I'm finally back! Thank you so much Seiyo, jetwolf90, yuri rikusetai, and saelbu for reviewing!! Ok, where we last left off, Hiei looked into that girls dreams, and got a glimpse off her past. In this chappie she's gonna wake up and meet the YYh gang, and Hiei will meet his match!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Yu Yu Hakasho, so just leave me alone god dammit!
I just wanted add something; part of me wants to make this story romantic and serious, while the other wants it to have a lot of funny-laugh-your-ass-off parts. Please just bare with me for a while, cause I want the story to be both. I'm not sure if I can mix the two successfully. I'll stop babbling now.
Chapter 2
Sunlight streamed through the open window of Yukina's bedroom. Sleepily, she pulled her self out of bed, and walked over to her mirror. She was surprised to see that she was still wearing yesterday's kimono. Memory of the past evening came flooding back as she heard movement in the next room. She changed into a clean aqua colored kimono, and tip-toed into the next room, trying not to wake up the girl. She was delighted to see Hiei sleeping in a chair in the corner of the room. She blushed. Hiei wasn't wearing a shirt.
She noticed his black cloak wrapped around the blonde hared youkai. Hiei sat in his chair, one leg hugged to his chest, the other dangling freely. Yukina suppressed a giggle with the back of her hand, when she heard her brother snore. She had figured out that they were related about a month ago. Hiei spent most of his time watching her from the tree's that surrounded Genkai-sama's temple. He didn't know it but, she always knew when he was there. she took that time to notice the similarities between the two of them. They were both about the same height, and they had identical crimson eyes. Yukina was glad that Hiei was her brother, but she wished he would admit it to her himself.
"Good morning Yukina-chan!" Kuwabara said from the door way.
"Good morning Kuwabara!" she replied kneeling next to the bed." So, how is the girl?" he asked. "Hiei did a good job wrapping up her wounds last night. In a few days she'll be fine."
Kuwabara felt a pang of jealousy at the mention of Hiei's name. She talks about him so often, Kuwabara was beginning to think she had a crush on him. ( a/n: Kuwabara is the only one who doesn't know that Hiei and Yukina are siblings )
"Kuwabara, maybe you should call Yusuke and Kurama and tell them to come over," Yukina asked him.
"Okay, I'll be back In a few minutes!" Kuwabara answered willingly. He walked into the living room and dialed his best friends number.
The first thing he heard when someone picked up the phone, was Keiko screaming at Yusuke. Kuwabara had to pull the phone away from his head because she was so loud.
"Moshi moshi!" Yusuke panted.
"Hey Urameshi! What did you do to make Keiko so mad?"
On the other line, Yusuke screamed and dodged a flying cooking pot.
"I was late for work, and she started lecturing me about responsibility. I fell asleep, and now she is really pissed!" he answered, ducking under the table.
"Please tell me you need me to go to wherever you are now?!" he pleaded, crawling away from flying cooking utensils.
"Don't worry man!" Kuwabara laughed. "Last night Yukina had to heal this youkai Hiei brought to Genkai's temple."
"Really?" Yusuke asked placing a pot atop his head to protect himself from an on coming shoe.
"KEIKO!" he screamed. "Can you stop throwing stuff at me for at least ONE second?! We need to over to Genkai's temple, right now!"
Keiko stopped in mid throw. She placed the china plate she was holding on the counter. "What for? Did Kuwabara say something stupid to Yukina, and now he need's help?"
"Nope." Yusuke stood up from behind a chair. "Yukina helped this demon chick last night, and now we gotta go meet her." he regretted what he said immediately.
"YUSUKE YOU BAKA!!!!!" Keiko screamed.
Yusuke barely dodged a tea kettle as it hurled past his head. He grabbed the phone. "Uh, we'll be there in, oh, about 15 minutes?"
"Call Kurama too, ok?" Kuwabara added.
"Uhwhateverigottagoseeyalaterja!" Yusuke answered quickly, hanging up the phone.
