Ahahahaha this is going to be a short Chapter, but I really wanted to do it. :) Lol, this is one of my favorites. I get to whack Hiei with trees! o.0 Aww...well forget what I said, you'll see soon enough, kk? Hahaha my friend says that I'm not Japanese so I shouldn't be saying things twice but I'm going to ignore that piece of advice. :) Chapter Eight people!
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Chapter Eight
"NO! ONNA YOU'RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT! WHY CAN'T YOU GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL?"
"Well I'm sorry that I'm not a master. Your yelling is helping me any! Oh, why couldn't I have been with Kurama? Someone understanding!"
It is day two of the training sessions that the girls must go through and Olivia, with her impatient sensei, has barely began learning the basics of being a psychic. She stalks over to a tree in extreme frustration and flops down beneath it, then moving to one of the low hanging branches for a bit more comfort. She closes her eyes and imagines a nice white sanded beach, full with waves crashing gently and coconuts to drink from.
"Come on onna. One more go?" Hiei commands.
"Why don't you let the real Hiei out once in a while?" Olivia sighs.
Hiei flushes, "I told you never to speak of that again."
"And if you haven't noticed, I don't take orders from you!"
A tree is uprooted and sent flying at Hiei, who is unprepared for it. It whacks him across the chest and sends him disappearing deep into the forest that is their training ground.
"THERE! IS THAT PERFECT ENOUGH FOR YOU?" Olivia shouts, sending several more trees flying towards the direction Hiei was whacked in moments ago.
Soon he reappears, dodging and smashing trees in his way. A genuine smile graces his face, softening Olivia's heart for a moment. Aww...so cute! A particularlly large oak is smashed into tiny bits, and those bits fly all over Olivia, obscuring her vision. When she clears the dust and splinters from her eyes, Hiei is two inches away from her face. She panics, pushing him away and sending some more trees piling on top of him.
"These are perfect! Keep them coming!" Hiei shouts, flying off into the distance again. "Sense me!"
Olivia grins, focusing on the trees.
"That's wonderful, Nissi!" Kurama yells. "You can come down now!"
Nissi jumps down from the roof of Genkai's mansion. Her eyes sparkle and her hair is a wild tangled mess--compliments of the strong wind. "Was I really good?"
"Really."
In the distance, the two hear several loud explosions and some horrible ripping noises. Nissi gulps, "What is that?"
"Heh. Olivia is ripping up the trees."
She moves closer to him, and he puts his arm around her protectively. The biggest explosion so far sounds, causing Nissi to bury her head in Kurama's chest. "It's a scary noise..."
"Don't worry. She's aiming soley for Hiei, and I can't say I blame her. He's a tough teacher and not very patient."
"If you say so...I wonder what Meagan's doing?"
"Figure out how to work your powers yet?"
"Nope."
Yusuke and Meagan sit under a large and old tree, their hands behind their heads. Yesterdays training had been somewhat more eventful than this one because last time Yusuke knew what Meagan could do and taught her all the proper ways to bring out a power. Meagan still can't do it.
"Well, I guess a little fighting with fists won't hurt."
Groaning, Meagan pulls herself up from her comfortable place under the tree looking lost as Yusuke slips gracefully into a fighting position, poised to attack his prey. His eyes get a touch of seriousness and a fullblown look of determination in him. Yusuke takes fighting seriously. He charges, sending Meagan into waves of panic. Her hands become cold and clammy, and she starts to sweat.
"Wait! What am I supposed to do?"
"Just hit me!"
He
comes in faster and Meagan, in desperation, aims a kick to the one
place she know will hurt. She swings, and the contact of her foot
with his...lower area...sends him to the ground in severe and dire
pain. He moans, curling up into a defensive ball. Very soon he
faints, scaring Meagan out of her wits.
"Did I really hit him that hard?" she wonders aloud, dragging him over to the tree under which they were sitting before and setting his head on her lap. "Poor Yusuke! I didn't mean to make you faint!"
He stirs slightly but doesn't wake up, forcing Meagan to hold her position for as long as humanly possible. Yusuke twists and turns. Probably having a nightmare...Meagan bites her lip. She touches his cheek softly in an effort to calm him down, and it works wonders. A smile glides onto Meagan's face.
"Thanks Meagan..." Yusuke mumbles.
She stiffens. Does he actually know what I just did?
