"Obligation and Duty"
Chapter 28
.oO{Yoshihiro Togashi is the owner of YYH. I'm the owner of OaD. Don't sue.}
#Ryou points# You don't own everything in OaD#smirks#
#Author# No. I'm actually thinking about discontinuing it, too. I'll guess we'll see. Also, I have NO idea when the months and such are. For now I'm saying this is all happening in the fall. #sighs#
*****
Rei took a step back when Hiei walked towards her, but then she remembered they were only wrestling.
"Yeah, right. Bring it on," she smirked. He raised an eyebrow and used his speed to get behind her. He grabbed her arms and tried to put her in a sleeper hold when she asked, "There's no rules, is there?"
"No. Just don't kill him," Yusuke answered right before Rei kicked backwards and hit Hiei in the groin. He let go right then and sank to his knees, looking up at her with wide-eyes.
"Oh, don't look at me like that. You should've expexted it," Rei said as she sat down on the couch.
"Aren't you going to finish him off?" Yusuke asked, feeling quite sorry for Hiei.
"Nah, he won," she said and turned on the tv. Hiei clenched his teeth and sent her a telepathic message: 'I'm going to get you back for this one.'
'Go ahead,' she smirked. Kurama could tell that Hiei was about ready to smack her, so he sat down on the couch too. Coincidentally, WWF was on tv right then so they watched it. It was 1:30 when they all finally went to bed.
"'Night, guys," Rei said, standing up. Yusuke looked up at her from where he was sitting on the floor, "Can I sleep in your room tonight?"
"No, sleep on the couch," she said, sticking out her tongue. He pouted and she headed for her room.
***
Waking up late, Rei rolled over and just about squished Chiba.
"Oh! Sorry boy," she sat up. "Actually, I'm not really sure if you're a boy..."
"He is," Botan said. Rei looked up, quite startled that Botan was there.
"What's up?"
"You scared me."
"Sorry," Botan said, sitting on the edge of the bed. She twiddled her thumbs and Rei said, "Botan, why do you do this? Why are you here?"
She turned to Rei, "I really came to see Yusuke, but he's not here. Also, I did a little research on what little we knew about Chiba here."
Rei turned to her pet and said, "What did you find out?"
"He's really an animal. Rare, though not a hybrid or something like the others Tarukane had. His species is called 'kinena'. They only get about 18-24 centimeters tall and are very protective. It seems they are so protective that they won't even go near any other species besides their own."
Rei looked at Chiba, "But he comes near us."
"I know, that's why I dug a little deeper with some things..." Botan started nervously. "Kinenas are almost demon animals, and they get so protective that they protect even their mate's friends. I was going to do a blood sample on Chiba to see if he wasn't grafted with another animal, but that's when I found out something else."
"Oh no," Rei sighed.
"That's right. You have a little Kinena blood in you."
"How in the world did that happen!?" Rei stood up on her bed. Botan tried to settle her down. "I don't know. You father was a yukai. There's quite a few possibilities. But there's also something else."
Rei groaned and sat back down. "When you turn 15 you'll be able to turn into a kinena, more or less."
"WHAT THE?!?!" Rei jumped back up again. There was a knock on the wall and they heard Hiei say, "Quiet down." Rei sat down and leaned forward, "Explain quickly before I hurt you."
Botan backed away and answered, "Well, it's your demon form. Since you're half-demon, you can actually turn into a half-kinena thingy. Y'know, tail and all."
Rei turned to the wall and started hitting her head against it. Botan stood up, "Don't do that, Rei!" Rei turned to her, "How do I turn into my demon form?"
"I'm not really sure. That's something you'll have to find out when you turn 15. But anyways, back to Chiba."
Rei nodded and sat down, "Right. What else did you find out?"
"Since Chiba is a kinena, he's going to protect you since he pretty much chose you. As a mate, I'm not sure," Botan bit her lip and Rei raised her eyebrow at Chiba.
"You better not have," Rei told him. He just cocked his head to the side and peeped, "Phwee."
"Since me and the guys are your friends, he won't harm us. He'll protect us. And he'll do the same to everyone else he feels is your friend."
Rei picked Chiba up by the foot, "How much protection can he give? He's smaller than my head."
