AnonymousHieiFan101: Sorry I haven't updated in a while. School just started up for me so its been kinda hectic and I've been having writers block, so don't be surprised if this chappie sucks....
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Chapter4: You Know Genkai!
DREAM
Darkness...It was everywhere... nothing but this black void... a desolate waste land...
'Where am I?' a girl thought to herself. She had blackish brown hair and muddy brown eyes with emerald green rims. It was Natalie Minamino; also known as Ookami.
Two blurry figures began to materialize in front of her. When the images were clear, it was two more girls. One had dark brown hair that went to the middle of her back and was pulled back in a low pony tail with brown eyes. She was almost as tall as Yusuke. The other had blond hair that went to her shoulder blades. She had cobalt eyes and was a little shorter than the brunet.
"Kitsune! Neko!" Ookami was surprised. She had never dreamed of her friends before. It was almost like this was real and not a dream. But then again, how could any of this be real? For one thing, people don't just appear out of nowhere, and for another, no place known on earth is so dark and empty and yet allow the vision to be clear.
"This is too weird..."said Neko, the brunet, said
"Hey wait," spoke up Kitsune, the blond. "Since when do I dream about you two?"
"That's what I was wondering," said Ookami coldly.
"What if this isn't a dream?" questioned Neko.
"You mean this is real and we are awake?" asked Kitsune, a confused look on her face.
"No, I mean what if our minds have somehow been connected, and this is just the place where our minds meet. I think we should try to change our surroundings to see if it's true."
"I think you've been watching too many Sci-Fi movies lately," remarked Ookami, being half sarcastic and half dead serious.
"Yeah, me too," agreed Kitsune.
"Hey, we'll never know unless we try, right?"
"I guess so."
"Hn," was Ookami's response. Neko and Kitsune stared at her. "What?!" They looked away.
"Ok, now, I guess that perhaps we should think of our favorite place and see if we end up there," said Neko. The other girls nodded in agreement and they all thought of there favorite place. Neko's appeared first and took up what seemed like a third of the area.
It was an anime shop. 'Go figure,' thought Ookami. It had every one of her favorite anime and manga. Wall scrolls, DVDs, sound tracks, posters, action figures, costumes, everything. Then Kitsune's image appeared, covering another third of the area. It was a café. A splendid one at that. It had coffee machines, smoothie machines, everything you would expect from a five star café and more. Neko and Kitsune had their backs to Ookami's edge of the area.
"So, what did you come up with Ookami?" asked Kitsune as she and Neko turned around to look. Their faces went blank and pale.
Ookami was standing on the edge of a dark and evil looking forest. There was a gap in the trees and you could see into a little clearing that had large rocks that were perfect for sitting and lying on. In the center there was a medium sized pond with crystal clear waters and a tiny waterfall that came from a narrow stream that disappeared into the dark forest.
"Nope, this is real," says Neko.
"Uh-huh..." said Kitsune.
"Alright, since now we somehow or another have assurance that this is a dream yet real, then I suggest that we-"In the middle of her sentence there was a loud rumble and the ground began to shake. "What the hell!?"
A huge monster came from the ground. His skin was that of stone and it had what looked like dried blood covering his hands and splattered over parts of his body. He had to be one the ugliest thing the girls had ever seen.
"I challenge you to a Death Match of the Minds!" his voice roared. The monsters voice was deep and seemed to echo. Their surroundings changed from their custom made havens to a stony waste land.
"This doesn't look so good you guys!" said Neko.
"No shit Sherlock!" Ookami snapped. "However...this should prove to be an interesting fight..." An evil smirk played at her lips. "Yo stone dude! Give us a couple minutes and we'll accept your challenge!" The beast nodded. Ookami turned around to look at her friends and was met with looks that read, are-you-insane!? "Listen you guys, you know when I fought those thugs that attacked us last night? I don't remember ever fighting that well in my life. If I could fight that good then, then shouldn't I be able to fight that well this time?"
"It sounds logical," said Neko.
"Actually, you guys, I was fighting with my older sister and I actually hurt her really bad. Maybe we all have special powers! Just like in Dragon Ball Z!" exclaimed Kitsune.
