Tomgirl!

Chap.3

"My name Yahiko Yoharu." The boy started. "As you can tell from my hair and eyes, I'm a half demon. My mother was a human, my father a demon. They were both incredibly kind, though. But one day, when we went for a hike when I was twelve, we found a strange cave." Through Yahiko's words, they could tell what had happened.

"What are all these markings?" Mrs. Yoharu wondered. Mr. Yoharu shrugged.

"It seems to be some sort of ancient youkai language, but I can't read it." He said, ignoring their son, who had taken an interest in the pure blood red stone on a pedestal in the middle of the room. He picked it up; it was an incredibly light stone. Suddenly, it began to shine, and the markings on the walls of cave began to glow, following lines on the floor to the ones on the pedestal.

Then, the markings started to wrap around Yahiko, covering him in white, and then, the stone shone and began to fuse into the white mass that covered Yahiko, turning red.

When the white mass of markings fell, a pink haired youkai girl stood there, golden eyes darting about the room. They narrowed, and she turned back to the parents who stood amazed.

"Hello, Yoharus. I am Yahiko's new self."

"That was how Yumiko came into being. She's been there ever since, and I can't get rid of her. I can delay my transformations into her, but I can't get rid of her permanently." Yahiko sighed. "Unfortunately, with Yumiko's help, I found out about the stone."

"What was it?" Goku wondered.

"Originally, a hanyou alchemist created the stone. He was tired of being different from everyone else, so he created the stone which was supposed to turn the owner into a hanyou. He would hand out the beautiful smooth stones to everyone he knew was completely human or completely youkai. But the people grew angry at him, and killed him for his stones, because of the way they had changed. Then, once he was dead, they destroyed all of the stones. Or so they thought. One girl, however, kept her stone, because she didn't mind being a hanyou. She kept the stone, and tried an experiment on it, to try to change its effect. So that instead of changing a person into a hanyou, it would create another person just like them, only a hanyou. Her experiments failed, and instead of creating another person altogether, it mutated them so that they would change into a hanyou with another personality altogether, sometimes even changing gender in the process. Afraid of what the stone would do, she hid it, hoping no one would find it again."

"And you found it." Sanzo concluded.

"Did he give this stone a name?" Gojyo wondered.

"Uh…it was the…." Yahiko trailed off and a small voice whispered under his breath. "Hanyou Bloodstone." He froze for a second. "Yes, Yumiko. That's it. The Hanyou Bloodstone."

"Basically, it's a curse." Hakkai summed up.

"It's more of a mutation, but you're not too far from the truth." Yahiko admitted. Suddenly, youkai surrounded them.

"Great. Even here?" Sanzo growled. The medallion flew off, and Yahiko's hair brightened to a pink, and his eyes fading into a golden color and his ears became golden, and his body shrunk (or grew, in the case of his chest) to become that of a girl's.

"Huh?" Gojyo's eyes widened. In a much higher pitched voice, a reply came.

"Want help?"

"But…Yahiko…" Goku trailed off. One eye closed in a cute wink, and the mouth opened in a cute little giggle.

"It's Yumiko. Normally, I don't like repeating myself, but…." She trailed off. "Need some help?"