An: Okay thanks for participating in the polls. I'll have to consider your polls because I have some reviewers requesting smaller weekly chapters while some are requesting less often postings and longer chapters. Sigh. Please be patient because I've been sick with, I think it's the flu, lately. Thanks. Oh and my friend Domie just received the latest YYH DVD and it is true that in fact that Hiei and Yukina are twins. I didn't think that was true but it is. I don't know how that is figured out but the 28th YYH DVD seems to have events about Hiei's past. Interesting isn't it? I haven't seen it yet.
Dark Inu Fan: Okay! Aw… Thanks for your compliments. I was waiting along time to write the scene for the sibling sense.
Wolf-black-flame. Okay two out of three reviewers seem to agree. I think I will do one of those ideas. Uh what does "Claiming she stuffs," Mean exactly? I think I might have miss read that could you clear me up?
Poltergeist report 101: something to sustain you huh? Hm… looks like I'm going to think real hard about how often I post…But your idea's about Muriel are you sure you aren't a twin sister of my younger sister TassthePhoenix or something? She came up with a similar idea with the hair dye, only it was to dye the Muriel's hair while she was asleep. But with your ideas this will be entertaining. He he he he he he he Thank You.
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Chapter 23
Full Moon Fusses
The alarm clock went off at six in the morning. She groaned and her arm crawled out from under the covers and in one swift slash her hand curled like she was trying to scratch something in to peaces. The clock was suddenly swiped off the bedside table leaving a lamp and a picture frame of a black wolf carrying a white pup, alone.
Chandra drowsily opened her eyes. Always on the morning of the full moon, Chandra would bash the alarm clock. She didn't have a clue why but she did. It seemed Tala hated alarms.
Her eyes widened when she realized she slept in a curled up ball with her feet near her face, and sat up. Today was the day.
"Aw shit." She whispered quietly to her self.
To take her mind off the day she sat there and remembered to basic plot points of her dream.
First there was a black wolf and his pup running in the woods then when they ran into the road, death came wearing a pink kimono, taking the black wolf on an oar. There the black wolf jumped off and disappeared. The pup ran away from the strange sight and quickly grew into an adolescent white wolf. The young wolf spent years running from hunters but never seeing death again. Then the wolf ran in the lady with the pink kimono this time she seemed friendly, and the black wolf. Her father then licked his pup on the cheek and bright light filled the room and where the white wolf stood was a young woman.
Why would she dream that? Chandra shrugged to herself as she brushed her teeth. She never understood her dreams, ever. 'Time to get ready to school' She thought to herself letting the unpleasant reality set in. Just as a precaution she buckled on the yellow collar and rolled the leash in her pocket, just in case.
In the past she had tried to socially isolate her self around the full moon but when you had friends like hers, if they notice a change of your behavior they start to worry and try to see what they could do to help. No one ever tried to do that for her. She even began to wonder if humans were really a species that did care for on another like that. Even if she was technically one she always felt extremely different compared to her kin.
Now, how what could she do to help keep the Japanese newcomers safe. She'll have to figure that out after breakfast.
Botan yawned and stretched on the couch she slept on that night. It was actually quite comfortable at Domie's house. The only reason she was here was because Domie and her mom invited Genkai, Shirzuru, Yukina, and our favorite grim reaper to stay at her house for the time being. It saved Uma a lot of room and stress. Yet Uma enjoyed meeting new people.
Yukina, much to Hiei's dislike, even openly introduced her self as Hiei's sister. Uma seemed to have that affect on people.
Genkai introduced her self as an acquaintance of Yusuke and the rest of the gang. The younger woman seemed quite interested with Genkai and the fact that Yusuke called her "Ba-san". Although the goddess also had no idea what that word meant.
Shirzuru was introduced as Kuwabara's elder sister and legal guardian. (An: In the English Dub Shirzuru tells Kuwabara to study harder because she had to quit her education to bring Kuwabara up. This conversation takes place after Chapter Black.)
Even Botan happily introduced her self.
"Hi, my name is Botan. It is so nice to make your acquaintance." Botan eagerly shook Uma's hand and then her husband's.
"I'm Peter Jorryn."
"And I'm his wife, Uma." The couple smiled at the happy Ferry girl.
Then later that evening Domie invited them to stay in her house. Right after Yusuke, Hiei, Kuwabara, and Kurama left the house and came home in time for Uma's dinner of vegetable soup and a fresh salad (the two main stables of the Jorryn family diet.) Domie gave them a bunch of DVDs of anime to watch that night.
"Here I can corrupt you guys with out having to deal with Uma. Here are some Ruroni Kenshin DVDs we can watch. But you might not want to repeat the words the guys say expeacly you Yukina, I don't think your twin brother would like that." Domie smiled handing Shirzuru the DVDs and leading them to the downstairs entertainment room.