"Uh...Neko, forget what I said about you watching too much anime," said Ookami.
"I don't know why, but... I kind of believe her..."
"Okay, well then, you two can sit here and ponder that thought while I go take care of our little attacker." Ookami approached the stone monster and got in a fighting stance. "Let's get this over with."
"A feisty one is we? Don't worry little one, your death will come soon enough," he bellowed.
"Little one!?" Ookami hated it when people referred to her size to make her seem inferior.
"Oh, he's going to get it now!" remarked Kitsune.
"He is so dead," agreed Neko.
"That's it!" Ookami yelled. Her hair thrashed around with a wind that no one else could feel. A black and flaming aura surrounded her. She gritted her teeth and bared her fangs. Wait a minute! Fangs! She had grown fangs and the were considerably large. Her eyes turned pure black. The white of her eyes were gone and it was like looking into a void of nothingness. Her ears grew to a point and she grew claw, sharp claws. Her hair turned jet black. Lastly, she grew a pure black wolf's tale. Some of the fur stuck out at odd angles and gave it a flame effect. Her ears grew a little bit more and morphed into pure black wolf ears that also had a flame effect. Ookami turned to her opponent and thin, vertical, red slits formed in her pure black eyes. She looked vicious and ruthless. The stone demon's tail had begun melting into the stone ground while Ookami had been transforming so she didn't notice.
"Ookami, behind you!" shrieked Neko and Kitsune. The stone demons tail came out of the ground behind her. Ookami turned around and dodged it. Neko and Kitsune gasped at the site of her eyes. The demon's tail put a gash in Ookami's right arm and it began to bleed profusely.
"You'll regret that," she hissed at him. Ookami's aura strengthened and she charged him, delivering a right hook punch directly to his jaw. The stone crumbled and he shrieked in pain. Countering with a kick in the stomach, the stone demon sent Ookami flying. She was too dazed to get up at the moment.
"Ookami!" Neko and Kitsune yelled. At the site of seeing their friend, that had already risked her life for them once, a chain reaction occurred. Kitsune and Neko began to transform.
A dark aura surrounded Neko. It glowed like a light all around her. Her ears grew into dark blue cat ears and her hair also turned dark blue. Sharp fangs grew out and claws also grew. A blue cat tail also made its appearance. Her eyes also turned pure black and a dark blue, vertical slit appeared.
A dark aura surrounded Kitsune as well. It twisted around her like vines around a tree. Her hair turned pure silver. She grew fangs and claws as well. A tail and ears almost exactly like Ookami's except they wear sliver and smooth instead of scruffy. Her eyes turned pure black with vertical, silver slits.
They leapt over to where Ookami was and got her out of the way as the stone demons two huge fists came crashing down. Neko took Ookami from Kitsune and hid behind a rock. Kitsune went to at least keep the monster busy.
A little voice inside of Kitsune's head started to speak to her. 'Take a rose from your hair,' it said.
'But I don't have a ro-' she stopped short as she reached up into her now silver hair and found a rose.
'Channel your spirit energy into it.'
'My what!? Fine, I'll give it a try.' Kitsune channeled her supposed spirit energy into the rose and it turned into a whip. 'Wow! A...a...um...Rose Whip!' She lashed the whip at the stone demon and it sliced right through him.
"Neko," Ookami spoke. She had hit her head pretty hard so her vision was still blurred and she was just barely conscious. "You have got to help Kitsune. Don't worry about me. There isn't any time, go!" Neko bolted to help her other friend. Ookami stumbled to her feet. She wasn't leaving her friends to have all the fun.
Neko followed the instructions of the voice in her head and conjured a dark blue Spirit Sword. She and Kitsune attacked at the same time and the stone demon crumbled to pieces. They thought the fight was over, but he just reformed himself.
"Your going to have to do better than that! Try this!" He made himself explode, sending rock shards everywhere. Neko and Kitsune just barely dodged them and Ookami ducked back behind the rock. She peeked over and as the beast reformed she noticed one of them glowing.
'What the-?' The beast used the attack again and instead of ducking again, Ookami took it head on. Jumping into the rocks she got some minor scratches but her hand closed over the mysterious glowing rock. She jumped away as he reformed himself again.
