Disclaimer: GUESS WHAT I GOT FOR MY BIRTHDAY!?!?!
Lawyers look confused and begin leafing through their papers
Lawyers: We don't have any record of your owning Yu Yu Hakusho...
Leiko: Well DUH!!! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY THIS!?!?! I DON'T OWN YU YU HAKUSHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lawyers: But... isn't that what you got for your birthday? Why else would you bring it up in your disclaimer...?
Mizuna: She got a rubber ducky.
Kin: Yeah, and besides, her birthday was months ago!
Lawyers: Then why did she type that as her disclaimer?
Kashaku: You would think that they would be used to this by now wouldn't you?
Rando nods
Yusuke: Huh... I thought you were dead...
Rando: I was, you did kill me.
Yusuke: And you are here because...?
Rando: Leiko brought me back for her fic.
Yusuke: That's cool...
Rando: Yup...
Yusuke:...
Rando: You're still mad about that whole trying to kill you thing aren't you?
Yusuke: Nah... I mean 1. you didn't succeed... and 2. I ended up killing you instead, so we're even.
Yusuke holds out hand
Yusuke: Friends?
Rando shrugs and shakes his hand
Leiko: Ooooooooooooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay..... Anywho, on with the fic!!!
Kashaku's Random Adventure
Kashaku walked drearily down the street... She was bored... VERY bored...Kin was out on a mandatory date with Youko... Yusuke and his girlfriend Danielle were on a date... Mizuna was who in Kami-sama's name knows where... Ditto for Hiei... And Kuwabara was... Well, actually she didn't care where he was, he creeped her out!
So that was how she ended up wandering the streets... Lost in her misery that no one would ever be able to pull her out of... Lost forever in a sea of despair... Her soul gone, never to return... Her happiness a mere shadow of a memory in the world's eye...
"PENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ok, scratch that, she's back to normal.
The bouncy red-head dashed out onto the street and dove at the penny, completely oblivious to the car that was having trouble stopping.
"CRAP!!! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT GIRL DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING ROAD!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! KAMI DAMNIT!!! FIRST I LOST YUSUKE'S TRAIL AND NOW THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Here Rando was, minding his own business when this psycho girl runs out into the middle of the street and just SITS there! The speed limit here was pretty high so he was going too fast to be able to stop in time. Then he saw his, or more fittingly the psycho's, salvation. The road was too narrow to miss her, unless of course he would rather take out a few pedestrians, so he decided to go over her instead.
Steering his car with great expertise, he turned his vehicle on its side and ramped up some random piece of wood that had conveniently been placed at the perfect angle to send him and his car directly over the psychotic redhead. When his car hit the ground, Rando jerked his steering wheel to the right causing his car to turn until it finally skidded to a halt a few yards away from the oblivious girl.
He opened the door of his car and slammed it shut before going to see if the girl was okay, and to see if she wanted any help getting back to the mental ward. His long blood red hair swished behind him as he strode over to the girl, his purple eyes flashing with anger... Oh, and a bit of concern... (A/N: Snickers Concern... TCH!!!)
Kashaku glanced up at the advancing demonic aura. It was a tall, pale demon who was most likely covering some kind of markings with his power. He was obviously quite powerful, but hey, she was surrounded by strong demons, what's one more? She then looked past the hot man and at his cherry red convertible. 'Cool car...'
Standing up, still holding onto her prize she disappearing from his view. Rando looked around in confusion before mentally shrugging it off and deciding it best to forget what had happened. Shaking his head slightly he slid into the front seat and turned the car back on.
"So, where are we goin' first?"
Rando's head snapped to the seat next to him. 'What the fuck...?'
Kashaku was sitting in the passenger seat of his car smiling happily at him.
"Get out. Of my. CAR!!!" Kashaku simply sat there and stared at him blankly before asking her question again.
"WE are going nowhere! Sure I almost ran over you, but that does not mean I'm going to play taxi to some insane psycho girl who was sitting in the middle of the damn street!!!" To prove his point he turned his car off, crossed his arms and settled into his seat to wait for her to leave.
"So where are we going first?" She was now staring at him with large, innocent yellow eyes.
"DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME!?!?! ARE YOU DEAF OR SOMETHING!?!?!?!?!?!"
"I'm not death."
"No, DEAF, d-e-a-F deaf, it means are you hard of hearing." He slowly pronounced each word trying to contain his anger. It really wasn't right to hit crazy people, it's not their fault they're chronically insane/stupid.
