Heh I love writing this fic!! I think in this chappter I'm gonna get some fighting in! So stay tuned for some light Kuwabara bashing, Hiei and Natalie torture, and maybe even Genkai will make appearance!!!
DISCLAIMER:: I will own Yu Yu Hakasho when pelephants (my creation!! Don't steal!!!) fly and it rains mnm's!!! ::Pink elephant/pig fly's by singing "if all the rain drops were mnm's and milk shakes, oh what a rain that would be!!!!!:: Oh my God!! Well will you look at that! ::Crazy fan girls come out of know where and shoot the pelephants down:: HEY! That's cruelty to animals!! Even though it's a figment of my imagination, it's STILL an animal!!!!! ::sob:: I get no respect. '(
Melting a Heart of Ice
Chapter 6
It was a beautiful day in Tokyo Japan; the sun was shining, the birds were singing, all was peaceful, until..
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
::CRASH!::
"KKKKKKUUUURRRRRRAAAAAAMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Two figures blindly ran up the stairs, and broke into Kurama's bed room. "What is it!? What's wrong!? Is it a demon!?" Kurama stuttered, trying, but failing, to pull a rose out of his tangled crimson hair. (A/n:: Mwahaha bad hair day for Kurama!)
Hiei was also in an attack stance, only he looked very sill; wearing a long, baggy pink t-shirt that went past his knees, holding an outstretched sword.
Natalie was sitting on the bed, one hand clutching the blankets to her, they other pointing to something on the floor. "This, this thing started to make a beeping sound! What is it!?"
Kurama leaned down next to it, and after a moment of inspection, he concluded that the 'thing' had once been his alarm clock, that he had stupidly forgotten to shut off the previous night.
"Oh for Kami's sake..." he muttered, standing up. "Well, guess I'm gonna need a new alarm clock. Koenma owes me big for doing this..."
"Baka onna, you woke us up for no reason! First you steal my pajamas, now this!? Screw what I said last night!" Hiei snarled, lowering his sword.
Natalie stared at him, "Wait a minute, these are your pajama's?! Eeeewwww!!! Kurama! Why did you give me these!?" she snapped, indicating the silky night wear.
Kurama threw up his hands, and left the room. "Come on you two, let's just forget about it and go eat some breakfast…" he trailed of. Hiei also turned to leave the room, but saw a black blur speed by him. When he reached the kitchen, Natalie was already there, sitting Indian style at the table.
"Ok, what do you guys want?" The redhead asked them. "No Hiei, you can't have sweet snow," he said with out even turning around. Hiei slowly shut his mouth, and sat down pouting. Natalie raised an eye brow at him, and was about to say something-
"GUURRGGGGLLLEEGAAAHH!!!
Natalie blushed, and tried to ignore her grumbling stomach. She hadn't eaten in 3 days. Hiei smirked, and used her hunger to his advantage. Ignoring Kurama, he flitted to the freezer and came back with a pint of vanilla sweet snow. He took the top off, and stuck his finger into the cold creamy treat. He withdrew his now vanilla coated index finger, and slowly licked it.
Natalie glared at him, and tried to ignore her stomach. Hiei now stuck two fingers into the ice cream, and sucked on them, his teasing red eyes ablaze with mischief. He let a moan escape him as he repeated the action. "What's wrong Natalie? You hungry?" he licked his lips.
Natalie shook her head, and turned away, but she turned back when Hiei slid three fingers into his mouth.
"Hiei, what the hell are you doing?!" Kurama asked him, hands on his hips.
Hiei shrugged. "I'm just enjoying my sweet snow. Natalie wants some too, don't you? Come on, admit it; you want some of this."
Kurama face faltered. "Hiei, if you only knew what that just sounded like." Hiei obviously didn't, because he continued to eat with his fingers.
"Good morning you three!" a cheery voice said from the door way. Boton stood there, wearing a pink t-shirt and a pair of Capri's.
"Ohayo Boton-chan" Kurama greeted her. She smiled, and set a shopping bag on the kitchen table. "Well, I've got some good news and bad news."
"Tell us the bad news first," Natalie said.
"Well, Genkai-shihan returned from...where ever it is she goes, and she was not happy when she heard what Hiei and Natalie did to her kitchen..."
She frowned as she saw both Natalie and Hiei smirk slightly. "Therefore, she wants the Reiki Tantei to come to her temple for a 'training session.'" She made little quotey signs with her fingers as she said this.
"She is also curious to know what kind of demon Natalie is." Natalie scowled "Cant every one just get off my case about what I am?!"
"No." three voices chorused
"Hn."
