Chapter 9
Forest: Woo woot HONK HONK!! Chapter 9!! I have to go to my Grandmother's tomorrow, and she doesn't have the internet…OR EVEN CABLE!
Yusuke/Kuwabara: THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!!
Forest: I know…and I'm gonna be gone for a couple days….
Hiei: THE JOY!!! Gets whacked in the head with a frying pan by Forest That didn't hurt.
Forest: holding a BIGGER frying pan Yeah, well, maybe this one will. Also, it doesn't matter where I go, because all of you…will be coming with me!!! MUAHAHAHA!!!
Kurama: There isn't enough room at your grandmother's house to fit all of us, including your grandparents and your siblings.
Deuce:back in dog form, barks
Kurama: And Deuce. Not unless you would have us sleep out in the cold or something!
Forest: thinking Hmm…That wouldn't do….AHA!! I know now!!! I SHALL SHRINK YOU DOWN TO ACTION FIGURE SIZE!!! takes out a package of dust and blows it on Kurama, Hiei, InuYasha, Yusuke, Kouga, Miroku, Kuwabara, Sesshomaru, Kenshin, and Sanosuke. MUWAHAHAHAH!
All previously mentioned Bishounen and Kuwabara: shrink down to action figure size.
Kurama: This isn't possible!
Forest: Oh but it is…. And now I can take Kurama to school! Why didn't I think of that before?! And I have math tomorrow!
Kurama: I'm not going to help you cheat Forest. You know better than that.
Forest: Is sad. Yes Kurama… Ok, now I need a box!! trashes her room trying to find a box AHA!! Box!! There you are!! picks up bishounen and Kuwabara and puts them in the box. Now, we're ready to go to Grandmother's house!! sings Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother's house we go………still singing I do not own, Yu Yu Hakusho, InuYasha, Pimp My Ride, Exzhibit, or any of the other guys I just mentioned! I also do not own spaghetti, although I wish I did, cause that would be AWSOME-
Hiei: SHUT UP!!!
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InuYasha woke up just as the sun was setting. The orange-red light fell all across the small room. As he looked around his eyes finally rested on Forest.
She had fallen asleep on a chair she had brought in so she could keep watch on him. Her breathing was steady, and her long brown hair fluttered in the breeze from the open window. He straightened himself up on the pillows, pulling himself up so that he was sitting straight, although propped against the pillows. He pulled himself up a little more and winced as the bed creaked and Forest's eyes shot open.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you." He said quietly. She smiled at him sleepily the yawned and stretched, almost falling off the chair.
"That's ok. I should be getting up anyway. What time is it?" She asked herself. She twisted her neck around, looking at the clock behind her. "Whoaa…Six thirty already..." She stretched again then looked at InuYasha. "How are you feeling?" she asked with a bit of concern.
He turned his head away. "Feh. I'm fine. I've survived far worse than this. It's only that bastard's poison that's…"he trailed off as his memories came rushing back once more. Where was Kagome? And Sango, Miroku and Shippo? They had all gone through the well, each carrying a shard of the Shikon no Tama. It had been the only choice, to escape from Naraku. He tried to spring out of the bed, pain ripping throughout his body.
"Don't," Forest started as she leapt up to help him. His beautiful amber eyes met hers once more, a pleading look in them. And another thing…worry.
"Kagome." He whispered eyes still connected to hers. "I need to find Kagome. Miroku, Sango, Shippo…We have to find them…" He attempted to stand, but fell back down. He had recovered quite a bit in his few hours of sleep, but the poison still weakened him. Forest put a hand on his shoulder.
"InuYasha, please, you're not making sense. Who are those people?" She asked him. He looked away.
"My friends. We have to find them…I don't know where they are… They'll stand out...Except Kagome. She's from now. We have to go look for them, the well was supposed to take us to Kagome's house, but we ended up here. Please help." The worry in his voice wrung Forest's heart.
"Ok, don't worry we'll find them. But you can't go look now ok? I'll have some of my friends look around for them.' She soothed. InuYasha's dog ears twitched at the last part.
"No! We can't have other humans looking for them! Shippo's a demon, and the others aren't normal." Forest grinned.
"I never said my friends were human." She said quietly. She went over to the window.
--HuntSong? You busy?—she called out to her friend. She felt him soaring over the thermals. –No, but you know I can't stay out for very long. What is it?—The red-tail replied. He was maybe five minutes of flying away.
--I, uh, need a favor.—she admitted. HuntSong let out a hawk laugh, which was a click of the tongue. She knew he did by her connection with him. –Hey this one isn't bad! Not like last time anyway. I just need you to fly around and see if you can see anyone dressed strangely or acting strangely. You can come over and sleep here tonight, and I'll even give you a nice fat piece of chicken tomorrow. So…will you do it?—She asked her old time friend. He took his time with his reply.