Neko and Kitsune started cracking up and Ookami couldn't help but smirk. The monster of stone was now all mixed up. When he put himself back together, all his pieces were in the wrong places.
"Just as I thought." Ookami held up the stone she stole. "This is your core with out it your body can't regenerate properly. Care to do the honors Kitsune?"
"With pleasure."
"NO!" he bellowed. He shattered as Kitsune's whip sliced through the core.
"Okay, now that that's over, I definitely know that this is real in some way. It seems to be a telepathic battle. Meaning that any wounds we took here, are probably on our sleeping bodies." Ookami's fangs shortened slightly as did her claws. Her eyes turned back to normal but the iris (colored part of your eye) was red. The same happened to the others only Neko's iris was dark blue and Kitsune's was steel silver. "Also, what the hell is up with us having weird ears and tails, and how did we do all that. I've never moved that fast and as far as I know, it's not exactly normal to conjure swords from nowhere and turn roses into whips."
"Okay, first of all, I think that we should all meet at the dojo. Let's try willing ourselves awake. As soon as we're up we have to meet there okay?" said Kitsune. Neko and Ookami nodded. They all willed themselves to wake up and surprisingly enough they left the horrid place.
REALWORLD
Ookami's eyes slowly opened to find herself in her room at Genkai's temple. She looked at the clock on her cell phone and it said 3:45am. 'Shit, I have to get up and run freaking six miles.' At first she thought it really had all been a dream until she felt the pane from all the scratches and the gash in her right arm. What she realized next almost made her scream. She still had wolf ears and a wolf tail. Her surprise quickly vanished as it was replaced with awe. "Awesome..." she mumbled. She also realized that her normal clothing was gone. "Wow, I look like Inuyasha," she mumbled. Indeed it was true. Her outfit was exactly like Inuyasha's except the red from his outfit was black on hers and the white from his outfit was red. It was also a little more tight fitting making her look 'slenderized'.
WITHKITSUNE
Kitsune woke up and instantly bolted out of bed and ran to her mirror. She gasped at what she saw. She was also still in the form from her dream. Her clothes were also duplicates of Inuyasha's. Hers was silver were the red should be and white in the normal places. She knew she would never make it out of her house like this so she decided to take a chance with her second story window. She jumped out and landed perfectly on her feet. Since she was an Inuyasha addict she chose to check out if she could jump from rooftop to rooftop like him. Sure enough she could and made it to the dojo in no time.
Neko who lived closest to the dojo was already there. She was still in her peculiar form and her outfit (you guessed it) was just like Inuyasha's. The main color was dark blue and the rest was black. They leaned casually against the wall just inside the dojo waiting for Ookami to show up.
WITHOOKAMI
"Stupid temple. Why the hell does it have to be so far away from everything!" she nearly yelled as she jumped from tree to tree. She landed on a branch and felt her foot slip. She was about six stories up in the air and now hurtling towards the ground. She gave out a little yelp. Now two stories to the ground, she collided with someone, or something, but it wasn't the ground. She had just enough sense to tell it was a person. They hit the ground together. Ookami rolled off of whoever it was still keeping her eyes closed. She slowly sat up and put a hand to her head, for it was throbbing like mad. Otherwise nothing seemed to be injured. She thought she was in the clear until she felt a katana press up against her neck.
"Who are you," said a gruff and icy voice. She knew that voice. A flash back of Hiei and Shuichi talking in the kitchen played in her mind. Her head snapped up.
"Hiei?" she asked in a shocked voice. Normally she wasn't one to show so much emotion, but she made an exception. Hiei soon realized who the girl was. Mainly because he could now see her eyes, even tough a different color were still recognizable, not to mention the voice was a pretty good tip off. Hiei placed his katana back into its sheath.
"What are you doing here?" he snapped. Ookami wasn't sure if she should tell him but something made her do so.
"I was on my way to the dojo were I train," she spat back. Her cocky attitude and emotionless face was returning.
Hiei smirked. He didn't know why though. All of his thoughts were jumbled up. He kept telling himself that love would only make him weak, but he couldn't help but wonder what it was to truly love someone and not in the sibling way. Hiei took a break from being his graceful self and simply plopped down on the ground beside Ookami, resting his elbows on his knees. He leaned back against the tree right behind him.