"Speaking of you Natalie, why are you wearing Hiei's pajama's?" Natalie rolled her eyes "Don't remind me I'm wearing the shrimp's clothes," she nodded her head over to Hiei, who shrugged and continued to eat his sweet snow. Boton stared wide eyed as he slipped his fingers in and out and in and out of his mouth...
"Kurama," she whispered. "What wrong with Hiei this morning?" she asked him. Kurama shrugged, because he honestly didn't know. "Well any way, Natalie you have to come too, so I brought you some clothes that will be suitable for you to fight in." she indicated the bag on the table.
Natalie nodded, and Boton smiled at her. Natalie didn't return the smile, but instead a glare. 'I'll get her to smile one day.' Boton vowed to her self. "Well! I'll take that as my cue to go!" she pulled her oar out of hammer space, and left the kitchen, most likely heading to Genkai's temple.
Natalie grabbed the bag and flitted up stairs. Kurama and Hiei also headed up stairs so they could change too.
----
"Lift those knees dim wit! Come on! Put a little muscle into it!" Genkai yelled across the yard. Yusuke and Kuwabara were running laps around her temple while she, Keiko, and Yukina watched them from the front steps.
"Come on Kazuma!! You can do it!!" Yukina cheered, giving her friend a charming smile. Kuwabara blushed, and waved back at her. He continued to wave, not watching the path ahead of him, and ran into Yusuke.
"Urameshi! Why'd you stop?!" Yusuke pointed to the steps that led up to the temple. Kurama and Natalie stood there, Natalie wearing a black T-shirt with a silver star on the front, and a pair of jeans.
"Damn, she looks hot no matter what she's wearing!" Yusuke muttered, walking towards them.
"Well, now that your all here, we can get down to business," Genkai said standing up. "As punishment for destroying my kitchen, you all get to train with me for a day," she smirked deviously as she said this.
"Why do WE have to?!" Kuwabara whined. "They were the ones who did it!" he pointed to Natalie and Hiei who were leaning against a tree.
"Yes, but neither of you lifted a finger to stop them! Therefore, you all suffer."
Yusuke gulped. "Oh no no NO!!! if this is gonna be 'grandma's evil boot camp' all over again, I'm outa here!" he tried to make a fun for it, but Kurama stopped him.
"Natalie," Genkai turned to her. "I would like you to spar with the dim wit."
Natalie smirked "Which one?" Genkai smiled at her "You and me are gonna get along just fine Natalie." she walked past her. "You get to fight green dim wit." They all turned to Yusuke, who was wearing his green school uniform. He let out a frightened 'eep' and walked to the center of the yard. Natalie stood opposite of him, her hands on her hips.
"Ok Natalie use whatever means necessary to beat him, I wanna see ALL of your abilities!" Genkai yelled to her. Natalie nodded and unsheathed her sword. "Begin!"
Natalie jumped into the air, and flitted off. Yusuke turned around, expecting her to attack from the side. She didn't, so he turned around again, still not finding her. He walked around in a circle.
"Where IS she?!" he screamed, his temper getting the best of him. Natalie was floating above him, her finger to her lips shushing the others so they wouldn't tell him where she was.
Yusuke saw the others smiling and looking over his head, so he looked up. "Spirit gun!" he screamed, firing a shot upwards. Natalie did a back flip and landed to his left. Yusuke ran towards her fist stretched back, ready to send her a punch in the face. Natalie also got ready with a punch, her fist was engulfed with blue flames as she powered up. Yusuke stopped his assault, and got ready to fire a double spirit gun instead.
Natalie's whole body was now surrounded by blue flames. The others stared in awe as she opened her eyes, showing blue pupiless orbs. Natalie easily dodged the spirit detectives attack, and attacked him with a fury of punches.
Yusuke screamed and fell back wards. Natalie held her sword to his neck and leaned down. "I win," she whispered in his ear.
---In the Makai---
Deep within the Makai, I castle stood. The city of apparitions, where demons of a fearful sort lived. And the leader, the strongest one of them all, was NOT in a good mood. And when Suzaku is mad, people DIE!!! (At least his servants do )
"What do you mean she is still alive!?!" Suzaku screamed, not even trying to hide the anger that was coursing through his veins. "She can't be alive! I saw her die before my very eyes!!" the servant before him cowered in fear as his master slammed his fist onto the table.
"M-master? If I may, w-wont this fit in perfectly to your plan?" the creatures voice was but a whisper as he said this. Suzaku looked down at the low class demon, "How do you mean?"
"Come now Suzaku, not even you could be so dense not to realize what he means," a silky voice said from the opposite end of the table. Suzaku scowled, "Keep out of this Namiara, you know damn well that Natalie being alive cannot help us at all! She is but a burden standing in our way; she will surely seek revenge on me, and I don't have time to get rid of her!"