--Yeah, of course I'll do it. But it better be a BIG piece of chicken.—he warned. Forest a couple kilometers away smiled. –Of course of course. And if you see anything weird, check back here with me ok?—she said.
--Will do.—the eagle said just before she broke off the connection. She shook her head. It was weird how quickly animals could pick up on human expressions and phrases. She turned around to face InuYasha.
"My friend, HuntSong, he's a red-tailed hawk, he said he'll look around for anything we would consider strange." She flashed him a 'don't worry' smile once again.
He just stared at her. "What are you?" he managed to say at last. It hit Forest. She forgot to tell him she had a…gift!
"Oops! I forgot to tell you. Well, not really forget, you were unconscious when I was telling Kurama and Hiei. Um…I'm…special. I have a gift with animals, and I can heal 'em, talk to them, and change into one of them. At least, that's what I've figured out I can do anyways." She said, quickly giving the shorter version to the Hanyou.
"Yeah right." He scoffed waving a hand at her dismissively. Forest folded her arms over her chest.
"What do ya mean 'yeah right?' How hard is that to believe? You're a half demon!" She exclaimed. InuYasha let out a snorting noise.
"Yeah so what if I am? Animal-girls don't exist!" he said brashly. Forest started an extremely slow half transformation. Let's see how long it takes him to notice. She thought.
"Yeah well, half-demons don't exist either! At least that's what I thought before now! How is it so impossible for a girl to have a bond with animals?" she retorted. InuYasha shut up as he saw her ears, now those of a dog, peak out from under her hair. Her nails turned into claws, and she grinned as her canines grew long and sharp. She purposely grew a tail, although she was trying to look like him. Tails were fun and provided a lot more balance than she normally had. She leaned back against the wall and smiled at him. "Now who doesn't exist InuYasha?" she teased him, then laughed and turned human again. "Come on, we should eat some supper. I'm getting hungry." She went over to help him get up, but he grabbed his sword and did it himself, wobbling as he made his way down the stairs. He sat down hard on one of the wooden chairs by the table, looking at his surroundings.
The kitchen led into the family/TV room and there was a small balcony so you could watch TV while you ate. The cupboards were glass and wood, which her grandfather had made when he was well. The floors were marble, because the people who had lived there before her, were in fact her cousin's boyfriend's family, and were rich. The divider between the family room and kitchen was brick, with a wooden railing. It was pretty small, and the wooden table made it seem even smaller. It was simple, but very nice and comforting. The family room had a…there was no other word of it, ugly gray carpet, also left over from her cousin's boyfriend's rich family. Her mother kept promising the family that that was the next thing to be changed about the house, and that they would soon have a hardwood floor. It hadn't happened yet, but maybe eventually it would.
There was a 27" TV in the corner, and a fireplace took up one wall. There were two couches, one of which was a pull-out, and two armchairs. The patio window had mud on it and paw prints (Thanks a lot Deuce!) and a few of the blinds were missing (the kind that turns around to block out light and then close…yeah…). There were also a few pet beds around the room, a big one for Deuce and a smaller one for Emma. There was also a ten gallon fresh water aquarium in the corner that contained several expensive types of goldfish and one huge algae eater.
Forest walked down the three stairs and over to the TV, turning on the digital cable box on top. She picked up the flicker(a flicker is a remote people!) and turned it to MuchMusic (like MTV), just in time to see Exzhibit's face flash on the screen, explaining about some old beat up car that they would 'Pimp out.' "Sweet! I love this show!" Forest explained. She threw the flicker down on one of the armchairs and jogged up the steps to the kitchen. "Hmm… what should we have for supper?" she searched through the cupboards and looked at various foodstuffs. "Rice? Nah, I don't really want some right now…soup? Ravioli…Cereal? No, and no…How about spaghetti! That is indeed an awesome food and deserves us to eat it!! No, it DEMANDS us to eat it! SPAGHETTI IT IS!" She took the package out, boiled some water with salt and butter, and then threw in the uncooked noodles. "Have you ever had spaghetti before?" she asked InuYasha as she sat down beside him backwards on her chair, with her arms and chin resting on the back.
"No, I don't even know what it is." He said. He could smell it beginning to cook. "No wait, now I do. It's noodles."
"Yep! And it's soo good. You normally eat it with tomato sauce that has meat in it, but I don't know how to make that, and I wouldn't eat it anyways, because I don't eat beef." Forest said. She turned around and stirred the noodles in the pot, to keep them from sticking to the bottom. She pulled out a piece and threw it at the wall, where it bounced off and fell on the floor. Deuce was there in a second to clean it up, with Emma following lazily behind. InuYasha stared at her with a questioning look in his eyes.
"Uh, what was that?" he asked, his gaze now resting at the border collie/mutt who was licking his chops.