She blinked owlishly at him before grabbing his hand. Before Rando had time to take his hand back, she was pumping it up and down. "Hiya! My name's Kashaku! What's yours?"
"If you don't get out of my car RIGHT NOW I am going to kill you!" Rando had officially stopped caring, no more Mr. Nice-bloodthirsty-demon.
The redheaded girl simply shrugged the warning off, acting like she received death threats everyday or something. "GUESS WHAT!!!" She told him in an excited manner.
He glared at her. "I'm going to follow you around ALL day long!!!"
"You... Are going to... Stalk me?" His tone was incredulous. Whose wouldn't be, he was a powerful demon, she was just some five year old on steroids or something.
"No...." She countered as if he had just said something REALLY stupid, "I'm going to follow you around all day." (A/N: You call it stalking. I call it love!)
"That's stalking."
"Following."
"Stalking!"
"FOLLOWING!!!"
"IT'S STALKING YOU PSYCHOTIC BITCH!!! AND WHY THE HELL DON'T YOU GO 'FOLLOW' AROUND SOMEONE ELSE!!!" Just as Rando was going to rip out her throat, she changed the subject.
"Well... I would follow someone else around... But they're all busy... Mizuna and Hiei are off frolicking somewhere... Well, actually they don't frolic, but they're off somewhere that I don't know about... Kin is out on a mandatory date with Youko and Yusuke is out with Danielle..."
"Yusuke!?!" Now Rando was interested. 'I suppose that I will just have to kill her AFTER she brings me to Yusuke... Ha! This fool will probably lead me right to him!!!'
"Yeah... I said YYYUUUSSSUUUKKKEEE...." She stretched the word out like she was talking to a very small child.
"I'm a... Friend, of Yusuke's, would you mind telling me where he is?" He asked, trying to coax it out of her before he tried his preferred method of torture.
"I don't know where he is... For some strange reason he wouldn't tell me..." She shrugged and Rando stared at her, fighting the urge to smack his forehead onto the dashboard.
"Then can you take me to his house so that I can wait for him..." When she still looked undecided he added, "As a... surprise?"
She then grinned happily at him and bopped her head to an imaginary beat for a second, singing something about loving surprises... or maybe it was something about rabid chipmunks, he wasn't listening. "YAY!!!!!!!! LET'S GET GOING!!!!!!!!"
Rando grinned nastily, which Kashaku, being... well, Kashaku, mistook for a happy ice-cream loving smile.
"Turn left here.
"Turn left here.
"Turn left here..." Kashaku smiled sweetly as they passed the same old lady feeding pigeons for the 8th time.
"WOULD YOU JUST TELL ME THE WAY AND STOP HAVING ME GO AROUND THE SAME DAMN BLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kashaku stared at him blankly before there was a flicker of recognition in her eyes. "Oh, I take it you have some sort of prejudice against pigeons don't you!?!"
"No, I just want to... 'surprise' Yusuke by being at his house when he arrives." Wow... He's a good liar... or Kashaku's just to oblivious to notice he's lying.
"So does this mean that you don't want to watch the old lady anymore?"
"Yes." He sighed in partial relief, glad that she understood.
"So you're prejudice against old ladies now!?!"
"NO!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST TELL ME THE WAY TO YUSUKE'S HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Okie dokie! Right... Left... straight... left............................. NO QUICK TURN RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Rando swerved at the last possible second to go in the direction she had said.
"Ok... Pull in at there."
The demon pulled into the small parking lot that was in front of a small pink shop. "You live in an ice cream store?"
"Nope. I just wanted some ice cream!" Kashaku ignored the incredulous/pissed off look she was receiving and skipped happily into her favorite store in the entire neighborhood(the donut shop's the next street down).
The over exuberant redhead skipped back out a few minutes later, only to see that Rando was still in the same position trying to figure out exactly how dumb she really was.
Ignoring his rather vacant expression, she slid into her seat and handed him the triple scoop of tin roof she had gotten him. Then she began to devour her own triple chocolate, triple scoop in her waffle cone.
"Would you. Please. Take me to Yusuke now." Rando was having a very hard time keeping his temper under control. This human was irritating him beyond all reason.
Kashaku faced him and tilted her head to the side in deliberation. It was obvious to her that Rando was after Yusuke for some reason or another, and that he would pose a threat judging by his tremendous demonic energy. "Okay." She mentally shrugged. She was possibly putting Yusuke at risk, but a) she had an image to uphold, and b) Yusuke did love a challenge.
