( I don't own YYH of Kaho, but Hoshi, Seiki, and Ai are MYN)

Chapter 5

Rushing water

Flames. Kaho stood in the middle of the road breathing hard. Sweat ran down from her hairline down her cheek and dripped of her chin. The flaming remains of what used to be a car lay about 6 feet in front of her. Small groups of passers by stared at the flaming mass and the girl who somehow managed to destroy a speeding car. A few of the whipped out there cell phones and dialed 911.

Hoshi ran up to Kaho, not taking her eyes away from the burning car in the middle of the otherwise empty street. "K-kaho... You like... you like... destroyed the ..like.. car!" Hoshi always said "like" a lot when she got to nervous. Kaho just stared at the fire trying to catch her breath. She didn't have any idea what to do. Then her feet started moving. Hoshi was pushing her to the left. "Kaho Lets go, like destroying like cars is like like like really like bad!"

Kaho glared at her friend. "Hoshi if you don't stopping saying 'like' i am gonna like totally kill you!" " Don't mock me!" "Then stop talking." "Fine I will." "Fine I'll be happy." "Fine." "Fine."

Kaho felt a tap on her shoulder and turned around to see a police man. "Excuse my, girls, but do you have any information on this-" He didn't even get to finish talking. "No!" They ran off in the opposite direction of the police man. They had no idea wear they were going. As soon as they were sure the police man wasn't following them the stopped to catch there breath. Just when they thought they were safe, whack! Something hit Hoshi on the head. "ow." She looked at the ground to see what hit her. A rock. A small little pebble about the size of a marble. Wait. A rock? Oh no. that means...

The man with red eyes should a few feet door the sidewalk staring at them. He was wearing a black overcoat and what kinda looked like a black cowboy hat. His fashion sense was horrible. He smiled and took his hat off before bowing. "Good afternoon, Tenshi, Ookami. I am Akuma." He said to them. His happy greeting changed fast. " Kay, lets get down to business, shall we? You!" He said pointing to Hoshi. "Tell me where your mothers soul is hidden." Hoshi blinked and stared at him. "Excuse me?" "Don't play dumb! Tell me!" "She's not playing." "Shut up Kaho!"

Akuma was getting annoyed. " I don't have time to play your stupid games! Its taken me years to find you both again! Tenshi! Tell me where the damned soul is!" Hoshi glared at him. " Hey buddy my name is Hoshi, not Tenshi. Say it with me. Ho...shi..." Akuma was about to draw his sword but looked around. To many witnesses. He turned and left without saying a word.

The girls started walking. They didn't know where to go or what to do, so they just kept going. Walking walking walking... somehow the girls ended up on a bridge just as the sun was beginning to set. "Ooh! Kaho the water looks so pretty!" Hoshi said looking at the water shimmering in the sun.

Hoshi leaned over the railing of the bridge on looked down at the water below. "It's all shiny." Hoshi said smiling. Kaho sighed. "Your an idiot and your gonna fall, y'know." Hoshi glared at her friend. " I am not" Hoshi said. Suddenly hoshi starting losing her grip. "Uh oh..."

Her hands slipped off the railing and she head head first off the bridge. SPLASH! "Hoshi!"

Hoshi couldn't swim at all. Kaho ran off the bridge and ran over to the rivers edge. "Hoshi? Hoshi where are you! Hoshi!"

Just then, as if on Que. Yusuke and his friend came walking by. Yusuke notice the panicing Kaho at the river side. "Kaho what's the matter?" He said walking over to her. Kaho pointed at the running water. " Hoshi fell in the water!" "She what!" Kuwabara yelled. Hiei took off his cloak and threw it at Kuwabara before jumping into the water. A few mintues later Hiei was out of the water with a soaked unconscious Hoshi in his arms. They where the longest mintues of Kaho's 13 year old life. Hoshi's forehead was bleeding. "Ah! She's bleeding!" Kaho pointed out. "She must have hit her head." Kurama told them.

Nothingness. Where am I? Hoshi thought to herself looking at the darkness around her. There was nothing. Only the dark. How do you find out where you are if there is nothing but you? "Oh god am I dead!" Hoshi said starting to panic. She but her hand up to her chest. "I can't be I feel my heartbeat... but.. if your dead can you still feel your heartbeat? How could you your heart stops when you die doesn't it? Okay I am not dead! No No No I'm not. Okay? Okay." Hoshi sighed and looking around, but she didn't see anything at all. "Right. Let's find where we are then." Hoshi said and started walking forward. Splash! Hoshi stepped in a puddle.