All four girls and Genkai actually enjoyed their Anime night.
The alarm in Domie's room went off with Domie's mother at her door calling, "Dominique, It's time to get up."
"I can't wait to see what this ningin school looks like!" Yukina piped happily with Kuwabara, Kurama, Yusuke, Keiko, Medea, Domie, Alex, her twin brother, Botan, and Chandra who was slowly excluding her self from the rest of the group. The ice maiden was wearing a pair of roller blades and had mastered the ability to maneuver on them with Botan and Domie. Domie being the teacher and master of wheeled shoes. The high school was a few blocks away.
"Yeah your school has a better record than some of the other schools I had to go into in disguise. No gang troubles, it isn't like Yusuke's school." Said Botan
"Alright but I will warn you this school isn't as nice as the other high schools. It's in terrible condition and the troubles you are referring to are kept quiet. The city council is planning to plan a new school. But there are groups of city monumental people who want to preserve the school for 'historic value.' I don't see the point I mean there are class rooms threatening to collapse any day now." Medea warned.
"Wait today is the day that we start the act about the boyfriends and girls friends act and there is no doubt that Muriel has already started to spread the rumor." Chandra spoke up quietly.
"Right." Domie said speaking up. Then she braked her self to a stop. Botan and Yukina copied her.
Just then Muriel and the rest of her crew along with freshmen servants rounded a corner behind them.
"—and if they don't go to the dance I will spread nasty rumors that I plan to use to make her life as hellistic as possible." Muriel said loudly to the rest of the girls who either laughed loudly or looked down. Most of them laughed loudly.
Then she looked up in to Medea's eyes.
"Oh hi Medea, How is your younger sister Sherri?" She asked.
"Her name is Shairvani and she is doing just fine." Medea replied as if she was throwing acid at the girl. Muriel just stuck her nose up in the air.
Meanwhile up in a tree Shairvani sat, with binoculars up to her eyes watching the whole conversation.
"I'll kill that bastard one day… how did I get up this tree again?" Shairvani paused. "Oh yeah, I used a fire hydrant to shoot myself up here like a rocket. Now how do I get down?" As she said this began to develop a sweat drop. "Well, since all my friends are sick I have nothing better to do but watch Medea…" She then brought her binoculars back up to her eyes.
"So as a member of the dance committee, it is my honor to announce that this Wednesday we are holding a dance in the school gym." Muriel bragged. "And I thought wouldn't be so cool if the infamous band TIFI could play at the dance."
Domie and Alex just shook their heads while Medea rolled her eyes. Chandra just sniffed her displeasure.
"You do know that for that to happen you would have to talk to the band manager?" Domie asked raising an eyebrow.
"Or that it is rumored that he lives on a private island, in a multimillion dollar mansion and doesn't want to be disturbed unless there is a fortune behind it?" Alex turned to Muriel while Jeffery climbed up a tree with an acorn ready for launching.
"No problem I can just contact the record company and ask them for the number of the manager…" Muriel boasted confidently.
"I'm afraid you can't do that. You see a part of the TIFI Contract states that the record company isn't supposed to give out any numbers of any of the band members or the manager." Medea recited.
"And how did you get that information?" Muriel asked examining her nails.
"The Internet, Duh."
"Humph." Muriel then turned to Hiei and Yukina and her eyes widened a little. "You two look like siblings."
"Well they are both adopted and they both had siblings in foster homes so the chances of them being siblings are actually quite good." Domie explained.
"Oh, well let's go girls; we need to be in class." Muriel told her freshman slaves and her prep groupies.
Then as if that had been an order the rest of the girls who had followed Muriel surrounded her and marched away.
Jeffery jumped from the branch he was on to land on Alex's shoulders.
Chandra had to use all of her self restraint not to growl. 'Damn moon.' She thought. 'That girl would deserve a bite if she was stupid enough to wonder around the full moon.' Then she shook her head. 'No! Nobody deserves such a horrendous fate! Stupid carnivore instincts!'
"Hey Chandra, are you okay?" Keiko tuned her attention to the werewolf.
"Oh I'm fine just tired. You know, staying up late just to watch the moon rise…"
"You watch the moon rise?" Yusuke asked.
"Yes it is a family tradition." Chandra nodded. "I do it every night."
"Why?" Kuwabara questioned with curiosity.
"Uh…because my mom did it and so do I. Pagan religion thing." Chandra lied. Tala wasn't a subject she would talk freely about and yesterday in the girl's rest room was a one time thing.
"Are you guys coming or are you just standing there watching the grass grow?" Medea called a half a block away knowing that Chandra would want the questioning to stop there. Yukina, Botan, and Domie were in the lead, skating down the block at high speeds with Hiei following closely, just in case.
Only a few block of non stop walking lead to the school that suddenly had a construction team, a few cranes, bulldozers, and with other various construction equipment.
