Forest: ((is on a pirate ship setting off a cannon)) Die Captain No Pants!
Hiei: What the hell!
Forest: Arr, I be killin' that scallywag of a pirate Captain No Pants! He says I stole his ship, the S.S Better than Your Ship! I didn't! I just stole the name!
Captain No Pants: And for that you will die! ((fires cannon))
Kurama/InuYasha: O.o…
Hiei: What is wrong with you? Isn't that your cousin?
Forest: Yes but he desecrated my honor! I just stole the name idiot! ((fires little toy cannon and hits Captain No Pants in the forehead.))
Captain No Pants: ((gasps)) Oh no you didn't! Go forth my helicopter teenage mutant ninja turtles with laser eyes! Board her ship and take all demons captive! My turtles will kill your demon crew!
Sesshomaru: ((raises eyebrow)) Demon crew?
InuYasha: I didn't agree to that!
Hiei/Akiyo/Kouga/Kurama/Miroku: Neither did I!
Forest: Miroku you're not a demon!
Miroku: Oh yeah! So I just get to sit there then! Sweet deal!
Forest: And you all will be my pirate crew! Including you Yusuke you're a part demon that counts! ((grabs a box of pirate clothes and puts them on all the demons)) Ahaha! Now go fight the turtles!
All the demons: ((looking at their pirate clothes))….
Forest: Ahhh! The turtles are here! ((looks at turtles crawling on to deck)) Fight! Go! ((gets in a sword fight with a turtle))
Hiei: Why do we always have to do crazy things for this baka onna?
Kouga: No idea.
All: ((start fighting evil turtles))
Forest: Avast ye scallywags! I own my own characters only! If ye can't figure that out you be a moron! ((fights cousin's evil turtles))
"My team? These guys are my team?" Forest asked, trying to keep her eyes from popping out of her head.
"Yes. I hope you will all work together to stop this threat. Now Midoriko should be arriving with the other two in about 15 seconds." Kiba said as he looked at the clock on the TV (from my digital cable box! It's legal!). Sure enough, in 15 seconds Midoriko appeared once more with two more people.
"Ah! Sesshomaru what the hell?" InuYasha yelled. "And that damn wolf? I'm not working with them!"
Sesshomaru looked around the room, his eyes finally resting on InuYasha. "Hello little brother. Normally I would not agree to work with humans and half breeds such as yourself, but I think it would be wise to obey a goddess' orders don't you?"
"And what do you mean a damn wolf you mutt?" Kouga demanded.
"Peace you three. You will in fact work with each other. All of you must. There is no way this will work without you all. You must also share your wisdom with each other. Share your skills, and everyone will benefit. You must also collect more people to the side of good, for we alone will not survive this threat." Midoriko said. She looked like she was going to say something else when she suddenly cocked her head to one side, as though listening to something. "I am sorry, I must leave. Kiba, please fill in the others, and do what you must. Good luck to you all." And she was gone.
"Wait a minute. You mean, that we have to fight in a war with all these weird people we don't even know? I mean who are these people?" Yusuke said.
"The two newcomers are Sesshomaru, and Kouga. There is InuYasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kilala. For you, this is Yusuke Urameshi, Kazuma Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, Botan, and Lord Koenma."
Koenma sighed. "It's nice to get called 'Lord Koenma' instead of 'toddler'."
"Don't get used to it toddler. Hey is there something wrong with her?" Yusuke said pointing at Forest, who was sitting on the ground with her knees pulled up to her chest, nervously ripping a piece of paper up. Her eyes darted around the room.
"Uh, sorry. Excuse me please. Sorry.." was all she could ramble. Really a big crowd of strangers upset her a lot. And she was supposed to spend how long with all of them? There was no way she would be able to do it. "Uh I need to…outside." She went to the sliding patio door and opened it, being followed by Deuce who she had failed to notice in her nervousness. Once there, she turned her leg muscles into ones similar to a cat's, and jumped up into a large branch of her favorite tree. She closed her eyes and leaned against the trunk, hitting her head against it repeatedly. Deuce sat down below, keeping watch.