Kuwabara shook his head and also hung up the phone. 'Is Yusuke ever gonna learn?' he wondered, walking back to Yukina. He watched the pretty koorime for a while, and than he noticed the sleeping Hiei in the corner.
"Ahhhh! What's fire midget doing here?!" he practically screamed.
"Shhhh! Kuwabara! Be quiet! You might wake them up!" Yukina said a little too sternly.
"Yes Kuwabara. It's a little too early for you to be yelling." a calm voice said from behind him.
Kuwabara almost hit the ceiling in his shock.
"Kurama!!! Don't do that! Your gonna give me a heart attack one day!" Kuwabara whined.
"Konnichwa Kurama-kun!" Yukina spoke up.
"Hello Yukina" he responded. "Is this the youkai you saved last night?" he asked kneeling next to her.
"I couldn't have done it if it weren't for Hi-" she was cut off by an ear splitting scream off terror.
Yusuke came running down the hall, closely followed by Keiko, who was holding a rather large mallet. "
"Make way!" he screamed pushing past Kuwabara, and jumping over the sleeping girls bed.
"COME BACK HERE YUSUKE YOU BAKA!!" Keiko screamed. "YOU"LL REGRET THE DAY YOU WERE BORN IF YOU EVER TOUCH MY BUT AGAIN!! Where is he?!?"
Kurama, Kuwabara, and Yukina pointed to the other side of the bed.
Keiko advanced a step forward, but Yukina held her back. "Umm, Keiko? Can you wait till later to kill Yusuke? I think the girl is waking up." Keiko looked disappointed, but she nodded
Kuwabara started to laugh hysterically. "It's ::chuckle:: ok Urameshi! ::giggle:: you can come out now!"
Yusuke crawled out from underneath the bed. He glared at Keiko who glared back.
"Look! She's waking up!" Kurama stated. "It's about time too." a low voice said from behind them. They all turned to see Hiei wide awake. "When did you wake up?" Yukina asked. "When Kuwabara hit the ceiling." he smirked.
Kuwabara rolled his eyes, and they all turned their attention back to the girl. She stretched her arms like she was gonna get up, but she turned over and continued sleeping. Everyone, including Hiei, sweat dropped and fell over.
"You think she'd wake up after all that noise…" Hiei muttered.
"I, the great Kazuma Kuwabara will wake her!" he stated boldly. He knelt down and gently slapped the girls cheeks. "Yo! Sleeping cutie! Time to wake up!" She slowly opened her eyes to see Kuwabara staring at her, inches away from her face.
"AAAAAAAAAAHH!" they both screamed. "Get away from me you weirdo!" she punched him in the face and sent him flying backwards. Kurama stepped to the side just in time, before Kuwabara hit the wall.
"Damn!" Yusuke, Kurama, and Hiei chorused, staring from the girl, to the now unconscious Kuwabara, and then back to the girl.
"Who are you people? Where am I?" she asked nervously.
Yukina was the first to speak. "My name is Yukina, and these are my friends Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei, Keiko, and the one you just punched is Kuwabara." she pointed to each of them. "Yesterday, Hiei found you bleeding to death in an ally, he brought you here and I healed your wounds."
"You didn't answer my question," she sounded mad. "Where are we? Are we in the Makai?"
"Nope," Yusuke answered. "We're in the Ningenkai."
'How the hell did I end up here?!' she thought irritably, as she examined her bandaged arm. She could barely remember what happened to her the previous day. She recalled yelling at some one. And fighting with many low-class demons. She also remembered taking a painful blow to her left side and seeing lots of blood. She tried to put all the facts together.
Suzaku.
He was the one who did this to her. He was the one who denied their so called 'friendship', and caused her so much pain. 'Men. Their all the same. Cruel, lying bastards who don't think women can stand up for them selves. That's the last time I put my trust in some one.' she thought bitterly. Her thoughts were interrupted when the one called Yusuke asked her a question.
"So, what's your name?"
She snorted. "Why do you care?"
"Well, your still injured, so your gonna have to stay here for a while. We should at least Know your name," Yukina answered her.
"Hn. My name is Natalie." she mumbled.
