pure-thornless-rose: Hi! This is the second chapter to my first fic!
blizzard: um-hum... this is it...
pure-thornless-rose: You know you're really scaring me by talking like that... without your mouth moving... It's just freaky!
blizzard: I'm speaking to you telepathically!
pure-thornless-rose: O.O Oh... oooh... hey can you do the disclaimer?
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Hope in Destiny
Chapter 2: New Friends and More!
By: m. kay. r. hehehe...
It's morning and Destiny's school begins today. She wakes up at the sound of her alarm clock. The sun shines through the curtains and Blizzard gets up as well. She then takes a shower and changes into the uniform she received two days ago on Saturday. It's Monday now and her parents begin their jobs too, they're downstairs already. Destiny heads down into the kitchen, with Blizzard following. She sees her mother first.
"Good morning, Destiny," her mother said, "You know what time you classes start right?"
"Morning and yes, mom," she answered, "and my school is only about 10 minutes away. I have plenty of time left."
"Good, now eat your breakfast, Des," her father said, "It's your first day of school here. You wouldn't want to mess that up with an empty and hungry stomach."
"Okay, dad. I will." She agrees and sits down. She eats her breakfast and leaves immediately, saying bye to her parents as she leaves. Destiny already knows where to go, how long it takes, and when her classes start. So, she decides to walk there on her own. Except for the fact that Blizzard followed her through most of the way to school until she told him to run home. He did just that.
"Well," she said, taking a deep breath, "Here it goes..." Destiny steps up to the building, seeing the other students entering the high school, and enters herself. She takes out a piece of paper which told her about which classes she has, what rooms they were held in, her locker and combination, and other information too. She begins with her locker so she can put her things away. It took some time, but she found it after thinking of how the hallways were labeled. Now, she just needs to find her first class, biology. Seeming as how she figured out the hallway names, she eventually got there. But it was already two minutes after the bell when she came in.
"Ah, there you are," a woman spoke up, "You are two minutes late, but it is expected of the new ones..."
"I apologize for this, um... Ms. Ishii," Destiny said, "But –"
"It's okay, there is no need to apologize," she said, "I'll just introduce you to the rest of the class." She was kind with her words and she seemed to be a well-liked teacher. So, Destiny steps up to the front of the class. She looks around and notices that the majority of them were looking at her, with the exception of a few. "Class, I would like you all to meet Destiny," she announced, "She is our new student today and she will be staying with us for the remainder of the year."
Destiny smiles at the class and greets them all. Only some greeted her back. Then, Ms. Ishii tells her to sit in the empty seat between the boy named Suichi and the other boy named Hiei. As she took her seat, she noticed that the one with the spiky hair was glaring at her as she passed by him. Then he turned away to face the front of the class. Supposedly, he was Hiei since the other boy introduced himself.
"Hi, Destiny. I'm Suichi." He said, "Welcome to our school."
"Uh. Hi, and thanks, Suichi." She said, then she turned to Hiei, "and you must be Hiei. Hi."
Hiei doesn't turn around, but instead, he just looks at her from the side of his eye, saying only, "Hn." Suichi apologized to Destiny about Hiei's attitude, saying that he's like that. Then he told Hiei to not be rude since Destiny was new. Shortly, Hiei turns to her and flatly says sorry and hi, which was followed with another 'Hn'. After this, Destiny took a closer look at Suichi, noticing the red-red hair and emerald green eyes.
"Huh? Those eyes, and that hair... I've seen them somewhere before. (Gasp) Could it be? No, he can't be that guy from last night's storm," Destiny was thinking, "But both of their voices do sound familiar too. Yet last night, the distant one called the other Kurama, this is Suichi..."
Suddenly, she looked at Hiei, his eyes had widened and he was quiet. He looked past Destiny to Suichi and Suichi widened his eyes too and looked at Hiei from the side of his eyes, not turning his head. Hiei had read Destiny's thoughts and began speaking to Suichi telepathically.