It wasn't just the fact that she was surrounded by such a large group of strange humanoids, but also that she just found out there was more than one god. The fact that there were more than just a few demons close by, and the fact she had to trust these people to ultimately save a part of the world that was more common to her than human nature. Her, someone who always knew there was something different about her, was a wild god's chosen. It really was too much. There was a sudden rustling and Deuce growled below. She opened one eye to see the bat demon, whose name had escaped her, settling on her branch.
"Hello." He said in a pleasant, easygoing voice. "My name is Akiyo. You looked pretty freaked out in there, I wanted to make sure you were alright." Deuce, being way too overprotective, began his big booming bark. "Ouch, loud little thing isn't he?"
"Yeah. Deuce be quiet." The barking ceased. "Uh yeah. I'm alright I guess. Just being pulled into this it's….weird…Yeah I'm Forest."
"Yes I know. I find your house very interesting by the way. I've never been in a human house. There are so many weird things here!"
Forest looked at him curiously. "Where are you from then?"
"The Eastern province of the Makai. I must also say it's a lot quieter here too. There's always war between the clans in the Makai. I like the quiet, it doesn't hurt my ears." He wiggled his long bat ears at her and she giggled. "Do you want to go back inside? I think everyone's waiting for you to cool down a bit before they get talking again."
Forest looked over towards the house. "Yeah, having a house full of strangers isn't really an appealing thought. I gotta leave the door open this time though. When there's too many people in a place I freak out a bit." She stretched out a bit and jumped to the ground. Akiyo also jumped down, making sure his wings were folded close to his body so he wouldn't get them caught on any branches. "One thing though…" Forest started, looking over at Akiyo who had began to walk inside, but stopped. "Can I see your wings?"
Akiyo laughed but walked over and spread them out. Forest looked at them. "Whooo. So awesome! You made my day Akiyo!" She laughed. They walked back inside, Deuce following close behind. Once inside, Forest grabbed the coffee table and pulled it nearer to the door, then sat on it. "Now that I've had a breather…..Ok. So…..What are we going to do exactly?" Saying this, she was completely oblivious to rather large argument taking place with Kouga, Sesshomaru and InuYasha.
"I will not work with the bastard of a brother of mine!" (Guess who? Aha)
"I don't think we have a choice in the matter little brother."
"And what about that damn wolf! I don't want him near me!"
"As if I would leave Kagome alone here with only you to protect her!"
"This is where she always goes you idiot!"
"Well technically not this place…"
"Stay out of this Kagome I can handle this damn mutt!"
"I would rephrase your words wolf. My brother may be a half-demon, but he is a dog demon. Our clan could destroy yours without a thought."
"Finally he says something good about me."
"I was protecting our clan name, not you. I would really care less whether you live or die, although your death would make the world a much better place."
Deuce go outside, you too Emma.—Forest said silently. She went up behind the new demons and tapped them on the shoulders, muttering the words "Follow them." She also jerked her thumb out the door at Kurama, who nodded and walked outside. Forest calmly walked over to Deuce's "box", a plastic basket that held his leash and such things, and pulled out a silent dog whistle. The humans and gods all looked on in amusement as Forest put in a pair of orange earplugs and put the shiny silver whistle to her mouth, and blew.
"AHHH!" InuYasha and Kouga screamed putting their hands over their ears. Sesshomaru grimaced and shut his eyes in pain. He held one arm up to cover his one ear.
Forest stopped the whistle and pulled the earplugs out of her ears(well duh…). "Drastic measures needed to be taken there. Fighting like morons like that. Pathetic! By the way I'm Forest!"
She took a closer look at the newcomers. Sesshomaru was tall, but about the same size as Kouga, the wolf. Sesshomaru wore a silk kimono, white with red patterns on them, a piece of armor over one shoulder, and a plate that went over his stomach and chest. On his waist he had a yellow and purple tie belt thing, and two swords, one in a sheath and one without. He wore silk baggy pants and simple black boots. The most intriguing thing about his outfit to her was a bug fluffy thing on his shoulder. It was very long, and looked extremely soft. He was himself, a very hansom (understatement!) man, with long silver hair like InuYasha, but longer, and parted at the front. He had twin stripes of a magenta color, demon markings Forest figured, on his cheeks and on his wrists. He also had a blue crescent moon on his forehead, just above his golden eyes, also the same as InuYasha. She was disappointed to see that although he was a dog demon, like InuYasha, his ears were simply pointed instead of actually being dog ears. He had fangs in his mouth, and his hands were clawed. Wait a minute, he only had one arm! She wondered how he had lost that arm. He looked very cold indeed as he glared at her and her evil dog whistle, but Forest guessed correctly that he didn't smile much, if at all.