"Aaahhhh, what happened?" Kuwabara asked groggily, standing up.
"You were knocked out by a little girl, stupid oaf." Hiei answered smirking.
"Yeah. And it was pretty damn cool if you ask me!" Yusuke added, laughing.
"Holy crap! That short blonde chick sure packs a powerful punch!" Kuwabara said, rubbing his head.
Natalie jumped up from the bed and grabbed Kuwabara by the collar of his shirt. "Hey! Don't ever call me short, a chick, or whatever perverted thing that comes to your mind! I have a name you know, and I would prefer if you called me by it!"
Kuwabara gulped. "Yes ma'm!"
Hiei sniggered. "You're more pathetic than I thought! Taking orders from a little girl. Baka."
"Why don't you say that to my face! You little fire freak!" Kuwabara screamed.
Hiei stood up. "All right I will." He walked up to Kuwabara. "BAKA!"
"Midget!"
"Oaf!"
"Asshole!"
"Bastard!"
"Do they do this often?" Natalie asked Kurama. "Sadly, yes," he answered holding his head in his hands.
"Demon!"
"Human!"
"Red eyed, fire breathing, unsociable jerk!
"Clumsy, good-for-nothing, orange hared elephant!"
"That's a new one" Yusuke muttered to Keiko, who nodded.
"You little shrimp! I ought to kick your a-" Kurama put a finger to his lips.
"Children! Lets save the fighting for another time, ok?!" Kuwabara sat down and muttered 'fire shrimp' under his breath. "Speaking of shrimp," he started, pointing to Natalie, "Where do you get off punching me like that! It really hurt!"
Natalie rolled her eyes. "You are such a baby! I didn't even put any of my spirit energy into that hit! If I was at my full power, you'd be dead by now!"
Hiei snorted. "Some how, I seriously doubt that."
Natalie glared at him. "Oh really? Care for me to prove you wrong, midget boy?"
"Midget?! You're shorter than me! You have no room to talk!"
"Keh, only by a few centimeters! Your just scared to fight me cause you know I'll kick your ass!"
"Oh yeah?!
"Yeah!"
"Hn. You don't stand a chance against me! How old are you? 13?" he asked.
"13?! Try 216, baka!" she retorted.
"That's it! Out side, NOW!" Hiei stood up and handed Natalie her sword, which he had kept for her from the pervious day.
Natalie smiled, and followed the pissed off fire demon outside.
::5 minutes later::
The others hadn't bothered to follow them. They had a feeling that they should be left alone. While they waited, Boton showed up wearing Ningen clothes and carrying shopping bags.
"Hello everybody!" she chirped happily.
"Hey." they all responded, still staring out the door. "What are you guys looking at?" she asked, placing her bags on the bed.
"Yesterday, Hiei found this wounded youkai named Natalie, and he brought her here so Yukina could heal her. Now, she and Hiei are fighting out side. It's been about five minutes." Kuwabara responded looking at his watch. Just then Natalie walked into the room, her sword slung over her shoulder.
There was a cut on her cheek, and her clothes were ripped in numerous areas. Hiei trudged in after her, a cut on his chest, his arm, and a bruise by his right eye.
"I presume that Natalie won the fight?" Kurama asked him.
"Hn. Beginner's luck" he mumbled. "No way! That was all skill!" Natalie reasoned.
"Hey Natalie, maybe you should take a bath," Keiko asked her, holding her nose.
"Why?"
"Well, to put it nicely, your clothes are ripped, coated in dirt and dried blood, and your kinda sweaty and stinky" Keiko said nervously, eyeing her sword.
"So much for being nice." Yusuke muttered.
"Hn. I won't be around much longer, so you don't have to worry. I'm leaving." she made a move towards the door, but Boton stepped in her way.
"Sorry, but I can't let you leave this temple."
"You care to tell me why not?"
"Well…um, Koenma sent me here to keep you from leaving this temple. We've checked out your profile and it said you've killed over 500 youkai in the last 2 years. Your too young to go to jail, so you gotta stay here till we know what to do with you."