Water? Hoshi bent down and touched the water with her finger, but she didn't get wet. She decided to keep going. Just then Hoshi saw a tree. "hey there something!" She started running toward it. She thought that if she didn't hurry up and get it, that it was going to go away. She finally got to and and touched it. When she did everything around her started glowwing. Brighter and bright. Hoshi but her hands over her eyes to shield them from the light.

Hoshi looked through her fingers. The light was gone, and now she was surrounded by a lust green forest. She looked around. " Oh wow.. where am I now?" She started walking, then she heard singing. Someone was there. She walked toward the direction of the singing and saw a person. "Ah hello there!" She yelled. The person turned around. It was Hoshi! It was hoshi herself! It was just like looking into a mirror, only that Hoshi had on a white kimono.

Then there was another voice. "Big sister, Ai! Sister where are you!" Hoshi stared at the girl that looked just like her. Was that girls name Ai? "Um excuse me.." Hoshi said. Ai got up and starting walking toward Hoshi. " I was wondering.." Ai walked straight through Hoshi as if she was a ghost. What the! Hoshi looked at herself to make sure she was solid. She was. She couldn't see through herself or anything. She walked over to a tree and touched it. She could feel the tree as well. She turned around and looked at the girl. Maybe she was the one who wasn't real.

Ai walked over to a little brown haired boy that had tears in his 6 year old eyes. "Sister don't go away like that." He said. "I'm sorry, Seiki." Ai said smiling. Seiki! That old man! Could they be one and the same! Couldn't be! "Promise me, Sister, Ai." He said. Ai looked at him. "Must you call me that? You know my name is Hoshi." Hoshi stared at the girl. It really was her. THAt GIRL IS ME! She thought. "I know." Said the boy. "But, Ai, is what everyone in town calls you sister, so, I shall as well." Ai sighed and nodded.

Hoshi dropped to her knees. She had never been so clueless in her whole life, well at least not since her last math test. What was going on? She looked around at the sun shining through the crsip green leaves of the many trees around her. Seem seemed to know where she was. Where these memories?

Ai stood back up and started walking toward a small town. Seiki slipped his small hand into hers and they walked together. "Hey wait." Hoshi got up quickly and ran after them. She knew that something important was going to happen and she didn't want to miss a second of it.

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Kaho, Yusuke, and everyone had been sitting in the waiting room in the local hospital for about 20 minutes. Kaho was tapping her index fingers together nervously. "Do you think she's okay?" She asked the tile on the waiting room floor. "I'm sure she'll be fine." Kurama encouraged. "Do you really think so?" Kaho asked timidly. She was so worried she was shaking. " I'm Sure of it." Kurama smiled at her, but she didn't see. She was to busy having a staring contest with the floor.

A very pretty blonde nurse walked out into the waiting room. "Her condition is stabilized so you can so see her now, room 216." She nurse said smiling. Kaho got up for her chair fast and ran out of the waiting room. The guys followed after her knowing she would realize she had no idea wear room 216 was in a while.

Kaho opened the hospital door slowly peeking in. "Hoshi?" She opened the door the rest of the way and walked inside. "Hoshi?" She dragged a chair that was in the corner over to the bed and sat down. She stared at her sleeping friend in the white hospital bed. Hoshi had a white bandage around her head and her hair was still a little wet. "Hoshi... I hope your okay."

Kaho sat in that chair for hours. Person after person came in to try to get her to leave, but she stayed put. Just then the blonde haired nurse walked in again. Kaho turned around in her chair and glared at her. "Why isn't she waking up!" She demanded. The nurse backed away shyly. "Well.. you see.. she hit her head really hard.. she may be out for a few days.. weeks.."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WEEKS!" Kaho screamed angrily at the nurse. "I'm ..sorry.." The nurse said backing timidly away. "Umm.. visiting hours are over..." She said, by now she was almost out the door. " I DON'T GIVE A RATS ASS ABOUT THE HOURS!" Kaho yelled. "Oh.." The nurse said and walked away. Kaho sat right back down in her chair facing Hoshi again. She pointed at her. "Don't you dare black out on me for weeks, you hear me!" Hoshi didn't even move a little bit. Kaho dropped her hand back down to her side.