Kouga, the wolf, was about the same size as Sesshomaru, slightly taller than InuYasha, and roughly the same size as Kuroi. His long hair was black, his bangs pushed up by a fur headband, and the rest tied into a high ponytail. Almost everything he wore was fur, something Forest looked at with disgust. He wore fur shoulder pads, fur legwarmer type things, and a fur covering type thing over his legs. He also wore a single piece of armor over his chest. His arms and legs were mostly bare, though at his wrists he wore fur wrist bands. He too carried a sword, tucked into a fur sash around his waist. A brown wolf tail flicked out behind him. His eyes were a sky blue, and his skin tanned, as if he spent all his time in the sun. He too had fangs, and claws, even on his feet Forest was somehow amused to see. They were bare except for a bit of cloth over his arches. He too, as well as InuYasha, glared at her.
"Sorry, but I had to break up the fighting somehow didn't I? Everyone always blames me for everything…" She muttered.
"But you're the one who blew the whistle." Kouga pointed out.
Forest shrugged her shoulders. "Doesn't matter, everyone always blames me for everything anyways." She was interrupted by the doorbell. "Uh oh. Um, everyone be quiet?" she suggested as she ran to the door silently. Maybe she could pretend to not be home? She looked out the little peephole and saw one of her best friends, Mariah, standing there with all of her sleeping stuff. Her eyes widened. "DAMN! I forgot I'm supposed to be having a sleepover! Everyone get in the backyard!" She ran through the kitchen and down the stairs, pulling everyone out of their spots and pushing them outside.
"Hey what are you doing!" Yusuke yelled as she threw him outside, in the most literal sense.
"I forgot that my friend was sleeping over for 2 nights! We made these plans like 2 months ago! God what do I do what do I do…." She started running around in circles. Kurama grabbed her shoulders, stopping her spinning rampage, and pushed her towards the door. "Go answer the door, see if there's any way to get out of it."
"But I can't! The reason she's staying is because her parents are going out of town too! Gah! What do I do what do I do…." The door bell rang four more times. "Gah!"
"Go get the damn door!" Yusuke yelled. Forest sighed and ran to the door, only after pushing Yusuke from the view of the patio door.
"Everyone stay there." She walked up to the door and was greeted by a small Filipino girl with long black hair, dressed in the punk fashion. "Hey Iya!" she said loudly using her nickname for her.
"Hey Michelle! What took ya so long?" Mariah said as she went inside and put her bags down.
"Oh um, nothing? Had to let Deuce out?" Forest said lamely. Mariah raised an eyebrow at her.
"I thought I heard voices."
"Oh um, no voices here, none at all. See look no one is here…" Forest said pointing down to the family room, without actually looking herself. "See?"
"Um, Michelle, if there's no one here, who is that?" Mariah said, pointing down to the couch where Kiba sat comfortably. A sly smile snuck it's way onto her face. "Trying to hide your boyfriend from me eh?"
Forest looked over at the wild god and crossed her arms over her chest. "So much for hiding with the others."
"Why hide? Of course it is a shame to have to hide myself, so I decided to just stay where your lovely friend could see me." Kiba said while spreading his arms out wide. He had changed his outfit from his old fashioned hunter clothes to those of a skater, wearing baggy black jeans and a dark green shirt.
"Decided to fit in a little more eh?" Forest asked him with a raised eyebrow.
"So he is your boyfriend! Why didn't you tell me!" Mariah said while punching Forest in the arm.
"He's not my boyfriend." Forest insisted. She rubbed her arm. And muttered "He's more like my boss."