"Kurama, I think Destiny is that girl you were looking for last night."
"What? The one from the storm last night...?" Kurama thought.
"Yes, she remembers you. But she's confused because of your Youkai name and your human name. It was your appearance that gave it off and reminded her," he replied.
"Oh... and what about her demon partner?"
"She hasn't thought about that yet."
"Okay, well after class, I'll invite her to have lunch with us and—"
"NO!!"
"Why not? We could just—"
"WE?"
"Okay, I could just ask her some things, she will probably just think I'm trying to get to know her better since she is new here."
"Alright! Fine, do whatever you want with her... But don't leave me to baby sit if you have to go somewhere..."
They end their conversation and Destiny noticed their staring and got a little nervous. She then fidgeted with her diamond necklace pendant. She always had the habit of doing that whenever she was nervous or anxious. Destiny shifted her eyes back and fourth between the two.
"Uh, were you guys having a staring contest or something?" she asked timidly, "Because you two were making me a little nervous staring like that..." .
"Oh. Sorry, Destiny," Suichi said, "We didn't know."
"That's okay." She nodded. Soon, after biology, she went through her following classes, introducing herself to the teachers and other students that hadn't met her yet. She even made a couple of friends, like Keiko, from biology and math class. Then, there was lunch. Suichi had already invited her to eat with him and his friends, after biology and she accepted. Now, she was only looking for him since she had bought her own lunch to school with her already. She entered the cafeteria and continued to search around for him.
"Hey, you must be that new girl," a boy stood up, he was very thug-like and Destiny had seen him take lunch money from someone else earlier, "You know, I think you're hot. I want you to go out on a date with me."
"Uh... how about, no thanks," Destiny answered, she had reached for her necklace but stopped immediately. She was also quite repulsed of this, so she thought up of any emergency plans with the guy.
"Who said I was asking?" he then turned to what must have been his gang, "Did you hear me ask her anything, guys?" They all shook their heads, saying no. Some gave off a nasty grin. Destiny glared at them all, even Jon, the bully who stood before her.
"Well I'm still declining... you're being quite the antagonist! Oh! tsk,tsk,tsk. I should remember to never use big words around people like you." she said in a taunting voice, "Now, bye... baka."
"Eh! What did you just call me?" he growled.
"Yeah you heard me, baka! I called you a baka... and an antagonist. oops..." She turned around to leave, clearing her throat, "Now, like I said earlier... BYE!" She saw his gang wince at this as she began to walk off. Suddenly she feels someone grab and twist her arm around tightly. Jon was now restraining Destiny, breathing down her neck. She struggled but he only held tighter. He was too strong. Things got quiet around them. "Ow! Let me go you moron!" she yelped.
"Nobody ever disrespects Jon!" he said sternly.
"Well you must be disrespecting yourself because you seem to not use breath mints to fight off your bad breath!" she insulted him, "Sheesh, I mean I can smell it from here and I'm not even facing you right now" Everyone who heard her insult cringed to this and became quiet. They knew she had gone too far with the bully. As for Jon, he began to fill with rage. But before he took it out on her, she acted quickly upon her thoughts and grabbed his hand, which were grasping hers, twisted around so that she would be facing him, and kneed him on the groin, very hard. People winced again. He let go of Destiny and stumbled off behind her, he was in a lot of pain. She glared at him with a smirk, seeing that he was now very angry with her. But from all the pain he was in, he did nothing. She just looked down on him as if to say, "That's what you get..." As for Suichi, who saw the whole thing, left her alone after Hiei told him of her quickly planned ideas. Yes, Hiei had read her mind once again. Yet after the whole ordeal, Suichi ran up to Destiny and ushered her away before Jon got back up.
"Looks like we know you can fight," Suichi laughed.
"Yeah, I guess so," she agreed, "I had training back at home."
"Oh, and which reminds me. Ms. Ishii never said where you came from," he said, "So, where did you come from?"
"America, the U.S."