Students collected in to a crowd wondering what was going on and because they couldn't go inside the school.
The Principal wore a formal business suit and small reading glasses. The Principal marched from the entrance of the school building and pulled up a mega phone and shouted. "A few of the most populated class rooms collapsed in the middle of the night last night, not to worry; nobody was harmed when these class rooms collapsed." He paused for a moment when the school secretary whispered something in his ear.
"See I told you guys it was going to happen." Medea whispered quietly before holding up her hand to silence the other members of the group.
"The School Board just held a meeting and has now decided to cancel school for the day in order for them to repair this building." The Principal announced.
The Announcement was followed by a cheer of some of the students, Yusuke was among the loudest of the cheerers, while some student's like Keiko widened their eyes in disbelief of this misfortune.
"Well what should we do today then?" Medea asked the group.
Domie suddenly was struck by sudden inspiration.
"I got it! I'll get my car and drive you guys to my place." Domie said.
"Sounds great!" Alex cheered.
"But wait wouldn't it be easier if we were to just walk to Domie's house?" Kurama questioned.
"Nah I think it would be better if we were to ride my car." Domie smiled.
"Car?" Yusuke and Kuwabara asked at the same time.
"Yeah, a 19-something leviathan."
"Do you have license?" Kurama inquired looking at Domie.
"Yes." Domie nodded as she turned around in a smooth motion on her skates.
"Hn, so you going where?" Hiei asked sarcastically.
"Home, that's where the leviathan is," As she bladed down the street with NASCAR speed.
"Well, all I guess we can do is wait…somewhere where nobody will flock at Hiei and Kurama." Medea said eyeing a flock of girls watching Kurama and Hiei with an interested eye.
Alex noticing the girls decided to do something about it.
"KURAMA!" She shouted before taking him in a tight embrace.
Kurama felt air being forced from his chest cavity at the tightness of Alex.
"Play along." She whispered.
"Yes Alex, and might I say you look beautiful this morning?" Kurama asked slightly tense, or it was because Alex was squeezing out his air capacity.
"Aw thank you so much, and might I add that you're as charming as ever." Alex looked up at his face.
Over half the girls in the crowd turned away looking as if they were going to be sick some of them whispered "the rumor was true." Or "I think I'm gonna be sick."
Hiei nervously looked in the direction of where Domie skated off. Just because the Fox was safe from the crowd didn't mean he was, and didn't wan to go to spirit jail because of mass murdering a bunch of rabid onnas who were attracted to him at levels it was scary.
"Don't worry Hiei; nobody is going to abduct your girl friend, Domie." Alex acted as if what she said was very reassuring.
The rest of the annoying female crowd got the picture and turned away whispering in displeasure.
About five minutes of laying low later the sounds of a car driving down one street leading to the high school filled the air of the area. The wolf and the fox were the first ones of the group to hear it. Then Keiko, Medea, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei, Alex, and Jeffery either sensed her energy or heard her car coming down the street. From the street Domie skated up earlier was a black leviathan, designed in Sweden.
Domie drove the car up to the school's side walk before she shifted her foot from the gas petal to the brake petal. She opened her door and smiled.
"Okay, let's get in." Domie opened the left passenger's door.
"Um, but the car seats four." Botan pointed out.
"Comfortably." Domie smirked. "Okay Medea, you go to the seat in the opposite door. Yeah that's good. Now Keiko your next, Yusuke, Hiei, Yukina, Botan, Now you Alex, Jeffery can sit on your lap. Okay that's all we're going to fit in the back. Guys you'll have to put your arms on the shoulders of the people sitting next to you. Yeah that will work." The she turned to the remaining three, Kuwabara, Chandra, and Kurama.
"I'll ride in the trunk." Chandra looked down and said quietly.
"Okay, Kuwabara, you sit up front. Kurama, I'm sorry but the front can only fit only two people including the driver. You'll have to ride in the trunk with Chandra." Domie admitted after looking at the front.
"What?" Chandra barked. "What if there is an accident in the trunk."
"Like what?" Yusuke asked wearing a perverted grin.
"Like, I don't know, I don't think it would be much fun to be in a trunk with someone who is claustrophobic, now would it?" Medea asked sarcastically. "Now wipe that look off your face before it sticks. It is very ugly on you. Keiko, could you do me a favor, and smack him on the back of the head for me?"
"Fine I'll ride inside the trunk." Chandra said turning to Domie before climbing in with poor Kurama following. The ride promised not to be fun.
"Alright, Kuwabara take your seat and fasten your seat belt. You and I are the only ones who will need to be wearing them." Domie said as she shut the trunk before taking her own seat. Then she grabbed the keys and turned on the ignition. Nothing happened.
"Ugh, I know this thing works…" Domie turned the key again harder and the car started to make noise but it didn't work.