Yusuke peeked into the room. "Kaho?" Kaho turned around fast in her chair. "What!" Yusuke looked at her sternly. "Kaho, sitting here all night won't help a thing." Kaho glared at him for a few minutes before standing up. "Fine." She said following Yusuke out of the the room, down the hall, and out of the hospital.

Kaho got home at about 8:00pm. She sat in her room staring up at the ceiling replaying Hoshi falling into the river over and over. She kept thinking that there was a way to help somehow. If only she had tired to do something. That if she had done something, Hoshi would be talking to her on the phone right now about nothing instead of laying in a cold empty hospital room. The more she thought about it the more guilty she felt. Then a rock broke through her window.

Kaho stood up on her bed and pointed to the broken window. "LOOK MR.AKUMA MAN! I'M NOT IN THE FREAKING MOOD FOR YOUR CRAP RIGHT NOW SO SCREW OFF!" She plopped back down on the bed and stared into space. What she said didn't seem to work because 5 minutes later a dagger was in her wall.

She stood up and stared at the wall and then at the window. She was so made she felt her fists lit on fire, but it didn't burn. She picked up a wad of paper on the floor which quickly started on fire and she chucked it out the window. "Do not mess with me." She said to the window. "But its fun." a voice answered back. Kaho was so completely ticked off she opened the window and jumped out into the dark.

"SHOW YOURSELF!" She yelled into the sky. She felt a once rock tap her in the back of her head. She turned around quickly and shot a ball of fire in the general direction. The fire lit up the trees, but no one was there. "Where are you!" no answer. "Coward!" Suddenly the fire went out. "Killing you now would be meaningless." She heard Akuma say then he was gone. Kaho punched a tree hard and it fell over making a loud crashing sound. She climbed back up into her room, sat in her bean bag chair with all the lights off and waited for daybreak.

"Wait!" Hoshi yelled running after Ai and Seiki who where a ways ahead of her. "Hey, you... er... me.. or.. CHICK IN THE WHITE! SLOW DOWN!" She yelled at them. She felt like an idiot talking to her memories, but she was so slow. They got to a small cheerful looking little town surrounded by green forest. Hoshi looked around. It was full of humoniod demons and apparitions walking around. "Oh wow.. Its so pretty." Hoshi said looked all around her.

Then she realized that Ai and Seiki were really really far away. "Oh hey! Wait!" Hoshi said running straight through crowds of people to catch up. They got to a big fancy house and walked through the big gates and up to the door. "Did I live here?" Hoshi asked herself. Ai and Seiki opened the door and and walked with the little invisible girl tagging along.

Ai walked down a hallway holding her small brothers hand. She let go os his hand as soon as they go tot a white door and she turned the handle. She walked inside the room and Hoshi followed her starting to feel a little bit noise. In the room was a bed with a very pale woman lying in it. Hoshi stared at her. "m-...mom?" Hoshi blinked.

Ai knelt down by the bed. "Feeling any better?" She asked the pale woman. The woman looked at Ai weakly. And put a some crystal blue jewel in Ai's hand. "Take care of Seiki." After that was said the woman hand went limp and Ai should up fast and ran out of the room. Hoshi wondered what was happening. "Seiki! Go into your room and dont come out until I come get you!" Ai yelled to her brother as he did what he was told.

CRASH! Someone broke through the front door. They knew. They already knew. Ai's mother was dead. AI took off her sandal and throw it at the window shattering it. She climbed out holding her jewel tightly. When she was climbing through the broken glass her small white wings wear cut and now bright red with blood. She jumped to the ground, slipped on her shoe and ran into the forest.

Suddenly everything went back to the black nothingness. Hoshi looked around "Where'd I go?" She asked herself. She looked all around then a few feet away she saw some light. She ran for it, but stopped as soon as she was inches away. She looked up but the light seemed to be coming out of nowhere. She stepped into the light and everything changed.

Ai was standing on a large hill looking over a battle field. There was only one person left in the bloody area below. In her hand Ai held a katana tight. Hoshi was so confused. Where was the jewel? Was Seiki still in his room? Why was Ai holding a katana?