"Oh... all the way from there? You don't look like it though."
"That's because both of my parents came from Japan and I used to live here until I was three." "Oh, that's pretty neat."
"I guess so..."
"Ah, here we are."
They arrive at a table where Destiny sees Keiko and Hiei sitting with two other boys. They looked at Destiny and smiled, except for Hiei. He only glanced at her then turned to Suichi. "Destiny, you already know these two." He pointed to Keiko and Hiei, "But these two here, they're Yusuke and Kuwabara."
"Hi Yusuke, hi Kuwabara." She greeted them.
"Hey Destiny, Welcome to our school and stuff..." Yusuke said. She thanked him.
"Oh... You're that new girl from America!" said Kuwabara, "You are very pretty... will you go out on a date with me? Please?"
"Sorry, but no..." she said. Kuwabara lowered his head and nodded, and then he sat back down. He had orange hair and was very tall, many people considered him ugly. As for Yusuke, he had slicked back black hair with brown eyes and was slightly taller than Destiny. Also, Keiko and Yusuke seemed to be very close so Destiny quickly assumed that they must be going out. She has brown hair and brown eyes. Then there was Hiei. He was shorter than Destiny by about two to three inches; he had spiky black hair and ruby red eyes. Next, Suichi, who Destiny claimed to look like the shadowy figure from the night of the storm; with his red-red hair and emerald green eyes, his height matched that of the stranger's too. Finally, Destiny herself had dark brown hair and hazel to green eyes. But it was Suichi's appearance that caught her attention most of the time.
"So Destiny," Suichi said, "Want to sit next to me?"
"Sure," she replied, sitting down with him. She placed her lunch bag before her.
"Do you like it here so far?" Keiko asked.
"Yes, I do," she replied, "Especially since I already made friends on my first day." She smiled rather sweetly.
"That is true," Keiko smiled back.
"Oh and where do you live?" Suichi asked.
"Not far really," Destiny began, "It's just north from here in front of the woods. It's the big white and blue house on the corner of the street."
"Ah, that house," Keiko said, "So you parents bought that place? Because I've seen it before... That's neat."
"Hey I've seen that house too," it was Yusuke, "At least I know where you live now..."
"Yeah looks like you do." Destiny nodded, "... So how about you three, you know where it is don't you?"
"I've passed by that place before," Kuwabara shrugged, "It was still on sale by that time too." "So... how about you two?" Destiny questioned, raising an eyebrow as if in suspicion, turning to Suichi and Hiei. She was on their trail now that she had time to think during her other classes. She watched their eyes widen slightly as she half smiled. Suichi's hands trembled lightly, "Well? Or have you been there before?"
"Why would I care?" Hiei retorted.
"Hiei..." Suichi came in, "Actually, I have seen it before, just the other day..." Destiny nodded to this and pulled out her sandwich. She knew he was being blunt and she began thinking over her suspicions. Then she felt a probing feeling in her mind and saw Hiei staring at her. She looked back and put her sandwich down.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Destiny asked slightly timidly.
"Hn..." he turned away.
Everyone saw this and they looked at each other, knowing what Hiei was doing. But Destiny didn't so she shrugged it off and continued with her lunch. She listened to the others talk about current school events, most of which she had no clue about. Becoming a little bored, Destiny then found herself constantly looking at Suichi. She figured it was because of his striking resemblance of the figure from the storm and that she highly believes that he could be him. She also found him quite attractive from his looks and personality; she liked him. Destiny was looking at Suichi again. He turned and saw her; they locked eyes for a couple of seconds, which somehow seemed to be for minutes. Suichi finally said something.
"What is it?"
"Nothing," Destiny replied, "It's just that you look very familiar... like we met somewhere before... Have we?" The others continued talking to each other, not hearing their conversation, except for Hiei. He knew Destiny was on to him as well, for he was there that night too. Suichi knew she had probably figured it was him who was at her house at the night of the storm, in spite of the darkness. Hiei spoke to Kurama telepathically.