Ookami tried to stand but fell back to earth. She had sprained her ankle when her foot slipped. She had managed to grab her cell phone before she left and sent a text message to Neko. It said, 'reschedule meeting to 6pm.' She then put her phone back into her deep pocket.
"Why didn't you tell us you were a demon? Hiei asked, curiosity getting the better of him.
"I didn't know I was. Until tonight that is."
"What do you mean?"
"When I fell asleep I had this weird dream that Kitsune and Neko were in. We all transformed into something different when this creepy dude made of stone started to attack us. I thought it was a dream but I guess not. I told Neko and Kitsune to meet me at the dojo, but I just sent a text message with my phone to tell them to meet at six tomorrow."
"Hn. You're a wolf youkai from the looks of it. And based upon your eyes, fur and hair, I'd say you've got power over shadow and fire." He said it as if it was the most obvious thing in the word.
"So, are you a demon too?" she asked stupidly.
"Hn"
"Oh, really? What kind" Hiei was taken aback. No one except Kurama ever knew exactly what he meant when he said 'Hn.' but she hit it on the dot.
"Fire," he stated bluntly. This is the first time he's said so much to one person at a time. "You sprained your ankle, didn't you?"
"Hn." Ookami turned away because she started to blush and get angry at herself. She never purposely showed weakness to anybody so she definitely wasn't going to admit to it.
HIEI'SPOV
'What the hell is this girl dong to me!?' I thought to myself. 'She gets hurt and I feel sorry for her? Something isn't right. I've got to go talk to that stupid fox right away. This is going to get out of hand. I wonder if I should take her with me. I really don't feel like carrying anyone but I guess I don't have a choice. I mean, I can't just leave her here. Wait! Yes I can! Ah! I can't take this anymore. I'll just take her with me. The stupid fox can heal her stupid ankle, I can talk with the stupid fox and it'll all be just fine.'
I stood up and walked over to Ookami. This was only like three steps, but whatever. I stooped down and picked her up bridal style.
"What the hell are you doing?" she demanded.
"Hn."
"Is that all you say!?" I paid no heed and started jumping from tree to tree. "Hiei, tell me."
"If you wait you'll find out."
"Why the cant you just tell me?"
"Because we're here, baka onna." I said as I landed on the branch just outside the fox's window. I rapped on the glass and Kurama opened it, with a rather surprised expression might I add.
"Hiei, what are you doing here so early in the morning?" That's when he noticed the onna. "Natalie is that you?"
"Who else could I be?" she barked as she hopped out of my arms and into the room on one foot. She seated herself on the bed and for some reason I wanted to hold her again. 'This is getting way out of hand!' I inwardly yelled to myself. 'I have got to find out what this onna did to me!'
"Kurama, I need to talk to you." I dragged him out of the room and down the hall a ways so she couldn't here us.
NORMALPOV
WITHNEKOANDKITSUNE
"Hey check it. I just got a text message from Ookami," said Neko.
"What's it say?"
"It says to meet here at six this afternoon instead. Well, we can't go back home with ears and tails and we can't stay here so I guess we should go wait on the edge of the forest."
"I guess so. Hey, you know those wounds Ookami got while we were in our dream thing? Do you think she got those in reality as well?"
"I don't know. We have to get to the forest fast though, pretty soon people will start waking up and if we are seen there's no telling what could happen," Neko said as she and Kitsune exited the dojo and ran to the forest.
WITHOOKAMI
'Hn, wonder what they had to talk about that was so important I couldn't know,' Ookami wondered to herself. 'This sucks. And why did Hiei call Shuichi, Kurama. I thought that was the name of the legendary fox bandit. Yoko Kurama, he was supposed to have disappeared years ago. I wonder if those books at the library were all that trust worthy. I believe in demons, especially now, but are those demon legends I read about really real? I think I remember reading something about Inuyasha in there as well. Who cares?' Ookami halted her thought as she walked into Shuichi's private bathroom were a lot of the bandages were kept and took care of her minor scratches and the large gash in her arm. She also wrapped her ankle.