Giving him the directions to Yusuke's apartment. Besides, she wasn't really endangering him, after all the whole gang would be there to step in if necessary.
When they reached his house, Kashaku jumped out of the still moving vehicle and then stood there waiting patiently for Rando to park. When he did, she grabbed his hand, and for once lived up to her oblivious nature by not seeing the light blush spread across his face.
Reaching his door, Kashaku randomly fell over and when she stood back up, she was holding the spare key that Yusuke's mom had hidden.
Rando was considering killing her on the spot, but decided to let her live for showing him where Yusuke lived. It had nothing at all to do with the fact that her hands were velvety soft. Or the fact that she smelled like spicy cinnamon. Nope, that had nothing to with it at all.
Kashaku grabbed his hand once again and practically dragged him into the living room with her. Rando sat down with a sigh and settled down on the couch to wait for his rival. A second or two later Kashaku also plopped down on the couch, though she was sitting upside down... She had previously claimed the remote and was now busily flipping through channels trying to find something to watch.
A few minutes later the door slammed open, causing Rando to rise and prepare to fight Yusuke. Only to find that it was a tall silver haired Kitsune and his golden eyed companion.
"Yo Ka-chan, who's the demon?" The golden haired girl acted as though Kashaku brought home random demons all the time, which she didn't, but she did like to bring home random other objects, animals, ext.
"His name's Rando. He's here to challenge Yusuke."
The two Kitsunes shrugged and settled themselves on the couch next to Kashaku. "Kami, who ISN'Tafter Yusuke?" The silver haired one said lightly.
Kin shrugged. "Who Isn't after you?" She shot back.
Kashaku decided that now was a good time for introductions, besides, all the blood was rushing to her head and she need to sit up straight again. Flipping around she introduced Rando to Kin and Youko and vice-versa.
The door opened once again, this time revealing a petite blue haired teen and a tall fire apparition. They nodded in recognition to Rando, introduced themselves and sat down in the two chairs that were the only pieces of furniture not being used. Well, beside the table and the TV, both of which wouldn't be claimed as seats.
When Yusuke finally arrived the group had settled into an uncomfortable silence that was only broken by the sound of the TV and the flipping of pages courtesy of Mizuna.
Before Rando could launch an attack at Yusuke, Kashaku bopped him on the head with the remote and told him to wait till later, that they had important things to discuss first.
Yusuke and his girlfriend Danielle sat down on the floor, seeing as how there were no free seats. First Yusuke sat down next to Hiei's chair, and then Danielle sat in his lap with his arms around her.
"Mizuna. I think that you need to tell them why Shino is after you. Us." There. Kin had broken the silence with the words no one else had dared to speak.
The water demoness in question nodded vaguely and began her story. "Two years ago. We were all happy. Carefree. Innocent. I was going to a school for the gifted. It was a very select school that only accepted the most powerful and rich demons. That year a boy transferred into my classes. At first I didn't really pay attention to him. Then one day. I was careless. I. Stayed out after dark reading at the library. I tried to hurry. But it was to late. Before I continue. I must tell you of my fear. I am. Terrified. Of the dark. As you all know. Good and evil must have a balance. My world creates such good, veiled though it is, there must be an equal evil for it to be balanced. The balance is. Darkness. Darkness in my land is. Absolute. If caught in the darkness. You will die. The. Darkness will eat your mind. Your soul. Your very body. You will disappear without a trace. And. I was trapped in the dark. I was so afraid. He happened to be walking by; he was glowing so that he would be able to see his way. I. I was not in complete control. His light brought me back. He saved me from myself. From my terror. I fell in love with him. We were happy. But then. He. He was as you have probably figured out. Evil. Not. Not. Bad, or mean. He is pure evil. He didn't love me. He. Only loved power. And that was something that I could give him. Kin and Kashaku finally revealed him for who he was. We all took it hard. We. We changed. I stopped feeling for a year. Anything. I didn't feel pain. Sorrow. Happiness. They brought me out of that. But still. I still have trouble. Feeling. They took it hard as well. I began pushing people away with a mask of indifference. Kin with a mask of anger. Kashaku with a mask of obliviousness. We lost ourselves for that year. They saw what had happened to me. And they knew that it could happen to them. So they cut off contact. I still blame myself for it. I won't allow myself to feel true happiness. And when I do. I stop myself."