Botan reached into her pocket and pulled out what looked like a powder compact, "That's exactly what I thought. I'll have to asked Koenma-sama." Botan flipped open the compact and Rei moved down the bed to look at it. Koenma appeared and Botan asked him the question.
"Hmm... I don't have the information here right now, and I can't stop to check for it. I'll send one of the ogres to look for it," Koenma said. Botan nodded and said goodbye.
"Well, I guess we're stuck for a little while," she shrugged.
***
Rei and Botan went into the kitchen to make the two guys lunch. Kurama was out in the garden, sighing over the plants that were turning in for the winter. Rei went outside and said, "If you keep doing that, you're going to get depressed."
"I know. But they were so beautiful," Kurama played with a few seeds and petals in his hand. Rei looked up on her roof and saw Hiei in his usual place. "Why don't you come down? It's time to eat."
Hiei glared and her and not until she went back inside did he come down. Both the boys ate quickly and went back outside. Botan and Rei put the food away as Chiba ate his share from his cup.
"What's wrong with Hiei? Did you do something?" Botan asked, drying off the dishes. Rei laughed, "We were wrestling last night."
"Oh no," Botan laughed. "You don't have to go into any more detail."
Rei winked and stuck out her tongue. She looked back to the dishes with a nervous twitch. .oO{There's that power again. I've felt it before...}
The girls finished cleaning the kitchen, so they went outside to help Kurama take the seeds off of the dried flowers.
"What are these for?" Botan asked, putting hers into the bag. Kurama toyed with the dried flower and sighed again, "They're for me to use."
Botan looked to Rei, who just gave her an 'I'll-tell-you-later' look. Rei had a thought, "Ohh! It's been a while since I've taken a walk in my woods. You wanna come?"
Kurama shook his head, and Botan shrugged. Rei shrugged back so the girls went off to the path. They walked through and stopped at the hot spring.
"Hmmm... that looks really good right now," Rei said. She checked it out and noticed it was perfectly clean, so she started taking off her jacket.
"Oh my gosh! You're actually going to go in?" Botan asked. Rei looked at her incredulously and nodded, "Of course. It's nice and warm."
Rei pulled off her blue button-up shirt and Botan asked, "What about the guys? You're stripping right here and what if they come looking for us?"
Before Rei could answer, they heard Hiei. "The ditz has a point."
Rei looked above her to one of the trees. "So, like this isn't anything you haven't seen before?" she said, holding her arms out giving him a full view of her in her bra and jeans. Hiei looked her over and turned away. He jumped to the next tree and got out of there.
"I don't think he'll come back," Rei said, slipping off her pants. Botan nodded a little and started stripping too. They got into the spring and talked until the sun started to go down. Rei was asking questions like 'Why when I'm 15?' or 'Why do I have to have a demon form?' Botan tried to answer them the best she could.
"Because in Kinena years, 15 would be the time they start maturing enough to go out into the world. And I don't know why you have to have a demon form. You just do."
Rei nodded and they got out to go back home.
"Hmm... I hate putting clothes back on without drying," Rei growled as she used her shirt as a towel. She pulled on the rest of her clothes, but used her jacket for a shirt instead. They walked back to the shrine and noticed Yusuke's shoes there. Rei opened the door and saw Yusuke lying on the couch with Kurama and Hiei talking to him. He was scratched up and a bit dirty.
"What's wrong?" Rei asked, coming over to his side. Kurama answered for him, "Toguro is back."
"Toguro? You mean that guy you beat at Tarukane's?" she asked. They all finally remembered she hadn't been with them. Kurama quickly explained everything that had happened and she soon understood.
"Yeah, so I have to go train," Yusuke said, sitting up. Rei pushed him back down, though. "No, first I need to clean off these scrapes."
He didn't protest as she got out the peroxide since he was busy talking to Hiei and Kurama. There was a ring at the door and Botan went to answer it. Kuwabara came in and asked Yusuke, "That was Toguro, wasn't it?!"
Yusuke nodded, "Yeah, and as soon as Rei lets me leave, I'm going to Genkai's."
"To train?"
"Yeah. You can train here with Hiei and Kurama."
Rei finished cleaning Yusuke up and he finished his plans with the three guys. He clapped his hands together and sat up, "All right. See you guys in two months."
***
The month ended and Rei was starting to wonder if Yusuke would come back for her birthday party that he himself had planned. Hiei, Kurama and Kuwabara kept her company though.
