"
Konema then went into the explantion of the boys and what they do.
" Ok, and Botan?"
" She's the angel of death, or the grim reaper if you will."
" Her? The grim reaper?"
" Yes."
" Well, the grim reaper is an overly perky, girlie-girl who flies around in a pink kimono on an oar. That is just weird." said talking more to herself than Konema. " Ok, what is it that you need me to do?"
" I need you to help in one of the missions."
" What?"
" Some of the guys will train you, in how to use your demonic powers before we start the mission."
" For how long?"
" For about a week, and you'll be staying here before heading out to complete the mission."
Nami was just to tired, depressed, and annoyed to argue. She was just going to except it, there was no point in fighting it any longer. She excepted the fact that she wouldn't be returning home for a while, that they drugged her friend to get her here, and the fact that she was being followed all week. She was just done with denial.
" Ok." she aid calmly " What's the mission?"
Konema raised his eyebrows in surprised that she didn't argue nor ask any more questions. " Well, two princesses who live on an island in demon world were kidnapped, and if they're not found they're parents will take their anger out on the human world. I'll explain more at the briefing later. But it's harder than it seems and that's why we need you. You're quite a powerful demon you know."
"Fine." she said picking up her chair and sitting in it. " But you need to do something for me?"
" Yes?"
" First of all if I'm going to be here all week I'm going to need clothes and stuff. Also send someone to tell my parents what happened to they won't freak out when Ryo tells them. I don't think they'll believe him."
" Alright."
Nami cast her eyes to the floor, her hair draped over her face, and started tugging on her necklace. This was really the worst week of her life.
" Where did you get that necklace?"
Nami instantly looked up and realized her nervous tugging, then dropped her hands to her lap.
" When my parents found me they found a black gem in my hand. So, they made it into a necklace for me."
" May I see it?"
" Sure." she said as she unclasped it and placed it in Konema's little hand.
" hmmm.." he said examining the gem, his hazel eyes full of interst. " This looks like a tear of an apparition."
This got Nami's interest " A what?"
" Another type of demon. Their tears produce priceless gems."
" Really? Do you know what type of appartion?"
" I'm afriad not. It's definately not a water or ice appartion though. I'm sure of that."
" Odd, I always thought this was from my real parents or something. I guess not." she said a bit disappointed
" Well, you're taking all this rather well. Are you alright?"
' Hmmm..let's see I was followed all week, your people drugged my friend, kidnapped me, took me away from my home, I found out I wasn't even human, and to top it all off I'm going to risk my life going on your little mission. OF COURSE I'M NOT ALRIGHT!!!!.' she screamed in her mind but what came out of her mouth was " I'm fine."
" Ok, then." he said handing her back her necklace
As she was clasping it back around her neck Konema pushed a button on the speaker to the right of his desk and spoke into it.
" Botan, bring everyone in here for the briefing on their next mission."
Then a few moments later Botan walked in with the entire group.
" Hello everyone."
" Can we hurry up? I've been waiting here forever, Konema!" complained Yusuke
" Alright." he started " First, I'd like to properly introduce you to you new teammate for your next mission."
"Her?" yelled Yusuke and Kuwabara
" But she's a girl." said Kuwabara
Nami couldn't take it anymore she pactically hated everyone in the room and wasn't in the mood to listen to anyone complain abour her. So, she lifted herself from her chair walked over to Kuwabara and Yusuke and punched them both in the stomach at once. Causing them to fall over clutching their stomachs. Then she went to sit down casting a warning glance at Kurama and Hiei. She wasn't scared of any of these losers and she had to make sure they knew that.
" What'd you do that for!?!" yelled Yusuke moaning from the punch to the stomach while Kuwabara was struggling to breathe. She may be a girl but she could punch just as hard and well as any guy if not better.
" That's not really a good way to start a new realtionship with the team." Botan said
Nami looked up and gave her the coldest glare imaginable which caused her to clam up and look back at Konema.
" Namiko, why did you do that?" asked Konema
Nami cast her gaze away from Botan and gave that same cold stare to Konema. She was beyond pissed off, she was angry and wasn't in any mood to have someone say anything to her. None of them understood what she was going through nor did they care.
" Listen, I may have to help with your stupid little mission but I refused to be bothered by stupid ass boys who have issues with me being a girl. So, you'd do well to just not talk to me and get on explaining what we have to do! OK!"
Konema looked like he's just been hit with a baseball bat, he didn't expect her to flip out like she did. But then again they all have been a little insensitive to her situation.
" Ok."
" What?" Nami said rather loudly
" I said ok." Konema started " Yusuke, Kuwabara get up! I need to explain the mission."