INTHEHALL
"Your in love, Hiei," said Kurama as he started to chuckle.
"What do you mean I'm in love!?" Hiei whispered angrily and harshly. "I can't be in love! I'm incapable of love!"
"Apparently not, Hiei. Trust me; I know what the symptoms of love are. And you my friend are in love with my sister." Kurama smiled and chuckled slightly as he walked back to his room, leaving a dumb founded Hiei gaping in the hall.
When he reentered his bedroom he saw Natalie, a.k.a. Ookami, coming out of his private bathroom all bandaged up and doing fine. She wasn't even limping that much anymore.
"What were you doing all the way out there in the forest to begin with?" questioned Shuichi, a.k.a. Kurama, as Hiei slipped in the doorway.
"Might as well tell you," she began, "the friend I went to stay with is actually Master Genkai and I'm there training with her."
"How do you no Genkai?" Kurama asked in a shocked voice.
"I met her almost a year ago. I was training under Master Shin at the time and somehow ended up in the forest by her temple. Some idiots attacked me and I had to fight them. She heard the noise and came to check it out. She told me that after I finished training with Master Shin to come to her temple so she could train me farther."
Kurama was speechless; as was Hiei, not that he'd say anything anyways. That was extremely unexpected.
"Well, I have some explaining to do as well," Kurama said. Natalie gave him a quizzical look.
Thirty minutes of explaining later, Natalie had been completely filled in about the whole Kurama reincarnated thing. She also found out all about the Demon and Spirit World. She now knew Yusuke was a Spirit Detective and Kuwabara was his helpful companion. Also that Hiei and Kurama were on probation for various crimes committed against Spirit World.
"And the reason we were surprised that you were training with Genkai is because Yusuke is her apprentice," stated Kurama. Hiei was currently sitting on the window sill not paying any attention simply because he didn't need to.
"What!? You mean to tell me that that idiot is the Master Genkai's apprentice!?" she shrieked. Natalie immediately clasp her hand over her mouth; she had forgotten that her mother was downstairs in her own bedroom.
"Don't worry; she's on a business trip," replied Kurama calmly. Natalie let out a sigh of relief. "And yes, he is her apprentice but, no, Yusuke is not an idiot. Stubborn at times, yes, but not an idiot," he scolded.
"Would you rather I call him an ass whole?" she countered. Hiei's smirk was visible in his reflection on the glass.
"Watch your language," Kurama scolded yet again.
"Whatever..." she mumbled. Kurama sighed; no matter how much he was to scold her it would never change her attitude or her sometimes vulgar choice of vocabulary. Shiori, there mother, wasn't even able to control Natalie; she did what she wanted, when she wanted and that was that. She had a 'my way or the highway' attitude that could never be changed. She had anger issues that could not be explained and was as rebellious as any teen could be.
"I have to go," she said. "Master Genkai will be wondering where I am by now."
"I'll take you back," spoke Kurama, "unless of course, Hiei wants to take you back." A rarely seen sly smirk found its way across Kurama's lips. Natalie looked from Kurama to Hiei then back to Kurama, confusion written on her normally enigmatic face. She secretly hoped he would but thought for sure he wouldn't. She was also curious as to why Kurama had such a sly smirk on his face and what he knew that she didn't.
"Hn," was all Hiei said. 'Only if you come with us fox,' he said telepathically.
'Very well; I wouldn't wanting you take things to fast with my sister anyways,' he responded, also telepathically. Hiei's eyes widened and a barely noticeable tinge of pink crept across his cheeks. Luckily a glare was across the window due to the newly risen sun and his reflection could not be seen. He regained his composer and stepped down from the window sill to face them. He shoved his hands in his cloak pockets and started towards the door; he paused to wait for the two siblings.
"I have to find Neko and Kitsune first though," said Natalie as she walked to Hiei. "Knowing them, when I told them to meet at six this evening, they probably went into the forest." She passed Hiei and wasn't limping anymore.
AmomymousHieiFan101: YAY!!!! I finally finished another chapter!!!
Hiei: hn
AHF101: Ya, whatever... I promiss to update more from now on.
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