"Getting a little lazy, aren't we Suzaku?" Another voice said from the left of Namiara. "Apparently slow too, I will evaluate; as you may or may not know, when a demon travels to the Ningenkai, they leave a path behind them. It is hard for us demons to move from world to world, only weak low class demons make it to the other side. Natalie, on the other hand, is a strong demon, and she made there."
"Of course she is strong, I am the one who trained her," Suzaku said, getting inpatient. "Then you also know that, the stronger the demon, the larger the path. There is a path leading from the Makai the Ningenkai. It won't last long, but we must take this opportunity and use it to our advantage.
"As you know, we plan to steal two artifacts from the Spirit world, unfortunately for us they are both located on opposite sides of the palace. We have the resources to take them both, but it will be easier if we just settle for one, because the other is no longer needed."
Yet another voice spoke up, "Because of Natalie we do not need the Word Divider stone, all we need is the staff that will keep the pathway between the two worlds open. As long as we keep sending demon after demon to the Ningenkai, the portal will remain open, and it will become larger each time one of us passes through. When it is large enough, we will use the staff to keep it open, permanently."
Suzaku realized what they said was true, and smirked sadistically. It was a genius plan, they all agreed it was. And this time Yusuke Urameshi and his team wouldn't stand in their way.
"Rokumo!" Suzaku yelled out into the darkness of the room. A shadow appeared next to his throne. "Yes m'lord?" it asked, its voice dripping poison. "You know what to do."
Rokumo bowed his head, and disappeared into the darkness.
---Outside Genkai's temple---
"Very nice Natalie, but that still doesn't answer my question," Genkai said walking towards her. "What kind of demon are you? Tell us of you past if you please."
Natalie's eyes returned to normal. "I don't wanna talk about it…" she muttered, a grim look upon her face. Hiei looked away, debating whether he should tell them what he knew. Every time they mentioned her past he felt something he wasn't use to. Was it sympathy? Sure, everyone goes through a rough time at least once in their lives, but like him, her whole life had been rough. He could understand why she didn't want to talk about. Kurama was right. They did have a lot in common…
But why should he care what she was like? Hell, she didn't even want to be on the same team with them, let alone become anything similar to friends. So she sure wouldn't want to be with him.
'Wait
a minute. Was I just suggesting I wanted to be something MORE than
friends with her?!' Hiei asked him self. He looked up and stared
at Natalie. 'Well she is rather cute..GAH! Why am I even thinking
this!?'
Natalie had turned away from the others, and saw
Hiei staring at her. "What are you looking at, fire
midget?!" she snarled at him. 'For Kami sake...why does she
have to be so bitchy!? Forget what I just said, I don't like her.
Nope, not one bit.'
"Not much, apparently." He smirked.
"Why you little bastard!" Natalie was about to attack him, but Kurama, Yusuke, and Kurama had learned from past experiences, that if she did get a hold of him, she would
kill him, so they all struggled to separate the two feisty demons.
"Yusuke!" a voice yelled from the air. "Hey Yusuke!!!" they all looked up and saw a blue haired girl flying towards them as fast as she could. In her haste, she slipped of her oar, and started to fall through the air. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! HELLLPP!!!!!!!"
Yusuke and Kuwabara saw this, and caught her just in time. "Thanks you guys!" she said as they set her down. "No problem Boton, now what's the matter? What's got you in such a fuss?" Yusuke asked her.
"A group of demons are hurting innocent people down by the park! They, they came out of nowhere, and then people started fainting! I can't seem to figure out what's wrong with them! Come on! You guys have to stop them!!" she cried franticly.
"Shh, Boton! It's ok, calm down." Kurama reassured her calmly. "Don't worry! We'll get em! Time for a demon but kickin! Let's GO!" Kuwabara shouted, pumping a fist in the air. They all nodded, and started to make their way down the temple stairs, and toward the park.
TBC
Another chapter done! Um, just wondering, I'm not too good with making up my own characters, so would any of you be interested in helping me? Suzaku has all new saint beasts helping them, and I don't know what they should be like!
Namiara (female)
Ryuichi (male)
Shinta (male)
If any one has an idea on what you think they should be like send me a review or an e-mail stating;
Demon type:
Looks:
Powers:
Personality:
If you help me make up a character I will put in the next chapter who the creator of the characters, and I'll thank u with a cookie!!!
Eh and about the name of the artifacts they need to attain, I couldn't think of anything to call them. I was originally going to use a Japanese name, but I don't know much Japanese…
Note: All that stuff I wrote about gateways and portals leading from one world to another is not true. I've seen up to episode 97, and after that whole ordeal with Sensui I know that that's not how it works at all. So I guess this fic is considered AU, isn't it?
More coming soon!
Love from,
Fire goddess5