"I think she's on to us."
"I think she figured out already... We—I could talk to her about this later, she'll have to know everything eventually... Seeing as how she figured out a lot."
"Damn, you're right." They ended their quick conversation.
Suichi put his attention back to Destiny who was waiting for a reply. "Maybe..."
"Hm, 'cause since I laid my eyes on you when I walked into biology," she began quietly with a sweet tone, "I knew you looked vividly familiar... I had time to think it over and sort out my confusion between you and that stranger from last night's storm."
"From last night's storm...?"
"Yes, someone...'visited' me during the power outage. Blizz and I kind of followed him out in the rain. When he jumped down from the top of the roof, I ran inside and out to the front yard. I thought he disappeared but when I turned around I"— Destiny cut herself off. She had noticed everyone looking at her, but she shrugged it off, letting the group listen to her story, "I was suddenly face to face with the figure. But I couldn't see him from the darkness until a lightning flash came along. I saw green eyes and red hair; both exactly like yours, Suichi. Yet, another figure came along, though he was distant, meeting Hiei made me realize he sounds like that distant guy. For the he called on the other, he called him... Kurama. That confused me..." The group was silent. Suichi and Destiny locked eyes again. Then Hiei broke the silence.
"Who is this Blizz?" he asked. Destiny turned to him.
"Blizzard? He's my dog, why?"
"No reason, just asking," he replied.
"Well, okay..."
"Wait, you have a dog?" Yusuke asked.
"Yeah, I do. My parents got him as a puppy four years ago. I trained him and everything, with some professional help from my cousin though. He was a part of a special K-9 forces unit..." "Special K-9 forces unit?" Kuwabara asked.
"Yeah, he trained Blizz how to do all kinds of things... basics, commands, agility, and some other fun stuff too. Blizz passed with flying colors, like it was nothing. He also finished his training in about two years, he's very intelligent for a dog."
"So, if someone ever tried to maul or rape you in front of Blizz, would he rip them up to pieces?" Yusuke asked.
"No... See the only mistake the guy could make is to touch me and I wasn't happy about it. Blizz would have him down in two seconds."
"He sounds a little dangerous..." Keiko said.
"Oh, don't worry. He's actually one of the kindest dogs ever... It's quite surprising really. He will even let babies or toddlers tug on his ears or his tail, and he won't snap. Only on command will he ever attack anyone."
"Looks like you have someone to protect your family," Suichi nodded.
"Yeah, I know."
The group finished their lunch. Things went along with them coolly and conversations came up. Of which, lightened up things even more and a couple laughs came along. Soon, lunch ended and they headed for their lockers to get their other class things. Suichi pulled Destiny aside to speak to her before they entered art class together. He asked her to join him outside at the front of the school when classes were over. Then they entered the art room. Suichi introduced Destiny to Miss Odachi, the art teacher. She informed Destiny that her class was just about to begin a painting project and she had arrived just in time. Miss Odachi appointed Destiny a seat next to Suichi and the class began. Miss Odachi began with teaching the class painting techniques and blending colors. Then, the actual project began: the class was to choose any flower to sketch then paint it. Suichi chose a red rose and Destiny, a white rose; she loved white roses, they looked so pure to her. So they drew their flower of choice, finished it, then set it aside for class had ended. The classes lasted a long time, so finishing a sketch was pretty much possible. Destiny's rose sketch impressed Miss Odachi, it was very professional-like, but it wasn't the best in class—Suichi's sketch was best in class. Miss Odachi thought it was typical of him to produce outstanding artwork, Destiny's was second best.
"I didn't know you could draw so well, Suichi!" she said, "But of course, we only just met this morning."
"Yeah," he sighed happily, "But you have yourself a talent too... Your sketch looked so professional."
"Well, I guess so." She nodded and smiled with a blush.