One thing the members of the Rentai Tentei instantly noticed was that the car was filled with strange Ki, Domie's Ki to be precise.
"I'll have to Ki this thing up…" Domie muttered to her self while she sent her spirit energy through the key and in to the engine. Instantly when she turned the key the car roared into life. At the moment Domie's radio began to play. At first it was a few chords on the radio but then it began to play in the melody of a song. The lyrics began to fill the car.
"Time is being what you want me to be. Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface. Don't know what you're expecting of me. But under the pressure, of walking in your shoes. Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow. Every step that I take is another mistake to you.
I've become so numb I can't feel you there. Become so tight so much away. I'm becoming this. All I want to do is be more like me and less like you." (Numb by Linken Park I don't own)
"Cool, I randomly received the good radio station from Portland." Domie smiled as she turned on to the road she came from heading up the street for the fourth time in one day.
Meanwhile in the trunk things weren't going smoothly.
"Ow!" Kurama winched with the sudden pain in his stomach and back, surprisingly he wasn't heard in the rest of the car. Chandra' heel was in the middle of his stomach and his back was firmly pressed up against the side of the trunk painfully. Chandra was clambering to be in the opposite corner while she was pushing him in to the corner on the opposite side.
"Sorry." Chandra whispered. 'It's for your own good.' She thought.
Kurama's nose picked up two faint odors, fear, and one faint scent. It wasn't strong but it was growing rapidly.
Suddenly the car turned around a corner causing Chandra to lose her balance in her corner in the upper left side and tumble right into Kurama's side in the lower right corner. Her head behaved like a battering ram but that wasn't as bad as the next thing to cause a panic.
It was her mouth. When her head rammed in to the poor kitsune's side her lower jaw crashed right in to her upper jaw. Fortunately nothing got between the teeth, only just a pinch of cloth from Kurama's school uniform shirt, but it was close enough to make Chandra panic.
"Eek! I'm so, so, sorry." Chandra whispered at a confused Kurama. "I nearly…hurt you so badly you would have been scared." She whined before crawling back into the corner and using her foot to keep the distance between them again.
Kurama's nose began to pick up even more of the scent of fear.
"What?" Chandra barked. "What if there is an accident in the trunk."
"Like what?" Yusuke asked wearing a perverted grin.
"Like, I don't know, I don't think it would be much fun to be in a trunk with someone who is claustrophobic, now would it?" Medea asked sarcastically. "Now wipe that look off your face before it sticks. It is very ugly on you. Keiko can you do me a favor and smack him on the back of the head for me?"
"You're claustrophobic aren't you?" He asked.
Chandra paused, should she lie to him? Well being stuck in the trunk with some one who is claustrophobic might sound safer that finding out that you're stuck in the trunk with a werewolf on the morning of the full moon right?
"Yes!" Chandra spoke suddenly.
Just then the car pulled to a stop.
Outside the trunk Domie pulled the key out of the ignition and unbuckled her seat belt.
She opened the door on Medea's side and pulled the Demigoddess out. Medea popped out and landed on her feet.
"See? If there was an accident, you guys wouldn't have needed a seat belt." Domie explained while she pulled Keiko out. Kuwabara pulled Alex and Jeffery out at the same time Keiko was pulled out.
The rest of the members suddenly found room to climb out them selves.
Medea and Domie at the same time headed to the trunk and pulled on the latch.
Instantly Chandra jumped out and Kurama crawled out.
"Guys don't let me ride in the trunk with some one again. I NEARLY BIT Kurama!" Chandra was using all of her self control not to scream.
Domie grabbed Chandra on the shoulders and began to gently shake. She was being illogical, again.
"Chandra you're human, you can't hurt somebody like that at this time of day at this time of the lunar phase." Domie said using a scolding tone as if she was stating the obvious.
"Okay, okay!" Chandra raised her hands in defeat.
"Come on; let's show the group your TIFI collection." Medea said trying to change the subject.
CRACK!
"Wha!" A dark blue figure fell out of a tree in Domie's front yard with garbage cans to break her fall. "ow."
AAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!
Damn Modem! The modem that we use to go online has gone bad and I had to wait all weekend before I could check my email or post! Sorry for the inconvenience grrrrrrrrrr. Sorry for the Cliff hanger but it's getting late and I want to post before I go to bed. But before I go I have a promise I need to keep.
My little sister TassthePhoenix has posted her first fan fic on fan fiction. net and she had me guest star on her first author note so she can get the formatting just right. The Fic is called The Substitute and it is hilarious. Yusuke gets injured and the members of the Reiki Tentei (besides the spirit detective) have to find a replacement. But when they do find some one suitable she is not what they expected. Its main categories are humor and action adventure. Please read it.
OH! and one more thing! I forgot the poll, what state do you think Medea and her firends and family live in?
Thanks!