"Do seriously think that some royal baby is gonna stop me from doing what I please?" she sneered. "If you did think that, then you are sadly mistaken." she pushed Boton aside and tried to open the sliding glass door. I wouldn't budge.
"What's wrong with this stupid door!?" Natalie screamed trying desperately to open it.
"Don't waste you energy," Boton said, placing her arm on her shoulder. Koenma placed a spell on this whole temple. Nobody can leave until he decides where you go."
"WHAT?!" Natalie and Hiei screamed in usion. "What make's you think I wanna stay in this ningen hellhole?!" they glared at each other. "Stop saying what I say!!"
"Well, now that that's settled, how bout you take a bath?" Yukina suggested kindly.
"Hn. I don't see that happening any time soon." she said, laying back on the bed and closing her eyes.
Yukina looked to Kurama, who nodded, who looked to Kuwabara, Yusuke, Keiko, Hiei, and Boton, who also nodded. They all slowly took a step towards Natalie. They advanced a bit more so they all stood around her.
::2 minutes later::
"Wait! No! I don't have anything else to where!" Natalie screamed as Kurama and Yusuke dumped her into the bath tub. They had all snuck up on her when her guard was down, and carried her to one of the temples many bathrooms.
"That's why we're here!" Boton said from the door way. She and Keiko were holding up bulging shopping bags from Hot Toppic, Areopostle, and Mandee's.
"Oh shit!" Natalie's head was dunked under water before she could complete her sentence.
She came back up choking and gasping for breath. "What the hell did you do that for?! Lemme go baka kitsune!" she tried to punch him in the face, but he held her wrists down.
"Yusuke! Sit on her legs so she won't struggle!"
Yusuke had a wicked gleam in his eyes. "Gladly," he said standing up.
Keiko pulled a mallet out of hammer-space and whacked him over the head with it. "I don't THINK so!!" she fumed.
Kurama rolled his eyes, exasperated. "Kuwabara is to heavy, so Hiei! You do it!"
"I'm not heavy!" Kuwabara whined.
"No way! There ain't no chance in HELL that I'm getting any where near her!" Hiei argued angrily.
Natalie, meanwhile, lifted her leg and Kicked Kurama in the face.
"Dammit Hiei! You're the lightest one here! Sit on her, or I'll sick one of my plants on you!"
"Fine!" Hiei screamed. He gradually climbed into the tub, and sat on her legs. Kuwabara and Yusuke didn't even try to hold back their laughter as they saw the sour look on Hiei's face.
"Hiei! If you know what's good for you, you'll get off of me RIGHT NOW!" Natalie said through clenched teeth.
Hiei smirked at her. "I'm not happy with this situation either, so just deal with it!"
Natalie smirked back. "If your not happy with it the why are you smiling?"
Kurama dunked her head under water. "Soap!" he screamed. Boton threw him a bar of soap. He started to scrub her body furiously.
"Shampoo!" Kuwabara threw him a pink bottle. He dumped all of the contents on to her blonde head. Natalie, while all this was happening, cursed a thousand different curses in a thousand different languages, some of which, were bad enough to make even Hiei blush.
They all struggled to dunk her head under one more time. "Towel," Kurama said at last. Yusuke handed him a fluffy white towel, which he draped over Natalie's head.
She pushed Hiei off her legs. "I swear to Kami, I am gonna KILL you Kurama!" Kurama sweat dropped, and backed away, as Natalie stepped out of the tub.
"Um…I…Just did what had to be done! We'll leave you girls alone to, uh, do whatever. Ja ne!" he ran out of the room, followed by Hiei and Kuwabara. Yusuke, however, sat down on the toilet, and crossed his legs.
"YUSUKE!!! Keiko, Boton, Natalie, and even Yukina screamed, smacking him upside the head.
Yusuke put on an innocent look, but he couldn't fool Keiko. She grabbed his ear, and threw him out the door.
"Hm. Now that he's gone, we can get to work!" Boton said cheerfully.
Natalie gulped. "W-what are you gonna do to me?"
Boton, Keiko, and Yukina smiled evilly.