"Hey! Knock it off Urameshi!" Kuwabara screamed from outside.
"Shut the hell up Kuwabara!" Yusuke yelled back.
Forest silently cursed herself. She had left the patio door open. Mariah tried to look around into the backyard, where there were several more yells and calls of "Knock it off you idiots!" "Uh, are there more people in the backyard?" She asked.
"No, what makes you think that?" Forest asked nervously. "It's just Deuce, uh…he's probably barking at the birds."
Botan peeked her head in the door and Forest slapped her forehead. "Forest can I have some tissue? Kuwabara got a nose bleed and he's crying like a baby."
Mariah raised an eyebrow. "So much for no one in the backyard. Love the hair by the way."
"Thank you!"
"Hey Botan the tissues are in the bathroom, come in, turn to the left, it's right there." Forest sighed. "Yeah there are people in the backyard. I forgot you were sleeping over. You can go set up your junk in Alex's room. I'll be right back."
"Sure….." Mariah went upstairs and Forest walked outside.
Once there, she saw that Kuwabara and Yusuke must have gotten into a fist-fight. Kuwabara lay on the ground whining and Yusuke stood, threatening to him again. Akiyo, and Kuroi were on the were standing by the tree Akiyo had talked to Forest in not too long ago, and Shikamaru was sitting all by himself in a corner of the yard, looking at everyone shyly. InuYasha was quietly talking to Kagome, Shippo was trying to get Kagome's attention, and Sango was beating Miroku into the ground, as Sesshomaru watched with no expression from the fence where he was sitting. Kurama and Hiei sat trying to laugh at Kuwabara's pain as the moron sat on the ground sniffling like a baby. Koenma however, laughed openly, and his pacifier wiggled comically in his mouth.
'Should I hide all the demons from Mariah?' Forest wondered hurriedly. 'Hm, it's probably a bad idea. She knows there's people here already, and if I have InuYasha and Shippo staying at my house, along with whoever else, she's bound to find out.'
Forest only had time to think that much however, as Mariah stepped out of the patio door, and into the chaos that was her backyard. She stared at everyone first. At all the parts that made the demons different, ears, tails, fangs, claws and wings. She stared at their clothes, the kimonos of silk and fire-rat fur, the tattered clothes of some of the demons from the Makai, the long dress-like robe that a certain short tempered fire demon wore (Hiei: Hey!). She stood there in silence, still staring, then she turned to Forest.
"Are you one too?" she asked quietly and dubiously. A look of shock was in her crystal blue eyes. "A….a demon?"
"No….wait a minute. Are you?"
Mariah stared at her hands. Suddenly, a blast of cold air came out of nowhere, and frost circled her body. When she emerged, it was the same Mariah, but she had changed. She too, was a demon.
"Mariah! I never knew….you are? Wow!" Forest said in shock. Her poor mind was taking a beating from all the surprises of the past couple days, and this did no better. She looked at her friend's new form, taking in what was different, and what was the same.
Mariah's eyes remained their icy, crystal blue color, and the unique pupils, however, at the sides, there were black swirling patterns at the sides, and underneath, long triangular marks went downwards across her cheeks. The same swirling patterns twisted across her hands and wrists. Her hair, although still long and black, had acquired several streaks of white and a light ice blue that matched her eyes. Her mouth grew fangs, and her nails grew hard and sharp, although they were not quite claws. She looked up at Forest with an odd expression in her eyes, though it didn't show on the rest of her face.
"I'm only a half demon." She said quietly, looking up to her taller friend. "My father was an ice demon from demon world. He came through a barrier to the Philippines, where he met my mother. He hides his true form too. Next time you're over, I'll get him to show you his true form." She looked away. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you before. I wasn't supposed to. There are a lot of demon hunters out there; they go after whatever demon they find, regardless of whether we do anything or not."
"It's ok. Really. Today I've been finding out a lot of secrets that were kept from me." Forest said calmly. Her mind really had taken such a beating, it was about all she could do to be calm. "And now, how about I introduce you to some of my house guests, most of which I just met."