It had been 3 days since Hoshi had been hospitalized and Kaho was walking around the hallways of her middle school. Class was going on, but class was the farthest thing from her mind. There were tons of rumors about Hoshi already. " I heard she jumped off a bridge and killed herself." "I heard she moved to canada and became a hockey player." "I heard she went to jail for killing an old man." People can make up so pretty insane things, but Kaho was never in the mood to correct anyone.

She was heading toward the door since school would be over in about 20 minutes. She dropped her bag at the entrance and bolted down the sidewalk. She wasn't watching wear she was going and WHACK! She ran right into someone. She got up and dusted herslef off "Oh sorry." She looked up. It was Akuma.

Kaho got into a fighting stance. "Get away from me!" She said. She ran right pass him and she looked ahead of her there was a dagger in the sidewalk. He was throwing daggers at her. She turned back as a dagger hit her in her left side. She dropped to her knees gripping onto the dagger. "Ass hole!" She yelled at Akuma as he walked away. "Come back here..." She said rather breathless. She glared down at the dagger with the blood gusting from it. She pulled it out painfully and threw it at Akuma. She missed by like feet feet.

She wrapped her arms tightly around her waist in pain. She stared down at the puddle of her own blood on the sidewalk. Flames surrounded the area aand sweat was dripping off of her face. She heard a voice and looked up. "Yusuke?" She fire around her all went out with a puff of smoke and she stared at him weakly. "Yusuke, I feel yucky." She said and she fell to the ground, but she didn't even feel it when her head hit the hard cold sidewalk.

Ai Ran down the hill to the figure standing alone in the bloody field of death. She pressed the katana against the figures neck. "Don't move unless you want to die." Hoshi ran ahead to see who the person was. Kaho! It was Kaho indeed. She stared at them. This can't be.. She thought. "What is your problem?" Kaho yelled. "I'm Sorry, Abunai, but I cannot allow you to kill so many innocents!" So This Kaho's name was Abunai? ...Abunai and Ai... So they were enemies?

Ai had tears in her eyes as did Abunai. "I am so so sorry." Ai said before cutting the throat of the girl who would one day be Kaho. Hoshi took a step back as Abunai fell to the ground. Ai was shaking terribly. She stared at Abunai in disbelief. She dropped the bloody kanta and ran. She ran all the way to the edge of a chill and she would have ran right off it but there was a small hand on the sleeve of her kimono. "Seiki how did you get here?"
The small boy looked up at her tearfully. "Don't jump sister." He said.

Just then Akuma came running. "DAMN YOU TENSHI WHERE IS THE SOUL?" He yelled. Ai bent down to Seiki's height with eyes full of tears. "This is how it has to be, Seiki, my brother." The little boy was sobbing uncontrollably now. "No sister!" Ai jumped off the egde off the cliff and fell to her death with a confused Hoshi standing cluelssly in the middle of a blood filled area.

Everything was black again. Hoshi was almost crying. "I...I...I..." Hoshi couldn't seem to get it out that she killed her very best friend in the world. Just then there was a girl in front of her. It was Ai. "Hoshi..." She said. Hoshi blinked. Could the memory see her now? "Hoshi don't blame yourself. It had to be done." Hoshi looked at the black ground, at least she thought it was the ground.

"Am I going to have to kill her again?" Hoshi yelled. "Maybe. It depends really... but that's not why I'm here. You have the jewel now." Ai told her. Hoshi blinked. "Do not let Akuma get it or it'll end all life. Don't let him kill Kaho. He will gain her power. You have to kill him. You have to." Ai said sternly. Hoshi nodded weakly. "Where is.." Ai put her hand over her heart and her whole body began to glow a crystal blue as did Hoshi's. "Keep it safe."

Hoshi sat up fast in her hospital bed. The blonde nurse was standing in the room smiling. "Oh Your awake!" The nurse said happily. "Where is Kaho! Where is Akuma! TELL ME WHERE ARE THEY!" Hoshi said standing up now. "W-what?" The nurse blinked.

( Wheee I love this chapter. sowwy there really is not cliff hanger is there? Nope. What do you think? any good? The reason behind the past characters names are because Abunai means dangerous and Ai means Love and it suited them Please review I will add more ASAP!)