"Hiei is too easy with him," Kurama muttered over his drink. He was sitting in the kitchen as Rei was washing the dishes.
"What?" she asked, half listening. Kurama looked up and said, "Hiei is being too easy on Kuwabara."
"How do you mean?" Rei put away a few cups. Kurama shook his head and finished his drink. He set it in the sink and walked out the door.
"Well, I wonder what that was about?" Rei put her hands on her hips. Botan appeared at the door and said, "One more day! You'll be 15!!"
Rei hit her head with her fist, "You just had to remind me."
Botan sat at the table, "Aw, c'mon. Aren't you a little curious as to what you'll look like?"
"Curiousity has never been my good point," Rei answered. Rei got out two glasses and set the on the table along with the orange soda. Chiba was playing in the sink, somewhat swimming in the clean water Rei had run for him.
"I thought cats hated water," Botan looked at him. Rei shrugged, "Chiba's just weird."
There was a small 'phwee' so Rei apologized. Botan helped Rei clean the rest of the house as the guys trained. It was 10 o'clock when they finally came back in.
"I'm hungry," Kuwabara panted. He was all sweaty and smelled noticably worse than the other two.
"Woohf... you guys are dirty. Go back outside, I'll bring your food," Rei stood up and ushered them out. Botan helped her dish up their rice and gave them their cans of pop. It was around 11 when Botan and Rei finally got to rest.
"Those guys are really training," Botan said as she fluffed the blankets on Rei's bed. They were switching off each time Botan came over. Rei got the bed last time, so she was in the sleeping bag on the floor.
"Yeah, I hope they train enough though. Kurama said the ways to lose the fights were: 1. touching anything other than the ring after the match has started; 2. Getting killed; 3. being unable to fight any longer, like, getting knocked out or something... I think that was it," Rei counted on her fingers. Botan nodded and finished putting her hair up.
"Well, tomorrow you'll be 15!" Botan cheered. Rei threw her pillow at her and laid down.
***
Rei woke up next morning to Botan's giggling. Looking up groggily, she asked, "What?"
"I think you should look in the mirror," Botan grinned. Rei stood up and just about fell over when she saw her reflection.
Chapter 28
.oO{Yoshihiro Togashi is the owner of YYH. I'm the owner of OaD. Don't sue.}
#Ryou points# You don't own everything in OaD#smirks#
#Author# No. I'm actually thinking about discontinuing it, too. I'll guess we'll see. Also, I have NO idea when the months and such are. For now I'm saying this is all happening in the fall. #sighs#
*****
Rei took a step back when Hiei walked towards her, but then she remembered they were only wrestling.
"Yeah, right. Bring it on," she smirked. He raised an eyebrow and used his speed to get behind her. He grabbed her arms and tried to put her in a sleeper hold when she asked, "There's no rules, is there?"
"No. Just don't kill him," Yusuke answered right before Rei kicked backwards and hit Hiei in the groin. He let go right then and sank to his knees, looking up at her with wide-eyes.
"Oh, don't look at me like that. You should've expexted it," Rei said as she sat down on the couch.
"Aren't you going to finish him off?" Yusuke asked, feeling quite sorry for Hiei.
"Nah, he won," she said and turned on the tv. Hiei clenched his teeth and sent her a telepathic message: 'I'm going to get you back for this one.'
'Go ahead,' she smirked. Kurama could tell that Hiei was about ready to smack her, so he sat down on the couch too. Coincidentally, WWF was on tv right then so they watched it. It was 1:30 when they all finally went to bed.
"'Night, guys," Rei said, standing up. Yusuke looked up at her from where he was sitting on the floor, "Can I sleep in your room tonight?"
"No, sleep on the couch," she said, sticking out her tongue. He pouted and she headed for her room.
***
Waking up late, Rei rolled over and just about squished Chiba.
"Oh! Sorry boy," she sat up. "Actually, I'm not really sure if you're a boy..."
"He is," Botan said. Rei looked up, quite startled that Botan was there.
"What's up?"
"You scared me."
"Sorry," Botan said, sitting on the edge of the bed. She twiddled her thumbs and Rei said, "Botan, why do you do this? Why are you here?"
She turned to Rei, "I really came to see Yusuke, but he's not here. Also, I did a little research on what little we knew about Chiba here."