"That's the fun way to check if it's done. If it sticks to the wall, it's done. If it doesn't, then it's not." Forest chuckled. About half a minute later, she threw another piece at the wall and it stuck. "Done!" she cried out. She grabbed a strainer from a cupboard low to the ground and put it in the stink, then poured the contents of the pot into it. She swished it around a bit before putting the noodles into a large bowl, then getting out two smaller bowls and two forks for her and the dog-boy.
"Dig in." she said, getting herself a rather large amount of the Italian food. InuYasha stared at the fork.
"What is this?" he asked, picking it up and examining it. It was Forest's turn to stare.
"Um, a fork. Haven't you ever used a fork before?" she asked, suddenly curious.
The Inu-Hanyou shook his head. "Used one? I haven't even seen one before! I've never even heard of one! You got any chopsticks?" he asked. Forest looked thoughtful.
"Maybe… My dad sometimes gets Chinese food, and he never uses them. I'll check." She rummaged through the cutlery drawer, looking for said item. "Whoa! Today really is your lucky day dog-boy! You really do need to learn how to use a fork though. It's a valuable skill." She handed him the chopsticks and they ate their Italian noodles, watching a rapper 'pimp out' people's old junked up cars, and turn them into a vehicle that the owners screamed in disbelief about. It was very entertaining.
Whee!!Guess where we are now!
After they had left Kurama went to the apartment that Yusuke and Kuwabara were sharing while they were in Canada. He was staying with his mother, who had rented out a house to make sure he was alright in a strange country. Hiei stayed where he lived no matter where he was. In a tree with a large branch to sleep on, and in Kurama's room when it was raining. Kurama dialed the number of the two boys' apartment and waited for someone to answer.
"Hello?" Came the voice of Yusuke Uramehshi, the Spirit World detective. Kurama could hear Kazuma Kuwabara in the background, shouting something about his socks. Kurama was surprised they hadn't been evicted yet.
"Good afternoon Yusuke, it's Kurama. May I come up?" the kitsune asked, always polite. He could practically see Yusuke up there, shaking his head.
"Yeah, come on up. And what did I tell you about being polite Kurama? It's not natural! Jeez, you really need to stop that…" the detective trailed off. Kurama smiled a little as he walked though the now open door that locked behind him. He walked into the elevator directly across from him and pressed the button for the 5th floor, then pressed the 'door close' button. The elevator doors didn't close. He pressed the button again, and still nothing happened. He was starting to get frustrated with the elevator so he pushed it hard with the back of his hand. The doors closed halfway and then opened again. Kurama raised an eyebrow at the stupid elevator doors that were delaying him. He punched the button lightly, and the lights flickered and the doors got stuck halfway open.
"Oops." He said, and squeezed out. Maybe he better take the stairs. It took about 5 minutes to get up to the fifth floor, and he went over to Yusuke's door, knocked, and stuck his head inside. "Hello?"
Kuwabara was sitting on the floor, playing with his cat, Eikichi (did I spell that one right?), and Yusuke was watching the same show that Forest and InuYasha were watching, a few blocks away. (I have no imagination right now ok? So sue me! No wait don't!)
"Hey Kurama, what's up? It took you long enough to get up here." Yusuke said without looking away from the TV. Kurama sighed.
"I'm aware of that. The elevator doors wouldn't close, and I had to take the stairs." He walked in the apartment and sat down in a chair, avoiding the mess that was over most of the apartment. Keiko would have thrown a fit if she had seen the mess the two teens were capable of making. Good thing Botan could come and force them to clean every once and a while.
"Yeah, stupid elevator. This whole apartment is so poor. I can't wait to get back to my own apartment back in Japan." Yusuke said, a far off look in his eyes. It was interrupted when a smelly old sock came in contact with his face and due to the amount of dirt on the bottom, stuck there. "AHH! KUWABARA!!! WHAT THE HELL?!" Yusuke screamed as he flung the sock away from his face. Kuwabara was howling with laughter.
"Urameshi you looked so stupid I just couldn't help it!" he choked out between laughs.
"You look like that all the time Kuwabara and you don't see me complaining." Yusuke growled. He and Kuwabara glared at each other for a moment, and then burst out laughing. Kurama coughed, trying to get their attention.
"Yes well, getting back to why I'm here. I need you to come with me to Spirit World. There is something I have to talk to Koenma about, and I think it would be best if you to came along as well, because it will soon involve you two." Kurama explained.