A few tears had leaked out of her eyes and were sliding silently down her face. Kashaku had a pensive expression on her face, as if she wasn't completely there. No one knew what Kin looked like, she had buried her face in Youko's chest and it didn't look like she would be moving any time soon.
The entire group had solemn faces on. They new the effort it took for Mizuna to tell them this, and also how much she trusted them. All of them.
Leiko: Sorry if it was a bit short, but this was the best place for it to end.
Crickets chirp
Leiko: Hehe... um... I guess since everyone is too depressed to talk nonstop, that I'll just have to answer my reviewers. So, here it goes!
CrimsonSash: Good work Kin-chan. I'm proud of you. Let's see if your luck holds up. Who knows, you might not say a candy-ass word for a whole other review!!! And thanks for letting Mah borrow your bishi!!!
TPM-girl: Sorry I didn't get to put you in this chapter, but it was focused mainly on Kashaku and her random day out. - don't worry, you'll be in there as soon as I can find a plausible way to put Jin in the story!!! And you need to say thanks to Kin-chan too!!! And the best way to do that is to read one of her fics!!! Kin: Leiko... you are so weird...
Fanfic-demon: YAY!!! I put in what happened between them just for you!!! And so that Kin wouldn't strangle me while Kashaku watches me slowly suffocate!!! Thanks for being such a studious reviewer!!!
Hiei17: YAY!!! ANOTHER DEDICATED REVIEWER!!! Sorry I haven't read your story yet, but I never check my reviews until I'm writing my next chapter... Well, at least that's when I'm actually thinking about them... hehe... please don't hurt me!!! Kin: How many times am I going to say this? You're weird.
Hiei's1girl: Thanks for reviewing, I'm really glad that you like my story! I aim to please!!! Kin: CoughyourselfCough
TLC Kitsume: YAY!!! I'VE SAID YAY THREE TIMES!!! YAY!!! 4!!! I'm happy that you like my story too!!! YAY!!! 5!!! Kin: You're REALLY getting weird now Leiko...
Leiko: Read and review or else I'll tell you a depressing story and you'll become all mopey just like them.
Opens door and reveals a still solemn looking cast
Leiko: They've been like that for hours. It's starting to creep me out.
Lawyers look confused and begin leafing through their papers
Lawyers: We don't have any record of your owning Yu Yu Hakusho...
Leiko: Well DUH!!! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY THIS!?!?! I DON'T OWN YU YU HAKUSHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lawyers: But... isn't that what you got for your birthday? Why else would you bring it up in your disclaimer...?
Mizuna: She got a rubber ducky.
Kin: Yeah, and besides, her birthday was months ago!
Lawyers: Then why did she type that as her disclaimer?
Kashaku: You would think that they would be used to this by now wouldn't you?
Rando nods
Yusuke: Huh... I thought you were dead...
Rando: I was, you did kill me.
Yusuke: And you are here because...?
Rando: Leiko brought me back for her fic.
Yusuke: That's cool...
Rando: Yup...
Yusuke:...
Rando: You're still mad about that whole trying to kill you thing aren't you?
Yusuke: Nah... I mean 1. you didn't succeed... and 2. I ended up killing you instead, so we're even.
Yusuke holds out hand
Yusuke: Friends?
Rando shrugs and shakes his hand
Leiko: Ooooooooooooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay..... Anywho, on with the fic!!!
Kashaku's Random Adventure
Kashaku walked drearily down the street... She was bored... VERY bored...Kin was out on a mandatory date with Youko... Yusuke and his girlfriend Danielle were on a date... Mizuna was who in Kami-sama's name knows where... Ditto for Hiei... And Kuwabara was... Well, actually she didn't care where he was, he creeped her out!
So that was how she ended up wandering the streets... Lost in her misery that no one would ever be able to pull her out of... Lost forever in a sea of despair... Her soul gone, never to return... Her happiness a mere shadow of a memory in the world's eye...
"PENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ok, scratch that, she's back to normal.
The bouncy red-head dashed out onto the street and dove at the penny, completely oblivious to the car that was having trouble stopping.
"CRAP!!! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT GIRL DOING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING ROAD!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! KAMI DAMNIT!!! FIRST I LOST YUSUKE'S TRAIL AND NOW THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Here Rando was, minding his own business when this psycho girl runs out into the middle of the street and just SITS there! The speed limit here was pretty high so he was going too fast to be able to stop in time. Then he saw his, or more fittingly the psycho's, salvation. The road was too narrow to miss her, unless of course he would rather take out a few pedestrians, so he decided to go over her instead.