Rei turned to her pet and said, "What did you find out?"
"He's really an animal. Rare, though not a hybrid or something like the others Tarukane had. His species is called 'kinena'. They only get about 18-24 centimeters tall and are very protective. It seems they are so protective that they won't even go near any other species besides their own."
Rei looked at Chiba, "But he comes near us."
"I know, that's why I dug a little deeper with some things..." Botan started nervously. "Kinenas are almost demon animals, and they get so protective that they protect even their mate's friends. I was going to do a blood sample on Chiba to see if he wasn't grafted with another animal, but that's when I found out something else."
"Oh no," Rei sighed.
"That's right. You have a little Kinena blood in you."
"How in the world did that happen!?" Rei stood up on her bed. Botan tried to settle her down. "I don't know. You father was a yukai. There's quite a few possibilities. But there's also something else."
Rei groaned and sat back down. "When you turn 15 you'll be able to turn into a kinena, more or less."
"WHAT THE?!?!" Rei jumped back up again. There was a knock on the wall and they heard Hiei say, "Quiet down." Rei sat down and leaned forward, "Explain quickly before I hurt you."
Botan backed away and answered, "Well, it's your demon form. Since you're half-demon, you can actually turn into a half-kinena thingy. Y'know, tail and all."
Rei turned to the wall and started hitting her head against it. Botan stood up, "Don't do that, Rei!" Rei turned to her, "How do I turn into my demon form?"
"I'm not really sure. That's something you'll have to find out when you turn 15. But anyways, back to Chiba."
Rei nodded and sat down, "Right. What else did you find out?"
"Since Chiba is a kinena, he's going to protect you since he pretty much chose you. As a mate, I'm not sure," Botan bit her lip and Rei raised her eyebrow at Chiba.
"You better not have," Rei told him. He just cocked his head to the side and peeped, "Phwee."
"Since me and the guys are your friends, he won't harm us. He'll protect us. And he'll do the same to everyone else he feels is your friend."
Rei picked Chiba up by the foot, "How much protection can he give? He's smaller than my head."
Botan reached into her pocket and pulled out what looked like a powder compact, "That's exactly what I thought. I'll have to asked Koenma-sama." Botan flipped open the compact and Rei moved down the bed to look at it. Koenma appeared and Botan asked him the question.
"Hmm... I don't have the information here right now, and I can't stop to check for it. I'll send one of the ogres to look for it," Koenma said. Botan nodded and said goodbye.
"Well, I guess we're stuck for a little while," she shrugged.
***
Rei and Botan went into the kitchen to make the two guys lunch. Kurama was out in the garden, sighing over the plants that were turning in for the winter. Rei went outside and said, "If you keep doing that, you're going to get depressed."
"I know. But they were so beautiful," Kurama played with a few seeds and petals in his hand. Rei looked up on her roof and saw Hiei in his usual place. "Why don't you come down? It's time to eat."
Hiei glared and her and not until she went back inside did he come down. Both the boys ate quickly and went back outside. Botan and Rei put the food away as Chiba ate his share from his cup.
"What's wrong with Hiei? Did you do something?" Botan asked, drying off the dishes. Rei laughed, "We were wrestling last night."
"Oh no," Botan laughed. "You don't have to go into any more detail."
Rei winked and stuck out her tongue. She looked back to the dishes with a nervous twitch. .oO{There's that power again. I've felt it before...}
The girls finished cleaning the kitchen, so they went outside to help Kurama take the seeds off of the dried flowers.
"What are these for?" Botan asked, putting hers into the bag. Kurama toyed with the dried flower and sighed again, "They're for me to use."
Botan looked to Rei, who just gave her an 'I'll-tell-you-later' look. Rei had a thought, "Ohh! It's been a while since I've taken a walk in my woods. You wanna come?"
Kurama shook his head, and Botan shrugged. Rei shrugged back so the girls went off to the path. They walked through and stopped at the hot spring.
"Hmmm... that looks really good right now," Rei said. She checked it out and noticed it was perfectly clean, so she started taking off her jacket.
"Oh my gosh! You're actually going to go in?" Botan asked. Rei looked at her incredulously and nodded, "Of course. It's nice and warm."
Rei pulled off her blue button-up shirt and Botan asked, "What about the guys? You're stripping right here and what if they come looking for us?"
