Welcome to the sequel of Heal Me, I'm Heartsick, Wolf's Last Cry! Now, this chapter is in Keiko Sawaguchi's POV. I'll tell you something here, Bri had a REALLY skewed view on this girl. Really, really skewed.
Full Summary: Three years after defeating the boys of the Vacant Lot and rediscovering some old ties, Bridget, Koko (Keiko Sawaguchi, don't call her Keiko, though), Kurama, and the gang are all eighteen. Most of them are in college. Tsuki Sawaguchi is still on the run after being charged with murder by Lord Enma's decree.
Tsuki does come back, though. To push Bri into Demon World—thirty years ago, Demon World. When Youko Kurama was still with Kuronue. She has no way to get back and Kuronue's crushing on her. What's a girl to do?
Meanwhile, Kurama, Yusuke, Hiei, and Koko find a way to go back in time, too, and they're off to rescue Bri. When some romance blossoms between Hiei and Bri's once-dead half-sister, will it compromise the mission? Will everything fall apart?
And what happens when they discover that Tsuki, too, cannot die?
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, it belongs to Yoshi-something. I can't remember his name to save my life, can I?
Chapter 1: Introducing Koko Wolf
Koko
The name's Koko Wolf. You call me Keiko Sawaguchi even once and you will never live to see the light of day again. Yes, I am the infamous cause to the start of Bri's un-life here in Nemoi District, Japan. I was the best friend. Our mother, Tsuki, murdered me when I heard of her plans to plant Sakyo into my father's head. She made it look like some disgraceful suicide.
Of course, we all know how well that plan went. Too well, you ask me. And the woman is still at large after three years. Three years, and the stupid Spirit World has yet to find hide nor hair of my "beloved" mother.
"Yo, Koko, I'm going to school, can you keep an eye out for Shuichi?" Bri walked into our shared room at the Minamino residence. Even I had been conned into calling Shuichi's mother Kaasan, though. I didn't live with my dad because, well, he wasn't really my dad anymore, was he?
"Sure, Neko, but you really want to trust me with your boy?" I grinned a cat's grin.
Bri knew me well. She was the one who'd shaped up my morals when my mother's had flown over the cuckoo clock. Still, it didn't hurt to play around some.
"I trust you enough to tell him to meet me at the arcade for our rematch," she grinned back. "I'll see ya, sis. Intro to Ed starts in half an hour."
"Yeah, yeah, just go ahead and leave me all alone, I'll survive."
She shoved me playfully onto the bottom bunk of our bunk bed and waved without looking back. Now, if you ever have seen Bri and me side by side, you'd be able to tell in an instant by looks alone that we were related.
We both have dark brown hair and blue eyes and we both look and act similar to cats. We are, after all, quarter cat demons. She didn't know about it until later, of course. With a mom like Tsuki, you've got to keep on your paws and slap some butts to get everything going in your brain.
We've rubbed off on each other a lot, too. She got her snippy attitude from little old me and a little of my feminine sway to the hips. Before Kurama got a hold on her, she was a little chubby round the midsection, but that has been assuaged, believe me. I get my morals from her. Tsuki didn't believe in morals. She believed in toughness, honor, and having as much fun and sex as possible. It wasn't until Bri came along that I threw the "sex" part right out the window.
I stretched out on the bunk a little before climbing back onto my feet. Unlike my poor little half sister, I was trained from the start to hone my Empathe skills and my quarter demon skills. One of those skills included a sensitivity to time rips, though lately there hadn't been very many. With only about six cat demons in our own time, myself and Bri included, there weren't many. Most of them were mistaken incomers.
So, imagine my surprise when I sensed a very deep rip of the outgoing kind. There was only one cat demon that I knew of who could make a rip that deep. And she definitely wasn't the one I'd hoped to sense.
It was my mother.
"Well, boys," I sighed to no one in particular. "Looks like we won't be catching Tsuki."
"Why not?" I jumped at the sound of the voice, hitting my head on the bunk above my head. I hissed in pain and glared at the root cause.
"Dang it, you ass! Why'd you go and scare me?"
"I'm sorry, Koko. Are you all right?" Kurama offered a hand to help me, but I slapped it away. Stupid fox. He was just like Bri. Always offering help, always offering it in the most polite way possible… Now why couldn't any other guy act like that?
"I'm fine, thank you," I said, jumping off the bed. I ignored the throbbing pain in my head. Mother would be proud. Gag. "Bri said to inform you that she has no more interest in you and wishes to break off the engagement."
Kurama chuckled. "Is that supposed to be that she went to class early today?"
I smirked. He's smart. That's why he deserves Bri. "Yup. Intro to Ed."
He sighed and sank into a chair at Bri's desk. "Why will we not be catching Tsuki?"
"She just ripped a time hole and dove outta here," I answered, jerking my thumb at the nonexistent thing behind me. "Gone. Probably going to go see who else she can go f—"
"That will be enough, thank you," Kurama rose. "Hiei asked me to give you a tortured and slow death, but I think I will let you live to see another day."
I rolled my eyes. "That dumb ass thinks he's so cool 'cause he's got a Jagan eye. Poor idiot. Snowball's got it comin' to him."
Kurama laughed at my nickname for the little fire demon. I think everyone but Snowball found it rather amusing, which is why I continued calling him by it. Sometimes I even forgot that Hiei really was his name. It was Snowball as far as I was concerned.
"Oh, yeah, before I forget. She also said to meet her at the arcade. Rematch."
"Thank you, Koko. I will see you tonight, I must leave for class as well."
I sighed as soon as the closet-like door had been shut above me. I had so much homework to finish, it wasn't even funny. I glanced over at my stack of textbooks. Math, Intro to Computers, Intro to Business, Intro to Ed… Too much homework. I knew Bri would yell at me if I didn't get it done, though. Just like Tsuki would have before. Except Bri always had a better tone than Tsuki. If I ever lagged on homework when I still lived with my mom…
I'd rather not think about that.
College bites.
Koko's got a potty mouth on her, and honestly this is the first time I've had a character like her. Growing up with Tsuki wasn't fun for the little quarterling. And can ya'll tell where Bri gets it all? Huh? Of course, you didn't realize just how different Bri's interpretation of Koko was to the real deal. What do you think of this little twist?
Next chapter out soon on Wolf's Last Cry!