Steering his car with great expertise, he turned his vehicle on its side and ramped up some random piece of wood that had conveniently been placed at the perfect angle to send him and his car directly over the psychotic redhead. When his car hit the ground, Rando jerked his steering wheel to the right causing his car to turn until it finally skidded to a halt a few yards away from the oblivious girl.
He opened the door of his car and slammed it shut before going to see if the girl was okay, and to see if she wanted any help getting back to the mental ward. His long blood red hair swished behind him as he strode over to the girl, his purple eyes flashing with anger... Oh, and a bit of concern... (A/N: Snickers Concern... TCH!!!)
Kashaku glanced up at the advancing demonic aura. It was a tall, pale demon who was most likely covering some kind of markings with his power. He was obviously quite powerful, but hey, she was surrounded by strong demons, what's one more? She then looked past the hot man and at his cherry red convertible. 'Cool car...'
Standing up, still holding onto her prize she disappearing from his view. Rando looked around in confusion before mentally shrugging it off and deciding it best to forget what had happened. Shaking his head slightly he slid into the front seat and turned the car back on.
"So, where are we goin' first?"
Rando's head snapped to the seat next to him. 'What the fuck...?'
Kashaku was sitting in the passenger seat of his car smiling happily at him.
"Get out. Of my. CAR!!!" Kashaku simply sat there and stared at him blankly before asking her question again.
"WE are going nowhere! Sure I almost ran over you, but that does not mean I'm going to play taxi to some insane psycho girl who was sitting in the middle of the damn street!!!" To prove his point he turned his car off, crossed his arms and settled into his seat to wait for her to leave.
"So where are we going first?" She was now staring at him with large, innocent yellow eyes.
"DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME!?!?! ARE YOU DEAF OR SOMETHING!?!?!?!?!?!"
"I'm not death."
"No, DEAF, d-e-a-F deaf, it means are you hard of hearing." He slowly pronounced each word trying to contain his anger. It really wasn't right to hit crazy people, it's not their fault they're chronically insane/stupid.
She blinked owlishly at him before grabbing his hand. Before Rando had time to take his hand back, she was pumping it up and down. "Hiya! My name's Kashaku! What's yours?"
"If you don't get out of my car RIGHT NOW I am going to kill you!" Rando had officially stopped caring, no more Mr. Nice-bloodthirsty-demon.
The redheaded girl simply shrugged the warning off, acting like she received death threats everyday or something. "GUESS WHAT!!!" She told him in an excited manner.
He glared at her. "I'm going to follow you around ALL day long!!!"
"You... Are going to... Stalk me?" His tone was incredulous. Whose wouldn't be, he was a powerful demon, she was just some five year old on steroids or something.
"No...." She countered as if he had just said something REALLY stupid, "I'm going to follow you around all day." (A/N: You call it stalking. I call it love!)
"That's stalking."
"Following."
"Stalking!"
"FOLLOWING!!!"
"IT'S STALKING YOU PSYCHOTIC BITCH!!! AND WHY THE HELL DON'T YOU GO 'FOLLOW' AROUND SOMEONE ELSE!!!" Just as Rando was going to rip out her throat, she changed the subject.
"Well... I would follow someone else around... But they're all busy... Mizuna and Hiei are off frolicking somewhere... Well, actually they don't frolic, but they're off somewhere that I don't know about... Kin is out on a mandatory date with Youko and Yusuke is out with Danielle..."
"Yusuke!?!" Now Rando was interested. 'I suppose that I will just have to kill her AFTER she brings me to Yusuke... Ha! This fool will probably lead me right to him!!!'
"Yeah... I said YYYUUUSSSUUUKKKEEE...." She stretched the word out like she was talking to a very small child.
"I'm a... Friend, of Yusuke's, would you mind telling me where he is?" He asked, trying to coax it out of her before he tried his preferred method of torture.
"I don't know where he is... For some strange reason he wouldn't tell me..." She shrugged and Rando stared at her, fighting the urge to smack his forehead onto the dashboard.
"Then can you take me to his house so that I can wait for him..." When she still looked undecided he added, "As a... surprise?"