"Thanks for doing my math homework...I got an A."
Sighing with relief, Meagan takes a piece of hair between her fingers and twists it around. Yusuke smiles. (a/n: awww!) The two sit in silence.
A tiger sits on the ground, purring. Kuwabara leans next to it, absolutely beaming in pride. The tiger is no different from any other tigers, unlike it was before: three heads, two legs, fifteen eyes, and no tail. Yes, it had taken Kuwabara a lot of time to teach his charge how to concentrate on focusing her powers into one point. Honing it, Genkai called it.
"Now try to change back," he prompts.
Yes, the changing back had been even worse. Sometimes his charge had green skin, sometimes she had polk-a-dotted skin, and once she had no skin at all. The tiger looks up at him, somewhat afraid, then changes back into her normal form--Vanessa. Her face is bright and her eyes are sparkling with pure delight.
"I did it! I changed!" she shrieks, wrapping her arms around his neck and hugging him.
Kuwabara turns seven shades of red, wrapping his arms around Vanessa and hugging her back. Soon she lets go, running and jumping around their small training area with a big grin on her face. "I did it, I did it, I did it, I did it! I can change into anything. Oh yes, I am the best!"
"All right, now we need to work on your attacking."
"Hm?"
"Change into an animal and attack me. Being able to change is no good if you can't control the creatures or humans powers."
o.0 An evil look graces Vanessa's face as she slowly slips into the form of a lioness ready to hunt. She charges her foe, loving the agility and speed that comes so easily to her in this form. She leaps, then changes into a small cub, landing on top of Kuwabara's hair. Stunned, Kuwabara stands still, wondering where the lioness went...until he feels sharp claws in his hair.
"AAAIIIEEE! Help!" Kuwabara shouts, laughing at the same time.
Kuwabara's half plea reaches the other three groups (waking up Yusuke), who come running to his aid. What they see when the finally reaches him shocks them. There is Vanessa, now in the form of a shoe, attacking Kuwabara's head with friendly ferocity. The three other Destinies--a dirt spattered Olivia, a sweaty Nissi, and a pink-cheeked-from-her-encounter-with-Yusuke Meagan (all leaning on their sensei's for walking support)--sweat drop.
"I got pulled out of training for this? I was just about to pin Hiei!" Olivia moans, rubbing more dirt onto her face.
"Hn. Come on, onna. You need a bath. Training ends here."
"You just don't want me to beat you!"
"So?"
"Why you little..."
The two move off, soon followed by the other three teams who abandon practice for the day also.
Deep, Deep In Makai
Blood runs down a wall and onto the floor, where it is lapped up by several evil looking dogs. The poor creature who had the misfortune of telling that their scout had failed now lay on the floor in a crumpled heap, dead. The dogs wait for a command that they may rip him open. When the shadowy figure in the window waves its hand, they dig in.
"So he failed me, did he? Heh. The Spirit Detective and his team must be protecting them...do they love them?" the figure wonders, scratching the back of his head lightly. "Doubt it. But then...why?"
"Master?" a small demon comes in with a paper. "Here's our most recent found photo of them, master."
The figure turns around and it is...a girl. Yes, a very pretty girl with silvery-blue eyes and long, raven black hair. Her lips are pale and cold, and two fangs show through them. Her long willowed body sways as she walks up to the demon and her hand, bony with long nails, reaches for the paper. She looks at it carefully. The four are at a carnival of some sort, sitting on a bench outside of some mirror world. They were smiling, big and happy, their arms around each others shoulders.
"They look so much like their mothers..." she whispers.
"My lady?"
"Too bad their parents are dead," she continues, malice dripping from every word. "They haven't even noticed that the ones they live with...work for me."
End of Chapter...Eight! hahahaha I finally have a bad guy! That's why it's taken eight chapters to get to the real story. Sorry about that. Anyways, hope you liked it, and I finally got a MeaganXYusuke moment! Yay! Oh yes, props to Meagan for giving me the idea of how Vanessa hugs Kuwabara and the title for my sequel to this story because yes there will be a sequel. And I'm trying hard to finish this story before I head off to the states for vacation but I might not be able to do that...but if I can't post when I'm on the (God help me) fourteen hour plane ride, then I swear you guys will have at least three chapters updated at the same time when I can post! Calismo, signing off!
