Rea: chapter 20…wow! hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own YuYu Hakusho or Monopoly…yeah…
Chapter 20
"YUUUUUUUUUUUUSKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Yusuke looked up from the TV and stared at the hallway, the supposed source of the voice. He saw no one coming so he turned back to the seductive TV and continued channel surfing.
"Hey, Urameshi, I think someone wants to talk to you," Kuwabara said, glancing out to the hallway. Yusuke shrugged and continued flipping through the many channels.
"If they want to talk so badly they'll come and find me. Besides, I didn't recognize the voice. Did you?"
Kuwabara shook his head and turned back to watching Yusuke channel surf with surprising experience. Yusuke finally gave up and yelled.
"HOW CAN THERE BE OVER 1,000 CHANNELS AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ON!" he yelled, receiving a glare from Hiei. Hiei turned back to glaring out the window when Yusuke yelled again.
"Why don't you just shut up, Yusuke?" Hiei asked, venom dripping from his voice. He looked over to Yusuke and found him lying on the ground with two little fairy people jumping on his head. Kuwabara was making odd sounds, as if he wasn't quite sure as to laugh or not. Kurama walked into the room and smiled.
"YusukeYusukeYusukeYuskeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" the fairies shouted as they jumped on his head.
"Yes?" he asked, trying to get up.
The one with white hair was jumping hardest and took a large breath before speaking. "Koenma sent us to tell you—"
"—that…um…Ali? What were we supposed to tell him?" The one with red hair stopped jumping and looked at the other fairy. Ali looked at the red head and rolled her eyes.
"Rea! We're supposed to tell him that she's gone!" Ali said, rolling her eyes and hitting Rea upside the head. Rea clutched her head.
"OW! Oh yeah! Hey Yusuke! Guess what!" she nearly yelled.
"Someone's gone?" Yusuke asked, pulling the two fairies off his head. Ali and Rea looked at each other before smiling at Yusuke.
"How did you know?" Ali asked.
Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara, and Hiei sweat-dropped. "It was a wild guess," Yusuke finally said. Rea and Ali smiled.
"Okay," Rea said, "can you guess who's missing?"
"There's two!" Ali chimed in.
Yusuke rolled his eyes. "I don't know. How about you two tell me?"
Rea and Ali nodded. "Minna and Icama are missing!"
Time seemed to freeze in the room as the gang absorbed the news. Kurama was first to recover.
"When did Koenma find out?" he asked, leaning in towards the two fairies. Rea and Ali looked at each other. They shrugged and turned to Kurama.
"We don't really know—" Ali began.
Rea picked it up."—because Koenma didn't feel like telling us. Maybe you should—"
"—go ask him?" Ali finished.
Kurama nodded and headed for the hall. Kuwabara and Yusuke quickly followed. Hiei didn't move. He simply sat on the windowsill and stared at where the fairies had been before they flew off.
Hiei escaped into thought. How did she get captured? She doesn't trust anyone except… Realization crossed his face.
Shit.
.:With Icama and Minna:.
"What do you want with me, Icama?" Minna asked groggily. She had just woken up after sleeping for a really, really long time. The poison was still affecting her a bit, making her drowsy and unfocused.
Icama laughed. "That's for me to know and you to find out."
Minna smirked.
"Always the mature one, weren't you, Ikki?" Minna asked. Minna studied Icama's face when she used the old name. Icama's face almost went blank as a flicker formed behind her eyes. Almost as quickly as that happened, however, it was gone. The new Icama still had control of the old Icama. It was no use.
Minna tried to move into a more comfortable position but found that her arms were bound. Minna moved her head to examine the bonds but her hands and arms fell into darkness, making her unable to see them. Minna sighed as she turned back to Icama.
Icama stared back at Minna. She looked like she was studying her; as if she were trying to find a weakness in the abomination of the dark and light.
"Why do you try to be strong, Minna?" Icama asked. "It's no use. You'll give in eventually."
Minna smiled. "I can't give in, Icama. It's sort of…a part of myself. So many people have told me to never give in…you were one of them." Minna looked directly into Icama's eyes. "We were really little. I think that we had just met. We were playing a board game because Koenma was talking with your parents and he made me hang out with you. I didn't want to at first because you seemed really quiet and shy. I wanted to go and train with Hiei or run around or something but I was stuck with you. So we went into my room. You looked around and sort of made a face. I asked you what was wrong and you said that my room was weird." Minna laughed feebly. Her energy was draining.
"I asked you why you thought it was weird and you shrugged. You sort of raised your status in my book when you spoke your mind like that. You looked around some more and found Monopoly," Minna laughed again. "I always hated that game. You said that you liked it, though, and my 'mission' was to keep you busy. So we played for a while and I ended up loosing ten times. I finally threw the board across the room and pouted in my chair.
"You laughed. You said that I was a bad loser. I guess I was. I got mad at you for saying that, though, and I said that there wasn't any point in doing something if you couldn't win. You stared me down and said 'quitters never win.' I asked you what you meant and said that no one should ever give up on anything. Ever." Minna studied her bare feet. Someone had taken them off while she was unconscious, obviously. Minna's energy was draining further so that she couldn't even lift her head without effort. Icama scoffed.
"I was stupid back then, Minna. Giving up is the easy way out. Giving up allows the stronger people to take over and make this Hell-hole a better place," Icama said quietly. Minna smiled.
"That really isn't you then, is it?" Minna asked, lifting her head painfully. "Because the Icama that I knew…would never cuss."
Icama sent her a nasty look. A sharp pain coursed through Minna's body before she blacked out again, leaving a fuming Icama alone in the cavernous room.
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Rea: WOW! that was a long one! hehe…such fun to write!
thanks to reviewers:
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