She then grinned happily at him and bopped her head to an imaginary beat for a second, singing something about loving surprises... or maybe it was something about rabid chipmunks, he wasn't listening. "YAY!!!!!!!! LET'S GET GOING!!!!!!!!"
Rando grinned nastily, which Kashaku, being... well, Kashaku, mistook for a happy ice-cream loving smile.
"Turn left here.
"Turn left here.
"Turn left here..." Kashaku smiled sweetly as they passed the same old lady feeding pigeons for the 8th time.
"WOULD YOU JUST TELL ME THE WAY AND STOP HAVING ME GO AROUND THE SAME DAMN BLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kashaku stared at him blankly before there was a flicker of recognition in her eyes. "Oh, I take it you have some sort of prejudice against pigeons don't you!?!"
"No, I just want to... 'surprise' Yusuke by being at his house when he arrives." Wow... He's a good liar... or Kashaku's just to oblivious to notice he's lying.
"So does this mean that you don't want to watch the old lady anymore?"
"Yes." He sighed in partial relief, glad that she understood.
"So you're prejudice against old ladies now!?!"
"NO!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST TELL ME THE WAY TO YUSUKE'S HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Okie dokie! Right... Left... straight... left............................. NO QUICK TURN RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Rando swerved at the last possible second to go in the direction she had said.
"Ok... Pull in at there."
The demon pulled into the small parking lot that was in front of a small pink shop. "You live in an ice cream store?"
"Nope. I just wanted some ice cream!" Kashaku ignored the incredulous/pissed off look she was receiving and skipped happily into her favorite store in the entire neighborhood(the donut shop's the next street down).
The over exuberant redhead skipped back out a few minutes later, only to see that Rando was still in the same position trying to figure out exactly how dumb she really was.
Ignoring his rather vacant expression, she slid into her seat and handed him the triple scoop of tin roof she had gotten him. Then she began to devour her own triple chocolate, triple scoop in her waffle cone.
"Would you. Please. Take me to Yusuke now." Rando was having a very hard time keeping his temper under control. This human was irritating him beyond all reason.
Kashaku faced him and tilted her head to the side in deliberation. It was obvious to her that Rando was after Yusuke for some reason or another, and that he would pose a threat judging by his tremendous demonic energy. "Okay." She mentally shrugged. She was possibly putting Yusuke at risk, but a) she had an image to uphold, and b) Yusuke did love a challenge.
Giving him the directions to Yusuke's apartment. Besides, she wasn't really endangering him, after all the whole gang would be there to step in if necessary.
When they reached his house, Kashaku jumped out of the still moving vehicle and then stood there waiting patiently for Rando to park. When he did, she grabbed his hand, and for once lived up to her oblivious nature by not seeing the light blush spread across his face.
Reaching his door, Kashaku randomly fell over and when she stood back up, she was holding the spare key that Yusuke's mom had hidden.
Rando was considering killing her on the spot, but decided to let her live for showing him where Yusuke lived. It had nothing at all to do with the fact that her hands were velvety soft. Or the fact that she smelled like spicy cinnamon. Nope, that had nothing to with it at all.
Kashaku grabbed his hand once again and practically dragged him into the living room with her. Rando sat down with a sigh and settled down on the couch to wait for his rival. A second or two later Kashaku also plopped down on the couch, though she was sitting upside down... She had previously claimed the remote and was now busily flipping through channels trying to find something to watch.
A few minutes later the door slammed open, causing Rando to rise and prepare to fight Yusuke. Only to find that it was a tall silver haired Kitsune and his golden eyed companion.
"Yo Ka-chan, who's the demon?" The golden haired girl acted as though Kashaku brought home random demons all the time, which she didn't, but she did like to bring home random other objects, animals, ext.
"His name's Rando. He's here to challenge Yusuke."
The two Kitsunes shrugged and settled themselves on the couch next to Kashaku. "Kami, who ISN'Tafter Yusuke?" The silver haired one said lightly.
Kin shrugged. "Who Isn't after you?" She shot back.
Kashaku decided that now was a good time for introductions, besides, all the blood was rushing to her head and she need to sit up straight again. Flipping around she introduced Rando to Kin and Youko and vice-versa.
The door opened once again, this time revealing a petite blue haired teen and a tall fire apparition. They nodded in recognition to Rando, introduced themselves and sat down in the two chairs that were the only pieces of furniture not being used. Well, beside the table and the TV, both of which wouldn't be claimed as seats.