"Sure why not. We ain't got nothin' better to do. You going to make a portal?" Yusuke asked. Kurama nodded and stepped into the middle of the room, and Kuwabara scrambled out of the way. He had gotten in the way of Kurama when he had made a portal before, and his butt had been sore for weeks. Kurama reached behind his hair and pulled out a seed that had been planted there before that would open a portal for them. He grew it into a small plant and threw it on the ground, and there was a flash as the plant imploded (which is a much cooler word than exploded), and a large portal was in its place, swirling purple, blue and green. One by one the boys stepped through, disappearing into its depths, and reappearing just outside of the Spirit World palace. Kurama was the only one who remained standing and proceeded to get his bearings as the other two teens raised themselves off the ground. Kurama walked over to the door and pushed a button on an intercom.
"Hello. Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara wish to see Lord Koenma please." He said, and waited a moment. The huge doors to the gate opened up slowly and the three boys walked through the halls, down a very familiar passage to a very familiar door. Kurama knocked before entering. "Koenma?" he asked. He couldn't see anything but a desk that was covered with very large stacks of paper, and the back of a very large chair.
"Hello Kurama. Yusuke, Kuwabara. What is it exactly you wanted to see me about?" the Prince of Spirit World said. The chair swiveled and Prince Koenma stepped out from behind the desk in his true form, which was that of a toddler, pacifier and all.
Sometimes Kurama had to wonder why he always used his true form instead of the teenage one. He looked so stupid in that baby form, it was no wonder that Yusuke called him things like 'toddler-bitch' and 'baby-breath'.
"Well Koenma, it's not a what. It's a who. Hiei found a girl who has a bond with animals. She can transform into any of them, heal them, and talk to them, either telepathically, or aloud. We met up with her in a park and followed her when she left, where she found a dog half-demon who was injured, took him home with our help, and healed his wounds. She now knows about demons, and told us her information about herself willingly." Kurama explained.
"She knows about demons?! Are you sure that was the only option Kurama?" Koenma demanded, but knowing Kurama, he could tell it probably was.
"Yes, I'm afraid it was. The Inu-Hanyou had dog ears, fangs and gold eyes, as well as claws. He is also starting to heal from his wounds already, which may have roused suspicion. The Hanyou's name is Inu-Yasha." Kurama said. Koenma looked startled by that last bit of information.
"Did you say he's a dog half-demon named InuYasha? That's impossible. He lived over 500 years ago in Japan!" Koenma exclaimed.
"I assure you, that is who it was." Kurama said calmly. "And I would like to have Yusuke, Kuwabara, Botan, Hiei, myself, and if you can leave yourself, to go and meet this girl. Not in this life or my past one have I ever heard of a normal human girl like this have these powers. And she is not a human psychic either. It is like her energy is that of an animal, though not a specific one." Kurama waited patiently for Koenma's answer, and Yusuke and Kuwabara were unusually silent.
"I think I'll have to go see the girl myself. I haven't seen anything like you have described either, and I think there is someone else involved in this. I wonder if he will also make an appearance when we pay our little visit." He pressed an intercom button on his desk. "Botan, please come to my office." He said into the little microphone clearly and a little loudly. The ferry girl bustled through the door a few minutes later.
"Yes sir?" she asked in her overly happy voice. She was always overly happy. A good thing if your boss often lost his temper like hers did.
"Botan, we're starting a misson. Tomorrow, you are to meet at this address at 12:30. The rest of the team, including myself will be there. Understood?" Botan nodded. If Koenma was going, it must be important.
Botan was right in thinking so. The whole thing would become a lot more important than anyone could have thought.
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END!!
Forest: I'm baaaaccckkk…… And my parents brought me stuff!! SCORE!
Hiei: ((now in full size, along with everyone else)) I still can't believe you had to take us with you. That was incredibly boring,
Other Bishounen including Kuwabara, excluding Kurama: ((nods))
Forest: Some friends….
Kenshin: Well you did force us Forest, that you did.
Forest: ((ish sad)) Oh Kenshin….ME SORRY!!
Kouga: Sure you are.
Forest: Hey you're not supposed to be bad!
Kouga: I am if I was shrunk down to the size of an action figure and then shoved in a box!!
Forest: Let it go!!! Jeez! Anyways, I have to go cause my sister is making me!! ((starts to cry)) And thankies Sakura! I love you too!!!!!!
Deuce: ((brings a box of tissues)) Bowruuu….
Everyone: Awww…. (and one hn.)
Forest: Aw poor Deucer is acting all weird…My poor baby! But he got a new collar with shinies on it! I WANT A COLLAR WITH SHINIES!!! Oh well… I'll have to save my money!!!!! YEAH RIGHT!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!
Sanosuke: Who forgot to give her her medication!?
Forest: I took it but I had candy!! IT COUNTERS IT!! MUAHA! Ok I'm done, and it's time for sleepies!! Nighty Night Bishounen! ((falls asleep on her bed, after locking the door to make sure bishies don't escape))
Hiei: ((has a black marker in his hand)) Lets have a little fun here……… Read and review.
