First Day On The Job
I fell through the sky and landed in a strange backyard. It was lush and green, filled with red, white, and purple roses, sunflowers, daisies, and hibiscus. The backyard was surrounded but a fence made of tall bushes. Kurama would be jealous if he could see my garden, I thought.
I stood up and walked to the front of the house where I saw a moving truck and men bringing in furniture and some of the things that really belonged to me. I smiled and walked into the house. "What should I do now?" I asked myself. It hit me; I'm going to get some ice cream.
I walked from my new house and wondered what kind of things I would do. There were so many things I wanted to do, since the day I died and became Koenma's ferry girl I never got a chance to come back. I died when I was I teen, my parents were driving drunk and they crashed. We all died, I guess I had time to get over it.
Now that I am a human again I can explore these things. My thoughts were interrupted when I bumped into some one; I fell back and landed hard on my bottom. "Ouch" I cried as tears sat at the edge of my eyes, blurring my vision.
"I'm sorry miss." His voice sounded familiar. My eyes cleared and I saw Kuwabara holding out his hand for me. I took it.
"Oh hello, Kuw..." oops I stopped myself "Cou- Could you watch where you are going next time freak." I recovered and felt slightly bad for yelling at my friend.
"Hahaha, dissed again, Kuwabara." Yusuke called from behind him. I thought I was caught. I had to figure out how to get away from all of them before... "Hey, who's the hot chick?" he was now in front of me.
"Ahe, you gotta problem?" I asked Yusuke as I saw his eyes trace my body.
"Are you new? I've never seen you around here before." Yusuke looked up.
"Yeah, what's it to you." Man this new me was taking over, I only hoped that I could go back to the normal me when this was over.
"You know what, you remind me of this other friend I have," Yusuke said and I knew he was talking about Hiei. Have I really been that cold?
"My name is Oki, Oki Ran." I said not wanting to be quite so cold.
"Oh so you do have a name." Yusuke said, "I'm Yusuke Urameshi, and my dopey friend here is Kuwabara." He said "so where are you headed?" he asked. Should I tell him?
"I was going to get some ice cream." I said and started to walk passed him
"What do ya know?" Kuwabara rang in, "that's where we were going, but you are going the wrong way" he said, "We are planning a party for on of our friends." Huh, they were planning a party and they didn't call me to help. I was furious; I guess they weren't really my friends.
"Yeah, want to come with us?" Yusuke asked. I nodded; I was going to see why they did not want to invite me. I wanted to know why I could not join them, the real me that is. So I walked with them to the Ice cream parlor.
I looked up and the sign read: 31 flavors. I wonder if there are really thirty-one. I walked up to the glass counter, and found only twenty- eight. "Ha! There are only twenty-eight." I yelled out and turned to the cashier as I felt everyone's eyes on me. "Eheh, I would like French vanilla in a cone, with rainbow sprinkles." I said
when I was finished ordering I walked over to the table where Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei, Kurama, Kayko and Yukina were sitting and stood at the edge of the table and waited for my intro. But Yusuke was too busy arguing with Kuwabara to notice. I cleared my throat and the table stared at me. For the first time I felt like melting away.
"Oh, yeah, this is Oki Ran, she's new." Yusuke said and I heard Hiei, Hn but I ignored it.
"Yeah so who is this party for?" I asked and got questioning glares, "Urameshi told me." I said
"Her name is Botan..." when I heard that fall from Kurama's lips I nearly cried for joy and then I felt bad for ever doubting them.
"Oh, who is Botan?" I asked just to see what they would say.
"She is one of our friends. She is so busy with her...uh...job that she forgot her birthday." Kurama said and I stepped back, I did? Well I guess I did, but I don't celebrate my birthday, I celebrate my deathday. Oh, I guess they can't tell me that, I'm a human.
"I know I don't know her but could I help plan with you?" I asked and took a lick of my ice cream. Kurama's eye went up as if he had something interesting to say, "What?"
"Nothing, it's strange. You ordered the same ice cream that Botan orders." He said and shook his head. Oh man that was close. "Oh, forgive my rudeness, I am Kurama, This is Hiei." He pointed to Hiei but he only looked away.
"I'm Kayko." Kayko said as she stood up to bow. I bowed back and Yukina stood up, "She is Yukina." Kayko said and we all sat down at the tame to talk about Botan's...my deathday party.
Later that night I was walking home thinking about this party I was throwing myself. So this was what it was like to have friends, it took me until this charge to figure out that what I really wanted was something I already had. Friendship. I wanted so much to get rid of my disguise and hang out with the other but alas I had something to prove. I had to prove that I could hold my own and be useful to the team. I was a girl with a mission.