When Yusuke finally arrived the group had settled into an uncomfortable silence that was only broken by the sound of the TV and the flipping of pages courtesy of Mizuna.
Before Rando could launch an attack at Yusuke, Kashaku bopped him on the head with the remote and told him to wait till later, that they had important things to discuss first.
Yusuke and his girlfriend Danielle sat down on the floor, seeing as how there were no free seats. First Yusuke sat down next to Hiei's chair, and then Danielle sat in his lap with his arms around her.
"Mizuna. I think that you need to tell them why Shino is after you. Us." There. Kin had broken the silence with the words no one else had dared to speak.
The water demoness in question nodded vaguely and began her story. "Two years ago. We were all happy. Carefree. Innocent. I was going to a school for the gifted. It was a very select school that only accepted the most powerful and rich demons. That year a boy transferred into my classes. At first I didn't really pay attention to him. Then one day. I was careless. I. Stayed out after dark reading at the library. I tried to hurry. But it was to late. Before I continue. I must tell you of my fear. I am. Terrified. Of the dark. As you all know. Good and evil must have a balance. My world creates such good, veiled though it is, there must be an equal evil for it to be balanced. The balance is. Darkness. Darkness in my land is. Absolute. If caught in the darkness. You will die. The. Darkness will eat your mind. Your soul. Your very body. You will disappear without a trace. And. I was trapped in the dark. I was so afraid. He happened to be walking by; he was glowing so that he would be able to see his way. I. I was not in complete control. His light brought me back. He saved me from myself. From my terror. I fell in love with him. We were happy. But then. He. He was as you have probably figured out. Evil. Not. Not. Bad, or mean. He is pure evil. He didn't love me. He. Only loved power. And that was something that I could give him. Kin and Kashaku finally revealed him for who he was. We all took it hard. We. We changed. I stopped feeling for a year. Anything. I didn't feel pain. Sorrow. Happiness. They brought me out of that. But still. I still have trouble. Feeling. They took it hard as well. I began pushing people away with a mask of indifference. Kin with a mask of anger. Kashaku with a mask of obliviousness. We lost ourselves for that year. They saw what had happened to me. And they knew that it could happen to them. So they cut off contact. I still blame myself for it. I won't allow myself to feel true happiness. And when I do. I stop myself."
A few tears had leaked out of her eyes and were sliding silently down her face. Kashaku had a pensive expression on her face, as if she wasn't completely there. No one knew what Kin looked like, she had buried her face in Youko's chest and it didn't look like she would be moving any time soon.
The entire group had solemn faces on. They new the effort it took for Mizuna to tell them this, and also how much she trusted them. All of them.
Leiko: Sorry if it was a bit short, but this was the best place for it to end.
Crickets chirp
Leiko: Hehe... um... I guess since everyone is too depressed to talk nonstop, that I'll just have to answer my reviewers. So, here it goes!
CrimsonSash: Good work Kin-chan. I'm proud of you. Let's see if your luck holds up. Who knows, you might not say a candy-ass word for a whole other review!!! And thanks for letting Mah borrow your bishi!!!
TPM-girl: Sorry I didn't get to put you in this chapter, but it was focused mainly on Kashaku and her random day out. - don't worry, you'll be in there as soon as I can find a plausible way to put Jin in the story!!! And you need to say thanks to Kin-chan too!!! And the best way to do that is to read one of her fics!!! Kin: Leiko... you are so weird...
Fanfic-demon: YAY!!! I put in what happened between them just for you!!! And so that Kin wouldn't strangle me while Kashaku watches me slowly suffocate!!! Thanks for being such a studious reviewer!!!
Hiei17: YAY!!! ANOTHER DEDICATED REVIEWER!!! Sorry I haven't read your story yet, but I never check my reviews until I'm writing my next chapter... Well, at least that's when I'm actually thinking about them... hehe... please don't hurt me!!! Kin: How many times am I going to say this? You're weird.
Hiei's1girl: Thanks for reviewing, I'm really glad that you like my story! I aim to please!!! Kin: CoughyourselfCough
TLC Kitsume: YAY!!! I'VE SAID YAY THREE TIMES!!! YAY!!! 4!!! I'm happy that you like my story too!!! YAY!!! 5!!! Kin: You're REALLY getting weird now Leiko...
Leiko: Read and review or else I'll tell you a depressing story and you'll become all mopey just like them.
Opens door and reveals a still solemn looking cast
Leiko: They've been like that for hours. It's starting to creep me out.