Then they headed for their next class. Destiny had gym next, and Keiko was in her class too. They directed her to the ladies' locker room and they changed into their gym uniforms. Destiny received hers the same day as her regular school uniforms. The two then introduced her to the gym teachers Mr. Yasui and Ms. Inakura, the boys' gym teacher and the girls' gym teacher. Gym went along fine for Destiny so far. It was a coed class today and the four guys, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Suichi and Hiei were there too. They all met in the middle of the gymnasium.
"Hey guys!" Destiny said, "Wow, all of us are here together."
"Yeah... go figure." Yusuke shrugged. Keiko stood next to him and elbowed his side.
"Be a little more enthusiastic, Yusuke." She said.
"Why be more enthusiastic?" Hiei said, "I hate gym too... Damn gym uniforms." He tugged at his shirt, looking down at it.
Suddenly, Mr. Yasui called the guys over to him and Ms. Inakura called for the ladies. The whole gang split up and met with their teachers, who in turn, lead their students outside. The students followed and were soon gazing upon an obstacle course. The teachers then instructed them that they all have to go through it. So when they all did, Destiny didn't find it hard, she flew through it with ease, somehow. She noticed how Suichi and Hiei went through the whole ordeal rather easily... Hiei practically zipped through it like it was nothing. Then soon, gym class was over. They all switched back to their regular uniforms. School was now over too, so after getting her things from her locker, Destiny headed for the front of the school by the school flagpole. She waited there just as Suichi asked her to. Shortly, he exited the building and saw Destiny waiting on him. She saw him too.
"Destiny," he called out, "I see you decided to wait on me." Suichi then looked around and ran down to her.
"Yeah, what is it?" she asked.
"Uh, I wanted to speak to you," he replied.
"We both do..." Hiei stepped up.
"Hiei?" Suichi was surprised to see him.
"Yes, Koenma found out about last night's rendezvous... He needs to talk to her too."
"What? Who's Koenma?" Destiny was now confused. "And what did you want to talk about, Suichi?"
"He wants to see us now, Kurama."
"Huh? So that was you!"
"Yes... I was going to talk to you about that." Suichi/Kurama lowered his head, "I'm sorry I didn't anything earlier."
"That's okay... But who is this Koenma?"
"Baka... The ruler of Spirit World, he is waiting on us, now let's go." Hiei looked slightly irritated by Destiny's questions. "I want to get out of this place too..."
Kurama nodded and took Destiny's hand and asked her to follow them. Reluctantly she followed, trying to record her thoughts. They walked into the nearby woods, where nobody will see them. Hiei and Kurama continued deeper into the woods, Destiny continued to follow and was silent. They reached the entrance of a large cave when suddenly, a demon popped out of the bushes. Instantly, the demon targeted Destiny and ran at her with his claws ready to slash at her. Destiny was taken by surprise so she just stood there, glaring in fear. Seeing that the girl was petrified, Kurama stepped in front of her and pulled out a seed from his hair behind his neck, and then it grew into a rose, then a long thorny whip. Another demon appeared from inside the cave and Hiei saw to this and pulled out his katana. Shortly after the two demons appeared, they were killed. Destiny had just witnessed her two classmates kill two demons; something she had never expected.
"Damn low class demons... hn." Hiei sheathed his katana.
"Then they must have found that portal," Kurama said flatly, "We better go through it before it shuts completely... then we would have to find another one."
"Portal? Go through it?" Destiny stepped up, "Well that adds to that list of weird things that happened on my first day of school."
"That is just the beginning of it..." Hiei snorted.
The two began walking into the cave. Destiny hesitated a little, and then followed. They came upon a portal; it was slowly shrinking so they entered it. On the other side was a forest and ahead was a castle, Destiny didn't recognize anything so she stuck close to Kurama and Hiei. The castle wasn't very far and when they entered it, there were demons and ogres everywhere. But they were all too busy to notice them. Some were running around desk to desk with papers while others were analyzing the papers then sending it off elsewhere. But the three weren't here for this, so they continued along, down a hallway until they came upon a girl with light-ish blue hair. She stepped up and introduced herself to Destiny.