Yusuke and Kuwabara lifted themselves off the ground still semi-clutching their stomachs. They were both surprised her punched hurt so much normally Yusuke can endure almost anything and Kwuabara could at least tolerate it.
" Anyway, Queen Akako and King Kano of the northern demon islands have two daughters. Princess Mitsuko and Princess TJ. TJ was missing for a few months but now Mitsuko has gone missing as well. Their daughters were their only heirs to interit the islands and assume rule. If they're not found they will set to destroy human world and many other worlds just to take out their anger."
" That's stupid!" yelled Kuwabara
" For once I agree with the idiot." said Hiei speaking for the first time since their arrival to spirit world " This mission is quite pointless"
" Are you telling me we gotta look for some snotty ass princesses!?!"
" Yes, Yusuke. Everyone let me finish!" shouted Konema
" The northern demon islands is a very dangerous place with many type of class demons. You need to be careful. The King and Queen believe their daughters were kidnapped and -"
" Look, Konema we can handle this on our own. No offense or anything Namiko but we got this." said Yusuke
" No you don't! Namiko is a water demon and islands are surrounded by?" Konema inquired
" Water." Kurama stated " I see your point."
" Good. I know this mission may seem stupid but you'll soon find out it's harder than is sounds. Now, Kurama and Hiei you both will help to train Namiko and Yusuke, see if you can get Genkai to help train her as well. You depart for demon world in one week."
" Only a week. You think that's enough time to train her?" asked Kurama
" Who cares, it's not like she'll survive anyway." stated Hiei
" That's all the time we can spare Kurama I'm afraid-"
Suddenly, Konema was interrupted when his desk was punched in half by Nami as Konema stood in his chair in pure shock.
" Who the hell do you think you are!?!" she yelled walking over Hiei, who was standing in the corner " If you think you can say shit like that to me, guess again!"
Nami was mad, really mad, she had enough to deal with without this red eyed freak midget boy say shit about her. She was now standing right infront of him fuming, and he never looked up. Nami was about 3 inches taller than Hiei, which wasn't a lot but even if she was shorter than him, she would've got up in his face anyway.
" You're wasting your time yelling like an idiot. You are just an angry little girl so just run home to your mother."
Everyone expected Nami to fly off the handle and start trying to pummel Hiei but instead she just stood there and cast her eyes to the floor her hair shadowing her eyes so no one could see them.
" You know something, I would. I would run home to my mother. But I can't, my mother the one who raised me since she adopted me that long ago is in human world. A place where I can't go for a long time becuase of what I am and the mother who gave birth to me. I don't know who she even is. I had a pretty confusing life but at least it was a decent one but now, it's shit! IT'S FUCKING SHIT!!! IT'S SHIT!!! I never knew! I never knew what I was and the fucker who left me on that doorstep never bother to tell me or the people I was left to. I NEVER KNOW!!! You pyschos fucking drugged my friend to lure me to come with you and now I might not even make it home because of this mission!!!! Then you have the nerve to insult me!!! You fucking asshole!!!"
Nami took a step back and dropped to the floor, just sitting, looking down at the tile floor and wishing it was all a dream. She didn't cry because she couldn't, and long ago she forgot how, after all she didn't want to make it rain. Hiei looked down at her, as what she said rang through his ears ' I never knew what I was and the fucker who left me on that doorstep....left me on that doorstep' Suddenly, Hiei began thinking back to all those years ago when he found that little girl. The little girl who became like family in such a short amount of time. Hiei quickly put those thoughts from his head. ' That is ridiculous. There is no way that's the same girl.' Although he had to admit, it was rather strange. But again he ignored such thoughts, and turned his head not bothering to dignify her outburst with a response.
" Well..." Konema said half sighing " I think that's enough for the briefing. Kurama and Hiei, I'll send Botan to fetch you tomorrow to begin Namiko's training. As well as you Yusuke, I want you to sit in on the sessions and make sure to inform Genkai of this. Alright, you may all leave. Botan-"
" No worries, Konema-sir. I'll see them out." Botan said as she lead them all out in silence.
" Namiko?"
" Leave me be, Konema." she said her quiet voice quivering with sadness " Leave me be...."
" Ok, call me if you need something, I have work to do." he said exiting the room
Namiko sat in the middle of the floor, like she was in a trance. Her thoughts swirling through her head, not knowing what was going to happen or if she'd ever get home again. Then for the first time in three years, since she first noticed the rain falling. Somewhere it was falling again as her crystal blue tears fell from her face, hitting the floor and the overwhelming pain in her heart was the most pain she'd ever felt in a long time.