Chapter 5

Forest: Uhhh....tired. Need sleep. Work is hard...but I made Money! Money for my plushie!

Miroku: Well if you're tired, I could rub your back for you...((walks over to Forest))

Forest: ((scoots away)) I'm warning you Miroku. Touch me and Hiei's shock collar will be around your neck.

Hiei: That's right, give the idiot pervert the shock collar. I did nothing wrong. ((Gets zapped)) WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!?

Forest: ((Zaps Hiei again.)) You called Miroku a name. He deserves it though I suppose. The second one was for using the "h" word.

Yusuke: Hell? It's not that bad of a word. Hell, it's not even a swear!

Forest: Guess you're right. SWEET SNOW FOR EVERYONE!

Everyone: YEAH!!!! ((Grab bowls of sweet snow that come from no where.))

Kurama: My favorite, Neapolitan!

InuYasha: Vanilla!

Koenma: Strawberry!

Miroku: Butterscotch!

Forest: CHOCOLATE!

Hiei: ALL THE DIFFERENT FLAVORS! ((Eats his sweet snow in 10 seconds and look hungrily at everyone else's.))

Forest: ((finger over shock button)) Don't try it Hiei. Oh yeah! I want to thank Sakura Seita and SakuraSango for reviewing. Even if no one else does, I have my fans...((breaks out crying))T-thank you!!!

Kurama: ((comes and pats Forest on the back))

Koenma: Forest doesn't own Yu Yu Hakusho or InuYasha.

Forest: WAAAHHHHH! Wait. Where did Koenma come from?

Kuwabara: Duh, Spirit world.

Miroku: Now I'm confused.

Shippo: You got that right.

Forest: I wonder how many bishounen I can keep in my house?

The variety store wasn't too far away, but it took them about half an hour to get there as they were walking at a rather slow pace, caught up in their talking. Deuce was walking quietly beside Forest, carrying his leash in his mouth again. Kurama was walking on the other side of Forest, and Hiei was on the other side of Kurama, listening to their chatter.

"So Michelle, what school do you go to?" Kurama asked politely. He seemed a very polite boy to Forest, almost eerily polite in her world of insults and constant joking. But he also seemed nice, not like the forced politeness you put on in front of your 121 year old great aunt Euphinia or whatever when she comes over and insults your very way of life for being a teenager, or for wearing your hair a certain way, or for wearing fangs on your bracelet and necklace (I like them ok! Oh yeah, on with the story.)

"St. Joseph's. Or I will be going there; I'm only going into grade 9. How about you?" She added, remembering that with polite people you had to be polite too, (Yusuke are you listening?). "I will be attending St. Joseph's as well. Although I'm not Catholic, it seems as though it is a very well established school." He replied. "I hope I don't get too confused at the school masses or in religion class though, I would hate to look like an idiot!" He laughed, and Forest smiled. He may not be normal, she wasn't either, but he was still nervous about going to high school. He hid it well, but it was there.

"I'm sure you won't! There are a lot of people there who aren't Catholic! And it's not like you have to memorize everything. I've been Catholic my whole life, and I can't recite a bible quote or anything. My family doesn't even go to church on Sunday. If you need any help, just ask me, if you're in my class that is. What school are you going to Hiei?" She added, trying to get Hiei into the conversation. She wanted to know a bit about him too.

He looked at her and she saw his startling blood red eyes once again. "I won't be going to an idiotic school. I know all I need." He stated flatly. She stared at him. 'Knows all he needs?' How old is he? Forest thought as she threw him a questioning look. If she knew him better she would have probably tried to talk some sense into him, but she didn't want to scare him away. Behind her back, Kurama gave Hiei a threatening look. He didn't want to scare her away either. It was ironic in a way, they were all trying to figure out each other's secrets with out the others knowing. Isn't life weird?

Deuce was silently walking beside Forest, listening carefully, seeming at ease, but he was actually carefully on his guard. He didn't know these two, and neither did Forest, so why should he trust them? He didn't ever want to see her hurt, and he would die if it meant she could live (awww.....). All of a sudden he felt the wind shift and change in direction, and smelt something like the other two, but different. More wild, something he could relate to.

It was a dog.

But with a smell almost human, but so far off, if that makes sense. He could also smell that, whatever it was' blood. He knew they had to get there, but he didn't want to make Forest ditch those other two either. He was just as curious about them as she was. He decided to tell her about the other one. She had an exceptional sense of smell for a human, but it didn't come close to his own dog nose.

--Forest, -- He said silently, stopping in his tracks. –There's another one like them, a dog, at the creek. A male, and he's bleeding. —Forest stopped too, looking in the direction of the creek. It was about two streets over from her house, so she and Deuce went there often, but they had never seen anything odd there. Then again, they had never seen anything odd around here either. It was a pretty boring city.

--Crap—she cursed silently. She didn't want to give up on these two, but if something was bleeding, she had to go find out what it, or he in this case, was and try to help it. –What are we going to do? We can't just run off and leave these two here. One of them is going to the school, what if he tells someone that I invited them to hang out and then just ditched them out of no where? Everyone will think I'm a spaz. —She said, obviously unsure of what to do. The other two had stopped also, and were staring at her questioningly. The feeling she got was strong, telling her to go to the creek. She turned to the two boys.