Introductions took a long time not surprisingly, and soon most of them were inside once again, and Forest was explaining some of the common human inventions from the 21st century to a large crowd of demons and humans who had not seen anything like it before. Kagome was helping to explain some of the stuff, much to the relief of Forest, to Forest's 'team', and InuYasha's 'team', except for Sesshomaru, who was still in the backyard, and Shikamaru, who had gone missing. The Reikai Tantei had discovered the Xbox, and Kurama, getting there first, had put on the Tetris game, and was playing with Mariah, who had gone back to her human form and was yelling at the TV screen while Yusuke and Kuwabara watched. Hiei had started to dig through Forest's freezer, in hopes of finding the 'sweet snow' Forest said she had in there.
Forest was looking around in frustration when she noticed that Kiba and Kuroi had gone missing, and they had been there about 2 minutes ago.
"Gah! Where did they go, I wanted to ask Kiba something!" She exclaimed to no one. She started to put dishes in the dishwasher, so many thoughts going through her mind. She needed more answers then the ones that had been provided to her.
'Wait, what about Koenma? Isn't he a god too? Where did he go…' She looked around, and saw he wasn't there either. "Curses!" she cursed loudly. "Must have gone with Kiba…." She muttered. Botan was gone too.
"What's wrong?" Akiyo, satisfied with the little tour of human technology, had come up behind her.
She turned around to face him. "I'm still a little freaked out."
"That's understandable." He said with a nod. "I would be too."
"Yes, and I want answers. I don't know anything about any of these people, I don't know anything about what I'm supposed to do. And now, the ones who could tell me anything, are gone mysteriously." She waved her fingers around at the word 'mysteriously' and sighed.
Akiyo smirked and raised an eyebrow at her. "Who says everyone who has answers is gone?"
Forest stared at him and pulled out a chair, plopping herself down in it, then gestured to another chair for Akiyo. "Tell me everything you know." She stated.
Forest: Sorry that chapter sucked so much. My brain ish turning into GOOO! ((is attacked by a teenage mutant ninja turtle)) Hey! It's a time out when I'm talking to the readers moron! Have at thee! How ya doin' boys?
Forest's demon crew: ((all fighting TMNT))
InuYasha: We're not your demon crew! We're being forced to do this!
Yusuke: ((knocks out random turtle)) Why are we fighting your cousin's pirate turtles again?
Captain No Pants: ((from other ship)) YOU STOLE MY SHIP!
Forest: I STOLE THE NAME! JEEZ YOU NEVER LET ANYTHING GO! THAT'S WHY YOU WERE ADOPTED!
Captain No Pants: I was adopted? Wha…..((starts to cry)) I need to know my real father/mother! Turtles stop!
Hiei: He was adopted?
Forest: ((whispers)) No, but play along with it…
InuYasha: Haha, you were adopted! At least I know my scum of a full breed brother!
Sesshomaru: I will kill you InuYasha.
Forest: Not on my ship! Now that Captain No Pants is……..temporarily busy….
Captain No Pants: ((is bawling and mumbling)) Must find real family must find real family…….
Forest: Yesh well….This chapter is dedicated to……Sakura Minamino! Cause I forgot her birthday!
Hiei: ((twitch)) You forgot my wife's birthday!
Forest: You forgot where Hawaii was!
Hiei: I never knew! I can't believe you forgot her birthday!
Forest: Well, what did YOU get her then Mr. You-forgot-my-wife's-birthday?
Hiei: That's none of your business.
Forest: HA! You didn't get her anything either!
Hiei: Shut up!
Kouga: Why does everyone always fight?
Akiyo: Not sure I just got here in the last chapter. You know more than me.
Forest/Hiei: ((still arguing))
Captain No Pants: Wait, I'm not adopted! YOU LIAR OF A COUSIN! ARRR!((Shoots foam cannonball at Forest's head.))
Foam cannonball: ((explodes with green ooze.))
Forest: ((wipes ooze off.)) Dis ain't over yet buddy. BRING IT! ((Shoots toy cannonballs at Captain No Pants))
Demons and turtles: ((watch in amusement))
Kurama: Review!
Forest: Pleases with cheeses? OW! ((is hit with toy arrow))