Before Rei could answer, they heard Hiei. "The ditz has a point."
Rei looked above her to one of the trees. "So, like this isn't anything you haven't seen before?" she said, holding her arms out giving him a full view of her in her bra and jeans. Hiei looked her over and turned away. He jumped to the next tree and got out of there.
"I don't think he'll come back," Rei said, slipping off her pants. Botan nodded a little and started stripping too. They got into the spring and talked until the sun started to go down. Rei was asking questions like 'Why when I'm 15?' or 'Why do I have to have a demon form?' Botan tried to answer them the best she could.
"Because in Kinena years, 15 would be the time they start maturing enough to go out into the world. And I don't know why you have to have a demon form. You just do."
Rei nodded and they got out to go back home.
"Hmm... I hate putting clothes back on without drying," Rei growled as she used her shirt as a towel. She pulled on the rest of her clothes, but used her jacket for a shirt instead. They walked back to the shrine and noticed Yusuke's shoes there. Rei opened the door and saw Yusuke lying on the couch with Kurama and Hiei talking to him. He was scratched up and a bit dirty.
"What's wrong?" Rei asked, coming over to his side. Kurama answered for him, "Toguro is back."
"Toguro? You mean that guy you beat at Tarukane's?" she asked. They all finally remembered she hadn't been with them. Kurama quickly explained everything that had happened and she soon understood.
"Yeah, so I have to go train," Yusuke said, sitting up. Rei pushed him back down, though. "No, first I need to clean off these scrapes."
He didn't protest as she got out the peroxide since he was busy talking to Hiei and Kurama. There was a ring at the door and Botan went to answer it. Kuwabara came in and asked Yusuke, "That was Toguro, wasn't it?!"
Yusuke nodded, "Yeah, and as soon as Rei lets me leave, I'm going to Genkai's."
"To train?"
"Yeah. You can train here with Hiei and Kurama."
Rei finished cleaning Yusuke up and he finished his plans with the three guys. He clapped his hands together and sat up, "All right. See you guys in two months."
***
The month ended and Rei was starting to wonder if Yusuke would come back for her birthday party that he himself had planned. Hiei, Kurama and Kuwabara kept her company though.
"Hiei is too easy with him," Kurama muttered over his drink. He was sitting in the kitchen as Rei was washing the dishes.
"What?" she asked, half listening. Kurama looked up and said, "Hiei is being too easy on Kuwabara."
"How do you mean?" Rei put away a few cups. Kurama shook his head and finished his drink. He set it in the sink and walked out the door.
"Well, I wonder what that was about?" Rei put her hands on her hips. Botan appeared at the door and said, "One more day! You'll be 15!!"
Rei hit her head with her fist, "You just had to remind me."
Botan sat at the table, "Aw, c'mon. Aren't you a little curious as to what you'll look like?"
"Curiousity has never been my good point," Rei answered. Rei got out two glasses and set the on the table along with the orange soda. Chiba was playing in the sink, somewhat swimming in the clean water Rei had run for him.
"I thought cats hated water," Botan looked at him. Rei shrugged, "Chiba's just weird."
There was a small 'phwee' so Rei apologized. Botan helped Rei clean the rest of the house as the guys trained. It was 10 o'clock when they finally came back in.
"I'm hungry," Kuwabara panted. He was all sweaty and smelled noticably worse than the other two.
"Woohf... you guys are dirty. Go back outside, I'll bring your food," Rei stood up and ushered them out. Botan helped her dish up their rice and gave them their cans of pop. It was around 11 when Botan and Rei finally got to rest.
"Those guys are really training," Botan said as she fluffed the blankets on Rei's bed. They were switching off each time Botan came over. Rei got the bed last time, so she was in the sleeping bag on the floor.
"Yeah, I hope they train enough though. Kurama said the ways to lose the fights were: 1. touching anything other than the ring after the match has started; 2. Getting killed; 3. being unable to fight any longer, like, getting knocked out or something... I think that was it," Rei counted on her fingers. Botan nodded and finished putting her hair up.
"Well, tomorrow you'll be 15!" Botan cheered. Rei threw her pillow at her and laid down.
***
Rei woke up next morning to Botan's giggling. Looking up groggily, she asked, "What?"
"I think you should look in the mirror," Botan grinned. Rei stood up and just about fell over when she saw her reflection.