"Something's wrong," She said, her head still turned towards the creek. She put her hood up and turned herself around. "I'm sorry guys, I need to go to the creek. If you guys wanna hang out later, you can call me on my cell. The number is 417-764-3030 (It's a random number, so don't try calling it to get me!)." The two boys stared at her, wondering what could have caused her to act so strangely so suddenly.

"What's wrong Michelle?" Kurama asked her, worry and curiosity sounding in his voice. Hiei was looking at her like she was crazy. She sighed. "I have to go, there's something wrong." She repeated. She didn't want to give anything away, and how was she to explain if she did? Oh yeah, I can talk to animals and change into any animal form I want, or just change my body parts into an animals. I can also do healing, but once again also only to animals. It's great for impressions, wanna see my wolf? Oh yeah, that would just be great. She could imagine the men in white coats coming to take her off to the loony bin vividly, and gave a short laugh in spite of herself.

"Do you want us to come with you?" Kurama asked, always the gentleman. Forest smiled. "No, we'll be fine," she said, adding the words I think, silently to the sentence in her mind. "You guys go on home. And don't forget to call me! I still owe you guys a chocolate bar!" And she turned around, and started walking quickly towards the creek. When she was down the street Hiei asked Kurama "So we're going to follow her?" Kurama looked off at the distant figures down the street. He nodded once, and said "We have to figure out her secret so we can report back to Koenma." And the two also started off down the street, although going slower so Forest wouldn't see them.

While all this was happening a teenage looking boy was lying in a crevasse underneath the roots of the giant tree in the woods that the creek ran through. He had long silver hair, gold eyes, dog ears and was wearing a red kimono type outfit, that was soaked in his blood. He had a rip in it that showed the gash in his side, that was very deep. Only one thought was going through his mind.

What went wrong? Where the hell am I?

END

Forest: Oooo feel the tingles! I thought that was a pretty friggin good chapter if you ask me, but TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY different from what I wrote before. It adds InuYasha in a lot quicker than my other version. There it's already like chapter 11 and he's still not there. Hehe. There is always room for improvement.

InuYasha: Finally! I've been waiting around doing nothing for so long. I can't believe you were going to leave me out of the story for that long!

Forest: Well sorry! I'd like to see you write a story here! It's not as easy as everyone thinks! Plus the fact that I was totally incompetent at writing before the summer makes this story seem all the much better.

Hiei: No it doesn't. ((Gets shocked)) When can this thing come off?

Forest: When you are no longer rude, and when you are a perfect gentleman with all that power just under the skin.

Yusuke: So basically when he's a Kurama clone?

Everyone but Kurama, Hiei and Forest: ((Laughs))

Kurama: ((blushes))

Forest: Hey leave Kurama out of this! Or I'll take it off whenever I feel like it, or if I'm going to put it on someone else. ((Takes a sip out of a big HONKING glass of milk)) Mmmmmmm......No drink can beat milk.

Kuwabara: How about chocolate milk?

InuYasha: It's still milk. Are you an idiot or something?

Yusuke: ((laughs)) He's about the biggest idiot there is.

Kuwabara: Hey shut up Urameshi!

Miroku: Have you even tried to get that thing off Hiei?

Hiei: Of course I have! I, unlike those two sitting over there ((nods head towards Yusuke and Kuwabara)) am not an idiot. I tried blasting it with both fire and ice. I tried to get it off with my jagan, and then my sword. Nothing works against this product of evil.

Forest: You forgot to add that it is waterproof! And I forgot to add that I may use it on my friends, but I would NEVER use shock treatment on an animal. EVER! So if at any point my friends read this, which, might I add, I highly doubt as they cough do NOT encourage my reading or writing, they cannot say "Oh, you used shock treatment you animal abuser!". Can you tell I'm borded?

Kurama: It's bored. Not borded.

Forest: Maybe in Kurama world. But this is Forest world! And in Forest world, everything is as Forest likes it!

Shippo: And in Shippo world, it rains Ice cream!

Everyone: ((stares at Shippo)) Crickets

Hiei: You are almost as odd as Forest, kid, but not quite.

Shippo/Forest: I'm not odd! ((burst out crying))

Forest: Wait why am I crying? Of course I'm odd! And I'm damn proud of it!

Jon: ((hiding in bushes that are mysteriously in the middle of the family room)) I got it all on tape!!! HAHAH! ((Tries to run away))

Forest: Who cares! I'll friggin' scream it to the neighborhood. Everyone knows I'm odd anyways.

Jon: Who said I was talking about that? I have a tape of you practicing your Japanese singing! HAHA!

Forest: The boy must die! ((runs as fast as she can and jumps on her little frog of a brother, and bites him))

Jon: OK OK! TAKE BACK THE STUPID TAPE! ((throws it at her head.))

Forest: ((Doesn't catch it, and it hits her on the left side of the face, (the right side has had enough abuse. Look in my info.) )) VICTORY IS MINE! Whoa that was long!

Miroku: You actually bite people?

Forest: Yep! I made my brother bleed before too! A warning not to make me mad! Please Please PLEASE review! I'll give you sweet snow! Doesn't anyone want sweet snow???

Hiei: I DO!!

Forest: I know you do! I'd hate to see you in an ice- no wait,- sweet snow factory. There would be nothing left in about 5 minutes! REVIEW! PLEASE!!!!!!