"Hi! I'm Botan. You must be Destiny," she said cheerfully, "He is ready to see you all now... well, he's been ready." Then, she stepped aside and let them go by.Hiei opened the doors and entered with Kurama and Destiny, lining up side to side once they reached the front of a desk. The office chair behind it spun around, revealing a toddler.
"Ah, Destiny!" he said, "I've been waiting to meet you."
"Are you Koenma?" she asked, "Ruler of spirit world?"
"Yes I am," he said proudly.
"So the ruler of Spirit World is a toddler." She had her arms crossed on her chest. Everyone except Destiny anime drops. "Well this goes on that list..."
"I told you," Hiei stood up, "Hn..."
"List?" Koenma sat up.
"Don't worry about that Koenma sir," Kurama straightened himself, "What did you need to see us for?"
"Oh yes!" he jumped up on his desk and pointed at Kurama, "Kurama, I specifically told you to not go off and see her just yet!" His voice was raised then lowered, "It's a good thing Hiei got you to leave before her demon companion got out. He would have recognized you and fought you until you went down..."
"I'm sorry, Koenma sir," Kurama looked down, "I'll listen to you next time..."
"Very well," he was calm.
"Um, were you talking about me?" Destiny spoke up.
"Yes I was, Destiny." Koenma nodded, "And you will probably ask me about that 'demon companion' thing so I'll tell you right now."
"Demon companion...? Well you guessed right."
"I know... Anyway"—
"We're here, Koenma!" Yusuke came in, "What did you want?" He was with Kuwabara and Botan. Destiny recognized this voice and spun around and saw them.
"Yusuke?! Kuwabara?!" she was surprised to see these two.
"I see you got them, Botan. Thanks."
"Anytime, sir."
"Wait. Destiny?! Why are you here?!" Yusuke asked loudly.
"Yeah." Kuwabara spoke up, "Are you a spirit detective too?"
"She doesn't even know why she's here yet you imbecile." Hiei spoke up and glared at Kuwabara. Kuwabara glared back
"He's right," Destiny turned back to Koenma, "Now Koenma, continue please..."
"Thank you, Destiny. Please, take a seat, and you guys may stand right there." Koenma then cleared his throat, "Anyway, Destiny I trust that you know these four from school. They are spirit detectives. But that is their story. Yours is a long one with a connection with one of these four. You'll find that out sooner or later." He paused then changed the subject, "I also spoke with your parents this morning—yes, I know them. They are currently on a mission in the Makai. It's a very dangerous one, but they're two of our most advanced demon agents. They should"— "Hold on... demons? They are demons?"
"Yes Destiny, they are. So that automatically says..."
"That I am too..."
"Exactly. You parents wanted me to tell you this in case they never returned. Hopefully they will, they are two of the best," he said, "Why else would I have sent them on this mission?"
"What's the mission about?" Destiny asked.
"That's not important right now, I still have other things they wanted me to tell – whoa!" he was pacing around on his desk and managed to trip on a remote, causing him to fall off the desk with a thud. Also, when he tripped on that remote, he somehow stepped a little button on it. Therefore, a screen appears and turns on and the image comes into view.
p-t-rose: Dun dun dun... What will be on that screen? You'll find out next time! Did you like this one? It explained a couple things. Oh and did you notice how many times Destiny kept on saying "I guess so..." ?
blizzard: She always says that... I hope she breaks the habit... and she should let me follow her around more often... like at her school. I would have had that Jon guy down really fast for hurting her like that! But she told me to go home... again.
p-t-rose: Hmm. I wonder why, Blizzard... I wonder why... (sarcastically)
blizzard: Yeah... that's what I've been wondering too.
p-t-rose: -.- I don't think you know the foreign language of sarcasm... and we thought you were a smart dog. But before you say anything else... chapter 3 will be here soon! And please review! Bye!
